EDITORIAL : NOT OLD ENOUGH.``RAIDERS of the Lost Ark'' it's not. The incredible find announced in early January of a battered bat·ter 1 v. bat·tered, bat·ter·ing, bat·ters v.tr. 1. To hit heavily and repeatedly with violent blows. 2. To subject to repeated beatings or physical abuse. 3. wooden chest containing old coins and a letter purportedly written by a lost Gold Rush pioneer in Death Valley in the 1850s appears to be someone's idea of a joke. Suspicions were raised when a paper dated Jan. 2, 1850, and signed with the name of one of the lost forty-niners, William Robinson William Robinson, or Will Robinson or Bill Robinson or other nicknames, may refer to:
``Grubstake grub·stake n. Supplies or funds advanced to a mining prospector or a person starting a business in return for a promised share of the profits. tr.v. ,'' say historians, was not a term Robinson would have used before dying in the desert 200 miles away from the site and 26 days after the letter was written. The clincher clinch·er n. 1. One that clinches, as: a. A nail, screw, or bolt for clinching. b. A tool for clinching nails, screws, or bolts. 2. came when tests determined adhesive samples from items in the chest contained 20th century polymers. Amateur Pearblossom archeologist Jerry Freeman, who stumbled upon the chest around Thanksgiving last year after spending years researching the routes taken by gold seekers on their way to riches in California, was saddened by the news. It just goes to show, all that glitters All That Glitters (shortened from "All that glitters is not gold", a famous misquotation from The Merchant of Venice, the original line being ) is the name of a number of different works:
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