Word: java
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt Islam suffered some theological dilution in this process, but its tribes increased wonderfully. Followers of sufism converted the animist Berbers of North Africa, and later the Turks, who broke out of Asia conquering the Arabs and great Constantinople as well. Sufism, carried largely by Moslem merchants, converted Sumatra, Java, Malaya, all without any military help from the centers of Islam...
...PAICHUNG Bogor, Java...
...military techniques are where you find them. Last week Drs. M. Ewing and Frank Press, Columbia geophysicists, told how they discovered a practical method of measuring from an airplane the thickness of Arctic ice. They started by studying Krakatoa Volcano, near Java, which had its most famous explosion almost 70 years...
Maria Bertha Hertogh was five years old when the Japanese soldiers took her mother & father away from Bandung, Java, where papa Adriaanus Hertogh was a sergeant in The Netherlands East Indies army. Bertha was too young to remember just how it happened, but while she was staying at the home of Che Aminah, a Malay woman known to her parents, the rest of the family disappeared into prison camp...
...disposal for use in Korea. A halfback on West Point's 1927 football team, O'Donnell began his World War II career with a bitter delaying action, in which he and a handful of other U.S. airmen fought and fell back from the Philippines to Java to India. He became operations officer of the Tenth Air Force in India and later leader of the Twentieth Air Force's first B-29 raid on Tokyo...