Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Nine players have entered the king's gambit chess tournament. The player winning the most games will be awarded the prize...
...internally. This, and the Temple, the former headquarters of the Knights Templar, are the most interesting of the many places of confinement used by the Terrorists. The Temple was the prison of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Madame Elisabeth, Madame Royal, and the Dauphine, and it was thence that the king was driven to his death in January...
...king's gambit tournament, open to members of the chess club, will be held next week. An entrance fee of twenty-five cents will be charged and the winner will be awarded a cup or medal. Entries must be sent to P. W. Bridgman, Thayer 43, by tomorrow...
...unfavorable to the new system of government, and it was seen that the enthusiasm which was breaking out all over the country had need of a safety valve. A number of festivals on an enormous scale were therefore ordered, the first being that of the Federation in which the king, assembly, and people all took part...
Included in the collection are copies of the Landschadenbund cup, from the Museum of Gratz; a cup presented to Martin Luther by the Wittenberg town council on the occasion of his marriage; and the Corvinus cup, presented to the Vienna Council by King Corvinus of Hungary in 1642. The collection comprises also reproductions of several of the finest pieces in the private collection of Emperor William...