Word: persian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Persian March, Strauss...
...Khorsabad in 1851-55, an account of which was published in 1857 and again in 1870. Both Botta and Place were especially interested in the Assyrian architecture and sculpture, and much of our knowledge of these arts is due to them. De Sarzec in 1887 dug up near the Persian Gulf some statues in the round, cut in hard, highly polished stone. De Clecq made a study of the Assyrian seals, and a volume of beautiful engravings of these cylinders has been published by the French government. Pierrot and Chipiez's book on Assyrian art is valuable, especially for restorations...
Precisely similar were the terms on which millions of men labored through centuries to ple up the Persian treasures. It would be mockery to apply the word "industry" to the gold mining of the early ages. Every ounce of gold represented a human life...
...Rabbi Joel and from that the "Directorium," by John of Capua, from which comes the "Buch der byspel der alten Wysen," and the "Moral Philosophia" by Doni, which was translated into English by Sir Thomas North in 1570. from the Arabic we also get the stories through the Persian and French of David Sahid, 1644, down to La Fontaine...
...foot races and gymnastic contests will take place in the Stadion, and here will be finished the twenty-six mile race from Marathon in memory of the runner who died in his effort to bring to Athens the news of the Persian defeat. The bicycle races will be contested on the Phaleric plan half way between the city and the seashore, the swimming and rowing races in the roadstead of Phaleron, and the yacht races in the Saronic Gulf. There is to be an illumination of the great monuments of antiquity, a grand historical torchlight procession representing scenes from Greek...