Word: ararat
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...rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually...
Britain's tweedy Amateur Archeologist Egerton Sykes, onetime army intelligence officer, is willing to take the Bible's word at face value. For years he has longed to investigate Mt. Ararat, the 16,946-ft. peak which straddles Turkey and Persia at the border of Soviet Armenia. Recently he announced his intention of leading an expedition there in June. Dean Aaron J. Smith of North Carolina's People's Bible College, another enthusiastic amateur, said he would go along. "It's not necessarily the Ark we hope to find," explained Sykes, "but any ship...
...across the historic kingdom of Armenia) began appearing after the first major Turkish massacres in 1894. The picture shows a woman (usually weeping) seated atop classic ruins named after Armenia's lost provinces. The broken crown at her feet symbolizes the shattered kingdom. In the background rises Mount Ararat, where Noah's Ark came to rest...
...glad to learn that at long last some of the half million Armenian exiles scattered all over the world are finding refuge in Soviet Armenia. But Soviet Armenia is only 10% of the Armenian homeland. Everyone knows that from Bible times till World War I, Mt. Ararat, Kars, Ardahan, Van, Bitlis, Erzerum, Harpoot and Diarbekir have been the home of the Armenian people. In the province of Diarbekir alone there were more than 50,000 Armenians before World War I. I know. I was born there and saw the Massacres...
Last week the President also: ¶Awarded the D.S.M. to Harry Hopkins. ¶Went to his first ball game as President. ¶ Received a new fez, signifying that he is a Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine, Kansas City; and a three-sided desk gadget which has YES on one side, NO on the second, and SCRAM on the third...