Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones, & Einstein's Brain

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by Harvey Rachlin


  McKinley, William, assassination of

  McLean, Edward, and Evalyn Walsh

  Mearns, David C.

  Mecca (Saudi Arabia)

  Medina

  Menou, J. F.

  Mesopotamia

  Messiah, Veil of the Virgin

  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)

  Mexico, French foreign legion in

  Middle Ages

  Military Flyer

  Milton, John

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Paris, France)

  Miracles

  Missing link

  Mohammed, See also Islam Monasteries

  Morgan, John Pierpont

  Mosul, Turkey

  Movable type

  Mulcahy, William

  Müller, Willi K., Shroud of Turin and

  Mummies, of Tutankhamen

  Muslims. See also Islam

  Nail of the True Cross

  Naples Cathedral (Naples, Italy)

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Naram-Sin (King)

  National Air and Space Museum (Washington, D.C.)

  National Archives (College Park, Maryland)

  National Archives Building (Washington, D.C)

  National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (Cooperstown, New York)

  National Maritime Museum (Greenwich, London, England)

  National Museum (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

  National Museum of American History (Washington, D.C.)

  National Museum of Dentistry (Baltimore)

  National Museum of Health and Medicine (Washington, D.C.)

  National Museum of Natural History (Washington, D.C)

  National Postal Museum (Washington, D.C)

  Natural History Museum (London, England)

  Navy, See Jones, John Paul; Nelson, Horatio

  Nazi Party

  Neanderthal man

  Near East

  Nelson, Horatio

  Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

  Newsboys, Laddie Boy statue and

  New Testament

  Newton, Isaac

  Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

  New York Academy of Medicine (New York, New York)

  New York Public Library

  New York Yankees

  Nicholson, John Page

  Nicodemus, Shroud of Turin and

  Nicolay copy, of Gettysburg Address,

  Nimrud, Layard at

  1903 Flyer (Kitty Hawk)

  1904 Flyer

  1905 Flyer

  Normandy, William of. See William the Conqueror (England)

  Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)

  Notre-Dame Cathedral of Chartres (Chartres, France)

  Nuremberg

  Obelisk, Black (Assyria)

  Odon de Conteville

  O’Hanlon, Virginia, Santa Claus letter of

  Old Testament

  Olduvai, discoveries at

  One-Cent Magenta stamp

  “On Seeing a Lock of Milton’s Hair” (Keats)

  Orbits, planetary

  Ord family

  Oswald, Lee Harvey

  Oswald, Marina

  Otto (Germany)

  Ottoman Empire

  Our American Cousin (play)

  Outer space, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

  Owney (dog)

  Painter, Kenneth

  Paleoanthropologists

  Paleontology

  Palitsch, Johann

  Papyrus

  Papyrus Book of the Dead

  Paris codex

  Parke-Bernet, Rubens Vase and

  Parsifal, and Holy Grail

  Pasha, Mohammed

  Passion of Christ, 67

  Patent Office

  Peale, Charles Willson

  Peking Man

  Penis, of John Dillinger, of Napoleon

  Pennsylvania State House

  Petersen, William

  Pevensey, England

  Pharaohs, Tutankhamen’s tomb and

  Philately. See Stamps

  Philosophers

  Philosophiae Naturalist Principia Mathematica. See Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

  Phonetic value, of Rosetta Stone hieroglyphs

  Phonograph

  Pickersgill, Mary

  Piltdown Man

  Piquett, Louis

  Pius IX (Pope)

  Planetary motion

  Plaster casts, as life and death masks

  Pleistocene epoch

  Pontius Pilate

  Porter, Horace, search for body of John Paul Jones by

  Portland, duke of

  Portland Vase

  Postal service, Owney as mascot of

  Pratt, Dallas

  Primates, fossils of

  Printing

  Pritchard, James B.

