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...Birmingham, Ala. and Kirkland House...
...recitals of stories," says Filiz Çagman, one of the show's curators and director of the Topkapi Palace Museum. Among several stunning carpets in the exhibition is a beautifully preserved woolen one from 13th century Konya. The carpet came from the mausoleum of the Anatolian Seljuk ruler Sultan Ala'al-Din Kay Qubad, who died in 1237, and is unique in its simple composition and color scheme. Simplicity was not an effect sought or achieved by the imperial architect Sinan, who designed the magnificent 16th century doors on display. Fashioned from walnut and inlaid with mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell...
DIED. BOBBY FRANK CHERRY, 74, former Ku Klux Klan member convicted in 2002 for the deadly 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.; of cancer; at the Kilby Correctional Facility near Montgomery. The attack, which followed the desegregation of Birmingham's schools and for which two of Cherry's associates were also convicted, killed four black girls...
Brownsboro, Ala...
...phoned their parents and begged them to tell members of Congress that this was a "suicide mission" because of the miserable condition of their unarmored vehicles. "Mom, I need you to raise pure hell," Specialist Amber McClenny said in a message on her family's answering machine in Dothan, Ala. Six of their trucks were scheduled to be removed from service because they were so outdated, and none could go faster than 40 m.p.h., according to Sergeant Larry McCook, who phoned his wife in Jackson, Miss. Specialist Major Coates told his father in Charlotte, N.C., that the platoon had been...