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Word: maximinus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Sinai's Mount St. Catherine is a small, poorly constructed chapel which belongs to the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine ten miles down the massif. The uneven chapel floor shows the impress, say the monks, of St. Catherine who lay there emitting light 300 years after Emperor Maximinus had her head hacked off.* In this same vicinity where Dr. Abbot's men will measure the Sun, men long before Abram left Ur used to worship the Moon. Sinai was then the Land of Sin the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sun Men to Moon-land | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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