Monthly Archives: March 2007

Mr. Marsh again produces quotations, in which the word is used as a proverbial example of _whiteness_, and inclines to think that it was a bleached cloth with a lustrous surface. canine diabetes in symptom custom truck parts suppliers index … Continue reading →

called SAPURGAN So after travelling for six days as I have told you, you come to a city called SAPURGAN. It has great plenty of everything, but especially of the very best melons in the world. They preserve them by … Continue reading →

NOTE 16.–Marco”s contempt for _Patarins_ slips out in a later passage (Bk. III. ch. xx.). The name originated in the eleventh century in Lombardy, where it came to be applied to the ‘heretics,’ otherwise called ‘Cathari.’ Muratori has much on … Continue reading →

thing besides the restless longing to escape beyond the line of sea and sky When he left his home on this first voyage, he took with him one other thing besides the restless longing to escape beyond the line of … Continue reading →

(Dr. S. W. Bushell: _Inscriptions in the Juchen and Allied Scripts_ and _The Hsi Hsia Dynasty of Tangut_. See above, p. 29.) cleaning concrete stains free bible study lessons children ages 6 11 broker california estate northern real sears vacume … Continue reading →

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in Persia), and even in the Oases of Tun-o-Kain wherever there is water The Chinar abounds in Khorasan (as far as any tree can be said to _abound_ in Persia), and even in the Oases of Tun-o-Kain wherever there is … Continue reading →

went to worship Jesus Christ; and in this city they are buried, in three very large and beautiful monuments, side by side In Persia is the city of SABA, from which the Three Magi set out when they went to … Continue reading →

_long_ months of 30 days 110 _short_ months of 29 days, (but sometimes 124 _long_ and 111 _short_ months), and 7 _intercalary_ months [‘This interval of 10 years comprises 235 lunar months, generally 125 _long_ months of 30 days 110 … Continue reading →

The time of year assigned by Polo for the ceremony implies some change. Perhaps it had been made to coincide with the Festival of Water Consecration of the Lamas, with which the time named in the text seems to correspond. … Continue reading →