Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mari. Last week a U.S. expedition, sponsored by the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, was at work at the site of the holy city of Nippur, the seat of Enlil, god of the elements. There, only 100 miles south of Baghdad, it has uncovered perhaps the finest Sumerian find in 25 years-more than 50 ritual objects, vases, bas-reliefs and statues of the third millennium B.C. (see color...
...separate identity. In the Middle East, where Mao's recognition of the Algerian rebel government helped to woo Arab sentiment, Hsinhua has displaced Tass as the chief fountainhead of Communist "news." This year for the first time Red China set up its own big separate industrial exhibition in Baghdad. Many Iraqi nationalists say that it was Peking's Communist agents, not Russia's, who whipped up the local Reds to bloody excesses in the 1958 uprisings. Egypt's Nasser clearly prefers Russians just now, but the Chinese still maintain a large embassy in Cairo...
...biggest exporter of secondhand clothing, broni waawu is covering the underdeveloped nations of the world. The raw material for the estimated $30 million annual business often results from a closetcleaning housewife's call to a ragman or the Salvation Army. The castoffs may end in a Baghdad bazaar or a peddler's Land Rover making bush-to-bush sales in Tanganyika-with a Brooks Brothers suit for sale at $5, Arrow shirts at 50?, a Saks dress at 30?. Last year U.S. exporters shipped over 200 million lbs. of used clothing around the world for profit. And though...
...China talks peace but grabs off border lands that have been traditionally Indian. After the Suez invasion, Egypt's Nasser accepted the embrace of the Russian bear and has been warily disentangling himself ever since. Iraq's Karim Kassem cut his nation adrift from the pro-Western Baghdad Pact and welcomed Russian aid. He soon found the Communists were using the situation to dislodge him from power, and has cracked down on domestic Reds and grown more standoffish with the Soviets...
...binding together), the founders of analytical geometry and of plane and spherical trigonometry, pioneers in astronomy (through their need to locate Mecca precisely). As scholars flocked in from all over the world-among them a young Frenchman who later became Pope Sylvester II (999-1003)-Fez flourished as the "Baghdad of the West...