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...been Diana's first marriage. Suggestions included Diana's having her own talk show ("A listening show," said Goldsmith, who would also like to see Diana in a follow-up to The First Wives Club--she wrote the book), ruling the Internet, taking a lesbian lover or finding a Mongol prince and farming yaks. And as if all this weren't tasteful enough, there were a few suggestions for the last-ever headline about her. The winners: DI DIES...
Wonderful things would continue to be produced for the Chinese imperial courts right down to the 19th century. In pottery, the innovation of blue glaze designs painted on a white ground belongs to the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1272-1368); but it reached its finest period under the later Ming Emperors in such objects as an early 15th century porcelain vase with a furious blue dragon galumphing around it, all its spikes and scales and fierce serpent rhythms contrasting with the suave, plump profile of the vase...
...great secrets of the ages: the location of Genghis Khan's tomb. Never mind that archaeologists have searched for the tomb for years without success. And forget that Maury Kravitz, 62, is a commodities trader and lawyer with no professional training in archaeology. His 34-year obsession with the Mongol leader has made him probably the best-informed amateur Genghis scholar in the world. About eight years ago, he found (he won't say where) what he thinks is a crucial reference to the burial site...
...Mongols were indeed good at all that. But thanks in part to recent archaeological finds in the arid lands of Inner Mongolia, now part of China, historians have begun to realize this perception of the medieval Mongols is woefully one-dimensional. Genghis Khan, their most celebrated leader, was not merely a bloodthirsty killer but also a supreme military strategist and talented politician, as adept at forging alliances and gathering intelligence as he was at wreaking terror and havoc. And the Mongol civilization he ruled had a rich cultural and artistic heritage that went back at least 6,000 years...
Genghis Khan sat with his Mongol comrades-in-arms debating the question, What is life's sweetest pleasure? One man ventured that it surely was falconry. Genghis Khan -- who was not Genghis Khan for nothing -- answered, "You are mistaken. Man's greatest good fortune is to chase and defeat his enemy, seize his total possessions, leave his married women weeping and wailing, ride his gelding, and use the bodies of his women as a nightshirt...