Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Harriet Eells and Mr. Boris Saslawski will assist Mr. Arthur Whiting in the presentation of the fourth concert in his series of Expositions of Ancient and Modern Chamber Music. The concert will be held at 8.15 o'clock this evening in the Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building...
...Bangkok the towering eight-sided throne of Siam was reverently prepared to receive a new occupant, the former Prince Pracha Tipok, brother of the late King Rama IV, who died without leaving a male heir (TIME, Dec. 7), after abolishing the royal harem and breaking the ancient Siamese tradition that the King should marry one of his sisters or at least a half-sister...
...most influential of Japanese bankers. Last year Baron Sumitomo, who was much interested in the development of Oriental studies at Harvard, and particularly in the Oriental Department to be opened in the new Fogg Museum, sent the University one of the few remaining copies of his invaluable catalogue of ancient Chinese bronzes...
This Poetry Tourney is modeled on a fourteenth century French custom of celebrating the ancient spring festival. A golden rose, the work of a French jeweler, will be the prize awarded to the poet who best interprets the spirit of May Day. No limit of length or standard of form has been...
While mummified ibises, cats, falcons, bulls and crocodiles have been found frequently in ancient tombs it is believed that no horses have been uncovered before. Horses did not come into Egypt until the Seventeenth Dynasty, about 1800 B. C., and as they were never deified or associated with any of the many gods of Egypt they were never deemed worthy of preservation. Why these two horses were saved is a problem which has not yet been solved...