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...John Rankin was that recognizable type, a scalding Old Testament moralist dropped into 19th century America, a place that was already a boiling pot. He was also a Presbyterian preacher, but not the type to turn the other cheek. In 1841, after a pro-slavery raiding party attempted to burn his house, he put forward a summation of his principles: "It is as much a duty to shoot the midnight assassin in his attacks as it is to pray...
Violence, debauchery, popes, emperors, gods, martyrs, a cardinal's mistress - Titian's work encompassed them all. He had talent to burn and his sensuous paintings were a must-have for the élite of Renaissance Europe. Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) became Venice's official painter in 1516, and was top in Europe until his death in 1576 aged (he claimed) ninetysomething. "Titian," a banquet of his major works harvested from leading European and American galleries, can be savored at London's National Gallery from Feb. 19 through May 18, and - in slightly different form - at the Prado, Madrid, from June...
...It’s easy for me,” he says. “I put on the fire, and they burn...
...step on something," says Lieut. Colonel Ivo Musil, chief of operations for around 390 Kuwait-based Czech soldiers, part of a "consequence-management team" tasked with detecting and cleaning up after a chemical or biological assault. The vapors of many industrial chemicals - including phosgene, chlorine and simple ammonia - can burn, corrode equipment or even kill. Here's the scary part: detection of such chemicals will be next to impossible, even for the Czechs. The small tabs of test paper that G.I.'s carry will not pick them up either. U.S. soldiers in Kuwait's northern desert are training in full...
...defiled inside their own embassy in Phnom Penh while police stood watching from the lawn. "If Cambodians destroy our property, I can deal with that," says Rangsri, 48, a chauffeur in Bangkok. "But stepping on a picture of our King, our father, cannot be accepted. For that, Cambodia must burn...