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Volume XV, Number 2 | winter 2024

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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, 1933

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The Colosseum, attributed to Robert Eaton, c. 1855.
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Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.

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Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.

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