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Next impediment was the ceiling, an umbrellalike structure peculiar to buildings which house cycloramas. This is hung so that natural light from a skylight is diffused over the painting. Because the outer edge of the umbrella hid parts of the painting from the camera, a roofing company was hired to raise the umbrella. ½ With floor leveled and ceiling raised, there remained the most challenging obstruction of all, a large steel pole standing in the center of the building-and this was immovable...
...VIII's time. The Mercers' chapel was in trouble with reformers as early as 1535 because of windows showing King Henry II doing penance for the murder of Thomas à Becket in 1170. To save the statue from the fate of the windows, which were destroyed, somebody hid it underground, thus preserved its Renaissance beauty for the 20th century. Eventually, it will be restored to the rebuilt Mercers' chapel, long since a place of worship for the Church of England...
...drove up to their neighbor's farm on the parching South African veld. The Gouws asked for Joseph Mokwatsi, a 17-year-old Negro employed as a field hand, explaining to his master: "We think he stole two jackets, and we want him to show us where he hid them." Joseph was handed over; the Gouws tied a leather thong around his neck, threw him into their truck and drove...
...because Can didn't want his bride to know she had married a man whose grandson shined shoes. The boy didn't want to give up a whole day's profits, so he worked until he heard the train whistle, then folded up his stand and hid around the corner. After Can and his bride passed, Ray went back to work...
Meeting of the Elders. Henderson and Ruck left China's letters in hollow trees or in cleft sticks planted in forest clearings. Once they took China with them, his curly head protruding from the turret of an armored car. Another time, Henderson, scouting on his own, hid behind a thick-fronted banana tree and watched a Mau Mau oath-taking ceremony in which the new members were forced to eat human eyeballs gouged from still-living victims. The rite included other barbaric practices in sadism and sodomy...