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...knowledge of astronomy and engineering, great road-building ability, a written language. Most famous achievements were their alms (temples) and moai (great stone monoliths), the largest of which weigh up to 80 tons, rise to the height of a six-story building. Now in the person of Capuchin Father Sebastian Englert, 78, comes word that quick action is needed if the great sculptures are to survive. "It is an urgent matter," Father Sebastian told a New York audience, "which cannot wait...
...calling their city the Liverpool of the U.S.). There, as elsewhere in the States, rock is currently in the midst of a huge syncretic surge toward a new idiom-and the Beatles' wildly eclectic spirit hovers over it all. As the Lovin' Spoonful's songwriter, John Sebastian, says: "Here we are in the middle of the mulch...
...saints and sinners, knights and ladies tiptoe through dainty Alpine primroses to dally on wattle fences. At times he was downright satirical. His Samson is a knave in a tunic and Tyrolean hat, his Delilah a Hausfrau who has slipped away for an afternoon assignation. As for St. Sebastian, E.S. portrays him peppered with arrows by a merry lot that looks for all the world like Robin Hood...
...whole hotel with their retinues, and it took a mule train to fetch their belongings from the railroad station. Now spring and summer are the busy months, and, says Cappelli, "today they come with a flight bag containing a change of underwear." ¶ Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, Spain. Queen Maria Cristina started it all back in 1912, when the city built a five-story hotel to accommodate the countless chamberlains, ministers, officers, grandees and courtiers who followed her to Miramar, the royal summer residence on the Bay of Biscay. Led by the Duke of Alba, the Duke...
...full five fathoms the treasure lay for the next 250 years. In 1949, a Sebastian, Fla., contractor named Kip Wagner began to collect the blackened silver coins that occasionally washed ashore. None of them, he noted, were dated later than 1715. Wagner began ransacking libraries for data on the 1715 catastrophe. He managed to obtain 3,000 feet of microfilmed documents from Seville archives, found details of the Silver Plate fleet's cargo manifestoes plus testimony from the official investigation of the wreck...