Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nature's most potent liquids, oil and alcohol, came hand in hand to the desert kingdom of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. In the early days of his long reign, Ibn Saud's Moslem subjects were as dry as the sands they lived on, for such is the law of the Koran. Then the infidels came to tap the oil, and brought with them the other liquid. Soon the clink of glass against bottleneck began to be heard in the new man-made oases of the Saudi Arabian desert...
That was an interesting piece in your Nov. 17 issue about British and European coverage of the U.S. election I have been startled by some letters to me from readers of the Daily Mail of London. There are people in the United Kingdom who apparently believe that President-elect Eisenhower will be sitting down with Senator Joseph McCarthy, walking down Michigan Boulevard with Colonel McCormick, and hanging on every word of Senator Robert Alphonso Taft...
...survived the trip to Palestine-and thousands died on the way-religious fervor soon had to compromise with political realities. The headlong charge of the First Crusade (described in Vol. I of the History) had established a weak chain of Crusader states in Syria and Palestine-the strongest, the Kingdom of Jerusalem, in the south. They were all military states, constantly at war. But they were thinly garrisoned. The average Crusader was essentially a military tourist, and no more than 2,000 armed knights, most of them French, were ever permanently stationed in the Holy Land...
...largely the recently arrived knights from Europe who ruined the Kingdom of Jerusalem. They used force where diplomacy would have been better, and they never brought enough men with them to make force decisive. While the proud barons quarreled, the Moslems were at last growing united. By 1176 the Emir Saladin made himself master of Egypt and Syria, and turned the full force of his armies against the Crusaders. Europe was far away, and Byzantium was now powerless to help...
Blessed are ye poor, for yours is the kingdom of God-St. Luke...