Word: babylonic
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...people of Babylon builded themselves a great hall. And it had pastel cinder block and great graffiti and many windows. And in it there was much feasting and loud voices...
Then, in rich chapters, he describes the virtually inexhaustible variety of answers that man has proposed to the question of what follows death. Islam preached an afterlife of sensual pleasure for the true believer; some Hellenic religions gloomily warned of a dark, shadowy Hades. The Sumerian faith of ancient Babylon and the primitive Yahwist faith of Israel also preached an afterlife of agony rather than ecstasy-which was still apparently preferable to believing that death was merely obliteration...
...just felt that a guy that ambitious for himself might bring my money up with him." Wealthy London Dandy John Aspinall grew so fond of Eddy that in 1959 he threw a $15.000 party for him in a Belgrave Square mansion decked out to resemble the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Among the 150 guests were such notable continental play people as Linda Christian and the Maharajah of Jaipur. Sighed Aspinall last week: "Eddy is the most generous man I know. I'm most upset to see him in his preset position...
...they recorded current events-the start of a war, say, or a drop in the price of barley-they were likely to include the position of the moon on that day. or the location of a couple of planets. Today, if a scholar studying the clay tablets of ancient Babylon wants to know the exact date of a given event, all he has to do is to calculate the date when the heavenly bodies were in their recorded positions...
Scholars who can read the cuneiform writing of ancient Babylon are already hard at work with Dr. Tuckerman's tables. Eventually they may check the dates of such events as Nebuchadnezzar's deportation of the Jews or Cyrus' capture of Babylon-sometimes, perhaps, to the very hour, Babylon Standard Time. They hope to reconstruct a detailed history of the almost forgotten Babylonian civilization, out of which grew the culture of Greece and modern Europe...