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Household untensils of many kinds have been so numerous that here again it is possible to reconstruct with accuracy another phase of their life...
When Author Morison was a young man (he is now 45), much interested in the historical figure of Jesus, he was not satisfied with "its overgrowth of primitive beliefs and dogmatic suppositions, planned to write a book giving the true history as well as he could reconstruct it, of Jesus' trial, crucifixion, death. When he came to write the book, his investigations and deductions led him to a different interpretation from the one he had in mind. His problem finally resolved itself into the title of his book: who moved the stone from Jesus' tomb? Author Morison...
...many years Mr. Potter has been trying to identify and restore the works of the John Harvard library. In 1919, he printed in the Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts the Catalogue of that library, so far as he was able to reconstruct it. Of the 329 thought to be of the same editions as the ones originally in the John Harvard library. Eighty-five more are also contemporary editions he might have possessed...
...Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, both members of the famed Russian "Five."* He himself won early notice with his startling memory. When Alexander Borodin died, the overture to Prince Igor was nowhere to be found, but Glazounov had once heard Borodin play it on the piano and was able to reconstruct it entirely from memory. Aged 16, Glazounov had finished his own first symphony. Liszt liked it, played it at Weimar. Glazounov's career and reputation kept pace from then on. He wrote much music swiftly, first inspired by Russian folklore, later by classical forms. In 1905 he was chosen...
...dusk. He looked at the aged stones of the Wailing Wall where the day before 10,000 Jews had gathered as part of the fast of Tisha B'Ab, to lament the two destructions of the Temple. So old are those stones that, looking at them, one can reconstruct the scene of the first destruction when in 586 B. C. the Chaldeans, sword and armor glittering in the bright sun, swept through the Holy City, razed the Temple. Another scene was in 70 A. D. when the Roman Titus and his grizzled legionaries forced their way inch by inch...