Word: kurdistan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front rank of European archeologists," Miss Garrod unearthed a Stone Age infant's skull in a cave at Gibraltar, last year turned up 50,000-year-old remains of paleolithic man in the Balkans, has spent much of her life tenting on famed excavations in Palestine and Kurdistan. She was director of archeology and anthropology at Newnham College, a woman's college at Cambridge, before her appointment to the University's Disney Professorship of Archeology...
...Arabia for 15 months among the Bedouins and Druses of the Arabian mountains. Sympathetically curious if not credulously enthusiastic about magic, he went to Haiti for a year to find out about voodoo. He has also visited whirling dervishes at their monastery in Tripoli, Yezidi devil-worshipers in Kurdistan. Tall, heavy of build and face, with near Hitlerian mustache, Traveler Seabrook looks hopelessly lethargic, is not. He says: "I am not brave. Only full of curiosity." Other books: Adventures in Arabia, The Magic Island...
...dark secrets which no civilized man can fathom. A onetime reporter and short story writer, his reports of his own adventures have been bestsellers. He has lived with a Bedouin tribe, with Druses in the Arabian mountains, in a whirling-dervish monastery at Tripoli, with Yezidee devil worshipers in Kurdistan, with voodoo worshipers in Haiti. During the War he served as a private in the French army and was gassed at Verdun. Other books: Adventures in Arabia, The Magic Island...
...Jean-Richard Bloch is known to U. S. readers as author of a realistic super-novel of industrialism ("?& Co.", TIME, Jan. 27, 1930). In this venture into a savage Orient he shows a power of historical imagination you may admire but will hardly find surprising. A Night in Kurdistan is the kind of melodrama an artist sometimes makes...
Kurdish rebellions are nothing new for Turkish soldiers. For 400 years Kurdistan, a district which overlaps the present boundaries of eastern Turkey, Persia and Irak, has been rising in revolt against its Turkish conquerors. Kurdish hopes for a free state were raised at the beginning of the Paris Peace Conference only to be dashed at its close. Last important Kurd uprising...