Word: libyan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front pages of our newspapers, and the Rhine across an inside page. The January sales of our big department stores are of more interest to our people than a sale of French bonds. A new movie star attracts more attention than a French victory or defeat in the Libyan or Sahara Desert...
Human slavery exists today in Abyssinia, Tibet, Afghanistan, the Hejaz, Morocco, Tripoli, the Libyan Desert, Rio de Oro, Liberia, China, Arabia, Egypt, the Sudan, Eritrea, French, British and Italian Somaliland, Angola and Mozambique, in most independent Mohammedan States, and in Nepal and the Philippines...
...transatlantic flights of the British R34 in 1919 were 3,600 and 3,450 mi., both nonstop. The first really long dirigible flight was made in 1917 by the German L-59, from Jamoli, Bulgaria, via Smyrna, the Mediterranean and the Libyan desert into East Africa and return - about 4,500 mi. without a stop
...Rome in 146 B. C. The beads resembled Carthaginian work of the Fourth Century B. C. At the skeleton's ostrich-plumed head rested a six-inch statuet?a naked female with hips exaggerated as in Aurignacian figures of Paleolithic workmanship?which some held to be the famed Libyan Venus, others merely a fetish placed by the burial party for good luck...
Between Egypt and Italian Tripoli, just north of the great Libyan Desert, lies the tiny oasis-city of Jarabub, an excessively important water supply station for the trans-Libyan caravans. There in 1855 the potent sheik, Sidi Mohammed ben Ali ben Es Senussi el Khettabi el Hassani el Idrissi el Mehajiri, established the stronghold of his fraternity or sect, the Senussites, who continue to possess tremendous influence in the region...