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TRAIN TIMETABLES
KNOWLEDGE OF FONTS
MIND MY WORDS
INSIDE THE ARTIST'S STUDIO
THE STORY SFORZA
200
'Frankfurt 0615,
this city's Spandau Station 0940 (if the trains run on time)'
Berlin
200
'From the Latin for "flowing" comes the name of these typefaces that resemble handwriting script'
cursive
200
'Around 550 B.C.:
"The boy cried, 'Wolf! Wolf!' and the villagers came out to help him"'
Aesop
200
'(James Lipton reads.) At 20, you went to St. Petersburg's Imperial School of Fine Arts, in 1907; what's your favorite Russian curse word?'
Chagall
200
'The family name was Attendolo until Muzio made it more "force"ful & set the dynasty up in this N. Italian city'
Milan
400
'This capital's Yaroslavski Station 2122,
Irkutsk 0233 (of day 5)'
Moscow
400
'Sans serif fonts are known as grotesque or this other spooky "architectural" name'
Gothic fonts
400
'1588:
"I know I have the body of a weak & feeble woman, but I have the heart & stomach of a king!"'
Elizabeth I
400
'(James Lipton reads.) Deafened by illness in 1792, you would paint 2 masterpieces regarding May 1808; Madrid trembled at your genius'
(Francisco) Goya
400
'While working for Ludovico Sforza, he knocked out "The Last Supper" on the wall of a local church'
da Vinci
600
'BOS (Boston) 0915,
NYP (this station) 1245'
Penn Station
600
'It's a Latin adjective meaning "Swiss"'
Helvetica
600
'400 B.C.:
"I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and my judgment"'
Hippocrates
600
'1947's "Watery Paths" was in your poured painting style; simply brilliant'
Jackson Pollock
600
'Francisco assumed this title in 1450 when he married into the Visconti family'
Duke (of Milan)
800
'Edinburgh, Scotland 1505;
Swansea, this country 2331'
Wales
800
'Lavish or exuberant parties, or this crazy font'
Wingdings
800
'44 B.C.:
"All Gaul is divided into 3 parts"'
(Julius) Caesar
800
'(James Lipton reads.) And then, from 1508 to 1511, you created the fresco walls in the Stanza della Segnatura, including "Disputa"; remarkable'
Raphael
800
'Appointed Ambassador to France in 1922, Carlo Sforza resigned over this new Italian premier's policies'
Mussolini
1000
'In this country, the Chandigarh choo-choo gets into Panipat Junction at 0400'
India
1000
'This font is named for an 18th century Italian typeface designer'
Bodoni
1000
'1875:
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs"'
(Karl) Marx
1000
'(James Lipton reads.) Missouri-born, your 1931 mural "America Today" graced the New School for Social Research's walls for decades'
(Thomas Hart) Benton
1000
'In 1535 the Sforza ruling line ended & the area passed to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of this Austrian family'
the Hapsburgs