| ok. so i am obtuse. but where exactly will
| the pantheon of western architecture place
| Ms Saladin of Iraq, the only resident non-westerner
| in a reasonably white world?
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The Pope says goodbye to limbo
...grown-up inmates of the limbus patrum, the Old Testament prophets and
the poets of pagan antiquity - those who were consigned to their fate
although they had lived good lives, because they lived before the
resurrection, and so had to wait for Christ to open the gates of heaven
for them.
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| big news!
Designing Woman
The Iraqi-born, London-based Hadid has become the most famous female
architect in the world. It has not been an easy
....
When Dante visited limbo, he tells us in the fourth canto of his
Inferno, he asked its inhabitants if they remembered Christ's visit -
and they were able to confirm the story. Dante hugely elaborates on
limbo. He places it just inside hell's gate, at the top of the deep
infernal well; he populates it with pagan heroes, including the poets
Homer, Ovid and Horace, and famous Muslims led by the chivalrous Saladin.
from...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1654773,00.html