Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hundreds of minor earth shocks and a score of major quakes occurred, last week, in a narrow area some 500 miles long and stretching from Varna, on the Black Sea across Bulgaria, Thrace and the islands of the Aegean Sea to Corinth, in Greece. As the first shocks rumbled at Corinth, a telegraph operator frantically clicked off the words: "Help! Help! All is lost!" Over, and over he repeated the frenzied message. Then the earth reeled, the telegraph office collapsed, crushing the operator, and, with a universal cataclysmic roar, virtually every building in Corinth tumbled to the ground...
...enlisted and fought in France for the Empire. Gallant, meteoric, he progressed to the Near East, and at barely 17 was made Governor of Zea (Ceos), an Aegean island on which he put down a rebellion, using British-French-Greek troops. Before the War ended he had returned to France, been wounded, then captured. When peace came he inherited $100,000 and tried to settle down. He is one Wilfred Thomas McCartney, British subject, even now barely...
Once the policy of imperialism is admitted right, the wisdom of England's latest move is thrown into sharp relief by the new obstacles strewn in Mussolini's path in the Aegean and Adriatic by Roumania and Jugo-Slavia, obstacles well calculated to turn the attention of the Quirinal toward Egypt. The hand of France opposes Italy here no less infallibly than England elsewhere for its being hidden behind the foreign offices of Bucharest and Belgrade. Co-incident yesterday with the return to power of the Bratiano, French controlled, anti-Italian government, after a month's exile, comes news...
From the molpe, there gradually grew the drama, and the other forms of literature, as we now know them. From it arose on the shores of the Aegean the story of Orestes, one of the most poetical of Greek characters; from it there sprung up among the Norsemen of the Baltic the ancient saga of Hamlet...
From Kos, one of the twelve Greek Aegean islands seized by Italy during the Italo-Turkish war of 1912, there came last week news of an able ecclesiastical strategem. Just before Dictator Pangalos was overthrown the local Greek Archbishop was commanded by the Italian authorities to offer prayers for Dictator Mussolini. He, wily, offered a simultaneous prayer for Dictators Mussolini and Pangalos, humored the pan-Greek leanings of his congregation. Arrested by the irate Italian police for praying for General Pangalos, he said: "You know that General Pangalos and Dictator Mussolini are great friends. They are both Dictators. They have...