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Dilutions of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are prepared, prior to starting cultures to determine viable spore concentration. Corvallis, Oregon.
Photo by: Wally C. Guy
Date: November 1963
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon
Image: PS-2854
For additional information see: archive.org/details/CAT92272778
Carolin, V.M. and C.G. Thompson. 1967. Field testing Bacillus thuringiensis for control of western hemlock looper. Research Paper PNW-38. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 26 p.
For additional historic forest entomology photos, stories, and resources see the Western Forest Insect Work Conference site: wfiwc.org/content/history-and-resources
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Frederick Fenter, Chief Executive Editor, Frontiers Media, Switzerland with Rona Chandrawati, Scientia Associate Professor and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia speaking in the Wearable Plant Sensors session at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center - Hub A. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
The statue of Artemis here at Orthia was originally from the Crimea, and was held aloft by the priestess during a ceremony involving naked teenage boys attempting to steal cheeses from the altar, which was defended by priestesses armed with whips. The blood drawn was meant to replicate a human sacrifice (according to various sources.)
The Romans later built banks of seats for spectators to watch the fun, which are also visible.
ScotRail 43033 + 43179 pass with the 16.14 Stirling to Dundee training run - going away shot.
Bridge of Allan station closed on 1st November 1965, but was re-opened by ScotRail on 13th May 1985, another Beeching reversal.
The Class of 2012 for the College of Education and Health Professions received their diplomas during the Commencement ceremony Sunday, May 13, at the new 7,000-seat College Park Center.
Banteay Srei or Banteay Srey (Khmer: ប្រាសាទបន្ទាយស្រី) is a 10th-century Cambodian temple dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva. Located in the area of Angkor in Cambodia. It lies near the hill of Phnom Dei, 25 km north-east of the main group of temples that once belonged to the medieval capitals of Yasodharapura and Angkor Thom.[1] Banteay Srei is built largely of red sandstone, a medium that lends itself to the elaborate decorative wall carvings which are still observable today. The buildings themselves are miniature in scale, unusually so when measured by the standards of Angkorian construction. These factors have made the temple extremely popular with tourists, and have led to its being widely praised as a "precious gem", or the "jewel of Khmer art."
HISTORY
FOUNDATION & DEDICATION
Consecrated on 22 April 967 A.D., Bantãy Srĕi was the only major temple at Angkor not built by a monarch; its construction is credited to a courtier named Yajnavaraha / Yajñavarāha (modern Khmer: យជ្ញវរាហៈ), who served as a counsellor to king Rajendravarman II (modern Khmer: ព្រះបាទរាជេន្រ្ទវរ្ម័ន).The foundational stela says that Yajnavaraha, grandson of king Harsavarman I, was a scholar and philanthropist who helped those who suffered from illness, injustice, or poverty. His pupil was the future king Jayavarman V (r. 968- ca. 1001). Originally, the temple was surrounded by a town called Īśvarapura.
Yajñavarāha's temple was primarily dedicated to the Hindu god Śiva. Originally, it was carried the name Tribhuvanamaheśvara—great lord of the threefold world—in reference to the Shaivite linga that served as its central religious image. However, the temple buildings appear to be divided along the central east-west axis between those buildings located south of the axis, which are devoted to Śiva, and those north of the axis, which are devoted to Viṣṇu.
The temple's modern name, Bantãy Srĕi—citadel of the women, or citadel of beauty—is probably related to the intricacy of the bas relief carvings found on the walls and the tiny dimensions of the buildings themselves. Some have speculated that it relates to the many devatas carved into the walls of the buildings.
EXPANSION & REDICATION
Bantãy Srĕi was subject to further expansion and rebuilding work in the eleventh century. At some point it came under the control of the king and had its original dedication changed; the inscription K 194 from Phnoṃ Sandak, dated Monday, the 14th or 28 July 1119 A.D. records (line B 13) the temple being given to the priest Divākarapaṇḍita and being rededicated to Śiva. It remained in use at least until the fourteenth century according to the last known inscription K 569, dated Thursday, 8 August 1303 A.D.
RESTAURATION
The temple was rediscovered only in 1914, and was the subject of a celebrated case of art theft when André Malraux stole four devatas in 1923 (he was soon arrested and the figures returned). The incident stimulated interest in the site, which was cleared the following year, and in the 1930s Banteay Srei was restored through the first important use of anastylosis at Angkor whereby a ruined building or monument is restored using the original architectural elements to the greatest degree possible. Until the discovery of the foundation stela in 1936, it had been assumed that the extreme decoration indicated a later date than was in fact the case. To prevent the site from water damage, the joint Cambodian-Swiss Banteay Srei Conservation Project installed a drainage system between 2000 and 2003. Measures were also taken to prevent damage to the temples walls from nearby trees.
Unfortunately, the temple has been ravaged by pilfering and vandalism. When toward the end of the 20th century authorities removed some original statues and replaced them with concrete replicas, looters took to attacking the replicas. A statue of Shiva and his shakti Uma, removed to the National Museum in Phnom Penh for safekeeping, was assaulted in the museum itself.
