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...where does this rule about not touching the Queen come from? The sovereigns of England and France at some point in their nations' long histories claimed a divine right to rule, a right often amplified by titles bestowed by the Pope in Rome. (The Queen, in fact, still has the title Defender of the Faith, an honor given to Henry VIII before he broke with the Catholic Church and established the Church of England.) That touch of holiness once gave the occupant of the throne the supposed ability to cure certain diseases - most famously, scrofula, a terrible skin ailment that...
...trade is good for you. The idea that an exchange of what you have for what I have makes both of us better off must be as old as the first moment anyone swapped cowrie shells for some cooked fish. Organized trade is ancient: silk did not get to Rome because the Romans figured out sericulture; someone imported it from China. But it took until 1817, and the work of the British political economist David Ricardo, for anyone to cloak a theory around something that humans had been doing since time immemorial. Ricardo showed that if nations concentrate on what...
Giansanti, of course, had other subjects: World Cup soccer stars, Formula One racers, African tribesmen. He also took searing photographs of the aftermath of the 1985 terrorist attack at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport. His last major project was a series of portraits of people he described as Italy's unsung stars in such fields as law, education and geology. But he will be remembered for two things: the death of a premier and the life of a pope...
Gianni Giansanti passed away on March 18, 2009, in his native Rome. He is survived by his wife Anna and their two children...