IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1570.—Opening of first Royal Exchange.. 1800.—Death of William Pitt. 1855.—Earthquake at Wellington. 1869.—First English * missionary landed in Japan. 1876.—Death of Charles Kingsley, novelist. 1887.—Guthrie and Larnacb’s firej four men lost their lives. 1890.—Madagascar declared French possession. 1924.—Death of Lenin. Valued at £200,000 an ounce, th» world’s rarest metal, named actinium, is stated to be much more powerful than radium and lasts twenty times as long. Household management, cooking, and dressmaking have all formed part of Princess Marina’s training. She speaks six languages—French, German, Russian, Italian, Greek, and English—fluently. A Bible in a Berlin library is printed on palm leaves. One in the Vatican Library weighs a quarter of a ton, while in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, is a Bible so tiny that it fits inside a walnut sheik
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Evening Star, Issue 21935, 23 January 1935, Page 1
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132IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 21935, 23 January 1935, Page 1
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