Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard does not wish to start such a professorship, the money is to be used as a scholarship fund for Harvard students to study astronomy elsewhere, preferably at the Royal Geographical Society of England...
...Clad in royal purple and flinging, if reports may be trusted, a mean forward pass, the Crusaders of Holy Cross will invade the Stadium today to resume hostilities with the Crimson eleven. The whistle will send the rivals against each other at 2.30 o'clock...
Leaving the town hall for the residence of the governor of Bosnia the royal car made a wrong turning and while the chauffeur was backing the automobile several shots rang out. The royal couple fell back mortally wounded. In consternation orders were given to drive on to the governor's residence, but before the two-minute drive was over the Duchess was dead. Fifteen minutes later the Archduke died, shot through the jugular vein. His last words were: "Sophie, live for our children...
...days later a memorial service was held in the cathedral at Belgrade and was attended by royal representatives and high government officials, despite the fact that it is now generally believed that the Serbian government, if not the actual instigator of the crime, was at least aware of the plot to kill the Archduke and made no effort to frustrate...
...murders. On his return to his native land he received a large grant of land at Uskub, where he lived in affluence until his death. His part in the assassination, for which he was named in the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia, was restricted to supplying bombs from the royal arsenal in Belgrade...