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 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 joined the Second Australian Imperial Force on 23 July 1940 and was posted to the 2/4th Field Ambulance. He served with this medical unit in the Middle East during 1941, and returned to Australia with it February 1942. From July of that year he and the 2/4th Field Ambulance took part in the Kokoda Track campaign. In April 1944 Sweeting was appointed official historian Gavin Long's