Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three days later, in Iraq (Iran's sparsely populated but oil-fat neighbor), more anti-British demands were announced. Premier Nuri es-Said requested "revision" of a 1930 treaty which grants the British two air bases in Iraq, along the air route to India. Nuri has a reputation as an old friend of England, and his demands were diplomatically made, but even he assumed the proper anti-British posture. There was a reason: Egypt, the strongest Arab nation, had arranged through the Arab League for Iraq to follow Egypt's lead...
About 4850 B.C., 300-odd human beings, small-boned and slender, settled on a grassy knoll in a valley in northern Iraq. They and their descendants lived there 500 years. It was perhaps the most critical period in human history. The founding of that village (which anthropologists call Jarmo) may mark the point in time when the first wandering huntsmen settled down to till the soil...
Green Stone. Another group of diggers, led by Dr. George Glenn Cameron of the University of Michigan, reported last week on their trip to the wild mountain country between Iraq and Iran. Their job was to get a perfect mold in a latex rubber compound of a green stone that stands in an inaccessible 11,000-ft. pass looking south toward Mesopotamia. The stone was erected by King Ispuinis of the Urartians, a civilized people who lived some 2,800 years ago on the northern border of the great Assyrian Empire. From time to time the Urartians challenged the mighty...
...Language students at Columbia University this year will have their choice of three new tongue-twisters. In addition to such old favorites as Syriac (ancient Mesopotamia), Samoyed (Siberia) and Akkadian (ancient Babylon), Columbia is adding Avestan, the language of Zoroaster; Kurdish, spoken by the wandering Kurds of Turkey, Iraq and Iran; and Tagalog, a native language of the Philippines. Total languages now available: 50. ¶ After five years of experimenting, Harvard finally put its General Education "core curriculum" into practice. From now on, each student must take at least one specially designed course in the humanities and the social...
Emir Abdul Illah (38), Regent of Iraq, has ruled the country since 1939, on behalf of his nephew, King Feisal II (16). Moderately able, but without stature or drive. Favorite pastime: driving through Bagdad in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee state coach (which he bought in 1949, insured...