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Persia & Irak. "And the trees that bear wool I clipped." So wrote Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians seven centuries before Christ. His wool-bearing "trees" were the earliest known cotton. For the cotton and for his fabulous gardens at Nineveh he needed water. Dr. James Henry Breasted, famed founder-director...
Chubby little Dean Milo Hudson Gates of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine last month recommended to Protestants the practice of saying their prayers with a rosary. To those who find this too "Romish" he suggested the use of a knotted string. Quick to approve was the...
Mr. Ihlder will trace modern zoning back to the days of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, pointing out the effects of poor city planning, and the social results that are derived from it. He will also show how poor city planning has been bettered by experience through the ages.
Working fast, the Papal chauffeur had a new tire on in five minutes, sped to Castel Gandolfo where Pius XI inspected every appointment of the Summer Palace down to the vegetable garden, hen houses and kitchen. Early rising villagers received the Apostolic benediction. Then, still so early that socialite Romans...
Natives of Algeria and Morocco, the apes had run wild on Gibraltar long before Britain's Sir George Rooke snatched it from Spain in 1704. Their presence was once thought to prove that a land link between Europe and Africa existed as late as the Pleistocene period. But scientists...