The New Turkey Aims for Modern Social Order in Asia
National Geographic essay depicts the Turkish republic building a Western inspired state on the Anatolian plateau. It notes peasant conservatism, literacy shifts from Arabic to a Latin alphabet, and reform efforts in agriculture and industry amid wartime depletion. It highlights resources, major crops, sheep and goats, and social changes affecting women, cities like Ankara and Istanbul, and regional centers such as Izmir Adana Konya and Bursa.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
WNU
Joes
Europe
Asia
Ottoman Empire
House of Osman
Turkey
Anatolia
Republic
Sakarya
Gaziantep
Smyrna
Samsun
Adana
Central Asia
Ankara
Africa
Thrace
Greece
Istanbul
Constantinople
Golden Horn
Bosporus
Nalarial
Citadel Hill
Mustafa Kemal Pasha
Carta
Izmir
Konya
Bursa
Myslan
Sea of
Marmara
Turkish Republic
Play Fiddle Play and the Stradivarius Sale
Di Prano persuades Maestro Pietro Guralpi to part with his Stradivarius violin to a wealthy American buyer, Moreno. The instrument, famed for its flawless tone, moves from poverty to potential revival as the old maestro seeks peace in Milan.
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Prano
Luigi
Pietro Guralpia
Milan
di Piano
Kinga
di Prano
Guralpi
Gitalp
Gualpi
Friend
Signor Moreno
Signor
Italy
Dr Prano
Moreno
Herbert
Josen Moreno
Pietro Giralpi
Signor Guralpi
Mushroom City Residents Have World of Their Own
An underground Paris quarries system supplies the famous champignons de Paris. Vast tunnels are flooded for irrigation, with eight miles of streets under the city 100 feet deep. Daily five am mushroom harvests feed a market bound fleet of eight-ton motor lorries.
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Paris
Paris Opera
Tit-Bits
France
Mushroom City
Origin of Golf Traced to Dutch Roots and Scottish Spread
An authority states golf likely derives its name from the Dutch kolf or German kolbe meaning club. The game arrived in Scotland well before 1457, and records from 1618 note exports of golf balls from Holland to the Scottish realm, indicating long-distance trade connected to the sport.
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Scotland
Hienes
Scoteland
Holland
Grange Means a Barn Across Historical Uses
The word grange traces to French from Latin roots and has multiple old meanings. It has referred to a barn a rural estate an isolated farm properties of monasteries and a country seat.
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Gralo
Saul of Tarsus Learnings From His Early Life and Education
Lesson outlines Saul birth in Tarsus as a Roman educated hub, his early Pharisee training under Gamaliel, trade apprenticeship in tent making, Roman citizenship, and launch into gospel work. It links his patriotism, Bible devotion, conscience, and disciplined life to his later role as apostle to the Gentiles.
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Saul
Tarsus
Cilicia
Jerusalem
Gamaliel
Israel
Agrippa
Jesus Christ
Damascus
Yarael
Benjamin
Pass Through Fire Christiana Vases Turn to Shine
A passage likens Christiana to vases that must pass through fire to reveal beauty. It suggests the furnace and flame, though seen as destruction, burn away to unveil everlasting grace and glory.
Joy Out of Sorrow Reveals Divine Truth
The piece speaks of joys born from sorrow and sees revelations of divine truth arising only after earthly lights fade, suggesting a spiritual perspective on hardship guiding inward insight and faith.
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Earth
Compulsory Cleanup Duty in Colonial Connecticut
In 1686 Wetherfield Connecticut residents faced a law requiring annual cleanup work on common fields with a fine for noncompliance. Citizens and farmers shared labor via a town cowherd system, clearing brush to keep common lands neat while farmers could tend their own work. The Kansas City Star notes this as a colonial life element reflecting communal duties.
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Wetherstield
Conn
Kansas
City. Star
Public returns to era of liquid laxatives
Public interest shifts back to liquid laxatives as people learn that properly prepared solutions provide a comfortable bowel movement with no pain during or after.
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International Unday
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Institute of Chicago
Sayl
Christian Lasders
Fay
Senna
Caldwell
Caniewbe
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America
Nature
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