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One of the greatest mysteries for most of the twentieth century was the fate of the Romanov family, the last Russian monarchy. Following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, he and his wife, Alexandra, and their five children were eventually exiled to the city of Yekaterinburg. The family, along with four loyal members of their staff, was held captive by members of the Ural Soviet. According to ...

An aging woman kneels next to a grave that has been dug in the dirt along the wall of a one-room cell. This is the cell she has been confined to for life, a tiny room off the main chapel of the village church. The grave yawns wide, dark and foreboding, in the corner of her little room. The tips of her fingernails are still black, filled with the dark earth of the grave they have moved for the d...

At the concluding excavation in June 1968, when the burial places belonging to the hospital church dating from the last half of the 13th century were examined, there was found in the choir an untouched rectangular Romanesque grave (Fig. la & b) built of large medieval bricks with inside measurements of 70 x 180 cm. In the grave there was a well-preserved skeleton of a male, aged about 25-30 yea...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) is more common in Asia than in western countries, and has a high mortality rate. A simple prognostic score for predicting grave prognosis of ICH is lacking. Our objective was to develop a simple and reliable score for most physicians. MATERIAL AND METHOD ICH patients from seven Asian countries were enrolled between May 2000 ...