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Cultural Soirée session with André Hoffmann, Vice-Chairman, Roche Holding; Co-Chair, World Economic Forum; Li Qiang, Mayor, Dalian Municipal People's Government, People's Republic of China; Mazen S. Darwazeh, Executive Vice Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Jordan during the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, People's Republic of China, on 24/6/2026 from 19:00 to 21:30 in the Dalian International Conference Center - Donggang Music Fountain Square, Reception. (cultural soirée). ©2026 World Economic Forum
Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris takes the Oath of Office on the platform of the U.S. Capitol during the 59th Presidential Inauguration in Washington D.C., January 20, 2021. Military personnel assigned to Joint Task Force - National Capital Region provided military ceremonial support. (DoD photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kevin Tanenbaum)
daughters of albion, cork.
thea gilmore, kate st john, kathryn williams, eliza carthy. photo by jean-cristophe godet
Nearly 300 job seekers attended the recent Career Fair at College of DuPage. The fourth annual event featured more than 60 employers. In addition to the fair, the College’s Career Services office offered a number of pre-fair workshops to help job seekers fine tune their resumes and prepare for the interview process.
Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) 460
Built in 1914
Named the "Lindbergh Engine'"
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
39.982238, -76.160200
Our Lady of Mount Ida, hand cast paper relief sculpture patinated with acrylic and oil, by Pamala Bird, 18.5" x 17". The great Anatolian mother goddess, Cybele, (or Kybele), was known to the Romans as Magna Mater and the Mother of the Gods, and to the Greeks as Mountain-Mother. Mount Ida in Anatolia was her birth place and particularly sacred to her. Her origins are very ancient. She was known in Bronze Age Carchemish as Kubab. She was a deification of the mother earth, a goddess of caverns and mountains, fortresses, nature, and wild animals. She was especially associated with lions and bees. She is often shown in a chariot drawn by lions. She is shown here as the Roman pictured her. She is holding the circular frame drum, similar to a tambourine, (tymbalon or tympanon), Her worship was celebrated with music and dancing. She wears the mural crown (depicting city walls) and the ideograms for the name, Kubaba, in the Hittite alphabet are inscribed on the base of her foot stool.
Diocese of Manchester organised Whit Walk and service from Manchester Cathedral to St Peter's Square, Manchester.
Pictures by Paul Heyes, Monday May 29, 2023.
A May Day Bank Holiday Monday visit to Canons Ashby, a National Trust run property in Northamptonshire.
I first saw the Priory Church of St Mary when we first arrived from the car park, and it was the last place we visited at Canons Ashby before we left.
Canons Ashby Priory was an Augustinian priory at Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England.
The Priory was founded by Stephen la Leye on a site to the south of the present church between 1147 and 1151 in the reign of Henry II.
In 1253 the Augustinians were granted a licence to dig the Norwell, which still exists north of the present church, to supply water to the priory.
In 1537 after the Dissolution of the Monasteries the Crown granted the priory and its estates to Sir Francis Bryan, a close ally of Henry VIII. Bryan held the estate for only about a year before selling it in 1538 to Sir John Cope, a wealthy Banbury lawyer. Sir John's daughter Elizabeth inherited what is thought to have been the priory farmhouse [wrong – Wilkyns farm was part of John Dryden's inheritance. Copes Ashbie – across the road – was inherited by Elizabeth's brother, who died early leaving his sons as Wards of the Dryden family]. In 1551 she married John Dryden, who extended the building to form the earliest parts of Canons Ashby House.
Part of the building survives: the Church of England parish church of St Mary dates from about 1250 and this, together with Canons Ashby House, is now owned by the National Trust. Its power and size can be judged by its outlying buildings which cover a large area of the surrounding countryside. The remains of the priory's hospitalium survive as the monastic building centred on the parish church of Maidford, about 5 miles (8 km) away.
Grade I Listed Building
A look around inside of the historic church!
hollow tower - no upper floors but was the rope to ring the bell!
