Word: mediterraneans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...headed on through Asia, John Foster Dulles could count some gains. He could also count serious troubles in the Mediterranean area that will have important impacts on U.S. foreign policy. But the U.S. and its Secretary of State could face those admittedly difficult problems with the reassuring knowledge that the U.S. posture in the world has straightened up with the return of the President to the presidency...
...year-old Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser, flush with achievement, had called the meeting and brought it new Middle East prestige: with his purchase of Communist arms and his inflammatory broadcasts to neighboring states, he had done as much as any man to seize opportunity on the troubled Mediterranean rim. As a show of his strength, he sent Soviet-made MIG fighters to escort Saudi Arabia's King Saud on his flight across...
Scholars disagree on whether the island of Cyprus (in Greek, Kupros) took its name from the Greek word for copper, or whether it was just the other way around. For 30 centuries before the birth of Christ, much of the copper known to the Mediterranean world came from Cyprus, where clumps of almost pure metal once lay loose on the ground. Agamemnon was said to have sailed for Troy carrying a brand-new sword of Cyprian copper. The weapon Alexander the Great brandished against his enemies was the gift of a Cypriot king...
Late Date. Conqueror after conqueror followed the Romans across the beachheads of the vulnerable Mediterranean island, but none bothered to investigate the mineral riches that lay beneath its soil. In 1912 the chance visit of an American geologist to a New York Public Library led to their rediscovery...
...mighty Nile, which brings the rains of equatorial Africa to the Mediterranean, has nurtured six millenniums of civilization in its valley and broad delta. But its trapped waters are not sufficient today to sustain the leaping population of modern Egypt. One of the most publicized projects of Premier Gamal Nasser's revolutionary government is the building of a vast water barrier at Aswan (where the Nile courses through the eastern Sahara), which will bring another 2,000,000 acres of Egypt into production, boost Egypt's power resources 10 billion kilowatt-hours. Estimated cost of Nasser...