MATERIALS & STYLE
Banteay Srei is built largely of a hard red sandstone that can be carved like wood. Brick and laterite were used only for the enclosure walls and some structural elements. The temple is known for the beauty of its sandstone lintels and pediments.
A pediment is the roughly triangular space above a rectangular doorway or openings. At Banteay Srei, pediments are relatively large in comparison to the openings below, and take a sweeping gabled shape. For the first time in the history of Khmer architecture, whole scenes of mythological subject-matter are depicted on the pediments.
A lintel is a horizontal beam spanning the gap between two posts. Some lintels serve a structural purpose, serving to support the weight of the superstructure, while others are purely decorative in purpose. The lintels at Banteay Srei are beautifully carved, rivalling those of the 9th century Preah Ko style in quality.
Noteworthy decorative motifs include the kala (a toothy monster symbolic of time), the guardian dvarapala (an armed protector of the temple) and devata (demi-goddess), the false door, and the colonette. Indeed, decorative carvings seem to cover almost every available surface. According to pioneering Angkor scholar Maurice Glaize, "Given the very particular charm of Banteay Srei – its remarkable state of preservation and the excellence of a near perfect ornamental technique – one should not hesitate, of all the monuments of the Angkor group, to give it the highest priority." At Banteay Srei, wrote Glaize, "the work relates more closely to the art of the goldsmith or to carving in wood than to sculpture in stone".
THE SITE
The site consists of three concentric rectangular enclosures constructed on an east-west axis. A causeway situated on the axis leads from an outer gopura, or gate, to the third or outermost of the three enclosures. The inner enclosure contains the sanctuary, consisting of an entrance chamber and three towers, as well as two buildings conventionally referred to as libraries.
THE OUTER GOPURA
The gopura is all that remains of the outer wall surrounding the town of Isvapura. The wall is believed to have measured approximately 500 m square, and may have been constructed of wood. The gopura's eastern pediment shows Indra, who was associated with that direction, mounted on his three-headed elephant Airavata. The 67 m causeway with the remains of corridors on either side connects the gopura with the third enclosure. North and south of this causeway are galleries with a north-south orientation.
THE THIRD (OUTER) ENCLOSURE
The third enclosure is 95 by 110 m; it is surrounded by a laterite wall breached by gopuras at the eastern and western ends. Neither pediment of the eastern gopura is in situ. The west-facing pediment is now located in the Musée Guimet in Paris.[18] It depicts a scene from the Mahabhārata in which the Asura brothers Sunda and Upasunda fight over the Apsara Tilottama. The east-facing pediment is lying on the ground. It depicts a scene from the Rāmāyaṇa in which a demon seizes Rama's wife Sita. Most of the area within the third enclosure is occupied by a moat divided into two parts by causeways to the east and west.
THE SECOND ENCLOSURE
The second enclosure sits between an outer laterite wall measuring 38 by 42 m, with gopuras at the eastern and western ends, and a brick inner enclosure wall, measuring 24 by 24 m. The western gopura features an interesting bas relief depicting the duel of the monkey princes Vāli and Sugriva, as well as Rāma's intervention on Sugrīva's behalf. The inner enclosure wall has collapsed, leaving a gopura at the eastern end and a brick shrine at the western. The eastern pediment of the gopura shows Śiva Nataraja; the west-facing pediment has an image of Durga. Likewise, the laterite galleries which once filled the second enclosure (one each to north and south, two each to east and west) have partially collapsed. A pediment on one of the galleries shows the lion-man Narasiṃha clawing the demon Hiranyakashipu.
THE FIRST (INNER) ENCLOSURE
Between the gopuras on the collapsed inner wall are the buildings of the inner enclosure: a library in the south-east corner and another in the north-east corner, and in the centre the sanctuary set on a T-shaped platform 0.9 m high. Besides being the most extravagantly decorated parts of the temple, these have also been the most successfully restored (helped by the durability of their sandstone and their small scale). In 2010, the first enclosure is open to visitors again, but the inner temples are roped off and inaccessible.
THE LIBRARIES
The two libraries are of brick, laterite and sandstone. Each library has two pediments, one on the eastern side and one on the western. According to Maurice Glaize, the four library pediments, "representing the first appearance of tympanums with scenes, are works of the highest order. Superior in composition to any which followed, they show true craftsmanship in their modelling in a skilful blend of stylisation and realism."
The east-facing pediment on the southern library shows Śiva seated on the summit of Mount Kailāsa, his mythological abode. His consort Umā sits on his lap and clings anxiously to his torso. Other beings are also present on the slopes of the mountain, arranged in a strict hierarchy of three tiers from top to bottom. In the top tier sit bearded wise men and ascetics, in the middle tier mythological figures with the heads of animals and the bodies of humans, and in the bottom tier large animals, including a number of lions. In the middle of the scene stands the ten-headed demon king Rāvaṇa. He is shaking the mountain in its very foundations as the animals flee from his presence and as the wise men and mythological beings discuss the situation or pray. According to the legend, Śiva stopped Rāvaṇa from shaking the mountain by using his toe to press down on the mountain and to trap Rāvana underneath for 1000 years.
