Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Bagdad, Jerusalem, Damascus and Aden radios began to crackle last week: HODEIDA . . . HODEIDA . . . IMAM YAHYA OF YEMEN . . . WAHABI . . IBN SAUD . . . YEMEN . . . ABDUL AZIZ . . . YAHYA . . . YEMEN...
...people realize that Bert Haines, for years coach of Freshman crews, received a medal for bravery in action in the Holy Land during the World War. Bert led a cavalry charge that General Allenby, in command of the forces that captured Jerusalem, described as "the bravest action...
...riots and the "Massacre of Salacos," Greek newspapers last week had an even more startling story to follow it. The Greek Orthodox Church has in its guardianship the third of three temples of which all Christendom is jealous: the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and the Monastery of St. John in Patmos, one of the northernmost of the Dodecanese Islands.* On Patmos John is supposed to have hidden in a cave and received the vision of the Apocalypse (''The Book of Revelation''). The monastery on the site was built there...
...foot save when waters are to be crossed. Begging as they go, the Buddhists expect to take two years in reaching Rome. Their twelve leaders will be called "Lions" because they think they will need lion hearts in such troublous spots as Mecca and Jerusalem. They will preach vegetarianism. "Westerners," said Bhikkhu, "make graveyards of themselves on account of the innocent animals they kill...
...Babylon and Susa, whence came the Wise Men, Saturn was visible at the time of Christ's birth only in the first week in April. Travelling westward, the Wise Men would have seen it overhead between Oct. 10 and Dec. 15 as they proceeded to Bethlehem from Jerusalem. For their arrival at the house of Joseph and Mary, Professor Gerhardt selects a middle date, Nov. 5. Jesus would then have been seven months...