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...Sed egomet sum ille!' exclamavit...
...most significant Egyptological discoveries since Britain's Howard Carter found Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922, Goneim's "lost pyramid" was thought to hold the mummy of Sekhem-Khet, but the pink alabaster sarcophagus within proved empty. Why empty? Goneim thought it was intended for the Sed Festival (a ceremony which supposedly reinvigorated the old Pharaohs) or as a tomb for the ka, the invisible double who went along everywhere as the secret sharer of an ancient Egyptian's life and death...
...motto of the second Earl Beatty of the North Sea and of Brooksby is Non vi sed arte (Not by force but by art). His arms include a beehive beset by nine bees volant, his crest a demilion gules holding in the dexter paw a crescent or. Last week an artful bee volant from Hoboken was buzzing about the prettiest hive ever to bear the illustrious Beatty name. Frank Sinatra, who recently proved in Madison, Ind. (TIME, Aug. 25) that he puts on some of his most striking performances offscreen, was being demilionized by London society and demi-society, while...
That force survived and beat down the political absolutism of the 17th and 18th centuries, which held that the law was no more than the will of the sovereign. Sir Edward Coke immortalized Bracton's words-"Rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege" (The king ought not to be under man, but under God and the law)-by flinging them in the furious face of absolutist James I. Then Coke fell to his knees in terror of losing his head-yet his doctrine lives today as the wellspring of the rule...
...common law," Coke cried out, "protecteth the King!" King James shouted back: "A traitorous speech! The King protecteth the law, and not the law the King!" James shook his fist furiously, but Coke stood his ground for the enduring greatness of England. Quod Rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et Lege, Coke argued fiercely, meaning that the King himself should be under no man, but under God and the law. Now, in July 1957, the U.S. was issuing another call to greatness. The U.S. was proposing that nations should submit themselves to nothing less than a system...