Word: persia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, Persia has been overrun by conquerors ranging from Alexander the Great to Omar I the Caliph to Tamerlane. Never had it witnessed such a visitation as last week, when the grandeur of Charles de Gaulle met the pomp of the Peacock Throne...
...spent a happy night, with plenty to eat, talking about the struggle now past. For they had been seven days passing through the country of the Kurds, fighting all the time, and they had suffered worse things at the hands of the Kurds than all that the King of Persia, and his general, Tissaphernes, could do to them...
Died. Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple, 82, director of surgical service at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from 1921 to 1946, a reserved and humble man born of American missionary parents in Persia, who in 1935 performed the first successful operation for removal of cancer of the pancreas (still known as the "Whipple Operation"), in 1936 was one of the founders of the American Board of Surgery, the highest certification organization of a general surgeon's training and competence; of a heart attack; in Princeton...
...century when, spurred by the messianic Moslem religion handed down by Mohammed the Prophet. Arab warriors burst from their desert peninsula and conquered everything in sight. In less than 150 years, the Arabs swept victoriously north to Asia Minor and the walls of Byzantine Constantinople, south over Persia and Afghanistan to the heart of India, east through Central Asia to the borders of China, west over Egypt and Africa to Spain and southern France. It was an incredible empire-larger than any carved out by Alexander the Great or Imperial Rome...
Dragons (to hang in your room) and elephant hair bracelets are the thing in Kitty Haas' novelty shop. Assorted gadgets from India, Siam, Korea, Persia, Greece, and Egypt line the walls of the store, with Bali Keks (goat god dolls to the unaware) in a featured spot. Dresses are selling the best, reported Miss Haas...