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...19th century, 400-cell fortress-penitentiary maintained at an annual cost of more than $67,500 to keep just three inmates. The others: former Hitler Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, former Nazi Production Czar Albert Speer...
...discovered 50 years ago. Some experts believe that parts of the city, which Bingham named Machu Picchu (Old Peak), are 60 centuries old, which would make it 1,000 years older than ancient Babylon. More recently, if its ruins are interpreted correctly, it was at once an impregnable fortress and a majestic royal capital of an exiled civilization...
According to Bingham, Machu Picchu was in reality the Tampu-Tocco ("Window Tavern") of pre-Inca legend, a mountain fortress maintained by the kings of the Amautas, who ruled the highlands of the Andes for 62 generations. The last king, Pachacuti VI, was mortally wounded in a battle with barbarian tribes of the Amazon jungles, probably in the 8th century A.D., and his body was carried by his loyal warriors to Tampu-Tocco. With the death of Pachacuti, the widespread kingdom of the Amautas broke into pieces...
...title of Crown Prince does not as sure Badr of succession. A new Imam is picked by the ulema (learned men) who live in the fortress city of Sana in the north of Yemen. They can choose any male of the royal family or any Yemenite directly descended from the Prophet, of whom there may be as many as 50,000 in Yemen. The ulema do not much like Badr, have refused requests by the Imam to ratify Badr's title. Left-leaning Prince Badr has cultivated the U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, and at his urging...
...Carcassonne (through July 15). Behind its formidable walls, the fortress city offers a program formidable, meeting the competitive challenge of the nearby Avignon festival with Goldoni and Aristophanes, Romeo and Juliet, Emmanuel Roblès' Montserrat, a presentation in the original Provençal of Frédéric Mistral's poem Calendau, and a production called A Meeting with Vincent Van Gogh in Aries, based on the painter's correspondence with his brother Theo...