Word: royall
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sign set up in the middle of the busiest street in Nelson, New Zealand, last week, while Her Royal Highness Elizabeth, Duchess of York, was sick abed in her hotel recovering from an attack of tonsilitis. Meanwhile a pageant of 50,000 loyal New Zealanders passed in gala review before the Duke of York, second son of the King-Emperor, now en route to Australia (TIME...
...discover what George III meant by "coast" the Privy Council turned to the first great English dictionary, work of that inspired if pompous king of 18th Century letters, Dr. Samuel Johnson. Once George III encountered the great Doctor in the Royal Library, and very considerately shouted in his ear during a brief audience, knowing him to be deaf. The Privy Council cited the dictionary of Dr. Johnson as defining what George III meant by "coast" as follows: "The edge or margin of land next to the sea [and also], a considerable tract of land bounded by and looking towards...
Last week Canadians and Labradorians jabbered so widely and intensively over the new settlement that one Rabbi Isaac de la Penha of Montreal rose up and told the press that a quarter of Labrador belongs to him by an ancient royal grant which he cited glibly but was unable to produce...
Mary, mother of Jesus: Earnest Christians will find little in the Bible of the birth and early life of Mary. The so-called "Protevangelium Jacobi" written in about the 2nd Century A. D. gives more, says that Joachim (supposedly of the royal house of David) was her father, Anna (supposedly of the priestly house of Aaron) was her mother. Late in life, after angelic visitations, to Anna and Joachim was born a daughter, Mary. Roman Catholic dogma says that she was herself immaculately conceived.? Early theologians, while maintaining the freedom of Mary from earthly sin, held that...
...Napoleon said: "I bequeath the shame of my death to the royal family of England!" Who was king of England at that time...