  Privileges, of Columbus. See also Book(s) of Privileges

  Progressive (Bull Moose) Party

  Prophets, of Islam

  Prosthesis, of French foreign legion commander

  Proteus syndrome

  Ptolemy V, Rosetta Stone and

  Public Record Office (London, England)

  Putnam, Herbert

  Rabula Gospel, spear of Longinus and

  Radiocarbon dating, of Shroud of Turin

  Radiometric dating

  Raes, Gilbert

  Raes’ Corner, Shroud of Turin and

  Railway Mail Serice, Owney as mascot of

  Ramses VI (Egypt)

  Rashid (Rosetta), discovery at

  Rathbone, Henry

  Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke

  Read, Charles

  Records, for extraterrestrials

  Regia Biblioteca Estense. See Estense Library

  Rehoboam

  Reichsapfel

  Reichskreuz

  Reichskrone

  Religious persecution, Januarius and

  Reliquary, of Robert Browning

  Renaissance

  Replicas

  Republican Convention, of 1912

  Resurrection

  Richie, Alexander Hay

  Riha Byzantine silver treasure

  Robinson, Edward

  Rodrigues, Martin

  Roman Empire

  Romantic poets

  Romanus I (Lecapenus), Shroud of Turin

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Rosenbach, A. S. W., Company

  Rosetta Stone

  Ross, Marvin Chauncey

  Rubens, Peter Paul

  Rubens Vase

  Ruby, Jack

  Rudolf of Burgundy, Holy Lance and

  Rush, Richard

  Ruth, George Herman “Babe,”

  Sacy, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de

  Sagan, Carl

  Saint Columba monastery

  Sainte-Chapelle (Paris, France)

  Saint Helena (island), Napoleon on

  Saints

  Salières, Sylvain

  Samson, Count

  Samsuiluna

  San Gennaro. See Januarius, Saint Sanhedrin

  Santa Maria (ship)

  Santa Maria in Aracoeli (Rome, Italy)

  Sarah (wife of Abraham)

  Saudi Arabia. See Mecca

  Saumarez, James

  Savoy, dukes of

  Schliemann, Heinrich

  Schrank, John

  Second Continental Congress

  Second World War

  Secular Treasury, Hofburg (Vienna, Austria)

  Sennacherib

  Serapis (ship). See Jones, John Paul

  Shakespeare, William

  Shalmaneser III (Assyria)

  Sherman, Roger

  “Shroud of Christ, The” (vignon)

  Shroud of Turin, 76-85

  Shroud of Turin Research Project, Inc. (STURP)

  Shutruk-Nahhunte (King)

  Siamese twins

  Sickles, Daniel Edgar

  Siloam Inscription

  Silver
Chalice, The (Costain)

  Silver from Early Byzantium (Mango)

  Silverplate project

  Simon from Cyrene, cross and

  Simon Peter

  Sioux

  Skinner, John S.

  Skylizès Manuscript, and Turin Shroud,

  Slavery, John Brown

  Smith, Grafton Eliot

  Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.)

  Solar system

  Solomon (king)

  Sonnets from the Portuguese (Browning, Elizabeth Barrett)

  Son of God, Jesus as

  South Africa, Taung Infant in

  Spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

  Spark, Muriel

  Spear of Longinus, and Holy Lance

  Spencer, Frank

  Stamps

  Star-Spangled Banner (flag)

  “Star-Spangled Banner, The” (poem)

  Stevens, Benjamin E.

  Stone, John Gilbert M.

  Stratford Hall (Westmoreland County, Virginia)

  Stuart, Gilbert

  Stuma Byzantine silver treasure

  STURP. See Shroud of Turin Research Project, Inc.

  Sumerians

  Sun King. See Louis XIV

  Surrender documents, Civil War

  Susa, Code of Hammurabi in

  Syria

  Taft, Charles S.

  Taft, William Howard

  Talleyrand-Perigord, Maurice de

  Talmud

  Tapestry, Bayeux

  Taung Infant

  Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste

  Tawāf

  Taxation, Domesday Book and

  Taxidermy, Little Sorrel and

  Teeth, of George Washington

  Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

  Texas School Book Depository

  Thames River. See London Bridge

  Theodore Roosevelt Association (Oyster Bay, New York)

  Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site (New York, New York)

  Theodore Roosevelt Home, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (Oyster Bay, New York)

  Theodore Roosevelt National Park (Medora, North Dakota)

  Theory of relativity

  Thurston, Herbert

  Thuya, Egyptian tomb of

  Tibbets, Paul W., Jr.

  Tippit J.D.

