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Tiro (novice) or not, brandishing a sizeable arma lusoria (wooden sword) and aiming strategically at the stomach of his lanista (trainer), my 12-year-old son Theo cuts an impressive swath as a gladiator-in-training. Far more real than reading a textbook about life in classical Rome, taking a two-hour course in the rigors of gladiatorial combat was a brilliant way for an enthusiastic Latin student to get the most from a school-holiday visit to Rome...
...first manufacturer of ready-made wooden toothpicks, James Forster, set up shop in Cambridge—where James briefly, but unsuccessfully, studied at Harvard Law School, and where his parents owned a home...
...neighborhood of weed-infested sidewalks and burgeoning middle-class aspirations. Because space is limited, the plane has been cut down to about two-thirds its normal length and is held in place by thick concrete pillars. Inside, Gupta replaced the bulkhead between the coach and business cabins with a wooden wall so he could mount an air conditioner to cool the cabin in New Delhi's oppressive summer heat...
...flight of stairs that leads up to the choral library. This dank space, with the pert smell of cement, has high, downward-sloping ceilings. Choir secretaries who serve as librarians of the literature. Metal shelves holding alphabetized black boxes full of music sheets lined the intricately latticed wooden wall that the choral library shares with Appleton Chapel...
Chicago Architecture Foundation From the birthplace of the skyscraper come wooden miniatures (from $25.95) of the cake-slice Wrigley Building and the Gothic Tribune Tower - both built in the 1920s - as well as the John Hancock Center, above left, a squared-off, tapering tower, which wouldn't look out of place in Beijing. And architects don't just do buildings: for desktop tulips there's an elegant Frank Lloyd Wright vase in jade or nutmeg ($110). www.architecture.org...