Foreign News: St. Paul's Restored

Westminster Abbey belongs to the Empire (even to the world because of its "poets' corner"), but St. Paul's Cathedral is London's own. Standing in the heart of The City, according to legend on the site of an ancient Roman temple to Diana, its high golden cross is a landmark tor freighters on the Thames and for tourists on Fleet Street.

Eighteen years ago rumor spread that St Paul's like London Bridge, was fall down An elaborate scientific examination disclosed and analyzed ominous cracks in Sir Christopher Wren's great and gorgeous dome. For the restoration...

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