Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire industry of electrochemistry is built upon the discoveries of Faraday, a professor at the Royal Institution...
...order of His Majesty, the Royal Mint will, on Dec. 1, issue a new series of silver coins, the first general restriking of silver coins since 1816. A feature of the order is the re-introduction of the crown (about the size of a silver dollar, worth about $1.20), or five-shilling piece, which has not been minted since King Edward VII's coronation. Beside the crown (cartwheel), there will be three-penny pieces (thripney bits), sixpenny pieces (tanners), shillings (bobs), two-shilling pieces (florins) and half-crowns (two shillings and sixpence, also known as half a dollar...
...Royal Academy included in 1768 (the year it was founded) two women members.** From that day to this no woman had been a segment of the sacred circle, until last week. Mrs. Laura Knight, "England's greatest woman painter," is the new Associate Academician...
...galleries began to buy their pictures. They won scholarships, medals, salon prizes. They are now represented in famed museums, chiefly English, all over the world. They live in St. John's Wood, London, surrounded by tubes of color, squares of canvas. Harold Knight is a member of the Royal Portrait Society; now Laura Knight has added England's deepest artistic tribute to the honor of the family...
There are 40 Royal Academicians - . the number fixed by George III when he granted them the "Instrument" of foundation. The following year a class of Associates was formed, and is now composed of an indefinite number of members with a minimum of 30. To this class Laura Knight belongs. Associates are elected by vote of both Academicians and Asso ciates, having been proposed and seconded by one of the former. They have all rights and privileges except an active part in the Academy ad ministration...