Word: curiosities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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(4 of 5) is to indicate Vatican City's sovereignty rather than to provide a currency. The result will doubtless be the virtual hoarding of the money-as curios, mementos, keepsakes and possibly scapularies. First issue will be New Year's Day.* The Man. Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti...
The late Oscar von Forckenbeck, high Prussian official, had a consuming passion: the collection of old newspapers and manuscripts. When he died in 1892 he left the fruits of 40 years of collecting-jour-nals in 43 languages from 32 countries. These were bequeathed to the municipality of Aix-la...
* To see 80 performances 383,000 visitors paid $1,200,000 which, after deducting promotion and production expenses and the cost of the new theatre left a Passion Play net profit of some $600,000. By letting rooms, dispensing food and drink, peddling curios and selling objects of piety the...