Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back to Caesar. The cloture vote came hard to Senators fond of tracing the history of the legislative filibuster back to ancient Rome, where an eloquent praetor named Julius Caesar tried (unsuccessfully) to talk to death a measure ordering the execution of Catiline's coconspirators...
...influence of more powerful countries around it and that Ireland is in danger of becoming completely Anglicized. If this happens, the Gaelic language will be virtually extinct. This will mean, among other things, the loss in the original Gaelic to the general reading public of all of Ireland's ancient literature, the oldest north of the Alps. The Irish do not want to bring an end to that literature: they want to preserve it and the tradition it carries with...
...specimens to give off X rays. By running a spectrum analysis on the X rays, the physicists are able to determine just what the specimens are made of. X-ray analysis has already allowed the Oxford researchers to uncover some archaeological frauds, including some 18th century copies of ancient Chinese porcelains...
...Archaeology," says Brothwell, "is no longer pure excavation. It has matured into a discipline demanding the cooperation of a variety of scientific fields." In their quest to extend history, archaeologists are using proton magnetometers to search for the ancient Greek city of Sybaris. They have used aerial photography to locate Etruscan tombs and to find a lost Andean road that was once part of a pre-Inca civilization. By analyzing the content of bone, they have shown Piltdown man for what he was-a forgery that fooled scientists for 41 years...
...etymology, a tribute to the language's first lexicographer. Dr. Johnson and a bright rag bag of quotations Moore happens to like. He ridicules the late George Bernard Shaw for his obsession with simplified spelling, correctly observing that tidied spelling would sterilize English of the still traceable ancient origins visible in its words...