Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Noel: Christmas Music from England & Early America (The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen director, Nonesuch). Charpentier: Messe de Minuit pour Noel; Senate a Six (The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen director, Desmar). The album of folk-inspired Christmas music, a welcome change from today's homogenized carols, ranges from a 12th century Latin tune, Ad cantus leticie, to a rousing Gloucestershire Wassail from modern Britain. Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Mass, based on French Christmas carols, is a graceful work, and the voices of The Boston Camerata are perfectly balanced...
...dime. On one side, it is stamped with a cross; on the other, with a stylized animal head. Found in 1961 by an amateur archaeologist named Guy Mellgren, the coin was turned over Animal head to the Maine State Museum in Augusta four years ago and described as a 12th century English coin. But Riley Sunderland, a retired military historian and also an amateur archaeologist, had his doubts about that identification. While vacationing in England last summer, he discussed the coin with Peter Seaby, a noted British numismatist. After examining photographs, Seaby concluded that the coin was "almost certainly...
Maximoff was also a national finalist this past summer. The Los Altos, Calif. native grabbed 12th place in the gruelling 1500-meter freestyle event in a time (15:52) which could well place him, too, on the world best-time list...
Defending champion lowa State captured its fourth consecutive team crown while host University of Colorado's Mary Decker took the individual honors. Ivy-rival Princeton finished 12th in the team standings while the University of Maryland, which tied Harvard last week at the Eastern championships, grabbed ninth...
...story is adapted from the narrative of the 12th century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, who wrote the first formal version of the Grail legend. Perceval (Fabrice Luchini), a Welsh lad of sublime simplicity, encounters five knights galloping after distressed damsels. At first he takes the warriors for angels, but when he learns they are men like him self, he sets out to find King Arthur, that famous knight maker. Perceval's mother had told him to help ladies in trouble but to expect no more than a kiss, and perhaps a ring, in return. He misreads...