World Friendship Project Scrapbook

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Regular Steamer Services on Lakes of Thun and Brienz Unterseen

[photograph of people climbing snow-covered mountains] [photograph of meadow in Alps]

Mountain-Climbing The Jungfrau seen form Murren

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View of Eiger and Monch Mountain-Railway

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Bateman, of greenville, visited Palestine in 1954. They kindly brought for the lodge a rock from the famous ruins of Baalbek, in Lebanon. [handwritten note] also spelled Baalbeck.

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VIEW OF THE ANCIENT RUINS AT BAALBECK VISTA DEL SITIO ARQUEOLOGICO DE BAALBECK

The pleasant and ordered design of the Beqaa will appeal to those with an organising turn of mind, for they will appreciate the experiments in extensive agriculture, drainage, irrigation, and reforestation being carried on at Ammik, Tanail, Talia, and Baalbeck. But we have uttered the enchanting name of this temple of temples...

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THE SPRING OF RAS EL-AIN EL MANANTIAL DE RAS EL-AIN

EMBASSY OF LEBANON WASHINGTON

March 11, 1955

The Honorable Robert T. Ashmore Member of Congress from South Carolina House of Representatives Washington 25, D.C.

Dear Mr. Ashmore:

I was very glad to have your letter of March 9, 1955 in which you quoted in part a letter from Mr. John M. Holmes of the YMCA of Greenville, South Carolina.

Uder seprate cover I am sending you several books, pamphlets and a map of Lebanon which I hope will be of interest to the members of the YMCA in Greenville. If at any time we can be of service to you please let us know.

Thanking you for your interest in Lebanon, I remain,

Yours sincerely,

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AJK:dr Angela Jurdak Khoury Secretary of Embassy

La Comedie Francaise a choisi, pour decor, les escaliers du Temple de Jupiter, a Baalbeck.

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Baalbeck.

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