Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Storekeeper at the College's NROTC unit may have discovered in his travels what philosophers and scientists have been searching for through the ages--the key to the Universe. The Chief, Charles R. Ridd, is reputedly the only man in the Western Hemisphere to master the ancient art of Persian rugmaking, and he claims to have penetrated the highest mysteries of life through the practice of this...
...first attempt at making a Persian rug in 1930, Ridd became suddenly aware of a strange feeling--a revelation that a world war was imminent. Still in extreme concentration, the Chief began to weave into the pattern of the rug the inscription: "19 WAR 41." Although the face of the work reveals little, he says the back shows the prediction quite clearly. The rug is now in Los Angeles...
Ridd first became interested in the work while demonstrating hooked rugs in a Pasadena department store in an effort to promote sales of yarn. A customer suggested that he try to make a Persian rug. With no instruction, he assembled a loom from four sticks and a quantity of seine twine. A rug-maker showed him how to tie a Persian knot and Ridd began his project...
...began his excursion into mysticism. When the rug, with its prediction of World War II, was completed Ridd took it to a connoisseur. The expert refused to believe that Ridd had woven it, and from the design of the work judged it to be from the seventh century of Persian rug-making...
...bbls. to 1,500,000 bbls. without much trouble-enough for all U.S. needs and more than half of West ern Europe's. But tankers are in the shortest supply ever. Sending them around the Cape of Good Hope instead of through the canal would lengthen the Persian Gulf-Rotterdam round trip from 44 to 71 days. Experts estimated that the Suez closing would require the addition of at least 144 tankers just to handle the substitute oil shipments from the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. has 34 in reserve. Last week the U.S. took...