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...Russia's most intriguing mysteries has added yet another chapter. On July 29 archaeologists announced that they had discovered near Yekaterinburg in the Urals the remains of a young boy and adolescent woman thought to be the 13-year-old Crown Prince Alexei, son of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas Romanov, and Alexei's sister, believed to be 19-year-old Maria. The remains -bone fragments, teeth, bullets and fragments of ceramic bottles supposedly used by the executioners to carry sulfuric acid to mutilate the bodies beyond recognition - have pushed Russian state prosecutors to re-launch a probe to investigate...
...Back in July 1918, Lenin feared that the deposed Emperor Nicholas would re-emerge as a rallying symbol for anti-Bolshevik forces and secretly ordered the entire family executed. The Emperor, the Empresses Alexandra, Alexei and his four sisters, lovingly called "OTMA" by the family - Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia - all were brutally shot in the basement of the Ipatyev House in Yekaterinburg, where they were kept in exile. The bodies were thought to be covered in sulphuric acid and buried in secret graves nearby. They were exhumed in 1991, but two were missing - the boy and one of the girls...
...nearly half of China's 56 ethnic groups. Culturally, many of the province's citizens have more in common with their Burmese and Laotian neighbors than they do with the Han majority that makes up most of China. Indeed, the Chinese proverb "The mountains are high, and the emperor is far away" seems tailor-made for the people of Yunnan...
...Prince Tomohito, the alcoholic.' PRINCE TOMOHITO, a cousin of Japanese Emperor Akihito and sixth in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne, addressing a welfare organization in the city of Sendai. There is a strong stigma attached to alcoholism in Japan and disclosures by public figures are rare. Tomohito has been undergoing treatment at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo...
PRINCE TOMOHITO, cousin of Japanese Emperor Akihito, confirming his struggle with alcoholism in an unprecedented royal disclosure...