Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Academy is situated in the Valle Guilia near the Borghese Gardens and was founded 100 years ago by Lord Hamilton, then British Ambassador to the Court of Naples. At the conclusion of the 1815 peace, many British artists began to visit Rome. A subscription of ?100 was given by Lord Hamilton to provide a home for these artists. Both George IV and Queen Victoria were among the subsequent benefactors of the Academy...
...debating team of Columbia sailed for England to engage with teams from English and Scotch universities. The trip reciprocates a similar visit to America by the Oxford debating team last Fall...
...visit of General the Earl of Cavan, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, to Poland, where he reviewed troops at the great training camp at Rembretow, has caused Trotzky no little anxiety. He says Lord Cavan's visit means " military peace between England and Poland," the shipment of ammunitions to the Polish army, finally that Poland is being used by Great Britain against Russia in the same way that France is using her against Germany...
Collier's, subtitled " The National Weekly," has sent out an army of 1,000 canvassers. These canvassers visit the homes of all subscribers to the magazine, said to number 250,000. They are taking a poll on first choice for a successor to President Harding, and, incidentally, they are drumming up trade...
...Carrie Chapman Catt: "Because at the International Suffrage Conference in Rome I succeeded in getting a resolution for an official visit to the grave of the Italian Unknown Soldier changed to a one- minute standing tribute to the dead of all nations, a Boston newspaper spoke of my ' perverse and mischief-making mind,' my 'busybody brain...