100's of Artists and Activists Condemn Oil Spill At Manhattan BP Station. The start of something much much larger. Protesters in New York City descended on a BP gas station in SoHo on Friday and demanded a boycott of the oil company. We, the Citizens of The United States of America, stand in solidarity with the State of Louisiana and the entire Gulf of Mexico, demanding an urgent resolve of this Extraordinary Crisis. We demand ACTION and ANSWERS, RESTITUTION and PROTECTION and we want it NOW! There’s growing anger at both BP and the federal government regarding the Gulf oil catastrophe; three-quarters of Americans think that BP has muffed the response and — are you listening, President Obama?
The group condemned BP for its response to the oil spill and the damage company is causing to the environment. Some carried protest signs and covered themselves with chocolate syrup and black food coloring to mimick the crude that's washing up along the Gulf Coast.
BP: Spill Could Be 10 Times Current Estimate
The oil giant BP has privately conceded the size of its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be ten times greater than current estimates. The New York Times reports a senior BP executive told a closed-door Congressional briefing that a ruptured oil well could be spewing as many 60,000 barrels of oil a day. The expanding oil slick meanwhile has hit the shores of Louisiana’s Chandeleur islands, a wildlife refuge 60 miles from New Orleans.
BP stations are all across the United States and Europe.
Protest your local BP Gas Stations regularly and let your voice be heard by BP and most importantly the US Governement.
Waterbird Regional Preserve is a 198-acre area comprised of a wetland and the associated uplands to the east. The focal point of the Preserve is the rich and diverse Al McNabney Marsh, of which the East Bay Regional Park District owns 46 acres in the southern end and Mountain View Sanitary District owns 69 acres in the northern and deeper end.
The area now known as McNabney Marsh was first visited by the Bay Miwok's Chupcan people, a tribelet thought to have consisted of about 200 people. With the plentiful resources of the bay, marshlands, and uplands, these Native Americans were able to sustain their existence here for centuries, until the influx of explorers and missionaries in the 1800s.
The construction of a major rail line through the area in the 1880s helped define the marsh as we see it today. The shipping and rail services of Martinez encouraged the location of the Peyton Chemical Company and the Mountain Copper Company at the mouth of Peyton Slough. The uplands area of the Preserve with pepperwoods and eucalyptus was most likely the site of early nineteenth-century chemical company worker housing. The pepperwoods line an old road made of "clinker" stones, produced through smelting operations.
McNabney Marsh, named after a former leader of the Mt. Diablo Audubon Society, is part of a larger 200-acre wetland complex connected by Peyton Slough, which drains into Suisun Bay. In 1988 an oil spill inundated marshlands in this area, including McNabney Marsh. Following that spill, a $10 million Natural Resource Fund was established to restore, rehabilitate and acquire the equivalent of the natural resources damaged by the oil spill. The East Bay Regional Park District acquired 198 acres in the south end of the marsh in 1992 using funding provided by the Trustee Committee overseeing the Natural Resource Fund. This land included the uplands to the east of the marsh, which provide recreational trail opportunities today.
Info source: East Bay Regional Park District
After a fair amount of walking I reached the sumit of the Wanla Scar Road, and the turnoff for Brown Pike which would take me up to Dow Crag.
Or at least that was the plan. In reality when I reached the summit I was hit by winds from the other side of the pass that were so strong that I was almost blown over.
Knowing that if I went up towards Dow Crag, I'd probably be hit by this wind all the way which wouldn't be particularly safe to walk in, I reluctantly abandoned my plans for Dow Crag and headed back down the Wanla Scar Pass to Cove Bridge once more.
Gary Cohen, founder of Healthier Hospitals Initiative, is one of 11 champions of change, honored at "Protecting Public Health in a Changing Climate" event at the White House
Astrid-Berges Frisbey at the photocall for Pirates of the Caribbean : On Stranger Tides © PanARMENIAN Photo/Vahan Stepanyan All the images presented in this photostream are part of photo sets that can be purchased for editorial or commercial use. Contact us
Metempsychosis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Greek concept of the transmigration of the soul. For the general concept, see Reincarnation.
