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Word: grecos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred other partially excavated sites in Nubia and the Sudan-temples, forts, chapels, churches, mosques, tombs, prehistoric wall drawings-will be submerged in the 300-mile-long Nubian lake to be created by the building of the High Dam at Aswan. Rivaling Abu Simbel in historical value is the Greco-Roman temple on Philae Island, gradually built un over earlier ruins beginning in the 3rd century B.C. Philae is already flooded five months of the year by the existing dam at Aswan, and when the first stage of the new High Dam is completed upstream by Soviet engineers and Egyptian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Death by Drowning | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...Egypt, is finished in about eight years, it will create one of the largest artificial lakes in the world--over 200 miles long. Lost beneath the waters will be the whole of pre-historic Nubia, according to Brew. Archaeological remains from paleolithic Nubria, pre-dynastic and dynastic Egypt, and Greco-Roman culture are in the threatened area...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Brew Heads UNESCO Commission To Salvage Archeological Remains | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

...University community, the curriculum, and the teaching attitudes offer a distinctly Christian tradition. Rabbi Gold maintains, though, that the prevailing faith, not only in American universities, but in Western civilization, is not even Judeo-Christian, but Greco-Christian. How does the Jewish student, with only a poor knowledge of his own faith, fare when he meets such foreign and challenging philosophies for the first time...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Jewish Students Profess Identity, Discard Belief | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...Pelissier. Belgium's King Baudouin holidayed solemnly at Cabassol with his sister Princess Joséphine-Charlotte and her husband, Prince Jean of Luxembourg. The week before, Adlai Stevenson had been playing tennis at St.-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Moviemaker Darryl F. Zanuck and his good friend, Chanteuse Juliette Greco, were at the Hôtel du Cap in Antibes, where footfalls sink into deep carpets and almost no one goes into the water. Spain's Prince Juan Carlos handled a sailboat off Cannes; and a $215,000 jewel theft last week from the Cap-d'Antibes villa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: On the Beach | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...everyone is committing rape." He spoke mysteriously of wanting "a dozen butcher hooks to hang a dozen capitalists." He grumbled that Archbishop Makarios was not consulting him about events in Cyprus. Stunned Greek Cypriots began getting anonymous letters denouncing the archbishop as a deserter. Grivas now rejects the Anglo-Greco-Turkish truce agreements entirely, disclosed that he has sent a secret circular advising his former EOKA terrorist lieutenants that the settlement was "against the best interests of the Greek Cypriot people." He calls for an eventual absorption of Cyprus into Greece though this would involve a breach of Greece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Soldier's Revolt | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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