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CONDITIONS AT WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER:PETER J. SCHOOMAKER
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Congressional Testimony
03-06-2007
Statement of Peter J. Schoomaker Chief of Staff, United States Army Committee
on Senate Armed Services March 06, 2007 Mr. Chairman, Senator McCain, and
distinguished members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity
to discuss the outpatient care of our Nation`s wounded warriors at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, and throughout our Army. Every leader in our
force is committed to ensuring that Army healthcare for America`s Soldiers
is the best this Nation can provide. From the battlefield through a Soldier`s
return home, our priority is the expedient ...
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The British Museum is to collaborate with Iraq. (News).(to restore Assyrian King Ashurbanipal's palace library)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today
; The British Museum is to collaborate with Iraq on a project to bring the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (669-631BC) at his magnificent palace in Nineveh, now Iraq, back to life. The Museum has some 25,000 clay tablets in its...
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Ein vergoldeter Silberbecher der Zeit Assurbanipals im Miho Museum: Historische Darstellungen des 7. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...inscription that mentions the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (668-627 B.c.). On the inner...wall reliefs from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, conveniently published...correspond to a later phase in the reign of Ashurbanipal, and that the inclusion of Elamite...
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Babylonia 689-627 B.C.: A Political History.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...as well as on the identification of Ashurbanipal as Kandalanu. Frame makes use of published...under the overlordship of his brother Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria. In effect, Babylonia...beginning of the decline of Assyria. Ashurbanipal installed Kandalanu as vassal king...
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`The Buried Book': Historical heroes behind an ancient epic.
Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
; ...palace of Sennacherib" and the library of Ashurbanipal, Sennacherib's grandson and the last...Damrosch delves into the life and career of Ashurbanipal, is even more satisfying. Ashurbanipal was first trained for a priestly position...
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Cultural exchange that transcends battle lines as Britain and Iraq recreate world's oldest library
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...established by the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, is of immeasurable importance. It...Genesis. King from 669 to 627BC, Ashurbanipal was a great warrior, hunter and a...civilisation. To recreate the library of Ashurbanipal will be a monumental achievement...
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Ancient evenings The 3,000-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh, its unlikely rediscovery, and its echoes in literature and politics
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...first and biggest fans, however, was Ashurbanipal, who ruled the Assyrians in the eighth...Mesopotamian kings who preceded him, Ashurbanipal was a fluent reader and accomplished scholar. Ashurbanipal created the first true library within...
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Assyrian expansion.
Magazine article from: Calliope
; ...then in 668 B.C., his grandson Ashurbanipal, followed him to the throne. Assyria...southwestern Turkey and into Egypt. Ashurbanipal spent much of his reign crushing rebellions...peoples. Little information exists about Ashurbanipal's last years. Historians believe...
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The East-West tale of a once and future king BOOKS & IDEAS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...One of the last Assyrian kings, Ashurbanipal, had the literary skills and interests...Gilgamesh,'' a story already ancient in Ashurbanipal's time. When Nineveh fell in 612...Austen Henry Layard in his discovery of Ashurbanipal's library and eventually became a...
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We must pay high price of press freedom
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...the last great king of the Assyrians, Ashurbanipal, maintained an archive of 25,000 clay...Assyrian clay tablets to presume that Ashurbanipal's great library spoke well of Ashurbanipal. The Egyptians kept the thoughts of the...
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In search of Gilgamesh, the epic hero of ancient Babylonia.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...to the excavation of the library of Ashurbanipal, an Assyrian king of the 7th century...Sargon II, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal himself. Damrosch neatly conveys the...that the poem "was already ancient in Ashurbanipal's day, copied and recopied for more...
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