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Show Strange Facts I 'Realistic' Paintings I I Suicide Excursion I Fire Ruins Granite C Many medieval Russian artists, when painting a holy personage on an icon, used an odd method to make each figure "realistic." They would first paint the skeleton, skele-ton, then the body organs, then the flesh and, lastly, add the clothes. C During Japan's last suicide wave, which occurred between 1933 and 1935, 313 persons succeeded succeed-ed in jumping into the volcano on the island of Oshima. Of the 1,208 others who were foiled by the guards at the crater's edge, 29 managed to jump off the boats on the way back to the mainland. C Although granite, like marble, is noted for its hardness and durability, granite buildings have been known to crumble and fall in devastating fires that have only scratched marble surfaces. Collier's. |