Word: aleppo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week sketchy reports reached Aleppo in Syria that Mr. Bache had penetrated the Twelfth Level, representing a town of minor importance, was starting to excavate the Thirteenth Level, a town which he called "P Prlent" and which he believed was built 6,000 years before Christ. It was thus older than Ur by 2,000 years...
Turner & Pangborn likewise got lost, nearly ran out of gas. finally landed at Allahabad. First accident of the race occurred at Aleppo, Syria, when Australians Woods & Bennett turned over in landing. Scott & Black, pushing their engines to the limit, swept into Singapore that night with heavy black smoke pouring from their exhaust. Alarmed field officials rushed out with fire engines. Scott asked for two glasses of beer, danced with nervous impatience...
...Herriot lost and about the time of his fall Syrians seriously took up the Yo-Yo, hopped about Damascus and Aleppo, delightedly Yo-Yoing...
...after Sir Galahad took it to the city of Sarras in the East. The cup is known as the Great Chalice of Antioch, where it was discovered in 1910 by some excavating Arabs. It has been since 1914 the property of Fahim Joseph Kouchakji. a Syrian Catholic born in Aleppo who became a U. S. citizen last week. Art Collector Kouchakji was planning last week to sail for France with the Chalice, to show it in an exhibition of Christian art at the Louvre next month. This will be the first time it will have been exhibited publicly, although archaeological...