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...highlight of the mission for Chief Archaeologist Scott Sledge, 38, was the discovery of a brass regimental facing plate, a shieldlike ornament from a soldier's bearskin cap, with the word royal clearly distinguishable. After gingerly brushing away some silt, Sledge recalls, "I came across something shiny right underneath." It was embedded in the surrounding coral, which he had to chip away carefully. Just as he was about to give up for the day and return to the surface, the plate loosened, and he was able to slide it out of the coral in perfect condition. Says Sledge: "That...
...occasion had all the trappings of a lovefest. In the northern French city of Lille last week, schoolchildren waved tiny Union Jacks and Tricolor flags. Scottish bagpipers in kilts and bearskin hats played reels and strathspeys, and French military bands blared out God Save the Queen and the Marseillaise. But nothing embodied the spirit of Franco-British cooperation more than a joint announcement by President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that their governments had approved the construction of a 31-mile-long rail tunnel linking the two countries. For nearly two centuries, rulers, entrepreneurs and engineers have dreamed...
...British Explorer John Ross arrived in Greenland and gave Arctic nomads their first good look at a qallunaaq, a "big eyebrows." In turn, Ross and his seamen gazed on squat Asians wearing bearskin pants. Outsiders called them Eskimos, a derivation from the derogatory Cree Indian word meaning "eaters of raw meat." They simply called themselves Inuit, human beings, a distinction born not of racial arrogance, but of fact. For centuries, the only other walking mammals that most polar natives met used four legs or flippers. The Inuit were built like nature's thermos bottles, with short arms and legs...
...overtures. Britain's Thatcher, the first head of a NATO government to call on Reagan at the White House, was greeted by a huge honor guard arrayed across the South Lawn. Battle streamers snapping in a brisk wind, the Marine Band passed in review, its bearskin-hatted drum major raising a brass baton in salute. Reagan in his welcoming remarks stressed watchfulness: "So long as our adversaries continue to arm themselves at a pace far beyond the needs of defense, so the free world must do whatever is necessary to safeguard its own security...
Paumier never becomes more than an enigmatic figure, portrayed only polemically by his foe, and inadequately by the dutiful notary. Beneath the bearskin robe he liked to wear, the rebel leader remains a shadowy image, an unmeasured mix of guile, principle and erratic power. But Guerin's journal reveals the cunning, self-righteous man who rose to the nobility on the corpse of Paumier. "In the worst possible taste," notes Le Roy Ladurie, the unabashed judge chose as his coat of arms an uprooted apple tree - in French, a pommier...