Word: clay
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...play's plot is not complicated, involving a conversation between a somewhat disturbed thirty-year old woman Lulu (Jessie Cohen) and a middle-class younger Black man Clay (Michael McNeal) in a New York City subway car. Lulu's accusation of "Uncle Tom" provokes Clay to an angry and bitter tirade which forms the climax of the one-act play. The climax is, however, not followed by an expected resolution: Lulu stabs Clay to death...
Geography kicks into the equation as well. Bush hails from Texas, Clinton from Arkansas. The last time two Southerners squared off in a presidential race was in 1844, when James Polk, a Democrat from Tennessee, defeated Henry Clay, a Whig from Kentucky. In 1832, Andrew Jackson, another Tennessee Democrat, also defeated Clay...
...earliest known evidence of wheels -- essentially wooden planks rounded at the ends and fitted together in a circle -- which were used on ox-drawn carts and, later, chariots. Sailing ships embarked on distant trading missions. By 3000 B.C., the world's first written language, cuneiform, had appeared on small clay tablets, replacing the strings of marked clay tokens that merchants had previously used to keep track of their transactions. And at least one familiar superstition was established: when the Sumerians spilled salt, they would throw a pinch over one shoulder to ward off bad luck...
...shores of the Caspian and Aral seas and Lake Baikal. On the Iranian plateau, farmed since at least the 6th millennium B.C., people lived in houses of sun-dried brick, while craftsmen in the city of Anau used the potter's wheel to turn out elaborately shaped and painted clay vessels. These prehistoric Persians carried on trade with small villages in what is now northern Pakistan...
...Chinchorro, who were savvy hunters, developed elaborate mummification techniques some 2,500 years before the Egyptians, probably as a sacrament in ancestor worship. After removing internal organs and drying the cavf mdavers, they stuffed the remains with feathers, grass, shell, wool and earth. Then the bodies were covered with clay, fitted out with wigs and propped up in family- like groups. The Chinchorro then took care of their mummies, judging by evidence of frequent repairs...