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...defense program of the Soviets in Eastern Siberia, industrial projects, strategic railway, settlement of veteran soldiers on the frontier, and the possible formation of a Turkey-Persia bloc on the Southern pathway to the Orient formed two other salients which Professor Hopper particularly stressed in his talk...
...Nicholas Miraculous") Butler wrote 3,200 books, reports, speeches, articles, and introductions. Author Butler's first literary effort : Questions and Answers for Admission to the Paterson (N. J.) High School. His latest: a speech last week at Columbia commemorating the 1,000th anniversary of the birth of Persia's Epic Poet Firdausi...
...thanks to Edward Fitzgerald's paraphrase of the Rubaiyat, one of the most popular poets of the 19th Century, only three facts are known about Persian Poet Omar Khayyam. He lived in the 12th Century; he was court astronomer for the Sultan Malikshah; his grave is at Nisapur, Persia. On these three facts, some traditions, and much imaginative reconstruction. Author Lamb has written a 316-page story of Omar's life, loves, adventures. Though Omar Khayyam does not read like an eyewitness report. Author Lamb has turned his travels and studies to such good account that his story...
Scientifically the word Aryan refers to language rather than race. Some scholars in England applied it to the whole family of Indo-European languages but stricter philologists confined its use to one Indo-European branch?Sanskrit, Iranian, and their modern dialects in North India and Persia. Max Muller, though not at all out of sympathy with the budding doctrine of Aryanism in Germany, used the word with seemly caution. Born in Dessau in 1823 to a German poet and dissuaded from, attempting a musical career by Mendelssohn (his godfather), Max Muller studied Sanskrit, comparative philology, grew fond of metaphysics, went...
Among western mores sponsored by Dictator Kemal Pasha is poker. During the visit to Ankara last month of Persia's King of Kings (TIME, July 2) they sat up over the cards, Turks learned last week, until two hours before breakfast. "I may say that the winnings of our Ghazi ["The Victorious One" ] were large,'' confided a discreet Turkish official, ''but, as is his invariable custom, he refused to keep his gambling gains...