Word: victorias
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Last of the reigning Dukes of Brunswick is H. R. H. Ernest August Christian George, Duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, Prince Royal of Great Britain and Ireland, who married the Kaiser's daughter Victoria Louise in Berlin in 1913. He was forced to abdicate from the Duchy of Brunswick in 1918, has long been reputed one of the richest men in Germany, still maintains a sort of royal court in the Austrian province of Styria. Maintaining a private court runs into big money. Last year H. ex-R. H. announced that the Guelph treasure was for sale. The city...
...ways, and had come to know them through years in the mercantile marine service, had just returned from Antarctica with Scott Antarctic Expedition of 1901. The couple went to live in Edinburgh, Scotland, where Mrs. Shackleton knew many important people. Among her friends was the Earl of Rosebery, Queen Victoria's famed Prime Minister (1894-95). Four years after the marriage, Explorer Shackleton turned again toward the South Pole. This time he was commanding officer. When he returned the next year after having been within 97 miles of the pole, England made a knight of him. Five years later...
...Majesty's venerable aunt H.R.H. Princess Louise, dowager Duchess of Argyle, dowager Baroness of Inveraray, Mull, Morvern, Tiry et al., daughter of the late, great Queen Victoria, attended recently a concert staged by her own Kensington Regiment, found fault...
...Nonsense!" snapped Victoria's daughter, taking one of the cheap cigarets, bending over the embarrassed officer's match. "Nonsense, I always smoke gaspers!" and as the concert began His Majesty's venerable aunt was seen to inhale vigorously...
Professor Robert Seymour Conway of Victoria University, Manchester, England, will lecture this evening on "Vergil's Creative Art", this year being the two thousandth anniversary of Vergil's birth. Professor Conway will speak in the large lecture hall of the Fogg Museum at 8 o'clock. He will also lecture, as Charles Eliot Norton lecturer to the Archeological Institute of America, on "The Origin of Christmas", this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock at 28 Newbury Street, Boston...