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IN MEMORY OF NURSE EDITH CAVELL

... in Jasper National Park, Alberta. The huge mountain. 11,000 feet high, here shown, has been, with the lake at its base, named after the heroine. A curious feature is that the glacier takes the shape of an angel with outstretched wings. Pilgrims annually ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1925
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 107 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE STRAND: WIDENING LONDON'S MOST FAMOUS STREET

... proposed to go as far as Villiers Street, if not Buckingham Street. This will involve the removal of part of George Court, named after George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. The chief features of the court are the old steps leading to the Strand, the greengrocer's ...

Published: Saturday 16 August 1924
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 165 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

KING ALFONSO'S VISIT TO FYVIE CASTLE

... Scotland. It is built in the form of the letter L, with three lofty square towers, crowned by extinguisher turrets and named, after theii founders, the Preston, Meldrum and Gordon towers. On the Preston tower is a figure of the Trumpeter of Fyvie, the ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1906
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 182 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... gymnasium, under the direction of Capt. Usher, of the Gordon Highlanders. II THE McLEAN HIGHLANDERS, RAISED IN NEW BRUNSWICK Named after Brig.-Gen. H. H. McLean (on extreme left). His son. Major H. H, McLean (at his side), is second in command. Lt.-Col. P. ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1918
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 210 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAY of THE WORLD

... would like to see our streets named after famous authors, and would Shakespearise a whole district with such names as Romeo Street, Othello Street, Malvoli Street, and so on. In Pekin, the alleys, or 'Hu-t'ungs, are named after household words, like goldfish ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1920
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1158 | Page: 6 | Tags: Photographs 

THE REVIVAL OF GAMBLING DENS

... have in consequence 1 1 become greater than ever. Yet it is a significant fact that one of the most familiar card games is named after Napoleon, our great antagonist in the 1 1 war which ended in 1815. In the latter halt of the fa eighteenth century, when ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1915
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 317 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs