The Geographer's Library

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of Art. Rabbi Adam Maisels, of Temple Beth Shalom in Los Angeles, and
the Rev. Hosea I. M. Jefferson of the Temperance AME Zion Church of
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, also took part in the service.
Ms. Watkins, 27, is keeping her name. She is an assistant district
attorney in Manhattan. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University
and Yale Law School. Her father is chief curator for South Asian antiquities
at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He is also a founding member
of and baritone in the Musica Antiqua Brooklyn, a vocal group
dedicated to historically informed performance of Renaissance-era
music. The bride’s mother is the group’s other founding member; she
remains the first soprano. She is also a professor of visual arts at New
York University.
Mr. Glantz, 32, is a junior partner in the law firm of Sanders,
Clark, Monk, Brown, & Garrett, working principally in government
contracts. He holds a B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Chicago
and an M.A. from Oxford University. His mother and father run
Glantz’s Delicatessen in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Item 13: A platinum ring, with a bevel-cut 9.04-carat yellow sapphire
set in its center. “It is the morning sun and it is the end” is inscribed in Arabic
around the outside of the ring. Around the inside are intertwined pointed
leaves. It is believed to be one of a set of three rings made secretly in Ardabil
by Osman, court jeweler to the deposed Farooz, last king of the Sassanid
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