Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Portsmouth, flags flying, guns booming, shot the royal yacht Victoria and Albert-King George, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Connaught aboard. At Spithead, the King reviewed, for the first time since 1914, the British grand fleet, consisting of 194 warships, which steamed past him in four rows, each ten miles long. Ratu Rabici and Ratu Veli, Fiji Chiefs, journeyed to London to converse with King George and to thank him for the benefits of 50 years of British rule. They said that the King expressed great pleasure that the people of Fiji were happy and contented...
...Sotheby's (London) for ?6,800. The designs are of Indo-Chinese character with innumerable buildings, trees, exotic birds, all on black backgrounds. They belong to a well-known type worked by Vanderbank, who got his inspiration from lacquer screens. Signed panels by him are in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Two of these panels bear the mark of the Mortlake and other factories. The largest is 17 ft. 9 in. by 10 ft, the smallest 8 ft. 4 in. by 11 ft. The tapestries were in the possession of the family of the Earl of Guilford from...
...prove that an electric current can pass through any substance-and that it can follow an undeviating course, in whatever direction it may be started, with no need for a wire or other conductor. In 1897 he won a great triumph-he succeeded in sending a message from Queen Victoria, ashore, to Edward of Wales aboard the royal yacht. Two years later he first came to the U. S., and has visited this country from time to time ever since. The amazing new wireless was used in reporting the 1900 U. S. Presidential elections...
...Victoria Station Her Catholic Majesty was greeted by Queen Mary, other British princesses, and the Spanish Ambassador, H. E. Don Alfonzo Merry del Val, brother of Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val, Secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office, Archpriest of the Vatican Basilica...
...Majesty, Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, accompanied by Prince Consort Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and her only daughter, Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, repaired to Sweden for a visit to King Gustaf and Queen Victoria. The visit is to return that made by King Gustaf to The Hague in 1923 (TIME...