Word: mausoleum
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Another discovery made accidentally while digging a canal for a village water supply, unearthed the sculptured pediment from a small mausoleum. The sculpture unlike anything found previously in Sardis, depicts a reclining man drinking wine. with his wife and two daughters sitting at his feet...
...simple and even severe, characterized by perpendicular lines, lack of ornament and few windows. In World War II, Novgorod was once again attacked by foreign forces, this time the Germans, whose destruction was perhaps greater than any before. The Soviet government commissioned Shchusev, the architect who designed the Lenin Mausoleum, to plan the city's reconstruction, a program that has resulted in the restoration of many churches, including the lovely 14th century Church of the Savior of the Transfiguration. In its dome can be seen the divergence of the Russian from the Byzantine model. Finding Byzantium's semispherical...
...embarked would be carried on, and the younger curators could only hope that they meant it. It would be unfortunate indeed to have the nation's first and finest museum of contemporary enterprise become what some restless hippies branded it in jest shortly before Lowry took over: the mausoleum of modern...
...Philadelphia, I knew I shouldn't leave the train. Perhaps, if I stayed on, if the train continued, perhaps I would discover the power and energy which America once invested in its railroad. I got off, though, even though I knew the station would look square and dark, a mausoleum. For in a few days I had to return to Boston. By plane...
...house, groaning and sighing with the weight of ages, becomes a mausoleum for her, and she drifts aimlessly from room to room, her wide brown eyes masking dark fantasies. She meets a boy, but he only adds to the uneasiness. A live ringer for her dead kin, he has this strange way of gazing at her. Is it love or a grim beckoning from the beyond? No firm answers are forthcoming, as past and present finally collide in a wild, whirling scene that ends not with a bang but a whaa...