The west-facing pediment on southern library shows Śiva again seated on the summit of Mount Kailāsa. He is looking to his left at the god of love Kāma, who is aiming an arrow at him. Umā sits to Śiva's right; he is handing her a chain of beads. The slopes of the mountain are crowded with other beings, again arranged in a strict hierarchy from top to bottom. Just under Śiva sit a group of bearded wise men and ascetics, under whom the second tier is occupied by the mythological beings with the heads of animals and the bodies of humans; the lowest tier belongs the common people, who mingle sociably with tame deer and a large gentle bull. According to the legend, Kāma fired an arrow at Śiva in order to cause Śiva to take an interest in Umā. Śiva, however, was greatly angered by this provocation, and punished Kāma by gazing upon him with his third eye, frying Kāma to cinders.
The east-facing pediment on the northern library shows the god of the sky Indra creating rain to put out a forest fire started by the god of fire Agni for purposes of killing the nāga king Takshaka who lived in Khandava Forest. The Mahābhāratan heroes Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna are shown helping Agni by firing a dense hail of arrows to block Indra's rain. Takṣaka's son Aśvasena is depicted attempting to escape from the conflagration, while other animals stampede about in panic.
The west-facing pediment on the southern library depicts Kṛṣṇa slaying his wicked uncle Kamsa.
THE SANCTUARY
The sanctuary is entered from the east by a doorway only 1.08 m in height: inside is an entrance chamber (or maṇḍapa) with a corbelled brick roof, then a short corridor leading to three towers to the west: the central tower is the tallest, at 9.8 m. Glaize notes the impression of delicacy given the towers by the antefixes on each of their tiers. The six stairways leading up to the platform were each guarded by two kneeling statues of human figures with animal heads; most of those now in place are replicas, the originals having been stolen or removed to museums.
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Dec. 4, 2016 - the feast of Saint Barbara, Archbishop Demetrios presided and concelebrated the Divine Liturgy with Metropolitan Pavlos of Drama and Metropolitan Barnabas of Neapolis and Stavroupolis at the Cathedral of Drama.
Xun of Bilibili Gaming lifts the trophy after being crowned champions at First Stand Tournament Grand Finals on March 22, 2026 at the Riot Games Arena in São Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by BCesar Galeao/Riot Games)
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Citizens of the town of Sinje in Grand Cape Mount County, listen as members of UNMIL, LNP and Liberian Civil Society explain that as the United Nations mission goes through transition it would be withdrawing armed peacekeepers from the area, and increasing its United Nations Police Offiers in the area, working with national police to maintain law and order, Friday 21 February, 2014.
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I made this self-portrait with my camera and the timer setting. I am scared to show my voice. I care about things and have a lot to say but no one listens to me. I'm told to stand up for myself but when I do, they don't hear me.I feel small and sad. People don't want to listen to me because I am young and they don't want to listen to what I say. I don't think that's fair. Just because I'm young doesn't mean I don't say important things. My voice matters.
Event: Fire in a commercial bldg.
Location: White St. and Broadway. Manhattan.
Date: Apr. 25, 2012
Time: 11:14 hrs
Cappella del beato Luca Belludi
Affreschi di Giusto de Menabuoi (1382)
Chapel of Blessed Luke • Chapelle du bienheureux Luc Belludi
Kapelle des seligen Luca • Capilla del Beato Lucas Belludi
Kaplica Bogostawionego tukasza
The Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua (Basilica di Sant’Antonio in Padova), Italy, is one of the two top sights to visit in Padua and a must-see even on the shortest stopover or day-trip excursion. This church is a monumental tribute to one of Christianity’s most beloved saints and a stunning blend of Romanesque, Gothic, and Byzantine elements.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (May 18, 2020) The United States Naval Academy holds the fourth swearing-in event for the Class of 2020. The Class of 2020 will graduate approximately 1,000 midshipmen during five swearing-in events and one virtual ceremony. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nathan Burke/Released)
Today, Saturday 24th November 2012, the Marathon Club of Ireland's well known West of Ireland (WOI) Marathon series made it's debut in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland. The first WOI marathon held in the east of Ireland was a great success. About 50 people took part in the marathon. The weather was a very cold frosty morning for running which eventually gave way to some bright November sunshine. The race started and finished from beside Acres Road/Papal Cross in the Phoenix Park. After two initial small loops totalling 1.2 miles the race then took 5 five mile loops clockwise around the Phoenix Park. This took in Chesterfield Avenue, then down towards Chapelizod, up the Military Hill, along the S-Bends, up the hill at the Upper Glen Road, and across Furze road back onto Chesterfield Avenue. A Garmin Connect GPS trace of this five mile loop is available from the links below.
As anyone who has ever raced in the Phoenix Park before this was a demanding course - and to do that loop 5 times could be described as "challenging". However everyone who took part enjoyed the event. We managed to get photographs of most of the participants from the event today! Well done to everyone who took part. The atmosphere amongst the runners involved epitomised all that is great about the marathon. Thanks to Frank McDermott, Anthony Lee, Ray O'Connor, and Pat O'Keefe for making this possible. The marathon club of Ireland organise marathons almost every two weeks all year round. They are not mass participation events. These marathons are officially measured and count as offically recognised marathons. Participants in the events are expected to support themselves with their drinks, gels, and other requirements.
