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Harvard is looking for additional temporary storage sites within the steam tunnels, DiBerardinis added. He said he thinks that adequate storage space will be found...
...shafts into the ground and even set fire to hillsides to expose the gold-bearing soil. Smelting was done in small clay crucibles. Some objects, like the breastplates made in the Calima region of southwestern Colombia, were hammered into shape on stone anvils with instruments made of iron found in meteorites. To prevent the gold from becoming brittle and breaking while it was being worked, the goldsmiths annealed it-heating it and quenching it rapidly in water. For joining different pieces, they developed several methods, including a sophisticated process also known to Etruscan and Greek goldsmiths; it is called granulation...
...took over the Cape of Good Hope during the Napoleonic Wars. In the 1830s parliamentary idealists in London decreed an end to slavery in the Empire, and some of the Afrikaners, dependent on their slaves, trekked into the wilderness to the north. The leaders of these trekboers (wandering farmers) founded two independent republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. No one but the native blacks would have cared had not a rich diamond pipe been found at Kimberley in the Orange Free State and an immense stratum of gold at Witwatersrand ("the Rand") in the Transvaal. As largely British...
Neither does Otto Friedrich, a senior editor of TIME and chronicler of such endings as the last days of the Saturday Evening Post (Decline and Fall) and the Weimar Republic (Before the Deluge). The source of Henry and Clover's meeting, he notes, is not to be found in historical documents but rather in the histrionic imagination of a scriptwriter. Friedrich is uncompromising in his refusal to create drama where there is no supporting evidence. When the situation warrants it, however, he is not above melodrama. At noon on Dec. 6, 1885, Henry Adams entered Clover's bedroom...
...found her lying on the rug before the fire. Clover? She must have fainted. Henry knelt down. There was a strange smell. One of the chemicals that she used for her photography. Potassium cyanide. From the bottle lying there. Henry picked up the body, still warm, soft, heavy, and dragged it over to the sofa. Clover did not open her eyes. Did not answer him. Did not explain. Did not move...