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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...
...rising line." Since his student days at Yale he had believed the beginning of man's upward course was in Egypt. The results of his diggings have given him abundant evidence with which to support this thesis, now generally accepted. Along the dry bed of the oldtime First Nile his Prehistoric Survey has found stone implements, first evidence of the appearance of man in Egypt, possibly a million years ago. Before that, Paleolithic man lived in the well-watered area that is now the Sahara Desert. When that region dried up (in the middle of the Old Stone...
...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...