Word: nile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Breasted's Province. From the Persian Gulf up the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, then along the coast of the Mediterranean to Jerusalem lies a great "fertile crescent," skirting the Arabian Desert. By continuing the western tip of this crescent into Egypt to the equally fertile Nile basin, a 3,500-mi. semicircle can be drawn from the Persian Gulf to the upper reaches of the Nile. It is this semicircle that Dr. Breasted has chosen for his field. All along it his expeditions are camped. They include: Luxor, up the Nile, headquarters for all Egyptian explorations; Abydos...
...shop. To him the brief relationship that follows is delightful companionship. To Spinsterish Sue it is a prelude to marriage. When he suddenly rushes away to Africa. Sue tells everyone in town that she has married Tommy, rushes away to America. There she hears of his death on the Nile. Donning a bright green dress, she fixes up an urn of ashes, calls in the neighbors, starts to have a bang-up funeral. At this point Tommy walks in, alive & kicking. Widow at last becomes wife...
...rather unusual feature of the exhibit is an epistle from Nelson to Lord Hamilton, written with its author's right hand after he had lost his left arm in the battle of the Nile. In another of the letters Nelson refers to his famous words. "England expects every man to do his duty...
...student in answering a question asking for the definition of "Drang nach Osten," declared that it was the cry of the German barbarians to push on to Osten, while another simply explained it as being the mouth of the western-world Nile, so called because of its fertility. Other men answered that "Drang nach Osten" was a title of Charlemagne, the religion of the Huns, and a name applied to the Merovingian Kings because they couldn't even ride a horse, and were worthless...
...still enough of a circus man to like his pictures big. He has the largest private collection of Rubens in the world. The pink stucco, palladian-arched John & Mable Ringling Museum contains about 20 galleries and features mountainous bronze reproductions of Michaelangelo's David and the Father Nile and Father Tiber from the Vatican Gardens. It is useless to show him modern pictures, but dealers have dis covered that if they have nothing large, a religious subject is often a temptation. Ten years ago he decided to build a museum for his collection. The pink Venetian palace in Sarasota...