Word: persian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Paris for Djibouti, bent on finding the capital of the dusky queen of Biblical legend. Last week's meager reports indicated that the two men flew from Djibouti across the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb and 900 mi. northeast into the Great Arabian Desert, almost to the Persian Gulf; that they found walled ruins in such a hilly terrain they dared not land and returned non-stop to Djibouti; that they would attempt the trip again. Unknown to history, even in legend the Queen of Sheba emerges only as a resplendent traveler to the court of Solomon...
...aviator who claimed to have seen the capital city of the Queen of Sheba in a flight over a section of waste land in Southern Arabia midway between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea probably saw the ruins of some ancient city, but it is doubtful whether it was ever the home of the famous queen," said Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "The main reason for believing that it is not her city is that the volume of trade which was reputed to have flowed into her kingdom would never have been...
...proudest of Persians last week was Hossein Khan Keyostevan, consul for his country at Karachi, India. From Teheran he had just received orders to go next month to Shanghai and open a Persian consulate, thus becoming the first man in 1,300 years to establish official diplomatic relations between Persia and China...
What Persia and China quarreled about in the Seventh Century no U. S. Persian could remember last week. An agreement between the two countries was signed in 1920, but even that did not result in an exchange of representatives. In fact no quarrel occurred. When the Sassanian dynasty fell 1,300 years ago all permanent relations with foreign countries were broken off. Successively Persia was ruled by various Arab conquerors, the Turks, Afghans. Recently Shah Reza Khan Pahlevi, who has been anxious to restore diplomatic relations after the 1,300-year lapse, discovered that Nanking was also willing. Hossein Khan...
...This loosely organized faith, to which some 5,000 U. S. believers adhere, has no priesthood, is not recognized by civil law as qualified to perform marriages. Nonetheless Mr. & Mrs. Obadie asked a friend to read them the Baha'i service. He was Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Persian poet and a U. S. Baha'i leader. Two nights later they met for the ceremony with friends at the home of Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, onetime (1907-09) Lieutenant Governor of New York, member of a famed old family...