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The Macabbees cleansed the Temple of Hellenistic idols and the blood of pagan sacrifices; the eight-day celebration of Hanukkah (Feast of Dedication) commemorates their victory.
But like West's taste for three-piece suits (after another of his idols, W.E.B.
Mahmud smashed the infidels’ idols and destroyed their temples as he went, but was nonetheless cultured enough to use the booty to build a library, a museum, and a splendid mosque when he got back to Ghazni.
Their idols were the Pre-Raphaelite ideologues John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose passion for medieval Italian art before the individualizing tendencies of the Renaissance (hence "pre-Raphael") they shared.
Pop fans know their idols are rich, and they consider excess a respectable musical tradition.