Word: mesopotamia
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...last 15 years Thomas has been in and around Arabia. In addition to war and political service in Mesopotamia and Palestine, he was for some years prime minister and finance minister to the Sultan of Muscat-Oman. By continuous application to the people language, and customs of Arabia, he has contributed much in the last few years to geographical and other sciences...
Died. Dr. Frank Wesley Warne, 77, retired Methodist Episcopal Bishop of India (1900-28); of pneumonia and nephritis; in Brooklyn. Once while in Mesopotamia, he learned unexpectedly that no ship sailed in time for him to attend a church conference in Des Moines, Iowa. Undaunted, he radioed a U. S.-bound oil tanker for passage, was told that he would be taken aboard only if he signed on as an engine-room wiper. For three torrid weeks, 66-year-old Bishop Warne wiped engines, was still in greasy dungarees when met at the docks...
Through Damascus, Baghdad, Teheran, Kabul, 3.445 miles across Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan and northern India to Srinagar, Kashmir, the caravan plodded, while news of its progress was wirelessed to Beirut and thence to Europe and America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan stretched the vast Karakoram Range of the Himalayas. North of Srinagar loomed massive mountains with scarcely a trail across them. Leader Haardt left five of his cars in Srinagar, started up the steep slopes of the Himalayas with the lightest two. Steadily they climbed, up 35° inclines, along narrow...
...appear to belong to the earliest civilization. We were able to identify this race of people by their writings. Their hieroglyphics are the same as those of the old Chaldeans. It is possible that some 2,000 or more years B. c. they moved away from their home in Mesopotamia and traveled to the lands to the north of India. They live about no years, continue to marry at the age of 75 or 80, and are a very hardy people. Their girls are attractive and have good skins and long hair hanging in disorder down their backs. They know...
...just been formally opened. It is the world's only institution of its kind. Its purpose: to answer man's ever lasting curiosity about how he came to live as he does. In the dry U. S. South west, as in dry Peru, Egypt, Palestine and Mesopotamia, remnants of his early society still persist. Diligent searchers find tidbits of information which indicate how families grouped into tribes, tribes into peoples; how man progressed with his domestic utensils, from woven baskets to turned pots, from animal skins to woven clothes; how simple natural science became supernatural religion...