Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alexandria, Va., secondhand store. But when Christine du Tant, wife of a U.S. Senate aide, unrolled it, she recognized the handsome young man it portrayed and bought it for $3. A curator of the Smithsonian Institution agreed with her: the small (10 in. by 14 in.) oil by an unknown artist is indeed of the young Abraham Lincoln, painted around 1840, and thus the earliest-known likeness of the future President. He had just turned 30 at the time and was a frontier legislator and lawyer in the midst of his off-again, on-again romance with Mary Todd...
Even the names are unfamiliar, full of t's and x's in unlikely places, and the art objects themselves present strange shapes of unknown utility, jarringly vivid colors and hauntingly cruel motifs...
Actually, snow blindness is not blindness and isn't caused by snow. Correctly called solar photophthalmia, it is sunburn of the sun's ultraviolet rays off the glistening snow or ice. While generally affecting the unprepared skier, snow blindness is not unknown among mountain climbers, the Eskimos, and even polar bears...
Recently, they formed a partnership to build a ski lodpe at the base of Mt.Ascutney, a new and relatively unknown ski area. Together, they purchased a 150-year-old farm and invested $25,000 into converting it to a dormitory-style lodge with private rooms. They raised the capital through savings, friends, banks and notes from local businessmen. As late as Nov.30, they were still spending every free hour they had to tend to the many frustrating details that develop when a "crash" bulling project is undertaken...
...bore for 100, 200, 400 meters. Once in a while, someone breaks a record. But a record mile takes a curious kind of teamwork: two or three evenly matched runners harrying and extending each other until finally, in that last agonizing sprint to the tape, one man finds some unknown reserve of energy and will power. Poor Peter Snell. At 25, the burly New Zealander is so much better than anyone else that he may never know how fast he can really...