Word: herdsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muttalib died, leaving the orphan in the care of a poor uncle, Abu Talib. As a youth, Muhammad was set to work tending his uncle's herds; he later recalled that task as a mark of divine favor. "God sent no prophet who was not a herdsman," he told his disciples. "Moses was a herdsman. David was a herdsman. I, too, was commissioned for prophethood while I grazed my family's cattle...
Died. Shirali Mislimov, 168, a Caucasian herdsman regarded in the Soviet Union as the oldest man alive; in Barzavu, U.S.S.R. Mislimov, who neither smoked nor drank, and existed largely on a diet of chicken broth, cheese and curded milk, is survived by his 107-year-old third wife and 219 other family members, including a grandchild aged...
...even booking rooms in an old French Foreign Legion post. Told that the strangers are there to watch the moon black out the sun, some believers in the oasis town of Chinguetti-the seventh holiest city of Islam-are incredulous. "How can you tell the sun will darken?" a herdsman asks. "Only God can know that...
...herdsman's faith may soon be shaken. Chinguetti lies directly in the path of totality* of a major solar eclipse that will be visible across northern Africa on June 30. Although solar eclipses are not rare-at least two occur every year-this one will be unusual. Where the borders of Mali, Algeria and Nigeria meet, totality will last 7 min. 4 sec., making the eclipse the second longest in 1,433 years; the only longer one -7 min. 7 sec.-took place in 1955. A comparable eclipse will not occur again until the year 2150. Thus scientists from...