Word: trove
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is a caste system for library books, then PZ is a shantytown for Untouchables, a repository for the forgotten or despised. Within this junkyard of print, however, there lies a treasure trove, shelved in among the romance and adventure and pure trash. In comparative secrecy, Widener wallows in a dazzling cumulative history of detective fiction in the twentieth century. --From The Widener mystery tragedy, by Josh Rubins...
...itself has a suspect collection of 219 objects ranging from pottery to rare silver ewers and vases. When the collection was bought through a New York dealer, J.J. Klegman, in 1966, it was widely rumored that the Met had at last acquired the so-called Lydian treasure trove. The Lydian collection came out of four 6th century tombs found near the ancient site of Sardis in Turkey. There is no doubt, according to Turkey's Foreign Minister Haluk Bayulken, that the entire Lydian collection was looted. Though the Met was invited by TIME to comment on the acquisition...
TUESDAY: NBC Reports. Producer Lucy Jarvis ("The Kremlin", "The Louvre") spent three months in mainland China as the guest of Chou En-Lai to produce this special on "The Forbidden City," the national art treasure-trove of the People's Republic. CH. 4. 10 p.m. Color...
...worked as a taxidermist, welder, carpenter and longshoreman before turning to paleontology. Last year, on a tip from two amateur rock collectors, Jensen began exploring what was once a prehistoric riverbed near the little farming and lumber town of Delta in western Colorado. By spring he had unearthed a trove of bones that included the remnants of a large carnivorous dinosaur, three prehistoric turtles, parts of ancient crocodiles and small, chicken-sized flying reptiles. But his really big find came only a few weeks ago, when he discovered the matching shoulder blades, pelvis and five vertebrae of what appeared...
...Heinrich K. Erben of Bonn University's Institute of Paleontology bases his theory on a treasure trove of dinosaur eggs unearthed near Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. So many fossilized egg fragments were found there that Erben concluded that dinosaurs had used the site as a regular nesting place for thousands of years. Using a scanning electron microscope, he determined that the average thickness of the eggshells in the lower or older layers ranged from 1.7 to 2.6 mm., while the shells in the younger layers were only about half as thick. Such fragile eggs could easily become...