Word: persian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last period in the ninth grade is spent in a consideration of ancient history--from the Sumerians through the kingdoms of Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia, the Hebrews, the Minoans of Crete, the Persian Empire, and the Greek city states down to the victory of Philip of Macedon...
Forty years ago a young Arab officer rode triumphantly up the old Hejaz railway beside Prince Feisal and Lawrence of Arabia toward the ancient desert capital of Amman. Last week, still pursuing his old dream of an Arab nation filling the Fertile Crescent from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, General Nuri asSaid, 70, returned to Amman to put into being a new union, the Arab Federation, joining the kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan...
Last week a group of Japanese oilmen won a 2.890-sq.-mi. concession in the Persian Gulf off the neutral zone by contracting to pay 56% of the production profits to the zone's owners, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The deal came just a few days after Standard Oil Co. (Indiana) became the first major U.S. company to upset the fifty-fifty pattern. For a 6,177-sq.-mi. concession off Iran's shores in the gulf. Indiana Standard agreed to pay 75% of profits to Iran, plus a $25 million bonus, and to spend $82 million...
Polly had been working for that performance ever since, back in 1955, a grey-haired lady approached her, after she finished a singing stint in the glittery Persian Room of Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, and said that Polly reminded her of Helen Morgan. Polly's admirer turned out to be Lulu Morgan, Helen's mother. Polly promptly bought the TV rights to Helen's life story, sold them at cost ($10,000) to CBS with the help of Freddie Fields, a Music Corp. of America vice president who is Polly's agent and husband. Polly...
Persepolis. the Persian Versailles, was too grandiose for thoughts of sex, its great stairway "making one feel as insignificant in the face of time as the humble lizard that darts to hide in the crevices of that cyclopaean wall." The storied gardens of Shiraz were a disappointment, but the taxis were flower-decked, and Author Sitwell caught a nocturnal glimpse of the annual migration of the Gashgai tribe, 400,000 men, women and children moving 7,000,000 head of cattle to summer pasture 15,000 ft. above sea level. Jerusalem's Mosque of Omar was "more beautiful than...