Word: british
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August 1941, five months before the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard a battleship offNewfoundland, Canada, and proclaimed an AtlanticCharter providing for freedom of the seas andleading to the arming of merchant ships...
...gold jewelry never before shown outside Iraq. The find, which was made by Muzahim Mahmoud Hussein, head of the Iraqi team at Nimrud, has turned out to be, by all accounts, one of the most important in modern times. John Curtis, an archaeologist from the British Museum, describes the treasure of Nimrud as the most significant archaeological discovery since King Tutankhamen's tomb was uncovered in Egypt...
...crown woven from fine gold strands; a flask carved flawlessly from a solid block of crystal; a pair of heavy cuffs set with stones that look like large, startled eyes; a playful necklace festooned with teardrop pendants. "It sets a magnificent standard," says Georgina Herrmann, an archaeologist at the British Institute of Archaeology. "The workmanship would be difficult to duplicate today...
...jewelry uncovered this year gives a new perspective to the Assyrian empire's brutish reputation. "What is surprising is the amazing variety," says Herrmann. "It is not just the gold, but the different colors and the use of polychromatic stones." Agrees Curtis of the British Museum: "It revolutionizes the idea we have of the Assyrian court. No one knew they ^ possessed this kind of wealth or that the craftsmanship could be so fine...
...Nimrud find is especially interesting because it was made in sands that had been sifted and resifted by some of the world's most accomplished treasure hunters. Nimrud created a scientific sensation in the 1840s, when the British archaeologist A.H. Layard uncovered the lamassu, colossal, winged bull-men that guarded the palace entrances. One hundred years later, the site was extensively re-excavated by Max Mallowan, whose mystery-writing wife Agatha Christie kept an office at the Nimrud Digs House and composed portions of an Hercule Poirot novel, Murder in Mesopotamia, at the site...