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The Church asks Macron to rebuild Notre-Dame as it was

With the arrow we have encountered. There is still a long way to go before the decision. But the position of the rectors of the Notre Dame Cathedral is clear: they want the arrow as it was. Identical They reject "the contemporary gesture" proposed by President Emmanuel Macron. That he has the last word, his Culture Minister recalled yesterday.

Who has expressed himself with more forcefulness is Philippe Villeneuve, chief architect of Notre-Dame, in charge of the restoration of the cathedral since before the fire, which 

is now six months old: "Or it is restored identically and I do, or a contemporary arrow is made and another one does it ".

Macron, the day after the fire, promised to restore the cathedral in five years. For Villeneuve, it is only possible to meet this deadline if "it is remaken identical" because "certain time" would be earned.

Found a new fresco in Pompeii: an "extremely realistic" fight between two gladiators

 

A fresco that shows the bloody struggle of two gladiators, wounded and bathed in blood , is the latest find in the excavations of the Pompeii (south) site, the Roman city buried and razed by the eruption of Vesuvius two millennia ago.

The managers of the archaeological park today announced in a statement the discovery of this fresco that represents a battle between two gladiators and that has been found in Regio V, the area where excavations have recently been centered.

The drawing revives the fight between a "mirmillone" or murmillo, a type of gladiator characterized by its fish-shaped helmet, and a Thracian , with weapons from ancient Thrace, which is currently the Balkan region of the Aegean Sea.

This is the secret Hello Kitty museum in Los Angeles

What we thought was impossible does exist. Meet the most extensive library of Sanrio, which contains all the emblematic characters of the brand in addition to the best kept secrets of Hello Kitty and Aggretsuko.