- Asquith by Gavin Cook
Herbert Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith. 1852--1928, British statesman; prime minister (1908--16); leader of the Liberal Party (1908--26 ...
- Takahira Kogoro by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Born January 1854 in Iwate Prefecture; died 1926. Japanese diplomat.Takahira served as ambassador to the Netherlands, Italy, and Austria-Hungary from 1892 to 1899, to the USA from 1900 to 1905, to Italy from 1907 to 1908, and to the USA again from 1908 to 1909. He participated in the negotiations leading to the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1905. In 1908, Takahira concluded an agreement on ...
- Campbell-Bannerman by Bianca Fowler
Sir Henry. 1836--1908, British statesman and leader of the Liberal Party (1899--1908); prime minister (1905--08), who granted self-government to the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony
- Minuvshie Gody by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
a monthly journal devoted to the history of the social movement in Russia. It was published in St. Petersburg in 1908, replacing the journal Byloe, which had been closed down in 1907. A total of 12 issues appeared. V. Bogucharskii and P. E. Shchegolev were the actual although not official editors of the journal, which published valuable material on the Decembrists, the members of the ...
- Dardmend by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... pseudonym of Zakir Ramiev). Born Nov. 22 (Dec. 4). 1859, in the village of Dzhirgan, Orenburg Province; died October 1921 in Orsk. Tatar poet. Born into the family of a merchant.Dardmend studied in a madrasah. He lived in Istanbul during 1880–84. He began publishing the newspaper Vakyt (Time) in Orenburg in 1906, and in 1908–10 he published the social ...