Black smoke has emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signifying that the cardinals selected to choose next Pope have not reached a decision on their first try.

西斯廷教堂的烟囱冒出了黑烟，表明枢机主教在第一轮投票中未能选出新教皇。

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Black smoke rose from the chapel's smokestack, signifying no choice had been made, and the cardinals adjourned for the day.

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But you can steal away from all that and refresh yourself in the cool and dark of the chapel beneath the Black Madonna and the lamps hung there by Crusaders and the bell that was said to ring miraculously every time storm-tossed sailors were saved by the Virgin of Rocamadour.

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In 1968, a year after he finished his legendary series of black murals for his eponymous chapel at the Menil Collection in Houston and just a few months after suffering an aneurysm that nearly killed him, Mark Rothko turned to painting smaller pictures in acrylic on paper laid down on canvas.

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