Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...additions to the museum during the past year have been two bronze battle-axes from Damascus, four stone seals, two of which appear to be Babylonian, one Assyrian, and one Persian, two Arabic manuscripts, and about two dozen specimens of rock salt from the shores of the Dead Sea. Of the Greek papyri received from the Egypt Exploration Fund and reported a year ago, three have been deposited as a loan in the museum of the Classical Department of the University...
...Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus," by D. S. Margoliouth...
Harper's--"From the Spring of the Jordan to Damascus," by H. Van Dyke h.'94; "Writing," by E. S. Martin '77; "Editor's Easy Chair," by W. D. Howells...
Since graduating from Harvard, Mr. Sampson has travelled extensively in the Rocky Mountains and in the Mediterranean countries, visiting Jerusalem and Damascus and crossing the desert to Palmyra. In 1903 as U. S. game preserve expert under the Biological Survey he made a tour of nearly 1300 miles, visiting forest reserves in California and Washington with the object of selecting certain areas where large game shall be protected. He has had an extended experience as a hunter in the West and Northwest and was until recently secretary of the Boone and Crockett Club...
...most forcible lessons of the Bible is in the sudden change of Paul's life after the vision which came to him during his journey to Damascus. From this moment he worked with a hope and purpose as noble as his former life had been...