Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard subscriptions to the Delphi fund amount to something over one thousand dollars...
Semitic Seminary. Reader, Mr. John Orne. Subject, Mythical Material in the Thousand and One Nights. Sever...
...MONDAY.Semitic Seminary. Reader, Mr. John Orne. Subject, Mythical Material in the Thousand and One Nights. Sever...
...indebted of course to the Bible for much of Jewish history. It goes back about four thousand years from our day. The Babylonians in this period were permeated with a spirit of conquest and roved over much of Westem Asia. Their life is clear to us from their records from 1000 B. C. down. About 800 B. C. the Assyrians also started out on a western campaign. Abeut 770 B. C. there came to their throne one of their greatest kings. A hundred years later the kingdom was in pieces...
...Greek theatre furnishes contrasts, not parallels, to that of modern times. The Greeks produced an audience of thirty thousand to our possible three thousand, they sat in the open air, they went to theatre much as we go to church, and the actors wore masks, and had no harmony in singing. Greek theatre-going was for only three days, at the Dionysiac festival. The people at this time creased in holiday attire; the taverns were thrown open, bowls of free wine were everywhere and it was considered a solemn duty to get intoxicated. The streets were filled with mountebanks...