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Notes and possible spares

Date	Article	Blurb	Notes
xxx	Funerary art	Egyptian ceramic coffin mask Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead, such as a tomb. Grave goods—objects which have been placed inside a tomb—may include the personal possessions of the deceased, objects specially created for the burial or miniature versions of things believed to be needed in an afterlife. Funerary art can serve many cultural functions, including playing a role in burial rites, serving as an article for use by the dead in the afterlife or celebrating the life and accomplishments of the dead. The deposit of objects with an apparent aesthetic intention may go back to the Neanderthals over 50,000 years ago, and is found in almost all subsequent cultures. Many of the best-known artistic creations of past cultures—from the Egyptian pyramids and the Tutankhamun treasure to the Terracotta Army surrounding the tomb of the Qin Emperor, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Sutton Hoo ship burial and the Taj Mahal—are tombs or objects found in and around them. (Full article...) 1007 characters	Still some unsupported paragraphs (Aug 24)
xxx	Portland spy ring	Konon Molody The Portland spy ring was an espionage group active in the United Kingdom between 1953 and 1961. It comprised five people who obtained classified research documents from the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment (AUWE) on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, and passed them to the Soviet Union. Two of the group, Harry Houghton and Ethel Gee worked at the AUWE and had access to classified information. They passed this to their handler, Konon Molody (pictured), a KGB agent acting under a Canadian passport in the name Gordon Lonsdale. Lonsdale would pass the documents to Lona and Morris Cohen, American communists living under the names Helen and Peter Kroger; they passed the information to Moscow. The ring was exposed in 1960 after a tip-off from the Polish spy Michael Goleniewski. The information he supplied was enough to identify Houghton. MI5 surveillance uncovered the rest of the group, who were arrested in January 1961 and tried that March. Sentences for the group ranged from 15 to 25 years. (Full article...)
xxx	Rupert Downes	Rupert Downes (10 February 1885 – 5 March 1945) was an Australian soldier, surgeon and historian. He joined the Army as a trumpeter while still at school. He attended the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1911, and was commissioned as a captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps. During the First World War he served with the First Australian Imperial Force in the Gallipoli and the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. After the war, he wrote the section on Sinai and Palestine for the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918. He was a surgeon at the Royal Children's Hospital and president of the St John Ambulance Brigade. In 1934, he became Director General of Medical Services, the Australian Army's most senior medical officer. He accepted a commission to edit the medical volumes of the Official History of Australia in the War of 1939–1945 but he was killed in a plane crash before he could begin. (Full article...)