Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State of Tamaulipas, at Ciudad Victoria, there were executed three rebel generals, three colonels, four lieutenant colonels, one major...
...Problem of a Wicked Soul, God's Good Man, The Devil's Motor, The Secret Power, etc., etc. She was of mixed Italian and Scotch Highland blood, was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, famed song writer, who afterwards sent her to a French convent to be educated. Queen Victoria admired her work; Tennyson wrote her a letter of encouragement...
...made up entirely of rather impetuous extremists is the greatest mistake possible" Mr. Golding pointed out. "In Lord Haldane, the Lord Chancellor of the cabinet, Labor has one of the greatest of living scholars and statesmen. The Minister for Foreign Affairs was a page at the court of Queen Victoria, and the Government has a cabinet at present which has only once been equalled and never surpassed in the last 50 years. Mr. MacDonald is himself trying to life the peace," he concluded, "as Mr. Wilson lifted the war, from the plane of sordid materialism to that of inspired idealism...
...pioneer manufacturers of astronomical and optical apparatus, fine machine tools, precision instruments, military and naval rangefinders. Under his direction were built the 36-inch refractor at Lick Observatory, the 40-inch refractor at Yerkes Observatory (largest in the world), and the 72-inch reflecting telescope at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C. But his chief claim to fame is probably the establishment, through a gift of $500,000, of the Engineering Foundation, a joint research agency of the "big four" national engineering societies?civil, mechanical, electrical, mining-and-metallurgical...
Pope Pius XI wishes the new temple to be magnificent and monumental, worthy of Rome. He has contributed 100,000 lire. Queen Victoria of Spain is expected soon to give an even larger...