Word: mesopotamia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shuddered at the pacifism of the Labor Government as militarist Baron Middleton challenged "The British Army has now fallen below its strength in 1895 . . . and yet . . . and yet since 1895 we have taken over the control of the Sudan and accepted the mandates of Palestine and Mesopotamia" (called "Irak" by younger...
From an airplane or airship many a blurred earthly detail is clear. European archeologists have utilized this fact in England, Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Africa. In England flyers have spotted old Roman camps because grain growing on their sites had a distinguishably different tint from grain growing on less disturbed soil. In Mesopotamia the soil of filled-in Babylonian irrigation ditches showed a texture different from that of the surrounding soil...
...during almost every other major English sporting event this season, it rained last week during the British Amateur Golf Championship in Sandwich. The weather made antic the play of visiting golfers from the U. S., Canada, France, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, the Malay States. Edward of Wales watched for a while, then amused himself 'by practicing some drives of his own, employing the methods taught him last month by British Open Champion Walter Hagen. Said he: "At last I have learned to play golf," but he did not enter the tournament...
Ancient civilizations remind most of us at once of Egypt and Mesopotamia, and even in America there are few who realize the extent of the culture that was developed on our own continent before the Europeans arrived. One of the most interesting of these civilizations was that of the Mayas who reached a high point in sciences and the arts while still the victims of almost incredible superstitions. It will well repay the journey to Peabody Museum to hear Professor Dixon discuss them this morning at 11 o'clock...
Capt. Francisco Jiminez-with Capt. Ignacio Iglesias, from Spain towards India. After 27 hours flying a sandstorm forced them down in Mesopotamia. Germany: Capt. Herman Koehl-in the Bremen from Ireland to Labrador. France: Capt. Dieudonné Costés-with Lieut. Commander Joseph Lebrix, on a 35,000-mile world aerial tour. Italy: Capt. Ferrarin. In Latin America the best flyers were: Venezuela, Capt. Manuel Rios, Ecuador, Capt. Luis Mantilla; Bolivia, Major Santalla Estrella...