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Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| New Testament manuscript | |
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| Text | Acts 4–6 † |
|---|---|
| Date | 4th century |
| Script | Greek |
| Found | Egypt |
| Now at | Staatliche Museen zu Berlin |
| Cite | A. H. Salonius, Die griechischen Handschriftenfragmente des Neuen Testaments in den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, ZNW 26 (1927), 97–119 |
| Size | 18.6 by 10.4 cm |
| Type | Alexandrian text-type |
| Category | II |
Papyrus 8 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 𝔓8 or α 8 (von Soden), is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains Acts 4:31–37; 5:2–9; 6:1–6.8–15.[citation needed] The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th century.[1]
The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page.[2]
The Greek text of this codex is a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. Aland placed it in Category II.[1]
The text of the codex was published by Salonius in 1927.[3]
It is currently housed at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and part of the Berlin Papyrus Collection (Papyrus Berlin 8683).[1][4]
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Papyrus 8 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), signed by 𝔓8 or α 8 (von Soden), is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles, it contains Acts 4:31–37; 5:2–9; 6:1–6.8–15. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the 4th century. The text is written in two columns per page, 25 lines per page.
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 8 (P. Oxy. 8) is a fragment of Greek hexameter poetry. The dialect is a mixture of Aeolic and Doric. It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The fragment is dated to the first or second century. It is housed in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, with the catalogue number SM2211. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1898. The manuscript was written on papyrus in a form of the roll (probably). The measurements of the fragment are 61 by 109 mm. The fragment contains seven hexameter lines. The text is written in a small neat round uncial hand. The authorship of the poem is uncertain. Friedrich Blass attributes the fragment to Alcman; Maurice Bowra suggests Erinna, and Martin Litchfield West suggests Anyte.
Papyrus Berlin may refer to several papyri kept in the Berlin Papyrus Collection of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, including: Papyrus Berlin 3027 or the Erman Papyrus, a medical papyrus Papyrus Berlin 3033 or the Westcar Papyrus, a storytelling papyrus Papyrus Berlin 3038 or the Brugsch Papyrus, a medical papyrus Papyrus Berlin 6619, a mathematical papyrus Papyrus Berlin 6774 or Papyrus 79, a copy of the New Testament in Greek Papyrus Berlin 8502 or Berlin Codex, a Coptic manuscript of biblical apocrypha Papyrus Berlin 8683 or Papyrus 8, a copy of the New Testament in Greek Papyrus Berlin 11529, an unidentified Greek mathematical text Papyrus Berlin 11765 or Uncial 0189, a parchment manuscript of the New Testament Papyrus Berlin 13447 or Behistun papyrus, an Aramaic-Egyptian fragmentary copy of the Behistun inscription Papyrus Berlin 16388 or Papyrus 25, an early copy of the New Testament in Greek Papyrus Berlin 17213, a Koine Greek fragment of the Septuagint, dated to the 3rd century CE Papyrus Berlin 25239 or Papyrus Bingen 45, a Papyrus arguably containing an autograph of Cleopatra
Bab el-Gasus (Egyptian Arabic: باب الجسس, romanized: bāb el-gasus, lit. 'Gate of the Priests [Spies]'), also known as the Priestly Cache and the Second Cache, was a cache of ancient 21st dynasty (c. 1070–945 BCE) Egyptian mummies found at Deir el-Bahari in 1891. It was excavated by French Egyptologists Eugène Grebaut and Georges Daressy, with Urbain Bouriant and Ahmed Kamal, on the direction of Mohamed Ahmed Abd al‑Rassul, who had also revealed the location of the Royal Cache in 1881. The tomb entrance was located on the flat area just outside the precinct wall in front of the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut. The find was significant for Egyptology, particularly in respect of religion, mummification, and coffin studies. It is the largest intact tomb ever found in Egypt. Today, the contents of the tomb are spread between 30 museums worldwide. In 1893, Khedive Abbas II of Egypt presented groups of artefacts from the tomb to 16 countries, as gifts celebrating the Khedive's accession to the throne. As a result of this dispersion, the artefacts have received limited focus by scholars. It contained 254 richly decorated coffins (101 double sets) giving 153 coffin sets in total, as well as 110 shabti boxes, 77 Osirian wooden statuettes (mostly hollow and containing a papyrus), 8 wooden steles, 2 large wooden statues (Isis and Nephthys), 16 canopic reed baskets, 5 round baskets made of woven reed. The coffins were made almost exclusively with wood from the native fig tree, the Ficus sycomorus. On the 125th anniversary of the find, the Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos of the University of Coimbra launched the "Gate of the Priests" project, with the University of Leiden, the National Museum of Antiquities of Leiden, the Vatican Museums and UCLA, in order to reconstruct the original collection of Bab el-Gasus. A new display of the Bab el-Gasus artefacts was opened at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in 2021 following the moving of the Royal Cache. Although one of the Theban tombs, the tomb never received a serial number.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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