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Show Ancient Glats The residents of ancient rompell used glass in their windows, hut as late as the Fourteenth century Richard Rich-ard II Issued a writ to scour England to find enough glass to repair the windows in just one castle, and near the close of the Seventeenth century all of the great towns in Italy, with the exception of Genoa, used paper In their windows. For centuries glass was regarded as a luxury, and was taxed accordingly, down to recent times. Discovered by the Phoenicians, according lo Pliny the Second, modern nianufjH luring methods have made class so common today that no one gives It a thought. But the windows of America's first homes were provided provid-ed or.ly wirh p;ireli:ucnt or oiled paper. |