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
Valerie Sweeting Valerie Sweeting Valerie "Val" Sweeting (born July 9, 1987 in Redvers, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian curler from Edmonton, Alberta. Sweeting skipped Alberta to a silver medal at the 2014 and 2015 Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Sweeting grew up in Maryfield, Saskatchewan. In 2007, Sweeting played third for Hailey Surik's junior rink out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The team represented Saskatchewan at the 2007 Canadian Junior Curling Championships. After posting an 8-4 record, they lost to Manitoba in a tie-breaker match. After juniors, Sweeting moved to Alberta where she would form her own team with Megan Anderson at third, Carly Quigley at