Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early days of Christianity, Egypt was famed for her desert fathers, solitary saints who lived in caves or on pillars, made friends of lions, jackals, converts of such sinners as the beauteous courtesan Thais. Over Egypt's sands last week trudged 300 policemen, mobilized by the Government to deal with 100 merry desert monks wrongfully occupying a monastery because they felt their social life was being repressed...
Three years ago seven monks of the monastery of Deir-el-Moharrak, on the edge of the desert near Assiut, rebelled because they received only $1.50 per month for pocket money. Bearded Auba Yoanes XIX, Patriarch of Egypt's ancient Coptic Church, excommunicated the seven, then pardoned them while their abbot raised their allowance to $7.50 per month. On this the monks grew merrier & merrier, saving up their money for uproarious nights in nearby Bedouin and Moslem villages. Such a nuisance became the Copts that the villagers told Abbot Sidarous to keep his men at home, else they would...
...stone building called the Kaaba in Mecca is to Mohammedans. Every Moslem plans someday to make the hajj, or pilgrimage, to kiss this most sacred of all objects, the Black Stone. On camel, burro, foot and occasionally hands & knees, some 70,000 devotees annually make the hajj over the desert sands to Mecca. Last week, fat, wealthy Mussulmen loath to subject themselves to such a hot, dusty, brigand-infested journey had for the first time a better means of travel. From Cairo, Misr Airwork of Egypt inaugurated a special service for pilgrims, flying up the Nile to Aswan, thence across...
...three years, A. H. Woods for three, and Arthur Hopkins from 1918 - 1924, he was combination actor and director of plays with all three Barrymores, Pauline Lord, and John Drew. His greatest success as a free-lance director were "The Firebrand"' which ran two years, and an operetta, "The Desert Song"' which indicated his talent for musicals...
...prehistoric times, human beings from the once verdant Sahara desert settled in the valley of the Nile and were forced by the difficulties of making a living to use their brains. Here and in the lands to the east arose the earliest civilizations. To study "the most remarkable process known to us in the universe: the rise of man from savagery to civilization," Professor James H. Breasted founded The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and sent out fourteen expeditions to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Persia. "The Human Adventure" was produced under the supervision of Professor Breasted...