Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greeks moved deep into the Persian Empire (see map) when Cyros, the Persian governor of Asia Minor, hired 12,900 of them to help overthrow his brother. King Artaxerxes. They clashed with the Persian forces at Cunaxa, near ancient Babylon. After Cyros was killed by a javelin, his native troops fled the field, leaving the Greeks surrounded. To make matters worse, the Persians slew the Greek commanders by treachery...
Messiah & Wolf. So precarious was Mother's way of life that young O'Connor once spent two years near Boulogne with a French family before Mother was able to raise the money to fetch him back. A few years later he was handed over permanently to a guardian-an atheist who wanted "something, as we say, to 'lavish his love upon.' " O'Connor embraced "bohemianism. surrealism and D. H. Lawrence." Between a weakness for Communism, a yen for "snatches of Nietzsche," and the desire to be both "a Messiah" and a wolf, he turned into...
Higher Booty. Near Jackson, Miss., a burglar entered The Forest Hill Methodist Church, stole a safe containing 300 sermons...
Lost Shoal. Near Brisbane, Australia, Navigation Expert Joshua Peter Bell, author of Moreton Bay and How to Fathom It, ran his yacht aground in Moreton...
Milky Way. Near Baraga, Mich., during a demonstration of his art, U.S. Forest Service Pilot Milton Nelson missed his target, splashed 50 gallons of whey-colored fire-retarding fluid on 150 picnicking forestry and conservation officials...