Word: shrine
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...seems that peace in this mountainous region is at risk. At midnight one day in late July, more than 200 heavily armed young men identifying themselves as Taliban stormed the shrine of a famous freedom fighter in the tranquil village of Ghaziabad and took over the adjacent mosque. The heavily armed militants, their faces covered with camouflaged balaclavas, kicked out the shrine and mosque caretakers and put up sandbag bunkers atop the mosque roof and nearby vantage points...
...Goethe later took the memento mori home to muse upon; he even wrote a reverential poem entitled Lines on Seeing Schiller's Skull. Since 1827, this cranium has had a place of honor in Weimar's ducal vault, later joined by Goethe's remains in what has become a shrine to German literature's Golden...
...Lambs is more than a shrine to the game's greats. Hundreds of members - many of whom work in the big banks and law firms that make up the club's neighborhood - rub shoulders with pros on court and in the locker room. "For my teenage years and early twenties, it was the club," says Peter Nicol, 34, a British former world No. 1 who's now coaching at Lambs. "To then play in it every day was something quite special...
SAMARRA, IRAQ Bombs shatter two minarets of Shi'ite shrine...
Sectarian outrages like the June 13 attack on the holy Shi'ite shrine in Samarra - the same site that insurgents blew up in February 2006 - have plunged Iraq into civil war. But it is brainy operatives like Abdallah who pose the most consistently lethal threat to U.S. forces. When we met for our second encounter in 15 months, he didn't seem especially worried that a massive U.S.-Iraqi security crackdown had been under way in Baghdad for the past four months - and that one of its aims was to break the back of the IED industry and roll...