Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
Medieval missionary discovering the point where heaven and earth meet, twentieth-century coloration of black-and-white engraving from The Atmosphere, by Camille Flammarion, 1888.
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“Have reserved two tickets for my first night. Come and bring a friend, if you have one,” wired George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill, referring to Pygmalion’s premiere. “Impossible to come to first night. Will come to second night, if you have one,” Churchill wired back.
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCLapham’s
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