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But that case was exceptional; most of the magic practiced nowadays is not black (evil) but the white magic of healing. Despite laws against witchcraft, hundreds of curanderas (healers) compete with Mexico's doctors, offering cures for everything from bellyache to heartache. In treating mal de toloache (an intestinal...
Nowadays, architects have almost as few calls for cathedrals as for pyramids or royal palaces. When Coventry decided to build a new cathedral to replace the one destroyed by the Luftwaffe in 1940, the city was hard-pressed to find designers with previous experience, finally invited British Commonwealth architects to...
The Early Days. The men he owes his life to are the medics and surgeons of the Army's ist Provisional Neurosurgical Detachment and its trim, brown-haired commander, Lieut. Colonel Arnold M. Meirowsky. In the early days in Korea, it often took a week or more be fore...
Shinsui Ito is even more of a traditionalist, for he has steadily resisted Western influences and made his reputation as a purely Nippon-Ga (Japanese-style) artist. As a portrayer of beautiful women, Shinsui is inevitably compared with Utamaro, the classic pin-up master. Although Shinsui admits that Japanese standards...
Burgundy is just a good red wine nowadays, but 500 years ago it was Europe's richest dukedom, spilling from the Alps to the Zuider Zee. Beefy burghers, dressed in furs and velvet, thronged its towns, paid out hard silver for the works of its artists and craftsmen. Last...