Word: ghat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, Italian Anthropologist Fabrizio Mori has been trekking into the Libyan Desert to look for graffiti, ancient inscriptions on rocks. Near the oasis of Ghat, 500 miles south of the Mediterranean coast, he found on his last expedition a shallow cave with many graffiti scratched on its walls. When he dug into the sandy floor, he found a peculiar bundle: a goatskin wrapped around the desiccated body of a child. The entrails had been removed and replaced by a bundle of herbs...
...pate, Bu1ganin happily brushed them off with his wide-brimmed straw. Visiting an ancient observatory, Khrushchev asked for his horoscope, but was told it would take weeks of reading the stars to prepare. With a huge floral wreath, the two went to India's most important memorial, Raj Ghat, where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated. Removing their shoes, they stood at the spot for a silent moment (long enough to reflect, if they remembered at all, that the latest edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia calls the saint of India a reactionary who "pretended in a demagogic way" to lead...
Last week, as his father's body was brought to the burning ghat near the same temple, the new King's subjects were ordered to go-and pay homage. Men shaved their heads and donned mourning clothes of unbleached cotton. For 13 days no Nepalese would take salt, eat more than one meal a day, or sleep on anything but straw. As the flames licked at the royal cadaver, thousands of Nepalese set up a mournful wail. But King Mahendra was not present; Nepalese custom demanded that he alone of all his late father's subjects must...
...India's Hooghly River one day last February sailed a weird vessel which made even the drowsiest citizens rub their eyes. It looked like a Viking galley, and standing in its prow were warriors dressed like Viking sea kings of old. At Calcutta's Out-ram Ghat pier, one stepped ashore and delivered a pole-sized replica of a new cigarette made by India's Imperial Tobacco Co. Its name: Sea King...
...Delhi, he stayed in a bamboo hut near the concrete ghat in which Gandhi's body was cremated. Nehru called twice, in the midst of a busy election campaign. Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the President of India, came and told Bhave to take as much as he wanted of Prasad's land holding in Bihar. Members of the Planning Commission came and stayed for hours. Even a delegation of Communists, headed by Party Boss Ajoy Ghosh, paid a courteous visit. After eleven days, Bhave left New Delhi and has not been back to the capital since. He dislikes cities...