Word: anatolia
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...their exposed position on Soviet Russia's southern flank. They are glad the world is beginning to realize that they have not lost their ancient talent for fighting. The news of spectacular Turkish feats in Korea did not amaze Tahir Atar, a villager from Mengen in central Anatolia. Said he last week: "We knew what our kids could accomplish, but our friends, the Americans, didn't. Now they know-and so do the mosk...
...word has spread through the hills of Anatolia. Turks stride with new confidence along the banks of the swift Kizil Irmak. They know now that the Russians cannot win. Have not the incredible Americans trained dogs to fly airplanes...
Last fall, hardy Turkish diggers hacked their way into a dense, bandit-ridden forest in southern Anatolia. There they discovered a Hittite royal palace with lines of two-headed stone bulls. Among the bulls the diggers found the long-sought key: 30 stones with parallel inscriptions in Hittite hieroglyphics and early Phoenician, a translatable Semitic language. The first words the ancient language spoke to modern scholars (self-praise by King Asitawandas, servant of Baal) were not particularly interesting, but the hieroglyphic code was broken. Scholars were sure that other inscriptions, now readable, would tell them the story of the Sons...
Trustees of Anatolia College, Salonica, Greece, convened in Sanders Theatre Saturday and conferred an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Conductor Dimitri Metropoulos of the Minneapolis Symphony...
When the German occupation troops left Greece, they left a bare 6000 volumes in the Anatolia library, President Ernest W. Riggs told Raphael Demos, professor of Philosophy who played host for the University yesterday...