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Ak-Sar-Ben. In Omaha last week was held Nebraska's great State celebration ? Ak-Sar-Ben. Nebraska spelled backward, the name has another significance: Syrian Ak meaning head-of-the family; Arabic Sar, the household; Hebraic Ben, brothers. In 1895 Omaha businessmen organized the Knights of Ak-Sar...
It must not, however, be supposed that all gifts of money to the Library come technically through the Friends of the Library. It has many Friends who are not "Friends." These outside gifts are usually for some specific subject, or perhaps for the purchase of some special collection. Some of...
"I am filled with astonishment and admiration over the great progress and development of Turkey. ... I see everywhere that same courage and imagination which distinguish such great men of today as Colonel Lindbergh and Henry Ford. . . . Take for example the changeover from the Arabic alphabet, the abolition of the fez...
Author Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn Lo-Bagola has had a hard, queer time. A black man but a Jew, he is a native of the Ondo bush, hinterland of Dahomey, in western Africa. His people, according to legend, left Palestine after Roman Titus' sack of Jerusalem (A. D. 70...
"The Universities of Madrid and Barcelona are by far the largest in Spain today", he continued, "having replaced Salamanca which flourished alone in the days of the Moors. The students naturally flock to the capital, Madrid, and to the largest commercial center, Barcelona, the result being that only 400 students...