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Persia & Irak. "And the trees that bear wool I clipped." So wrote Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians seven centuries before Christ. His wool-bearing "trees" were the earliest known cotton. For the cotton and for his fabulous gardens at Nineveh he needed water. Dr. James Henry Breasted, famed founder-director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, returning from an airplane visit to his twelve lieutenants and their staffs busy in the Near East, said that Sennacherib brought his water through a 3O-mi. aqueduct. A member of the Irak expedition, led by a friendly native, had found...
...books before those years, and the abundance after them. Vesalius "De Humani Corperi Fabrica," in the second edition, will be on view; the first, printed at Basel in 1543, is to be shown at the same time in the Print Room in Fogg. The Treasure Room, possesses, however, the earliest printings of Copernicus' revolutionary work on the movements of the planets, of Gesner's natural history, and of Agricola's De Re Metallica, and these will be brought out for the benefit of the public. One of Mercator's early atlases, will be included. From the seventeenth century, works...
...English A theme, as yet unborn after an evening at the movies. His gridiron experience, however, had given him resource in crises, and this particular resource he found in his desk drawer. It was an "A" theme in English A, submitted by his brother some years before. In its earliest known history it had been handed in by a long graduated cousin and had also received...
...meetings, committee meetings and architects meetings are over for the San Antonio Federation. Their application, plans, drawings, specifications, reports, etc., are already in the hands of the Government's NRA Board where the Federation hopes to receive favorable attention. All this because we had the information at the earliest date possible in a form which was understandable. Too much gratitude cannot go to TIME...
...edge of an oasis by Arabs searching for tillable soil. There was much more to dazzle the imagination: the purple vellum Gospels supposed to have been given to Henry VIII by Pope Leo X; the 10th Century De Materia Medica of Dioscorides; the 13th Century British Psalter with the earliest known picture of a windmill...