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...fires set by the incendiary bombs were so intensely hot that, of the night's 12,300 mortalities, the bodies of many of those who were trapped in underground shelters shriveled to the size of dolls. "A crying boy in an air force uniform came out of the cellar, a covered enamel bucket in his hand," an anonymous survivor remembers. "It contained his parents." The military details of the Allied air warfare on Hitler's Germany between 1940 and 1945 have been extensively described by professional historians. Yet the suffering of those who experienced the bombing has largely been relegated...
...Crimson finds itself in a similarly disadvantageous situation when it visits Providence at 4 p.m. following a 7 p.m. game the night before. The Friars will be coming off a 2 p.m. home game against Hockey East cellar team Boston College...
Between 1915 and 1917, he began to photograph an 18th century farmhouse in Bucks County, Pa., that he rented as a weekend retreat, as well as the old barns in the surrounding countryside. In a photograph like Doylestown House, Stairs from Below, in which the underside of a cellar stairway forms a hard-edged, spiraling abstraction, he was drawing connections between the most radical modernism and old traditions of American art and life. What his picture hints is that the 20th century had a backstairs connection to the 19th. Sheeler suspected, and he was right, that a Pennsylvania farmhouse drew...
...victory clinched second place in the Ivies for Harvard (12-5, 6-1 Ivy) while Columbia (3-14, 0-7) finished in the cellar...
...House of Lords. GEORGIA Free at Last Kidnapped English businessman Peter Shaw was about to be shot on a mountain path in Pankisi Gorge when he broke free and hid in gorse bushes. He escaped after five months captivity, during which he had been kept chained in a cellar. The banker was seized in June in Tbilisi by a gang disguised as policemen. His unaided escape will do little to enhance President Eduard Shevardnadze's claim that he's asserting authority over the gorge. FRANCE That's All Folks A Red Cross refugee camp at Sangatte, in northern France, shut...