A section of Metempsychosis (1923) by Yokoyama Taikan; a drop of water from the vapours in the sky transforms into a mountain stream, which flows into a great river and on into the sea, whence rises a dragon (pictured) that turns back to vapour; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Important Cultural Property)[1]
Metempsychosis (Greek: μετεμψύχωσις) is a philosophical term in the Greek language referring to transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. Generally, the term is only used within the context of ancient Greek philosophy, but has also been used by modern philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer[2] and Kurt Gödel;[3] otherwise, the term "transmigration" is more appropriate. The word plays a prominent role in James Joyce's Ulysses and is also associated with Nietzsche.[4] Another term sometimes used synonymously is palingenesis.
Contents [hide]
1Europe before the pre-Socratic philosophers
2In Greek philosophy
3In literature after the classical era
4See also
5References
6External links
Europe before the pre-Socratic philosophers[edit]
It is unclear how the doctrine of metempsychosis arose in Greece. It is easiest to assume that earlier ideas which had never been extinguished were utilized for religious and philosophic purposes. The Orphic religion, which held it, first appeared in Thrace upon the semi-barbarous north-eastern frontier. Orpheus, its legendary founder, is said to have taught that soul and body are united by a compact unequally binding on either; the soul is divine, immortal and aspires to freedom, while the body holds it in fetters as a prisoner. Death dissolves this compact, but only to re-imprison the liberated soul after a short time: for the wheel of birth revolves inexorably. Thus the soul continues its journey, alternating between a separate unrestrained existence and fresh reincarnation, round the wide circle of necessity, as the companion of many bodies of men and animals." To these unfortunate prisoners Orpheus proclaims the message of liberation, that they stand in need of the grace of redeeming gods and of Dionysus in particular, and calls them to turn to God by ascetic piety of life and self-purification: the purer their lives the higher will be their next reincarnation, until the soul has completed the spiral ascent of destiny to live for ever as God from whom it comes. Such was the teaching of Orphism which appeared in Greece about the 6th century BC, organized itself into private and public mysteries at Eleusis and elsewhere, and produced a copious literature.[5][6][7]
In Greek philosophy[edit]
The earliest Greek thinker with whom metempsychosis is connected is Pherecydes of Syros;[8] but Pythagoras, who is said to have been his pupil, is its first famous philosophic exponent. Pythagoras is not believed to have invented the doctrine or to have imported it from Egypt. Instead he made his reputation by bringing the Orphic doctrine from North-Eastern Hellas to Magna Graecia, and creating societies for its diffusion.
The real weight and importance of metempsychosis in Western tradition is due to its adoption by Plato.[citation needed] In the eschatological myth which closes the Republic he tells the myth how Er, the son of Armenius, miraculously returned to life on the twelfth day after death and recounted the secrets of the other world. After death, he said, he went with others to the place of Judgment and saw the souls returning from heaven, and proceeded with them to a place where they chose new lives, human and animal. He saw the soul of Orpheus changing into a swan, Thamyras becoming a nightingale, musical birds choosing to be men, the soul of Atalanta choosing the honours of an athlete. Men were seen passing into animals and wild and tame animals changing into each other. After their choice the souls drank of Lethe and then shot away like stars to their birth. There are myths and theories to the same effect in other dialogues, the Phaedrus, Meno, Phaedo, Timaeus and Laws.[citation needed] In Plato's view the number of souls was fixed; birth therefore is never the creation of a soul, but only a transmigration from one body to another.[9] Plato's acceptance of the doctrine is characteristic of his sympathy with popular beliefs and desire to incorporate them in a purified form into his system.[citation needed] The extent of Plato's belief in metempsychosis has been debated by some scholars in modern times. Marsilio Ficino (Platonic Theology 17.3–4), for one, argued that Plato's references to metempsychosis were intended allegorically.
