The Oldest Pastime

... the only game sanctioned by priesthoods of all beliefs. The principal piece in the game derives its name, king, from the Persian Shah, or ruler. Many men whose names have gone down to posterity, such as Charlemagne, Tamerlane, Frederick the Great, Charles ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1906
Newspaper: Toronto Saturday Night
County: Ontario, Canada
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

ICEISSIA AND HERLT

... expected to (By (YROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) VIENNA. Farpay Nic A letter Paris in the Political Corre- asserts that the Persian Shah will of France the prudent and disin- preponderance in Persia. Gres and ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1880
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 211 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GERMANY

... the Porte The nominal supremacy of the Sultan, however, is to be acknowledged—a barren honour indeed. It is said that the Persian Shah has offered to assist the Sultan against the Egyptians. But this would be no great help. ...

Published: Sunday 17 February 1833
Newspaper: Weekly True Sun
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

STINC BOX OF TIE PERSIAN SIAM

... BONG BOX OF THE PERSIAN SHAH Maltimillienaires might do well to build strong boxes like that of the Shah of Persia— a small room, twenty feet by fourteen, reached by mm et at 35,000,000 carpets, lie jewels valued the Kaianian crown, shaped liko ko 2 dower ...

Published: Saturday 07 April 1906
Newspaper: Dublin Evening Mail
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 277 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

KING FEISAL OF IRAQ: 1921--1933

... mngnetism, Feisal did much to strengthen his country's relations with neighbouring States. In April, 1932, he visited the Persian Shah at Teheran PEACE BY ARBITRATION The historic meeting of King Feisal and King Ibn Saud on board H.M.S. Lupin in Febru ary ...

Published: Saturday 16 September 1933
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SHAH

... THE SHAH SPECULATION centres on the Persian Shah. What influet. , e has he on the people? How do the Persians regard their traditional rulers? We kno . v i the exploits of Darius and Xerxes and the Persian norcies who once threatened Athens. These Persian ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1953
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 217 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SHOW JUMPING

... 7; 3, Sanyo Super Cell (Harvey Smith) 0, 42-8. Texaco Accumulator: L Mikneil (Guy Creighton, Aust) 36 pts, 42.7 secs; 2, Persian Shah (Michael Mac) 36, 44.9; 3, Rossmore (Fred Welch) 36, 45.4 TO NIGH 'S SOCCER FOURTH DIVISION Brad City r Hereford (7.30) ...

Published: Friday 15 May 1981
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 213 | Page: 31 | Tags: none

Meteorologists tell us that last month was the finest March for the last 25 years. The membership of the ..

... of Mr. Swinburne, a possible successor to Lord Tennyson in the Poet Laureateship. The Sultan Turkey has 300 wives, the Persian Shah 400, the King 600, and the King of Ashantee 3,000. The Cambrian railways have notified the abolition of second class carriages ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1893
Newspaper: Portsmouth Evening News
County: Hampshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 259 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SALE OF RARE MANUSCRIPTS

... irom various monasteries; but beside those there are also inieiesting Oriental writings—an Arabic Koran from India, and Persian Shah Namen, illustrated by Persian hands, among the rest. Of English works perhaps the most interesting is a poem, said to have ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1876
Newspaper: Sheffield Daily Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Seraglio Treasures: Jewelled Thrones from the Turkish Sultans' Palaces Now Collected into a Museum

... THRONE IN THE OLD SERAGLIO _ ________ THE THRONE OF A MILLION PEARLS THE PEARL-STUDDED SEAT OF ISMAIL, A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY PERSIAN SHAH. A WONDERFUL RELIC OF OLD INDIAN CRAFTSMANSHIP WAS BROUGHT BACK BY THE CONQUEROR SULTAN, SELIM. IT IS IN THE FORMER IMPERIAL ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1927
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 314 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs 

GREYHOUNDS AND SPORTS SUMMARY

... Wittfang. W Ger), clear, 47.9: 3. Persian Shah (M. Mac), clear. 48.2. Courvoisier Cognac Fault and Out: 1. Carrolls Heather Honey (P. Darragh, Ire), 24 faults 46.05: 2. Landmine (Miss C Bradley) 24, 46.7: 3, Persian Shah (M. Mac). 24. 47.2. Courvoisier ...

Published: Friday 19 December 1980
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: 27 | Tags: none

THE PERSIAN

... THE PERSIAN Shah and Parliam ent Conflict. The Times Teheran corre aa , that the Reactionaries, who have by 1,000 roughs fromftVeratnia, square and the vicinity of the committed un Tneeday mune se q' and looting. The Nationair i . &mag a have erected ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1907
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 285 | Page: 2 | Tags: none