Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Borglum was first commissioned to decorate Stone Mountain with the heads of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis. When that job fell through, he turned to other heroes, spent 14 years hacking their heads out of Mount Rushmore. When he died in 1941, he left them looming, unfinished, over a vast dribble of scree...
...with his wife and cats to the Oregon seaside in 1941. There, while showing his lute-playing composer daughter how Bach used 48 themes in his Well-Tempered Clavier, he got the theme for the finale of his recent Suite Symphonique. "Suzanne and I were sitting on the little stone steps in the garden. I wrote - just like that -two pages of fugue motifs. The last one, which irritated her, is the one I used...
First finds were stone chips, by-products of ancient munitions-making. They turned up last spring beside Lime Creek, near Cambridge, Neb. When a task force from the University started to excavate, a flood helped by uncovering another chip deposit at the base of a bluff about 50 ft. high...
Stimulated by this thick overburden (hinting at great age), the archeologists attacked the bluff with dynamite and a bulldozer. By fall they had uncovered stone, bone and antler artifacts (prehistoric scrap pile), and bones of extinct animals (prehistoric garbage dump). They found no human remains, but obviously ancient man had fancied the spot for a long time, chipping his crude weapons and tossing gnawed bones over his muscular shoulder...
...stone weapons, including spearheads, knives and dart points, are fairly well made, their sharp edges finished with delicate flaking. Bone awls and a bone needle indicate that the ancient hunters wore skin clothes of some sort and sewed the edges together...