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Adams just might have been the ticket
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Mike Vandermause
Adams just might have been the ticket
By MIKE VANDERMAUSE
Thursday, February 1, 2001
Defensive tackle Sam Adams was on his way to Green Bay to sign a
free-agent contract with the Packers last April.
Adams, a former first-round draft choice, was no longer wanted
after playing six years for the Seahawks. The naysayers in Seattle
claimed Adams was lazy, unmotivated and an underachiever.
But Packer general manager Ron Wolf knew better. Wolf was trying
to bolster the Green Bay defense, and he figured Adams would provide
a major boost to the line.
Wolf was so impressed with Adams, ...
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Euphrates River Valley settlement; the Carchemish sector in the third millennium BC.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...Euphrates River Valley settlement; the Carchemish sector in the third millennium BC...it is archeologically inaccessible. Carchemish was one of the great capital cities...settlements and temples as well as material in Carchemish hinterlands, pastoral nomads, ranked...
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Late Hittite Emar: The Chronology, Synchronisms, and Socio-Political Aspects of a Late Bronze Age Fortress Town.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...the Hittite empire and was ruled from Carchemish. Adamthwaite gathers many strands of...reigns of thirteenth-century kings of Carchemish. His study of Emar names includes the...the reign of Ini-Tessub, who ruled Carchemish through about four decades of the mid...
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L'Accadico di Emar.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...discuss some separate categories, such as tablets from the Carchemish chancellery, and the evidence is not handled as an undifferentiated...displays common western traits acquired especially by way of Carchemish, while the vertical Syrian type represents an older local...
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Galleries gift for museum. (British Museum to open three Middle Eastern galleries with the help of two American philanthropists)
Magazine article from: The Middle East
; ...bronzes from the Kingdom of Urartu and stone sculptures from Carchemish. The British Museum has long been the home of one of the...miniature gold and lapis lazuli figures discovered at grave in Carchemish, Exhibits from Iron Age Anatolia include examples of some...
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Desert queen: the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell. (explorer, author and adventurer)
Magazine article from: The Middle East
; ...month trip to view little-known archaeological remains at Carchemish, Babylon, Seleucia and Ctesiphon. On 19 May 1911, she...with the boyish T.E. Lawrence while he was excavating at Carchemish. Being Gertrude Bell, she told him his digging techniques...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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On This Day.(ROP)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England)
; ...1905-1907. His early work in the field included excavations at Carchemish (1912-14) and the Egyptian site of Tel-el-Amarna (1921-22). In 1919 he cleared the Carchemish, the Hittite city, and he also worked with the Egypt Exploration...
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Queen of the sands.(Gertrude Bell pioneered Middle Eastern archaeology)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...wastes. This time, she visited the ancient Hittite city of Carchemish and recorded countless inscriptions there, then stumbled...Najav, the holy Shi'ite city of pilgrimage. Returning to Carchemish, she found two young British archaeologists nervously awaiting...
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Syria: Land of civilizations
Magazine article from: Near Eastern Archaeology
; ...on the Syrian side, for example, with Jarablus (ancient Carchemish) almost on the border but on the Turkish side, and with...some of the places one might associate with historic Syria (Carchemish, Harran, Antioch, Alalakh, Baalbek) are outside the boundaries...
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Symbiosis, Symbolism, and the Power of the Past: Canaan, Ancient Israel, and Their Neighbors from the Late Bronze Age through Roman Palaestina. Proceedings of the Centennial Symposium, W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research and American Schools of Oriental Research, Jerusalem, May 29-31, 2000
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
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The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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