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Once, on the east bank of the Jordan, the Greeks founded the League of Ten Cities, the Romans built baths and forums, and 1,500,000 people dwelt in plenty and exported wheat to Rome. Now the east bank cannot even support its 400,000 people, who get along only because London, for strategic reasons, ships in ?8,000,000 sterling a year to Jordan. Mesopotamia (now Iraq), in the fabled caliphate of Harun al-Rashid (786-809), supported 30 million people; Bagdad had a population of 2,000,000, and 30,000 public baths. Today, all Iraq barely supports...
...house she could see London, 40 miles away, being destroyed each night. But with uncommon discipline she kept the war and her absent husband almost entirely out of her pages. Instead, she watched Nature's show as the seasons turned, observed her young sons with curiosity and astonishment, dwelt on her reading and her memories...
...massive iron gates. They tugged in vain: the gates were rusted fast into the open position from which they had not been moved for a century. Throughout that time the French public had wandered freely in and out of the great palace where their "Father" the King, had dwelt "like a man in a glass house." Louis XIV had patiently endured this goldfish life. His successor. Louis XV who became King when he was only five years old, rebelled before he was out of his teens. He built into Versailles a private snuggery known as "the little apartments" (a scant...
Speaking before another capacity crowd in Sanders Theatre, Stevenson dwelt mostly on the power balance in Western Europe, promising to expand on the Asian situation in his concluding lecture this evening. Last night's speech was entitled "Perpetual Peril," a part of of Stevenson's series called "A Troubled World...
Villainous Battery. Rickover had a vision. At Oak Ridge, he and his little command of four eager young officers painfully fought their way through mathematical entanglements to the strongholds where dwelt the atom. They came to the conclusion that the Navy, to remain a vital fighting force, must have nuclear propulsion, and that the logical place to apply it first was in submarines...