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...Romantic General Georges Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger was the dominating figure in French politics in 1888-89. He fled before the Government could arrest him for a plotted royalist coup d'état. In 1891 he committed suicide on his mistress' tomb in Brussels...
...pick-&-shovel men sank a shaft laboriously through layers of "recent" graves. Below the lowest they found what they sought: a great tomb 50 ft. wide and 150 ft. long. It was built of sun-dried mud brick, not finely chiseled stone, for it dated from the dim beginning years, when Great-Grandmother Egypt herself was young...
...royal tomb, second largest and the oldest ever found, had been looted by grave robbers before the pyramids were started, but it still contained plenty of relics for modern archeologists. Crude hieroglyphics identified it as the tomb of Queen Mereneith, wife of Zer, second (or third) Pharaoh of Egypt's First Dynasty. Date: about...
...world. Commoners had to travel light, but Queen Mereneith got a bang-up traveling outfit. Her body was rubbed with resin, wrapped in cloth strips with the arms outside (not strapped to the side, as in later mummies) and placed in a wooden sarcophagus. In the walls of the tomb, brightly painted like a palace interior, were false doors through which her soul could escape. She had all the furniture she might need, and plenty of food and wine, sealed safely in pottery vessels...
China took a long stride toward democracy last week, and a long stride toward fulfilling the purposes of its late great revolutionary leader, Dr. Sun Yatsen. Like the ascent to his hilltop tomb, which China's leaders make reverently each year, China's climb had been long and hard. Dr. Sun had foreseen a period of national "tutelage" under the Kuomintang (National People's Party) until direct power was returned to the people through constitutional rule. On Christmas Day, in the third reading of China's new Constitution, that democratic return was inaugurated...