In later Greek literature the doctrine appears from time to time; it is mentioned in a fragment of Menander (the Inspired Woman) and satirized by Lucian (Gallus 18 seq.). In Roman literature it is found as early as Ennius,[10] who in his Calabrian home must have been familiar with the Greek teachings which had descended to his times from the cities of Magna Graecia. In a lost passage of his Annals, a Roman history in verse, Ennius told how he had seen Homer in a dream, who had assured him that the same soul which had animated both the poets had once belonged to a peacock. Persius in one of his satires (vi. 9) laughs at Ennius for this: it is referred to also by Lucretius (i. 124) and by Horace (Epist. II. i. 52). Virgil works the idea into his account of the Underworld in the sixth book of the Aeneid (vv. 724 sqq.). It persists in antiquity down to the latest classic thinkers, Plotinus and the other Neoplatonists.
In literature after the classical era[edit]
"Metempsychosis" is the title of a longer work by the metaphysical poet John Donne, written in 1601.[11] The poem, also known as the Infinitati Sacrum,[12] consists of two parts, the "Epistle" and "The Progress of the Soule". In the first line of the latter part, Donne writes that he "sing[s] of the progresse of a deathlesse soule".[12]
Metempsychosis is a prominent theme in Edgar Allan Poe's 1832 short story "Metzengerstein".[13] Poe returns to metempsychosis again in "Morella" (1835)[14] and "The Oval Portrait" (1842).[15]
Metempsychosis is referred to prominently in the concluding paragraph of Chapter 98, "Stowing Down and Clearing Up", of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Herbert Giles uses the term metempsychosis in his translation of the butterfly dream from the Zhuangzi (Chinese: 《莊子》).[16] The use of this term is contested by Hans Georg Möller, though, who claims that a better translation is “the changing of things”.[17]
Metempsychosis is a recurring theme in James Joyce's modernist novel Ulysses (1922).[18] In Joycean fashion, the word famously appears in Leopold Bloom's inner monologue, recalling how his wife, Molly Bloom, apparently mispronounced it earlier that day as "met him pike hoses."[19]
In Thomas Pynchon's 1963 premiere novel V., metempsychosis is mentioned in reference to the book "The Search for Bridey Murphy" by Morey Bernstein, and also later in chapter eight.
Metempsychosis is referenced in Don DeLillo's 1982 novel The Names.
In David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest, the name of the character Madame Psychosis is a pun that alludes to metempsychosis.
Guy de Maupassant's story "Le docteur Héraclius Gloss" (1875) is a fable about metempsychosis.
In Marcel Proust's famous first paragraph from In Search of Lost Time, the narrator compares his separation from the subject of a book to the process of metempsychosis.
See also[edit]
Yazidis
Zalmoxis
Ya’furiyya Shia
Gilgul
Saṃsāra Métempsycose : migration des âmes après la mort vers un nouveau corps.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Masterpieces". National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
Jump up ^ Schopenhauer, A: "Parerga und Paralipomena" (Eduard Grisebach edition), On Religion, Section 177
Jump up ^ Gödel Exhibition: Gödel's Century
Jump up ^ Nietzsche and the Doctrine of Metempsychosis, in J. Urpeth & J. Lippitt, Nietzsche and the Divine, Manchester: Clinamen, 2000
Jump up ^ Linforth, Ivan M. (1941) The Arts of Orpheus Arno Press, New York, OCLC 514515
Jump up ^ Long, Herbert S. (1948) A Study of the doctrine of metempsychosis in Greece, from Pythagoras to Plato (Long's 1942 PhD dissertation) Princeton, New Jersey, OCLC 1472399
Jump up ^ Long, Herbert S. (16 February 1948) "Plato's Doctrine of Metempsychosis and Its Source" The Classical Weekly 41(10): pp. 149—155
Jump up ^ Schibli, S., Hermann, Pherekydes of Syros, p. 104, Oxford Univ. Press 2001
Jump up ^ "That is the conclusion, I said; and if a true conclusion, then the souls must always be the same, for if none be destroyed they will not diminish in number." Republic X, 611. The Republic of Plato By Plato, Benjamin Jowett Edition: 3 Published by Clarendon press, 1888.
