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Delegates. Some 500 church dignitaries faced the pulpit of Lausanne's 11th Century cathedral- comfortable British bishops; intense Scandinavians; placid Chinamen; square-fingered Germans; bearded, broad-browed, wise-eyed patriarchs from Russia, Greece, Palestine; neat Americans-representatives of some 90 sects in 49 nations. There was one notable absentee; the Roman Catholic Church had declined to be represented, regarding itself as already the united church, infallible. A German and an Austrian prelate, however, sat by to "observe" for the Vatican...
Near Deauville, modern playground, eleven 11th Century sarcophagi were found containing small women, giant...
...ever heard of the outside world. They wore clothes of a style fashionable in Japan centuries ago. Their teeth were blackened for beauty; they ate only fruit and vegetables. Archaeologists calculated that they must be descendants of a clan called Heike which was driven into the mountains in the 11th Century by Genji, amorous but warlike royal bastard, whose biography* has lately been appearing in English, translated by scholarly Arthur Waley...
...time, too, gout appeared, as shown by uric acid deposits in joints, and by swollen great toes and knees. Cancer appeared first a century or two before Christ. But tuberculosis appeared in the Fifth Dynasty (27th Century, B. C.) This mummy's spine was affected. Ramses V (circa, 11th Century, B. C.) had smallpox. Mummies packed away 6,000 years ago had gallstones. Gravel in the kidneys first appeared 5,000 years ago, and pelvic abscesses became a frequent affliction 30 centuries back...
...Italian Painting of the 11th Century", Professor Post. Fogg Museum, Fine Arts...