Word: inlaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington's Union Station and an autographed photograph of himself in a silver frame. The Emperor presented the President with an Ethiopian Bible copied by hand on parchment bound in silver and overlaid with a gold crucifix, a 200-year-old Coptic church book, a silver fruit bowl inlaid with gold, a silver miniature of the Lion of Judah statue in Addis Ababa, and an autographed photo of himself in a silver frame...
...Nile. It is carved in the steps of the Theseum in Athens, and in rock ledges along caravan routes of the ancient world. Today the same pits and hollows are to be found all over Asia and Africa, scratched in the bare earth, carved in rare woods or ivory inlaid with gold. And they are turning up in rapidly increasing numbers in the U.S.-in public playgrounds, on town-house coffee tables, and even in the programmings of computers...
...inscriptions of donors, including some inlaid in the colorful mosaic floors, provide a working key to the social status and organization of Jewish Sardis. Some of the donors held the office of city councillors; two were jewelers...
...sense of medieval wonder that is an important part of the opera. The cast had been painstakingly and expertly drilled by Conductor Vittorio Gui. In the pit the Royal Philharmonic sounded first-rate-particularly so in a theater whose sharp acoustics are ideally adapted to Debussy's richly inlaid instrumental patterns...
...mane. Other bowls are lively with prancing unicorns, bulls, rams, eagles, fish, a warrior in chain mail holding two leopards by their necks. The diggers turned up gold jewelry and gold household and toilet articles (ear cleaners, tweezers, needles), stone maceheads, terra-cotta figurines, a marble sword hilt inlaid with gold and lapis lazuli. Said one ragged workman as he watched the stream of treasure: "How rich and careless we were to cast our gold into the earth like a seed. It grew nothing and left us poor...