Word: canaan
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...fall Sunday evening and only a few artists remain, straggling under spotlighted trees across the shaven lawns of Philip Johnson's 32-acre New Canaan precinct. All the millionaires and collectors have gone home. Andy Warhol, in black jacket and silver wig, looking like the Angel of Death quitting Jerusalem, left ten minutes ago. Robert Rauschenberg lingers on, and though a lady art critic is locked in Johnson's subterranean painting gallery with a young artist who is slapping her around for undetermined reasons, the place is quiet. Above the Morrises, Judds and Oldenbergs, lights still burn...
Gordon based his theory on a stone uncovered in a Tennessee Indian burial mound. He claims that inscriptions on the stone are ancient Hebrew characters that say "for the land of Canaan...
...addition to Rheault of New Canaan, Conn., the others were Major Thomas C. Middleton Jr. of Jefferson, S.C., Major David E. Crew of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Captain Leland J. Brumley of Duncan, Okla., Captain Robert F. Marasco of Bloomfield, N.J., Captain Budge E. Williams of Athens, Ga., Chief Warrant Officer Edward M. Boyle of New York and Sergeant Alvin L. Smith Jr. of Naples...
...thousand years before Moses, a mighty city rose near what is now the city of Safad in northern Israel. Its name was Hazor (pronounced Hahtsor) and the Old Testament called it "head of all those kingdoms" of Canaan, the Israelites' Promised Land. Since archaeologists located the site of Hazor in 1875, they have uncovered 45-ft.-high walls, huge granaries, temples, citadels and cemeteries. But a basic question remained unanswered. Where were the waterworks capable of supporting such a metropolis in the arid Holy Land? The puzzle has now been solved by Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, a former chief...
...mighty city gates, three separate Canaanite temples, basalt slabs engraved with hands praying to the sun, and an Israelite temple similar to Solomon's but built 300 years before his time. From the ruins, Yadin was able to establish the date of Joshua's conquest of Canaan as the late 13th century B.C. At one level, a thick layer of ash provided grisly evidence that Assyrian King Tiglath-pileser III had put Hazor to the torch...