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2 unusual facts about Khedive's Star


George FitzGeorge

His services in the campaign were mentioned in despatches, and he was awarded with the brevet of lieutenant-colonel, the medal with clasp, the Fourth Class of the Osmanieh, and the Khedive's Star.

Khedive's Star

After the outbreak of the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882, the United Kingdom met with opposition from Isma'il Pasha who was Egyptian supporter of independence from British protectorate.


Abbas I

Abbas I of Egypt, Wāli and unrecognised Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (1813–1854)

Abbas II

Abbas II of Egypt (also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha) (1874–1944), last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan 1892–1914

Abbas Pasha

Abbas II of Egypt (1874–1944), khedive of Egypt from January 8, 1892 to 1914

Ahmed Shawqi

After a year working in the court of the Khedive, Shawqi was sent to continue his studies in Law at the Universities of Montpellier and Paris for three years.

Alexander's Star

It was patented on 26 March 1985, with US patent number 4,506,891, and sold by the Ideal Toy Company.

Alf Klimek

He owned his own studio, Birdland with producer Lindsay Gravina and worked in event musicals for a number of years until, in 1998 was asked by Klaus Baumgart to create a series of musical and audiobook productions for the successful "Laura's Star" series.

Blanche d'Antigny

She went to Egypt where she appeared on the stage in Cairo and also had an affair with the Khedive.

Carlo Alfonso Nallino

In 1900 he published a book on the Egyptian Arab dialect, which gained him the permission of King Fuad I of Egypt to work at the Egyptian Khedive University.

Chris Moriarty

A large part of humanity has migrated to various planets and space habitats, both in the solar system and around nearby stars such as Barnard's Star and 51 Pegasi.

Elwin Palmer

He was made CMG in 1888 and a year later succeeded Sir Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon as financial advisor to the Khedive.

George David Gatewood

In the 1960s astronomer Peter van de Kamp claimed that he had discovered a planet orbiting Barnard's Star using astrometry.

They repeated the astrometry measurements made by van de Kamp with improved equipment and failed to detect any sign of Barnard's Star companions.

Jules Védrines

After Prague he proceeded via Sofia, Constantinople (where he pleased the Sultan by dropping a Turkish flag on the Imperial palace), reaching Beirut on 25 December, Jaffa on the 27th, and finally, on the 29th, landing on the polo ground at Heliopolis, where he was greeted by a representative of the Khedive and by the French Agent, who placed a laurel wreath bound with a tricoleur around his neck.

Karl-Ludwig Kratz

radioactive ones (thorium and uranium) the age of these stars can be determined to about 13 billion years (see Sneden's Star, Cayrel's Star, Kratz's Star, Frebel's Star (HE 1523-0901)).

Legion of Space Series

The story takes place in an era when humans have colonized the Solar System but dare not go farther, as the first extra-solar expedition to Barnard's Star failed and the survivors came back as babbling, grotesque, diseased madmen.

Matthias Lechner

He worked as an art director and designer on the animated films Help! I'm a Fish and Space Chimps, as well as Laura's Star, among other films.

Mustafa Fazl Pasha

On January 18, 1863 Prince Mustafa became the heir apparent to his brother Isma'il Pasha but on May 28, 1866 the Ottoman authorities changed the law so that the succession became by a direct male line of the reigning Khedive (viceroy) instead of passing from brother to brother.

Pan-STARRS

Prior proper motion and parallax surveys often did not detect faint objects such as the recently discovered Teegarden's star, which are too faint for projects such as Hipparcos.

Rescued from Paradise

expedition to explore planets found in orbit around Barnard's Star.

Sneden's Star

Comparing the observed abundances for a stable element such as Europium (Z=63) and the radioactive element Thorium (Z=90) to calculated abundances of an r-process in a type II supernova explosion (as from the universities at Mainz and Basel groups of Karl-Ludwig Kratz and Friedrich-Karl Thielemann) allowed observers to determine the age of this star to about 13 billion years.

Stephen Norrington

The most recent film he directed was League of Extraordinary Gentlemen during which he had such a hard time with the film's star that he announced he would never direct another film again.

The Black Corridor

With a small group of family and friends, he has stolen a spaceship and set out for Munich 15040 (Barnard's Star), a planet believed to be suitable for colonisation.

The Devil's Star

Another murder is presumed when the director of a musical, My Fair Lady, reports that his wife has gone missing.

Under the Crescent

The story is biographical; it was based on the real life of its lead actress, Ola Humphrey, who in 1911 married Egyptian Prince Ibrahim Hassan, cousin of the Khedive.

West Rainton

A large granite tablet was used to record this donation and was of special interest being taken from the great pyramid of Ghizeh in Egypt with the permission of the Khedive at that time.

Willem Jacob Luyten

He also discovered some of the Sun's nearest neighbors, including Luyten's star as well as the high–proper motion star system Luyten 726-8, which was soon found to contain the remarkable flare star UV Ceti.


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