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...wars notwithstanding, Venice's relations with Islamic empires were deep and their influence enduring. The city's world-renowned Murano glass industry employed techniques learned from Anatolian workshops, while Venetian bookbinders and cartographers imitated their Arabic counterparts. One of the exhibit's showcase pieces - a hallowed marble throne from the Church of San Pietro di Castello in Venice - features a backrest that is actually a tombstone brought from Syria, still inscribed with Koranic scripture. The throne "tells a story," says curator Stefano Carboni, "of cultures in tune with each other, of mutual understandings." Venice declined as other European navigators explored...
...year-old prince, third in line to the British throne, has been embroiled in several embarrassing incidents over the past few years. He was photographed sporting a Nazi Africa Korps uniform, replete with swastika armband, at a costume party in January 2005, and has fielded allegations from the British press for smoking marijuana and underage drinking. Video footage surfaced earlier in October that appeared to show him snorting vodka...
Amram and Zelikman are too cynical to take up anything resembling a cause, but on a whim and for the promise of gold, they undertake restoring to the throne a deposed princeling named Filaq. This involves much swordplay, thieving of horses, charging of war elephants, lodging of arrows in throats and so forth. There's virtually no line in this book that isn't typical of the whole, so this one will serve: "She flung herself onto the Turkoman's back and with the rank bacon smell of his oiled hair in her nostrils bit off his ear, a salt...
...read from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, answered questions from the audience, and then signed two thousand books, including mine. As Rowling settled down, the crowd did not. On the edge of their seats, they clung on to every word coming from the woman on the velvet-covered throne, often bursting into applause or laughter. As she started to read a passage from the book, the last in the Harry Potter series, it was clear that she was just as excited as the audience. She read with obvious delight, putting on brilliant voices that rang true to every character...
After he ascended to the throne in 1999, the King wanted to bring these values to Jordan. His plan: create the Arab world's first coed boarding school. In 2006 he brought in Deerfield's headmaster, Eric Widmer, and several other Deerfield teachers to kick-start King's Academy, which opened this fall with about 100 students...