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...represent a hero, a king, a priest, a demon, a god, or some ancient's idea of a joke? Was I molded and cast by a Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Kassite, Hurrian, Hyksos, Elamite, or by some barbaric genius of the Caucasus? Was my native city Eridu, perhaps, or Susa. Persepolis, Nineveh, Larsa, Lagash, Umma, Ur, Alalakh, or Hattusas? Am I 5,000 years old, or closer to a mere...
...Shah's small (130,000) but loyal army was in its barracks, ready for trouble. For the present, at least, there was none. Beyond the capital, Iran's brown and barren face was peaceful. The skeletons of Persepolis, Susa, Pasargadae, the great dead imperial cities, were bleaching in the sun. Eastward the silent desert reached toward Asia. In the southwest, Iran's black treasure still gushed into the Abadan refinery from beneath the baked flats east of the Tigris. The people, moving herds across the plains and raising cotton in the steaming Caspian littoral, lived in poverty...
...wrote Professor Gerhardt in Forschungen und Fortschreiten (Researches and Progress). According to ancient Jewish and Christian texts, Saturn ruled the Hebrews. The Messiah was expected to arrive under this "Star of God," which was called both Chiun (Amos, 5:26) and Remphan (Acts, 7:43). In Babylon and Susa, whence came the Wise Men, Saturn was visible at the time of Christ's birth only in the first week in April. Travelling westward, the Wise Men would have seen it overhead between Oct. 10 and Dec. 15 as they proceeded to Bethlehem from Jerusalem. For their arrival...
...ending is a surprise. There are only two murders in the course of the action and one of them takes place in full view of the audience without yielding any clue to the perpetrator. Der Tiger Von Berlin is further distinguished by a blonde young woman named Charlotte Susa who is as good looking and able as the best U. S. stars. Best shot: a wrestler being thrown by jujitsu. The Last of the Duanes (Fox). Once a movie was one of two things- pie-throwing or western. Properly and naturally cinematic, westerns have never fallen into disrepute. Although...
...worst here. Thus in Pliny there is an absurd account of the gold-hunting of the Bactrians. The works of Herodotus, Diodorus, and Strabo contain numerous legends regarding the production of the precious metals. But the conquest of Persia by Alexander, laying open the vast treasure houses of Susa, Persepolis and Ecbatana afforded something like a measure of the metallic wealth which had been amassed through many centuries. In that early time this wealth amounted to hundreds of millions of our money. This is the all important fact in the history of the precious metals down to the Macedonian conquest...