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100 Marathon Club Homepage marathonclubireland.asocion.com/
The 5 mile Loop in the Phoenix Park: connect.garmin.com/activity/242678616
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Two of the many Seattle Seahawk fans outside the University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Arizona before the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl XLIX game.
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Kristen Bobo helps illuminate the passage where she discovered many historic doodles and graffiti. A mysterious cave, Edmonson county, KY
Ferguslie Parks, Pals of the Privies Foam Party in Glen Coats park was great success for all involved on Sunday July 18th 2021. With giant inflatable’s, a huge wet soapy slide, Clyde ones George Bowie dj ing the event and the star of the show, the foam machine its self. This was a cracking day for parents and kids alike and it was mobbed.
One person told me when he bragged to his work mates about all the events the Ferguslie community groups have staged over the years. Only for their jaws to drop when it was pointed out, it was all free.
All this due to the hard work of the many groups who caught the eyes of so many local business and whose donations made it possible for locals to come together and build community spirit to makes it a safer places to live for all.
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Photos showing impressions of the Ars Electronica Festival 2021 on Thursday, Sept. 10th at the JKU.
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Museum of the Civil Aviation History at Ulyanovsk - Baratayevka Tsentralny (ULV/UWLL) on September 1, 2015. Soviet Air Force Ilyushin Il-28 Beagle "33 Red" (cn 56605702). I suppose the museum staff has painted a Soviet flag on the tail in order to make the aircraft look like a civilian Il-20 (also called Il-28P) mailplane operated by Aeroflot. But according to the book "OKB Ilyushin. A history of the Design Bureau and its Aircraft (Midland Publishing 2004), curiously none of the Il-20s carried the Soviet flag on the tail! Note the missing cannons. The Il-28 tactical bomber had two 23 mm Nudelman/Rikhter NR-23 cannons in the IL-K6 tail turret.
Equestrian statue of Charlemagne and two of his leudes (Olivier and Roland with his sword Durendal), Paris, France. A Leudes was a vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages. From the bravest of their tribe a number of warriors were chosen to be the companions and guards of the chief. They called Leudes, and usually served on horseback, while the greater part of the nation fought on foot; and they were bound to their chief by an oath of fidelity. These Leudes were, in fact, the nobility of the tribes, but resembled the knights of an after age in nothing except the circumstance of fighting on horseback. The sculpture is by Charles Rochet (1813-1878) and Louis Rochet (1819-1900), who were brothers. The sculpture is dated 1882.
Patron, 1897: 'Abbas Hilmi II (ʿAbbās Ḥilmī Pāshā) 1874-1944, great-great grandson of Muhammad 'Ali & son of Tewfik Pasha, Khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt & Sudan, (r.1892-1914).
This is the last of a series of mosques built on this site around the tomb of Sayyida Nafisa, the great-granddaughter of Hasan, son of 'Ali. She was born in Mecca, raised in Medina & came to Cairo in 809 where she lived in a house on this site. After her death, 'Ubayd Allah Sari built a tomb over her grave and the Fatimid Caliph al-Mustansir turned it into a mashhad in 1089; this was repaired by al-Hafiz in 1138. Sultan Baybars also built in the precinct and a new mosque was raised by al-Nasir Muhammad. Much reconstruction was undertaken in 1760 by 'Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda. In 1892 most of the mosque was burnt in a great fire and 'Abbas Hilmi II ordered a complete rebuilding between 1893-97. Extensions were added in the late 1980s, and again in the late 1990s.
Sayyida Nafisa (As-Sayyidah Nafīsah bint Amīr al-Muʾminīn Al-Ḥasan al-Anwar ibn Zayd al-Ablaj ibn Al-Hasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib al-ʿAlawiyyah al-Ḥasaniyyah c.762-830), was a female descendant of the prophet Muhammad, and a scholar and teacher of Islam. Having taught Sunni Imam Muhammad ibn Idris ash-Shafi'i, the father of the Shafi'i school of Sunni law. She is the best known female scholar of hadith in Egypt.
Hasan: al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib 625-670, the firstborn son of 'Ali and Fatima, and a grandson of the prophet Muhammad.
'Ali: ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib c.600-661, a cousin, son-in-law & companion of the Prophet Muhammad. He was the fourth rightly guided caliph (r.656-661, assassinated).
'Ubayd Allah Sari: d.820, governor of Egypt (r.816 & 817-820) for the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad
al-Mustansir Billah: Abū Tamīm Ma‘ad al-Mustanṣir bi-llāh, The Asker Of Victory From God 1029-1094, son of al-Zāhir li-iʿzāz Dīn Allāh; Fatimid Caliph (r.1036–1094).
al-Hafiz: al-Ḥāfiẓ li-Dīn Allāh (Abu'l-Maymūn ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Mustanṣir) 1074/5 or 1075/6-1149; Fatimid Caliph (r.1130–1149).
al-Nasir Muhammad: al-Malik al-Nasir Nasir al-Din Muhammad ibn Qalawun or al-Nasir Muhammad or Abu al-Ma'ali, al-Nasir Muhammad, Abu al-Ma'ali, or Ibn Qalawun) 1285-1341, Bahri Mamluk sultan of Egypt & Syria (r.1293–1294, 1299-1309 & 1310-1341).
