Word: biskra
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...later Richard Strauss and Magyar folk music. With the failure of the new Hungarian Music Society in which he played a major role, Bartok, not yet appreciated by the musical world, retired in 1912 in order to make a thorough study of folk music, going as far afield as Biskra in 1913 in quest of Arabian music. In 1917, his "intellectual ballet" the "Woodcut Prince" was given a performance in Budapest, and when this was followed a year later by the opera "Bluebeard's Castle" both critics and public alike looked upon him with favor. He has continued to compose...
...once published the New Jersey Legal Record, now runs a successful theatre ticket agency in Newark, N. J. Widely traveled, he is especially fond of the Sahara Desert, where, he says, "you look at the horizon all day long and feel that you are staring at eternity." In Biskra he frequented the Algerian salon of Winston Churchill's cousin, Sculptress Clare Sheridan (Arab Interlude). Germany Must Perish! is his first book. "Strictly a one-man job" (he claims he has no organization, no help, no backers), it was worked on for four months. Then he founded the Argyle Press...
...December 1923, with a crew of 50, the Dixmude left her base at Cuers-Pierrefou for a 72-hour flight over North Africa. On the third day, near Biskra, a storm struck her, disabled her wireless and motors, blew her across Tunis toward Sicily. Thence the Dixmude's trail sprawled octopus-like with conflicting "eyewitness" reports. First authentic trace occurred nine days later when Sicilian fishermen pulled in with their nets the body of du Plessis de Grenedan, the Dixmude's commander. No other body has been found. But tribesmen have insisted that on the sixth day after...
...ports of call: Paris, Bordeaux, Biarritz, Perpignan, Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga, Seville, Tangier, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Fez, Oran, Algiers, Biskra, Tunis, Catania, Naples, Rome, Venice, Pisa, Marseille, Lyons...
...average, with high, white walls rising up in an uncompromising manner, and put into that street enough Arabs, mules, donkeys, children, and files to fill a street fourteen feet wide on the average. That would give you a good working idea of what the main artery of Biskra was like. It requires a combination of broken-field running and line plunging that would perplex even the redoubtable George Owen...