The most spectacular event was what our guide called the “Cremation of the Century.” More than 170 families had waited, some ...

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Dosick was working at his dining room table in Carlsbad when he suffered the heart attack about 9 p.m. Friday.

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Col Satish Singh Lalotra ‘If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today’—ThichNihatHanh. Faith and ...

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha statue. They then brought their find—which has been dated to the 12 ...