Word: ottoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 700 years in the dark ages, the ancient land where agriculture dawned and civilization first lit the planet is stirring again. Sudden wealth has been thrust upon the Kingdom of Iraq, carved just 35 years ago out of the Ottoman Empire's holdings in the valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates-the land once known as Mesopotamia. The oil that calked the walls of Babylon and may have fired the furnace through which Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked unscathed now bubbles through huge pipelines to the Mediterranean. Its flow is so fabulous that it makes Iraq...
...Turkish problem grows in great part out of a commendable urge, an almost feverish yearning, to become overnight a dynamic, industrial nation. For a nation forged only 32 years ago out of the scrap iron of the broken-down Ottoman Empire and the hot will of the late great Kemal Ataturk, for a people who for centuries left the complexities of commerce to their Greek and Armenian subjects, the Turks have made historic progress. In the five years since Premier Menderes left his Opposition bench in the Assembly to lead the Democrats to a stunning upset victory over the Republicans...
...explosion shattered windows in the Turkish consulate in Salonika, Greece's second largest city, and broke a single pane of glass at the modest house near by where the late great Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern Turkey, had been born to a minor official of the Ottoman Empire. As reports of the incident sped across the Aegean Sea, they became wildly embellished in the Istanbul headlines. Soon thousands of angry Turks were surging through the streets, bent on destroying stores run by Istanbul's Greek-speaking minority. The rioters shattered shop windows, tore down steel shutters, littered...
...Crimean War that Yankee Missionary Cyrus Hamlin, then engaged in baking and ferrying bread across the Bosporus to the starving patients in the British hospital at Scutari, met a traveling Manhattan philanthropist named Christopher Rhinelander Robert. The two men decided that Western culture should have an outlet within the Ottoman Empire. They began planning a college course that was to be in English; it would be "prosecuted without regard to nationality," and would be taught by men "of firm and symmetrical piety." In 1863, Robert opened. The campus' early years were a constant struggle...
...Among the questions regarded as too tough: "The Maximilian affair caused the United States to protest to the government of 1) France, 2) Great Britain, 3) Russia, 4) Spain"; "Which of these was in existence from the loth to the 19th century: 1) Hanseatic League, 2) Holy Alliance, 3) Ottoman Empire, 4) Holy Roman Empire...