Word: mesopotamians
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...John first won the title of Petrol Diplomat as government oil adviser in the famed San Remo conference which divided between Britain and France the output from the rich Mesopotamian oil fields, earned the anger of U. S. oilmen by shutting U. S. companies...
When the War came Yeats-Brown was on leave at home. He was unable to rejoin his regiment but served six months with the cavalry on the Western Front before he was transferred as an observer to the Mesopotamian Flight of the Royal Flying Corps. Once his pilot had to make a forced landing; he was captured by Arabs, turned over to the Turks, who held him prisoner two years. He escaped, lived in Constantinople a while disguised as a German governess, as a German mechanic, was recaptured, escaped again only a fortnight before the Armistice. After...
...exhibition of findings of the Harvard 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...
...more recent times those two pioneers in Mesopotamian archaeology, Layard and Botta, conducted the first excavations for scientific purpose in that region, and the result of their findings has been the never ending confirmation and growth of Mesopotamian archaeology...
...Mesopotamian Sculpture", Professor Chase, New, Fogg Large Lecture Hall...