Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good many Americans today do not know that the morning star and the evening star are the same heavenly creature and that her name is Venus, the reason may be that our calendar is based upon the career of a larger and more obvious body called the sun. An ancient Maya of Central America and southern Mexico had not this excuse for ignorance concerning the loveliest of the stars, because the calendar devised by his ingenious priests was a Venus calendar; any knowing citizen of that remarkable civilization was aware that five Venus years were practically equivalent to eight...
...made 14 expeditions to Central America gathering material which has led to the recovery of much ancient history and science. His book "Maya Art" was awarded the Prix Anguand by the French government. On December 27, 1925, Harvard announced that Dr. Spinden had solved the mystery of the Venus Calendar of the Mayas by which the ancient inhabitants of Yucatan began a record of celestial events in the sixth century...
...With the lamentable psychology of one who does not count his chickens until they have been run over, the press pointed out that Leverhulme's collection included two paintings by Rembrandt, several by Frans Hals, Gainsborough's portrait of Squire Nuttall, Reynolds' "Countess of Thanet" and "Venus," Sir Martin Shee's "Boys of the Annesley Family," not to mention numerous Turners, Raeburns, Romneys, Lawrences...
...justly, overruled them. It is, at all events, difficult to be sure, because one of the only positive things that is known about the tomb that is thought to be Christ's, is that it was, during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian, the cellar of a temple to Venus. Last week British engineers announced that the marble slabs over the sepulchre which Christendom generally accepts as the tomb of its Founder were bulging ominously. "Steps must be taken," they warned, "against collapse...
...young actor begins meeting the great stage folk of the day-Charles Calvert, Charles Kean, Samuel Phelps (who trains him), Madame Modjeska, Author Charles Read amid a sea of manuscript in his study, Miss Ellen Terry in her gray-blue drawing-room with ribbons of incense smoke wreathing the Venus of Milo...