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Post by bot on Jun 12, 2007 7:36:37 GMT -8
Monument To Love Tracing the colorful history By Jack Livings Newsweek International read at source> www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19142950/site/newsweek/June 18, 2007 Issue - In 1631, mogul empress Mumtaz Mahal died giving birth to her 14th child. Court histories tell us that during her 19-year marriage to the Emperor Shah Jahan, she had been the "light of his bedchamber"; within days of her death, the emperor's beard had turned noticeably grayer. The mausoleum that he built in memory of his beloved—the Taj Mahal, completed in 1648—has stood for centuries as a symbol of sorrow and beauty.
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