Word: khans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Majesty Reza Khan Pahlavi listened to entreaty and, with a grand gesture, has given his official patronage to a Second International Exhibition of Persian Art* forthcoming at London's Burlington House, Jan. 5 to March 1, 1931. He went further and did what no Persian monarch before him dreamed of doing: gave official sanction for the Exhibition's experts to select loan exhibits from the Royal collection, Imperial Library, National Museum, the famed mosques of Kum, Ardebil and Mashad's Imam Reiza...
...once the 17 were in a line and then the line was broken, closing to the rail, with one horse pulling out in front. It was Diolite, the favorite, with Ballyferris after him. When they had made the long run up the hill. Rustom Pasha, the Aga Khan's first-string horse, moved out, passed the tiring Diolite and led the way down toward Tattenham Corner. Then Diolite was close again neck & neck with Rustom Pasha at the turn, with Iliad third as they came sharp around...
...yellow span on the midway-a span that moved like a pacemaker in front of the chasing horses with the tiny bright-colored jockeys pressed against their necks. The crowd that had been yelling Iliad home stared as a new horse moved out of the pack-Blenheim, the Aga Khan's second-stringer. Surely, easily, Blenheim, ridden by Harry Wragg, who won the Derby in 1928 with Felstead, crept up, then moved in front, by a shadow, by a nose, then by a good length, crossed the line, with Iliad second, Diolite a staggering, gasping third...
Through the crowd to Blenheim's bridle elbowed a stout, swarthy man in morning clothes, top hat and thick glasses-the Aga Khan III, spiritual head of 12,000,000 Shiite Mohammedans. Unperturbed by his religious responsibilities, he lives in France with his young French wife, daughter of a middleclass, provincial businessman, and raises thoroughbreds. "Proudest moment of my life" said he. "But you know, I didn't have a shilling...
...number about seventy millions in a total population of 310 millions the proportion is about 1 to 3 instead of 1 to 10 as was stated by Professor Bapat. This should partly account for the fact that the Muslims demand one-third representation in the National Congress. G. H. Khan...