Word: notting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the darkest days of World War I, about the only consolation that fell to the Belgians was the capture in Africa of two small and scenically beautiful German territories on the eastern border of the vast Belgian Congo. Thereafter, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under...
Off with Their Feet. Last week Belgium announced that it intended to do just that. And at almost the same moment, civil war broke out in Ruanda. A minor quarrel between a subchief of the Muhutus and a group of Watutsis sparked bloody incidents all over the country. Armed bands...
Underwater Temples. Not only the Great and the Small Temples at Abu Simbel, but a hundred other partially excavated sites in Nubia and the Sudan-temples, forts, chapels, churches, mosques, tombs, prehistoric wall drawings-will be submerged in the 300-mile-long Nubian lake to be created by the building...
Bigger Bargains. Egypt, which needs the High Dam at Aswan to help raise the appallingly low standard of living of its people, belatedly hopes to save at least some of its treasure house of antiquities along the Nubian Nile. As a result, it is playing down its habitual nationalist antagonism...
Can the money be found? Even a UNESCO spokesman seemed dubious because, as he put it, the only recompense would be "a few priceless treasures of history, perhaps not enough to attract the necessary funds."