Word: ionics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ionic columns, cracked and ivy-covered, remind students at the Colum bia campus of the University of Missouri that they attend the oldest state university west of the Mississippi. The columns are all that remain of the university's first academic hall, opened in 1843 and destroyed by fire...
Napoli's arch, built in the 5th century B.C., at about the same time as the Parthenon, was found in the ruins of Elea, an ancient Greek port in the Magna Graecia area of southern Italy. The city dates from 535 B.C., when roving Ionic Greeks landed there after the Persians had driven them out of Phocaea in Asia Minor. Elea flourished as a trading center, a home of philosophers, and a watering place for wealthy Romans (Brutus took refuge there after he did in Julius Caesar). Though it had acknowledged the rule of Rome, the city remained Greek...
...modern village of Pella (24 miles northwest of Salonika), a Greek farmer was digging in his basement in 1957 when he stumbled on two limestone Ionic columns that turned out to be part of the spacious courtyard of a nobleman's house in ancient Pella. At what is now confirmed as Pella's site, archaeologists have since uncovered mosaic floors of exceptional beauty and size-testament to the splendor of Pella's patrician life in Alexander's time...
...give up my passions. I've enjoyed them far too much to put them away. I'll not give up my prejudices, the very foundation of my strength and vigor." When a new acting managing editor was hired for the Daily Express in 1961, the proprietor had ionic characteristic advice: "Passion. That's the thing. I don't care what you put in the paper," he said, "so long as you say it with passion...
Garrels did research on geochemical problems with the U.S. Geological Survey until 1955, when he joined the Harvard Faculty. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, he was awarded the unsolicited grant for his geological work in the crystallization of minerals, chemical reactions of minerals, and ionic diffusion through rocks...