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...Tricky’s seminal album, Maxinquaye has a sound so original that critics invented the genre “triphop” in an attempt to contain it, while Björk’s first two albums, Debut and Post had already established her as the new queen of dance music, with numerous hit singles and co-authorship of the title song on Madonna’s Bedtime Stories. Nearly God avoided the expectations of critics in the wake of their successful first albums, and its sparse, minimalist, lonely melodies succeeded admirably...
...Foundation for the Study of Man, which was the original sponsor of the current expedition. When the team arrived at Mahram Bilqis in 1998, most of the ruins were buried by sand drifts as deep as 26 ft. While none of the sanctuary's existing masonry dates to the Queen's time, much of its layout remains as she would have seen it. The main entrance is marked by the remains of a portico--eight limestone pillars, today half submerged in the sand--that stands in front of a peristyle hall whose high masonry walls are inset with false windows...
...excavations have also showed that the temple was a major pilgrimage center long before the Queen of Sheba was born. The evidence--inscriptions, wall paintings, fragments of bronze statues, pottery vessels, animal bones and 2,000-year-old pieces of frankincense that still retain their distinctive fragrance--indicates that the site was used continuously from at least 1200 B.C. until the 6th century A.D. The potsherds are particularly important, Glanzman says. "They may be the key to sequencing the archaeological history of the region. The technology is very sophisticated and shows a high level of civilization." References in the inscriptions...
...teared up at the end," said proud papa Wayne. (Cumberland, handed its 18th straight loss, presumably did too.) Crowe gave No. 89 the game ball as her teammates cheered. The modest Martin is used to this sort of thing--she played football in high school, even accepting her homecoming-queen crown in her pads and cleats at halftime...
...included two platinum albums, a third album released in July and an appearance in last year's movie Romeo Must Die. The Brooklyn-born, Detroit-raised star was also set to appear in two sequels to The Matrix, and she starred in the movie version of Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned, to be released early next year. Grieving fans lined Manhattan's Upper East Side streets as the singer's coffin rode to the chapel in a horse-drawn, glass-paneled hearse. "Aaliyah had a refreshing outlook for one so young," said Gladys Knight. "With true respect...