9.0025 Rs: Sesame; Pilgrimages (2/32)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 15 May 1995 23:22:59 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 9, No. 0025. Monday, 15 May 1995.
(1) Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 09:59:18 +0100 (12 lines)
From: stephen.parkinson@Modern-Languages.oxford.ac.uk
Subject: Sesame
(2) Date: Mon, 15 May 95 15:24:33 PDT (20 lines)
From: ltaylor@CS.UCLA.EDU
Subject: Re: 9.0023 Qs: Pilgrimage; ...
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Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 09:59:18 +0100
From: stephen.parkinson@Modern-Languages.oxford.ac.uk
Subject: Sesame
The explanation given to me many years ago by a distinguished Persianist
was that sesame wood was used to make doors, and that addressing a door as
Sesame was no different from the Cambridge practice of referring to a study
door as an "oak". (In student slang, "sporting the oak" was banging on a
fellow student's door.)
Stephen Parkinson
Oxford University
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Date: Mon, 15 May 95 15:24:33 PDT
From: ltaylor@CS.UCLA.EDU
Subject: Re: 9.0023 Qs: Pilgrimage; ...
I don't know how recent you need, but this book includes the
history of pilgrimages.
Author: Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim.
Title: Bible and sword; England and Palestine from the bronze age to
Balfour.
Published: New York, New York University Press, 1956.
Description: xiv, 268 p. illus., ports., maps. 24 cm.
Subject(s): Zionism--History.
Great Britain--Relations--Palestine.
Palestine--Relations--Great Britain.
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