Word: heavensent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, a mosaic-walled mosque in a corner of the Old City, is Islam's third holiest shrine. From the Rock, Mohamed, led by the Angel Gabriel, ascended on el-Buraq, his eagle-winged mare with the human face, to visit the seven...
This treasonable grouch caused poor Farmer Brocke to be knocked, not patted, on the head by the royal executioner. But his view was shared by thousands of Englishmen-affected equally by medieval superstition and horror over Henry's conflict with the Pope. Crowds screamed maniacally when the new Queen...
Last week, for the first time in the U.S., the visible by-products of Beckmann's war work went on view in a Manhattan gallery. His fiery heavens, icy hells, and bestial men showed why he is called Germany's greatest living artist.
Why did some 3,000,000 Americans thus search the heavens so avidly? One guess was that war and The Bomb had hit the nation right in its lunar plexus. But people were still asking the same old questions: "Will I succeed?" "Will I get married?" "Where is William?" Only...
Victor Hugo or Maupassant might have written the life story of La Piaf. Two policemen assisted at her birth in a Montmartre street 30 years ago. When she was two and a half, she was struck blind-according to her. She was cured, at seven, when she and her grandmother...