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...earliest known tattooed human was an Egyptian mummy excavated from a tomb marked 2000 B.C." (TIME, March...
...could man rediscover this religion? "Democracy must go down to the tomb and arise," said Kansas' William Allen White. "Men . . . slowly are giving up old ideas, old prejudices, slowly are coming to the realization that it is necessary in politics, in society, in economic organization, to preserve the dignity of man, the dignity of all men. . . . This belief in the dignity of man as an individual was a latent faith in men's hearts even while they basked in a civilization they did not intelligently appreciate or quite believe in-a faith that in due time should remake...
...Tomb. The earliest known tattooed human was an Egyptian mummy excavated from a tomb marked 2000 B.C. The Japanese are said to have practiced the art for nearly 2,500 years. It has been known to Christianity since the 13th Century, when the Crusaders returned tattooed from the Holy Land. Probably responsible for tattooing's popularity among sailors was Captain Cook, who in 1769 wrote of the custom among South Sea Islanders...
...rupees-My hotel bill in Colombo. That hotel always was bad, but since they've been expecting air raids, they built up a solid wall around it-and now it's like the inside of a tomb. There were two baths for my entire floor, and I had to keep my windows shut because otherwise the full blast of the monsoon slugged the black raindrops all over the room...
...those who rest here. May He keep us strong in the courage that will win the war, and may He impart to us the wisdom and the vision that we shall need for true victory in the peace which is to come. ..." He stood at silent attention before the tomb of the Unknown Soldier; a bugler sounded taps; a cold autumn wind scattered the notes down the valley that leads to the Potomac...