Did You Know? Week of 8/19/2026

Pablo Picasso is one of the most recognizable names in art history, but if the painter had opted to go by his full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María de los Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. (The exact order and spelling vary by source.)

Visitors to famous sites usually exit through the gift shop and leave with something like a postcard or refrigerator magnet. But for centuries, many travelers preferred a far more literal keepsake: a piece of the monument itself. Tourists routinely chipped off fragments of such famous landmarks as...