Word: 8th
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Morocco has been French only since 1912. Before that, for eleven centuries, it had been a free and sovereign state since the time when a dissident leader of the all-conquering Arabs declared his independence of faraway Baghdad in the 8th century. For centuries, rulers alternated between Arab dynasties and the indigenous Berbers. The empire waxed and waned but was never conquered. While medieval Europe fought and languished, the university of Fez gathered scholars from all over the known world. The Moorish empire reached into Spain, building aqueducts, huge irrigation systems, and the great Alhambra at Granada. The present Sultan...
...samples from different eras to advance the science of paleography by a giant step; they provide a far earlier authority for the text of the Old Testament than had been available. The Old Testament is based on the so-called Masoretic text (from masora, tradition) developed in the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries A.D. by the schools of Babylonia and Palestine. Older than the Masoretic Bible is the Septuagint, a pre-Christian Greek translation which has been thought to be less authoritative than the Masoretic because of the difficulties of translating Hebrew terms into Greek. The Biblical manuscripts from Cave...
Hope-Taylor was guided to it by the Venerable Bede, whose history of early Britain (written in the 8th century) related that Edwin, a 7th century king of Northumbria, had a royal palace of sorts at Gefrin, which is now the small (six houses) village of Yeavering in the Cheviot Hills. No visible traces remained, but in 1951 Cambridge University made an air survey of the region. Pictures of a field of sprouting barley showed a vague rectangular shadow and a smaller, wedge-shaped...
Television cameras will be used in Sanders Theatre for the first time on January 8th, when British Labor Party leader Hugh Gaitskell delivers the first of this year's Godkin Lectures. The three-day series, "The Challenge of Co-Existence," will be televised by WGBH-TV on each of the three days...
...Congressional elections, Torbert Macdonald, Democrat, is favored in the 8th district, and incumbent Laurence Curtis is given the edge over Jackson Holtz in the 10th district...