Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
Mine Rescue, by Fletcher Martin, 1939. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
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In 1463 John Weeks bequeathed six-and-eightpence to St. Anne and St. Agnes in Aldersgate ward for the purchase of wood to burn heretics. Weeks may have meant the gift as a helpful threat, hoping for heretics to save their souls before bonfires became necessary.
The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Lapham’s
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