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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rome
Cumillus, the dictator, reorganized the army and, after long resistance to the change, at last consented that one of the consuls should be a plebeian.
Costanza, the mausoleum of Constantine's daughter, which was made into a church in 1256.
The Mausoleum of Augustus, between the Corso and the Via Ripetta, is now a concert hall.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13164a.htm   (14279 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for shi huangdi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Museum for the terracotta army of the Qin Shi Huangdi, China's first emperor ruled from 221 - 206 BC...
The museum is near Li Shan, east of Xi n, Shaanxi Province....
Image Research Machines plc Life-sized terracotta soldiers form an army of figures in the 3rd-century BC tomb of the emperor Shi Huangdi....
www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/1002.html   (2163 words)

  
 Shaanxi
Mount Taibaishan, the highest peak of the Qinling Range.
Mausoleum and Terracotta Army Museum of the First Qin Emperor in Xi'an (World Heritage Site)
Yan'an, the destination of the Long March and the center of Chinese Communist revolution from 1935 to 1948
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shaanxi.html   (608 words)

  
 1961 Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
January 25 - Acting to halt 'leftist excesses,' a junta comprised of two army officers and 4 civilians takes over the rule of El Salvador, ousting another junta that had ruled for three months.
After the hurricane, the capital was moved to the inland city of Belmopan.
October 31 - Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin mausoleum
www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/1961   (2905 words)

  
 Bambooweb: Chinese art
The Terracotta Army, inside the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, consists of more than 7,000 life-size tomb terra cotta figures of warriors and horses buried with the self-proclaimed first Emperor of Qin (Qin Shi Huang) in 210-209 BC.
The figures are in several poses including standing infantry and kneeling archers as well as charioteers with horses.
750), gives voice to the sufferings of a conscript soldier in the imperial army, even before the beginning of the rebellion; this poem brings out the tension between the need of acceptance and fulfilment of one's duties, and a clear-sighted consciousness of the suffering which this can involve.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/C/h/Chinese_art.html   (5304 words)

  
 Archaeology Field Schools
Lectures will be presented at the Alexandria Archaeology Museum on the history of the site, the history of Alexandria and its urban development, excavation techniques, and the theoretical basis of the summer's work.
The City of Alexandria is a leader in community archaeology, supporting an ongoing program of research and preservation that includes Alexandria Archaeology, a division within the Office of Historic Alexandria.
This burial spot of the first Emperor of China features the famous terracotta army.
www.gwu.edu /~anth/fieldschool.html   (1685 words)

  
 Articles - 1961   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
* January 5 - Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into US consulate in Rome and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
In it, he announces that the Soviet Union had freed the two surviving crewmen of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance plane shot down by Soviet flyers over the Barents Sea July 1, 1960.
* January 25 - Acting to halt ´leftist excesses,´ a junta comprised of two army officers and 4 civilians takes over the rule of El Salvador, ousting another junta that had ruled for three months.
www.zdiamond.net /articles/1961   (3677 words)

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