'Abd al-Rahman Katkhuda:ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Katkhudā ibn Husayn Jawish al-Qardughli c.1715–1776, prominent Ottoman emir & a leading officer of the Cairo Janissaries.
Return of the Salmon Festival 2014 - The annual Return of the Salmon festival was held at Coleman National Fish Hatchery on Saturday, October 17th! Hundreds of people came out to enjoy the sight of the returning salmon and spend quality time at the booths, which ranged in subject from the educational to the entertaining. Every year, the festival gives the public a chance to see how the hatchery operates and the benefits it provides.
Brook lies about a quarter mile from the start of Wye Down, I can see it in the spring when I am orchid hunting, but never really thought about what the village was like, or even called.
After looking at John Vigar's book, I realised there were a few churches in east Kent I had missed out, and Brook was one. I dd not read up on it, so did not know what to expect. In fact, it seems of similar construction to Brabourne, with a stocky tower, and inside, sadly locked, the tower has a private chapel built into it.
But what is obvious is the hole in the north side facing the road. This clearly needed further inspection.
You reach the church via a bridge over a stream, presumably after which the village is named, and there is a path leading to the church door, which was unlocked.
On closer inspection, the recess in the north wall lead to a door, and inside the church, there was an oval door. This is a hagioscope (or squint), but I have never seen one in the outside wall of a church before.
Once home, I did some research, and found out about anchorites, people who decided to leave the cares of the world, lived like hermits attached to a church, with a window into the church so to witness the services.
If this wasn't remarkable enough, elsewhere inside the church had been re-ordered in the 1980s so it now resembles a 12th century Norman church, and has a remarkable collection of wall paintings on top of all that.
To call it breathtaking would be an understatement.
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An anchorite or anchoret (female: anchoress; adj. anchoritic; from Ancient Greek: ἀναχωρητής, anachōrētḗs, "one who has retired from the world",[2][3] from the verb ἀναχωρέω, anachōréō, signifying "to withdraw", "to retire"[4]) is someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society so as to be able to lead an intensely prayer-oriented, ascetic, and—circumstances permitting—Eucharist-focused life. Whilst anchorites are frequently considered to be a type of religious hermit,[5] unlike hermits they were required to take a vow of stability of place, opting instead for permanent enclosure in cells often attached to churches. Also unlike hermits, anchorites were subject to a religious rite of consecration that closely resembled the funeral rite, following which—theoretically, at least—they would be considered dead to the world, a type of living saint. Anchorites had a certain autonomy, as they did not answer to any ecclesiastical authority other than the bishop.[6]
The anchoritic life is one of the earliest forms of Christian monastic living. In the Roman Catholic Church today, it is one of the "Other Forms of Consecrated Life" and governed by the same norms as the consecrated eremitic life.[7] From the 12th to the 16th centuries, female anchorites consistently outnumbered their male equivalents, sometimes by as many as four to one (in the 13th century), dropping eventually to two to one (in the 15th century). The gender of a high number of anchorites, however, is not recorded for these periods.
The anchoritic life became widespread during the early and high Middle Ages.[9] Examples of the dwellings of anchorites and anchoresses survive. A large number of these are in England. They tended to be a simple cell (also called anchorhold), built against one of the walls of the local village church.[10] In the Germanic lands, from at least the 10th century, it was customary for the bishop to say the office of the dead as the anchorite entered his cell, to signify the anchorite's death to the world and rebirth to a spiritual life of solitary communion with God and the angels. Sometimes, if the anchorite were walled up inside the cell, the bishop would put his seal upon the wall to stamp it with his authority. Some anchorites, however, freely moved between their cell and the adjoining church.[11]
Most anchoritic strongholds were small, perhaps no more than 12 to 15 ft (3.7 to 4.6 m) square, with three windows. Viewing the altar, hearing Mass, and receiving Holy Communion was possible through one small, shuttered window in the common wall facing the sanctuary, called a "hagioscope" or "squint". Anchorites would also provide spiritual advice and counsel to visitors through this window, as the anchorites gained a reputation for wisdom.[12] Another small window would allow access to those who saw to the anchorite's physical needs, such as food and other necessities. A third window, often facing the street, but covered with translucent cloth, would allow light into the cell.[6]
Anchorites were supposed to remain in their cell in all eventualities. Some were even burned in their cells, which they refused to leave even when pirates or other attackers were looting and burning their towns.[13] They ate frugal meals, spending their days both in contemplative prayer and interceding on behalf of others. Anchorites' bodily waste was managed by means of a chamber pot.[14]
In addition to being the crucial physical location wherein the anchorite could embark on the journey towards union with God and the culmination of spiritual perfection, the anchorhold also provided a spiritual and geographic focus for many of those people from the wider society who came to ask for advice and spiritual guidance. It is clear that, although set apart from the community at large by stone walls and specific spiritual precepts, the anchorite also lay at the very centre of that same community. The anchorhold was clearly also a communal 'womb' from which would emerge an idealized sense of a community's own reborn potential, both as Christians and as human subjects.[8]
An idea of their daily routine can be gleaned from an anchoritic Rule. The most widely known today is the early 13th century text known as Ancrene Wisse.[15] Another, less widely known, example is the rule known as De Institutione Inclusarum written in the 12th century, around 1160–62, by Aelred of Rievaulx for his sister.[16] It is estimated that the daily set devotions detailed in Ancrene Wisse would take some four hours, on top of which anchoresses would listen to services in the church, and engage in their own private prayers and devotional reading.
