Word: ripper
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...couldn't persuade any of them to share my rental house in the city's walled Old Town. If they had heard of Cartagena at all, it was only as the backdrop of the classic 1980s romantic caper Romancing the Stone, a place of corrupt juntas and bodice-ripper-reading drug dealers - a parody turned deadly serious by four decades of civil war, Pablo Escobar and cocaine cartels. But what my friends - who spent their vacations standing in line at Space Mountain or screaming down the Atlantis waterslide - failed to realize is that Cartagena has become one of the Caribbean...
...method they used included looking at the similarities in the inks and papers used by Sickert and people who claimed to be Jack the Ripper...
...research on Jack the Ripper, Cornwell used Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, where the new position will be established. She traveled with a team of scientists, including Harvard conservator Anne Driesse, in the fall of 2005 to study papers and inks in England...
...looked at 400 Jack the Ripper letters in the National Archive in London. Cornwell was trying to confirm that most of these letters were by Walter Sickert,” Driesse said...
Cornwell recently donated more than 50 works of art by Sickert to the Harvard Art Museum. “She would say that these are Jack the Ripper paintings,” said Henry Lie, director of conservation at the Harvard Art Museum...