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Empire (ශ්‍රිමත් ඔලිවර් ගුණතිලක; 20 October 1892 – 17 December 1978) became the third Governor-General of Ceylon (1954-1962). He was the first Ceylonese to...

in Ceylon. He does not belong to our Order. He comes from a family of hereditary Eastern Mystic Teachers" (Harper 74 175, n. 17). 1917, Farr died, in...

Florence Farr moved to Ceylon "to accept a position as Principal of Ramanathan College for Hindu Girls. According to Yeats, in the words of 'All Souls'...

and Washington, Japan, China, Siam, Straits settlements, Burmah, India, Ceylon, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Roumania, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Transcaucasia...

1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s Headlines 1890s Headlines 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900s 1910s 1920s-30s The year 1897 was the year of...

was it was illegal to play at the time. 1892 June 3, Friday, a ball at the Wilsons’ Grosvenor Street house in London: We have have [sic] had during the...

to none as a noted sportswoman. She has shot stags in Scotland, big game in the jungles of Ceylon, and wild hogs on the plains of South-West Texas. Lady...

marriage to Dr John Bishop (d. 1886) in 1881, Isabella (1831-1904), in 1892 the first woman to be elected F.R.G.S., was in Vladivostok from early November...

cassia, or Vietnamese cinnamon. Cinnamomum verum is Sri Lanka cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon or Cinnamomum zeylanicum. Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the...