Forbidden fruit Adam and Eve upon expelling them from the Garden. "By that with which they were made low were they rectified." Since the fig is a long-standing symbol of female sexuality, it enjoyed a run as a favorite understudy to the apple as the forbidden fruit during the Italian Renaissance. The most famous depiction of the fig as the forbidden fruit was painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti in his masterpiece fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Proponents of the theory that the Garden of Eden was located somewhere in what is now known as the Middle East suggest that the fruit was
Bill Sweeting In 1967 Sweeting was appointed the Assistant Director of the Australian War Memorial (AWM). Sweeting was appointed a member of the Order of the British Empire in June 1977 for his public service. At this time he was the Public Assistant Director, Board of Trustees at the AWM. Sweeting retired from the AWM in March 1979; his final position there was Assistant Director, History and Publications. Bill Sweeting Alan John ("Bill") Sweeting MBE (3 November 1918 - 9 July 2016) was an Australian historian and museum administrator. Sweeting was born in Penrith, New South Wales on 3 November 1918. Sweeting