Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vicenza's Juliet castle was turned into a tavern complete with medieval trappings and frescoes illustrating the great love story. A long-faced waiter, who obligingly changed his name from Mario to Romeo, served sentimental vacationists with specially prepared Scaloppe alla Giulietta e Romeo in the dining room. When...
Edmund Morris Morgan. Morgan is stopping out of the Royall professorship of Law, the oldest law chair in the University. To students he was a short, slight, kindly man who underwent a schizophrenic change in the classroom which they claim he turned into "medieval horror chambers" by devilish cross examinations...
But most Coke skits, carefully rehearsed, revolve around simple, symbolic characters strongly reminiscent of medieval morality plays. Typical was a dramatic production put on at a recent meeting of 55 Egyptian and other Near Eastern bottlers in Cairo. Protagonist was Barsoum, a Coca-Cola Dealer with a fine Egyptian mustache...
¶Medieval tradition held that nails were driven through Christ's palms. The shroud shows wounds near the middle of the wrists. After hammering nails in 35 freshly amputated hands, Surgeon Pierre Barbet of Paris declared that the palms would tear too easily to support the weight of a...
His scholarly works included many editions translations of religious works in Greek and Georgian, and commentaries on Medieval texts. He made many discoveries of unknown manuscripts in the Caucasus, Sinal, Samaria, and Lake Van.