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...Rescued from abandonment by the Italian Environment Foundation (fai), the vertical garden (there's actually no villa) offers one of the most romantic walks in Europe. It winds through luxuriant wooded paths, natural grottoes and ancient ruins, and leads to a spectacular 120-m waterfall. The landscape, featuring 2nd century B.C. architecture, inspired such 17th and 18th century artists as Nicolas Poussin and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and became a must-see stop on the Grand Tour. Later, Villa Gregoriana was admired as much for its role in averting floods as for its natural beauty. The flood-prone Aniene River...
...Maxwell-Dworkin 2nd floor–The dark horse of the All-Deuce starting five, this personal bathroom is literally big enough to hold a monster truck rally. More importantly, it has a shower, so you can bathe before and ideally after. There is also a nice chair, so you can bring a friend to chat to while defecating...
...field headquarters near the Elbe, Lieut. General William Simpson was working on his plans to seize Berlin. There was little evidence of German opposition. Simpson's U.S. 2nd Armored and 83rd Infantry divisions would race right up the autobahn to the capital. Then Lieut. General Omar Bradley summoned him back to headquarters in Wiesbaden. "You have to stop right where you are," Bradley said. "You can't go any farther. You must pull back across the Elbe...
TIME reported on the murder charges brought against Marine 2nd Lieut. Ilario Pantano for shooting two Iraqis near Baghdad in what Pantano says was self-defense [March 7]. I pose two questions: If the two Iraqis had detonated explosives, killing Pantano's men but not Pantano, would he be prosecuted for dereliction of duty for not preventing the explosion and the casualties? Or if the Iraqis had detonated explosives, killing Pantano, his men and themselves, would the government honor him as a hero and adorn his coffin with medals? Leaders like Pantano are supposed to be decisive. He made...
...After a brief glance at the 15th century rediscovery of the monumental 2nd century opus of Claudius Ptolemy (who was responsible for the idea that Africa and Asia were linked by a southern land bridge), Nebenzahl plunges into the world of fantasy and Christian ideology that dominated mapmaking between the fall of the Greeks and their rediscovery during the Renaissance. Many of the examples from this period scarcely look like maps at all. They are too beautiful, for one thing?they teem with castles and knights, thickets of blooming vines, schools of fish, piles of jewels. They blend fact...