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Tests of Authenticity. As soon as a respite in Arab-Israeli war permitted, a French Dominican priest, Pèe Roland de Vaux of the Ecole Biblique et Archéologique null in old Jerusalem, and English-born G. Lankester Harding, director of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, visited the cave, which was in Jordan in an area called Khirbet Qumrân (stone ruin). They found hundreds of additional manuscript fragments and pieces of broken pottery, later discovered more than 40 previously unknown caves, many containing ancient manuscripts in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. Altogether, the manuscripts included parts...
...relaxation. He used its rocks as a kind of underpainting for his composition, and green verdure as a final glaze. He divided it with lakes and streams, wove it together with curving paths and driveways, pointed up its natural loveliness with small, well-placed buildings designed by Calvert Vaux, an English architect...
...Palestinian digger is bearded Dominican Father Roland de Vaux (described by a colleague as "rather a dandy for a Dominican"). At Tell el-Farah, near Nablus in central Palestine, he found a likely spot, staked out a 40-acre claim. On the surface were iron age remains, rather recent for the Holy Land. Below, the bronze age began. Father de Vaux believes that he may prove his city to be ancient Tirzah, first capital of the secessionist Kingdom of Israel, which Jeroboam split off from Judah after the death of Solomon about...
...Jeroboam chose no upstart city for his capital. When Father de Vaux dug deeper, he found proof that the site had been inhabited in 4000 B.C. Nearly 30 centuries had passed over it before the Israelites first burst into the land of Palestine...
...Precision-Built Homes Corp. will offer 40 models priced from $3,700 to $10,000. President F. Vaux Wilson Jr. shuns the word "prefabrication" (as does many another company), proudly points out that Precision-Built will build according to architect's plans selected by individual customers. Builder Wilson originally founded the company to help sell his Homasote wallboards, built 5,000 houses in 138 days for the U.S. Navy in Portsmouth, Va. Department stores are now taking orders. But Precision's Milwaukee plant will not be in production until spring...