Word: mesopotamia
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...other foci: 1 & 2) in China, whence the modern outbreak of the late 1890s spread, one on the eastern slope of the Himalayas, one on the western slope; 3) from the centre of Arabia to Mesopotamia; 4) Uganda near the source of the White Nile...
Alert and sensational, the 60-year-old Graphic is edited by Alan John Bott. British pressmen can find a striking similarity between Editor Bott's journalistic policies and his Wartime activities. After having served in the Artillery and Royal Flying Corps in France and Mesopotamia, he entered the British espionage system. Captured by the Turks in 1918, he dramatically escaped across the Black Sea into Russia, whence he made his way through Bulgaria to Salonika. For his Turk-spying he was given the Military Cross with bar. Gleaning two bits of information where but one guarded bit grew before...
...Soviet Government further put into circulation false foreign bank notes in Siam, India, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, South America, Mexico and African coast cities. During the summer of 1929, forged notes were circulated also in Europe-namely in Poland, Germany, Holland, Italy and Greece...
...traces of the tribe of the Elamites, descendants of Elam, son of Shem, grandson of Noah. The Elamites had a fearsome custom of burying alive the attendants of a dead king. The explorers found oldest known examples of civilized pottery and sculpture, about 6000 B.C. Kish is in Mesopotamia, near Ur of the Chaldees. Researches have shown that burial customs of the two peoples were similar. From the Elamites descended the Sumerians, some of whose painted terra-cotta statuary has been recovered. Between 4000 and 3000 B.C. the Sumerians, a higher type of civilization, gave up burial alive. The diggers...
...Shuddered at the pacifism of the Labor Government as militarist Baron Middleton challenged "The British Army has now fallen below its strength in 1895 . . . and yet . . . and yet since 1895 we have taken over the control of the Sudan and accepted the mandates of Palestine and Mesopotamia" (called "Irak" by younger...