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Roberta Bacic speaks about Gegossenes Blei / Cast Lead, a quilted felt wall hanging by Heidi Drahota, the artist standing on the left. There are 760 threads felted and sewed onto the backing material, representing the lost life of a child or woman in the 'Operation Cast Lead' attack on Gaza. The Human Cost of War exhibition, Tower Museum, Derry, November 2010. For the exhibition catalogue, see cain.ulst.ac.uk/quilts/followup/docs/Derry_HCW_Catalogue_... Photo: Stefania Gualberti.
I came across this bizarre scene near our local theater. These casts had been discarded in a narrow gap between the fencing and the adjacent building. It looked like they were all skulking away from someone.
Nine newly cast bells are to be installed at Notre Dame de Paris. The giant bronze bells, commissioned as part of the cathedral's 850th birthday celebrations, will replace the current bells, whose chimes were notoriously discordant. After the French Revolution began in 1789, nine of the 10 original bells were snatched, melted down and turned into cannons. Of the replacements, four were recast in the 19th century, and the original sound was lost.
"Historically the idea of this project is to recreate the old bells of Notre Dame in terms of tune so there will be 10 bells ringing as there used to be in the Middle Ages," said Paul Bergamo, president of the Cornille-Havard foundry in Normandy.
They will be on display inside the cathedral for three weeks, then hung in the cathedral towers. They will be rung for the first time on March 23, the eve of Palm Sunday.
The largest bell, Marie, weighs 6,000 kilos and was made in The Netherlands.
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www.france24.com/en/20121220-notre-dames-big-bell-marie-l...
Notre Dame's big bell Marie leaves Netherlands for France
(AFP) Marie, the biggest of all the new bells being made for Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral on its 850th anniversary next year, left its foundry in the Netherlands on Thursday headed for France. Marie was cast in Asten, in the southeastern Netherlands, and the other eight at the Villedieu foundry in Normandy.
"Marie left the foundry around 2 pm and should arrive in Normandy for final adjustments around 11 am tomorrow," the head of the Eijsbouts royal bell foundry, Joost Eijsbouts, told AFP.
The four bells in Notre Dame's North Tower were taken down in February to be replaced by eight new ones in 2013.
Four of the North Tower's original bells were removed during the 1789 revolution and never replaced.
Marie, a great or tenor bell, will be installed in the South Tower.
The old bells, in place since 1856, had deteriorated because of the low-quality metals used, rendering them out of key with the other tenor bell, Emmanuel, considered one of the finest examples in Europe.
Marie is made from a mix of tin and copper and weighs around six tonnes, with a diameter and height of just over 2 metres, Eijsbouts said.
Marie has been designed to sound exactly like Emmanuel, Eijsbouts said, adding that the bell would head for Paris on February 2.
The bells are to be put in place the following week and inaugurated at the end of March.
The campanological extravaganza is costing around two million euros (2.6 million dollars), financed entirely through donations.
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On the cathedral web site there is a history of the bells and information about the new ones” plus many photos:
www.notredamedeparis.fr/spip.php?article1570
To hear a reconstruction of how the bells would have sounded at the end of the 18th Century, and as they will sound once again in 2013:
www.notredamedeparis.fr/IMG/mp3/NDP_Projet_Cloche.mp3";
More about the bells and photos of their making:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248501/Les-bells-Les-be...
The web site of the Dutch foundry that made Marie has many photos:
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Somehow, these Babiana and Kniphofia plants survive growing on granite outcrops South of Sutherland.
Les Français auront bien tôt la possibilité de voter dans les prochaines élections présidentielles. Peu importe pour qui vous voulez voter, mais votez!
La liste des candidats à l'élection du Président de la République, dont l'ordre a été établi par voie de tirage au sort, est arrêtée comme suit :
- Monsieur Olivier BESANCENOT ;
- Madame Marie-George BUFFET ;
- Monsieur Gérard SCHIVARDI ;
- Monsieur François BAYROU ;
- Monsieur José BOVÉ ;
- Madame Dominique VOYNET ;
- Monsieur Philippe de VILLIERS ;
- Madame Ségolène ROYAL ;
- Monsieur Frédéric NIHOUS ;
- Monsieur Jean-Marie LE PEN ;
- Madame Arlette LAGUILLER ;
- Monsieur Nicolas SARKOZY.
the cast of the HBO Series Deadwood with the original Deadwood Stage coach in front of the historic Bullock Hotel
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L'artista italiano di Don't forget who you are ai Magazzini Generali.
“Freak & Chic” è il nuovo tour di Immanuel Casto, che toccherà nella prossima stagione le principali città italiane. Il principe del porn groove presenterà il nuovo omonimo album in uscita il 13 settembre e anticipato dalla hit “Tropicanal”.
Ospite della serata, Romina Falconi.
All’attività musicale il Casto Divo - come lo chiamano i suoi fans - affianca differenti progetti, come “Squillo - Bordello d’Oriente”, un secondo gioco di carte che fa il seguito a “Squillo” del 2012.
FILE--This is an undated photo of 'Wilson' the vollyeball that kept Tom Hanks' character company on an island. An Internet shopper landed one of Hank's his co-stars from the movie 'Cast Away.' The volleyball went for $18,400 this week in an online auction of movie props, said Liz Casparis, director of Internet marketing for 20th Century Fox. The volleyball is one of three 'Wilsons' used in the movie that will be sold online, she said Wednesday. About 15 items from the film have been sold so far, including a pair of ice skates that went for more than $1,000, Casparis said. (AP Photo/20th Century Fox and Dreamworks LLC)
Llegada del Tercer Clasificado del Primer Trail Desafio Reliquias, Perdonanza. Plaza de ALfonso II el Casto de Oviedo, Principado de Asturias, España.