Word: holiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Royal Greeting. Into the Old City of Jerusalem one day last week came King Abdullah of Trans Jordan, clad in a new uniform and white Arab headdress. Playing the double role of Saladin and Richard the Lion-Hearted, he prayed first at the Dome of the Rock Mosque, third holiest shrine in Islam, then in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. As the little king walked through the narrow lanes Arabs shouted: "Long live Abdullah! You are King of Jerusalem...
...Kandy's temple is one of Buddhism's holiest shrines. It is supposed to house a tooth of the Gautama Buddha, brought to Ceylon for safekeeping in the 4th Century. The Portuguese claim to have burned this relic in the market place at Goa in the 16th Century, and since then successive teeth have been stolen from the temple by other invaders. But pious Buddhists still believe that the enshrined relic, a chunk of ivory 20 times the size of an ordinary tooth, is the original...
...through extreme hardship, and through the sacrifice of every other value known to human life. These men would not be grateful for the implication that they, the guardians of the Revolution, are a group of neurotic, wistful intellectuals, to be swept off their feet and won over from their holiest articles of faith by an engaging smile, a few kind words, and some gestures of self-abnegation on the part of the other fellow...
...Jerusalem the diggers were searching for truth in a city where every square yard is encrusted with stoutly defended legend. Recently they discovered evidence calculated to knock the props from under the holiest spot in Christendom, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre...
Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, a mosaic-walled mosque in a corner of the Old City, is Islam's third holiest shrine. From the Rock, Mohamed, led by the Angel Gabriel, ascended on el-Buraq, his eagle-winged mare with the human face, to visit the seven heavens of Islam. (Mohamed's footprint, judged by Mark Twain to be about size 18, is still pointed out to true believers; in the 12th Century it was shown as the footprint of Christ.) Here the muezzin's wail is still heard from the upper air, calling...