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See also:VICTOR See also:EMMANUEL III . (1869— ), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Italy, son of King See also:Humbert I. and See also:Queen Margherita of See also:Savoy, was See also:born at See also:Naples on the nth of See also:November 1869. Carefully educated by his See also:mother and under the direction of See also:Colonel Osio, he outgrew the weakness of his childhood and became See also:expert in See also:horsemanship and military exercises. Entering the See also:army at an See also:early See also:age he passed through the various grades and, soon after attaining his See also:majority, was appointed to the command of the See also:Florence Army See also:Corps. During frequent journeys to See also:Germany he enlarged his military experience, and upon his See also:appointment to the command of the Naples Army Corps in 1896 displayed See also:sound military and administrative capacity. A keen See also:huntsman, and passionately fond of the See also:sea, he extended his See also:yachting and See also:hunting excursions as far See also:east as See also:Syria and as far See also:north as See also:Spitsbergen. As representative of King Humbert he attended the See also:coronation of See also:Tsar See also:Nicholas II. in 1896, the Victorian See also:Jubilee celebrations of 1897, and the festivities connected with the coming of age of the See also:German See also:crown See also:prince in 1900. The prince's intellectual and See also:artistic leanings were well known; in particular, he has made a magnificent collection of historic See also:Italian coins, on which subject he became a recognized authority. At the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of the assassination of his See also:father, King Humbert (the 29th of See also:July 1900), he was returning from a yachting cruise in the eastern Mediterranean. Landing at Reggio di See also:Calabria he hastened to See also:Monza, where he conducted with firmness and tact the preparations for the See also:burial of King Humbert and for his own formal See also:accession, which took See also:place on the 9th and 1th of See also:August 1900. On the 24th of See also:October 1896 he married Princess Elena of See also:Montenegro, who, on the 1st of See also:June 1901, See also:bore him a daughter named Yolanda Margherita, on the 19th of November 1902 a second daughter named Mafalda, and on the 15th of See also:September 1904 a son, Prince Humbert.
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