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...unclear how it would finance those extra purchases. Auto industry sources and financial analysts are buzzing about whether Porsche somehow locked itself into a contract that obliges it to buy that additional stake. Porsche won't say; from the beginning it has refused to reveal all but the scantest details of its hedging strategy. (Watch a video about an optimistic Dodge dealer...
...Outside of the Bible, there is only the scantest evidence of either King's existence. A mere two commemorative inscriptions have been found referring to a "House of David," both from a later period. Solomon's trail is even colder. His name appears on a cylindrical seal owned by a London collector, but it may not be the same Solomon and the object's provenance is cloudy. Few experts believe that the father-and-son team's Unified Kingdom could have stretched, as Kings claims, "from the [Euphrates] River ... to the Border of Egypt." A vocal minority of historians known...