Word: vaults
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...known as KV63. And as the last of the coffins was opened to great fanfare last week, the skeptics turned out to be right. There was no mummy--and no Mummy--inside. Still, that doesn't put KV63 in the same category as Al Capone's infamously empty vault. The coffin was filled with ancient embalming materials, strips of linen and funerary garlands and collars made of dried flowers. That, says lead excavator Otto Schaden of the University of Memphis, means KV63 may have been a storage cache, as another tomb proved to be. That's important for history...
...Geisel - a Seuss-ophone. For "Help!", four extreme athletes zoom up and over two U-shaped slides. Harrison's gorgeous "Here Comes the Sun" (which never sounded better) is accompanied by four women performing aerial yoga. In "Revolution," there's a last exuberance before everything starts to crumble: acrobats vault onto and over an English phone booth (with the aid of trampolines). It recalls the best routine in La Nouba and is pretty fabulous...
...crotch, inspects my carabiners and tells me to try to relax. Then, in the darkness, I grab a rope and inchworm 50 feet up the almond tree she's been sleeping in for more than two weeks. To see Angelina Jolie's bed, you must have to pole vault an elephant...
...Harvard men’s hockey team peaked at the right time.But once again, it wasn’t enough to vault the Crimson past the first round of the NCAA Tournament, as Harvard fell to Maine in Albany, N.Y., just a week removed from the Crimson’s dominant performance in the ECAC Final Four at the same rink.Nevertheless, the successful season, which included an Ivy League title in addition to the ECAC championship, was an impressive accomplishment for a Harvard team that was predicted to suffer severely from the graduation of the Class...
...When Ahmad seeks to extract from the images in the Qur'an's Arabic -the outstretched columns, fi 'amadin mumaddada, and the vault high above the hearts of those huddled in terror and straining to see into the towering mist of white heat, naru l-lahi l-muqada-some hint of the Mercifuls relenting at some point in time, and calling a halt to Hutama, the imam casts down his eyes, which are an unexpectedly pale gray, as milky and elusive as a kafir womans, and says that these visionary descriptions by the Prophet are figurative. They are truly about...