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Into the empty Tomb...
...late 30s and had trained at the Royal Academy, did most of the drawing, leaving the mechanical tasks to William; but William rapidly developed into a competent artist, and before the safari was over was signing many pictures himself. Much impressed by the gateway leading to Akbar's Tomb at Sikandra, William noted in his diary that the road approaching it is "covered with Buildings & Ruins the Whole way. The Whole put one in mind of the Appian Way on account of the numerous remains of considerable buildings." The watercolor that resulted from this visit shows the Daniells...
Lazarus was awakened from the dead last week in Utah. His tomb was a cave blasted into the side of a lofty butte. In 18° weather, flamethrowers sent balls of heat rolling over the flagstones in front of his nearby house so that the apostles could stand there barefoot without freezing to the rock. The apostles wore thermal underwear and sweat pants under their robes. Killing time, Martha of Bethany sat in the lap of the Apostle Philip while he read Friedrich Duerrenmatt's The Pledge and she read John Updike's Rabbit...
...sandals, is just unconventional enough that the yarn sounds as though it might be true. The story is often cited in two cities: in Portland, Ore., Reed's home town, and Moscow. In the Russian capital, not long ago, a Kremlin guide halted some U.S. professors at the tomb...
...mean "truth." The farmers and herdsmen are grouped in collectives and on state farms, as in Russia. The No. i Communist, Tsedenbal, heads both the government and the party, as Khrushchev does in Moscow. Ulan Bator has a mausoleum, containing Sukhe Bator's remains, similar to the Lenin tomb in the Soviet capital. In 1946, Mongols adopted the Russian Cyrillic alphabet; their army is Russian trained and equipped. A Mongol guide explained, "Everything new here is Russian...