Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great deal. Mounting debts kept him out of Britain most of his life. In 1818 he married the sister of Leopold I of Belgium. His greatest service to his country occurred when he became the father of a pale and proper little girl who grew up to be Victoria, Queen of England, Empress of India, Defender of the Faith. Last week King George quickly let the new Duke of Kent understand that he must work for his title. Hardly had the great-great-grandson of the last Duke opened the motor show than it was announced that George of Kent...
...Gertrude Massey, miniaturist to many a royal family, gave Britishers last week a brand new story of their Prince of Wales. At the age of 6, when Victoria was still on the throne. Prince Edward was sitting for a portrait. Suddenly he wanted to know: "Are there any kings and queens in heaven or when you are an angel is everybody equal...
...Eldoret, a town of some 700 Dutch-speaking Boers who trekked once more into the hinterland when Britain conquered the Transvaal. Eldoret has one of the British Empire's highest railway stations (7,000 ft.), just north of the Equator. Only 100 mi. to the southwest is vast Lake Victoria. The climate is bracing but wet. The blacks outnumber the whites more than...
Each plate in the set, which was conceived after the Lincoln volume was contemplated, is a print made from the original negative and pasted in. Some of the figures in the rest of the set include: Henry Clay, Queen Victoria, "Boss" Tweed, John Jacob Astor, Emperor Maximilian of Maxico, and Oscar Wilde...
Name. Old as the Cunard Line is the tradition that its ships must bear names ending in ia. No. 534 may become Britannia, because it was the name of the first Cunarder. Another possibility was Victoria, and a third was Columbia. Princess Elizabeth, often suggested, was losing ground as launching day drew near. Last-minute rumor said the name would be Queen Mary, in honor of England's Queen. Because Cunard with its ia and White Star with its ic have been merged, such a name, it was argued, would favor neither of the old companies...