Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near Jarlshof in the Shetlands, off the northern coast of Scotland, is a great mound of wind-blown beach sand stuffed with stone ruins. For more than 50 years archeologists have poked at the mound, but the job of excavating it was not undertaken until a few years ago. Near the top of the sand were remains of houses built by the Vikings, who conquered the Shetlands in the Dark Ages. Farther down were strange windowless stone buildings that must have looked in their prime like a cross between a medieval castle and a huddle of Eskimo igloos...
During the growth of the Pictish village, the blowing beach sand heaped up around its walls, and some of the people took to living in underground houses sunk into the sand. The British diggers found remains of their pottery, tools and weapons of stone, bone and iron, and many mysterious pebbles painted with crude designs. The pebbles are believed to be connected in some way with their custom of tattooing their bodies...
Gradually the sand piled over the village of the day-fearing Picts. Their poor arts and crafts grew even poorer. At last came the invading Vikings, who did not kill all the Picts. A few survived for a while, to live as trembling serfs on the outskirts of the Viking settlement...
Born. To Tyrone Power III, 39, cinemactor (Blood and Sand, The Mississippi Gambler), and his second wife. Cinemactress Linda Christian (The Happy Time) Power, 29: their second child, second daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Tarin Stephanie. Weight...
Lelia, by Andre Maurois. A fine biography of the restless woman who called herself George Sand (TIME, Sept...