Word: darius
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...professor of history who likes to indulge in quiet dramatics, Robert College of Istanbul offers rare advantages: should the professor be speaking of Jason's route in search of the Golden Fleece, or should he be describing how Darius I crossed the Bosporus, he need only step to his classroom window to illustrate his point. "There," he can say, looking out at the water over the fortress of Rumeli Hissar, which Sultan Mohammed II built in 1452, "there is where it happened...
Like a tortoise shell on Asia's back, Afghanistan lies athwart the spiny Hindu Kush mountains, sloping northward to the Oxus River and Russia, eastward to the Khyber Pass. Perhaps no land has been so trodden upon by history and yet kept its independence. Darius, Alexander, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Babur all invaded it. In the 19th century the British Empire, following a northwesterly course, approached the Hindu Kush and southward-marching Russians. In the end, Britain and the Czars, fearful of what might happen if their armies met, agreed to keep Afghanistan as a buffer state...
...projected Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs pictured in your May 23 issue: it may seem as "modern as ... aircraft" to its architects, but students of archaeology will find it a bit oldfashioned. The general layout recalls Khorsabad, which the Assyrian Sargon dedicated in 706 B.C., and Persepolis, which Darius I founded two centuries later. There also, low, oblong buildings with enclosed courts were grouped in the shadow of an imposing terrace topped by a temple, a throne room and a palace, or, in our parlance, a chapel, an administration building and a social hall...
...distance covered by Athenian Courier Pheidippides in 490 B.C., when he raced from the plain of Marathon to the outskirts of Athens with news that Darius the Mede had been defeated...
...retired to devote all of his time to writing. Although most of his plays were heavy with Roman Catholic symbolism and too long for staging, he became a popular as well as a critical success in later years with the postwar productions of his operas, Christophe Colomb (music by Darius Milhaud) and Joan at the Stake (music by Arthur Honegger). Claudel insisted, in his 27-year correspondence with his friend, Novelist André Gide (The Correspondence Between Paul Claudel and Andre Gide) that art must bear witness to Christ, assailed modern literary introspectionists as "horrible little terriers who put their...