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id: 7096
author: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir
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title:
  The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith

summary:
  Thereupon Gilgamish tied heavy stones [to his feet], and let himself down into the sea through an opening in the floor of the boat. [5] George Smith's Discovery of the Epic of Gilgamish and the Story of the Deluge.


id: 17150
author: Hammurabi, King of Babylonia
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title:
  The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon, B.C. 2285-2242

summary:
  but father's property equally, 167. of bride and maid share equally, if latter acknowledged as sons in father's lifetime, former having preference, 170. otherwise, children of maid do not share, 171. of slave woman and free father are free, 171. of slave man and free mother are free, 175. If a man has taken on hire an unreclaimed field for three years to open out, and has left it aside, has not opened the field, in the fourth year he shall break it up with hoes, he shall hoe it, and harrow it, and return to the owner of the field, and he shall measure out ten _GUR_ of corn _per GAN_. section 45.


id: 18031
author: Maxwell, Donald
title: A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden
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words: 23010
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flesch: 73
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summary:
  Great buildings like Ctesiphon near Baghdad or traces of the vast irrigation works of the past are full of interest, but for romance and mystery there is no piece of the world more fraught with meaning than this site of the city of Nebuchadnezzar, nearly 200 square miles in extent, and now, but for the comparatively small tract of irrigated land, a desert. The most amazing and outrageous types of craft soon meet the eye as commonplaces of river life.


id: 19379
author: Thompson, Edward John
title: The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad
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summary:
  Mules and horses were hit, and many men. But it was too much; and a counter-attack swept the survivors off, and took two officers and several men prisoners.


id: 17584
author: Palmer, Robert Stafford Arthur
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title:
  Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916 From Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years

summary:
  In every controversy there are mean little men who assume that their own motives in taking up a line are of the most exalted and noble character, but that those who dare differ from them are animated by the basest personal aims. Such men are a small faction, but they are the mischief-makers that have many a time perverted discussion into dissension.


id: 13665
author: Roosevelt, Kermit
title: War in the Garden of Eden
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summary:
  There were a few instances where people tried to stand out against having men billeted in their houses, but we of course paid no attention except that we saw to it that they got more men than they would have under ordinary circumstances. The situation in Palestine differed in many ways from that in Mesopotamia, but in none more markedly than in the benefits derived from the propinquity of Egypt.


id: 38714
author: Strang, Herbert
title: Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad
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flesch: 77
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summary:
  Who then are you? I am the son of Mr. Burnet. You live altogether in the present---- Look here, Burnet, said the other, cutting him short; if you don't stop gassing we shall neither of us live in the future.


id: 38319
author: Wilkins, Louisa Jebb
title: By Desert Ways to Baghdad
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summary:
  Are they wicked men, then? No, they are good men as a rule, but in our country we do not understand the people who do not do what others do. They were partners mostly of city men, who provided the seed and the stock and took two-thirds of the produce in payment.


id: 29631
author: Groves, Anthony Norris
title: Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831
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summary:
  Lord, then, though it cuts nature to the quick, makes me feel its deepest suffering, and meets me under the most complicated forms of trial, yet if it be for thy glory, and her glory, do, dear Lord, thine Almighty will, and we know thou wilt to thy chosen, make light spring up out of darkness. May 22._--Our dear Lord said to his sorrowing disciples, You have heard how I said unto you, I go away and come again unto you.


id: 35615
author: Mockler-Ferryman, A. F. (Augustus Ferryman)
title: The Treasure of the Tigris: A Tale of Mesopotamia
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  Never, said the sheik, but my father and other men with whom I was acquainted had often handled it, and they were fond of describing its magnificent workmanship--so much so that I have often thought that I must have seen it myself. We all went off at once, and Ali Khan, stationing the matchlock-men who accompanied him round the beast's lair, ordered other men to throw stones into the bushes, with the intention of driving the lion out.


