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...record of ancient history as well as beautiful literature." This has long been Archaeologist Glueck's thesis, and his Biblical scholarship has often helped him locate sites in the Holy Land. One memento from Glueck that Leonard treasures is a piece of slag from King Solomon's copper mines, which Glueck rediscovered...
...fresh understanding of the age of Abraham and set a firmer date for the Exodus; he has clarified the socio-economic history of the Judean kings and filled out man's scanty knowledge of the once-thriving kingdom of the Nabataeans. He has located the long-lost copper mines of King Solomon and accurately spotted the site of Solomon's port on the Red Sea. Most important of all, he has found in the parched Negev a promise of space for the constricted nation of Israel...
...SCULPTORS GUILD-Lever House, Park Ave. at 53rd St. Sixty-six samples of U.S. sculpture in a variety of materials; charred fir, laminated marble, aluminum epoxy, sassafras root, sheet copper, pear wood, concrete and stained glass are a few. De Creeft, Epping, Gross, Nevelson, Zorach are among the sculptors. Through...
...SCULPTORS GUILD-Lever House, Park Ave. at 53rd St. Sixty-six samples of U.S. sculpture in a variety of materials; charred fir, laminated marble, aluminum epoxy, sassafras root, sheet copper, concrete and stained glass are a few. De Creeft, Epping, Gross, Nevelson, Zorach are among the sculptors. Through...
Only at rare intervals, though, did Explorer XVI collide with anything bigger than a microscopic bit of cosmic dust. There were 44 meteoroids that succeeded in penetrating a sheet of beryllium-copper one-thousandth of an inch thick, which is slightly thicker than household aluminum foil. The most powerful meteoroid encountered knocked a tiny hole in stainless steel three-thousandths of an inch thick. Metal as thick as the wall of a beer can went unpunctured. NASA's tentative conclusion is that the plentiful meteoroids are too small to do harm, and the dangerous ones...