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...centuries later Shallus becomes history's triviality, his story revived by a scholar, Arthur Plotnik, in a new biography. But the words on paper are given Bicentennial parades. Amazing little artifact. What started out at one man's writing desk eventually journeyed the country from city to city as the nation's capital moved, went into hiding during the War of 1812, was transferred from federal department to department until it wound up in the National Archives in Washington, sanctified in helium and watched over by an electronic camera conceived by NASA. The quill age to the space...
...auction artifact better symbolized the excesses of Bakkerdom than the air-conditioned doghouse that Tammy had built at their lakeside home. Among the 1,000 bargain-hunting fans on hand at Fort Mill was a California contractor who bought the doghouse for $4,500, and then donated it back to PTL so it could be resold for $600, this time to a Pennsylvania railroad worker. Other notable transactions: $27,000 for a restored 1927 Franklin automobile, $10,500 for a 25-ft. boat. So mountainous is the miscellany that a second auction will be held on July...
...will take several years to complete the preservation and artifact cataloguing process, she added...
...professor likens the sophisticatedtechniques that he employs to reconstruct themeaning of words used by ancient Greek society tothe physcial reconstruction done by acheologists."When I discover a new meaning of a word," Cranesays, "it is like I have blown the dust away" fromsome artifact...
...ahead. Undo the lock. I see your sharp, bright faces as you hoist us into your life, superior as cats to your primitive elders. Quaint, are we not? Beware of superior feelings. The message in this bottle may turn out to be as much a warning as an artifact. We are not as dead as we seem...