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90-year-old Holocaust survivor and prominent activist Hedy Epstein is arrested for "failure to disperse" outside the Wainwright State Office Building in downtown, St. Louis.

Giovanni Vendramin founded a new Venetian Hebrew press under his name in 1630, establishing himself as a rival to the long-reigning Bragadin family. Vendramin is widely regarded as the last of the great Venetian printers of Hebrew books. The firm…

"James Merrill at Home: An Interview" by Ross Labrie from the Arizona Quarterly, Volume 38, Number 1 (Spring 1982).

"3 A.M., 1942;" "Woman Waiting;" "Poem;" and "Nap" by Mona Van Duyn from American Prefaces , Volume VIII, Number 1 (Autumn 1942). Van Duyn's first publications in a national literary magazine.

"Three Valentines to the Wide World" by Mona Van Duyn from Poetry, Volume 88, Number 4 (July 1956).

St. Sebastian and St. Christopher St. Sebastian, depicted with arrows, makes many appearances in Books of Hours. According to the Legenda Aurea , his relics helped stop a plague in Italy. Subsequently, he was invoked to aid plague victims, and hence…

St. John with the chalice of snakes. The Emperor wanted St. John dead and thus gave him a cup of poison. Upon receiving the cup, the liquid miraculously turned into snakes, thwarting the Emperor's plot.

Pentecost. A very colorful depiction of Pentecost. Mary quite prominently sits in the middle; divine rays descend upon them (rather than tongues; see section VI ).

Matins: Annunciation to the Virgin. The Virgin Mary devoutly kneels with her prayer book open. The Angel Gabriel, who brings the good news, holds a scroll upon which is written the beginning of Luke 1:28 -- “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with…

Crucifixion. A simple crucifixion scene, with Mary and John standing on each side, and a decorative background rather than a landscape. Above Christ's head is the inscription INRI ( Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum , “Jesus of Nazareth King of the…