Word: mesopotamia
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Hassan?Literary individuals have long wondered why this magnificent poetic spectacle by James Elroy Flecker, English poet, dead in Mesopotamia ten years ago, had never reached the boards. Its success in London last year tempted U. S. producers. It will appear with Mary Nash as star...
Major Francis Yates-Brown, author of "Caught by the Turks", will lecture at 2 o'clock today in Sever 11. His subject will be taken from his experiences with the Turks in Mesopotamia, and will be related to his book. Although held particularly for the students of English 6, the lecture will be open to any who are interested...
...Mesopotamia. At Kish, near Bagdad, the Oxford and Field Museum expedition (TIME, July 9), has found a magnificent Sumerian palace; a library of cuneiform tablets, containing grammars and dictionaries of the Sumerian and Babylonian languages; a bone stylus six inches long, the oldest known pen; and a solid gold earring and other jewelry from a clay coffin of the time of Nebuchadnezzar. Kish was one of the oldest Babylonian capitals, already the seat of four great dynasties before the age of Sargon...
...Force. The Air Force estimates showed an increase of ?2,500,000 over those of last year, or ?14,511,000 in all. Despite economies that will be effected in withdrawing the Air Force from Mesopotamia and Palestine the Air Force is to be increased by 24 squadrons during the next two years, which means that Britain will have about 200 aeroplanes to protect her from aerial aggression in 1925. For further details see Page...
...most serious claimant to the Califate was King Hussein of the Hedjaz. The Arabs of Mesopotamia, Transjordania and the Hedjaz proclaimed King Hussein Calif, a title which the King was pleased to accept. For some time, the Arabs have been agitating to make Hussein Calif, thereby displaying their dislike for the conditions with which the Nationalist Turks surrounded the Califate. It was by no means certain that any of the other Moslem countries would recognize King Hussein as the head of Islam. He is, however, more fitted to the Califate than most other candidates, because the blood of Koreish, tribe...