Word: babeling
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...simply resurrect the Ancients in their old form. Gibbon dressed his Romans and his Christians as neo-classicists, and while Hellenism dominated the synthesis, it did not emerge pure. Consequently, it hardly seems likely that the impending transformation will be accomplished with a religion designed for the Hellenic Babel...
Rush to the Future. In a babel of 300 or more languages and dialects ranging from the clipped accents of the Oxford graduate to the grunts and tongue-clicks of the most backward Bantu tribesman, the 130 million-odd natives of Middle Africa are demanding a voice in the determination of their own future-and getting it at a pace that would have been thought absurd and impossible a generation...
From the site of the fabled Tower of Babel in the south to the remote mountain homes of Kurdish tribesmen in the north, the young (21) King of the ancient land of Iraq traveled last week at the head of a caravan of Cadillacs and Chryslers bearing guests from 13 nations. The purpose of King Feisal's 2,000-mile journey: to show off progress on the second anniversary of Iraq's $1.2 billion, five-year national development program. "The most impressive thing in the Middle East today," glowed U.S. Ambassador Waldemar J. Gallman...
From 1899 to 1917, a team of Germans worked to excavate Babylon. In the process, they unearthed the remains of the Tower of Babel. The scientists were able to calculate that it had been 295 ft. high, or about as high as the Statue of Liberty. The Queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon with "spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones" had often been thought a pious tale until archaeologists uncovered the ruins of Sheba in Yemen in 1951, found indication that the kingdom's chief trade route ran through Israel. This threw new light...
...sturdy Dutch traders, then French-speaking Walloons, Norwegians, Danes, Germans, Scots, English, and, on a slow boat from Brazil, 23 Jews. By 1644, just 35 years after Henry Hudson sailed up the great river that bears his name, at least 18 languages were represented in New York's babel of tongues. In the mid-1800s, more than 1,000,000 Irish, driven by famine, poured into New York, along with endless waves of Italian, German and Balkan refugees spilling out of revolution-torn Europe. In 1885 the Statue of Liberty was going up on Bedloe's Island, with...