Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latter infraction of the Mohammedan religion was made known by Moukbil Kemal Bey, the famed Turkish architect who superintended the reconstruction of the Mosque of Omar at Jerusalem and the Mosque of Mohammed at Medina and who has designed many public buildings at Constantinople and Angora, the new capital of Turkey...
Apropos of the Holy Land Campaign, a story is told about the surrender of Jerusalem. The city first surrendered to a British private who did not understand what it was all about. He reported the event to an officer with the result that a Brigadier motored to Jerusalem and accepted the keys of the city. During his absence, the Divisional Commander was advised of what was going on. Stop the Brigadier," roared the General. I will accept the surrender of Jerusalem. So the keys had to be sent back and the Divisional Commander went to Jerusalem and received them. When...
Chicago. In Rome, George Cardinal Mundelein received the Grand Cross of the Sovereign Order of Malta, originated in the first crusade by the Knights of the Order of the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. He is the first American so honored...
Palestine. Prof. R. A. Stewart Macalister, continuing his excavations at Jerusalem (TIME, Dec. 31), found a cave with a shaft leading down to a spring, the significance of which was explained by Prof. James A. Montgomery, of the University of Pennsylvania. It was part of one of the most amazing engineering triumphs of ancient times ?the water system of Jerusalem. In the reign of David and before, this very arid region was believed to have been wholly dependent for water on the Spring of Gihon, near the base of the hill on which the ancient city was built. Pumps...
...Jewish Palestine Exploration Society, under Dr. Slousch, excavated the so-called tombs of Absalom and Jehoshaphat, dated about the 4th Century B. C., in the ancient cemeteries east of Jerusalem. Orthodox Jewish fanatics opposed the work until a wall collapsed exposing the façade of the tomb of Jehoshaphat...