Mine Rescue, by Fletcher Martin, 1939. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

Philanthropy

Volume VIII, Number 3 | summer 2015

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Where the UN, the World Bank, and eleven nations send foreign aid.

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Maria Theresa, archduchess of Austria, queen of Hungary and Bohemia, advised son Ferdinand in 1771 not to support the Mozart family of musicians. “You ask me about taking the young Salzburger into your service. I do not know why, believing you have no need for a composer or useless people,” she wrote. “Furthermore, he has a large family.” The Mozart family had four members. Ferdinand did not make an offer.

Charity is murder and you know it.

—Dorothy Parker, 1956
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The Colosseum, attributed to Robert Eaton, c. 1855.
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Monumental Mistakes

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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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