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Imagine being able to make stone translucent. The Veiled Virgin - Giovanni Strazza (c.1850)
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What else you're going to do in 1850?
If you're the 12th US President Zachary Taylor, you could always die from eating too much fruit and milk (true story).
Cough up some sweet victorian era pollution and die at 26
If they lived till 80 they would finish the entire statue, duh