EditorialDiedre Neal, principal of Alice Deal Middle School in Northwest Washington, stands outside the school on April 8, 2021. (Nate Palmer/The New York Times)
EditorialPretty good, brown-orange sigillata. Shape: Dragendorff 43 or 45, wall fragment. On the inside inlaid with quartz grit. Sharply pierced, hw.w. to be worn as an amulet. Dating: IIB-IIA, pendant, shard, earthenware, terra sigillata, H. 4,3 cm, B. 2,9 cm,...
EditorialShrapnel Shell, Garnet cartets consisting of a wooden cylindrical body and a wooden lid with raised rim covered with tin. There are four whiskers in the lid and a hole in the middle. Inside the grenade some coal grit has been left behind and a short bi...
EditorialMetals including magnetic iron ore grit and crystals, pyrite crystal group, pyrite with petrified Ammonite fossil, markasite, bloodstone and copiapite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert'...