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...Samaritans revolted against Alexander the Great and burned to death his prefect Andromachus. An avenging Macedonian army thereupon invaded Samaria, surrounded 300 Samaritan nobles hiding in a cave near Jericho, and by lighting fires at the entrance of the cave managed to asphyxiate the Samaritans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bible: Superior Samaritans | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

Monday, August 9--Left at 9 a.m. for A. Idea was to meet with sub-prefect on possibility of working for a time in the town on hygiene and health. Meeting supposedly for 10, but sub-prefect busy. Finally received us at a quarter to 12, dashed out ten minutes later because his wife was having a baby. We had to hang around till 3:30 when he returned. (It was a boy.). The meeting accomplished little, except to set the date for another meeting...

Author: By Efrem Sigel, | Title: Working In Africa With The Peace Corps | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...manioc, and empty a gourd of palm wine. Then, juiced up, they take a machete and go off to the fields to work all day. At night they come back, eat some foutou, and empty another gourd of palm wine. Then they are happy--and sleep well. The sub prefect once tried to stop the drinking of palm wine, they told me. All the police were alerted, and men who passed on the roads carrying the huge

Author: By Efrem Sigel, | Title: Working In Africa With The Peace Corps | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...police entered and blew them out. The colonnaded Pantheon was also dark, but brilliant tricolor searchlights cast a V up into the sky. As a military band played civil servant. When the Nazis arrived in Chartres on June 17, 1940, Jean Moulin met them in his full regalia as prefect of the district. His independent spirit soon landed him in prison. After one torture session, during which he refused to sign a document serving Nazi propaganda, he feared that he would not be able to hold out next time, and tried to kill himself by slashing his throat with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: King of the Shadows | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...proletarian overalls casually introduced himself, De Gaulle snapped: "Stand to attention when you are speaking to a superior officer." When De Gaulle finally entered Paris amid jubilant cheers, he was all calculation. "How far have you got with the purge?" were his first words to his newly appointed prefect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vanity Vindicated | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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