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To: SunkenCiv

Every museum has tons of stuff, donated by well-intentioned and sometimes wealthy donors looking for a ‘bennie’, sitting around in their storage basements.

Sometimes they get rid of the stuff through ‘deaccession’ which is a euphemism for ‘dump it.’

The Romans regularly stole whatever art they could, whether in statuary or smaller pieces, from conquered lands, not excluding their temples.

Sorry you didn’t appear to get my “fruitcake humor”


8 posted on 04/25/2007 10:36:45 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: wildbill

Even talking about fruitcake [clunk!] whoa... where am I? Uh, it’s just too traumatic.


9 posted on 04/25/2007 3:38:24 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Tuesday, April 24, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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