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3/28 Augusta Regatta: 2nd place...
Dudley House Music Society--presentspianist Lois Shapiro performing Beethoven's Sonatain A-flat, Debussy's Images, Book I, Ravel'sMiroirs, and Boyakan's 2nd Piano Sonata. LehmanHall, 8 p.m. $8 general; $4 for students andseniors. Tickets are available at the HolyokeCenter Ticket Office and at the door...
Many of the routes converged on an area marked Omanum Emporium (the Omani Marketplace) on a map drawn by Ptolemy in the 2nd century A.D. The spot is in present-day Oman at the edge of the Empty Quarter, an appropriate designation for a trackless region infested with camel spiders, giant ticks and lethal carpet vipers. The team checked out the forbidding terrain in 1990 and began hunting in earnest last November. Just six weeks ago, says Clapp, "we were ^ within a whisker of total failure." Then the party decided to examine Ash Shisar, a water hole with ruins...
...that St. Brendan and some monks reached the New World in a coracle, and one particularly choice theory holds that a Cherokee inscription in a burial mound at Bat Creek in Tennessee, found in 1889, was actually in Hebrew, left by Jewish refugees fleeing Roman persecution in the 2nd century. Others hold out for Japanese fishermen blown off across the Pacific in 3000 B.C., and (most recently) an unknown Spanish mariner who supposedly reached the Bahamas in the 15th century, struggled back across the Atlantic and entrusted his map and logs to Columbus, who concealed his knowledge of them...
...night began with the entrance of a pink-clad ballerina scattering confetti. Various Ig Nobel dignitaries followed, holding placards proclaiming, "Save the Rat," "Recovering Mathematician," and "The 2nd Point of Light." The dignitaries paid homage to the King and Queen of Swedish Meatballs, and watched the Sacred Torch Bearer enter and disappear...