Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the War, the Austro-Hungarian mission was liquidated and Hungary was left without diplomatic or consular representation in Mexico. Count Szechenyi's visit to that country was for the purpose of establishnig honorary consulships and negotiating for full diplomatic representation...
...There is no question . . . that the secret of Kitchener's visit to Russia was betrayed by Russia to Germany, and as a result Germany made special preparations. And we know the name of the officer who laid the mine...
...Duke of Alba, young grandee, was smitten with the idea of Democracy, probably on his last year's visit...
...Sister Therese Martin, one of the nine children of a jeweler of Alencon, a provincial town to the south of Lisieux. At the age of 16 -that was in 1889 -she decided to join the Carmelite Order, but was rejected because of her extreme youth. Taken on a visit to Rome, she threw herself at the feet of Pope Leo XIII, "the greatest of modern Popes," imploring him to sweep away the barriers which prevented her becoming...
...Besides wild fowl shooting, there will also be opportunity to bag cave tigers. The upper end of the Malay peninsula will be negotiated by elephant-back. In Burmah, Dr. Smith will lead the way from Rangoon up the Irawaddy river to Mandalay, and thence to India, where he will visit Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Delhi, Jaipur, Anidapur, Bombay and Madras. There will be tiger and wild cattle shooting. Through Ceylon, Singapore, and Java, the party will reach the South Seas where several islands will be visited on the way to Persia...