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ZUM4916430: Feb. 25, 1954 - Egyptian Ambassador Arrives: One of the last men to hear today's news from Cairo was Abdul Rahman Hakki, Egyptian Ambassador to Britain. He was in a Paris hotel on his way back to London from a conference in Cairo when he heard of General Neguib's fall. He arrived at Victoria this evening / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4916480: Feb. 25, 1954 - Woman-prepare for pancake race: Women contestants in thi year; Shrovetide Pancake race in the old market town of Olneym Burks, are busy practicsing for the race, which takes place nest Tuesday. this year, an old rule of this 500-years old evert is to be revived. Competitors will have to toss their pancakes not one-but three times-at the start, at the finish and half-way while running / Bridgeman Images
ZUM4920731: Mar. 03, 1954 - Hamburg's book of Guests goes traveling. 43 pounds is the weight of this book, which had been designed by the architect of the famous Planten & Bloomen garden in Hamburg, Eriak Fuks - Markovic, and which has been made by the book binder Helmuth Schletterbeck. The book is to be laid out at the German Industrie Exhibition an Mexico, which lasts from 23.3. till 14.4. On the 300 pages of the book shall the visitors of the stands of the city of Hamburg write down their names. The book is bond into leather and the making of the cost more than 200 houres of working / Bridgeman Images