Month: January 2020

Temple of Hittites Discovered, 1930

On: By: Romeyn

From the Evening Star, Washington DC, May 29, 1930

Ancient Temple of Hittites Is Found in Turkey KHIAVOURKALE, Turkey, May 29.–The University of Chicago Anatolian expedition has brought to Iight what is believed to have been an ancient temple of the stone worshiping Hittites, the race which peopled this desolate area 5,000 years ago. The excavation, made at the suggestion of  Ghazi Mustapha Kemal, constitutes one of the expedition’s most important Hittlte discoveries in its six years in Anatolia. The Ghazi asked the expedition to try Ghiavourkale before beginning its regular work at Aleshar on  June 1. Hence the Chicagoans went to Ghiavourkale May 23 and drew a test line east and west. By luck they bared a Cyclopean wall and path leading to what probably is a temple, as enormous reliefs of a Hittite king, priest and goddess were engraved on the exterior rock face.

 

Phantom Lady by William Irish

On: By: Romeyn

Put yourself in Scott Henderson’s place. You know you’re not a murderer. You know you were with another woman when your, wife was strangled. But the District Attorney and the police don’t know it. And YOU CAN’T PROVE IT!
You met this other woman in a bar. You took her to dimer and to a play. But you didn’t know her name or where she lived. Your mind had been in such a turmoil that you didn’t notice anything about her — except that she was wearing a flaming orange hat. Continue reading “Phantom Lady by William Irish” →

Defending Panama, 1915

On: By: Romeyn

This is one of the big monsters upon which America will have to rely for protection against any foreign power that may get the notion to seize the Panama Canal. This sixteen inch disappearing gun is the biggest gun of its class in the world and is capable of throwing a projectile twenty-one miles. The gun proper weighs 200 tons and was made some months ago at Watervliet, N. Y., from where it was shipped to Watertown, Mass., to have the carriage fitted. Several times along the way its extraordinary weight spread the rails. Dec. 10th it was shipped to Sandy Hook proving grounds on a train of fourteen specially constructed cars. The gun will, ultimately used in the fortifications at the Panama Canal. The picture shows the gun on the carriage and the specially constructed cars which were used to transport it.
(The Day Book (Chicago, IL), December 15, 1915)