Those podiums at the Republican debate are terrible. Were they from an old game show? The candidates look like they are standing in trash cans.
By all means, but, Ted Cruz in the nomination. Please. We'll have it over in a week when it is necessary to prove he can be a candidate for President.
Palestinian children should have the same beautiful opportunity.
February 25, 2016
By Paul Goldman and F. Brinley Bruton
Tel Aviv, Israel — A seven-year-old boy (click here) discovered an ancient statuette of a naked woman during a day trip to an archaeological site in Israel, antiquities officials said Thursday.
Ori Greenhut saw a dirt-covered stone with with the image of a person while climbing a mound at Tel Rehov earlier this week, according to a statement from Israel's Antiquities Authority....
...The 3,400-year-old figurine was made by pressing soft clay into a mold and is typical of the Canaanite culture of the 15th to 13th centuries B.C., according to Amihai Mazar, professor emeritus at Hebrew University and expedition director of the archaeological excavations at Tel Rehov.
"Some researchers think the figure depicted here is that of a real flesh and blood woman, and others view her as the fertility goddess Astarte, known from Canaanite sources and from the Bible," he said according to the Antiquities Authority statement. "Evidently the figurine belonged to one of the residents of the city of Rehov, which was then ruled by the central government of the Egyptian pharaohs."...
By all means, but, Ted Cruz in the nomination. Please. We'll have it over in a week when it is necessary to prove he can be a candidate for President.
Palestinian children should have the same beautiful opportunity.
By Paul Goldman and F. Brinley Bruton
Tel Aviv, Israel — A seven-year-old boy (click here) discovered an ancient statuette of a naked woman during a day trip to an archaeological site in Israel, antiquities officials said Thursday.
Ori Greenhut saw a dirt-covered stone with with the image of a person while climbing a mound at Tel Rehov earlier this week, according to a statement from Israel's Antiquities Authority....
...The 3,400-year-old figurine was made by pressing soft clay into a mold and is typical of the Canaanite culture of the 15th to 13th centuries B.C., according to Amihai Mazar, professor emeritus at Hebrew University and expedition director of the archaeological excavations at Tel Rehov.
"Some researchers think the figure depicted here is that of a real flesh and blood woman, and others view her as the fertility goddess Astarte, known from Canaanite sources and from the Bible," he said according to the Antiquities Authority statement. "Evidently the figurine belonged to one of the residents of the city of Rehov, which was then ruled by the central government of the Egyptian pharaohs."...
