Word: mausoleum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Okay, so Adams House does look a bit like a mausoleum...
Actress Diana Rigg told a packed Longfellow Hall crowd yesterday that she was a "brick mausoleum without flying buttresses"--at least according to a critic who saw her acting debut...
...once revered as a staunch fighter of fascism and the founder of communist Bulgaria, but past glories could not save Georgi Dimitrov from the ash heap of history. Last week Dimitrov's embalmed body was quietly removed from the mausoleum in Sofia's main square, where it had been on public display since his death in 1949, and cremated in a ceremony attended only by a few relatives...
...fate of Dimitrov's corpse had been hotly debated since the downfall of communist dictator Todor Zhivkov last November. The cremation was carried out against the wishes of some party members and unbeknown to demonstrators camped outside the mausoleum to protest the homage paid to a leader some reviled as a Stalinist. Their posters depicted a sphinx above slogans reading, WE DON'T NEED ANY PHARAOHS and IT STINKS...
...past month, Hanoi has played host to thousands of visitors, foreign and Vietnamese alike, as they paid homage to the frail little man with a will of iron. The pilgrims move slowly past Ho's body lying on a glass-enclosed platform in the neo- Stalinist marble mausoleum, stopping only for a short, formal...