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...long walk begun. The village lay quiet in the rain. In its midst, just below the church, we came across a marble slab with a gilded, five-pointed star and the Czech inscription in eternal memory of those who died in the second world war. The little monument looked new-apparently erected after communism fell in 1989. The words embraced all: winners and losers, soldiers and civilians, the innocent and the guilty. To Lubos and me, men whose people had been at war with one another not all that long ago in the century's greatest tragedy, it seemed...
...tomb of Alexander the Great in Egypt, but now another has clearly hit pay dirt. Today, French archaeologist Jean Leclant unveiled a previously unknown, 4,000-year-old pyramid at Sakkara, a locale famous for its step-pyramid (an early model). Long hidden in the sand, the royal monument looks more like a pile of rock than the great pyramids on the Giza plateau, which lie north. Inscriptions found at the site dedicate it to Queen Meritites, who (for the genealogically-minded) may have been the daughter of Pharaoh Pepi I, who ruled during the 6th Dynasty...
...people began to gather in front of the Capital Building for the noon rally. The crowd filled the entire grassy expanse between the stage and the Washington monument 10 blocks away. The front of the crowd was made up predominantly of students who had, for the most part, come on NOW's chartered buses...
Faculty, staff, students and members of the Institute had a common expectation for the tree-planting, though, Oseasohn said. They were eager for Harvard to create a monument to Roosevelt...
...write as a member of the F.D.R. Memorial Commission and as a grandson of Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Your article on the debate over the memorial's depiction of F.D.R.'s disability [Monuments, March 6] was inaccurate and unbalanced, and although you characterized my position on the monument, Time made no attempt to interview me. While it is true that none of the sculptures relating directly to F.D.R. depict him in his wheelchair or on crutches, the fact of his being stricken with polio is prominently expressed, carved in granite, in a chronology of landmark events of his life. F.D.R...