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...Force taxied a huge Fairey-Napier monoplane weighing six and one-half tons and carrying 1,000 gallons of gasoline down a special two-mile runway at Cranwell Airdrome in Lincolnshire. They took the air and headed in a southeasterly direction. Twenty-seven hours later they were seen over Bagdad, still going. Forty-eight hours out they passed over Karachi in India with still 1,170 mi. to go to their destination, Bangalore. Two hours later the great plane reappeared over Karachi and landed. Head winds had eaten up its gasoline on the last half of the journey...
...family accounts. After making his first picture, The Lamb, for the old Triangle company for $2,000 a week, he developed a type of film peculiar to himself, spent $700,000 on The Three Musketeers, almost as much on Robin Hood. Other famous ones: The Nut, The Thief of Bagdad, Don Q, The Black Pirate, The Gaucho...
...canser, yielded from Harvard excavations in 1927 and 1928, comes from the ruins of Nuzi, Iraq, 200 miles north of Bagdad. The city of Nuzi was destroyed by fire about 1500 B. C. and apparently was never rebuilt. The censer was found in a building which had probably been a temple or sanctuary on the principal mound of the ancient city and was used for the burning of incense before the gods. The city may have suffered destruction with the rise of Assyria...
...Semitic Museum has come the archaeological and inscriptional material. The inscribed clay tablets, some two thousand in number, rank first in importance. It is understood that we shall return a portion of these to the Museum at Bagdad, after publication of the inscriptions in this country. From some hundreds found in one of the rooms excavated, Professor Chiera, while still at Nuzi, selected 107 and copied them on 100 plates. These will appear at an early date as a volume of the "Harvard Semitic Series...
Iraq, one of the earliest centers of civilization, is now attracting world-wide attention. Here are prospects bright enough to arouse the slowest imagination. Many institutions, American, English, French, German, are wide awake. Dr. Pfeiffer has just written from Bagdad: "There are to be seven archeological expeditions besides our own in Iraq this year, they say the greatest number of excavations ever known and the best equipped...