Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile His Majesty pressed two momentous buttons. The first started the first daily newspaper press ever operated in Albania. The second turned on, for the first time, an electric street lighting system in the ancient Albanian capital, Tirana...
...grand pageant of assumption of the Imperial Station proceeded amid ancient things and ceremonies whose very names and meanings are untranslatable. However, since the Tenno did sit upon what amounted to a chair, one may stretch a point and call the occasion his Enthronement...
Since some of the ceremonies would take place in temporary buildings, imitative of a remotely bygone age, these had to be especially constructed at Kioto, ancient Capital of Japan. The hereditary families of workmen and carpenters, who from age to age erect these buildings, naturally came high-because of their unique, hereditary purity. It was easy to spend over 16 millions of dollars...
...Palestine. Whenever an archaeologist digs up something ancient in Palestine there is joy, whether the object corroborates a Biblical story or whether it indicates a pre-history which the Biblical reporters knew nothing...
Wrapped in a shred of muslin and tucked in a soiled sash, the Pink Pearl is taken to Linga, across the Gulf. There appraisers sit with ancient scales, chaffer to the utmost kran,* seal their purchase with a solemn glass of tea. From Linga, the Pink Pearl journeys to Bombay or Bagdad, where foreign experts laud its lustre, symmetry, and flawlessness; drive less ceremonious bargains; swaddle the Pink Pearl in fluffy cotton; scurry back, elated, to the great jewellers of Fifth Ave., Bond St., Rue de la Paix...