... chess board you can make friends in the train with people without speaking their language. The name chess comes from the Persian Shah. King. and the word checkmate which ends the game, from Shah mat, meaning The King is dead. Some think it was meant for ...

... whole land of Iran has been vested in the monarch as his property. To fall short of despotism has been the worst fault of a Persian Shah, for it has invariably meant that for the rule of one tyrant has been substituted the rule of many. The private lives of ...

... which includes Madanbs Judic, sailed oa tel Saturday night from Pauillac (Etirdeaux) for South tive America. the On- The Persian Shah has blotted out . All stasring signs his realms about, ,ssve one, whose moission *tis to b'ess$ the With beauty, health ...

... bourdiouts, or sheepskins. of petroleum a month in the first years of last century. By taxing th e sales of this oil the Persian Shah found himself a rich man. It is a technique subsequent Shahs have perfected. ONE day in 1805 Prince Tsitsianor, with a ...

... Barnksais. Herat was then independent both of Persia and of the rulers of Cabul, but it was coveted by Mahouied Mirza, the Persian Shah. Shah Mahomed required Shah Kamran to acknowledge his suzerainty, and surrender the title of Shah, and on his refusal marched ...

... their dwellin's, made 600 prisoners, and returned to Te- heran with a great deal of booty. Daoud Khan has been sent by the Persian Shah to Tiflis, to pay his respects to Prince Bariatinsky and present him with the portrait of the Shah, set in a frame of costly ...

... her Majesty directed that two milk-white pats, of magnificent Cashmere breed, part of flock pre- to the Queen from the Persian Shah, should be •elected, and immediately offered for the acceptance of this ...

... whose tfteament is always the same. Whether he be the famous traveller *Jog Bux, fron the Mountains of the Moon, or a Persian Shah, or a Chinese philosopher, or a poet, or a musicdan, or BuFFALO BIL, the ' lion' is invited to al the great houses; he ...

... their stolen wealth of territory. PETER THE GREAT went down to the Caucasus and took Derbend, and there he promised to the Persian SHAH that he should be restored to his throne on the surrender of the Georgian provinces he held, and two others which were ...

... Oil saleswoman IVHITE - lIAIftEp, beautiful IT Madame Sadika Garagoslou. wife of the Persian Shah's Court Chamberlain, has been visiting Rome as oil arnbassadress. She been trying to get Italians to buy oil and offering to arrange tanker space. - - • ...