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BRITAIN'S DIPLOMATIC BARGAIN WITH RUSSIA

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Published: Saturday 05 October 1907
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 309 | Page: Page 9 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations  Maps 

NOTES THAT ARE EXCHANGED FOR MUCH GOLD

... . THE REMARKABLY HIGH NOTE^/ REACHED BY SOME WORLD-FAMOUS SINGERS. luiuuuo olliycio, f\ SC.dlc OI lli.aC Wd s'Vtu in W-. p P I c Elliott and Fry, Napoli, H. IV. King, and Dover Street Studios. Photographs by H. Walter Barnett, Russell, Baker Sheet, Elliott i to her remarkable top note, has once again called attention to the high notes attained Mine. Telrazzini's triumph at the Opera, which is ...

Published: Wednesday 27 November 1907
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 101 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Maps 

THE HOME OF THE ZAKKA KHELS

... THE HOME OF THE ZAKKA SDELS The scene of the present operations on the troublous Indian frontier is the Bazar Valley, to the west of Peshawar, the home of the Zakka Khels, who have shown themselves to ...

Published: Saturday 22 February 1908
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 349 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

A Year's Wrecks in British Waters

... A Year's Wrecks in Briiisb Waters The accompanying chart of the United Kingdom reproduced from The Life-Boat the journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution is compiled from the latest statist ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1908
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 277 | Page: Page 16 | Tags: Maps 

THE PEREGRINATIONS OF KING EDWARD VII

... . FROM BIARRITZ TO THE BALTIC-- KING EDWARD'S ROUTE FROM THE SOUTH OF FRANCE TO COPENHAGEN Drawn by Percy Home The royal programme fixed the date of the King's departure from Biarritz on April 15. This pretty little watering-place lies near the Spanish frontier. It possesses a little harbour and a pleasant shore studded by large rocks. Picturesquely-placed villas look down on the oftentime ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1908
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 142 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: Graphic  Maps 

BRITAIN'S MORAL SUPPORT FOR YOUNG TURKEY

... . FOLLOWING A HISTORIC PRECEDENT-- THE BRITISH FLEET ON ITS WAY TO LEMNOS The powerful fleet of British warships which has concentrated on the island of Lemnos in Turkish waters is following a historic precedent which occurred during the Russo-Turkish War of 1878. When the Russians advanced towards Constantinople the British fleet was ordered to Besika Bay, not far from the island of Lemnos, ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1908
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 166 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Graphic  Maps 

A World-Peril and How it is Caused: Theories of Causation

... A World-Peril and How it is Caused Theories of Causation There is no completely satisfactory theory of the origin of earthquakes, none of which the explanation is neces sary and sufficient. One which ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1909
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 802 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Maps 

A World-Peril and How it is Caused: Theories of Causation

... A World-Peril and How it is Caused Theories of Causation There is no completely satisfactory theory of the origin of earthquakes, none of which the explanation is neces sary and sufficient. One which ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1909
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 802 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: Maps 

HOW 1909 FINDS THE RAILWAYS OF GREAT BRITAIN

... . Specially Described aEad Hllunsthraftedl fior aa Tib Splher 99 The railway world is in such a different condition at the begin ning of 1909 from what it was at the beginning of last year that the following notes and maps have been specially prepared in order to elucidate as far as possible the areas affected by the principal unions, working agreements, and understandings which have recently ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1909
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1471 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Illustrations  Maps 

WHEN WEST MEETS EAST: Where the Frontier Line of the White Man's World has to Drawn

... -r WHEN WEST MEETS EAST Wlhesre ftlhe FroMier IUiiae of ttlh. Wlhilft M.ia9s Wortdl Ih. ft lb IDifSiwsa. By Chester H. Rowell The frontier of the white man's world must be esta blished some day somewhere. Unless this generation establishes it at the Pacific coast no future generation will ever have the chance to establish it so far west or to maintain it anywhere except by war and permanent ...

Published: Saturday 20 March 1909
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1920 | Page: Page 22 | Tags: Maps