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In ancient Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar and Sennacherib were no sucklings in the art of nepotism,� but in Babylon, L. I., where hanging gardens are merely geranium pots, Joseph P. Warta, town supervisor, kept alive Euphratean tradition.

From Time Magazine Archive

In their Doctrine of the World's Ages or Yugas, for instance, we are forcibly reminded of the Euphratean ideas regarding space and time.

From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander

Before returning to the Euphratean valley let us note some facts concerning the ancient religion of PERSIA.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

The second woe-trumpet, it is alleged, sounded about 1281, and continuing for 391 years,—the period of the ravages by the Euphratean horsemen, ended about 1672.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David

Now the first four trumpets had demolished imperial power in the western or Latin section; and the next two, by the Saracenic locusts and the Euphratean horsemen had subverted the eastern or Greek section.

From Notes on the Apocalypse by Steele, David