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...last period in the ninth grade is spent in a consideration of ancient history--from the Sumerians through the kingdoms of Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia, the Hebrews, the Minoans of Crete, the Persian Empire, and the Greek city states down to the victory of Philip of Macedon...
ASSUR-NASIR-PAL II was the terror of the civilized world. When he completed his palace in 879 B.C. in present-day Nimrud, northern Iraq, "the Great King, the Mighty King, King of the Universe, King of Assyria" celebrated with a palace-warming that included a ten-day banquet for the royal city's entire population-more than 69,000-as well as for visiting VIPs. Assur-nasir-pal II had populated his city with conquered peoples, rebuilt it from ruins, crowned it with his palace and adorned the palace with the magnificence of the day. And in history...
...Hanukkah; time again for Jewish boys and girls to hear the story of Judah Maccabee, warrior son of the aged priest Mattathias, who dared to lead his tiny band of fighting men against the might of Assyria. It was circa...
...article on Great Britain in the same issue makes my blood boil . . . Any nation whose leaders are trying to make a policy of coddling the thugs and bandits of Communist Russia . . . deserves not only to lose its role of international leadership, but its national identity as well, as did Assyria, Babylonia and ancient Rome...
Jacob's Stone of Scone. The lost tribes, say they, were captured and exiled by Sargon, King of Assyria, about 721 B.C. Assyrian records tell of a race called the "Khumri." These, according to the theory, were the Ten Tribes, who became the Greeks' Cimmerioi and the Romans' Cimbri, gave their name to such places as the Crimea, Cumberland and Cambria, and were also the Cymry (pronounced Kum-ree), who originally settled in Wales. Other branches are supposed to have become the Scythians, or Scuthae, who populated Scotland, and the Sacae, or Saxons (i.e., Isaac...