As the earth cooled into a planet, the high specific gravity of gold placed it in the earthâs mantle. Specific gravity is the mass of gold compared to the mass of the same volume of water, or 19.3 times heavier than water. The mantle is the inner layer of molten rock, below the continents and ocean floors. The continents have been moving around over the earthâs mantle for geological ages.
Widowed in 1992 and mourning the loss of Burr the following year, Hale retired in 1995, content in her legacy as a consummate character actress and the definitive Della Street. Barbara Hale died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on January 26, 2017. She was 94.
October 30, 2012. Letitia Baldrige, who was social secretary to first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and also became known as a âdoyenne of decorumâ and chief arbiter of good manners in modern America, died Oct. 29 at the Sunrise at Fox Hill nursing facility in Bethesda. She was 86.