Word: altars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, just before Sunday's 10 o'clock Mass, a special-delivery mailman brought a carefully wrapped package to Pastor Cioffi's rectory. The crowns were inside. There was no letter of explanation and contrition. Monsignor Cioffi needed none. He sped to the altar, told the news to his parishioners...
...made from the contributions, in jewels and money, of some 12,000 people. The fame of the crowns spread. Last winter Msgr. Cioffi took them to Rome, had them blessed by the Pope. Lately, they have been attached to a large painting of the Virgin above the altar. Except during important church ceremonies, the painting and crowns were locked behind a strong bronze grillwork...
Buddhas & Serpents. Stonehenge has been credited, at one time or another, to the Phoenicians, Celts, Romans, Sumerians, Druids and early Christians. It has been called a solar calendar, a Buddhist shrine, a temple of snake worshipers, an altar where defeated leaders were sacrificed to the god Woden...
Most modern authorities agree that Stonehenge was built by sun worshipers. Within the twin stone circles are two horseshoes of heavy rock and a vast sandstone altar. Some 80 yards away stands a marking stone known as the "Friar's Heel." At dawn on Midsummer Day (June 24), the rising sun casts a shadow of the Friar's Heel on the great altar. Astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer has calculated that on Midsummer Day, 1680 B.C., the sun rose directly over the special marking notch that can still be seen on the Heel. Libby's measurements tend...
...Navy's WAVES, might just as well have been titled Encores Aweigh. The film follows three sailorettes through boot camp, where the activities seem to consist mostly of swimming, singing and dancing in Technicolor. Esther Williams is a spoiled society girl who left her bridegroom languishing at the altar; red-haired Joan Evans is a small-town girl who was stood up at her wedding; blonde Vivian Elaine is a salesgirl with a Brooklyn accent...