Word: yellow
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...alike as a protection to the corpse and as an altar for ancestral offerings. The grave was brick-lined, and roofed over with wooden logs or slabs of white limestone. Later on was erected around the grave a low wall of dried red brick, which contrasted vividly with the yellow sand of the desert. In its final form the mastaba consisted of a great rectangular stone structure with sloping sides. In its centre was a deep shaft into which was lowered the corpse, and then the hole was filled in with sand and debris. A second chamber, isolated...
...fanatical crisis in Bagdad at the end of the eighth century, M. Millet said, and a thorough reform of the Christian church in the eleventh century, coupled with the desire to restore the old Roman empire, was directly responsible for the Crusades. These served to subdue the Mohammedans--the "yellow peril" of the Middle Ages. With the decline of the Crusading spirit Europe came into contact with the luxury of the East; and great commercial natons, such as Venice, came into prominence. While the empire in Europe was slowly going to pieces, Rome was futilely endeavoring to form a united...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. Papers! "Note on the Canyon of the Yellow-stone," Mr. G. R. Mansfield (15 minutes); "The Post-Glacial Faults of Eastern New York," Professor Woodworth (30 minutes). Geological Lecture Room...
North American Review--"The Yellow Peril,' Japan's Golden Opportunity," by K. Kaneko...
...Sever 11, Mr. Copeland will read from Dickens and Thackeray. The program will include the scene between Esmond and the Prince, that between Rawdon Crawley and Lord Steyne, a passage from "Nicholas Nickleby," one from "The Book of Snobs," and Mr. Pickwick's Adventure with the Lady of the Yellow Curl Papers. The reading will be open only to members of the University...