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...friends, cheering its enemies, swaying the uncommitted, as eyes in African jungles and Asian market places, in European town squares and American suburbs strained skyward for a glimpse of Russia's tiny moons. In 1957, under the orbits of a horned sphere and a half-ton tomb for a dead dog, the world's balance of power lurched and swung toward the free world's enemies...
Though Koreans trace their legendary origins back to 2333 B.C., endless civil wars and ruthless invasions have wiped out nearly every perishable object that remained above ground. Except for 20th century tomb excavations that provide some sense of the luxury and craftsmanship of the past, there are few remnants of Korean art. Out of the tombs have come such works as the stoneware Mounted Horseman, wearing a noble's peaked cap and leather armor of the 5th-6th century. Even more impressive is the antlerlike gold crown ornamented with jade found in a tomb of the Old Silla dynasty...
...taken a second wife. In Egypt and Lebanon, Turkey and Syria-where for centuries the life of a woman was described proverbially as "from the womb of her mother to the house of her father, from there to the house of her husband, from there to the tomb"-women shop veilless in the markets, dance in nightclubs, train as nurses, drive cars unescorted, even vote. In the last ten years, Islam's women have achieved a greater change in status than in the preceding ten hundred...
...Tomb & Church. Around 322, Christian Emperor Constantine affronted the wealthy tomb owners by ordering the construction of a great ramp of earth from the side of the hill against which the tombs nestled. Ruthlessly, though with great care not to disturb the dead, most of the tombs were sliced off to the level of the ramp, and their interiors were rammed full of earth. On this ramp Constantine began the construction of the first Church of St. Peter...
...empire, was built on a drained swamp area between the Capitoline and Palatine Hills. Sacred to Roman eyes, it served as a marketplace, law center, place of oratory, government and worship, contained the ancient Umbilicus Romae (a brick navel marking the ideal center of the city) and the reputed tomb of Romulus...