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Since its re-ordering in 1986 Brook church has shown the visitor what a church interior might have looked like in the twelfth century. The chancel is empty except for the medieval stone altar, discovered a few years ago in the churchyard, and now set on two ragstone pillars. The church is large, for throughout the medieval period it belonged to Christ Church, Canterbury. There is much Norman work to be seen, including the three-stage west tower which contains a purpose-built chapel or `westwerk`. The church has a comprehensive series of thirteenth-century wall paintings, overlain by some fourteenth- and seventeenth-century murals, although the early paintings are not as well preserved as in some other churches. In the north wall of the chancel is a small almond-shaped hagioscope to the exterior. It may have connected to an anchorite's cell, but is more likely to have been associated with the exposition of a relic on the high altar. It is certainly not a low side window as the tower bell would have been used for this purpose.
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LIES the next parish southward from Wye. It is written in antient records both Broc and Broke, and takes its name from its low situation on the stream which runs through it, baroca in Saxon signifying a rivulet. It seems once to have been accounted a hundred of itself; but at the time of taking the survey of Domesday, in the year 1080, it was reputed to be in the hundred of Wye, as it is now.
The parish is very small, and is but little known, lying out of the way of all traffic and throughfare. It is not more than a mile across each way, and has in it about twenty houses. It lies very low and wet, in a deep miry soil. There is some coppice wood in the southern part of it, about forty-three acres, of which twenty-eighty belong to the dean and chapter of Canterbury. The village is nearly in the centre of the parish, having the church at the north end of it. There is a small hamlet, called Little Bedleston, consisting of only two houses, in the eastern part of the parish, close under the high ridge of hills called Braborne-downs, to the foot of which this parish extends eastward.
BROOKE was given, long before the conquest, by Karlemann, a priest, to the church of Canterbury; but it was wrested from the church in the troublesome times which soon after followed, by reason of the Danish wars, and it continued in lay hands at the accession of the Conqueror; soon after which it appears to have been in the possession of Hugh de Montfort, from whom archbishop Lanfranc recovered Brooke again to his church in the solemn assembly of the whole county, held on this occassion by the king's command, at Pinenden-heath in 1076; and then on the division which the archbishop made of the lands of his church, this manor was allotted by him, among others, to the share of the priory of Christ-church, Canterbury; accordingly it is thus entered among the possessions of it, in the survey of Domesday, under the general title of Terra Monachorum Archiepi, i. e. lands of the monks of the archbishops;
In the hundred of Wi, the archbishop himself holds one manor, which was taxed at one suling, in the time of king Edward the Confessor, and now, for half a suling. The arable land is two carucates. In demesne there is one, and three villeins, with four borderers having two carucates and an half. There is a church, and one mill of two shillings, and two servants, and seven acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of ten hogs. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, it was worth fifty shillings, now four pounds.
This manor was soon after this let to farm, by the monks, to Robert de Rumene, at the above rent, and was allotted de cibo eorum, that is, to the use of their refectory; and the possession of it was confirmed to them both by king Henry I. and II. (fn. 1) King Edward II. in his 10th year, granted to the prior and convent free warren in all their demesne lands in Broke, among other places which they were in possession of at the time of the charter of liberties granted to them by his grandfather Henry III. about which time this manor was valued at 22l. 1s. 10d. In which state it afterwards continued till the dissolution of the priory of Christchurch in the 31st year of Henry VIII. when it came into the king's hands, where it did not remain long, for the king settled it by his dotation-charter, in his 33d year, on his new-erected dean and chapter of Canterbury, part of whose possessions it still remains.
The demesne lands have been constantly let by the dean and chapter on a beneficial lease, at the yearly rent of 13l. 6s. 8d. in money, and four quarters of wheat. The present lessee is Mr. John Berry, of Newbery, Berkshire; but the manerial rights they retain in their own hands.
A court baron is regularly held for this manor. There are no parochial charities.
BROOKE is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge. The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is but small, consisting of one isle and a chancel, with a low square tower at the west end, in which are two bells. There are no memorials of any account in it.
The church of Brooke has always been accounted an appendage to the manor, and as such passed with it from the priory of Christ-church into the hands of the crown, and from thence to the dean and chapter of Canterbury, who are the present patrons of it. The woods belonging to the dean and chapter here, claim an exemption from paying tithes.
