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...Father Daly had a feast no plain collector could ever dream of equaling. Spread out before him were sacred and profane works never, or rarely, exhibited. Items: a 9th century copy of Terence's comedies, with illustrations showing actors in the authentic costumes of ancient Rome; Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II's 13th century manual on falconry; an illustrated sth century copy of Vergil. He also saw many Bibles -but none that surpasses in beauty the work commissioned by Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (1444-82), and one of the keenest bibliophiles of the" Renaissance...
...century A.D., the Emperor Trajan startled Rome's housewives by introducing the revolutionary idea of the covered market. It seemed the last word in shopping, and for the next 18 centuries it was the last word-in Italy. Every weekday morning for those 1,800-odd years, the Italian housewife (or her maid) set out on the same ritualistic, time-consuming round...
...Lydian. In other promising spots they found only worthless Roman or Christian remains, and a few Lydian potsherds. But when they attacked the foundations of a large Roman-Byzantine structure called "Building B," they found a promising clue: a great marble block with an inscription telling that the Roman Emperor Lucius Verus (A.D. 130-169) had passed that way and given a sum of money to the gymnasium, which was probably a kind of school. This suggested that Building B might be the gymnasium mentioned. If so, the diggers were hot on the trail. According to ancient writers, the Sardis...
...during those five hours was a mechanical marvel nicknamed "Little Boy." A vaguely cylindrical device, it measured 129 in. long, 31½ in. in diameter, weighed 9,700 Ibs. Four antennas bristled from its tail; its tungsten-steel nose glistened; on its grey flanks were scrawled obscene greetings to Emperor Hirohito...
...Otto had to offer was stories, but it was a blase man indeed who could walk away from Otto's tales of how his skill at magic won him the honorary chieftainship of an African Pygmy tribe, or of the time that he tried to elope with the Emperor of Ethiopia's daughter...