Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toward mighty Khyber Pass, the Empire's most romantic and reputedly most dangerous frontier, traveled Earl Willingdon last week, taking along the golden throne on which he sits as Viceroy of India. For this elaborate pilgrimage there were urgent reasons of state...
...durbar was to be in Victoria Memorial Hall. There on a dais the golden Viceregal Throne had been set up. Crowded close to each other on one side of the hall stood 500 frontier Khans, all in their richest gold sashes and blue turbans, all bright-eyed with mass expectancy. On the other side, starchy and aloof, stood 200 British officers and civil servants, many of them battle-scarred oldsters. Present also as Their Excellencies entered and the durbar solemnly began were the 40 who were about to become the Legislative Council...
...celebrate the 25th year of his accession to the throne the Maharaja Jamsaheb of Nawanagar, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes and champion cricketer of India, gave his weight in silver to the poor of his realm. Dressed in full ancestral armor and anointed with sacred water from the Himalayas, the Jamsaheb weighed in at 174 Ib. After the silver distribution, 20,000 poor were...
Died. Archduchess Maria Dorothea Amelia of Austria, 65, relict of the late pretender to the French throne, Louis Philippe Robert, Duke of Orleans; after long illness; in Budapest...
...statement that time in Japan is reckoned from the date of enthronement of Jimmu Tenno is correct, in that classical writings and historians refer to that date. But in their everyday life, the Japanese reckon time from the date of the enthronement of the Emperor who is on the throne at the time. Thus the World War began in the Third Year of Taisho (the present Emperor's father: 1912-26), and this letter would be dated 7-2-19, as being written in the seventh year of Showa (Righteousness, the title chosen by Emperor Hirohito for his reign...