Mercifully, the candidate roster was exhausted before the one-upmanship moved to boiling and flaying.That hysteria, alas, seems to be repeating itself in the reaction to the "Ground Zero mosque", which is in fact ("fact", noun, from Latin factum: a real occurrence or event) a couple of blocks from Ground Zero.
In a wide sense, epigraphy concerns itself with the total firsthand transmission of the written remains of ancient civilizations (as opposed to post-factum copying).
The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes had equated verum ("truth") and factum ("the made"), but Vico made this a fundamental principle of historiography, one that he hoped would make it the queen of the sciences.
"This Viking stuff is absolute myth, a post-factum way of describing reckless behavior," Gudmundur Hálfdánarson, a professor of history at the University of Iceland, recently said.
Conradi offers a real expansion of our sense of the preëminent English novelist of the second half of the twentieth century; he brings to the table personal and literary intimacy with his subject, and a treasure lode of hitherto unpublished journals that she had kept (with some post-factum excisions) since her college days, plus caches of her letters retained by their recipients.
Factum Arte used laser scanners to capture the texture, shape and colours of the tomb, before reproducing it with machine-operated blades, some with a width of less than two-tenths of a millimetre.
Factum began operations in 1998, when it was becoming clear that 3-D printing was a revolutionary tool.
Factum has scanned three of the Baroque artist's paintings, whose extreme contrasts between light and dark are difficult to capture with ordinary photography.
The Lucida was invented by Manuel Franquelo, a Spanish painter, who helped Lowe found Factum.
The global fascination with Tut and the subsequent excitement about the possible hidden tomb of Nefertiti had given Factum a level of prominence that a scan of the Seti tomb, however valuable, would not have provided.
Before the Factum "Nativity" was sent to Palermo, he noticed a few details that still made him unhappy.
