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...they used in war? Cuirass and helmet, shield and sword. Chain mail, longbow, harquebus, pike-and the thin-bladed misericord that could slip between the plates to pluck a man's life from his ribs. The battle-dented, brutally functional field armor of the 14th century; the intricately inlaid and painted parade armor of the 16th. Both of these accounts of arms and armor cover the ground well...
...there was also time for home life. Lyndon and Lady Bird celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary at dinner with some 20 close friends in the White House. By presidential order, White House Pastry Chef Ferdinand Louvat had whipped up a twelve-pound sponge cake, sprinkled with sugar wedding bands. Inlaid in the frosting were nine of the President's favorite photos from the family scrapbook, including a honeymoon picture taken in the floating gardens of Xochimilco, near Mexico...
UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC. Gold amulets and toe stalls found on mummies fill the small museum, but the most beautiful Egyptian treasure is a tiny (15.6 in.) gold coffin inlaid with lapis lazuli and carnelian that once contained the entrails of King Tutankhamen. A snack bar serves gawalfa juice, lamb kabob and Egyptian coffee...
...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...