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... standard » the Sun, whose splendour is that of the Firmament; Monarch of Armies numerous the Stars”—thorn are the titles of Persian Shah. A BOXING LESSON. The late Shah got a good deal of amusement oat his buffoons and three dwarfs, who told him atones and ...

Published: Wednesday 09 January 1907
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 606 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE SHLH IN LONDON

... the Sun, whose splendour is that of the Firmament ; Monarch of Armies numerous as the Stare —these are the titles of a Persian Shah. Mum/IT-id-Din, inane his accession, has shown that be has better qualities than were previously credited to him. His keen ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1902
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 940 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CHESS

... Persia being supported philologically by the similarity of the worn checkmate, denoting the end of the game* to the Persian shah mat, literally meaning the King is dead. Since these early times the game of chess ha* flourished almost every country ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1928
Newspaper: Tamworth Herald
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 690 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Try These New Recipes

... chess board you can make friends in the train with people without speaking their language. The name chess comes from the Persian Shah. King. and the word checkmate which ends the game, from Shah mat, meaning The King is dead. Some think it was meant for ...

Published: Wednesday 11 December 1935
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 537 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE THRONE OF PERSIA

... whole land of Iran has been vested in the monarch as his property. To fall short of despotism has been the worst fault of a Persian Shah, for it has invariably meant that for the rule of one tyrant has been substituted the rule of many. The private lives of ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 1907
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 533 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Live Letters j

... 400 years ago. Start- Clark, just a mysterious custom. inq in India it went to Persia, whence comes its name—froM the Persian Shah, a king. Ikons Mrs. J. BAXTER wants us to Da s +- ant. settle a family dispute. It seems that hubby says an Where L.A ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1943
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 610 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Will Take All Necessary AcHod

... for the company’s protection.” (Ministerial cheers.) Shah in Need of Money. Our Political Correspondent writes that the Persian Shah, Riza Khan, is not a tool of Moscow, but his capital, Teheran, is nearer the Russian frontier than to the Persian Gulf ...

Published: Friday 09 December 1932
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 503 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PERSIA'S TROUBLES. PRRCA.UTIONS BY RUSSIA

... UTIONS BY RUSSIA. INTRIGUES AT TEHERAN. From Our Special Correspondent. PETERSBURG, Sunday Night. The disooni between the Persian Shah and the Parliament might have occasioned serious international compilations had the Aegio- Rowan Convention not been osechaded ...

MORE EASTERN POTENTATES

... 3C7f Berlin telegram, quoted the Sunday Times,' gives Tent to the interesting report that the Turkish President and the Persian Shah are contemplating visit to Europe.— Extract. An interesting rumou- has been circulated Europe, via Berlin, to the effect ...

Published: Monday 02 April 1928
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 574 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

T&a (Has of Quu

... grven by some authorities to Palamedes Grecian hero of the Trojan war, about 1080 B.C. The word obess is derived from the Persian shah, king’: nnd checkmate, or shahmat, means “Jang confonnded or But not but in Banscnt and other ouly in Persian Amatio languages ...

Published: Thursday 02 July 1903
Newspaper: Liverpool Daily Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 710 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

AFTERNOON TEA TOPICS 111, Mal&

... few miles off. But usfortanatefrlar bad a wife, and so the episode fat and stale. %netsuke be was goiliAh lord and not a Persian Shah or an Indian Nabob. ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1902
Newspaper: Formby Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 761 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE OPPORTUNITY COMES

... the affairs another nation. In the present case, the rumour that Russia rs au fond unwilling to see the autocracy the Persian Shah exchanged for a limited or constitutional monarchy is entirely justified. How any other •Otitude could well be sincerely ...