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Pivot Cheryl Geber's rebounds and guard Lissa Muscatine's steals gave Radcliffe constant control of the ball. "After the butterflies disappeared," coach John McCarthy said of his team's season opener, "they couldn't stop...
...scholars for nearly a century. "We are the Sons of Canaan from Sidon, the city of the king," runs the translation. "Commerce has cast us on this distant shore, a land of mountains." The tablet tells of ten Phoenician trading vessels that embarked from the ancient port of Ezion-geber (near the modern Israeli town of Elath) on the Gulf of Aqaba, possibly in the 7th century B.C. Presumably, they sailed through the Red Sea, rounded the tip of Africa, and were caught by a fierce ocean storm. Driven into the South Equatorial Current, one of the ships must have...
Excavations at Ezion-geber ("Solomon's Singapore") at the head of the eastern spur of the Red Sea have revealed "architectural, engineering and metallurgical skills which, in some respects, have hardly been excelled today." reported Archeologist Nelson Glueck. director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem. Important as a naval base and port. Ezion-geber was still more important as the greatest copper and iron smelting town of antiquity. The diggings have shown that "it was the largest single armament centre of the day, and played an exceedingly important role in furnishing arms for the tremendous...
...Ezion-geber's site shows Solomon at his wisest. He had it put at the one place where strong, steady winds from the north could fan the flames in its furnaces (whose flue-holes and air-channels utilized the principle of the blast furnace nearly 3,000 years before Bessemer), blow the smoke and fumes...
Palestine. "And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom."-I. Kings...
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