Word: 16th
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...Other Timepieces from Harvard Collections." Includes many historically significant pieces seldom seen in public. The inner works of each timepiece will be displayed outside the case to help viewers appreciate the clockmakers' art. Through Jan. 9. "An Offbeat Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings." Featuring 20 works from the 16th-and 17th century Netherlands, all drawn from a private collection...
...there are plenty of them to be missed. The Wine-Dark Sea (Norton; 261 pages; $22) is the 16th installment of what devotees call the Aubrey/Maturin novels. All are set in the early 19th century, during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, and all feature the same two heroes: Jack Aubrey, a blunt, brave captain in the British Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, a ship's surgeon, amateur naturalist and sometimes spy for His Majesty's government...
...first flame was reported at 1:19 Tuesday afternoon, off the 16th tee of a golf course in Thousand Oaks, north of Malibu. Authorities suspect arson; in any case, the fire moved through the canyons in classic fashion, licking the resort community's border and eventually destroying 35 homes on 35,000 sparsely populated acres. Then early the next morning, 60 miles east, it seems a homeless Chinese immigrant named Andres Huang lit a campfire to warm himself at the edge of the Angeles National Forest. An ember set off brush, and Eaton Canyon was awash in waves of flame...
...worst Division I-A football team in the country, are currently 6-1-1 and probably bowl bound. They narrowly lost to Nebraska, tied Colorado, and, last week, beat Oklahoma 21-7 for the first time in 23 years. They are currently ranked 16th in the nation...
Through Jan. 9. "An Offbeat Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings." Featuring 20 works from the 16th-and 17th century Netherlands, all drawn from a private collection...