Word: armenia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bartholomew, one of the more obscure of the apostles, is also subject to historical confusion. The symbolic knife he holds derives from the story that he was flayed alive in Armenia. Out of ignorance of this tradition, one of Rembrandt's own later versions now in Downton Castle, near Ludlow, England, was long titled Rembrandt's Cook...
...curt note Moscow rejected the witness-backed U.S. statement that three fighter planes had intercepted an unarmed Air Force C-130 transport and its 17-man crew near the Turkish border on Sept. 2. forced it to fly into Soviet Armenia, where it crashed and burned. Instead, the Russians accused the U.S. of attempting to justify an "intentional violation" of the Soviet border, promised only that the bodies of six crew members found in the wreckage would be returned...
With a perfunctory acceptance of U.S. apologies, the Russians last week turned back the nine U.S. Air Force men whose C118 (DC-6A) transport got lost in bad weather, was forced down just inside Soviet Armenia fortnight before. But the U.S. moved on from apology to strong protest when it heard the shocker in the airmen's report: their unarmed transport was shot down in an unprovoked attack by Soviet MIG interceptors...
Russia. Nine U.S. airmen were arrested by the Russians in Soviet Armenia when their unarmed Air Force DC-6A transport strayed off course on a tricky navigational leg of a routine bimonthly courier flight across Turkey to Iran (see map], trespassed in Soviet airspace, was forced by two Soviet fighters to land just inside Soviet territory. U.S. airmen wondered if powerful Soviet radio transmitters had not interfered with the relatively weak signal from the U.S. beacon at Van-and if the Russians had not set their rig up to fool the pilots, flying on top of an overcast, into crossing...
...when one of their forts was stormed, committed mass suicide. Next were the Chalybeans, the "stoutest men" the Greeks had yet faced, who fought them hand to hand and, when they killed a Greek, cut off his head and "sang and danced," waving it in front of the survivors. Armenia was an agony, a land filled with blizzards. Men "who had been blinded by the snow or lost their toes by frostbite" had to be left behind...