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Enter Brook, who was kind enough to model as our fictional character called "the cannonball guy." Like the photographer in "Isn't It Strange," the cannonball guy has a few inconsistencies up in his thinking dome, and tries to launch himself out of a warehouse window from a "trash-can cannon." The album, then, is entitled Hello Cannonball...
...elements. One of the most charming items in this show is a Renaissance miniature from Florence by Zanobi di Strozzi, circa 1470, showing St. Augustine of Hippo dreaming up the City of God, taking dictation (so to speak) from an image of Florence itself, complete with Brunelleschi's great dome, which floats in the blue air before...
...recent violence was set off when Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon, accompanied by several hundred armed police officers, made a visit during prayer time to the Noble Sanctuary and Dome of the Rock, the world's third most sacred site for Muslims...
...bent double in the shade of a pine, scrubbing his feet and hands as he prepares to pray in al-Aqsa Mosque. The air is alive with the sacred mumblings of Hebrew and Arabic. It smells like dust and cumin and cardamom. And the gold of the Dome's roof--vibrant 1,300 years after it was built--reflects the sun back into the sky and reminds you, no matter what your faith, that there is a force larger than...
...Even before that, it was sacred. At its center is the tip of Mount Moriah, where God tested Abraham by demanding the sacrifice of his son Isaac. That rock is where some scholars believe the Ark of the Covenant sat. But it also lies beneath the golden Dome of the Rock, the spot where Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad ascended into heaven and back. The main mosque in the compound is al-Aqsa--also 1,300 years old. More sacred to Muslims than any place except Mecca and Medina, the Mount is the single most holy spot for Jews...