Word: pilatus
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...therapeutic. Heart's Ann Wilson says that talking about how her obesity and industry sexism helped derail the band in the '80s left her feeling "freed up, because once you talk about it, it can no longer eat you alive." Fabrice Morvan, half of Milli Vanilli (his partner Rob Pilatus died of a drug and alcohol overdose last year), says, "For the first time I could show who I was as a person and an artist. I felt a sense of respect...
DIED. ROB PILATUS, 32, half of the famously seen-but-not-heard Europop duo Milli Vanilli, which had to relinquish its 1989 Grammy after it was revealed that the pretty boys had lip-synched their album; after reportedly overdosing on drugs and alcohol; near Frankfurt, Germany. Pilatus never really recovered from the humiliation: the following year he tried to commit suicide and later spent time in rehab after pleading no contest to assault charges...
...first archaeological evidence that the high priest Caiaphas, who according to the Gospels presided at the Sanhedrin's trial of Jesus, was a real person. So, indisputably, was Pilate. In 1961, diggers in Caesarea found the fragment of a plaque indicating that a building had been dedicated by PONTIUS PILATUS, PREFECT OF JUDEA...
...than vertically enhanced scenery--awesome to be sure, but devoid of greater meaning. Earlier generations were more impressionable. As proof that the mountains were possessed by the devil, the learned physicist and mathematician Johann Jacob Scheuchzer in 1702 compiled an encyclopedic list of dragon sightings in the Alps. (Mons Pilatus was said to harbor a particularly hideous monster, with a head "that terminated in the serrated jaw of a serpent...
Demonizing the Alps, however, was far from universal. The naturalist Conrad Gesner, who climbed Mons Pilatus in 1555 to disprove its diabolic reputation, thought of the Alps as the "work of the Sovereign Architect." To 19th century Romantics, the Swiss mountains were symbols of virtue, and the herdsmen who dwelt there paradigms of primitive democracy. Thus the Alps through history have been rather like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: you never know what meaning you'll find inside them...