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... being giro n hy some authorities to Palamedes. a hero of the Trojan war, about 1080 we. The word chew; is denerd Iron, the Persian shah. king: and checkmate. or means king confounded of orerermse. But not only in Persian but in Sanserit and other Asiatic ...
... wonderful work of the early sixteenth century, Indian art in perfect preservation—an enamelled pearl-encrusted throne of the Persian Shah Ismail. ...
... of the male of the species. While the term for the game's conclusion, checkmate, is believed to be a corruption of the Persian shah mat the king is dead - chess itself seems to have originated further to the east, in India, around the 6th century AD. ...
... outlying elements have traditionally been a source of instability . Except in periods of exceptionally vigorous rulers , the Persian Shah , or Prime Ministerhas had to govern with a loose rein that he may govern it -, !» Beza Khan Pahlevi . who seized power ...
... as in char when the king n attacked. French ‘thee, a repulse, caeca, irhe s , chew-men, Italian acacco, German echach, Persian shah, king. CRECK, to compare with • counterpart or authority, Ac.,—• mark put against items in a list, Ac. From the practice ...
... 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 ...
... “Gypsy”; but that was only one of many stagingposts in their migration from India. They were first invited to entertain the Persian Shah, Bahram Gur, whence they travelled to Constantinople; from there some went 'south to north Africa before heading up to ...
... _auit-e will be the f _^ _iesta of the _Saltm _. This if _* the firat _occasion Eince the _conquest of _Kayla _.. thata _Persian Shah _baa _nwl » hix _appearauceoo _Turki&I * soil _, and there is _some talk _at ConKtantinopIe of _talim _^ _the opportunity ...
... He is due here , by present arrangements , on Thursday . Three weeks ago he followed the Regent of Iraq in visiting the Persian Shah , whose support he enlisted for the project . . The next big step will probably be to make a formal approach to Turkey ...
... the Hassian Embassy will be as powerful as ever at Con.; stantinople. At the same time, we learn by the au- dacity of the Persian Shah how far the Russian fic- tions about the war have influenced the barbarous Courts which learn from St Peteriburg almost ...
... told in an old alory . The old story thus ' irreverently alluded to is evidently the Book o £ Esther , and . the , Persian Shah is King Ahasuerus , whose gracious permission to tlie Jews to '' gather together and to stand for their life , to destroy ...
... among its other effect., re-open the question of our relations, through our Indian empire, to the decrepit power of the Persian Shah. Another instance this, among the many to which the present war has given birth, that questions which have occupied the ...