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
Marjorie Sweeting Oxford University 1954–87. During 1948, Sweeting became a PhD candidate who wrote her thesis based on "The Landforms of the Carboniferous Limestone of Ingleborough District, N.W. Yorkshire". In 1951 Marjorie Sweeting was appointed Lecturer and Director of studies in Geography at St. Hugh's College, 1983 she was named the Acting head of the school. Sweeting served on the Karst Commission of the International Geographical Union, where she came to work on a new project titled, "Man's Impact on the Karst". Additionally, Sweeting worked with Gordon Warwick in support of the International Speleological Union where she was in charge of the