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Word: sahara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with an elaborate religion, laws, arts and crafts, and a system of writing. Until that time the Nile Valley was apparently inhabited by neolithic people on a low cultural level. Dr. Mori's mummy provides support for the theory that Egyptian culture grew by slow stages in the Sahara, which was not then a desert. When the climate grew insupportably dry, the already civilized Egyptians took refuge in the Nile Valley, and the sands of the Sahara swept over their former home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Older than Egypt? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...mummy does not prove that there is a civilization buried in the Sahara but it does mean that, in the next few years, the desert will be swarming with anthropologists looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Older than Egypt? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...French, said Chaalal, have "trumped, tricked, fabricated" previous elections in Algeria. Alluding to the "facility of General de Gaulle's language," he insisted on the "integrity of the Algerian national territory." Although de Gaulle has made vague proposals for regional referenda in Algeria (concerning independence), Chaalal said that the Sahara oil resources belong to Algeria, and that the country must gain freedom "as a whole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Algerian Leader Presents Case For Independence From France | 12/4/1959 | See Source »

...went badly for France. Led by the same Afro-Asian bloc that supports the Algerian rebels, the U.N. General Assembly-which has never condemned any previous nuclear tests-by a vote of 51 to 16 called upon France to abandon plans for exploding its first A-bomb in the Sahara some time next year. The U.S.. and Britain sided with France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dusty Answer | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...concerned, Dec. 31. The U.S. is talking about resuming underground tests. And France made clear last week at the U.N. that unless "the first three atomic powers renounce their nuclear armament," it intends to explode its own A-bomb at its testing ground in the Sahara desert some time within the next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Arms & the Summit | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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