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Sunday, August 23, 2015

'Saving' the Marbles

 
"Perhaps Elgin did save them," said Eddie O'Hara, the chairman of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles. "But that's a bit like taking someone's washing in because it's raining and not giving it back."
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