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...drawers," "mad dog" and "sportsman in the bush." Topical motifs are especially prized; one called "a I'inoculation "hails the controversial new treatment for the small pox. In an effort to reconcile propriety with fashion, a widow will occasionally sport a model of her dead husband's tomb upon her head...
...backed Commander Robert E. Peary in the 1908 North Pole race with $4,000 and got more for its money than the Herald, which put $25,000 behind Dr. Frederick Cook. In 1922 the Times bought U.S. rights to stories from an archaeological expedition seeking King Tut's tomb, a venture in which the London Times staked $100,000. Meyer Berger, in his Story of the New York Times, wrote that scarcely a season went by between 1923 and 1949 that the paper did not offer "some first-hand account of man's thrilling air, sea and land...
...hands of Premier Carlos Arias Navarro, an old Franco trusty, and Interior Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Juan Carlos has made an effort to dissociate himself from Franco's "political baggage," as they say in Spain. The Communists reject his regime as one "imposed by Franco from the tomb," but claim that they would cooperate with Juan Carlos' father Don Juan if the latter were restored. For his part...
During the 19th century, an Anglo-Indian tourist decided to make sketches of some bas-reliefs that were on the wall of Pharaoh Amun-Hotpe's tomb. To save himself hours in the hot, stuffy tomb, he chiseled off the bas-reliefs and took them to his boat. When he had finished his sketches, he simply dropped the priceless stones into the Nile...
Ruckus research even extends be yond the tomb. Under the graveyard of Trinity Church is a vault, in which plywood skeletons lie promiscuously jumbled. One, wearing an 18th century peruke and still clutching a dueling pistol, is Colonel Alexander Hamilton. Another is Robert Fulton, interred with his paddle-wheel boat. If you would know New York, visit its Ruckus offspring. One can only hope that some company or museum has the wit to keep it on public display downtown forever...