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...Christ child is laden with gems and silver. By legend, the painting is attributed to St. Luke the Evangelist, and was executed on a table top from the house of Mary, Joseph and Jesus in Nazareth. It origins are unknown, but it may date as far back as 6th century Greece or Byzantium. The painting surfaced in Poland in 1382 at the recently founded Jasna Gora (Mountain of Light) monastery, a fortress-like institution located in Czestochowa, about 140 miles south of Warsaw...
...pleased to read the Crimson's April 5th and 6th articles on word processors and computers, but startled to find myself "quoted" in both issues. The April 5th quote was alleged to have been uttered "yesterday" i.e. April 4th, and although the April 6th article does not explicitly tell when the statement it cites was made the impression of currency is given by the use of the phrase "he says" and inclusion of the alleged quotation along with statements resulting from a Crimson survey conducted "this week." I have no quarrel with the content of the comments attributed...
...early as the 6th century, in the sub-Sahara, Moorish merchants routinely traded salt ounce for ounce for gold. In Abyssinia, slabs of rock salt, called 'amôlés, became coin of the realm. Each one was about ten inches long and two inches thick. Cakes of salt were also used as money in other areas of central Africa...
...fencing at ECAC tournament; 6th place, sabre and foil: 8th place, epee...
...prelims, freshman David Barnes stroked past junior captain Ted Chappell in the breaststroke leg to win in 3:55.75. Barnes clocking and Chapell's 3:58.25 earned them both a trip to Milwaukee, Wise., for the NCAA championships later this month. Senior Tim Maximoff grabbed 6th junior Tom Vertin clinched 9th, and sophomore John Sappey placed 13th giving the aquamen 63 points in a single event...