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...walled (and locked) garden. Around the grounds are chapels - replicas of famous European churches - such as the "Wee Kirk o' the Heather" (Ronald Reagan tied the knot with Jane Wyman there in 1940). In other locations there are replicas of Michelangelo's David and La Pieta. A massive stained-glass version of one of Jackson's favorite works of Renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, is the artistic highlight of the Great Mausoleum. (Jackson had a version of the painting at Neverland, with Christ replaced by himself and the disciples by the likes of Walt Disney, Elvis...
...shadow of rising violence. A cluster of vehicle bombs ripped through a central area of Kandahar, killing 43 and injuring 65, nearly all of them civilians. The ear-piercing explosions sent shock waves through the city, smashing windows miles away from the bombing site and leaving broken shards of glass and mangled remains of cars strewn on the streets. Heaps of rubble and smoldering debris lay amid dozens of damaged buildings, now resembling more the ruins of an ancient civilization...
...thought I might fall, but you know, when you are facing a problem where your life is in danger, there is only one option." - On climbing the Sears Tower in 1999; heavy humidity made the building's glass windows very slick. (In an interview with Buildering.net, June...
...took place at 3 pm, moments after Kazmi left his ministry. At the scene, his black car lies badly damaged on the side of the road. There are bullet marks on three sides of the vehicle, the front windscreen, and on both sides of the backseat. Broken shards of glass lie strewn on the road nearby. The steering wheel is smeared with blood, as are the cars seats. The minister's blood-stained turban and prayer beads were left abandoned as he was rushed to hospital. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...
...Tehran A Tap on the Glass Ceiling President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to nominate three female Cabinet members--Iran's first in more than 30 years--in a move widely viewed as an attempt to burnish his image with women amid continuing turmoil over his June re-election. The nominees include two political hard-liners: gynecologist Marzieh Vahid Dastgerdi as Health Minister and Fatemeh Ajorlu as Welfare Minister...