You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

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#SpoliaSunday takes us into the treasure-house of #spolia that is #SanLorenzofuorileMura along the via #Tiburtina outside the walls of #Rome. Pope #PelagiusII pulled out all the stops to build a #basilica #adcorpus atop the tomb of one of the city's most beloved saints. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

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#MosaicMonday takes us to the stunning #VilladelCasale outside #PiazzaArmerina in central #Sicily, where we find a complex #geometric #mosaic in one of the master suites. But this would never have been adequate for a room used by the master: he liked figurative mosaics. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

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#SpoliaSunday takes us along the via #Nomentana to the marvelous #VillaTorlonia, since 1978 public property but once the private residence of #Mussolini. The owner, Giovanni II #Torlonia, also lived on the grounds, in this delightful house full of #stainedglass and #spolia. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

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So exciting: a C13th fresco of an Islamic tent in a chancel of a church in Ferrara, prob depicting a real one hung on special feasts. 'At first, it seemed unbelievable...I...only went back to it yrs later with more experience & a braver attitude to research.' www.cam.ac.uk/stories/islamic-altar-tent

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