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The German Fleet Steams Down Channel

... there was some speculation as to its whereabouts until a plane went out and took this and other pictures. The vessel is named after the German Admiral who defeated Cradock at Coronel and was himself decisively beaten by Sturdee at the subsequent Battle ...

Published: Saturday 29 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 190 | Page: 17 | Tags: Photographs 

Women and Frocks in the FASHION

... of fine white net, in layers, over a pale pink foundation, trimmed with pearl and diamante' embroidery. The roses were named after the bride by a famous Irish rose-grower. The honeymoon is being spent in Italy after which Mr. and Mrs. Grant will go out ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1931
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 193 | Page: 29 | Tags: Photographs 

THE GROWTH OF A CANADIAN TOWNSHIP

... neighbourhood of Prince Albert, one of the most flourishing centres of population in that part of the world. This city, named after the late Prince Consort, has for many years been a Hudson Bay post at which a large proportion of the valuable furs secured ...

Published: Saturday 15 February 1908
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 197 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

MEN OF MARK: Four Personalities an d Their Varied Tasks

... LETTERS: M. Rene Benjamin, who has just been appointed a member of the Academie des Goncourt, the French literary academy named after the brothers de Goncourt novelists of the naturalistic school to help struggling authors WITH £10 BORROWED FROM HIS BROTHER ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 173 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... from the chase with a reindeer I On the Great NordensKjold Glacier-- Showing the Mist Rising Off the Sea This glacier was named after the explorer. Nordenskjold. who explored Spitsbergen sixty years ago. The I peculiar formation of the glacier, in vertical ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 191 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

A Right Little, Tight Little Island: TRISTAN DA CUNHA, THE LONELY SENTINEL OF THE SOUTH ATLANTIC

... only settlement on the Island Tristan da Cunha was visited by the late Duke of Edinburgh in 1867, and the settlement was named after him. The township is situated on a plateau, under the shadow of the mountain and just above the bay, the number of dwellings ...

Published: Wednesday 18 September 1907
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 195 | Page: 39 | Tags: Photographs 

ROUND ABOUT

... at Cannes. She is generally described as the world's smartest prima donna. There is, according to the Netv Yorker a town named after her in the U.S.A. It s an Old English Custom Left Miss Lisa Van den Bergh and Miss Peggy Gordon Moore keeping up-to-date ...

Published: Tuesday 18 September 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 181 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

The Wonderland Of Nature: New Arrivals At The London Zoo

... goggle-eyed little creature is Now, the bush baby born at the London Zoo. Its twin brother is called Never and they were named after the racehorse Now Or Never. They are Moholie bush babies which come from South Africa, and the size of them can be estimated ...

Published: Sunday 01 August 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 228 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

ROYAL ASCOT

... an active interest in racing. Incidentally, Lord Glanely's filly, Tiddles, which ran in the Queen Mary Stakes, is aptly named after Mrs. Whitburn, this two-year-old being a daughter of her well-known winner, Jennie Deans. Miss Diane Chamberlain livened ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1933
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 187 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

PERSONALITIES ACROSS THE POND

... of Stanley and Livingstone Mr. Robert Brennan, Eire Minister in Washington, went with his daughter, Miss Emer Brennan, named after Ireland's legendary heroine, to the Soviet Embassy's reception to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of the U.S ...

Published: Wednesday 06 December 1939
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 174 | Page: 38 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WORK AND PLAY OF THE BLIND

... improvement of the blind, has resulted in a great deal having been written within the last few weeks about the famous institute named after him. One usually associates book-printing with his reforms, but his system extends to musical notation, playing cards (as ...

Published: Saturday 10 April 1909
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 186 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs