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Merriman's thesis titled "Burial" consists of a display of prosthetic limbs being lowered into the ground as part of a simulated burial. This project is a controversial and unique presentation of death. Several masters of the Quad Houses objected to allowing Merriman to perform the project at the Quad, given the recent suicide of a Quad resident...
Victoria L. Merriman '98, a visual and environmental studies (VES) concentrator in Dunster House, finds herself in a rare predicament: She has completed her thesis, a video performance entitled "Burial," but may not be able to perform...
...died in 1885 at age 83, Victor Hugo was beyond question the most famous man of letters in France, and perhaps the world--his only rival being Charles Dickens. The English put up plaques to show where their literary celebrities lived or were born, and sometimes grant them burial in Westminster Abbey. Hugo, however, is the only writer to have a stone mark his place of conception. His parents' epochal embrace took place in a forest 3,000 ft. up on the flank of Mount Donon, overlooking the Rhineland, in May 1801, though it's typical of Hugo...
...haven't played with the possibility. In November, Doubleday plans to publish Garza-Valdes' provocatively titled The DNA of God? Scientifically, Garza-Valdes carefully hedges his statements about the shroud, saying only that "as of now, I have no reason to believe the Shroud of Turin is not the burial cloth of Jesus Christ" and that he thinks the blood on the shroud is human, male and ancient. In the early 1990s, Garza-Valdes asked Victor Tryon, director of the Center for Advanced DNA Technologies at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, to help him identify...
...treasures. As many as 1,000 archaeological sites dot the countryside. Most of the monuments--including Bronze Age structures and early Christian basilicas--are integral features of the landscape, unfenced and open to all. From the circular stone constructions called talayots, used from about 1500 B.C. as dwelling or burial places by some of the island's earliest settlers, to the mighty T-shaped taulas, hewn from two limestone blocks, these monuments stand mysterious and largely undisturbed--seldom visited and free of entrance fees, guards and ice-cream vendors...