Word: sarawak
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...airplane 5,000 ft. above the English Channel the Dayang Muda of Sarawak (Gladys Palmer Brooke) bore witness "that nothing deserves to be worshipped but Allah, Allah . . . that Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, Allah...
...Khair-ul-Nissa, Fairest of Women." Then he sat down with his convert to a grilled chop & boiled potato. When Daughter Gladys of the late Sir Walter Palmer (Huntley & Palmers) married His Highness the Tuan Muda Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, brother and heir presumptive of the Raja of Sarawak,* in 1904 she was a Protestant. Later she became a Christian Scientist, then a Catholic. Owner of the tunic of Mohammed himself (valued at $1,750,000), she decided to embrace his religion, chose the air for the ceremony "because I wished it to be performed on no earthly territory...
...century ago James Brooke left home, stocked a vessel with arms, took up piracy. Off the coast of Sarawak, rich province in northern Borneo, 800 mi. due east of Singapore, he stopped to rescue a beleaguered Sultan. The first thing the Sultan knew James Brooke was Raja of Sarawak. When Queen Victoria heard about his feat she knighted him. Present Raja, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, is his grand-nephew...