Word: monarchical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has just received a fine specimen of the rare monuments of the Hyksos Kings of Egypt, under the last of whom Joseph was prime minister. It is a headless sphinx of black granite and bears the rare monumental name of Setnekht, the last monarch of the dynasty of Rameses...
Oscar II, the reigning king of Sweden, is the only monarch who ever took a literary degree by examination...
...Assyrians were the Romans of Asia. Their monarch was the representative of their God. He did not isolate himself from the people as oriental governors generally did. The home of the races from which the Assyrians are descended, was between the Tigris and the Euphrates. The greater part was called Babylonia; Assyria was situated further north near the sources of the Tigris...
Charles the seventh, an impoverished monarch, yet who, strange as it may seem, possesses more dollars than sense, W. H. Baldwin...
...witness briefly describes the ceremonies as follows:-"The ceremony was simple and brief, and chiefly of interest as marking the beginning of the second half thousand years in the life of the institution, and as showing an Emperor, yes, "His apostolic majesty," delighting to honor higher culture. The monarch, received at the door by the academical senate. was escorted to their hall, not large, and densely packed. He took a chair in front of a table on a low platform, and listened to a fifteen minutes speech from the rector standing on the floor before him. After a few historical...