Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Mejia Colindres broke an ancient Honduran precedent. A Liberal (Red), he announced the victory of General Carias' Conservative (Blue) party. Previously it was customary to announce the election results only if the Administration party won. The President's unorthodox action so shocked his Red supporters that they revolted anyway and for three months Honduras enjoyed a Red v. Red-&-Blue revolution. Last week Rebel General Jose Antonio Sanchez had fled to Nicaragua and the revolution was over...
...China knew regal splendor when Europeans were "still swinging from the trees by their tails." Fanciers now generally agree that the dog probably took on its present aspect in the 7th Century A. D., but Chinese tradition holds that it was the pet of Emperors 4,000 years ago. Ancient carvings, pictures and effigies of a grotesque animal resembling the Pekingese seem to substantiate this belief...
...Darius' six chief concubines used to occupy the ancient Persian apartment where Archeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld last week played chess. She may have played the same old game there. Professor Herzfeld, who dug up & restored the place, has made it headquarters for further excavation of other once magnificent buildings of Persepolis...
Credit for the extensive excavations of Persepolis goes to Director James Henry Breasted of Chicago's Oriental Institute. He found the money to finance learned Professor Herzfeld and detach him from the University of Berlin. Professor Herzfeld, 53, has dug into ancient Persia for 30 years. The Shah is a personal friend, recently visited him at Persepolis...
Persons unfamiliar with the ancient sport of cockfighting imagine it to be a sinister and ugly pastime, practiced in the dead of night by sadistic thugs. Such persons know of its existence in the U. S. mainly from publicity given trifling episodes such as the one which occurred last week near Avon, N. Y. State police were advised by agents of the Rochester Humane Society that a cockfight would be held in the cellar of the Canawaugus Inn. When they arrived at the Inn, police found a score of cars, their lights extinguished, parked outside. In the cellar a fairsized...