Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unimpressed, Venizelos seceded from the kingdom, forced Constantine to abdicate in favor of his son and declared war against the Central Powers. Though Greece did not do much in war, Venizelos had earned a place at the Peace Conference table. His "enticing, almost ethereal, charm," and the fact that he knew more about the map of Europe than anyone else, did the rest. Spoils: most of Thrace and part of Asiatic Turkey...
...Solomon built the first Temple at Jerusalem, until 606 B. C. when the Babylonian captivity of the Jews began, was a period of war, decay idolatry in Palestine. King Solomon had created an Israelitish state, but he turned apostate. God's judgment on his sins was that the kingdom should be rent into Israel on the north and Judah on the south. Some good kings followed Solomon, and the great Prophets Elijah Elisha, Isaiah and Jeremiah thundered God's words at the children of Israel. But the age was full of such bad characters as Jezebel, Jeroboam, Ahab...
...more than a year an expedition headed by Dr. J. L. Starkey of Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London, has been working at Tel ad-Duwair, southwest of Jerusalem. Anciently called Lachish, this site was a fortress in the Kingdom of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar stormed it when he invaded Palestine. Earlier, King Sennacherib of Assyria stopped there before he swept down like the wolf on the fold and before the Lord, through Isaiah, said: "I will send a blast upon him" and killed his 185,000 troops (II Kings, 19: 7, 35). What Dr. Starkey found at Lachish last week were twelve...
Appropriately enough, Author Ferber's latest run-of-the-mill is about pulp. Come and Get It is the story of Barney Glasgow, who fought his way up from chore boy in a logging camp to lumber king of Wisconsin, then lost his kingdom while it was still worth losing. As usual in Ferber stories, the fortunes of the dubious hero and his train are merely a framework for a lively description of logging society, from the snowy Wisconsin camps to the over-stuffed comfort of a rich small-town community. Barney's defeat...
...palace and is followed by the aviator. Setting out, ostensibly to find his daughter, the King discovers that one wife is better than 366, especially if that one be the lovely Sidney Fox. The remaining wives revolt and expel Taxis, his governesses, his police, and his guns. So the kingdom is again left to live by its simple code of (1) don't offend your neighbor, and (2) otherwise do as you like...