Edward VII : (1841-1910), King of Great Britain & Ireland & Emperor of India from 1901, gave his name to the Edwardian period in dress & English literature, in poetry it was an age of Victorianism lingering on & reaction to it in the work of men like Kipling, A.E., & Yeats.
... revolutionary Page 584 groups in Maharashtra and Bengal. 1901 - Rabindranath Tagore founds his school at Santiniketan. January 21 - Death of Queen Victoria; accession of King Edward VII April 30 - Sri Aurobindo marries Mrinalini Bose. September 9 — US President William McKinley is assassinated; he is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt. 1902 — The Trans-Siberian railroad... Aurobindo arrives at Pondicherry. — Charged in Calcutta with sedition for an article published in The Karmayogin ; acquitted by the Calcutta High Court in November. May 6 -Death of King Edward VII and accession of King George V. 1911 - British physicist Rutherford experimentally confirms Page 587 the existence of the electron and sets forth the 'planetary model' ...
... but a large building becoming necessary to house the new and growing acquisitions, the present one was erected on the Montague House site. It was finished in 1847, at a cost of £1,000,000. The King Edward VII Extension was built between 1908 and 1914. The reading room, with its great dome, the second largest in the world, was built in 1857, and the Museum Library contains over six million volumes. ...
... to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Victoria and Albert Museum is a beautiful building in the Renaissance style which was first built in 1857. The present building was opened in 1909 by King Edward VII. It is the national museum of industrial art, illustrating the crafts of all nations at various periods—all kinds of metal work from gold to steel, pottery and glass, Gothic tapestry, wood-carving ...
... turns sniffing round, nose to earth, for a fresh trail, and finds it in our own columns. We also, it appears, no less than Babu Surendranath and "Golden Bengal" have declared "open war" against King Edward VII; we wish to get rid of "British control". Beside this the manifesto of "Golden Bengal" fades into insignificance. That Indians should openly express their aspiration to govern themselves and yet ...
... head when he came to dust my books and I was thinking if homoeopathy could do anything for him." A long discussion on baldness followed, with a mention of its various treatments. The example of King Edward VII came in. SRI AUROBINDO: At Baroda there came a Kaviraj who claimed to have cured his own baldness. He showed some patches which had been bald and where hair was now growing. But unkind critics ...
... when Europe and the world were still half-asleep, when the Chinese Revolution had not even begun, when the Tsars were still solid and William II was secretly seeking “colonial compensations,” while Edward VII, “The Pacifier” (when you read the list of all the "pacifiers” in history, you do wonder how come there are wars), was sitting on his throne of Emperor of India, Sri Aurobindo made this amazing statement ...
... Raja of Ettayapuram came to Benares for a few days. He was on his way back from the Delhi Coronation Durbar held by Lord Curzon on 1 st January 1903, to celebrate the ascension to the throne of Edward VII after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria. The Raja invited his Subbiah back to Ettayapuram. For the next eighteen months Bharati again became the companion of the Raja and lived comfortably ...
... There is the same principle among the Vaishnavas too; they accept a Vaishnavi. SATYENDRA: All sorts of attempts seem to have been made and one is driven to despair like the man who, looking at Edward VII's bald head said, "I give it up! I give it up!" (Laughter) No hope now except your Supermind. Have you any idea how the Supermind will proceed? SRI AUROBINDO: No idea. If one has an idea the ...
... at collective life seem to have been made and when one sees them all, one is driven to despair like the bald man – who was trying all kinds of remedies to cure baldness – who on looking at king Edward VII’s photo with his shining bald head, said, “I give it up” – ( Laughter ) Have you any idea how the supermind will proceed? Sri Aurobindo : No idea. If you have an idea the result will be ...
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