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Maria Reiche Grosse-Neumann was a German-born Peruvian mathematician, archaeologist, and technical translator. She is known for her research into the Nazca Lines, which she first saw in 1941 together with American historian Paul Kosok. Known as the "Lady of the Lines", Reiche made the documentation, preservation and public dissemination of the Nazca Lines her life's work.
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science · Peruvian archaeologist, mathematician and technical translator (1903–1998) · archaeologist · mathematician · language teacher · also Maria Reiche, Lady of the lines, Maria Reiche Grosse-Neumann, Reiche
Born 15 May 1903 · Died 8 June 1998 · Q213577
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We are willing to worship a God only if God makes us safe. Thus you get the silly question, How does a good God let bad things happen to good people? Of course, it was a rabbi who raised that question, but Christians took it up as their own. Have you read the Psalms lately? We're seeing a much more complex God than that question gives credit for.
Surely, I know what you know not.
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“We are willing to worship a God only if God makes us safe. Thus you get the silly question, How does a good God let bad things happen to good people? Of course, it was a rabbi who raised that question, but Christians took it up as their own. Have you read the Psalms lately? We're seeing a much more complex God than that question gives credit for.”
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“Surely, I know what you know not.”
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Died 1998-06-08.
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Maria Reiche died of ovarian cancer on 8 June 1998, at Fuerza Aérea del Perú (Peruvian Air Force) Hospital, at Las Palmas Air Base in Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru.
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Awarded Palmas Magisteriales (1986).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru (1983).
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Awarded Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1983).
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Reiche became a founding member of South American Explorers, a non-profit travel, scientific and educational organization
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After his second study period in Peru, Reiche continued the work and mapped the area
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Together with American historian Paul Kosok
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By which she first saw the lines and figures of Nazca from the air
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Reiche became an assistant to Paul Kosok, an American historian from Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York, who was studying ancient irrigation systems in Peru
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Became a teacher in Lima and also worked on scientific translations
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While still in Cusco, she accidentally stabbed herself with a cactus and lost a finger to gangrene
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As a young woman, she went to Peru to work as a governess and tutor for the children of the German consul in Cusco
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“A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God”
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Born 1903-05-15.
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“But unto wrong what is His Name? Our God is a consuming flame To every wrong beneath the sun!”
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“It’s not my job to be God’s lawyer,...I’m his salesman. I do believe he’s the greatest thing that ever existed, and I encourage people to get to know him without trying to explain what he’s doing or why.”
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