Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thus far the English government has shown itself contemptuous of it. The policy of France is friendly. Russia is the most important power of all, and her policy has been clear from the beginning-the discouragement of the attempts of any European state to become powerful in the eastern Mediterranean...
...find distinct evidence of a high civilization in Babylon as early as 3800 B. C., and by 1500 B. C. the Babylonian-Assyrian culture had spread over Western Asia to the Mediterranean. But our knowledge of that civilization, said the lecturer, has come to us during the present century, most of it indeed since 1840. The French began investigations in Assyria in 1843, the English in 1845, and a society in Philadelphia has during the past six years made some valuable discoveries. In 1842 M. Botta, French consul at Mosul, was instructed by his government to make some explorations...
Several Princeton graduates are preparing a "University Cruise" to visit the Azores, Gibralter and varous points of historic interest on the Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean. Daily lectures will be given by professors from the leading universities in this country...
...students of every kind coming from every portion of the world. Thirty years ago there was not a place on the sea coast where marine zoology could be studied, excepting in a private way. At present the most important stations are situated on the North Sea and on the Mediterranean...
...years of age he was apprenticed to Hudson, a famous portrait painter. This relation lasting but two years, he set up for himself and met with considerable success. During this time he formed a warm acquaintance with Admiral Vicomte Keppel. He accompanied the latter in his trip to the Mediterranean. He carefully studied the galleries of Rome, Florence and Venice. Three years later he returned to England and rented a studio in London...