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...black Rock, according to one legend, Abraham prepared to sacrifice Isaac. Over this Rock stood Solomon's Temple. The Wailing Wall, part of the mosque area, is all of the Jewish Temple that remains. On this rock the Emperor Hadrian built a temple to Jupiter; the Crusaders built a church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Newton's Simple World. For 200 years before Einstein, physicists had faithfully followed a set of basic laws published by the great Sir Isaac Newton in 1687. Their faithfulness had paid off. Sir Isaac led them to many triumphs and promised them many more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Crossroads | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...Isaac Berman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roster of Alumni Returning for AHC Post-Victory Meeting | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

Leave Him to Heaven. In Oklahoma City, Bible-reading Isaac Coker, annoyed by the "rantin' religion" of a next-door prayer meeting, blazed away with a shotgun, wounded the preacher, who refused to prosecute Coker, since "the Lord will punish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...cynical Government had created a "vigilance board," purportedly to track down Nazi agents, liquidate the country's powerful Axis firms. But last week the board's general secretary, Dr. Carlos A. Adrogue, resigning in a huff, charged that Foreign Minister Juan Isaac Cooke and other high officials were anxious to hinder, not help, any move to oust the Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Coddled | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

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