Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rembrandt and a collection of Persian objets d'art that is indubitably the finest in the world, both in the number and the quality of the pieces. Golden daggers from Turkestan, jade seals, incense-burners embellished with rubies, pots set with a thousand emeralds, and blades from Damascus curved like evil moons−the treasure of a fairy-tale empire that came to an end, as is the way with fairy tales−and empires...
...Terrot Reaveley Glover, follow and classical lecturer at Saint John's College, Cambridge, England, will deliver at 8 o'clock this evening in the New Lecture Hall the first of a series of five lectures on "St. Paul". The opening lecture will be entitled "Damascus". These lectures have been arranged by the trustees of the Dowse Institute, with the cooperation of Harvard University. They will be given this week on five successive evenings, and will be free and open to the public...
This week's program of lectures is as follows: Today, "Damascus"; tomorrow, "Not Having Mine Own Righteousness"; Wednesday, "The Life of Obedience"; Thursday, "The Human Paul", and Friday, "The Love of Christ...
...pursuit, and with the acquisition of almost every one is connected a tale of adventure or hardship. Two Seljuk " bird rugs," woven in 1550, were secured in Constantinople in 1922 and went with him through the sack and massacre of Smyrna. Hungary, Thrace, Rhodes, Asia Minor, Persia, Bagdad, Damascus-all are represented...
...attempt to pass among the Arabs in any disguise, but, wherever he went, bluntly proclaimed himself an Englishman and a Christian. Supporting himself largely by the sale of medicines, among people who preferred spells and amulets to the drugs of Western science, he traveled with the Mecca pilgrimage from Damascus as far as Medain Salih, later wandering through the vast, waterless marches of Central Arabia until he reached the hills and oasis of Kheybar-then south again with a caravan to the Mecca region, ending at the English Consulate at Jidda-a two years' saga of fortitude. And every...