Word: skulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agent in Heaven." "St. Philomena" was "discovered" on May 24, 1802 in the catacomb of St. Priscilla on Rome's Via Saleria Nova as the skeleton of a 13-to 15-year-old girl with a badly fractured skull. On her grave was the cryptic inscription: LUMENA PAXTE CUM FI. The letters of the inscription were on tiles, and scholars came to the conclusion that they had somehow become misplaced-perhaps by an artisan who could not read-and should have been PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed...
...five sons knew all about her being interviewed, and sitting for her portrait. At this point, fortnight ago, TIME, with Guilt and Anxiety as its cover subject, arrived at the Kerr home. Son Christopher, 15, looked long and admiringly at Edvard Munch's 1893 painting of a skull-headed figure, screaming out its loneliness. He turned to his mother and said: "I like it. They've caught the real...
...Plenty Papaya bolted back to the inside. Just before hitting the barrier, horse and rider parted company. The railbirds were watching the front runners, and no one saw what happened next. But an aluminum-shod hoof or the concrete base of a rail post shattered the jockey's skull. Roy Gilbert died on the way to a hospital...
...wattle hut in neighboring Kenya and grew up with Kikuyu children, had been scouring the gorge since 1931. Over the years he has unearthed the bones of an ancient pig as big as a rhino, a six-foot-tall sheep, a twelve-foot-tall bird and the flat-topped skull of the erect "Nutcracker man." so named because of his huge molars that suggested that he lived on nuts and tough vegetation. Leakey put the Nutcracker man's age at 600,000 years. He holds that the bones of his latest find-the child and adult-are older still...
Months of testing will tell more. Meantime, Leakey has a theory as to how the child died. In its skull is a sizable hole with fracture lines radiating from it. Leakey rules out the possibility that the child fell or was struck by a falling branch, for there were no trees or cliffs in the neighborhood at the time. "I think we can take it for granted that the child was hit on the head by a blunt instrument." says Leakey, warming to his story. "It was murder most foul...