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THE JERUSALEM POST KQED – Nearly 60 pieces
– A perfectly preserved of memorabila from the
large woven basket dating historic Cliff House, an
back some 10,500 years iconic waterfront landmark
was unearthed in the in San Francisco, were pur-
Judean Desert, the Israel chased recently by a local
Antiquities Authority collective. Items from Cliff
announced. The artifact, House restaurant, and the
which experts believe is property’s earlier uses dating
probably the earliest of this back to the late 1800s, were
kind ever uncovered, was sold at auction on March 11
excavated in a cave in the Judean Desert during a rescue operation and 12. The restaurant
carried out by the IAA in cooperation with the Archaeology Department closed on Dec. 31, 2020, after the longtime operators could not settle a
of the Civil Administration. The researchers came to the conclusion that contract with the National Park Service which owns the over 150-year-old
the object was manufactured around 10,500 years ago, in a period that property. Groups of local community historians, gallerists, and art
is known as Pre-Pottery Neolithic. It has a capacity of 24 gallons. conservators, along with hundreds of donors, raised more than
$150,000 to buy some of the Cliff House’s memorabilia. A public
exhibition of the items is in the planning stages with a current fundraiser
JM SMUCKER CO – Meow Mix is organized by Save The Cliff House Collection.
getting into the collectibles business
by promoting its new Tasty Layers
cat food with the release of a col- AFP – In La Garriga, Spain, workers are
lectible vinyl record with remixed busy cutting, trimming and stitching
versions of its iconic jingle. The Meow together fine sheets of wood to make
Mix ReMix LP spans pop, jazz, chessboards to meet a surge in orders in
heavy metal and Latin dance genres the wake of the runaway success of the
with tracks by “artists” like “Hearts & Netflix series, The Queen’s Gambit.
Paws” and “Endless Hiss,” according Rechapados Ferrer, a small family-run
to parent company J.M. Smucker. business, is struggling to keep up with
The limited-edition record is available for pre-order on Amazon demand since its boards appeared in the
for $9.99, and includes a coupon for a free bag of Meow Mix Tasty award-winning miniseries about an
Layers cat food. Cat lovers can visit Meow Mix’s website to stream the orphaned chess prodigy. In the nail-biting
remixed songs from Spotify and view music videos. In November finale, chess prodigy Beth Harmon goes to
2019, the brand released R&B, Latin, heavy metal and country remixes on Moscow to take on Russian world cham-
its website, Spotify, and YouTube. pion Vasily Borgov in a match played on an elegant black-framed
board with a decorative red-and-yellow border. Demand for this hand-
finished collectible prompted the firm to hire three new workers.
CAROLINACOASTONLINE – The New Bern Historical Society
announced the discovery of an existing building that served as both a
Confederate and Union hospital during the Civil War. Historian and WASHINGTON – Items connected to the first known doses of
author Wade Sokolosky recently discovered several wartime documents Covid-19 vaccine to be administered in the United States have been
that identified a military hospital acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American
on Craven Street “next to the History, the institution has announced. New York-based healthcare
Progress Building.” After many dis- provider Northwell Health—whose nurse
cussions, much research, and a little Sandra Lindsay was the first person to be
bit of luck, it was determined that inoculated in the country hardest hit by the
the Brick Block Building on the coronavirus—donated the items. The empty
200 block of Craven Street was vial containing the Pfizer-BioNTech vac-
first used by the Confederates cine given to Lindsay, other vials, syringes
beginning in January 1861 and and the nurse’s vaccination record card are
later by the Union Army in 1862. among the objects donated. The museum
A group then toured the closed-off section of the building to discover intends to put some of the objects on pub-
a time capsule of whitewashed walls of hospital rooms from the mid- lic display in a major exhibition, In
1800s. The documentation also alluded to the existance of two more Sickness and in Health, but did not indicate
Civil War era Confederate hospitals in the region. when that show would be organized.

NYT – A mosaic crafted in the first century commissioned by the WALL STREET JOURNAL – US e-commerce
emperor Caligula for the deck of one of two spectacularly decorated ships giant eBay is halting the resale of six Dr Seuss
on Lake Nemi was recovered from underwater wreckage in 1895. The books on its platform after they were pulled by
mosaic was later lost for decades, only to their publisher over imagery considered racist.
reemerge several years ago as a coffee table The announcement sparked a bidding frenzy for
in the living room of a New York City the scrapped books on eBay. The leading bid for
antiques dealer. Unveiled recently at an a first edition of On Beyond Zebra! soared
archaeological museum just south of Rome, from $14.99 on a Monday to $810 the next
the dealer said at the time that she and her day. This comes as criticism grows in the United
husband had bought the mosaic in good States over the way minority communities have
faith, in the late 1960s, from a member of an aristocratic family. been portrayed in many of the author’s books.

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