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Page 244
... Tigris , and the Ramadi Barrage on the Euphrates . The royal utterance of an ' Open Sesame ! ' symbolised the end of centuries of want and peril , and the hope of a return to the milk and honey of former fruitfulness . Two years , two ...
... Tigris , and the Ramadi Barrage on the Euphrates . The royal utterance of an ' Open Sesame ! ' symbolised the end of centuries of want and peril , and the hope of a return to the milk and honey of former fruitfulness . Two years , two ...
Page 249
... Tigris . But the levels are not yet favourable . We can't let the Euph- rates out until the Tigris shows signs of falling enough to take the additional flow . " I asked him what would happen if the Tigris failed to oblige in time ...
... Tigris . But the levels are not yet favourable . We can't let the Euph- rates out until the Tigris shows signs of falling enough to take the additional flow . " I asked him what would happen if the Tigris failed to oblige in time ...
Page 259
... Tigris . There was no originality in this use of the Aqqar Kuf Depression to absorb for a while the floodwaters of the Euphrates . It had all been done before . ' The second queen , whose name was Nitocris , was a wiser woman than the ...
... Tigris . There was no originality in this use of the Aqqar Kuf Depression to absorb for a while the floodwaters of the Euphrates . It had all been done before . ' The second queen , whose name was Nitocris , was a wiser woman than the ...
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AMERICANS NO ONE FORGETS BY MONROE WHITNEY | 53 |
THALATTA THALATTA BY RICHARD HILTON 224 | 141 |
AN IDYLL OF THE ISLANDS BY JESSICA COLERIDGE | 192 |
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