Word: nebuchadnezzar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern Dinosaur? Are any dinosaurs still around? Ley tells of the Ishtar Gate in the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon, which is decorated with portraits of the sirrush, a scaly, tall-walking reptile with clawed hind feet like a bird. The drawing is singularly detailed, and like nothing known to modern man until he dug up fossil dinosaurs. Ley thinks that the ancients may have seen something like, a living dinosaur. Perhaps modern man may still see one. Ley cites many descriptions of a dinosaur-like creature that may be roaming the Central African swamps...
...There are about 400,000 Maronite Christians (about 50,000 in the U.S.). They have a Patriarch who lives in a monastery on Mount Lebanon. Their services are mostly in Syriac, the language in which the Chaldean astrologers spoke to Nebuchadnezzar. Maronites whose priests are trained in Rome but permitted to marry, are members of the Roman Catholic Church, and practice an ancient Catholic rite...
Tisha b'Av, the ninth of the Hebrew month of Av (July 23 in 1942), is the saddest day in the Jewish year. Dating from the destruction of the First Temple at Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar, it also commemorates the destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman Emperor Titus, the expulsion of Jews from Spain...
...Like mad Nebuchadnezzar, who sheeplike browsed Babylon's pastures, U.S. parachute troops and other isolated forces can subsist on leaves, wood and grass. At least, Biochemist Gustav J. Martin of New York thinks so. But, as he told the American Chemical Society in Memphis last week, soldiers' guts first have to be conditioned to this allfours diet, by getting certain harmless bacteria domiciled among the trillions of other bacteria normally present in the human intestine...
Back in Paris, she specialized in Egyptology, learned ancient Egyptian, and, "irritated at the thought that many . . . treasures in my field were withheld from the masses," presently wrote popularized lives of Tutankhamen, Nebuchadnezzar, Solomon. Then Ambassador Jules Cambon took Niece Tabouis to Berlin, where she "was struck by the complete absence of good taste...