Holy Smoke
What fascinated me about the recent election of a new pope was how much media time was devoted to pictures of a chimney, waiting for a plume of smoke. Would it be fumata nera, black smoke, indicating that the conclave had failed to come to a two-thirds consensus or would it be fumata bianca, white, proclaiming that a new pope has been elected? The chimney itself, which dates back to the 18th…
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