Roman articles
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What is a Roman Catholic Holy Year?
A Holy Year usually happens once every 25 years, unless a Pope calls an extraordinary one to call attention to a particular issue or celebrate a momentous event. Here are more details about a Holy Year.
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Roman Polanski acquitted of defamation by French court
British actor Charlotte Lewis had claimed she was made the victim of a ‘smear campaign’ after she accused the director of raping her when she was a teenagerA French court on Tuesday acquitted French-Polish film-maker Roman Polanski of defaming British actor Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of raping her when she was a teenager.Polanski, 90, was not in court for the verdict at the Paris criminal court. Continue reading
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Tracing the long, winding path of an ancient Roman aqueduct
The stone arches looped solemnly over their shadows, some teetering above the grass, some sinking into it. I was standing in the Park of the Aqueducts in January, about 20 minutes by metro from central Rome. Here, the ruined arcades of six of the 11 aqueducts that once supplied the Eternal City with an astonishing volume of water — by some counts double the per capita water allotment of a typical 21st-century American city — have been preserved.