Word: clerkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inhabitants of Lice measured their loss in the simpler terms of death, injury and destruction. More than 1,000 corpses were uncovered last week, and several hundred more may be found before the gruesome search is completed. Necmettin Esenter, a municipal clerk who lost eight members of his family, held out his bloody hands and wept: "I dug out my two-year-old daughter Vedia from under a rock with these hands...
Schliemann was the self-taught amateur archaeologist who a century ago used clues in The Iliad to discover and excavate Priam's Troy. He was a truly astonishing man, a German who grubbed away his early youth as an impoverished clerk, then by his middle 20s made a fortune in Russia selling tea, olive oil and indigo. Schliemann traveled to California in 1850, when he was 28, and made another fortune provisioning gold miners. He returned to Russia and accumulated still an other pot of money, and finally retired at 41 with an ambition that seemed to have blown...
Magnetic Puzzle. At the very least, proof of the existence of the monopole would solve a mystery that has baffled scientists for more than a century. The elegant equations that Scottish Physicist James Clerk Maxwell worked out in 1865 described in detail the symmetrical relationship between electricity and magnetism. They accounted, for example, for the magnetic field formed by every electric current, and they predicted the electric currents that can be generated by moving magnetic fields. But they could not solve one puzzle. Complete symmetry between electricity and magnetism meant that there must be a monopole-a basic magnetic particle...
After that, the Cavafys were to remain shabbily genteel, though they retained the lofty airs and graces of a family that had once known wealth. At age 29, Cavafy was appointed a special clerk in the irrigation service of Alexandria's Ministry of Public Works. Despite small, unperiodic raises, he remained a middle-level functionary for most of his days...
...Sleepy Clerk. The letters had been correctly addressed to the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, but the street address was that of the East German embassy-"German Democratic Republic." The only explanation blushing officials could give was that a sleepy clerk had taken the information from the Oslo telephone book, which lists the two countries one above the other, and got mixed...