Word: barley
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After all, Harvard's main weaknesses last year were its softness inside and its tendency to turn the ball over. This year, freshmen sensation Allison Feaster has made a Barley-esque impact, joining with Ivy Player of the Year candidate senior captain Tammy Butler to make Harvard's underbelly one of its strengths; the Crimson has outrebounded its opponents this year...
...fishes diet. His nutritional guide is the Bible: "The book of life. The book of food. The book of meals and miracles." % In its pages he finds the secrets of longevity and regularity. From Ezekiel come the ingredients for bread. Daniel serves lentils, and Nahum offers figs. Millet, barley, honeycombs and melons tumble from holy writ as exaltations of roughage...
...years and six albums ago. Theirs is an unusual collaboration. Perry lives in Ireland, Gerrard in Australia; the two trade letters and tapes before going into the studio. "We make records because we still have a lot of demons to exorcise," explains Perry. On The Wind That Shakes the Barley, an 18th century Irish song written to commemorate an uprising against the British, Gerrard's echoing a cappella is like a cold wind blowing over unmarked graves. Yulunga (Spirit Dance) begins with ominous droning and then, adding drums, shakers and Gerrard's serpentine singing, builds until its swirling patterns evoke...
...Great, even before Ramses, the first empire the world ever knew was built by a Mesopotamian ruler named Sargon of Akkad. He conquered and subjugated dozens of cities and villages between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers more than 4,000 years ago, forcing them to pay tribute in wheat, barley and silver. For a century the regime flourished, first under Sargon and then under his grandson until suddenly, mysteriously, it collapsed. Neither the capital city of Akkad, famed for its harbor filled with vessels from distant shores, nor the imperial records, etched in cuneiform and possibly chronicling the empire...
Northern Africa was a somewhat wetter place five millenniums ago, and the land was fertile in a broad swath on either side of the Nile. Many Egyptians still lived in huts made of papyrus or mud; raised wheat, barley and livestock; and paid homage to the local chiefs. Within just a few hundred years the Pharaoh Narmer would forge the entire area into the great Egyptian Empire. But recent scholarship shows that local chiefdoms were already coalescing into larger kingdoms, as they were in the neighboring land of Nubia, just upriver. As in Europe, a stable food supply created...