Word: syria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fourteen cases of antiquities, part of the results of the Yale excavations during the past year at Doura-Europos in Mesopotamia, arrived at New Haven yesterday afternoon, according to a dispatch from Syria. These will be put on exhibition at the Yale gallery of fine arts during Commencement...
...Author. Author Harold Lamb wrote this book on a Guggenheim Fellowship-($2,500 for one year), followed the path of the Crusaders through Syria. Other books: White Falcon, Marching Sands, House of the Falcon, Tamerlane, Genghis Khan. The Crusades is the March selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...Soviet Government further put into circulation false foreign bank notes in Siam, India, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, South America, Mexico and African coast cities. During the summer of 1929, forged notes were circulated also in Europe-namely in Poland, Germany, Holland, Italy and Greece...
Sultan Abdul Hamid, called "Abdul the Damned" by phrasemaking historians, was crafty, cruel, ignorant,* yet at the beginning of the World War his personal estates included half the Province of Saloniki, holdings in the Island of Cyprus, Thessaly, Greece, Syria, Palestine and what is now the Kingdom of Irak, a goodly section of the rich tobacco lands of Macedonia (whence "Egyptian" cigarets) and about $25,000,000 in jewels. When he was deposed in 1909, all these were confiscated...
Daniel Bliss Dorman, of Beirut, Syria...