Jump up ^ Poesch, Jessie (1962) "Ennius and Basinio of Parma" Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 25(1/2): pp. 116—118, page 117, FN15
Jump up ^ Collins, Siobhán (2005) "Bodily Formations and Reading Strategies in John Donne's Metempsychosis" Critical Studies 26: pp. 191—208, page 191
^ Jump up to: a b full text of Metempsychosis or Infinitati Sacrum from Luminarium Editions
Jump up ^ Bonaparte, Marie (1949) The life and works of Edgar Allan Poe: a psycho-analytic interpretation Imago, London, page 273, OCLC 1398764
Jump up ^ Roderick, Phillip L. (2006) The Fall of the House of Poe: And Other Essays iUniverse, New York, page 22, ISBN 0-595-39567-8
Jump up ^ Quinn, Patrick F. (1971) The French face of Edgar Poe (2nd edition) Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois, page 272, ISBN 0-8093-0500-3
Jump up ^ Giles, Herbert (1889). Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer. B. Quaritch.
Jump up ^ Möller, Hans Georg (2011). Daoism Explained: From the Dream of the Butterfly to the Fishnet Allegory. Open Court. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-8126-9750-6.
Jump up ^ List of occurrences of Metempsychosis in Ulysses
Jump up ^ Cf. Joyce, Ulysses, §8 Lestrygonians
External links[edit]
The Columbia Encyclopedia: Transmigration of souls or Metempsychosis
The Catholic Encyclopedia: Metempsychosis
Jewish view of reincarnation
Did Plato Believe in Reincarnation?
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Day 11: After leaving Reims I headed further East to Strasbourg, the crossroads of French and German culture, in time to watch a Germany VS France Euro Cup game. It was a very different city, with its germanic architecture built from red stones out of the clay bearing soil. The food here was fantastic.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg is a beautiful gothic church in central Strasbourg and offers a stunning view of the city. It was the world's tallest building for 227 years from 1647 to 1874.
About Snæfellsnes Peninsula
The Snæfellsnes is a peninsula situated to the west of Borgarfjörður, in western Iceland.
It has been named Iceland in Miniature, because many national sights can be found in the area, including the Snæfellsjökull volcano, regarded as one of the symbols of Iceland. With its height of 1446 m, it is the highest mountain on the peninsula and has a glacier at its peak (jökull means "glacier" in Icelandic). The volcano can be seen on clear days from Reykjavík, a distance of about 120 km. The mountain is also known as the setting of the novel Journey to the Center of the Earth by the French author Jules Verne. The area surrounding Snæfellsjökull has been designated one of the four National Parks by the government of Iceland.
Soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) participate in a Department of the Army Retirement Ceremony on Summerall Field, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va., September 29, 2015. 34 Soldiers ranking from Colonel to Staff Sergeant officially retired in the ceremony hosted by Maj. General Bradley A. Becker, Commanding General, United States Army Military District of Washington. The Soldiers retiring were honored for their many years of distinguished service to the United States Army. (U.S. Army Photos by Cpl. Cody W. Torkelson and Spc. Brandon C. Dyer)
Longhorn Pep Band performing at the University of Texas Longhorn volleyball match against Kansas State at Gregory Gym in Austin, Texas on September 30, 2017.
