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During the present year, the following monarchs will officially visit King George and Queen Mary: King and Queen of Rumania, King and Queen of Italy, King and Queen of Yugoslavia, Shah of Persia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Mar. 3, 1924 | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

Mirza Ali Mahamad began preaching in southern Persia at the age of 19, on May 23, 1844. He prophesied the coming of the Great Teacher. He was condemned and shot to death in 1850. Of his followers, 20,000 were killed by the Sultan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: May 23, 1844 | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

...Great Teacher came. He was Baha' O'llah (Blessed Manifestation). He was the grandson of a Grand Vizier of Persia. He died in 1892, but left a son who had been born May 23, 1844. The son-Abdul Baha-kept a shrine at Akka, Syria. He died in 1921, after having been knighted by King George V for War-services. He loved "flowers and light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: May 23, 1844 | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

...King of Rumania, the Queen of Italy, the Shah of Persia, the Queen of Yugo-Slavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Mar. 3, 1924 | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

...education established to years ago by Mr. Gurdjieff, at Fontainebleau and appropriately called an "Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man." The principles upon which his method is based were acquired by Mr. Gurdjieff and others during thirty years of travel and study among the learned men of Persia, Tibet and India, where the seachers tried to supplement the knowledge of the West with the profound learning of the Eastern yogis and Lamas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "MEN LIKE GODS." | 2/27/1924 | See Source »

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