Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little more than 100 years ago, the Wahabis captured Mecca, capital of Islam, where is situated the tomb of the Prophet Mohammed. After bloody scenes and wild desecration, the Wahabis were crushed and chased back to their country of Nejd. On the eve of the War, Hasa was taken from the distracted Turk; and before it could be recovered the flaming tongues of the war dogs had licked the world...
...moving instance of the limitations of the memory of musical mankind. Enrico Caruso died three years ago, leaving millions of dollars and admirers. He was, it may be affrmed with security, one of the greatest singers the world has ever known-and one of the most beloved. Yet his tomb, in Naples, most musical of cities, has been observed to be without a single flower-mute witness to the evanescence of man's favor...
...after inspections and parades, masses, blessings of the Unknown Soldier tomb, giving of prizes, repetition of clean speech and clean heart vows, the 100,000 dispersed to their homes...
...After having destroyed the tomb of Eben Abdarsi, they killed the people, respecting neither young infants nor the aged. In a word, all people were passed under the sword, including foreign subjects...
...crypt of St. Peter's, many Bishops, including Mgr. Canale Oberti of Santa Fe, last week said mass for Pope Pius X, "the Good", who died ten years ago. Before the tomb, thousands of candles were lighted, thousands of flowers scattered. The late Pope's aged sisters, who still live near the Vatican, attended...