Word: abraham
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...know," I said, as I unfastened the tailgate and handed out a box of hand ball trophies that the jeweler hadn't wanted because they were silver-plated. "This thing could get out of hand. The Republicans might decide on Abraham Lincoln...
...more valuable currency would curb the profligate habits of Israelis, who are accustomed to spending their pounds freely. Emotionally, the government hoped, naming the new currency after the ancient Jewish coin would appeal to the Israelis' sense of history. According to Genesis 23: 2-19, Abraham paid 400 shekels to buy a burial site in Hebron for his wife Sarah. In Roman times the shekel was not only a coin but a symbol of Jewish sovereignty. In modern times the World Zionist Congress, for example, liked to refer to its annual levy on members as a shekel...
...Army coat that General George Custer wore on his Western campaigns is among the items of sartorial memorabilia stashed away in the "nation's attic," along with the coat Admiral Robert Peary took to the North Pole and the top hat Abraham Lincoln wore to Ford's Theater on the night he was assassinated. Now the Smithsonian Institution has chosen to enshrine the brown leather jacket that became Arthur Fonzerelli's trademark through seven hit seasons of TV's Happy Days comedy series. Actor Henry Winkler, 34, who went from unknowndom to stardom as Fonzi...
Most of the pieces are ordinary silver, ranging from teaspoons to tea sets, but some are antiques worth far more than their weight in bullion. An exquisitely ornamented sterling cup made in 1835 changed hands in London for $272. Jeweler Abraham Lipchitz bought it on the street and quickly turned down an offer of $908 from a competitor. Said Lipchitz: "It's a crime. People are selling fine pieces like this to be melted down...
...when those hill people in 1861 seceded from Virginia, herself seceded from the Union of Abraham Lincoln, William Bell would be offered a commission by the Restored Government of Virginia, by his own governor Francis Boreman and the legislature that met at Wheeling, despite game in Martinsburg, because it was acknowledged that William Bell knew every backroad and trail in the state. A commission he would turn down, because unlike most of the people of the new state caught in the grip of the third Great Awakening William Bell liked the feeling of insecurity, the felling of not knowing whether...