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...where the mocking and scourging by the soldiers of Pilate really belongs. The Graves-Podro Jesus decided to bring on the Kingdom by his death, and appointed Judas, his "most faithful and perceptive" disciple, to betray him. Taken down from the cross, apparently dead, he revived in the tomb, met with several of his disciples, saw he had made a mistake, and went off to the "Land of Nod" to start all over again...
...aristocratic descent is to slander the father of the fiancee of Farouk, whose wedding is imminent." At week's end, however, Irma herself hastened to restore Farouk to full bachelor status. "I prefer not to marry," sighed she. "Farouk is sensible and tender, but marriage is the tomb of love...
Only by small and frivolous outward signs can the world measure the Kremlin's inner struggle for power. But what makes the frivolous fundamental is the importance the Communist leaders themselves attach to pride of place: Who stands nearest the center atop Lenin's tomb? Who waves to the mob? Who doesn't? (On May Day, only Nikita Khrushchev did; on May 30, Khrushchev and Malenkov, in identical suits, waved identical hats...
...sarcophagus does prove to be royal, said Dr. William C. Hayes of New York's Metropolitan Museum, it is likely to contain a Pharaoh earlier than Zoser. builder of the step pyramid. Sanakht was probably a son of Zoser, and no prideful Pharaoh was likely to place his tomb, as the new found one was placed, behind that of his father...
...massive limestone blocks, each 15 ft. long and tightly sealed with pink gypsum. It looked like some sort of pavement, but Kamal el Malakh, Egyptian archaeologist in charge of the pyramids, suspected that the stones might be the roof of a long underground chamber. The tomb of Pharaoh Cheops had never been found. It might just possibly, he thought, lie under the row of stones...