Passage Ten
If you have seen the popular film RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, you will remember the small opening in the roof of a tomb, which allowed a beam of sunlight to strike a spot on the tomb's floor at a certain time each day. Well, there is a similar 1 in a real cathedral in Italy, although its purpose is not quite as exciting as 2 in the film.
In 1420, seventytwo years 3 Columbus discovered American, a great Italian architect, Filippo Brunelleschi, built a cathedral in the city of Florence. He left a small opening in the 4 which allowed a slender beam of sunlight to shine through onto the church floor. 5 the floor was a small metal plate. Every year, on the twentyfirst of June, the beam of sunlight was 6 to fall on this metal plate-and that 7 done, every year for over five hundred and seventy years!
Why was the cathedral designed with this 8 feature? Well, the church was built in a place that was marshy, which means that the ground was very unstable, like mud. If it ever happened that the light beam did not strike the special metal plate on June 21, it 9 that the church had shifted, or moved out of place, on its base. People would know that they had to fix the cathedral so it wouldn't fall, or they would have time to make sure everyone nearby was safe 10 it collapsed.
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