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\"Ishtar<\/a>
The Ishtar Gate, built in approximately 575 BC by Nebuchadnezzar II, as it now stands in Berlin\u2019s Pergamon Museum
(Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Here are some items that have been newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:<\/p>\n

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\u201cNibley Lectures: Time Vindicates the Prophets<\/em> \u2014 A World without Prophets\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

From March 7 to October 17 in 1954, Hugh Nibley delivered a series of 30 weekly lectures on KSL Radio that were also published as pamphlets. The series called \u201cTime Vindicates the Prophets\u201d was given in answer to those who were challenging the right of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints<\/a> to call themselves Christians.<\/span><\/p>\n

This second lecture in the series was later known as \u201cHow Will It Be When None More Saith \u2018I Saw\u2019?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Audio Roundtable:\u00a0Come, Follow Me<\/em> Old Testament Lesson 27 \u201cIf the Lord Be God, Follow Him\u201d<\/em>: 1 Kings 17\u201319<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0Old Testament Lesson 27,\u00a0\u201cIf the Lord Be God, Follow Him,\u201d<\/em> on 1 Kings 17\u201319, featured Steve Densley and Mark Johnson. The roundtable has now been extracted from the 22 May 2022 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show. The complete show may be heard at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-May-22-2022\/<\/a>.\u00a0 Moreover, the Interpreter Radio Show can be heard on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640, or you can listen live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Come, Follow Me<\/em> \u2014 Old Testament Study and Teaching Helps Lesson 27, June 27\u2013July 3: 1 Kings 17\u201319 \u2014\u00a0\u201cIf the Lord Be God, Follow Him\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jonn Claybaugh has, once again, generously provided one of his concise sets of notes for students and teachers of the scriptures who are following this year\u2019s Sunday School curriculum.<\/p>\n

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\"An<\/a>
Portrait bust of Queen Nefertiti (d. ca. 1330 BC)
Neues Museum, Berlin (photo by Philip Pikart)
In person, she\u2019s even more stunningly beautiful than the photographs of the sculpture can convey. My wife thinks that she looks like Audrey Hepburn.
(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Well, our tour effectively ended today.\u00a0 Some are leaving very early tomorrow, most are leaving later in the morning, and a small number of us are returning by different routes on the following day.\u00a0 But our joint activities as an entire group are now over.<\/p>\n

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We started this morning with a bus tour of Berlin.\u00a0 We drove past many interesting sites.\u00a0 One of them was the stadium where the 1936 Olympics were held (and where, among other things and to the furious rage of Adolf Hitler, America\u2019s Jesse Owens outperformed representatives of the Aryan master race).\u00a0 We drove past the very sobering memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, got out for a while by the Charlottenburg Palace and then again by the Brandenburg Gate, and drove by the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, the Tiergarten, the Victory Column, the Berlin Zoo, Checkpoint Charlie, and the Alexander von Humboldt Universit\u00e4t Berlin, where the Nazis held one of their most famous and photogenic book burnings in 1933.<\/p>\n

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\"A<\/a>
In this 10 May 1933 German book-burning on the Opernplatz (today the Bebelplatz) in Berlin, directly adjacent to the prestigious Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t, the forerunners of many of today\u2019s liberal fascist political activists responded vigorously and very righteously to ideas that they didn\u2019t share. Among the roughly 20,000 books burned on this particular occasion were works by Heinrich Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Heine, Erich K\u00e4stner, Karl Marx, and Albert Einstein.
(Wikimedia Commons public domain photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Another place that we passed by was what is now called the \u201cDetlev Rohwedder Building,\u201d which is located in the Wilhelmstra\u00dfe in Berlin\u2019s historical government quarter and which has been the head office of the German Finance Ministry since 1999.\u00a0 That probably doesn\u2019t sound very interesting, but the building does have an important history.\u00a0 It was built between 1935 and 1936 by the National Socialists, for whom it served as the headquarters of the Reich Aviation Ministry \u2014 the famous Luftwaffe<\/em> \u2014 until the end of the war, which made it Herman G\u00f6ring\u2019s power base.\u00a0 Although, obviously, it played a central role in the Nazi war effort, the building emerged from the Second World War virtually undamaged.\u00a0 Then it became the headquarters for the Soviet military administration of its sector of Berlin and, thereafter, an important government building in the Communist government of the \u201cGerman Democratic Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We got out of the bus there, by the Detlev Rohwedder Building, near one of the few still-standing portions of the old Berlin Wall.\u00a0 (How strange, when you think about it, that such a people\u2019s paradise as the Deutsche Demokratische Republik felt itself obliged to build a wall and to supplement it with barbed wire and landmines and guards armed with machine guns in order to prevent its ungrateful citizens from attempting to escape.)\u00a0 We didn\u2019t have time to visit the \u201cTopography of Terror\u201d exhibit there, unfortunately,, but my wife and I have seen it before, and it\u2019s very powerful.<\/p>\n

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Following lunch together near the enormous Berlin Television Tower, we all went to the justly famous Museum Island<\/a>, where most of us went to one or more of its dazzling museums and some took a sightseeing boat ride on the Spree River.\u00a0 One or two may have even gone into the Cathedral.\u00a0 My wife and I spent our time entirely in the Pergamon Museum<\/a>, with its antiquities from the ancient Near East and its collection of Islamic art.\u00a0 We would like to have seen the bust of Nefertiti again, in the Neues Museum, but we simply ran out of time.<\/p>\n

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Then there was a group dinner, and that was it.<\/p>\n

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\"Reagan<\/a>
\u201cMr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!\u201d
Ronald Reagan at Berlin\u2019s Brandenburg Gate on 12 June 1987. Between him and the gate, but not visible in this photo, was the Berlin Wall.\u00a0 (Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Yesterday, I was talking with our superb German tour manager, Christian Mauer<\/a>, about the insane irregularity of English spelling.\u00a0 The conversation reminded me of this classic poem, which was created (so far as I\u2019m aware) at Sonoma State University in California.\u00a0\u00a0The point of it, of course, is that everything in this poem would be accepted by a computer\u2019s English-language spelling checker:<\/p>\n

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I halve a spelling chequer<\/span>
\nIt came with my pea sea<\/span>
\nIt plane lee marques four my revue<\/span>
\nMiss steaks aye ken knot sea<\/span><\/p>\n

Eye ran this poem threw it<\/span>
\nYour sure reel glad two no<\/span>
\nIt\u2019s vary polished in it\u2019s weigh<\/span>
\nMy chequer tolled me sew<\/span><\/p>\n

A chequer is a bless sing<\/span>
\nIt freeze yew lodes of thyme<\/span>
\nIt helps me awl stiles two reed<\/span>
\nAnd aides mi when aye rime<\/span><\/p>\n

To rite with care is quite a feet<\/span>
\nOf witch won should be proud<\/span>
\nAnd wee mussed dew the best wee can<\/span>
\nSew flaws are knot aloud<\/span><\/p>\n

And now bee cause my spelling<\/span>
\nis checked with such grate flare<\/span>
\nTheir are know faults with in my cite<\/span>
\nOf nun eye am a wear<\/span><\/p>\n

Each frays come posed up on my screen<\/span>
\nEye trussed to be a joule<\/span>
\nThe chequer poured o\u2019er every word<\/span>
\nTo cheque sum spelling rule<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why aye brake in two averse<\/span>
\nMy righting wants too pleas<\/span>
\nSow now ewe sea wye aye dew prays<\/span>
\nSuch soft wear for pea seas.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Posted from Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n

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