-=> BOB KLAHN wrote to BOB BREED <=-   
      
    BK>  ...   
      
    LL>> The pope already paid Michelangelo for those frescoes on the   
    LL>> ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.  And that is supposed to be God's   
    LL>> house.  So who really owns all those works of art?  Then again,   
    LL>> there are also lots of other treasures, such as statues.  Lots   
    LL>> of statues ...   
      
    BB> Not to mention all the gold and silver looted out of   
    BB> Mexico. :)   
      
    BB> Great days, those.   
      
    BK>  The looted gold went to the royal family mostly.   
      
      
      
    Oh yeah, those old Catholic Fathers were happy just to convert the heathens.   
   :)  Course the fact you had to burn a few to spread the word was just   
   collerateral damage. :)   
      
       
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