Word: el
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neither comfortable, rapid nor safe-even for Kings. King Hussein of Hedjas set out upon a tour of Arabia some weeks ago. Near Petra in Kerak (Trans-jordania) he was attacked last week by a band of Wahabis, who owe their allegiance to the Emir of Riyadh*, Abd el-Aziz es-Saud. After a long struggle, King Hussein's escort repelled the attackers. The trouble between King Hussein and the Emir of Riyadh is over the demarcation of the eastern boundary of Hedjas, the alleged aspiration of King Hussein to the Caliphate and the mooted creation...
...this exhibtion gives its high place of honor to a retrospective assemblage of works by the leading men of yesterday-Cezanne (the large Joueurs de Cartes owned by M. Vollard, and reproduced in his monumental Biography), Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Courbet and Bazille, together with a magistral El Greco thrown in to give historical perspective...
...conference between the representatives of the Mexican and the American workers in El Paso, reference was made to the political campaign in Mexico, and an expression of the general feeling of all those present in regard to General Calles was embodied in the form of a resolution unanimously adopted . . . An extract from this resolution follows...
...That on June 2 martial law was declared and part of the staff of El Diario, La Razon, La Verdad and El Liberal (opposition newspapers at La Paz) were imprisoned and the rest were given the choice of a two-days' trip on muleback into the interior of Bolivia or deportation by rail. The latter was the more popular choice...
...el-Kebir, near Asyút, excavations of the British School of Archeology disclosed relics covering every period of Egyptian history and prehistory. The chief find was a papyrus manuscript of St. John's Gospel in early Coptic, midway between the Vatican and Sinaitic codices (earliest Greek Biblical manuscripts). It was wrapped in linen rags in an earthen pot, much of it in perfect condition, and is now on exhibition at University College, London. It dates from the Fourth Century and differs in several ways from the orthodox text. An iron dagger, considered the oldest iron implement known (about...