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...kingdom under Saul of the Benjamin Tribe, annointed by Samuel "the last Judge in Israel." Other kings were David and Solomon, after whom the Kingdom was divided: Kingdom of Israel; Kingdom of Judah, which was at one time captured by Nebuchadnezzar who destroyed Jerusalem and carried the Jews into Babylonian captivity. The Kingdom of Israel was destroyed by Sargon, King of Assyria, in 772 B.C. The Kingdom of Judah came to an end when Titus destroyed Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Some 60 years later, the Emperor Hadrian put down a Jewish uprisal, forbade the Jews to enter Jerusalem, ordered...
...Wisconsin, meanwhile, were being enacted scenes far less sane, less normally boyish than the spectacle of 700 exuberant students cheering on a winter day under the window of their overseer. Rapine, carnival, all-night carousals, drinking-brawls, Babylonian revels?these said the press, have been going forward at the University of Wisconsin. Sorely, sorely, if the press is to be credenced, does the University of Wisconsin need an administrator. Judge Ole Stolen, magistrate of Madison, Wis., where the University is situate, stated last week that many students were of such licentious habits that frequently, at cockcrow, persons believed...
...Carnegie Hall, for 34 years easily the most distinguished setting for concerts in Manhattan, is to be sold, razed to the ground. This according to reports current in the world of real estate. In its place an office building, or an apartment house, of the zone-law, or neo-Babylonian type, will rear its tiers of terraces...
Mesopotamia. At Kish, near Bagdad, the Oxford and Field Museum expedition (TIME, July 9), has found a magnificent Sumerian palace; a library of cuneiform tablets, containing grammars and dictionaries of the Sumerian and Babylonian languages; a bone stylus six inches long, the oldest known pen; and a solid gold earring and other jewelry from a clay coffin of the time of Nebuchadnezzar. Kish was one of the oldest Babylonian capitals, already the seat of four great dynasties before the age of Sargon...
...stuff!" the Babylonian reviewers must have said, when the Book of Genesis appeared in their bookstalls. To them the Hebrew Story of Mankind was nothing more than the rehash of an old Sumerian legend which they had learned in their cradles, a sort of Macbeth-out-of-Holinshed affair, lacking even the frankness to acknowledge its source...