Word: nimrod
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...Assyrian reading to be given this evening by Prof. Lyon in Sever Hall. The poem to be read is the oldest existing epic, and has been discovered only in the last ten years. The interest centres chiefly about Izdubar, who has many points in common with the Bibical Nimrod with whom he has been partially identified. The poem was discovered a few years ago by George Smith while studying some baked tablets in the British Museum. It is impressed in cuneiform characters on twelve tablets of clay about ten by eight inches in dimension, each tablet containing one canto...
...Clyal DuVernet Hunt's Irish setter, "Nimrod," won the first prize in the open class, and also special prize for best Irish setter, dog or bitch, in the New York dog show...