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...Temple of Light near where Chicago's drainage canal flows out of Lake Michigan in Wilmette, Ill. This will serve the Baha'i's in the western world?some 3,000 believers. Less pretentious but serving some 2,000,000 communicants are the three Eastern temples, at Haifa and Akka in Palestine, Ishquabad in Turkestan (this one was lately seized by the atheist Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baha'i | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...Missing Link (Syd Chaplin). Akka, agreeable chimpanzee, makes merry in this mad jungle frolic. Funnyman Syd Chaplin plays an animal-timorous poet-stowaway who is forced to impersonate a big-game Nimrod in the search for the missing link...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: May 16, 1927 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

Died. His Highness, Sir Pratab Singh, 75, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir for two score years; in his palace at Srinagar (see Commonwealth). Died. Dr. George August Schweinfurth, 89, famed African explorer, in Berlin. Once he lived among the cannibals. In Central Africa he stumbled on the Pigmy "Akka" and proved to science that there had been a dwarf race in the tropics. Blunt, methodical, he had traveled into the heart of darkness; from Pharaoh tombs he had gathered flowers that blossomed two thousand years before Cleopatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 5, 1925 | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

...Great Teacher came. He was Baha' O'llah (Blessed Manifestation). He was the grandson of a Grand Vizier of Persia. He died in 1892, but left a son who had been born May 23, 1844. The son-Abdul Baha-kept a shrine at Akka, Syria. He died in 1921, after having been knighted by King George V for War-services. He loved "flowers and light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: May 23, 1844 | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

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