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...Japanese prison camps, undernourished, beaten and abused by his jailers. At the end of World War II, he was escorted by Russian troops from the prison camp at Sian, Manchuria. When he appeared on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri, at the Japanese surrender, he was a sick skeleton weighing only...
...months Stirton has been poking around in the dry northeastern corner of South Australia, in a place where fossil bones had been reported. Last week, back in Adelaide, he told about a major find: the skeletons of 500 to 1,000 diprotodons, entombed just beneath the desert surface. He brought back one skeleton, the first ever found complete, and parts of two others...
...Knaves & Skeletons. If places crinkled Carlyle's nose, so did most people, famed or humble. Publishers were "consummate knaves," and his own "a blockhead." He found Charles Lamb "a miserable, drink-besotted, spindle-shanked skeleton of a body, whose 'humour' as it is called, seemed to me neither more nor less than a fibre of genius shining thro' positive delirium and crackbrainedness." Robert Browning was "loudish and talkative beyond need." Even Emerson, who boosted Carlyle's American reputation and mailed him his U.S. royalties, irked the grumpy Scot with his perennial good temper and "unsubduable...
With the crater were bronze basins and four chariot wheels with bronze-covered hubs and iron rims. Of the chariot itself little remained, but among the bronze ornaments from its vanished sides lay the delicate skeleton of a young woman. She must have been (or been loved by) a person of high position, for on her head was a golden diadem weighing more than a pound, with beautifully modeled winged horses and lions' paws. Professor Joffroy does not think the crown was of local manufacture, but he has no idea where it was made...
...Spanish Skeleton. If everything had gone according to plan, the University of Miami might have been born big and grandiose. Its founders, a group of Coral Gables plungers, wanted it to look like a bit of old Seville-"a triumph of Spanish architecture." Instead, with its founders financially crippled by crash and hurricane, the university opened with a $500,000 debt. Its great administration building remained only a skeleton; its one usable building was an abandoned, half-finished hotel, which was fixed up with beaverboard partitions to accommodate classes. President Ashe himself had to borrow on his own insurance policies...