Word: macedon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prophecies that a future European war will find Soviet Russia in the role of a Philip of Macedon calmly profiting from the suicide of neighboring states were uttered last night by Bruce C. Hopper '19, assistant in Government, at the Herald-Tribune Forum...
...seating 10,000, vivid blue, red, green and orange mosaics, the villa of a Roman governor. In the streets, laid bare by gangs of Yugoslav and Albanian peasants, are narrow ruts where, Dr. Vlada Petovich of the National Museum believes, the chariots of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedon passed. In the cellar of a synagogue is a curious cistern at the bottom of which the diggers found seven gold pieces?cast there, in Dr. Petovich's opinion, by a scared Jew fleeing from the earthquake that destroyed the city...
...oldest pieces of the ancient British series date about 150 B. C. and are found equally in France and Southern England. They are believed by some to be Gaulish but are probably copied from a Gaulish type. The original prototype is the Phillipus of Phillip of Macedon which shows on the abverse a concrete bust and on the reverse a biga. Two other coins in this group are attributed to the Icent and are dateable shortly before Caesar's invasion...