Word: carthaginians
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Later this year the Lahaina Restoration Foundation will have almost totally rebuilt Carthaginian II (named for the fictional vessel in James Michener's Hawaii), which will be a true replica of a 19th century trader. One of the foundation's major enterprises is a marine research center which is trying to preserve the endangered humpbacks, of which there are perhaps only 850 left. (By dialing 667-9316 you can hear them "singing.") The foundation has also restored to Victorian primness the home of the Baldwin family, pioneer missionaries and landowners of whom the natives still say: "They came...
Fell maintains that Carthaginians were traveling companions of the Celts, and he says one inscription even records the annexation of a large chunk of Massachusetts by the Carthaginian prince Hanno...
...effort to prevent that, Fradier hopes to excavate 1,000 acres of ruins. The Punic port at nearby Salambo (from which the Carthaginian navy controlled the Mediterranean) would be returned to its historical appearance and would double as a yacht basin. In Carthage itself, a Roman theater would be refurbished to serve for modern dramas. Statuary would be restored, as would the baths of Antoninus...
...troops: "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." Brimming with messianic zeal, the movie general struts about North Africa as if he imagined himself a Carthaginian commander. And that is precisely what the real Patton thought he was. A mirror-gazing mystic, Patton believed in reincarnation and wrote odes to himself in his other lives. Today such attitudes in a draftee might bar him from service; yesterday they served to propel a general to victories...