Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
Miscellany
John Stow records in his Survey of London that shortly after conquering England in 1066, William I decreed that “in every town and village, a bell should be nightly rung at eight o’clock, and that all people should then put out their fire and candle, and take their rest.” English speakers call such a prohibition a curfew, a word derived from the Anglo-Norman coeverfu, “cover fire.”
Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933More EnergyGo to Issue Page >
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Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
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