Keyser said the Columbia Rim Water Association has two wells that serve 1, 500 homes, or about 3, 500 people in White Salmon, Bingen and the port of Klickitat, Washington.

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The first entirely artificial language of which any record survives, Lingua Ignota, was created by the twelfth-century German nun and mystic Hildegard von Bingen, who is better known for having composed what may be the earliest surviving morality play.

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Sellars tells the story through texts ranging from those by the 12th-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen to the 20th-century radical Catholic activist Dorothy Day, from poetry by Louise Erdrich and Rosario Castellanos to excerpts from the Old and News Testaments.

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