Santo Bambino of Aracoeli: figure of the Christ Child in crown and jewels
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Leonid Andreyev on the cross worn on the neck and the cross borne on the back
- And there's no cross round your neck - A cross? We bear our cross on our backs Leonid Andreyev
Swedish filmmakers locate the Paris spot where Daguerre photographed the Boulevard du Temple in 1838
In the spring of 1838, Louis Daguerre, the French painter and inventor of the daguerreotype, was testing a camera on which he had been working for almost a year. The daguerreotype was the first practical method of photography: the image appeared on a silvered copper plate. Daguerre photographed the view
A wooden escalator of the 1930s in the Saint Anne pedestrian tunnel in Antwerp
A wooden escalator of the 1930s in the Saint Anne's pedestrian tunnel in Antwerp
Warwick Rodwell studies skeleton from Roman sarcophagus in Westminster Abbey
The British archaeologist Warwick Rodwell, consultant to Westminster Abbey, has published a study of a skeleton that lay for many years in a Roman stone sarcophagus in the Abbey. The sarcophagus was made of limestone in the 3rd or 4th century AD. The Latin inscription on it states that the