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...tribute to Mussolini there is no end. Il Re Vittorio Emanuele often sends him chamois shot upon the royal estates in Savoy. One humble Fascist is known to have done a painting for him in "pure salad oil." Last week there appeared a portrait of Il Benito done in 352 pages in jet-black printers' ink. Mussolini prefaced it with the remark, "I detest those who take me as the subject of their writings...
...Royal Highness, the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, aunt of King Alfonso, has recently observed publicly?that, with the drooping of his whiskers into a beard, Wilhelm of Doorn now "appears at first glance to be none other than the late King Edward...
Louis XVI lived to see France a republic and to hear himself called "Citoyen Capet". The less ancient but no less royal dynasty of Hohenzollern still lives in three generations, and the head of the house has turned from ruling a nation to chopping wood. Platz der Republik becomes the herald of a new order which sees Germany exchange her place in the sun for a seat in the League of Nations...
...that the edge of a razor could not enter the cracks which were all but invisible even after scraping. With great difficulty the first block was removed and it was found that many more lay underneath. The blocks below the surface were all of pure limestone brought from the royal quarry on the other side of the Nile. Some bore the catouche of Cheops himself, the builder of the Great Pyramid. This may mean that Cheops filled the entrance of the tomb of a prdecessor or it might conceivably mean that Cheops himself was buried in the tomb...
After going down forty feet a little niche was found in the wall of the shaft. Within it was the head of a bull, roughly embalmed. From inscriptions relation to ancient burial customs it is believed that the royal occupant of the tomb may be shrouded in the skin of the bull itself far below...