Almost every museum and scenic attraction on Earth offered souvenirs in its own style.
The Louvre Museum naturally had its own souvenir shop. Located between the glass pyramid and the inverted pyramid, it sold multilingual visitor guides, reproductions of artworks, and merchandise derived from its collections.
Mona Lisa bags, Mona Lisa eyeglass cases, Mona Lisa T-shirts, Mona Lisa socks.
Pomona bought a yellow rubber duck wearing a Roman helmet and uniform on its head.
This sort of rubber duck was also sold at the British Museum, but at the time, she had bought the Antony and Cleopatra One-Day Lover perfume, a collaboration between the museum and OULLY, from the British Museum's souvenir shop.
After using it a few times, Severus had stopped. Now he used a custom-made perfume from Venice.
The French loathed the glass pyramid because they felt it clashed with the surrounding buildings. Likewise, people in other countries felt that houses suited to European aesthetics looked out of place when placed on their own land amid the surrounding architecture.
Westerners loved conquest, like Caesar and Antony. Yet both had been conquered by Cleopatra, the "Eastern" Queen of Egypt.
Antony had even been foolish enough to give Rome's eastern provinces to the queen, and it was not merely because her charms had clouded his mind.
Rome was full of scheming, murder, and ambushes. By comparison, Egypt was a carefree place.
When Antony and the queen sailed along the Nile River, he could not only enjoy the breeze over the water, but also see slaves and commoners on the distant banks kneeling toward the queen's ship from far away.
He did not need to think about the tangled interests among the nobility, nor did he need to think about Caesar's gruesome fate after his assassination.
By carving up Rome's prosperous