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... British jingo, who is playing the veritable White Czar all over again. It is useless to blame the poor Afghan Amir, or Persian Shah, or Boihara Khan for it. It does not require Lenin's agents to bring about Bolshevism. The great financiers are doing it ...
... giv.n by some authorities to Palamedes. a Lirevian hero of Trojan war, about lobo A.C. The word chess is derived from the Persian shah, king: and checkmate, or shalimat, means king confounded or overcome. But not only in Persian but in Saiwerit and other ...
... assumes the direction of affairs in Constantinople while acknowledging the spiritual headship of the Prophet's heir. The Persian Shah, or Padishah (Lord King), is a name reminding us of the detonating material lying about in the neighbourhood of the Persian ...
... India to Persia, and passing thence to Europe, finally arrived in England from France. The name is a corruption of the Persian, ‘“‘Shah the King,”’ as is also the word check, and many of the ‘terms are Eastern. Mat or mate is a Persian word meaning dead: ...
... their reception of the Boer generals, has been grievously blunted by Britain's still more enthusiastic reception of the Persian Shah. The heroes of the war were cheered by a portion of the populace : the barbaric despot of Persia has been fated, petted ...
... the bold assassins; He has them on the run. Their rifle shots afford him lots Of purely harmless fun. Less lucky than the Persian Shah, Poor. Beefy Bill„ evades Wit h difficulty friends . W. 113 basil His aching shouldr-hlades. Is there no garb, cries ...
... instinct THE LIFE OF TEE WOMENFOLK IN GEORGIA.-IL BY JAMES BAKES. An 'tor of Johu Westscott, Page, By the Western &c. HE PERSIAN SHAH was b es i eg i ng Tiflis, and the husband of the Princess Salome had been slain in the siege. When the Persians entered ...
... PAGES IN WAITING. It must have heen a troubled bosom on which all those strings of precious stones hung when the Persian Shah so recently ‘dazzled the eyes of London. For, according to Mr. Donald Stuart, the author of * The Struggle for Persia ’ (London: ...
... described the mountain as one of the most dismal and disagreeable sights on the face of the earth. A little later a Persian Shah offered a large reward to anyone who should get up, but no one claimed it. Ultimately the first ascent was accomplished ...
... sum of nearly five thousand pinhole in order to give them a fitting reception. Wo have men an E;lptitiii Khedive anti a Persian Shah in our capital hoforv, tho former being the graiiiirsAter and the latter tin' fatlior of the presont ruler ; a n d no taming ...
... üßetter had it been perhaps had its inventor never been ham!' Europe got it from Arabia. but our word chess is the Persian Shah (king). and checkmate is Slish.iitst. the King is dead. Our rook is the Indian rukk and the Persian rokk $ soldier ...
... lbs. And now Botha is anxious to seo this heavyweight adorning the British Crown, and the King of England outblazing the Persian Shah and competing in diamondiferous splendour with the Great Mogul, and the Transvaal Parliament has endorsed his proposal ...