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...included a Coptic book, the "Eulogies of the Virgin," a Persian on natural history interspersed with medicine, and a Greek, believed to have been written by the emperor's scribes in Constantinople. The story then begins with the first revival of the arts under Charlemagne, shown in the ancient Rheims Gospel and the "Golden Latin Gospels, called "of Henry the Eighth." Both being of the ninth century, are in Byzantine style, the latter all in letters of burnished gold on purple vellum, is among the most beautiful and important documents here. Of two centuries later, with Byzantine traits still persisting...
...Virginia's ancient constitution completely made over, reduced the number of departments in the state government from 100 to 12, revised the tax system so that farmers in Virginia now have lower taxes than in almost any other state, insisted on a pay-as-you-go system of highway building, increased the mileage 45%. When he took office Virginia had a deficit of $1,368,000. When he left office after four years, he left a cash surplus...
...fainting in pack-jammed London crowds of 7,000 women, quickly resuscitated by mobile Red Cross units. The first of the seven State Processions converging on St. Paul's Cathedral for the Silver Jubilee Service was that of Speaker of the House of Commons, Captain Edward FitzRoy. the ancient Speaker's Coach being pulled by brewery horses driven by a brewery teamster arrayed for this one day in blue plush breeches, buff coat, full-bottomed wig, tricorn...
...week drafting the new German Penal Code called for by Adolf Hitler, Judiciary Commissar Hans Frank said it will "contain a new category of punishment, 'Civic Death,' reducing the status of the condemned to that of a permanent outcast." As an afterthought, Dr. Frank recalled that the ancient Huns had a somewhat similar procedure of driving an offender out of the tribe to starve or be eaten by wild beasts. "We are in fact reviving," he observed, "an old German custom...
...some 300 authenticated Titians in the world. Venice, which discovered him and made him rich, has only 28 and not one of them remains in private hands. Six are in the Academy or the Doge's Palace, the rest in parish churches and monasteries. Florence, Venice's ancient rival, has 31. So has Vienna, and there are 34 in Madrid. Chief distribution of remaining Titians...