Word: ahasuerus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish early spring festival commemorating the story of Haman, a sth Century B.C. Jew-baiter and Prime Minister of Persia's King Xerxes (Ahasuerus). The King finally had him hanged for his virulent anti-Semitism upon the intervention of Queen Esther, a beautiful Jewess. *In Ipswich, England, Tommy Hailstone, 12, was found by his sister last week, hanging by a cord in a storeroom. Said his father: "I believe Tommy had been reading in the papers about the Xiirnberg hangings and was staging a hanging himself...
Ever since 500 B.C., when Persia's King Ahasuerus put "the riches of his glorious kingdom" on display for six months, monarchs by the hundred and merchants by the million have been convinced that nothing stimulates trade like a fair. This idea was vigorously rampant...