Word: 7th
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...Timaeus, he declared that one day the whole population "sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea." Plato dated the disaster as 9,000 years before the time of Solon, the Athenian statesman who lived in the 7th century B. C. But modern oceanographers can find no trace of Atlantis-was Plato wrong...
Language is also a vital element of the Moslem religion. Mohammed's one miracle was the Koran's language: the fact that this highly literate and eloquent body of precepts suddenly flowed from the mouth of an illiterate merchant in 7th century Mecca. The book of 77,934 words, memorized by millions for 50 generations, embodies much of Judaism and Christianity, which sprang out of the same awe-inspiring desert. Both simpler and more static, Islam postulates a fixed way of life ordained by God and transmitted to man through a series of mortal messengers (prophets), notably Adam...
...Arabs, too, have deep roots in Palestine and an undeniable moral claim: therein lies the tragedy of the situation. They seized the country in the wave of conquest launched by the successors of Mohammed in the 7th century after Christ, and later wrested it back from the Christian Crusaders. Arabs have lived in Palestine for 1,300 years, and until recently made up the vast majority of the population. To Arabs, the Israelis are newcomers who in a generation or two wrested the land away from them. For the Moslems, too, Palestine has sacred connotations: tradition holds that the Prophet...
Reno, a West Point graduate, was second in command of the 7th Cavalry's 600 troopers on June 25, 1876, when Lieut. Colonel George Armstrong Custer ordered the attack at Little Big Horn. For days, scouts had been telling Custer that thousands of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians were encamped in the area, but he had dismissed the reports as exaggerations. "I guess we'll get through with them in one day," he said...
...marchers handled themselves well, too, with the exception of the "Ad Hoc Committee for a Revolutionary Contingent," which charged down 7th Ave. instead of Madison Ave. and attacked Times Square armed services recruitment booth. After leaving Times Square, they clashed with about 100 police near the U.N. and five or six of them were badly beaten with riot sticks...