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Engaged. Lady Evelyn Herbert, only daughter of the late Lord Carnarvon, and his companion at the tomb of TutankhAmen, to B. C. Beauchamp, son of Sir Edward Beauchamp, Liberal M. P. for Lowestoft...
Egypt. Excavations at Thebes (Valley of the Kings) have been discontinued for the summer, but will be resumed next season by Howard Carter, American collaborator of the late Lord Carnarvon. The treasures found in TutankhAmen's tomb (including the throne, chairs, alabaster vases, shrines, caskets, bedsteads, and boxes elaborately carved of inlaid ivory, ebony and gold) have been removed to Cairo by a 500-mile boat trip, and will be exhibited in the museum there under the Egyptian Department of Antiquities until a decision is reached regarding those to be brought to England and America...
...scarcity of my affaires de coeur, have decided that I am in love with a man who was killed in the war and whom I never knew. He is Lieutenant George Alexander McKinloch, whose family has an enviable position in Chicago. I make almost daily pilgrimages to his tomb in Lake Forest and his mother and I visit spiritualist mediums...
...Museum has combed the Swedish west coast and gathered more than 20,000 objects. Among these is a well preserved skeleton believed to belong to the neolithic period and to be not less than 5000 years old, found near Kungsbacka, a small ancient village near Gothenburg. Another is the tomb of a woman, at least 2000 years old, found at Ytter-Rostad...
...away. Then, says the author, " the fact remains that war was caused on that fifth day of July in 1914. And that very man, who, after the carnage, after millions of unfortunates have perished, after he hardly dares to look upon the accusing earth for fear of seeing a tomb rise up before his eyes, cries out, a prey to belated remorse or religious terror: ' My God! I did not will this!' (Memoirs). Mothers of all countries, you hear what he says: He did not will this! He did not will it on the fifth of July...