Word: digged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Planter Rufino Flores Velez was riding along a Mexican trail near the isolated village of Rio Grande in the southwest corner of Oaxaca state. When his horse kicked the corner of a stone sticking out of the dust, he hopped off, investigated, and gathered a gang of peasants to dig up the stone. It weighed about three tons, but at last the peasants managed to turn it over. The underside was covered with elaborate carvings that looked to non-archeological eyes like a man and woman embracing...
...next door in Nigeria. When you move over to Lagos, you might be on another planet from Accra. Almost no news comes out of the Belgian Congo, French Africa or Portuguese Africa. If you want to find out what is happening there, you have to go in person and dig ... dig . . . dig...
...drill with 35 members skating to the accompaniment of the rest of the band in the stands. After forming a large Y at the middle of the ice, the skaters will then collapse it against the end boards to the tune of "Oh where, Oh Where Has My Little Dig Gone?" The band's theme song since the Yale football game this fall...
...spite of all obstacles, however, Les Eyzies yielded impressive results. In six weeks of digging. Movius and his assistants found more than ten thousand artifacts in a trench only a meter wide by 13 meters long. He has extensive plans for future work in the area-'I'd like to dig there for six or seven years," he says. Movius hopes ot establish an international summer project at the site for interested students form institutions all over the world. "It would be a place for people who want training in excavation techniques," he explains, 'I'd be glad to take...
...Steel, Iron and Men" exhibition at Alabama's Birmingham Museum of Art. Explains able Museum Director Richard F. Howard: "All that we asked was that [the artists] think about steel and iron . . . and of the men of many races, giants in body or mind, who dig the ores or make the metals . . ." De Diego's prizewinner (one of 500 entries) was a brilliantly colored fantasy called Activity Across the River, which showed a group of unworldly creatures working on a great mass of red and blue machinery along a riverbank. De Diego got the idea watching the Staten...