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...Short. In Rio de Janeiro, the Panair do Brasil airline reported that it had issued a ticket to a Europe-bound woman passenger under the name Maria Cunha, rather than the name she had given them: Maria Teresa Francisco de Assis da Concepqao da Rocha Filomena das Necessidades do Sagrado Coragao de Jesus Pereira da Cunha...
...SAINT GEORGE AND THE DRAGON is among the most perfectly preserved panels by RAPHAEL. It was a gift to Henry VII of England, commissioned by Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who had received the Order of the Garter from Henry. In the picture, St. George is clearly shown wearing the Garter. (The Mellon Collection...
...Carringtons have come to depend on the drum. At 5:30 in the morning the mission awakes to it (da dee da da dee da da dee da-sukóla sukóla sukóla-wash wash wash). Often when her husband is in the jungle, Mrs. Carrington beats out a quick tattoo to summon him back to lunch (da da da da dee dee da dee . . . bosongo olimo konda...
Four Chunks. A lot of seats were empty by the time the third number came on. This was three whole scenes from Aïda. First a Marlon Brando kind of man named Mario del Monaco came out and sang very loud and very high. He was luckier than the other operatic heroes and seemed to have two women after him, one being the daughter of the king of Egypt. Her name was Blanche Thebom, and she was a looker. The other was not so young, but she certainly could sing. Her name was Zinka Milanov. The young man liked...
...crusading tide ebbed, the Saracens picked off one beleaguered Christian fortress after another-Antioch, Tripoli, and finally, in 1291, Tyre and Acre. That was the end of the Prankish kingdom in the East, though the West went on talking for centuries of liberating Jerusalem (Vasco da Gama and Columbus both piously hoped to take it from the rear...