Soldiers of the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), participated in a Armed Forces Farewell Tribute in honor of Chuck Hagel, Twenty-Forth Secretary of Defense, at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Jan. 28, 2015. Hagel served as the Secretary of Defense for two years and present for the ceremony was President of the United States Barrack H. Obama, Vice President of the Untied States Joseph R. Biden, and General Martin E. Dempsey Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Cody Wes Torkelson)
NW corner of 53rd and Cornell
*2011 update -- This vacant lot, which was created in 2007 in anticipation of the erection of a 17-story high-rise condo development, was finally replaced with a paved surface parking lot this year. Of course, a parking garage (in addition to mixed-use storefronts with apartments above) existed here before the vacancy was created.
The Sanford School for Public Policy at Duke University held the Graduate Programs graduation events and ceremonies on Saturday, May 11, 2013 in the Wilson Center gymnasium. The Class of 2013 consisted of 55 Master of Public Policy graduates, 38 Master of International Development Policy graduates and 5 Ph. D. graduates. Bruce R. Kuniholm, Dean and Professor of Public Policy and History, gave the welcome and opening remarks.
(photos © Kevin Seifert Photography | kevin@kevinseifertphotography.com | ((919) 208-9458)
Pals of the Privies Kids walking group had their big day out at Ayr beach fun park this evening. It was a bit cloudy with the seaguls dive bombing every chance they got as we sat down to eat.
One gulf first tried to grab my pizza as it battered into the side of my head and latter one stole as others made off with one girls sauage super like flying rats...
But with those misshaps asside, the kids all had a great evening out after a slow start along the busy motorway.
July 27th 2021
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The Battle of Britain 75th Anniversary flight.
34 Spitfires and Hurricanes took off from Goodwood in the space of about 20 minutes, from 1400. Arranged in groups of three or four planes, they flew to various destinations in the South of England, visiting many towns and sites of significance in the Battle on the way. Three Spitfires headed north-east to fly to Bentwaters (Suffolk). They are seen here passing over the former RAF Martlesham Heath airfield at 15.08.
From top to bottom they are
Supermarine Seafire Mk IIIc PP972 (G-BUAR, Markings 11 5)
Supermarine Spitfire Mk Ia X4650 (G-CGUK, Markings KL A)
Supermarine Spitfire T9 ML407 (G-LFIX, Markings vOU)
This is a two seater, based at the former airbase at Bentwaters, near Woodbridge.
The pictures aren't really up to my usual standard, but were taken on a Canon compact camera, as I didn't really think there would be much opportunity for perfection!
Taken at the Mini Maker Faire at Elephant and Castle, 6 July 2013, using Triggertrap's scream-activated camera trigger. Love this shot of you? Feel free to upload it to your Facebook, show it off on Twitter, etc. Enjoy!
Robert Motherwell 'Summertime in Italy No. 7' (In Golden Ochre), 1961, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
At the Temple Of Tolerance in Wapakoneta, Ohio - a private residential garden of artistically placed rocks and other objects.
Killdeer - noisy plover with black and white breast stripes. Reddish back. Found in fields, stony dry areas as well as around water.
The Killdeer, Charadrius vociferus, is a medium-sized plover.
Adults have a brown back and wings, a white belly, and a white breast with two black bands. The rump is tawny orange. The face and cap are brown with a white forehead. They have an orange-red eyering.
Their breeding habitat is open fields or lawns, often quite far from water, across most of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, with isolated populations in Costa Rica and Peru. They nest on the ground in an open area with a clear line of sight, or on a gravel roof.
They are migratory in northern areas and winter as far south as northern South America. They are rare vagrants to western Europe, usually late in the year.
These birds forage for food in fields, mudflats, and shores, usually by sight. They mainly eat insects.
Their name comes from their call, frequently heard. These birds will frequently use the "broken wing act" to distract predators from their nests. Their ability to exploit a wide range of agricultural and semi-urban habitat has helped keep them common and widespread in their range.
Patterned paper using a pen tablet and my own handwriting. Made for week 2 of "Pen Tablet Basics for Scrapbookers."
“Joy of winter“ vor dem Schloss Nymphenburg ... Original size ... Bavaria today
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