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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 

BRITAIN'S NEW LOCOMOTIVES

... type 4 locomotives in addition to the ten already ordered from the English Electric Company. Below-- The D800, which is named after Sir Brian Robertson, is the first main line 2,200-h.p. diesel-hydraulic locomotive to be built in British Railways' own ...

Published: Saturday 06 September 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 184 | Page: 32 | 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 

NAVAL AVIATORS

... the Squadron, which specialises in night- flying, for its outstanding work during the past year Admiring the Boyd Trophy named after Admiral Sir Denis W. Boyd and presented by the Fairey Aviation o., were Sub/Lt. A. W. Thomson R.N. SubJLt. D. J. Melhuish ...

Published: Wednesday 21 May 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 177 | Page: 37 | 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 KANDAHAR SKI CLUB DANCE

... present, several of whom were leaving within a few days for winter sports in Switzerland. The Club, founded in 1925, is named after Lord Roberts of Kandahar, a pioneer of ski-ing, with Murren as its main centre, and Gstaad and Zermatt also affiliated Mr ...

Published: Wednesday 19 December 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

RAZING THE NAZI ROOFS: THE BAVARIAN MOUNTAIN HOMES OF HITLER, GOERING AND BORMAN ARE PULLED DOWN TO PREVENT ..

... mountains and woodlands in the back ground. Goering owned several other houses, notably the vast estate called Karinhall (named after his first wife, a Swedish baroness and ardent Nazi of the early days) and Rominten, a luxurious hunting lodge in north-east ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 188 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs