Word: gordon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These explorers allegedly set foot in the New World around 135 A.D. "There was more than one boatload," Cyrus H. Gordon said last Sunday. "Perhaps it was a two-way affair, with some colonists returning to the Old World to spread the news. We do not know how long this colony lasted...
...Gordon, professor of Mediterranean Studies at Brandeis, claimed that Hebrew refugees fleeing Roman oppression crossed the Atlantic, perhaps with the aid of Phoenecian navigators. They eventually settled in Tennessee and Kentucky, he said...
...Gordon based his theory on a stone uncovered in a Tennessee Indian burial mound. He claims that inscriptions on the stone are ancient Hebrew characters that say "for the land of Canaan...
Asked about the damage, Lester E. Gordon, director of the Center Development Advisory Service, said, "A good portion of the University's core library on underdeveloped countries has been destroyed...
...GORDON MUMMA Manhattan...