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...gold in their bindings; bronze corroded; only a few Gospel books and a quantity of gold ornaments-since gold does not oxidize and is incorruptible -survived these ravages. No mainstream of civilization left less behind it than this early climax of Irish culture, which took place between the 6th and 9th centuries A.D. The Irish tradition absorbed the Vikings; it digested the animal motifs and decorative knotwork of Scandinavia; but it could not survive the English. The English Renaissance meant the Irish decadence...
...show, however, is not gold but vellum. If one were to trace to its source the ancient Irish reverence for language-for the Word as the incarnation of truth, as the fundamental building block of culture and religion-it would surely lie in the great illuminated codices of the 6th to 8th centuries, made and preserved in such monastic communities as Burrow, Kells and Lindisfarne. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word...
...golden vessels that weigh two kilos apiece just a few of the other things that invite one, but perhaps the gold and silver rhyta are the highlight of the show. These are drinking horns in the shape of animal or human heads,and they were created in the 6th and 5th centuries B.C. when Greek influence on Thracian art was strongest. One golden rhyton is decorated with reliefs of Hera, Artemis and Apollo around the rim and a billy goat at the base--the wine gushes from a spout in the goat's chest so one has to drain...
Siderowf was off his form against Michael Kelley and finally succumbed two and one. Siderowf took an eight on the 6th, Shinnecock's only waterhole, when he drove into the bushes and then stubbed two wedges. He was only one down after 15 but he airmailed his third shot to the par five 16th and had to settle for a half. He went on to lose the 169-yard 17th when he plunked his tee shot into the greenside bunker and failed to extricate himself...
...unknown language, "reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics," and Smith could read them only by peering through two miraculous stones* that the angel gave him. The 522-page Book of Mormon declares that the New World's Indians were actually Jews who sailed from the Near East in the 6th century B.C., and that they were later visited by Jesus Christ after his resurrection...