Word: arnaud
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...fact, Westerners have been looking for the Queen at Mahram Bilqis since 1843, when Joseph Thomas Arnaud, a French apothecary, arrived in search of the spices she brought to Solomon. By then, the site had long since been abandoned. The temple itself had ceased to be used sometime in the 6th century A.D., and the expanding desert had covered much of the complex. Sheba searchers returned to the region sporadically, most recently in the 1950s, when American oilman and explorer Wendell Phillips led an expedition that was driven out by political upheavals in Yemen...
...Simon Robinson. With reporting by Arnaud Zajtman/Kinshasa and Marguerite Michaels/Chicago
Accommodations are easy to find this time of year in the 20,000 hotel rooms in the Big Easy www.neworleanscvb.com) often at bargain rates. Some 30 restaurants, including Arnaud's, Galatoire's, Bacco, Antoine's and Tujague's, serve the traditional reveillon (awakening) dinners, just like those that the city's early inhabitants enjoyed after midnight Mass...
...night for reviving old rivalries and burying past failures. The Sydney Games' first session of track cycling was tipped as a tussle for gold between France and Australia: Arnaud Tournant and Shane Kelly in the men's 1-km time trial; Felicia Ballanger and Michelle Ferris in the women's 500-meter time trial. For Kelly the crowd wanted more than Olympic glory; after his tragically brief showing at Atlanta, where his foot slipped from the pedal, they wanted to cheer him to gold. After being placed on the track with his shoes already attached to the pedals, Kelly started...