Word: jericho
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...right back across the Pyrenees, after one of the most brilliant campaigns of modern times. Not long afterward, Napoleon was sent packing for good. General Wellesley got his dukedom and his niche in history. The rank & file, according to a custom old when Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, got their prize money-and a muster into oblivion. Yet destiny for once had preserved a rich archive of the forgotten...
After almost three months of digging near the biblical city of Jericho, Professor James B. Pritchard of the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa. announced last week that he had probably found the winter palace of Herod the Great. Prematurely "discovered" last year by archaeologists who had really dug up a nearby Roman fortress, the imposing building predates the birth of Christ...
During his long reign, Herod went up to Jericho to escape the damp, chilly winters of Jerusalem. Across the Jordan at Shuneh, King Abdullah still has a winter palace. But Professor Pritchard's discoveries suggest that not even modern royalty lives in comparable luxury...
...Prentice, had more troubles. His wife had visions and revelations and decided she was immortal, joining a sect of that type. She and her associates spent large portions of their time blowing rams' horns around churches to bring them down like the walls of Jericho...
...Cook, "Blue Serpent Goddess" of the early '30s and onetime ascetic disciple of the late Mahatma Gandhi who gave up Hinduism for the high life of New Delhi, later moved on to Greece, Turkey and Iran, where she founded a national opera and ballet company, turned up in Jericho. Weighing over 200 pounds, and nursing a broken left leg, she was engaged in an arduous literary task: "I'm translating the Koran into English, annotating it marginally. I shall make the Koran comprehensible to every intelligent person who can read English...