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Ever Since Chaucer. The scene could just as well have been ancient Babylon or the court of Richard the Lionhearted. Falconry's techniques of training and manning hawks have not changed in more than 3,000 years, and falconers still speak a language that was modish in Chaucer's days. "She's an intermewed eyas, and not yet enseamed" means: "She is a young falcon that has recently molted and is still too fat to hunt." A few falconry terms have made their way into modern vocabulary. A "cad" is a person fit for no other occupation...
...others: the pyramids of Egypt, the gardens of Semiramis at Babylon, the statue of the Olympian Zeus by Phidias, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Pharos (lighthouse) at Alexandria. In some listings, the Walls of Babylon are substituted for the Pharos...
...Confident of an unending supply from earth's mighty rivers and timeless seas, man has wasted water and polluted it. Parched by unpredictable droughts, he has migrated thousands of miles to slake his thirst. He has fought over it since ancient times: Sennacherib of Assyria revenged himself on Babylon by dumping debris in the city's canals; today armed Arabs and Israelis challenge each other across the banks of the disputed River Jordan...
...works on board a transatlantic ship. The day before he arrived in New York City, June 23, 1941, the Nazis attacked Russia. The U.S. provided a wartime haven and a climate of liberty for Chagall. Manhattan, where he eventually found an apartment off Fifth Avenue, stunned him as "this Babylon." The artist never managed to learn English, but he and his wife made their home a center for other expatriates...
...pages. Thames & Hudson distributed by International Book Society, a division of Time Inc. $17.50. On none of her 30 books did the late Dame Rose Macaulay bestow more love and scholarship than on Pleasure of Ruins, her unique evocation of civilization's past. Troy, Nineveh, Tyre, Thebes, Babylon, Carthage, Persepolis, Byzantium-all the fallen cities rise again from the centuries in her memorial. In this volume, Constance Babington Smith, Dame Rose's cousin, and Canadian Artist-Photographer Roloff Beny have paid lovely tribute to those glorious ghosts. Beny's 172 photographs, twelve in color, make a perfect...