Fix the gravesite. But don’t touch the bones.
That’s the work order, in a nutshell, for brave architects contemplating a fixup job for the deteriorating gravesite of William Shakespeare inside the Holy Trinity Church in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon.
“We get 100,000 tourists a year, but they don't walk on the stones,” Walker said. “But the clergy have to when they give communion, and the stones are flaking away, the surfaces are coming off. We want to clean the surfaces and…
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WARSAW ' A team of musicologists is reviewing 19th-century copies of musical scores from a Polish monastery's archives in hopes that some might prove to be previously unknown works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the lead scholar said Tuesday.
Pospiech, a musicologist from the University of Opole in southern Poland, said he was skeptical about the origins of the Mozart-attributed scores, including a soprano aria, that are not listed in the register of the composer's work, the…
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A New York City man is suing JetBlue Airways Corp. for more than $2 million because he says a pilot made him give up his seat to a flight attendant and sit on the toilet for more than three hours on a flight from California. Gokhan Mutlu says in court papers the pilot told him to “go ‘hang out’ in the bathroom”.
The pilot told him 1½ hours into the five-hour flight that he would have to relinquish the seat to the flight attendant, court papers say. But the pilot said that Mutlu could not sit in the jump seat because only JetBlue employees…
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