Word: 700th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Magic Eye. Even getting arrested had been an ordeal, Malskat testified. No one wanted to believe him, and for good reason. The recent 700th anniversary of Lübeck's St. Mary's, centered around the "restored" church murals, had been the civic event of a generation, attended by Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and celebrated, with 2,000,000 special anniversary stamps showing a detail from Malskat's forged work. Lübeck winced as Malskat described how he had blithely gone about his work, perched on top of a 90-ft. scaffold inside...
Travelers to Venice last week found themselves in the midst of a major celebration honoring history's most successful travel-book author-Marco Polo. For the 700th anniversary of his birth, the city which once scoffed at his fantastic tales of the Orient* gathered from eleven countries (not including Red China) an exhibition of 951 pieces of Chinese art that would have awed even Marco Polo himself...
...influential philosopher. In 1901 he became rector of the nation's oldest university, and under him, Salamanca began to recapture some of the glory it had known in the days of Students Cervantes, Cortes and Ignatius of Loyola. This year, when Salamanca began laying plans to celebrate its 700th anniversary, it naturally included a solemn tribute to its great rector...
Last week Assisi celebrated the 700th anniversary of St. Clare's death. Pilgrims and dignitaries from all over the world poured into the little Umbrian town for two days of special services and speeches. In the triumphant procession that climaxed the celebration, behind long lines of tonsured friars and bundled nuns, five relics of the saint were borne; a ball of yarn she had spun, a chip of her bones, a skein of hair cut off by St. Francis, her brown mantle, and the rough tunic she wore...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). The 700th broadcast...