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To: blam
Bathsheba in Michalangelo's painting wouldn't win any beauty contest by modern standards.

It's possible that the Cleopatra on the coin is a few decades older than the 19 year old beauty queen fixed in our minds.

Should Reagan every appear on currency, it won't be the handsome young actor but that of a 70+ year old man.

89 posted on 02/14/2007 3:16:53 PM PST by fso301
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"It's possible that the Cleopatra on the coin is a few decades older than the 19 year old beauty queen fixed in our minds."

Yes, I think you're 100 per cent correct. Still, she looks like she was an ancestor of Charles de Gaulle.


107 posted on 02/14/2007 6:35:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Wednesday, February 14, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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