Word: sultanate
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...Sultan. "The Sultan is dead. . . ." Death came last week to Mulai Yusef, Sultan of the Shereefian Empire (Morocco), 36th lineal descendant of Ali, cousin and brother-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed. The Sultan died in the 48th year of his life and the 16th of his reign from a violent attack of uremia (his kidneys could not strain off blood poisons), his demise taking place in the Imperial Palace at Fez, one of the four Imperial Capitals...
...making one forget the superlative beauty of her voice; and the supreme gift of magnetism." Henry Edward Krehbiel, his rival on the Tribune, accorded her "the most sensational triumph ever achieved by any opera or singer." In Europe it was the same. She sang for the Tsar, for the Sultan, for the Empress Eugenie, the Kings of Sweden and Greece. Queen Victoria entertained her at Windsor and Balmoral, had a marble bust made by her own royal order so that the Great Calve should be remembered at Windsor for all time...
...straight vaudeville in Russian and French, and here and there cracked English. It was new. Neither the famed wooden soldiers nor the well remembered Katinka played their parts. A concentration of Verdi's La Traviata, burlesqued; a pantomime in the Sultan's harem; the lovely figure of the danseuse were most volubly received. As always it was fresh, delicate; strange to slangy Manhattan. Four weeks it will linger in the city and then start in Washington a tour of population centres reaching to California...
Time was, and not many years ago, when a subject of the Sultan was known as the "unspeakable Turk," a phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle and afterwards much used in political parlance...
Career. In 1882, when Egypt was a backward province paying heavy tribute to the Sultan at Constantinople, when the Sudan was the happy hunting ground of murderous, dancing dervishes, the 21-year-old ZaghJul took part in his first revolt. It was led by Colonel Arabi against the Khedive and the British, was squelched by Viscount Wolseley...