  Tobias, Phillip

  Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, The

  Tordesillas Treaty

  Tostig (England)

  Towel, as truce flag in Civil War surrender

  Townelev, Charles

  Trafalgar, Battle of

  Treaty of Florence

  Tremissis, Holy Shroud and

  Treves, Frederick

  Trinity College Library (Dublin, Ireland),

  True Cross

  Truman, Harry S.

  Truxtun, Thomas

  Turin Shroud. See Shroud of Turin

  Turkey. See also Assyria; Ottoman Empire

  Turner, Tomkyns Hilgrove

  Tutankhamen (Egypt)

  Tutankhaton (Egypt)

  Twins, Siamese

  Umberto II (Italy), Shroud of Turin and

  Undress coat, of Horatio Nelson

  Uniform coat, of Horatio Nelson

  Union, Confederate surrender to. See also Civil War

  United States Air Force Museum (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio)

  United States Naval Academy Chapel (Annapolis, Maryland)

  U.S. Postal Service, atomic bomb commemorative stamp

  University College (London, England)

  University of California (Berkeley) (Lawrence Hall of Science)

  Ur, Third Dynasty of

  Ur-Nammu (King)

  Urukagina

  Utilitarian philosophy

  Valley of the Kings, Tutankhamen’s tomb in

  Vathek (Beckford)

  Vatican

  Veil of the Virgin

  Veragua codex. See also Book(s) of Privileges history of

  Veronica, pillar of

  Veronica Cloth

  Vignali (family and collection)

  Vignon, Paul, Shroud of Turin and

  Villa, Pancho

  Villeneuve, Pierre de

  Virginia Declaration of Rights

  Virginia Military Institute (Lexington, Virginia)

  Virgin Mary, Veil of the Virgin and

  Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, recorded information in outer space

  VP-8 Image Analyzer

  Walters, Henry

  Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Maryland), Rubens Vase in

  Warburton, William

  War of 1812

  Warren Commission Report

  Washburn, Alexander C.

  Washburn copy, of Declaration of Independence

  Washington, George

  Washington codex

  Webster, Frederick

  Weinberg, Irwin

  Weiner, Joseph

  Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts)

  White, Tim

  Whitehouse, David

  White House, as Executive Mansion

  Williams, Nigel

  William the Conqueror (England)

  William the Conqueror Center (Bayeux, France)

  Wills, David

  Winsor, Justin

  Winston, Harry

  Wolodimir (ship)

  Wooden hand, of Jean Danjou

  Wooden teeth. See False teeth

  Woodward, Arthur Smith

  Woolley, Charles Leonard

  World War I

  World War II

  Wreath. See Crown of Thorns

  Wren, Christopher

  Wright Brothers (Orville and Wilbur)

