In 2014, the self-proclaimed gnome defense expert Chuck Sambuchino developed a system for defending one's home and family against garden gnome attacks, consisting of four steps - assess, protect, defend, apply.[1]
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Interest in Michelangelo as an expert in anatomy is common among researchers in the medical field, with researchers such as Lennart Bondeson and Ann-Greth Bondeson diagnosing Michelangelo's God in the Sistine Chapel with a goiter and claiming that this representation of the Christian God is a self-portrait of Michelangelo suffering from a goiter.[2]
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Marco Polo's Devisement du monde provided manuscript illuminators with a chance to create innovative images that are not found elsewhere in medieval iconography. For example, the illustrators of MS Fr. 2810 now in the Bibliothèque national de France references Marco Polo's story of the three Magi receiving a gift of fire from the infant Christ and then returning to their homeland in Persia and teaching the people there to worship fire. This story is one that Polo would have encountered during his travels and contradicts the stories told about the Magi in Western Europe. MS Fr. 2810 is the only medieval manuscript to contain this reference.[3]
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The most imaginative examples of manuscript marginalia are monstrous hybrid creatures made up of the parts of various types of animals. In medieval documents from England, these fantastical creatures are often referred to as babewynes.[4]
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This haggadah is unique is that it has no wine or food stains; most surviving haggadot from the medieval period show evidence of having been used during the Passover seder, where accidents with food and drink could occur. This suggests that the Golden Haggadah was more of a display piece, collector's item, or status symbol, rather than a utilitarian object.[5]
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- ^ Sambuchino, Chuck (2014). How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack: Defend Yourself when the Lawn warriors strike (and they will). London: Ebury Press. p. 56.
- ^ Bondeson, Lennart; Bondeson, Ann-Greth (2003). "Michelangelo's Divine Goitre". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 96 – via PubMed Central.
- ^ Cruse, Mark (2019). "Novelty and Diversity in". In Keene, Bryan (ed.). Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the world through illuminated manuscripts. Los Angeles: Getty Trust.
- ^ Nishimura, Margot McIlwain (2012). "Marginalia". Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Foster, Elisa (2015). "The Golden Haggadah". Smarthistory.org. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
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