On Monday, French Mayor Brigitte Fouré asked Madonna to consider loaning the city of Amiens a painting it lost during WWI as it attempts to become a 2028 European Capital of Culture.
Cantar de Mio Cid, (English: “Song of My Cid”, ) also called Poema De Mio Cid, Spanish epic poem of the mid-12th century, the earliest surviving monument of Spanish literature and generally considered one of the great medieval epics and one of the masterpieces of Spanish literature. The poem tells of the fall from royal favour and the eventual vindication of the Castilian 11th-century noble and military leader Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1043–99), popularly known as the Cid, who became Spain’s national hero. The original manuscript of the poem, believed to have been composed about 1140, has been lost; the
Visitors often don’t recognize the portrait of George Washington in the art gallery at Fort Ligonier. They expect to find an image of the elder statesman, like 
the many created by early American portraitist Gilbert Stuart. What they find instead is a depiction of the young Col. Washington, who spent