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...stone throne supported by a carved, crouching man shows the Andean fondness for working the most stubborn materials. It is further demonstrated by photographs of temples near Cuzco, 11,000 feet up. Built during Europe's Dark Ages, the temples were constructed of granite blocks weighing up to 50 tons each. No one knows how the blocks were heaved into place. Even more impressive is the fact that they were matched and fitted so precisely that a knife blade cannot be slipped between them...
...which his predecessor went mad.* His power in matters of faith, order and polity is far more limited than that of the Pope; yet he is looked upon as "Elder Brother" by the churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia,. Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, ATHENAGORAS I On a wooden throne, a nylon ruler...
...Friends." "Now we have a nylon Patriarch," said the Turks when Athenagoras, just back from 18 years in the U.S.,' ascended the 1,000-year-old wooden throne in Istanbul's Phanari Cathedral (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948). Born a Turkish subject in a village near the Greek-Albanian border, Aristoklis Spyrou was appointed in 1919 to the Metropolitan Church of Athens. In 1930 the Orthodox population of the New World, a diocese of the Istanbul Patriarchate, needed a steady hand and a good brain to untangle a snarl of jealousy and intrigue into which the church had fallen...
...never had too much of a social life. Beyond her husbands, she had only two known lovers - well under par for her time and station. Both affairs ended badly. One lover, a papal messenger named Perotto, was put to the sword by brother Cesare in the Pope's throne room. The second, Lucrezia's brother-in-law,contracted syphilis in another affair and went off to live in seclusion...
...trooped to Eleusis, Greece, last summer to see one of the most litigious excavations of recent years. Archaeologist George E. Mylonas reported he had actually found the grave of Prince Polynecices and his five friends who had been killed, according to Greek mythology, in the attempt to capture the throne of Thebes from Polynecices's brother. The big controversy arose when Mylonas mentioned he had discovered the graves from directions written by the ancient geographer Pausanias who lived about 1,700 years after Polynecices...