  Wyatt, James

  Wythe, George

  Young, Thomas, Rosetta Stone and

  Yuya, Egyptian tomb of

  Zamzam well

  Zaninotto, Gino, Shroud of Turin and

  Zapruder, Abraham, film of

  Zechariah, Veil of the Virgin and

  ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  Worshiper kissing Black Stone: Mehmet Biber (Ajans Biber); Black Stone of the Ka‘bah: copyright Robert Azzi/Woodfin Camp & Associates; Lucy—field: Neg./ Trans. no. 338315, courtesy Department of Library Sciences, American Museum of Natural History; Lucy—skeleton: Institute of Human Origins; Code of Hammurabi: 85 EN 366, copyright Cliché des Musées Nationaux—Paris; Carter/Mace—King Tut: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England; Death Mask—King Tut: copyright Egyptian Museum; Black Obelisk: copyright British Museum; Gihon Spring, Siloam Pool: Israel Government Press Office; Siloam Inscription: Israel Museum; Rosetta Stone: copyright British Museum; Portland Vase—Side One, Portland Vase—Side Two, “The Portland Museum” : copyright British Museum; Veil of the Virgin: Courtesy Editions Houvet “La Crypte”; Crown of Thorns—Portrait of Jesus: Alinari/Art Resource, New York; Crown of Thorns—wreath: Gérard Boullay; Holy Lance: Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna; Positive and negative images of Shroud of Turin, Positive image of the face on the Shroud, Negative image of the face on the Shroud: courtesy of the Holy Shroud Guild, Esopus, New York/Photo: G. Enrie; Blood of Saint Januarius: Chiesa Cattedrale di Napoli; Rubens Vase: The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Antioch Chalice: All rights reserved, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Book of Kells: The Board of Trinity College Dublin; Bayeux Tapestry—panel one, Bayeux Tapestry—panel two: Centre Guillaume le Conquerant, Bayeux; Domesday Book: Crown copyright reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office; Holy Child of Aracoeli: Basilica S. Maria in Aracoeli; Columbus’s Book of Privileges, Columbus at court: Library of Congress; Cantino Map: Biblioteca Estense ed Universitaria; Hope Diamond: Smithsonian Institution Photo No. 78-8853; Edmond Halley’s notebook page: Royal Greenwich Observatory; Declaration of Independence—Second Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence—the document: National Archives, Washington, D.C.; George Washington’s false teeth: courtesy of the New York Academy of Medicine Library; Washington face portrait: painting by Gilbert
Stuart, gift of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge IV in memory of his great-grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, his grandfather, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge II, and his father, Thomas Jefferson Coolidge III, copyright 1995 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; John Paul Jones—Paris street scene, John Paul Jones—men in shaft, John Paul Jones—bust, John Paul Jones—head corpse, John Paul Jones— body corpse: Official U.S. Navy Photographs; HMS Victory in Battle of Trafalgar: with acknowledgment to the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth; Nelson hit on deck of Victory: National Maritime Museum, London; Fort McHenry bombarded: Courtesy of the National Park Service, artist L. Kenneth Townsend; Star-Spangled Banner—words: Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore; Star-Spangled Banner—the flag: Smithsonian Institution; Napoleon—full body: Library of Congress; Napoleon—blessings on remains: The Bettmann Archive; London Bridge—before, London Bridge—after: Courtesy of Lake Havasu City Historical Society; Jeremy Bentham’s body in case: University College London; John Brown’s Bible: Chicago Historical Society; John Browns face: Harpers Ferry National Historic Park; Captain Danjou—body pose, Captain Danjou—wooden hand: Musée de la Legion Étrangère; Illustration of Sickles visiting leg: National Museum of Health and Medicine, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, NCP #1727; Sickles photograph in wheelchair, Lincoln Gettysburg photo, Gettysburg Address—page one, Gettysburg Address—page two: Library of Congress; McLean House and family: Appomattox Court House National Historic Park; Appomattox Surrender painting: National Geographic Society/painting by Tom Lovell; Ford’s Theatre view: Illinois State Historical Society; Lincoln deathbed—photograph: Chicago Historical Society; Lincoln deathbed scene—engraving: The Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Number 1917; Stonewall Jackson’s raincoat, Little Sorrell—the horse: Virginia Military Institute Museum; John Milton—face, Elizabeth Barrett Browning—face: Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; Robert Browning’s Reliquary—Browning, Robert Browning’s Reliquary—Milton: by kind permission of the Keats-Shelley Memorial House; Joseph Carey Merrick—portrait, seated: British Dental Journal and with the kind permission of The London Hospital Medical College; Merrick’s cardboard model: by kind permission of The London Hospital Medical College; Owney, the railway mascot: National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Wright Brothers’ Flyer: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Teddy Roosevelt after being shot: from Fighting Years: Memoirs of a Liberal Editor by Oswald Garrison VilIard, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939; Breast pocket items of Teddy Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library; Piltdown Gang: by courtesy of The Natural History Museum, London/Painting by John Cooke; Piltdown Man—skulls: by courtesy of The Natural History Museum, London; Laddie Boy—copper dog: Smithsonian Institution Photo No. 18524A; Babe Ruth hitting 60th home run, Babe Ruth’s bat: National Baseball Library & Archive, Cooperstown, New York; John Dillinger—face, John Dillinger’s wooden gun: The John Dillinger Museum; Anne Frank—diary page: copyright AFF/AFS Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Enola Gay: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Albert Einstein—face: AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives; Einstein’s brain: by courtesy of the photographer, Thomas S. Harvey, M.D.; Rifle, Lee Harvey Oswald holding rifle, Rifle in test: National Archives; Voyager’s gold-plated record: JPL/NASA.

 

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