The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 18, 1937, Page 15

TIME .. THE YEAR 1190 A.D. SCENE- - THE CAMP OF THE @8 CRUSADERS ON THE SHORE OF PALESTINE BETWEEN ACRE- AND ASKALON AT THE MOMENT THERE 1S A TRUCE BETWEEN THE CHRISTIAN ARMY AND THE MOSLEM SARACENS WHO HOLD THE HOLY LAND .. THE RENOWNED KING RICHARD OF ENGLAND, RICHARD " THE- H THOMAS OF GILSLAND, THOU OLD MASTIFF, WHAT NEWS OF QUEEN BERENGARIA ANP MY COUSINT, LADY EDITH P THE LADIES HAVE NOT YET RETURNED FROM THE SHRINE OF ENGADDI, WHITHER THEY WENT TO PRAY FOR YOUR SPEEDY RECOVERY LIES FRETTING IN HIS PAVILION, JILL WITH LEVANTINE- B2 FEVER “~= SIR KENNETH HALTS IN HIS TRACKS AND PIVOTS HIS GREAT WAR HORSE TO KEEP FACING HIS NIMBLE ADVERSARY, WHO GALLOPS AROUND HIM (N A WIDE CIRCLE, SHOOTING AQQowf IN RAPIDP SUCCESSION »ronmieee § THE YOUNG CRUSADER NEARS AWELCOME OASIS HE (S ASSAILED BY A SOLITARY SARACEN, A SHEIK OF IMPETUOUS BRAVERY AND DISTINGUISHED APPEARANCE- ... @on 5% LonG vEARS THE ANCIENT LYDIANS AND THEIR ENEMIES, THE MEDES, HAD BEEN DEADLOCKED IN A SAVAGE STRUGGLE IN ASIA MINOR Iu 595 B C.THE owo.rmg ARMIES MET IN THE DECISIVE- BATTLE OF THE WAR. AT THE HEIGHT OF THE COMBAT THE™ SKY SUDDENLY WAS DARKENED 8Y A TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SuN / THOROUGHLY FRIGHTENED BY THIS EVENT, THE SUPERSTITIO MEDIANYS SOUGHT A TRUCE WITH THEIR OPPONENTYS, AND ENDED BY MAKING PEACE ON TERMS HIGHLY ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE LYDIANS HE MEDIANS HAD HEARD : oF THALES PREDICTION AND ¢ : & £ » SCOFFED IN DISBELIEF, BUT WHEN THE ° THALES PREDICTION WAS t % REGARDED AS A MIRACLE IN E%pre OECCUQDQfiP AT TH : \ TIME FORETOLD, THE . Tma tATnM§|§.|7 - . WS DAy BuT, AS COLUMBUS SAID., uEsrooone:GGoues;D Nceo ZQA : THEIRQ eusm WERE SUPERMEN WHO COULD' CONTROL THE SUN - = —~ NEANWHILE, THROUGH THE SCORCH* ING HEAT OF THE DESERT A YOUNG SCOTTISH KNIGHT, SiIR KENNETH OF THE LEOPARD, RIDES ALONE ON A SECRET ERRQANP TO THE GROTTO OF THE HOLY HEQM'T. THEODORIC OF ENGADD! - INALLY, EXHAUSTED BY THEIR EXERTIONS, THE TWO WARRIORS DECIDE TO CALL ATRUCE AND RIDE TO THE NEARDBY OASIS,"THE DiAMOND OF THE DCSEQT h) -’-ZEFQE.SH THEMSELVES, IF YOU LIKE THIS PICTURE- STDD.Y WRITE THIS PAPERQ AND SAY 50 IF 7 PRAOVES SUFFICIENTLY mpumtz (Twitl BECOME A REGULAR FEARMNRG OF THIS PAGE - ITS uP TO YOU / THE AMAZING THING ABOUT IT WAS NOT THE TIMELY APPEARANCE OF THE ECLIPSE ,BUT THE FACT THAT THE PHENOMENON ACTUALLY HAD BEEN PREDICTED BY THE FAMOUS GREEK SCIENTIST, THALES - THE FIRST PREDICTION OF A SOLAR ECLIPSE IN THE WORLPS HISTORY/ WITH THE SUN, THALES ! THE * GODS wiLL BE 1 HAVE NAUGH‘I’ YO DO WITH IT. TS BUT THAT | RECORDYS, THALES NOTED THAT ECLIPSES OCCURRED AT REGULAR. INTERWALS ~ HENCE,HE WAS ABLE TO CALCULATE WHEN THE NEXT ECLIPSE WAS TO BE EXPECTED !