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...weeks ago blue-eyed Princess Ileana of Rumania ran her small yacht . on a sand bank in the Black Sea and waited, fogbound, fog-frightened, until rescued by a gunboat from Constanta. Last week, fog-free and thankful, she presented a handsome silver candelabrum to the many domed Cathedral of Constanta. Her pious inscription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Fog Free | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...most important permanent accession is a collection of bronze implements and other objects illustrative of Roman life, purchased by Professor M. H. Morgan at Rome. Among the bronze pieces is a well-preserved statuette of a Lar; two small mirrors, one with an incised design; a small candelabrum; a ladle with a handle ending in two swans' heads; a razor and other utensils. The rest of the collection includes a large fragment of mosaic decorated with a comic mask and a model of a lock and key found at Pompeil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Purchase of Classical Antiquities | 11/21/1907 | See Source »

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