Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shaped Seals. After figuring in early legends, Dilmun takes slightly more tangible form in Sumerian writings as a city on an island three days' sail down the Persian Gulf. Merchants from Ur traded there, and clay-written records tell that they brought woolen goods, returning with cargoes of copper, ivory and gold. This suggests that Dilmun acted as middleman between Mesopotamia and the civilization of the Indus Valley in Pakistan. In both places have been found a few peculiar, disk-shaped stone seals. Since most Mesopotamian seals are cylindrical and Indus seals are square, archaeologists have long speculated that...
...fine eye for country") picked it out, hired native laborers to cut a trench into it. Done properly, this is slow work: for years the archaeologists worked on the mound. Piled in layers were vertical walls and stamped clay floors all mixed with bits of pottery and copper...
...engines he himself designs. At the drop of a soldering iron or the wrong twist of a vise, like-minded hobbyists from Havana to Hong Kong lay their problems on the workbench of this toolroom Da Vinci. Patiently, Keith answers each letter. Just as patiently, he seals a little copper box of his sister's "trinkets" in the ballasting of his brother-in-law's yacht, and agrees to take care of the couple's ten-year-old daughter Janice while the pair sails for western Canada via the South Seas...
...lasted for three days, and spread through the suburbs and into the countryside until it reached the copper center of Jadotville, 65 miles away. Plumed warriors charged at each other with pangas and poisoned spears, and the environs of the bustling city of Elisabethville (pop. 177,000) were soon filled with death and mutilation. Since bereaved Africans like to keep the number of their dead secret from the authorities, there was no telling how many casualties there had been. The official figures-seven dead, 148 injured-were admittedly...
...looked and acted like some crazed quack in a horror movie. A squat, curmudgeonly eccentric, he jounced through London in a cart hauled by three Asiatic water buffaloes. A moatless drawbridge guarded his rambling home at 12 Leicester Square. In the fetid basement of his country villa, a vast copper cauldron was kept at the boil; there he melted down human and animal corpses to get fresh skeletons for his grisly pathological museum of pickled fetuses, stuffed one-eyed pigs and cock-plumed hens. There may have been, as his contemporaries thought, more madness than method in his research...