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...Rome, Ga., from Rome, Italy, arrived last week a bronze she-wolf, suckling two bronze infants. A gift from Italy's Benito Mussolini, it was a reproduction of the ancient Romulus & Remus group, a reminder to Georgian Romans of their etymological ancestry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Rome to Rome | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Most facile of writers is debonair Paul Reboux, editor, dramatic critic, parodist and bon vivant, author of The Little Papa-coda, Romulus Cuckoo, Colin, or the Tropical Voluptuaries. Among his other works, nimble Critic Reboux has paid homage to France's national sport and greatest glory, Gastronomy, by publishing a cook book, Plats Nouveaux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Wine of Honor | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Romulus and Remus, who were expelled from Alba with disgust and alarm and who must later have had their eccentricities increased by the diet of acidulous milk with which an undiscriminating wolf supplied them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Two of a Kind | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...What Roman deity was alleged by the Vestal Rhea Silvia to have been the father of her twin sons, Romulus and Remus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Substitute Questions | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

From India came a strange tale last week, a new Mowgli* story, a Romulus and Remus anecdote, with the genders changed. Bishop Pakenham Walsh of Calcutta, back in London from a visit to the mission of the Rev. Jal Singh at Midnapur, Bengal, told the tale and vouched for its truth. Some months ago the Rev. Jal Singh was told, by the wide-eyed inhabitants of an isolated village in his parish, to avoid a certain path into the hills. It was, they assured him, haunted by demons. Strong in his faith, and armed against wild beasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wolf Girls | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

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