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Kish, one of the first cities to be founded after the waters prevailed upon the earth and Jahveh ordered Noah and his entourage into the ark, has given up more of its interments: the Field Museum-Oxford University Joint Expedition found the traces of the tribe of the Elamites, descendants of Elam, son of Shem, grandson of Noah. The Elamites had a fearsome custom of burying alive the attendants of a dead king. The explorers found oldest known examples of civilized pottery and sculpture, about 6000 B.C. Kish is in Mesopotamia, near Ur of the Chaldees. Researches have shown that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

Strange as the Ozark back country where it was enacted was the trial last week at Mountain View, Ark. of four "hill barons" indicted for the murder of Connie Franklin (TIME, Dec. 9). Prime witness for the defense was a gaunt, sun-reddened farmhand who swore he was Connie Franklin himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Arkansas Vindicated | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Britain's Christmas waits (streetwalking carol-singers) last week had a new carol to add to their repertoire of Wenceslas, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, and 'Ark The 'Erald Haingels Sing. Sir Edward Elgar, potent and pontifical British composer and conductor, master of the King's music, had composed one especially to celebrate the recovery of his Majesty George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good Morrow! | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Next day Mr. Day was asked 'for his resignation. He tendered it willingly, left to accept a post at Leland Stanford, his alma mater, no believer in the Ark or Jonah's Whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Noah, Jonah & Howard College | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...skeptical," said he. "There are some people so ignorant they still believe that Noah crowded two of each species of animals into the Ark. . . . here are others who think that Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale. ... I have studied two kinds of whales, and found that it is impossible for either of them to swallow a man whole, and anyway, no man could live inside a whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Noah, Jonah & Howard College | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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