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...following the installation of Mulai-el-Hassan as Caliph of Spanish Morocco (TIME, Nov. 16) continued last week at Tetuan. General Miguel Primo de Rivera, head of the Spanish Military Directorate conferred upon the new Caliph the Spanish Order of the Grand Collar of Carlos III; and the Grand Vizier read a speech on behalf of the 16-year-old Mulai-el-Hassan, which terminated with a prayer for the return of peace to Morocco...
...another occasion they assembled in plenary session and, with loud huzzas, voted their indignant protest against the Emperor of China for pulling the pigtail of his Grand Vizier. They also dispatched a special messenger to His Imperial Majesty with their resolution upon the inviolability of pigtails...
After ten years of mystical communion with Ahura Mazda, but with no success in getting converts, he finally came to court. There he converted Vista Spa, the King's daughter; then the King's brother, son, Grand Vizier. He married the King's counselor's daughter. Finally the King was won, and Zoroastrianism became a militant nationalistic faith...
...Three mummies were found in the vicinity of the tomb of Ramose, vizier of Akhnaton (Amenophis IV), the great king of the 18th Dynasty who attempted to change the religion of Egypt to monotheism. The discovery was made by Dr. Robert Mond, English archeologist, in the region called Sheikh-Abd-el-Qurna, in the Valley of the Kings. Two of the mummies, excellently preserved, were the bodies of a goldsmith and a priestess, his wife. The woman's clothing was wrapped with the body and was found to be practically identical with that worn by the Fellaheen women today...
...favored in the miraculous character of the religious they profess and the sense of providential care and direction under which they flourish. If Jesus is to return in clouds of glory and snatch up Brother Stratton of 57th Street, Manhattan, to serve as his prime minister or grand vizier, these tirades against modern knowledge and its exponents are quite intelligible...