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...saga of the Knights Templar is almost as amazing as the myths that embellish it. On Thursday the Vatican plans to add another colorful chapter when it publishes a long-misplaced, 699-year-old papal report on the medieval holy warriors. Vatican publisher Scrinium will offer 799 copies (the 800th will go to the Pope), at $8,375 apiece, of a 1308 parchment titled Processus Contra Templarios (Trial Against the Templars), which chronicles the order's sordid endgame: the accusations of heresy, the Templars' defense, and Pope Clement V's absolution of the order, before he did an about-face...
Guarding the thousands of detainees sent to Abu Ghraib by coalition forces across Iraq was a nasty billet for the 800th Military Police Brigade, which includes the reserve 372nd Military Police Company, and the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, which also operated there. A senior military official who lived at Abu Ghraib says soldiers were underequipped and undermanned. The reservists in particular had virtually no training for their prison-guard jobs. Discipline flagged. In November and December, around the time most of the abuse photos were taken, Abu Ghraib was under constant attack from nightly mortar raids. Basic sanitation...
...Cambridge’s chief academic and administrative officer, Richard has introduced a one-billion pound ($1.9 billion) capital campaign in anticipation of the university’s 800th anniversary in 2009. The sum is a vast one for a university in England, where leading institutions are far poorer than their American peers. While Harvard has $29.2 billion in its coffers, Cambridge has just $8 billion, two-thirds of which are controlled by the university’s 31 individual colleges...
...Alison Richard is perceived as very energetic and can-do, accessible and supportive, and heading up our 800th Anniversary campaign with a lot of brio,” says Cambridge professor Mary Jacobus, who directs the school’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities...
...times, Naadam (the word means "festival") is the most important event on the Mongolian calendar and an occasion when people participate in traditional games and feasting. But this year's celebrations, held on July 11 and 12, are being staged on a much grander scale in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the founding of Genghis Khan's Mongol empire. Though festivities are organized all over the country, the biggest take place in the capital, Ulan Bator. A thousand horsemen will put on a spectacular equestrian show there on the festival eve, July 10. The next morning, Naadam will begin...