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...Peter's at Rome is 227, -069; of the Mesquita at Cordova 232,250, less about one-third for courtyard and cloisters; of Santa Maria de la Sede at Seville 128,570 of St. John the Divine at New York 109,082; of the Duomo at Milan 107,-000. The Mesquita, many pillared was at one time a mosque, the largest sacred building of the Mohammedans, after their Kaaba at Mecca When in the 16th Century the Mesquita, with many alterations, was transformed to a Roman Catholic cathedral, Emperor Charles V (1500-58) exclaimed: "You have built here what...
Last week, as it must to all men, death came to Milan Ciganovitch, 40, last of all the assassins. He is said to have been the protege of the late premier Nikolai Pasuitch, who sent him to the U. S. for a year immediately after the murders. On his return to his native land he received a large grant of land at Uskub, where he lived in affluence until his death. His part in the assassination, for which he was named in the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia, was restricted to supplying bombs from the royal arsenal in Belgrade...
...Assistant Equerry of the Apostolic Palaces was at Milan, Italy, last week on an especial mission to buy a third motor car for His Holiness Pope Pius XI. The smaller of the two motor cars which the people of Milan gave Achille Ratti when in 1922 he was called from being their archbishop to become the Supreme Pontiff has worn out. The Pope has used it effectively in his drives about the Vatican grounds...
...went to the Royal Institute at Milan to study to be an engineer and "an expert businessman." One day, he heard that a Frenchman, Leon Delagrange, had made a six-minute airplane flight.* His dreams suddenly took shape-he would build ships of the air; he would learn to sail them...
...months ago the directors of the Philharmonic Society of New York announced what other orchestra supporters enviously called "the catch of the season"-slim, fiery, volatile Arturo Toscanini of Milan engaged for 1927-28. The Philharmonic had had Signer Toscanini often before but always as a guest conductor. Now he would conduct 41 concerts, be a "regular...