Word: mausoleum
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...what happened to Ramesses' dozens of daughters? Were they buried in a similar mausoleum, perhaps in the Valley of the Queens, a few miles to the southwest? That is where many pharaohs' wives and princesses and some princes are buried. "Why not?" asks the Oriental Institute Museum's Teeter. "The daughters of pharaohs were certainly important. The Valley of the Queens hasn't been as thoroughly explored as the Valley of the Kings, so there could be a lot of surprises there...
...three days, but he won't soon be forgotten. The Russian nationalist ended his visit today by calling the magnificent 17th century Taj Mahal a "monument that reminds husbands to indulge in corruption so that they can build their Taj Mahal for their wives." At aphoto-opat the mausoleum yesterday, Zhirinovsky reclined in a marble niche, Roman style, and invited photographers to click away. He capped off the tour this morning by suggesting that India annex Pakistan and Bangladesh, then presenting a bottle of Russian vodka to a top Indian minister, who by law is forbidden to drink in public...
...years old and looking every minute of it, showed up to remind the assembled swells and the TV audience that Damn Yankees, which he had confected four decades ago, was again the liveliest show in town. The cathedral of commercial theater had reopened as a museum and a mausoleum. The place was awash in memories of more glamorous nights...
...young as 12, have been disdainfully torn down. Gone too are the metronomic boot clicks of the goose-stepping guards outside Lenin's tomb, who once immutably marked off the minutes and hours of the Soviet state. Remarked a Russian father as his family paid a visit to the mausoleum: "They used to stand for hours in line here." Now virtually no one comes...
...been Mui's age. The father luxuriates in a torpid guilt. Upstairs Grandma intones prayers for the family dead. Downstairs the couple's three boys make mischief. The youngest taunts Mui with merciless glee; he is just about the only sign of wayward life in this house-and-garden mausoleum...