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...addition to the full-time performers in the cast, Transatlantic Tunnel is distinguished by the presence of two famed actors who introduce their specialties as bit parts-George Arliss as the British Prime Minister and Walter Huston as the U. S. President, circa 1985 A.D. The film is an exciting if misleading cinematic horoscope to which futuristic fashion notes were contributed by Schiaparelli. Good shot: gas-masked workmen chatting via television telephones...
Duccio di Buoninsegna (circa 1255-1319) was the last and possibly the greatest of Byzantine painters. Their style of flat, formalized, brilliantly colored art was already dying in Duccio's time. Working in Siena as a decorator of book covers and gift boxes, he kept the tradition alive through his interest in the illuminated miniatures of old Byzantine manuscripts...
...born in Leyden on the Rhine circa 1606, youngest son of a prosperous miller. His four elder brothers all became poor cobblers and millers. His parents soon assigned Rembrandt to something better, gave him a year at the University of Leyden before he brought home a pile of drawings, said he was determined to be a painter...
Thus, according to Exodus, were the Jews freed from their long slavery in Egypt, on a date now set at circa 1400 B. C. Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. . . . And when the hour was come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him. . . . And He came out, and went, as He was wont, to the Mount of Olives: and His disciples also followed Him. . . . And He that was called Judas . . . drew near unto Jesus to kiss Him. . . . Then took they Him, and led Him, and brought Him into the high priest...
...steam engine was hit upon by Hero of Alexandria (circa 130 B. C.), made practicable (1763-82) by James Watt, appeared on no successful locomotive until 1829 (Stephenson's "Rocket...