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What archaeologist Leana Souvaltze, who led the Greek team, actually found are three stone tablets bearing inscriptions that purportedly relate to Alexander's death, along with the remains of two large stone chambers. The artifacts come from a site in Egypt's Western Desert, near the oasis of Siwa-- the place where, as legend has it, Alexander received a favorable reading from an oracle. Near the end of his life, goes the story, he said he wanted to be buried at Siwa...
...Orleans via Washington and Atlanta, has reduced the Atlanta-New Orleans leg to three days a week. The Empire Builder will continue its daily schedule between Chicago and St. Paul-Minneapolis, but the connecting service to Seattle and Portland is now available only four times a week. The Desert Wind, which was a daily link between Chicago and Los Angeles via Salt Lake City, Utah, now runs three times a week...
Poonsters are more than happy to return Gewanter's 'praise' in kind. With typical eloquence, they describe their mentor as follows: "Gewanter is a force of nature--merciless as a desert wind, yet nurturing as a mountain stream...
...since the Iron Curtain was lifted and communism banished from the Soviet bloc, the lost generations are being found. Renewed interest in Judaism is part of a broad search for spirituality that has sprung up in the desert created by the demise of a discredited ideology. ``People are coming out of the woodwork and announcing they are Jewish,'' says David Lerner, a British educator who helped found a Sabbath school in Minsk. ``Six years ago, Jews were still being beaten up in Minsk. Now there are three religious congregations, the Sabbath school, a youth movement and a voluntary welfare organization...
Although he falls short when invoking high passions, Edmunds invoking high passions, Edmunds proves a competent tour guide through more earthly terrain. His travels lead readers through the desert communities of New Mexico, and allow them to wander briefly into Egypt and Russia...