Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your picture story [Sept. 5] on American horses was beautifully done. But shades of Hambletonian, Goldsmith Maid, Maud S., Dan Patch and Greyhound, how did you ever forget the most populous tribe of them all, the standardbred...
...this period, Stonehenge was one of the largest of many savage sanctuaries in prehistoric Britain. Chief sign of its special eminence is the unusual number of neolithic tombs (Long Barrows) concentrated around it. But about 1650 B.C., a new tribe of barbarians came to Salisbury Plain. They were the Beaker People (socalled because of their characteristic pottery) and although they may have brought their own religion, they improved the Stonehenge shrine instead of destroying it. Their contribution was 82 "blue-stones," arranged in a double circle with stones flanking an axis that points toward the midsummer sunrise. This...
Berber Submission. The horsemen brought news that the Smala tribe wanted to surrender. For the formal submission ceremony, Colonel Boreill chose a huge wheat field near a place called Tired Men's Well. Next day, the French tanks were drawn up in a huge U. Long lines of Berher tribesmen filed in between them. Their women and children came with them, many carrying flags. The most important of the Berber Caids (local chiefs) arrived in a Chevrolet...
...harsh tones boomed out through the loudspeaker: "You have behaved like stinking jackals! If France did not have a heart, all of you would be dead." An old Caid in flowing robes made the surrender speech: "If this happens again, may you come back and decimate our tribe!" With that, tribesmen slashed the legs of twelve sacrificial bulls, and the beasts sank to their knees in token of abject submission. "Blood is spilled," chanted the Berbers. "Peace returns...
...Maya Kekchi Indians furtively examined the big, bearded explorer in his Bedford-cord riding breeches and decided that here was the man to revitalize their dying tribe. They led to his jungle hut the fairest of their maidens, eyes downcast and breasts bare, and delivered a proposition from their chief: the girl was his, but if there were no sons, the explorer must give his breeches to the chief. "To refuse point blank would have insulted the whole tribe," explains doughty British Explorer "Mike" Hedges. "On the other hand, I obviously could not accept." What to do in this social...