¶This rectory is valued in the king's books at 7l. 7s. 3d. and is of the clear yearly certified value of thirty pounds. In 1588 it was valued at thirty pounds. Communicants ninety-two. In 1640 at sixty pounds. Communicants sixty. There are now only ten communicants. In 1724 it was augmented with the sum of 200l. given by the governors of queen Anne's bounty, on the gift of 100l. from the dean and chapter of Canterbury, and the like sum from Dr. Godolphin, dean of St. Paul's; with which there was purchased a piece of land, containing nine acres, called Great Chequer field, adjoining to the town of Wye.
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Italian businessman Flavio Briatore is the manager of two Formula 1 racing teams. He was born in Verzuolo Italy in the Maritime Alps. The first Formula One race attended by Briatore was the Australian Grand Prix in 1988. After previously working under Luciano Benetton, founder of the Benetton clothing company, Benetton proclaimed him the commercial director of his Formula 1 team, Benetton Formula Ltd. He was promoted to managing director and helped turn Benetton into a competing team. The team became Renault F1 in 2002 and Briatore helped find famed race car driver Fernando Alonso. Besides race cars, Briatore also has an interest in fashion. He hits up the most exclusive parties and events with the likes of Prince Albert of Monaco, Paris Hilton, and Jay-Z. He dated model Heidi Klum and is now married to Wonderbra model Elisabetta Gregoraci. They have a son Falco Nathon.
A view of #Seattle from #KerryPark, you can see the #ClimatePledge Arena, #LumenField, #TMobilePark, the Seattle Great Wheel and other buildings. The day was one of the best this spring, with the sky really clear that you could see iconic Mount Rainier in the distance. Looks kind of Photoshopped, doesn't it?
The Corps of Cadets conducted a regimental review in honor of the chief warrant officers, chief petty officers, and the Coast Guard enlisted workforce, April 14, 2017.
The reviewing officials for the Regimental Review were Master Chief Jason Griffin, command master chief of the 7th Coast Guard District, Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Huffman, president of the CPOA, retired Master Chief Dave Isherwood, Region 2 Advisor to the CPOA, and Petty Officer 1st Class Mike Lewis, President of the CGEA.
Official U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 2nd Class Richard Brahm.
I bought some Gerbera Daisies last week with every intention of photographing them. The market sells them in bunches of six. I always try to pick out the bunch with the most interesting centers and colors. They didn't last as long as usual and began to wilt. I wasn't happy with any of the shots I had taken and decided to scrap the idea. This morning I was cleaning up around my kitchen and was going to toss them all out. I noticed this one and I couldn't resist. The center looks like a ton of candles on a cake.
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Impressions from the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2023 in Tianjin, People's Republic of China, 28 June 2023. Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center. Copyright: World Economic Forum/Benedikt von Loebell
07/03/2023. Ladies European Tour 2023. Investec South African Women's Open, Steenberg Golf Club, Cape Town, South Africa. 8-11 March. Lee-Anne Pace of South Africa diuring her press conference. Credit: Tristan Jones/ LET
The Theatre of Marcellus (Latin: Theatrum Marcelli, Italian: Teatro di Marcello) is an ancient open-air theatre in Rome, Italy, built in the closing years of the Roman Republic. At the theatre, locals and visitors alike were able to watch performances of drama and song. Today its ancient edifice in the rione of Sant'Angelo, Rome, once again provides one of the city's many popular spectacles or tourist sites. It was named after Marcus Marcellus, Emperor Augustus's nephew, who died five years before its completion. Space for the theatre was cleared by Julius Caesar, who was murdered before it could be begun; the theatre was so far advanced by 17 BC that part of the celebration of the ludi saeculares took place within the theatre; it was completed in 13 BC and formally inaugurated in 12 BC by Augustus.
The theatre was 111 m in diameter; it could originally hold 11,000 spectators. It was an impressive example of what was to become one of the most pervasive urban architectural forms of the Roman world. The theatre was built mainly of tuff, and concrete faced with stones in the pattern known as opus reticulatum, completely sheathed in white travertine. The network of arches, corridors, tunnels and ramps that gave access to the interiors of such Roman theaters were normally ornamented with a screen of engaged columns in Greek orders: Doric at the base, Ionic in the middle. It is believed that Corinthian columns were used for the upper level but this is uncertain as the theater was reconstructed in the Middle Ages, removing the top tier of seating and the columns.
Like other Roman theaters in suitable locations, it had openings through which the natural setting could be seen, in this case the Tiber Island to the southwest. The permanent setting, the scaena, also rose to the top of the cavea as in other Roman theaters.
