CHESS BOARD TERMS

... attacks the king. The word oomes through the old French “eschec,” “eechac” from the Middle Latin form, “scacous” of the Persian Shah, i.e., king, and was early applied to token, ticket, or counterfoil. When first introduced into ordinary city parlance ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1913
Newspaper: Nottingham Evening Post
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 401 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The new arnwder Andems, which renched ez,,utiimpton on Wednesday. and railed on the follow:as day on hwr maiden ..

... their deep colour being set og to great advantage the soft grey of the owe in. and inflate, and the row-cokured most. and Persian shah lead an air of warmth and comfort to the whole room. The ceiling eras to a dome in the centre over the main part of the ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1913
Newspaper: Hampshire Independent
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1171 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE EXILED SHAH

... THE EXILED SHAH. A Karlsbad Exchange message says that the exiled Persian Shah Mahomed Ati and his wife and child have been staying at Karlsbad for three weeks. They have left i for Berlin. July a . ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1914
Newspaper: Pall Mall Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 37 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

VARIETY ENTERTAINMENTS

... falling into their hands. It was in this district that, some four centuries ago, the Ottoman Sultan Selim defeated the Persian Shah Isniail ; but in those days Turk and Persian were able to settle their differences without the help or interference of ...

Published: Friday 29 January 1915
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 913 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Over the whole of feoutuera Asia , by which is meant all the region lying outside of the dominions of

... a moment came when the German and Turkish Ministers moved out of that city to meet and take under their protection the Persian Shah and Government , But pressure applied by the n . arch of Russian troops to the neighbourhood of Teheran brought about an ...

Published: Thursday 30 December 1915
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1735 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Tlut King

... l.ord Mayor (Dr. R. Smithi at the Cardiff City-hall Monday, but hud to send a telegram explaining his enforced absence. Persian Shah’s Grand-Uncle. The Persian Minister in London on Monday gave a luncheon in honour of Prince Zill-es-Sultan. grand-uncle ...

Published: Tuesday 09 May 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 177 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE CASPIAN IN PEACE AND WAR. ROMANCE OF BRITISH TRADE. (PROM A

... Sovereigns in the spirit in which they were made. They gave us counsel for counsel, as well as goods for goods. Instance the Persian Shah who, in 1626, exhorted the Christian Powers not to war against each other in the interest of the Turk, and who for the ...

Published: Friday 20 September 1918
Newspaper: Evening Mail
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 959 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PRINCESS OR IMPOSTOR?

... Princess with a qestionable past and a no less questionable present,. Some declared that she was a near, relative of the Persian Shah, sent into e&le for her indiscretions; while others said with equal confidence that she was of the royal house of Russia ...

Published: Saturday 24 May 1919
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3452 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

THE PERSIAN SHAH

... THE PERSIAN SHAH. The Shah of Persia received an address at the Guildhall to-day, and was afterwards enijertained to luncheon. ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 1919
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 20 | Page: 3 | Tags: none