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Major religious celebrations this year include the Vatican's Holy Year of Redemption, which extends through next Easter, and Martin Luther's 500th birth day. Lufthansa and several travel agents and religious organizations have planned a series of tours tracing Luther's life. One of the most recondite cultural vacations available is a 27-day Plantagenet tour of medieval England and France, a $3,945 trip arranged and led by Peter Gravgaard, a Danish citizen who has taught literature in the U.S. and Europe...
...Easter Monday, more than a dozen men carrying shotguns and pistols climbed the 12-ft. wall of a Security Express compound in East London, eventually making off with about $10.5 million in bank notes. A month later, a lone cat burglar stole into Waddesdon Manor, a National Trust estate in Buckinghamshire, and carried away about $1.5 million worth of antiques, jewel-encrusted gold snuff boxes, figurines and rings from the famous Rothschild collection. In South London, a burglar climbed to the roof of Dulwich College, smashed a skylight, descended into the art gallery and used a crowbar to wrench from...
There was only one sour note in all this excitement. The great-grandfather of all these celebrations, "Easters" at the University of Maryland, celebrated on Easter weekend, was cancelled this year by Student Affairs Vice-President Ernest Ern. It was the first cancellation of the event in its 92 year long history...
...Easter bunny came late this year to Cornell University, when the American Society of Mechanical Engineers hosted its fifth annual Egg Drop Contest last week...
...introduced the jeweler to her sister Alexandra and Alexandra's husband King Edward VII of England, both of whom became steadfast patrons of Fabergé. Most of the Fabergéana at A la Vieille Russie were made for the Russian royal family. Among them are nine imperial Easter eggs, the works with which Fabergé is most closely identified. Their design was left entirely to Fabergé, and each contained a "surprise," a splendiferous equivalent of the prize in a Cracker Jack...