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...around the Baltic Sea. But from there, says Fitzhugh, "their network expanded to Europe and Britain, and then up the Russian rivers. They reached Rome, Baghdad, the Caspian Sea, probably Africa too. Buddhist artifacts from northern India have been found in a Swedish Viking grave, as has a charcoal brazier from the Middle East." The Hagia Sophia basilica in Istanbul has a Viking inscription in its floor. A Mycenaean lion in Venice is covered with runes of the Norse alphabet...
...dawn the grave walls shake with the sound of gongs and bells and clappers, and priests huddled in green robes, or all in black, gather around a brazier, drinking tea. A high priest in orange robes, followed by an attendant carrying a red umbrella, delivers blessings on the heads of rows of crouching petitioners. Underneath the main hall is the temple's most charged metaphorical space, an underground passageway, black as the womb, in which the visitor, sightless, is invited to fumble through the cold and dark in search of a "Key to Paradise...
...Attorney Mary Jo White of the Southern District of New York announced that the government will move to retry the case quickly, and there are indications that additional counts may be added to the nine concerning the contract for the 1991 fight between Julio Cesar Chavez and Harold Brazier. Had King been found guilty on all nine counts, he would have faced a maximum of five years in prison and a $2.25 million fine...
...would have had to work one heck of a lot harder than I did if I were to get in today," says Oliver Brazier '56, a graduate of Exeter...
...last of the World War I poets, and the title poem of Over the Brazier (1916), his first book of verse, foresaw the Lost Generation: "What life to lead and where to go/ After the War, after the War?" Critics in the early 1920s classed and anthologized Graves as a Georgian poet. In the late 1920s, his close analysis of a Shakespeare sonnet impressed Critic William Empson and led, indirectly, to the textual scrutinies of the New Criticism of the 1940s...