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isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=9704</guid> <description><![CDATA[I asked them why they, unannounced, wished to meet with the director and they told me that they had just discovered Noah’s ark in Turkey. As I had met a few others along the way conning people with this ark stuff I asked to see the proof. He immediately pulled out a black and white photo showing what looked like a rock cliff and asked, ‘What do you see?’ I looked at it closely and replied, ‘All I can see is that someone took a ballpoint pen and drew a photo of a ship on the rock face’. They replied, in that charming Tennessee accent, ‘Well, it’s a bit hard to see so we’all took a ball point pen and highlighted it for ‘y’all.’]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/9704/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A New Look at Rome’s Rousing Middle Ages</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4421</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4421#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:24:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Archeology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ancient Rome]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art exhibit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Middle Ages]]></category> <category><![CDATA[thirteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4421</guid> <description><![CDATA[When its doors first opened in 1734, the Capitoline Museum, which stands upon the hilltop that is the very heart of Rome, was one of the first European public museums and a favorite haunt of the wealthy Grand Tourists from all over Europe. As of July 30 this venerable museum offers something novel to all tourists—a chance for a fresh look at a relatively neglected period of Roman history and the arts, the Middle Ages.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4421/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard</title><link>http://calitreview.com/2664</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/2664#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:04:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Archeology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ancient history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ancient Rome]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mary beard]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pompeii]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2664</guid> <description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, in my personal library there are 130 books on Pompeii. Of all these, this is the one I would choose to read first.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2664/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1730</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1730#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:07:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Archeology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bruce Redford]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dilettanti]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eighteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1730</guid> <description><![CDATA[A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away while making rude gestures about vaginas while holding up gemstones from classical antiquity and admiring painted Greco-Roman vases.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1730/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz</title><link>http://calitreview.com/800</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/800#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:51:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Archeology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Native American]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christopher Columbus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[de Vaca]]></category> <category><![CDATA[explorers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sixteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tony Horwitz]]></category> <guid
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