Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flowering grass. Out of the nothingness arises the sign of infinity; beneath the ever-rising spiral slowly sinks the gaping hole. The land and the water make numbers joined, a poem written with flesh and stronger than steel or granite. Through endless night the earth whirls towards a creation unknown...
...four wide-eyed Tibetan women how to scrub the walls and launder their clothes with newfangled soap; a Swiss cook taught them patiently to prepare Swiss-German food. There are also educators and schoolbooks, lessons in how to use knife and fork and in how to ski, a sport unknown in Tibet. The men have jobs, ranging from digging ditches to carpentry to house painting...
...century, the mighty King Jayavarman II founded the first great dynasty of Angkor, and for the next 300 years the Khmers added steadily to their glory. They were prodigious engineers: their moats, canals and reservoirs made the land so fertile that hunger was virtually unknown. One inscription honors a king, not for his conquests but for creating a reservoir "beautiful as the moon, to refresh mankind and to drown the insolence of the other kings...
...Khmers thought of the earth as a great quadrangle circled by a necklace of mountains, beyond which stretched the unknown oceans. Their gods resided on a sacred mountain called Meru, and the highest temple in any city was meant to represent Meru, while the city itself, surrounded by its walls and moats, stood for the earth, its mountains and its oceans. One temple had 18 high priests, 2,740 officiants, 2,202 servers, 615 dancing girls. It contained five tons of gold plate and almost as much silver...
...hole in the ice when a seal rose through the hole with a big fish in its jaws. The scientists struggled with the seal for the fish, won after a desperate tug of war. The fish, 52 in. long and weighing 58 Ibs., turned out to be an unknown species of a family that was not supposed to be swimming in those cold waters. With it are surely swimming hundreds of other interesting creatures also unknown to science...