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...Legion Museum lay the wooden hand of one-armed Captain Jean Danjou, who died with 39 other Legionnaires in a last-ditch stand against 2,000 Mexicans in 1863. In the courtyard surrounded by the pink-walled barracks stood the Monument to the Dead-a bronze terrestrial globe guarded by four bigger-than-life statues of Legionnaires. Sentries in white kepis still stood guard before the gate bearing the inscription Légion Etrangère, but packing cases were piled on stair landings and in mess halls, and Legion tanks and halftracks were clanking down the road to Oran...
...gratitude to whoever wrote the profile of Lewis Carroll [July 6]. Carroll's Alice tales may be a literary monument to confusion, but they offer the kind of confusion our world needs. They are tonic for a baffled member of McNamara's Band toting a carbine upon the tundra. If our nonsensical world must remain nonsensical, may it return to the nonsense of a Wonderland...
Ship of Fools, by Katherine Anne Porter. A monument to mortal folly, ashore and afloat...
Much of Churchill's accident-prone life is a monument to the healing properties of brandy and tobacco. His disasters started as early as birth, when his U.S.-born mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, seven months pregnant, felt labor pains in the middle of a ball at Blenheim Palace. Attendants were unable to rush her to a bedroom, and Winston made a spectacular entrance in a nearby cloakroom...
...doubt, Boston's greatest appeal is its cultural opportunities and great institutions. Boston's art treasures rank among the world's greatest. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, located on the Fenway, stands as a monument to the success of the acquisitive instinct in art collecting. According to the rather peculiar terms of Mrs. Gardner's will, the collection can not be added to or rearranged, nor can any work be removed, nor is anything permitted to be lent to other museums...