Word: mauretania
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...twin of her second son, Alexander Helios-is identified as the subject of a rare marble portrait statue found in Cherchel, Algeria. On loan from that city's Archaeological Museum, the statue has never been outside Algeria before. Cherchel was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Mauretania, restored by Augustus to Cleopatra Selene's husband, Juba II. Another marble rendering of Cleopatra Selene, found near Juba's palace at Cherchel, shows her as a more mature woman, with a heavier face and "snail-shell" curls around her forehead...
...African states in or near the Sahara are equally parched and devastated-Senegal, Mauretania, Mali, Niger, Upper Volta and Chad. Weakened by starvation, many black and Arab tribesmen face death from epidemics of cholera and measles...
Although Brinnin is a registered poet, he finds this quality hard to pin down. But he knows it was there, and even a reader who never saw the Mauretania or the Bremen is inclined to accept his word. One of the narrative's fascinations is that for anyone whose forebears arrived in the U.S. within the past 150 years, a bit of family history is fleshed out. Brinnin is eloquent about the horrors of steerage, and he makes even the magnificence of first class on the old sail-equipped sidewheelers sound impressively grim...
...mistreat them, or to publicity seekers as pets, but I'm dead set against that sort of thing." Instead La Panouse started a send-them-back-alive project, concentrating on West Africa, which just happens to be short of lions. One cub went to Dakar and two to Mauretania, as well as another to Madagascar. In December, La Panouse plans to ship a pride of twelve to Senegal's Niokolo Koba National Park...
...geniuses-men like T. E. Lawrence, Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, Lieut. Colonel Archibald Wavell. Allenby offered these men responsibilities that few other generals of the age dared to delegate, but at the same time he dominated the scene with what Lawrence described as "a mind like the prow of the Mauretania-there is so much weight behind it that it does not need to be sharp...