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...devotion to Writer Henry Lewes. Not only was the author of Middlemarch scorned at many a Victorian's table, but she was denied her final desire: burial in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner, where writers from Chaucer to the Brontës have a monument or tomb. A week ago, Eliot at last got her place among the poets. In a centennial observation of her death, a black memorial stone was set in the Abbey floor and dedicated to Mary Ann Evans (pen name George Eliot), the maverick Victorian in whose hands, said one speaker, "the novel...
...spectacle reflects the power. Bathed in white light, Moscow's Red Square at night is one of the most impressive symbols of strength in the world?as large and brooding as the land itself. The flat, stark lines of the Kremlin's forbidding and protective wall dominate Lenin's tomb and the glorious domes of St. Basil's Cathedral. The Soviet Union, an empire whose expanse dwarfs the one ruled by ancient Rome, now confronts a pivotal decade in its history. Before long, an entirely new generation of leaders must replace that of President Leonid Brezhnev and his aging associates...
...just two hours after sundown and the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath in the Arab town of Hebron on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. A score of Jewish seminarians had finished their prayers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the shrine where the prophet Abraham is said to have been buried. The seminarians walked the short distance to the former Hadassah clinic in the old Jewish quarter. There they planned to have refreshments with the Israeli squatters who have occupied the building for the past year...
Chinese archaeologists feel that they have only scratched the surface in the vast central area that was the core of the Middle Kingdom. Even for the Qin tomb, the newly unearthed army is just a beginning. The tomb, girdled by four miles of wall, lies under a 150-ft-high tumulus where excavation has yet to start. It may or may not be as rewarding as the dig for the warriors, who can thank grave robbers for their remarkable preservation. Only four years after the death of Shihuangdi, marauders made off with all the bronze weapons the soldiers carried...
...standardized weights and measures, and installed a common currency and written language. He began the construction of his tomb even before he had consolidated his conquests. The work took 36 years. According to a historian writing about a hundred years after Shihuangdi's death in 210 B.C., some 700,000 conscripts worked on the burial chamber, which they "filled with [models of] palaces, towers, and the hundred officials, as well as precious utensils and marvelous rarities. Artisans were ordered to install mechanically triggered crossbows set to shoot any intruder. With quicksilver, the various waterways of the empire, the Yangtze...