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...trading village until the British seized it in 1843. Shortly thereafter, Scholar-Adventurer Richard Burton described it in Scinde or the Unhappy Village as a "mass of low mud hovels and tall mud houses with flat mud roofs, windowless mud walls, and numerous mud ventilators, surrounded by a tumbledown parapet of mud, built upon a platform of mud-covered rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Better Off in a Home | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...bore the names of Los Niños Héroes-six teen-age cadets who died when U.S. troops took Chapultepec in 1847. According to defiant legend, five had stabbed themselves rather than surrender to the invaders from the North. A sixth had leaped to death from a parapet, wrapped in the castle's battle flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fiesta | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...Again. In Manhattan, Charles Vogel leaped from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, crashed on a terrace one floor below, crawled over the parapet and plummeted (this time successfully) to the 30th floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 22, 1946 | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Infantrymen were running and crouching, circling around a large mound. Three or four mounted the grassy parapet and jumped down on the other side. There was a burst of fire, and another, as grenades went off. In the foreground a soldier wearing glasses and holding an unlit cigaret between his lips sprang from the concealing greenery and ran at half speed for about ten yards to a palm tree. He landed behind this tree with his feet forward in a sitting position and his head turned mechanically to look back over the field. After two or three seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MOP-UP ON KWAJALEIN | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...There are occasional mornings when, with an early fog not yet dispersed, one finds oneself . . . stepping onto the parapet. . . . Literally, there is nothing to be seen but mist. . . . What apocalypse is about to be revealed? . . . Soon, somewhere off in the mist, a single lofty highlight of gold appears: the earliest beam is upon the tip of the Metropolitan Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ferriss' Future-Perfect | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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