Johore
Americannoun
noun
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Yijiun, Johore, Malaysia, posited: "Are scientific theories true, or just the best explanation so far?"
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2013
The Sultan of Johore soon discovered reports were reaching London that he was making an issue of marrying Miss Hill, had engaged in a "serious quarrel" with the Governor of Straits Settlements.
From Time Magazine Archive
If Japanese bombs had begun raining down last week on the British naval base at Singapore and the adjoining native State of Johore, they would have had no chance of hitting its Sultan.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a hotel suite at London's Grosveno House last week, Sir Ibrahim, the 85-year old Sultan of Johore, died of "genera debility."
From Time Magazine Archive
Tigers do not, however, live at Penang: they occasionally swim over the strait from Johore, opposite the island, if driven by hunger.
From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by McDougall, Henriette
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