Word: marrakesh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified oases, are Tiiznit, Smara and Kerdous. Their last few Sultans have been notably stupid...
Morocco. The village of Ben Guerir topped all records with an official temperature of 131° Fahrenheit. Throughout Morocco camels, donkeys ran amok. The important Casablanca Marrakesh Railway canceled all daytime trains...
From Gao the captive lines of men and maidens marched north to Marrakesh (Morocco City). Once inside the city, chains were knocked off, the Negro men were told to pick their own brides and mate with them forthwith. The great mass-mating lasted for weeks. Sultan Moulay Ismail obtained as an eventual result the most powerful army in North Africa. He benevolently gave each couple a strip of land to till and the choice of either a donkey or a camel...