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Modern archaeologists downplay the good King--bad King labels, which date to an apocryphal--and now discounted--tale told by the Greek historian Herodotus about how Khufu prostituted his own daughter to pay for his pyramid. Good or bad, Snefru ended up in the Red Pyramid, entombed in a magnificent three-room burial chamber that is considered the finest of the Old Kingdom. The chamber, with its 45-ft. corbel ceiling, remains. Its royal occupant, however, is missing. A mummy discovered in the pyramid in 1948 and believed to contain Snefru's corpse disappeared shortly afterward and has never been...
...money. There is no personal expression through clothes, and cars are not allowed. Wealth or personage outside the school mean little." In this self-contained world, titles confer no privileges, and the prince is probably not the only boy with a bodyguard. Foreign leaders' children and scions of Greek shipping magnates bring them along too. Says London School of Economics historian David Starkey: "William is as near to normal at Eton as someone in his position is wont to be. Many people there are richer than he is. There are many people whose family relationships are even more complex than...
Baron Pierre De Coubertin, the French nobleman who revived the Olympic Games, was a firm believer in the ancient Greek ideal of exercising mind and body in harmony. The role of sport is "at once physical, moral and social," he wrote. "I have often noticed that those who find themselves first in physical exercises are also first in their studies. The serious commitment in one area promotes the desire to be first throughout...
...world's fastest human." Basically, the race is 10 sec. that last a lifetime. Adding to its allure for the 1996 Centennial Games is the convergence of time and distance: 100 years, 100 meters. What's more, Atlanta seems to have been handed two 100th-anniversary gifts from the Greek gods in the form of a matching set of tantalizing his-and-hers 100s...
Coubertin was only 29 years old when he proposed the revival of the classical Olympic Games, which had been dead for 15 centuries. A man of erudition, zeal and diplomacy, Coubertin rallied sportsmen from around the world and persuaded the Greek government to play host to the first of what he hoped would be quadrennial spectacles. He personally wrote the invitations for those first Games and even helped design the medals. What thanks did he get? Well, as his wife said after the first successful modern Olympics, in Athens, "Why was it that not one time did they mention your...