Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole plot revolves around the question of Jack's ancestry, which is rather questionable, as Jack was found comfortably ensconced in a black leather bag in the cloak-room of the Victoria station. Lady Blacknell refuses to accept that as sufficient ancestry, Jack sets out to do something about it, and "thereby hangs a tale...
...Constantin Golovan, and he is a school teacher in the Rumanian village of Drago-Slavele, in the district of Muscel. M. Golovan is a member of the highest Rumanian military order of 'Mihai Viteazul' (Michael the Brave), which was created in 1916 and corresponds to our Victoria Cross. . . . M. Golovan came to the funeral of King George as a member of the delegation of this order, which comprised also a Rumanian general and two colonels. A sublieutenant in a Chasseur regiment during the War, he won the coveted honor by valor in the field. . . . "In October 1916, under...
...January a fleet white lieutenant general hurled his forces into Ethiopia. By April the capital had fallen, the Emperor had committed suicide. By June the last of the British troops had left Ethiopia, to the great satisfaction of their Sovereign, the late great Queen Victoria. The year...
Marshall Badoglio still had no miles farther to advance before he would capture-as Lieut. General Napier did for Queen Victoria-malodorous Magdala, which was then the capital. Addis Ababa is 170 miles still farther on. The total advance last week was about 120 miles from the Eritrean border...
Ever since Victoria's blameless Consort Albert introduced the knee-length frock coat or "Prince Albert," it has been required wearing at Buckingham Palace for officials in "close attendance" on the Sovereign. This week King Edward ordered worn instead the morning coat...