Word: bazaar
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Traces of reed buts and a hearth were found above the burial. Other important discoveries were made among the shops of the bazaar which flourished at the time of Croesus, the Lydian king during the sixth century before Christ...
...Olde. Water- in canals, lagoons, fountains - is "an excellent prop"; and arcades such as those flank ing Pisa's Borgo Stretto and Bern's Spitalgasse or covering Istanbul's Grand Bazaar provide not only protection from both sun and rain but an interesting play of light and shadow...
...first U.S. ambassador ever to visit the Indian protectorate of Sikkim, Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith decided to dress native. Though most good-sized Sikkimese stand somewhere south of his chest, Galbraith (6 ft. 8 in.) surprisingly found a spotted mandarin coat from a bazaar in the capital, Gangtok, that neatly draped his gangling frame. Looking like an unhappy giraffe in his new outfit, Galbraith attended a dinner given by the Maharaja of Sikkim. Later, the younger members of the ambassador's party twisted until 3 a.m. after getting lessons from the Maharaja's teenage granddaughter, Princess...
Modern technology has obliterated the frontiers of disease. Thanks to jet planes, a louse brushed from the sleeve of a beggar in an Oriental bazaar may attach itself to a tourist who will land in San Francisco next day-already infected with typhus...
...began to create a reputation for unorthodoxy. Although fundamentalist in his theology, he was a political liberal who spoke out in the pulpit against Virginia's racial segregation. His orations were notable for their scholarship-and for their shock value. Once he was photographed at a church bazaar sitting backwards on a donkey and wearing a Japanese lantern...