101 views of OSCAR WILDE's TOMB at PERE LACHAISEthe story of the statue is a wild one....for it has folklore on its own...apparently it is suspose to represent oscar wilde...and the 'man part' scandelized paris.
i love the fact that so many woman have put on copius amounts of lipstick and kissed his grave...seems more likely that he'd appreciate the male models pressing their lips to his grave, so when ADDA DADA first visited his grave back in the 1970's...and ADDA was a tad bit a looker..I placed a nice smack on his grave...sans lipstick, though, for ADDA never could find the right color...hahaha
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here is a blurb from PERMANENT PARISIANS a tour of the cementaries of PARIS...ISBN 0-930031-03-2.. available for purchase on HALF.COM
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OSCAR WILDE
Born october 16, 1854-dublin...died november 30, 1900 paris
after a wait of 9 years in bagneaux cemetery, WILDE's remains were transferred to PERE LACHAISE on july 19, 1909. (the doctors had advised that oscar be buried in quicklime to reduce the body to bone before transfer. insstead, the substance perserved him, shocking the gravediggers, his hair and beard had even grown longer.)
it took JACOB EPSTEIN three years to sculpt his monument, which represents OSCAR WILDE as a winged messenger, done in the egyptian art deco style. when EPSTEIN arrived to put the finishing touches on the statue, he found it shrouded and guarded by a gendarme, the cementary conservateur had found it 'indecent' and had it banned.
officials refused to bow to public intellectual presure until an acceptable alteration was made-so a plaque of a fig leaf was put over the 'privates' making them private.
the tomb was unveiled in 1914, but by 1922 students, in nocturnal raids, had hacke away the fig leaf as well as a substantial portion of what lay beneath.
(another 'story' is that two englishwoman, offended at WILDE's being publicly portrayed so well-endowned, committed the emasculation themselves. the conservateur, after finding the parts at tHE monument's base, is supposed to have used them as paperweight)
on the back of the tomb is his words from THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL:
and alien tears will fill for him
pity's long broken urn
for his mourners will be outcast men
and outcasts always mourn.
In 1848 a Silesian farmer, Franz Weickert gathered together a group of people interested in forming a new community free of religious persecution in South Australia. Weckert financed the voyage for many of the people and he obtained the services of a Father Kranewitter, a Jesuit brother and two others called Schriener and Sadler. They took up land at Sevenhill near Clare and called the local stream the Tiber (after the River in Rome) and the place, Sevenhill after the seven hills of Rome. Franz Weckert never recovered his money from the settlers and died a poor man at Sevenhill in 1875. The three Jesuits erected a building on their land and established the first Catholic seminary in Australia. Local Catholics contributed substantially to Jesuit funds after their return from the Victorian goldfields and the first church was finished in 1856. The current church was a later structure that was started in 1861. The Catholic Polish community of nearby Polish Hill River also contributed to the new church. It was officially opened in November 1866. A crypt was constructed underneath the church, for the burial of the Jesuit fathers.
Over the next few years the college was constructed, clearly with plans for further additions, which never occurred. The foundation stone for the college was laid in 1868 and the college was completed by 1871 when press advertising for students began. Among the early students were Peter and Donald MacKillop, brothers of Mary MacKillop. The college was officially opened in 1875. It catered for around 40 students a year until it closed in 1885. Apart from the college and church, the Jesuit brothers brought the wine industry to the Clare Valley. They established the first vineyard of the district in 1851 (about the same time as the first vines were planted in the Barossa and also at Langhorne Creek).
After finishing my walk today, I headed over to where Beach 86th Street terminates at Jamaica Bay. I climbed out on the nearby jetty to get a good look at this row of old bungalows built on a pier over the water at the northern end of Beach 84th Street. Because of how the houses are lined up, they're mostly obscured from view on Beach 84th Street; in fact, I didn't even realize they were there when I walked the street. I only discovered them afterward while looking at aerial photos of the area. As we learned back then:
These unusual houses, apparently more than a century old, were in the news back in 2008 when the state passed a law allowing the city to sell the pier to the homeowners who lived atop it. A few years later, the artist Duke Riley featured the bungalows in one of the stained-glass pieces he designed for the nearby Beach 98th Street subway station.
There are about 16 houses standing on the pier now, but there were once more. I count seven additional houses in aerial images from both 1924 and 1980. (Here's a 2012 view for comparison.) In the 1924 aerial, and even, to a much lesser extent, in this 1996 one, you can also see a number of houses built out on other nearby piers jutting into the bay.
This pair of RDCs sit at the end of a shunting spur in the early spring sunshine. Their current owner, Industrial Rail Services Inc., Moncton NB, is fully capable of rebuilding most of their fleet into state-of-the-art, better-than-new condition for 21th century commuter rail service.
Black stained wooden gavel which was used by Bathgate Olive Lodge of Free Gardeners.
The Charter for the Bathgate Olive Lodge of the Ancient Order of Free Gardeners was granted in 1864. The Lodge was a friendly society which provided sickness and funeral benefits for its members in return for regular subscriptions and closed in 1915.
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Copyright: West Lothian Council Museums Service.
If you would like more information about this object, please contact: museums@westlothian.gov.uk, quoting
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Wrestling Alliance Company - Champion of wrestling 6 - The gigolo Vs Stephane Nogues
The gigolo def. (Pin) Stephane Nogues
Type of match : Last Man Standing Match
For : The European Title (No Title Change)
( Premier show de l'annee wrestling of champion 6.
Champion of wrestling 6 sera le premier show de l'annee WAC annonce pour le 9 mars
Le champion europeen a un message a faire passer a son adversaire ( video )
Un autre match est aussi annoncer pour ce jour la .
Le jeune eclipse a decrocher lors du dernier show le droit d'affronter le champion de belgique qui n'est autre que le bourreau . )