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...event, which came to light many years later, in 1946. It is a letter from "a gentleman in Philadelphia to his friend in Charleston, dated October 20, 1792" (as noted by the Charleston, S.C., City Gazette & Daily Advertiser), that describes "the first stone" being laid "in the southwest corner of the president's house...
...been placed in the northeast corner of the White House, since it was Masonic practice to choose that corner. In a 1901 renovation, paint was scraped from a few stones in a vain effort to locate an inscription. Once the Charleston letter surfaced, interest immediately shifted to the southwest corner of the White House...
Hawass is not the only explorer haunted by the tombs of Bahariya. The sleepy backwater 230 miles southwest of Cairo was largely overlooked by archaeologists before 1996. That's when a donkey belonging to an antiquities guard fell into a hole that led directly to an undiscovered tomb filled with gold-covered mummies. Since then, Hawass and his team have been digging extensively in Bahariya, turning up hundreds of mummies and treasures beyond imagination. Some of their findings appear in Hawass's Valley of the Golden Mummies (Abrams; $49.50; 224 pages), a richly illustrated text due in bookstores this month...
Just 17,000 ft. above Black Rock Desert, the pilots of Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 set the controls for a midnight landing in Salt Lake City, Utah. As the tower radioed clearance, flight attendants in the back of the Boeing 737 began collecting Coke cups and pretzel bags. Suddenly, Jonathan Burton, 19, jumped into the aisle from his seat near the wing and started pacing back and forth. Then he bolted to the front of the plane and turned around. His eyes revealed his hysteria. "Everybody just sit down!" he yelled. "Everybody just sit down...
...flyers with flexible schedules can also reap potentially significant savings by flying into or out of "alternate" airports. For example, air travelers in the Boston area can save significant amounts of money by avoiding Logan Airport. T. F. Green Airport in Providence (which is home to low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines) and even Worcester Airport offer service to popular destinations--often at significantly lower cost and with less aggravation...