I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

But they refuse, as do the Arab states, to support the United Nations' expenses of maintaining the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East as a buffer between Egypt and Israel, and the U.N. troops in the Congo, which expenses are not covered by the regular budget of the United Nations, but by a special budget.

In the Middle East, Iraq, Syria and Egypt were, a short while ago, in the Western camp.

It is a main flavoring for halvah, the candy of the Middle East.

A reporter who consulted a Middle East Information officer for routine vital statistics got nowhere until the State Department man produced from his bottom desk drawer a brochure published by the Arabian-American Oil Company.

When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.

They will be for teaching, agriculture and community development in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.

The spirit served chiefly to lull the West while Moscow made inroads into the Middle East.

The question was raised, for example, as to what attitude the President would take if Mr. Khrushchev proposes a broad neutral belt extending from Southeast Asia to the Middle East.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

He wrote detailed comparative studies on the religions and cultures in the Middle East, Mediterranean, and especially South Asia.

Afroasiatic languages are spoken predominantly in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel.

The most widely spoken Afroasiatic language is Arabic ( including all its colloquial varieties ), with 230 million native speakers, spoken mostly in the Middle East and North Africa.

Afroasiatic languages are today primarily spoken in the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel.

In the Middle East, a growing appetite for eating frog legs and the consequent gathering of them for food was linked to an increase in mosquitoes.

" What the West borrowed from the Middle East ", in Savory, R. M.

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

The Arabic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Syriac alphabet, and other abjads of the Middle East are developments of the Aramaic alphabet, but because these writing systems are largely consonant-based they are often not considered true alphabets.

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In the Middle East, Aramaic gave rise to the Hebrew and Nabataean abjads, which retained many of the Aramaic letter forms.

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The Aramaic alphabet is historically significant, since virtually all modern Middle Eastern writing systems use a script that can be traced back to it, as well as numerous non-Chinese writing systems of Central and East Asia.

Aramaic gradually became the lingua franca throughout the Middle East, with the script at first complementing and then displacing Assyrian cuneiform as the predominant writing system.

Many of the settings for Agatha Christie ’ s books were directly inspired by the many archaeological field seasons spent in the Middle East on the sites managed by her second husband Max Mallowan.

Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.

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* Official Middle East Despatches December 1940 to February 1941 published in

* Official Middle East Despatches February 1941 to July 1941 published in

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The same elements from the myth that appear in the Pyramid Texts recur in funerary texts written in later times, such as the Coffin Texts from the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2055 – 1650 BC ) and the Book of the Dead from the New Kingdom ( c. 1550 – 1070 BC ).

* Amy G. Remensnyder, " The Virgin and the King: Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

* Susan P. Millinger, " Epic Values: The Song of Roland ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

In the Middle Kingdom, a new funerary text emerged, the Coffin Texts.

* A collection of Dunbar's works at ' TEAMS Middle English Texts '

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* Witalisz, Wladislaw, " Authority and the Female Voice in Middle English Mystical Writings: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe ," in: Homo Narrans: Texts and Essays in Honor of Jerome Klinkowitz, ed.

* c. 2000 BC: First known mention of the city ( then known as Rusalimum ) in the Middle Kingdom Egyptian Execration Texts.

The first known mention of the city was in c. 2000BC in the Middle Kingdom Egyptian Execration Texts in which the city was recorded as Rusalimum.

* Adnan Husain, " Wondrous Crusade Encounters: Usamah ibn Munqidh's Book of Learning by Example ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

In 2001, BYU consolidated FARMS with the Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts ( CPART ) and the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative ( METI ) to form the Institute for the Study and Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts ( ISPART ).

The Middle Eastern Texts Initiative consists of three sections: the Islamic Translation Series, the Eastern Christian Texts, and the Medical Works of Moses Maimonides.

The head editor of the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative is Daniel C. Peterson.

* The Middle English Lais at TEAMS Middle English Texts

* Consideratcaravanserai. net, Texts and photos on research on caravanserais and travel journeys in Middle East and Central Asia.

* Asmussen, Jes Peter, comp., Manichaean Literature: Representative Texts, Chiefly from Middle Persian and Parthian Writings, 1975, Scholars ' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1141-4.

* Nancy Partner, " Richard of Devizes: The Monk Who Forgot to be Medieval ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

* Jason Glenn, " Two Lives of Saint Radegund ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

A myth about the Eye, known from allusions in the Coffin Texts from the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2055 – 1650 BC ) and a more complete account in the Bremner-Rhind Papyrus from the Late Period ( 664 – 332 BC ), demonstrates the Eye's close connection with Ra and Atum and her ability to act independently.