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...trouble begins even before you enter the mausoleum that Emperor Shah Jahan built for his second wife, Queen Mumtaz Mahal. The crowds are huge (the site attracts 40% of the tourists who travel to India). And because authorities have banned fossil-fuel vehicles in the area, visitors must rent electric cars or carts drawn by horses or camels to get close to the mausoleum, even as flies swarm around the animals and the dung they scatter across the potholed roads...
What nobody knows for sure, though, is whether this storied queen actually existed--or even what her name might have been. The Arabs call her Bilqis (thought to be a religious honorific), the Greeks Black Minerva and the Ethiopians Makeda, or "Greatness," but these are only titles. "Sheba" is simply an alternate spelling of Saba, the kingdom in modern-day Yemen where she is said to have reigned for a score of years beginning about 950 B.C. And while Cleopatra, the other storied beauty of Middle Eastern royalty, is mentioned in contemporary secular texts, the Queen of Sheba appears only...
...British Museum in London, this show brings its ancient treasures and new insights to Chicago's Field Museum. In statuary of the 1st century B.C., Cleopatra is voluptuous but coldly imperial. In pornography produced by her enemies she is a harlot coupling with a crocodile. The Queen arrives in all her guises, including clips from Taylor's 1963 extravaganza, on Oct. 20. More demure female images can be seen in the portraits of Renaissance women in the National Gallery of Art's "Virtue and Beauty," which opens in Washington on Sept...
...Stephen Sondheim's 1991 musical Assassins; and the New York City arrival of the show that has made Abba fans the world over scream with delight, Mamma Mia! No telling what we'll get from Connick and Stroman, but one thing is for sure: it won't be Dancing Queen. (Opens...
J.F.K. was a glamorous statesman. If his brother Robert Kennedy had not been killed, he would have become the 37th President of the U.S. and would have brought about a different perspective on U.S. relations with other world powers. Jacqueline Kennedy was an American princess and queen who had both American and European elegance. Camelot lives and is immortal! KIICHI OBARA Tokyo...