Word: mesopotamia
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...only man ever born a king,' has thus etc." (TIME, Jan. 19). Thus you ignore lamed oldster, the militant Zoroastrian Shapur II, onetime (310-379 A. D.) hard-boiled king of Persia. Potent foe of Christianity, he also slew Apostate Julian, drove the Romans from Mesopotamia, Armenia, cowed Jovian, died a king. Alfonso will need to step- FREDERICK B. Noss...
Lord Willingdon is acceptable to the non-partisan mass of the British public because of his obvious fitness for the job. Long, lean, after his able service through the War as Governor of Bombay (Bombay was headquarters for the ill-fated British Mesopotamia expedition) he was appointed Governor of Madras. British papers announced that it was "a foregone conclusion" that he would be next Viceroy of India. Something went wrong, Lord Reading, a fellow-Liberal, got the job. In 1926 Lord Willingdon was made Governor General of Canada. Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, his eldest son, served in the Coldstreams...
First among this class of objects should be mentioned the sculpture in glazed terra cotta. That people in Mesopotamia should at so early a date have mastered the art of glaze and been able to use it with such skill and control is almost as amazing as the perfection of the sculpture itself. Antedating the Assyrian and late Babylonian glazing by many hundreds of years, one finds here a fully perfected technique where might be expected the stumblings of a beginner...
...Mesopotamian expedition is being shown at Fogg, and will close on Saturday of this week. Illustrating the progress and results of Harvard's past three years of excavations in Iraq, the exhibition is well in keeping with the great interest which of late has arisen in archaeological research in Mesopotamia. Combining as it does material of both purely scientific and artistic importance, it cannot help but interest those whose minds are open to the past achievements...
Fourteen cases of antiquities, part of the results of the Yale excavations during the past year at Doura-Europos in Mesopotamia, arrived at New Haven yesterday afternoon, according to a dispatch from Syria. These will be put on exhibition at the Yale gallery of fine arts during Commencement...