Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dolgun spent years in the same vast concentration camp as Zoya. "She ended up in Dzhezkazgan, a hard-labor camp for political prisoners in Central Asia," Dolgun told TIME last week. "The women did the same killing work as the men, on heavy construction jobs and in the copper mines. The prisoners all knew Zoya's movies, and it was a shock when we heard that she had tried to hang herself with a stocking...
When Mr. Pots and Pans is not on one of his frequent buying trips to Europe, he patrols four floors of highly variegated merchandise. His cheapest item is a 5? cork, his most expensive a $500 copper pot suitable for an entire sheep. Between these terminals is a treasury of the familiar and exotic. Prosaic pepper mills and soup bowls huddle with sophisticated croissant cutters and the French Cuisinart Food Processor, a $160 Rube Goldberg contraption for slicing and pulverizing just about anything. No device, no matter how arcane or costly, sits around for long...
Grant's deficit is not the largest hi American business history-the Anaconda Co., for example, lost $356 million when Chile nationalized its copper mines in 1970, and Penn Central recorded a $560 million loss in 1971-but it is one of the biggest ever posted by a retailer...
...taken from the mine was a copper-rich material called malachite. It was worked free with stone hammers and bronze chisels, crushed into small pieces and placed in large, saucer-shaped pits. When winter rain flooded the pits, the lighter malachite swirled to the surface and could be more readily separated from the other rock. Half a mile away there were 13 furnaces, where the Bronze Age metallurgists smelted the ore, using iron as a flux (a substance that combines with impurities, forming a molten mix that can be easily removed). Bronze Age miners were able to produce...
Rothenberg thinks that the mine was built by Egypt's pharaohs of the 19th and 20th dynasties. If so, it could be the mysterious Atika, a fabled source of copper mentioned in ancient papyri. The Egyptians may well have borrowed the metallurgical techniques from the Midianites, a little-known people who dwelled in the area and are identified in Genesis as the first metalworkers. With the help of the Midianites, the pharaohs apparently ran the mine for some 150 years, until about 1250 B.C. Subsequently, the Egyptians pulled out of Canaan and the neighboring Sinai -perhaps, says Rothenberg, under...