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Word: japheth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jerusalem hill blasted by sun bright as sheet lightning. Israel's new $5,500,000 national museum opened last week to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Said Premier Levi Eshkol, recalling Noah's sons, "The museum will introduce something of the beauty of Japheth into the tents of Shem." Although the museum hardly has two of everything, it is an ark for art in the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: Israel's Hilltop Ark | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...honey bears started fighting and stampeded the camels, tethered opposite the elephants. Noah's son Japheth, played by one of Althoff's animal trainers, was using baby talk to soothe a pair of lions and Siberian tigers in their glassed-in cages. Elsewhere in the hold, zebras nipped, sheep bleated, yaks grunted and Watusi bulls bellowed. But the real test is yet to come. This week the whole zoo, accompanied by some 1,000 birds, will make its way up the gangplank, two by two. "My God," groaned Huston, "how the hell did Noah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Location: The Bible as Living Technicolor | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

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