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Among science's most sacred relics are the standard "meter bars" of platinum-iridium that lie in an underground shrine at Sèvres, near Paris. Replacing a babel of medieval units, they originated in the spurt of innovation that followed the French Revolution. The newfangled meter was intended to be one ten-millionth of the distance between the earth's equator and the North Pole, but difficulties of measurement made the exact length hard to determine. So the meter that was finally accepted (39.37 in. in length) was almost as arbitrary a unit as the ells, feet...
...world in its intent. The 'Hall of Our History' will be . . . longer than two city blocks, wider than a football field and taller than a nine-story building." Added Gugler: "No one would look at the pyramids if they were 20 or 30 feet high . . . This shrine will endure for a millennium...
...this week's opening, with 22 billboards, 500 posters in store windows, and 6,000 letters for schoolchildren to take home to their parents. Ten galleries of the museum's 13 were emptied and redecorated to contain the exhibition. Staff members erected a facsimile of a Japanese shrine on the lawn out front, found a Japanese orchestra to play on the night of the opening. Expecting the biggest crowds since the museum's opening 20 years ago, Director Richard Fuller explained: "We have had to go whole hog, but having the show is a great privilege...
First Base Camp. The Namche people blessed them and gave them almond cakes. Rested, they went on, and came to a pale red shrine, Thyangboche Monastery...
...looked like carnival time in Rio. Firecrackers popped, and from balconies flowers rained. Rio was welcoming a small (44 in., 33 Ibs.) white & gold statue of Our Lady of Fatima, whose famous shrine in Portugal is rivaling even Lourdes in popularity (TIME, May 14, 1951)As the statue, on tour of the world since the spring of 1947, moved through the streets in a gilded carriage, Cariocas followed, cheering and weeping. Even the devotees of African white magic came out of Rio favelas (hillside slums). Little girls, dressed as angels and as the Virgin herself, stood along...