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...Media's keel had been laid almost before the echo of London's V-E day celebration had died down. Along with her sister ship, the Parthia, to be launched in November, she had been rushed to completion in less than two years. She represented Britain's shrewdest hunch on what it takes to cop the postwar ocean traffic...
...came out from Rome with enough troops to stamp out the rebellion, "Nero's" government was collapsing from its own rottenness. Crafty Varro did not wait to gloat over Cejonius' downfall or to see what became of his puppet. He took refuge with the potent King of Parthia, where his suavity and brains were appreciated, and where even Rome's long arm could not reach him. But "Nero" Terence was taken and crucified, between his right-and left-hand...
...house in this story of Myra Henshawe stood behind a tall iron fence in a ten-acre park at Parthia, Ill. Myra, an orphan, was John Driscoll's great-niece and he brought her up there, a forceful, coarse old Irishman and a vivid, a wild little girl. She had jewels and many gowns and a Steinway piano. She rode keen horses. The town band played at her parties and serenaded John Driscoll on his birthday; he had bought the bandsmen their silver instruments and when they played for him he treated with his best whiskey. He had wrung...
Since the days of the Mediferranean "world" when it was no unusual occurrence, as Pliny indicates, to have envoys returned from Parthia or some other district on the outer rim, without their tongues ambassadors have enjoyed an unenviable reputation. Today it is no longer customary to cut out tongues, under ordinary circumstances; but the Ricei-Watson incident of last week, officially termed "closed" yesterday, shows how difficult it is for an ambassador to do his diplomatic balancing act without drawing down hostile criticism. He either says too much or too little, and whatever he says is twisted to mean anything...
...Climate of America as Determining Factors of History. 2. Assyrian Epoch, Vannic Civilization. 3. The Khaldis Moses of Kleoren's Traditions. 4. Advent of Armenians and the Persian Conquest. 5. Iranic Influence on Language, Religion, and Institutions of Armenia. 6. Greek Influence. Christianity. 7. Armenia as an Appanage of Parthia. Sassanid Epoch and Mohammedan Conquest. 8. Armenian Diaspora in Cilicia, Persia, Poland. Political Outlook of Today...