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...spark commonly supposed to have lit the conflagration in Jerusalem on Aug. 23, 1929, was described as from the beginning an attack by Arabs on Jews, for which the Commission could find no excuse in the form of earlier Jewish attacks on Arabs...
...program employed on the trip as announced by Manager J. R. Graham '30, will be partly secular and partly religious. It will include the following selections: "Jerusalem" by Parry, "Justorum Animae" by Byrd, "Marching" by Brahms, Three pictures from "The Tower of Babel", "May No Rash. In-truder" from "Solomon" by Handel, Choruses from "Ruddigore" by Sullivan, "Dirge for Two Veterans" by Holst, "Fireflies"--a Russian folk song, "Summer Evening" by Finrish
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), fled to Morocco, to Timbuktu and farther. There, swallowed up by African natives, they still remained a Jewish sect, continued Jewish rites. Says LoBagola: they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit...
...many nationalities were represented: Flemings, Lotharingians, Bavarians, Normans, Angles, Scots, Italians, Britons, Greeks, Armenians. After Jerusalem had fallen, Sigurd, King of the Vikings, came in his dragonships with 10,000 men. Altogether these Crusaders numbered some 280,000, of whom 250,000 died before they won Jerusalem. Nominal leader was Hugh, Count of Vermandois, who proved better at speaking than at fighting; then Godfrey of Bouillon took actual command, was first across the walls when they stormed Jerusalem. Other notables: lackadaisical Duke Robert Short Breeches of Normandy, red-haired Bohe-mund, Tancred, "finest sword of the Normans," the first...
Antioch. Marching along the seacoast the army discovered sugar cane for the first time, liked it. The initial attack on Jerusalem failed; the second was their last desperate attempt. It succeeded; the Holy City was theirs; they killed for two days. After the Battle of Ascalon secured their position, most of the First Crusaders went home, left Godfrey of Bouillon as Jerusalem's king. Christians held the city for 88 years, till Saracen Saladin captured it in his Holy...