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...process. Descendants of the great smiths of Benin still revere Igue-igha, who introduced the art of casting into their land, possibly learnt from the Arabs in the late 13th century. Benin's smiths developed casting to the point where plaques as thin as one-eighth of an inch were cast, surpassing even the best that the European Renaissance masters could achieve...
...record of Hemingway reciting the speech he wrote upon receiving the Nobel Prize, one of the love poems, and a few trivial pieces of self-parody-all in a reedy, nervous voice. But while there are "enough of Papa's poems to fill a book one-half inch thick," according to Mary Hemingway, the rest are unlikely to be published or recorded for many years. "Some of the longest poems are about living people," she says, "and most of them are uncomplimentary, to say the least...
...printout tape, with its endless rows of digits, told the men who could read it that Mariner seemed to be obeying the intricate orders built into it so many months before. According to plan, shortly after the scanning mechanisms sighted the planet, automatically activating the photo system, the six-inch vidicon tube focused through a reflecting telescope and took its first picture. It was programmed to take one picture every 48 seconds. Each picture was made up of 200 lines-compared with 525 lines on commercial TV screens. And each line was made up of 200 dots. The pictures were...
Spokesman for the bureau said that in terms of the situation, the 43/100 of an fell during the past two days was really an insignificant amount of wetness. And the additional half-inch expected today won't help matters much...
...seems that New England is 19 or 20 inches below the normal annual amount of rainfall; so an inch is "really just a drop in the bucket," the spokesman explained...