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Roman know-how, spreading to Cyprus in 58 B.C., managed to squeeze a rich payload out of Cyprian ore bodies for at least four centuries more, leaving behind slag heaps of exhausted ore that are still standing today. Then, for close to 1,500 years, the world forgot the copper that made Cyprus famous...
...proper Tory preparation, Macmillan spent the first half of his 30 years in politics in rebellion and dissent. In Depression years he attacked old-fashioned Tory economics, urging a society that would be "neither jungle nor beehive." He once attacked the whole government bench as "a row of disused slag heaps," and said the party was "dominated by second-class brewers and company promoters." He protested Baldwin's appeasement of Italy in the Ethiopian war by "renouncing the whip," choosing the role of parliamentary independent almost two years before Eden's better-remembered withdrawal from the Chamberlain cabinet...
...Vienna.) Peter bypasses the glitter of New York in the '20s and an easy suburban life with an American foster father, and heads for smoky, industrial Pittsburgh to make his own way. From there on, his progress reads like a guided tour of the steel industry from the slag up. conducted by a man who knows his subject and loves to talk shop...
...state. Methodism's great 19th century battles on behalf of the over worked, the overcrowded and the under paid in the lusty turmoil of the Indus trial Revolution have now been won in the sooty cities of the Midlands, on the docksides of the Tyne and in the slag-heaped valleys of Wales. And Methodist zeal for social betterment is left with such low-calorie crusades as temperance, the discouragement of gambling and the abolition of vulgar postcards from sea side shops...
Italy, then found new techniques of her own. Besides the traditional Italian mosaic glass, she uses lava rock, iridescent furnace slag, crystal, quartz, mica and pyrites to produce extraordinarily various effects. Her mosaic above shows the moment when Christ met his mother on the Way of the Cross. As Artist Jenkins puts it, the "Cross becomes a sword of Truth between them. In the look between them, Mary realizes that He must go before...