Word: diadems
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...bronze-covered hubs and iron rims. Of the chariot itself little remained, but among the bronze ornaments from its vanished sides lay the delicate skeleton of a young woman. She must have been (or been loved by) a person of high position, for on her head was a golden diadem weighing more than a pound, with beautifully modeled winged horses and lions' paws. Professor Joffroy does not think the crown was of local manufacture, but he has no idea where it was made...
...painted cavity below lay the all but pulverized skeleton of a middle-aged man. His fine cloth raiment was in tatters, but his burial jewelry made as rich a display as it had when he was interred 13 centuries ago. A jade diadem covered his skull, and chunky jade earrings lay where his ears had been. A jade mask with inlaid emerald eyes covered his face. Inside the mouth was a jade bead, and a long jade necklace hung over a beaded breastplate...
...Ettleson, former executive editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, moved over to run the San Francisco Call-Bulletin, and more changes are in the offing for Detroit and other cities. But the biggest shake-up of all came to the American Weekly, once the brightest jewel in the Hearst diadem...
...work" near the sunken wreck. In 1683 Captain William Campbell sailed the frigate Anna of Argyll into the harbor and ordered the divers "to sink their bells . . . and duck and work regardless of the threats of the MacLeans." The embattled treasure-seekers managed to catch "a crowne or diadem, and had hooked the sayme, but being chained, it fell among ye timbers." They soon gave...
...Carmen Franco y Polo, 23, only child of Dictator Francisco Franco, became the Marquesa de Villaverde in one of the flossiest weddings that Spain had seen in years. Wearing a Balenciaga faille gown, with a veil sweeping down from a diamond and pearl diadem, the willowy brunette bride marched up the aisle of the Royal Chapel, of El Pardo Palace to face Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, Roman Catholic Primate of Spain. Standing beside the Marqués, Cristobal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascaran, 28, who wore the red-and-cream uniform of the Order of "the Holy Sepulchre, Carmen...