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...safety of the library. But there was smoke everywhere, the fire alarms had gone off, and the sprinkler system was turning the school into a blinding, misty jungle. So they retreated back downstairs, away from the library, which, by the time the mayhem ended, had turned into a tomb...
...tangible relics that make faith real to us? Most Christians do not get to see the excavations around the tomb of St. Peter nor the chains which once imprisoned him, yet they believe. With their faith alone, they gain knowledge of the "truth that sets them free" (John...
...safer here than sitting around at old bomb plants," said ROBERT NEILL, director of the Environmental Evaluation Group, a watchdog organization. The debris, mostly plutonium-tainted clothing, tools and sludge, will be lowered a distance equal to the height of two World Trade Centers into a rock tomb hollowed from a salt formation. Gradually the walls will collapse, burying the refuse snugly, the EPA hopes, for 10,000 years. That's less than the radioactive half-life of plutonium, so elaborate barriers with Stonehenge-like giant granite monuments are planned...
...British archaeologist Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamun, a little-known pharaoh who died...
...Farmers discover an army of life-size terra-cotta human figures in a 3rd century B.C. Chinese emperor's tomb near Xian...