Monday, January 24
Queen Christina's Amazing Flea-Be-Gone Miniature Cannon, sandal-wearing Anglican vicars on horseback, and more courtesy of Zadok the Roman. The frisky old girl (above) seemed to have a thing about firearms--after all, who in Rome has never seen the fountain in front of the Villa Medici, supposedly made out of a gunstone she shot off of Castel Sant' Angelo across town on a whim. No wonder the Pope had her temporary apartments put in the Tower of the Winds--as far away from his quarters in the Vatican as humanly possible. He probably didn't want to get beaned crossing the courtyard...
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