Word: mongolls
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...Council offered scholarships and subsidies to universities to start courses. Its intensive courses have already begun or are scheduled to begin this summer at nine universities (principally at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, California). Languages to be taught: Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Modern Greek, Icelandic, Malay, Mongol, Hungarian, Portuguese, Siamese, Burmese, Hindustani, Swahili, Dutch...
Continuing on the subject of the peoples' reacton to air raids, he stated that although the populace would maintain its compusure, nevertheless it will probably become exceedingly depressed by the raids. This is the first time since the thirteenth century Mongol invasion that a foreign power has touched the population directly...
...sounding Mongolian United Autonomous Government. They introduced a "planned economy" to exploit herdsmen and coolies, to loot mines and resources. The arrangement was eminently pleasing to the Japanese. Not only did they drain Inner Mongolia's wealth, but they had a vast buffer state against Russia and a Mongol army which kept the peace. Last week the army was gone...
...time, the Mongol conqueror ruled some of Europe, most of Asia and sired the Great Moguls of India. He died in 1405, just after his most successful campaign, while on his way to conquer China. Location of his tomb was well-known, but, according to legend, had long since been looted by Persians...
...collection of 500 pieces of Persian pottery of all periods from 4000 B. C. to the present, 4) the most perfect specimens of Persian velvet known to modern times, 5) a newly discovered 14th-Century illuminated Shah-Nameh ("Book of Kings"), containing the only known portrait of the famous Mongol conqueror Tamerlane...