Another Country (1999) dir. Sérgio Tréfaut
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Fascism never again. Soldiers pose as with their armored car after liberating Portugal from a 48-year long dictatorship. 25 April 1975
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Excerpt from Portuguese Revolt: Smiles, Arguments and Meetings (Richard Eder, 1974)
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Decorated by the skilled lay brother Adalbart Eder, St. Valentinus in Waldsassen wears a biretta and an elaborate, elegantly jeweled version of a deacon’s cassock to emphasize his ecclesiastical status.
Detail of the hand of St. Valentin in Bad Schussenreid, Germany, one of a number of Katakombenheiligen (Roman catacombs saints) named for the popular Italian saint.
The skull of St. Getreu in Ursberg, Germany, is covered in silk mesh and fine wirework set with gemstones, which may have been done in Mindelheim, Germany.
St. Felix, pictured here, arrived in Sursee, Switzerland, in 1761, and was decorated to match St. Irenaus, brought over a century before by Johann Rudolf Pfyffer of the papal Swiss Guard.
[Source Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs. copyright, Paul Koudounaris]
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TODAY IN HISTORY: Why is this man smiling? Because he’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who became the first human in space on April 12, 1961.
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The Apollo 13 crew, April 10, 1970. Fred Haise (left), Jack Swigert, and Jim Lovell pose on the day before launch. Swigert had just replaced Ken Mattingly as the Command Module Pilot after Mattingly was exposed to German Measles.
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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders dir. Jaromil Jireš
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Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space
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