On the other side of the basement Bilotta Kitchens of NewYork designed a wine cellar with a Tuscan theme, custom pine cabinetry, hand-chiseled Jerusalem gold limestone on the walls and floor and glass-and-mahogany wine racks.

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Likewise, Carol Delaney, a cultural anthropologist at Stanford University, concludes that Columbus was a deeply religious man whose purpose was to sail to Asia to obtain gold in order to finance a crusade to take back Jerusalem and rebuild the Jews' holy Temple.

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