Word: trajan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 8,000 spectators, including 2,000 American tourists, gathered for services around the base of the largest and costliest (approximately $500,000) of these memorials, a 175-ft. Doric shaft conceived in pink Italian granite by famed Architect John Russell Pope after the Emperor Trajan's column honoring his victorious Roman legions. Crowded about the still shell-torn hill of Montfaucon were armless and legless war veterans, three U. S. Congressmen and General John J. Pershing's American Battle Monuments Commission-which has spent $4,500,000 on memorials and cemetery chapels abroad. Absent were Senators Russell...
Another trophy was a fragment of a marble sign, probably from the Library of Trajan, which bore this warning: "No book shall be taken out. We have sworn it! The library will be open from the first hour until the sixth...
...major importance among the finding of the Fogg museum's archeological expedition to Yuge-Salvia are a Roman military road and a chain of forts built by the Emperor Trajan early in the second century. This Investigation, whose results have been announced this weekend, was conducted during the summer and fall of 1933, under the direction of Dr. Vladimir J. Fewkes and Rober W. Shrich, assisted by two attaches of the National Museum in Belgrade...
...large number of forts erected by Trajan and uncovered by the expedition, was apparently built to facilitate the campaigns against the Daclans. For 150 years after they were erected, ten ingots were stationed in these forts, from Bavaria to ten Black...