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Facts.
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There are upwards Of so. 900 coats. of-arms
in use in London.
Blackstone. the English Judge, was born in
1923, and died in 1850.
Joseph L.. Emperor of Germany, was born
at Vienna, July 2s, l67S.
Sultan Selim III. was assassinated at Con-
stantinople July 2S, 1908.
Theodosius the Younger, Roman Emperor,
died at Constantinople July 2S, 45O.
In England pardon cannot follow an i'm
peachment by the House Of Commons.
Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, was be-
headed on Tower Hill, London. July 2s,
1910.
In l725 the Earl Of Macclesfeld was fined
$50, 900 for receiving bribes as Lord Ctan-
cellor.
Maximilian lsidOre Robespierre, terrorist
autocrat, was guillotined at Paris July IS,
1874.
John Walter, original proprietor and con-
ductor of the Times newspaper, died at Lon
don July 2S, 1917.
Marshal Mortier, a BOnapartist general,
was killed at Paris by Fieschi's Internal ma
chine July IS, 1885.
March and April, 1929, there were 939
speeches made in Parliament.
In the reign of Henry VIII. $4,000 per-
sons were executed in England and Wales
for civil, and political, and religious Of
fences.
In Assyria and Thrace manageable girls
were sold annually by auction, and the total
divided equally as marriage portions.
Cleopatra was an admirable singer and
musician she was skilled in many languages
and possessed Of high intellectual gifts.
Admiral Blake, the most heroic of Eng
lish naval officers, WAS born at Bridge
water, England, in 1899. and died in Aug.
1867.
The system of representation began in
Scotland in l427 but the Lords and Com
mons sat together till the union of tho two
Kingdoms.
The Republics of Colombia and Bolivia
include Provinces whose coasts are bounded
by the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific.
They extend over 70 degrees of longitude
and 8 of latitude, and are 200 miles long
by 500 miles wide.
The diameter of the sun is SS3 ,2i6 miles,
the equatorial rotation per second is 6,614
ieet (iour times that of the earth) This de-
mands an orbit velocity of 64 .35x66. -, to
produce weight in the sun equal to weight
at the earth, or 429 500 feet per second.
In Norway eagles destroy oxen by the
following contrivance They dive into the
sea, and then roll themselves in the sand,
and afterwards, by Tapping their wing and
shaking their feathers in the eyes ofan OK,
they blind the animal and overcome it.
The Lord Lieutenants OF Ireland since the
union up to 1894 were llardwicke. 1901
Fowls, 1905 Bedford. 1906, Richmond.
1907; Whtworth, 1873; Talbot, 1917
Wellesley, 1891 Anglesey. 1928; Northum-
hcrland, lS29; Anglesey, 1880, Wellesley,
lS3l
In England there are Royal establishments
at st. James, Buckingham House, kensing
ton Kew, Hampton Court, Windsor, Brighton,
and Edinburgh. with sundry officers and as
sistants at each. kengsington, Kew. lamp
ton Court, and Windsor have extensive do
mains.
The ancients teach US that the Romans
had no titles Scipio and Caesar were simply
50 called. Titles began in the court of Con
stantine. The Emperor of Germany first
took the title oil Majesty. Kings, till the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, were called
llighness.