That painting, sealed in a wooden crate, had been sent to Minneapolis from New York City — for reasons unknown, by a person unknown — in 1945, Professor Clark said.
The rubble -- all that is left of an unknown number of priceless antiquities -- remained hidden until January, when Paul Bucherer, director of a small museum in Switzerland dedicated to Afghan culture, was ushered into the room at the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture, where, paradoxically, the crates had been sent for safekeeping in the late 1990's.
Open Source Condition Reports Add the condition of paintings "rolled up, stored in crates that were sent to Theo in Paris," Louis van Tilborgh noted, and a certain type of stress cracking and impacted impasto in the paintings can be detected.
On this particular day he was building some crates for the clothes his church was sending to orphanages in China.
I imagined crate-loads of these things being sent to the Catholic Church and out on to the streets of Egypt, single-handedly tackling the huge problem the libido presents to Middle Eastern culture.
Inside the facilities' hangars, other planes have been reduced to crates of spare parts, waiting to be sent out to other bases in the US or across the world to help other aircraft take to the air again.
The funny thing is, though, he's being sent into space as if he's a crate of eggs.
First he bought 2,000 pieces of mostly 18th-century French furniture and metalwork, then around 260 works of primarily French medieval art, directing that it all be sent to the Met, a task that required 346 shipping crates.
But for the other races, the 24 cars and all of the material from the 12 teams' motor homes and garages are sent around the world in six jumbo jets, and in hundreds of sea crates.
But according to the stenciled markings on the newly found crates, at least 2,322 of the missiles appear to be from previously undiscovered consignments, meaning that at least 7,592 of the missiles had been sent to Libya.
