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...Pasha is an old honorary Turkish title given to officers of high rank, civil and military governors...
...most distinguished of U. S. naval officers. Having been graduated from the Naval Academy in 1891, he saw active service seven years later in the Spanish-American War. Subsequently, he was appointed to many ships and was steadily promoted through all grades to his present rank. From 1911 to 1914 he was Naval Attache at Paris, and at St. Petersburg, (now Leningrad...
...ears as well as English a visit to the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. Mr. Noyes was there the night the new 100-inch telescope was first put into use. The experience started him writing his blank verse epic of science, The Torchbearers. The U. S.'s high rank in pure science was superbly certified when Astronomer George Ellery Hale called his guests and assistants to be the first humans to witness the rising of one of Jupiter's eight moons...
...sort of poetic justice Premier Tanaka is himself the son of a poor servant woman who had not even the rank of "honorable concubine" in the household of the onetime feudal lord, Mori. The servant's child displayed such unmistakable quickness and power in mind and body that Lord Mori secured him an appointment to the Military School. Thence he ran through the ranks of officers until, in 1915, Lieutenant General Tanaka was Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff...
...Hari Singh, K. C. I. E., K. C. V. O., Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir, once notorious as "Mr. A.," the victim of a "badger game" staged by international crooks (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924); at Srinagar, India. Despatches, mutilated in transmission, did not state the name or rank of the bride...