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...befitted Islamic ritual -- but they also based its double-arch system on the design of Roman aqueducts. "You have taken something unique and turned it into something mundane," the Emperor Charles V is said to have remarked, on seeing the mosque converted into a Catholic church after the reconquista...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: When Spain Was Islamic | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...cunning and ambitious onetime ironworker, Jorge swept like a whirlwind through the first two grades of school in one month at Reconquista, in the province of Santa Fé, where he was born. Then his father took him out of school, bought textbooks, let Jorge go his own way. Three years ago the boy began to scribble strange, cabalistic signs. Father Santiago Fernández thought he had suffered a nervous breakdown from too much study. But a local doctor told him his son had picked up some elementary chemical formulas, was trying to analyze and combine them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Argentine Prodigy | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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