﻿MODERN 
  LIFE 
  IN 
  THE 
  CRADLE 
  OF 
  CIVILIZATION 
  

  

  c 
  Keast 
  Burk< 
  

  

  THE 
  LEANING 
  MINARET 
  OF 
  THE 
  GREAT 
  MOSQUE 
  OF 
  MOSUL 
  

  

  An 
  Arab 
  legend 
  relates 
  that 
  the 
  lower 
  bowed 
  its 
  head 
  in 
  reverence 
  to 
  Mohammed 
  when 
  once 
  he 
  passed 
  that 
  way, 
  

  

  and 
  was 
  unable 
  completely 
  to 
  recover 
  its 
  equilibrium. 
  

  

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