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...16th century, the Mogul Emperor Akbar the Great decided to erect a new capital for his empire on the dry plains of northern India. Vast amounts of money were spent, and the best architects and artisans were hired to lay out its imposing squares and build its graceful, airy palaces. Virtually untouched by the centuries, Fatehpur Sikri still stands-a beautiful monument to bad planning. Just 15 years after it was completed, Akbar's capital exhausted its water supply and was summarily abandoned...
...life hater! The second and final volume of Louis Sheaffer's fair-minded biography picks him up, 31 and ascendant, at his Broadway debut with Beyond the Horizon, which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1920. Between 1920 and 1922 he turned out eight plays. He wrote The Emperor Jones in about two weeks, The Hairy Ape in 2½ and Ah! Wilderness in less than a month...
...attempt to inject science into this woolly field, he conducts an annual opinion poll on the types of clothing that spell credibility and other positive qualities to the public. The 1973 results, based on a sampling of 1,800 people completed last month, are as astonishing as the emperor's new clothes...
VIDAL HAS WRITTEN another historical novel, Julian, set in much different circumstances. It is the story of Julian the Apostate, a late Roman Emperor, and the novel stands in the Walter Pater tradition. But in Julian Vidal did more than merely ascribe motives to an historical actor--he developed the actor into a rather remarkable character. Burr remains an historical figure, with attributed motives, but little real depth...
...Olympic gold medal when he won the marathon in his bare feet in Rome in 1960 and the only athlete to win the event twice in a row with his victory in Tokyo in 1964; of a brain hemorrhage; in Addis Ababa. An Ethiopian national hero and member of Emperor Haile Selassie's elite Imperial Guard, Bikila missed the hat trick in Mexico City in 1968 because of a strained ankle. He was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of an auto collision...