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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 376 words
  3. MUSIC AND DRAMA

    Pictures of the most interesting kind are screened nightly at the local theatres. The last nights of the Hobart eight-hour day spectacle are announced at His ...

    Article : 1,502 words
  4. THE HUON DISTRICT.

    As a preliminary to the forthcoming inauguration of a motor mail and passenger service from Hobart to the Huon, Messrs. Webster, Rometch, and Duncan ...

    Article : 2,256 words
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  6. LAUNCESTON MLSEHM.

    The annual report of Mr. H. H. C. Scott, Curator of the Victoria Museum and Art Gallery was tabled at the meeting of the City Council to-day. ...

    Article : 769 words
  7. HOW CONSTANTINOPLE FELL

    The realisation of the long-cherished project of conquering the city was at length accomplished by Mahemmed II. (son of Murad II), who succeeded his ...

    Article : 255 words
  8. CONSTANTINOPLE. TURKEY'S HISTORIC CAPITAL.

    The city of Constantinople, the capital of the Turkish Empire, which is now likely on any day to be entered and occupied by the Bulgarians (and where the ...

    Article : 165 words
  9. THE CITY'S TWO PARTS.

    Constantinople consists of two distinct parts—Stamboul or Constantinople proper, and Christian Constantinople (Pera, Galata, and Top-hana). The two are ...

    Article : 170 words
  10. APPEARANCE OF THE CRESCENT.

    In 341 and 340 B.C. that city was unsuccessfully besieged by Philip of Macedonia, father of Alexander the Great. The defenders were aided on this ...

    Article : 198 words
  11. RELICS OF THE PAST.

    In Stamboul are nearly all the monuments and antiquities worth seeing in. Constantinople. First is Agia Sophia, Saint Sophia, the Church dedicated by ...

    Article : 312 words
  12. CAPITAL OF TWO EMPIRES.

    Constantinople, thenceforth, has been famous in history, first as the capital of the Eastera Roman, Greek, or Byzantine Empire for more than 11 centuries (from ...

    Article : 219 words
  13. THE CHRISTIAN QUARTER.

    Christian Constantinople, on the north side of the Golden Horn, comprise Galata, Pera, and Top-hana. Galata is pre-eminently the merchant quarter, ...

    Article : 216 words
  14. PSEUDONYMOUS LETTERS.

    Sir,—Dr. Bottrill objects, without any attempt at discrimination, to press letters with fictitious signatures. But, Surely there should be some distinction? ...

    Article : 113 words
  15. COMING OF THE TURK.

    About the beginning of the 14th century the state of the Byzantine Empire was such as to greatly weaken its powers of defence against aggressive foes. In the ...

    Article : 414 words
  16. FIRES AND EARTHQUAKES.

    Constantinople has been the scene off several large fires and serious earthquakes. Fires which occurred in 1865, 1886. and 1870 swept away square miles ...

    Article : 194 words
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