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During Nepal's eight-day festival of Indra-jatra, the Kumari works hard at the goddess trade-receiving the homage of King Mahendra, being toted through the city in a gilt-covered copper carriage drawn by 25 men, giving her worshipers tika (a dot of white powder on their foreheads), getting used to sitting quietly on her throne...
...archaeologists also found several little blobs of copper, identical in shape and weight with the earliest know gold and silver coins of Lydia. They may prove to be the earliest units of small currency and thus of importance in finding out how the Lydians happened to invent money...
...small church of a copper-belt town in Northern Rhodesia, Dag Hammarskjold lay in state...
...same shorthand fate overtook the female planet, Venus, whose Greek name Phosphorus was reduced to Ph (Φ) and subsequently-perhaps by the same careless Grecians-to ø. When medieval alchemists came upon these symbols, they found them useful: δ (Mars) was associated with hard iron, φ (Venus) with softer copper. Later, the symbols were adopted by Swedish Naturalist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), the father of modern systematic biology, who found them so aptly descriptive of the male and female gender that they are still used for the same purpose today...
Increasing the Chapters. Protests are louder still in Chile. Reacting to a report by Presidential Envoy Adlai Stevenson that "economic stagnation continues in Chile," Minister of Mines Enrique Serrano put the blame on U.S. copper companies, announced that Congress would get a bill requiring the companies to 1) increase production by 15% yearly. 2) refine all their copper in Chile, 3) build housing for their workers. According to Santiago Radio Commentator Francisco Olivares. the Alliance for Progress could be very simply defined: "The Latin Americans have a problem, and the U.S. has a problem. The problem...