Word: carthaginians
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...heard the crack of Carthaginian whips...
...flood of reports has been issuing from this complex expedition, a main point being that the Tunisian Government, unlike the Egyptian, has received its guests well, cooperated with them in circumventing Carthaginian realtors whose plans for booming city lots in Carthage threatened to interfere with the scientists' investigations. Finds included babies' bottles, sunken gold, the dust of a dancing girl surrounded with funereal pomp, a hairpin and button factory, urns, tablets, a child's savings bank, a broken flute, a bronze razor, rouge, baubles, etc, etc. The forum of Carthage, said to be the spot where Queen...
...Congress of Berlin France was encouraged by Bismarck to seize Tunis. Three years later the French took advantage of native disturbances to occupy the center of the ancient Carthaginian empire. Italy had long regarded Tunis as her own property, where 50,000 Italians lived and prospered. As Bismarck had planned, this act by France drove Italy into alliance with Austria and Germany...
...York Allied Bazaar's diminutive planet is still dodging its way through the sky in search of a name. The heavenly little body demands the name of some great institution of learning, but what institution this will be depends entirely on the latter's generosity. Will Carthaginian parsimony force the little twinkler to go through life with such a designation as "Yalensis" or "Tiga"? To save it from such a fate voting is being held dally in the CRIMSON Building, 14-20 Plympton street. Votes are now selling at the low figure of 10 cents each; there is no limit...