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Ankhesenamen too was ruled out. It was not impossible for the Pharaoh's wife to ascend the throne after her husband's death, and she may have been motivated by a mere power grab. A likelier scenario was that she was thinking more about her heirs. Two mummified fetuses were found in Tut's tomb. Both are thought to have been the royal couple's premature or stillborn daughters. If Tut was unable to sire healthy children, Ankhesenamen may have wanted him out of the way so she could marry someone who could...
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...David Rockwell's world, every room has room for more. For a restaurant he's currently designing in Japan, for example, he's devising a way to overarch some of the seating areas with waterfalls, onto which will be projected holographic fish that people could try to grab as they eat. It's as if he fears that eating and shopping--even gambling--are not fun enough. They have to be encased in color, movement, texture, visual bons mots. People have to be distracted while dining out, or like little children they'll get bored and start banging the cutlery...
...Siddique was the most experienced in guerrilla warfare, the most defiant and considered the most dangerous of the trio by his jailers because he had tried to grab a policeman's revolver shortly after he was arrested. "This man would shoot us all if he saw a chance to escape," muttered the Indian officer in charge. The prisoners, seated in a dim interrogation cell, said Islamabad would not demand their extradition because it did not acknowledge their presence in Kashmir. Said Mahmood: "We all knew, when we came, that we might not be able to go home...
...wasn’t looking to leave, but this is an opportunity and I felt I had to grab it,” Huidekoper said...