Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Edward S. Holden, director of the Lick Observatory of the University of California, has received the decoration of the Knight of the Royal Order of the Dannebrog of Denmark. This ancient order was founded in A. D., 1219, as a mark of military distinction, but is conferred in the present case for service to science...
...Royal Tyler, for fifty years judge of probate, died at Brattleboro, Vt., last week. He was graduated from Harvard Law School in 1834, and admitted to the bar in 1837. He has represented Brattleboro in the Legislature, been State's Attorney, and has held the office of judge of probate since...
Castle Square Theatre.- "The Royal Middy...
...well have been written in the first half of the present century, so exactly does it describe their condition before Schliemann and the Greek Archaelogical Society began their excavations. Today one may pass through the great gateways into the courts and halls of the palaces that were seats of royal residence in the time of Homer, and recognize their original splendor even in their ruins...
...citadel. Passing to Mycenae, he carried his audience through the well-known gate of the Lions to the graves of its ancient kings, and described the marvellous treasure found there by Schliemann, and then mounting to the summit of the citadel gave a brief account of the royal palace. He next described the bee-hive tombs, outside the citadel, whose massive proportions rouse the wonder of the modern traveller as to what manner of men these later kings of Mycenae may have been, and recounted the final fate of the citadel. Mideia and Argos, the two other ancient citadels...