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...Holy Land. Faris el Khoury brought in some dubious history to deny their connection with Palestine. "Who are the Jews of eastern Europe?" he asked. "They are Mongols who were near the Aral Lake, north of the Caspian Sea. . . . They were pagans at first, but their Prince, in the 7th or 8th Century, said: 'It is shameful for us to be pagans.' " The Prince, according to El Khoury, found that Christians and Moslems would be willing to accept Judaism as a second choice, that the Jews would kill themselves rather than give up their faith...
...Buckingham Palace, just as she might have in some U.S. Middletown, the heiress to the throne had her own troop of Girl Guides, the 7th Westminster Company, organized by children of Palace staffers. The Queen gave the girls a company flag, and in time Elizabeth worked her way up to be patrol leader-"a distinction," her official biographers carefully point out, "achieved only through merit." At Windsor Elizabeth was the Bosun of the Kingfisher Patrol of the Sea Rangers (seagoing Guides), and woe betide any Ranger who came aboard the flagship (a whaleboat presented by King George) like a landlubber...
Registration for the groups will be held in the dining halls on February 7th, and at the same time a tentative list of discussion topics will be submitted for student choice. Among those proposed will be "Governments in the Postwar World," Ideas in Modern Philosophy," and "Race and Religious Prejudices...
...morning while fishing they saw a mounted Indian burst through the brush on the water's edge. He pulled up his sweating pony, signaled with his carbine that he was friendly. They looked again and saw that he was a Crow known as Curley, one of the 7th Cavalry's native scouts. Curley hurried aboard the Far West, immediately gave way to "the most violent demonstrations...
...Annihilation. His message was soon clear enough. The dashing young general, hoping to envelop Crazy Horse, had split his regiment into three parts. But there had been a "sad and terrible" mixup. One part of the 7th had been attacked before the others joined it. It had been annihilated. The other two had then been heavily engaged, until the Sioux broke off and retreated victoriously toward the Big Horn Mountains...