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It was believed that the cats had a sixth sense and that putting a cat in the wall was a blood sacrifice so the animal could use psychic abilities to find and ward off unwanted spirits. [1] Although some accounts claim that the cats were walled in alive, examination of recovered specimens indicates post-mortem concealment in most cases. [2]
Cathedral: The Story of its Construction is an illustrated book by David Macaulay. Published in 1973 by Houghton Mifflin, it was the author's first book. Cathedral tells the story of the construction of a great medieval cathedral using pen-and-ink drawings. [1] [2] It won the 1975 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for children's non-fiction. It ...
The first chapter treats the Mont Saint Michel Abbey: its architectural history as well as what the building and its patron represented for the people of that time.The second chapter concerns the great medieval epic Le Chanson de Roland, a poem which, Adams argued, "expressed the masculine and military passions of the Archangel" [4] represented by that first cathedral.
In their new book “Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals,” journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy document those 30 years — 1866 to ...
The Animal Wall (Welsh: Wal yr Anifeiliaid) is a sculptured wall depicting 15 animals in the Castle Quarter of the city centre of Cardiff, Wales. It stands to the west of the entrance to Cardiff Castle , having been moved from its original position in front of the castle in the early 1930s.
Many feature animals, birds, or human figures or faces, sometimes realistic, but often Grotesque: the Green Man is a frequent subject. [ 2 ] The Romanesque Norwich Cathedral in Norfolk , United Kingdom , has the largest number of painted carved stone bosses in the world; an extensive and varied collection of over one thousand individual pieces.
The Hotel Chelsea, New York City was the birthplace of Philip H. Frohman, designed by his grandfather, Philip Hubert. Frohman was born in Hotel Chelsea, designed by his grandfather Philip Gengembre Hubert, in New York in 1887 [2] to Gustave Frohman, a theatrical producer, and the former Marie Hubert, an actress. [3]
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