Word: rajahs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present the proposed center is known only as Pithat Rajah (Approach to Rafah). The community is a planner's dream. Two-thirds of the population will live in twelve-story high-rise apartments. The remainder will occupy semidetached houses, eight families to an acre. Many of their social needs have already been slide-ruled and computerized: 30 students to a class room, a movie theater for each 3,500 families, four acres of sports facilities for every 1,000 families...
...like modern chess, was called chaturanga, or the army game. The pieces represented the four elements of the Indian army: chariots, elephants, cavalry and infantry; they evolved through the centuries into rooks, bishops, knights and pawns. In its travels, the Hindi word rajah, for king, became shah in Persian, which led to the Arabic phrase shah mat, meaning the king is dead, from which the term checkmate is derived...
...SPEAK about all sides of Charles Eames is as difficult, as Charles Eliot Norton trying to appreciate Hindu cookery; "it was impossible for me to do justice to the fifteen different articles which the hospitable attention of the Rajah urged upon me." And it would be just as difficult to define in words the Eames approach to problem solving that he will discuss and demonstrate in the Norton lecture series...
WHEN India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there were 554 princely states, each ruled by a maharajah (Hindi for great ruler) or a lower-ranking rajah. While the peasants lived in abject poverty, the princes had grown rich on land taxes and the sale of mineral rights. They indulged in lavish whims-concubines, opulent palaces, bejeweled elephants, retinues of servants, strings of polo ponies, sumptuous celebrations. The Nizam of Hyderabad, who was the richest of all with wealth estimated at $2 billion, collected mountains of pearls. To celebrate his 39th birthday, the Gaekwar of Baroda was saluted...