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All Quiet on the Western Front (Little, Brown and Company, 1929), a semi-autobiographical novel authored by a German World ...

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When a new pope is elected, there are two signs that mark that historic moment: the white smoke from the chimney of the ...

Conclave fever is also a reflection of the Vatican's successful turn to digital communications in recent years ...

Smoke signals have occurred at mid-morning, noon, mid-afternoon and evening. The longest conclave took three years.

White smoke from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on March 13th, 2013, indicating the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Roman Pontiff with the name of Pope Francis I. CREDIT: Grzegorz ...

In the coming days plumes of black or white smoke will rise from a chimney above the Sistine Chapel, signaling the voting at ...

If black smoke plumes over the Vatican, observers know a new pope has yet to be chosen. If white smoke is spotted, folks will know a new pope has been selected to lead the Catholic Church.

The white smoke represents the final moment of the Conclave. The act that marks the election of the new Pope. Vatican firefighters have been at work since this morning to set up the chimney on the ...