Until the mid-fifties Gina had been seen mostly in Italian films but she was about to star in a series of hit movies made for the US market that would transform her hitherto limited fan base – films like Trapeze (1956), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) and Solomon and Sheba (1959...
The rivers of Eden include “the land of Havila where there is gold” (Gen. 2: 11), which echoes the gold used in Solomon’s Temple.10 While the Zohar emphasizes etymological and symbolic connections between Eve’s creation and the construction of the Tabernacle, the sages based their ...
I bought through the internet from America a plastic model of the tabernacle, which I painted and built with my wife. It took three days for us to get it ready. We photographed the tabernacle on a sandpit, and in that way we got a background that looks like the wilderness of the ...
Next the beak on the spinnaker pole let go the brace with the result that the spinnaker pole had a mind of its own for a short while and soon after the spinnaker pole clamp on the mast let go with the spinnaker pole shooting up the mast. In both cases Damien and David made quick re...
1958. Gina Lollobrigida in Solomon and Sheba. Photo by Leo Fuchs. Read more. Gina Lollobrigida was one of the great international sex symbols of postwar cinema. In its January 1956 issue, Modern Screen magazine reported that: L’Italienne is downright gorgeous but you can find others just as...
Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. Luckily, Isaac was ...
The interpretation of hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone by Young and Champollion opened the sealed book of Egypt’s glorious past. The excavations of M. Botta and Layard in South West Asia yielded sufficient findings on which could be built up the edifice of Assyrian civilization. Likewise, the ...
The Monastery of La Rabida, a Gothic-Mudejar temple, is one of the most important sites linked to COLUMBUS; it is here that he spent his last night before starting out on his journey to the "EAST INDIES". Huelva is famous for its its wide, white, sandy beaches, perhaps among the ...