Word: magie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abandoned copper mine near Seigen, the U.S. First Army last week recovered other art treasures the Nazis removed from bombed German cities, possibly from French museums. Chief item: the famed, gold-and-jeweled "Reliquary of the Magi" sarcophagus from the Cologne Cathedral. Other items: the bones of Charlemagne, a magnificent carved door from Cologne's Cathedral, paintings by Holbein, Van Gogh, Rubens...
...Most famed of Mount Athos' religious relics: the camel-hair girdle which legend says the Virgin gave to doubting Thomas; pieces of the True Cross; the skull of St. Basil the Great; the brains of St. John the Baptist; the three gifts of the Magi (gold, frankincense and myrrh...
...wife of two seasons mighty-eared Cineman Clark Sable has lately been "Pappy," and his name for blonde, scatter-whimmed Carole Lombard has become "Ma." Aware also that their appearance at Sam Goldwyn's superspecial, star-stacked Greek War Benefit was characterized by the seemliest reticence, Hollywood magi took counsel among the stars, forecast that another Gable would shortly be added to their house...
...books, 1,189 chapters and 773,000 words in the King James Bible, Jefferson kept only the four Gospels. Then he cut out most of them. Among his excisions from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John: the Annunciation, the visit of the Magi, all the miracles, the Transfiguration, Christ's promise to the thief crucified beside Him ("today shalt thou be with me in Paradise"), the Resurrection, the Ascension...