... India in Afghanistan, the key of the Indian Ocean must be in our case not the land of the Afghan Emirs, but that of the Persian Shahs. The possibility of this junction should not, consequently, distract the attention of the Russian Government from what ...

... invention being given some authorities Pa-lamedes, Grecian hero of the Trojan war, about D b.C- The word is derived from the Persian Shah, King Checkmate, or Shahmat, meaning King Confounded o-r overcome. England the game was played before the Norman Conquest ...