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Title: The world book; (electronic resource) organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932, ed Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937, ed
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, New York (etc.) Hanson-Roach-Fowler Co.
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on, and was credited with the founding ofNineveh and adjacent cities at a later date.Nimrods zeal in hunting gave rise to the say-ing, like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before theLord, which remains the popular impressionof the hero. To-day if a man is called a Nim-rod it means that he enjoys hunting. NINEVEH, nineveh, a city of ancient As-syria, founded, according to Biblical narrative,by Nimrod, and becoming, in its later history,the capital of the empire (see Assyria). Onthe decline of the Assyrian power, Ninevehwas taken, in 606 b. c, by a combined attackof the Medes and Babylonians, and socom-pletely destroyed that even its site was for-gotten. In 1820, an Englishman named Rich ex-amined mounds lying on the left bank of theTigris, opposite the town of Mosul, and con- cluded that beneath them were the ruins ofNineveh. In 1842, Botta, and later Loftus,Hormuzd Rassam and George Smith, made ex-cavations, with results of the greatest interest.Royal palaces, on raised platforms, filled with
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NINEVEH TTleGreat City Se^e. efMiles works of art and having alabaster pavementssculptured in carpetlike designs were uncov-ered; also libraries containing great numbers ofstone slabs, prisms, cylinders and tablets incuneiform inscription. Among the latter aretablets bearing legends of the Creation andthe Flood, and a pair of colossal winged bullsand several cylinders describing the wars ofSennacherib, recorded in the Scriptures. Otherrecords bear out the vivid prophecies in Nahurnand Zephaniah of Ninevehs downfall. Fromresults of the excavations, the inner wall of thecity is thought to have had a circuit of abouteight miles. There were elaborate outworks,moats and defenses. The population is esti-mated to have been at least 175,000. Manyrelics of the Ninevite civilization are now inthe possession of the British Museum. Consult Hilpreclits Explorations in Bible Landsduring the Nineteenth Century. NING-PO, ning-po, a walled city of China,one of the fi\e ports opened to foreign com-merc

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