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A Pope in Boston: it confirms the dreams of generations of faithful Catholics, Irishmen, Italians and others, and confirms the fears of their Protestant antagonists of generations past. Besides the deafening roar of Boston's brassiest Catholic Youth Organization bands and the huzzahs of the crowds in the packed streets...
Few modern poets have got so worked up over their women as Louis Aragon and Vladimir Mayakovsky. For nearly 40 years the poet laureate of the French Communist Party rhapsodized in verse over Les Yeux d'Elsa and other cherished features of his wife Elsa Triolet. Mayakovsky, the bard...
The startling find came to light during routine follow-up digs around the temple's foundation. To their astonishment, the scientists stumbled upon a nobleman's grave with gold artifacts, some 1,000 years more recent than the temple. Soon they located six nearby graves of similar vintage...
remarkably crafted gold-and-turquoise bracelets, pendants, necklaces and daggers. So far, the archaeologists have counted some 20,000 pieces from six graves.
Indeed, the treasure seems to abound with unexpected nuggets of history. One of the graves has yielded a coin that totally baffles the archaeologists; it could be evidence of a semi-mythical Indo-Parthian kingdom thought to have existed in the area. Another of the skeletons shows strong Greek religious...