Word: omar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Omar Khyyam and choice Chinese and Indian poems we cannot recommend too highly. The Oriential Caravan by Sinder Ikbal Ali Shah (Claude Kendall, $2.75). A distinct treasure house of fine litetature, this is a highly appropriate gift selection. If you wish to continue your line of reading straight down to the turbulence of man and sea, we suggest Mother Sea, beautifully written by Felix Riensenberg (Claude Kendall,$2.50), whose characters move with the restlessness of the waters...
...Little Folk." A removal of 20 square inches of skin from his back failed to impair the health of its donor, who is still alive and in the best of condition. Also contained in the exhibit are "Galileo," the smallest book printed from movable type, and the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khaiyam," the tiniest volume ever printed. The latter, about half the size of a dime, was produced by a special photo-reducing process; the only other extant copy of it resides in the British Museum...
Suddenly the little skirmish at Slonta became international news. Rome jubilated. Back at headquarters it was discovered that the oldster was none other than the great Senussi chieftain Omar el Muktar, bravest and most implacable of Italy's native foemen...
...Idrissi el Mehajiri. Ever since Italy captured Tripoli (now known as Italian Libya, divided into the districts of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica) from the Turks in 1911 the Senussites have stubbornly resisted Italian penetration of the interior. One by one other Senussi chieftains have been forced to surrender, but Omar el Muktar always held...
...matter ot weeks. Muktar's capture was of particular interest to the French. Their chief Moroccan rebel, the great Abd-el-Krim who surrendered in 1926, was last seen growing enormously fat in polygamous exile on the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. The capture of Omar el Muktar means that the actual pacification of Libya is imminent. Italy has always protested that the southern boundary of Libya adjoining French Africa has never been definitely fixed. French authorities have insisted with some justice that since Italy has not been able to control the territory within 100 miles...