Word: moorish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stay at the attractive, state-run pousadas. Some of them are in modernized medieval buildings and cost around $27 a day for double room and bath. One of the handsomest, Pousada dos Loios, is in the south central town of Évora, famous for its Roman ruins and Moorish architecture. At some seaside villages the visitor can rent a fisherman's cottage for as little as $250 a month...
...Hoffman Estates. Irion's home in Illinois was only five minutes away from the Medinah golf club where the 1975 U.S. Open was held. Medinah was built by the Shriners, members of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The course features a resplendent mock Moorish clubhouse and is laid out around Lake Kadijah, named after Mohammed's wife. In fact, those same Shriners are responsible for building that nondescript arena in Billings where Steve Irion used to go to watch the Montana state basketball finals...
...bride's uncles Victor and Ted Reuther gamely padded around in their socks and joined the festivities. Said a wide-eyed Victor: "If these walls could only talk, think what they'd be saying about a Reuther marrying in the Fisher home." His wonderment referred to the Moorish-style palace that was the scene of the wedding. Bought by the Krishna cult for about $350,000 (a good chunk of which was donated by Lekhasravanti and Ambarish), it was built in 1928 as the $2.5 million digs of the late Lawrence P. Fisher, onetime president of Cadillac...
...languages of tribes in the Southwest and Northeast are closely related to Iberic, a Moorish Arabic language, Libyan, Celtic, Basque, and other languages from that area, Fell said...
...says, "it's not the kind of thesis where I'm constantly looking for books--there isn't very much written on the subject." Instead, Sharry has culled his data from a series of visits he made to the continent, beginning with his 1974 stay with the Mauritanian Moorish ("Mauritanian means 'white Moor'") family. His hosts introduced the brotherhood into the Sahara and have been instrumental in its spread across black Africa...