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...synagogue exhibit is a metaphor for everything that is special about the National Museum in Damascus, Syria. It's supposed to be one of the facility's most famous displays, and yet it isn't signposted. Locating it will tax your orienteering skills to their limit - unless, on your quest through the galleries, you happen to glimpse the attendant Abu Mustapha, which we were lucky enough to do. He will lead you down obscure corridors to an unlabeled door and push it open to reveal a 1,750-year-old Jewish house of worship, painstakingly transported, in its entirety, from...
...back seat to analogy and intuition. Thus in Thames, Ackroyd flits effortlessly between themes like baptism or the symbolism of swans and gossipy tales of old London. A contemplation, for example, on the melancholy induced by looking into the waters from a bridge segues into a roll call of famous suicides and murders on the river, sealed with the observation that "The Thames has always harboured an affection for severed heads." Ackroyd attributes the moody riverside settings of Charles Dickens' Bleak House or Great Expectations to the novelist's misery at being sent as a 12-year-old to work...
...Yongbyon, the communist leadership blustered that the IAEA was the U.S.’s poodle and kicked inspectors out of the country.Despite the North’s past transgressions, the recent February deal seems to be a knockoff of the Agreed Framework, North Korea’s most famous broken promise. Signed in 1994, the Agreed Framework called for the North to halt its nuclear research in exchange for heavy oil and two light-water reactors from the U.S. In October 2002, however, a North Korean delegation admitted to its U.S. counterpart that the North had been secretly enriching...
...charge that Graham went into ministry to get rich is just as easily refuted, both by what he did and didn't do. Well aware of how easily a famous preacher could be destroyed by financial or sexual scandal, Graham took pains early on to protect himself from both. He insisted that crusade accounts be audited and published in the local papers when the crusade was finished. Having founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in 1950, he took a straight salary, comparable to that of a senior minister of a major urban pulpit, no matter how much in money...
...floors. But the little bungalow at 5124 De Longpre Avenue in East Hollywood was the epicenter of a cultural earthquake that continues to rock Los Angeles's literary landscape. It is the house where Charles Bukowski went from blue-collar postman to full-time writer, eventually becoming world famous for his bawdy tales of lust, liquor, and love...