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Mr. Guss coined the phrase that that I'm a "meat & potatoes" shooter. It's not an insult, but a badge of honor I wear proudly. Don't get me wrong, I love all the imaginative and innovative shots I see, the drone stuff, and wild angles, and I try to think that way when I can. But my heart is as a plain old "wedgie" slide shooter. Give me great light, a nice train and some open space, and I love to get that meat and potatoes shot! Case in point is KCS' business train heading south at Lettsworth, La. It's wide open, there's low evening light, and the train looks great. "I'll have a side order of FP9s with that meat, please!"
The Bank of Canada and several other buildings were lit up this winter night in Montreal, Canada.
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The phrase "in the pink" has a rather more interesting origin than most people think. It is assumed to be associated with the "pink cheeks" of a healthy person. But according to this site: www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/in-the-pink.html there's no clear proof of that association. It's earliest origin seems to be associated with something of the 'highest quality', and it seems based on the period in question that the likely association comes from flowers (Dianthuses) popular at the time which were commonly referred to as "Pinks". This message brought to you by Fun Literate but Useless Facts for Friday (FLUFF).
Not many flowers growing at Zabriskie Point, but the pinks were plentiful at least for a few brief minutes. I've always liked this little wash that meanders through the 'badlands' type formations of Zabriskie. Zabriskie is quite a fascinating formation and just one of many cool features of Death Valley National Park.
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[...] The phrase "empty" is already a negation of itself, but one can not remain silent. The problem is to inform the silence, without leaving it. For this reason Zen avoids it as much as possible to take refuge in the language, and tries to make us penetrate behind the words that we speak - what is there - dig. Meister Eckhart does unstinting in his sermons.
He selects a few harmless words from the Bible and makes them a "home affairs" show that he experiences in his subconscious mind.
His idea is not in the words themselves, he turns them into instruments of his own intention.
Similarly, works with the Zen master of some things around him, including his own person, any trees, stones, sticks, etc He may then scream, hit or deal kicks. The main thing is it clear what is behind all these actions. In order to show that reality is "empty", he can stand still with hands folded over his chest. If him another question is asked, he might shake the tea plant, or go without a word of it or put the questioner a stick blow.
Sometimes the master of poetic and compares the spirit of the "emptiness" with the moon, it calls the "mind-moon" the moon or the Sun-safety-An old master of the Zen philosophy sings of the moon:
The moon is lonely and complete:
The light engulfs the ten thousand things
nor that the world exists of the things
Light, world, and things are gone,
and what remains - what is it?
The master leaves the question open. Would she answered, the moon would no longer there. Reality splits, and emptiness leads to emptiness.
We should not lose sight of the original moon, the primordial spirit-moon, and the master wants us to reflect on it, because with him we have started.
Emptiness is not empty space, it contains within itself infinite light, and all the diversity of the world, it absorbs it.
The Buddhist philosophy is the philosophy of "emptiness," the philosophy of self-identity. Self-identity is to be distinguished from mere identity.
For a mere identity, there are two objects that are found to be identical to each other, when there self-identity is only one object or subject, a single, and this one finds its identity by coming out of himself.
Self-identity thus includes movement. And we note: self-identity is Spirit, who goes out of itself, to see themselves mirrored in.
Self-identity is the logical substrate of pure knowledge, or of "emptiness".
In the self-identity, there are no contradictions. The Buddhists call it that So-heit. [...]
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[…] Die Aussage „leer“ ist bereits eine Verneinung ihrer selbst. Aber man kann nicht stumm bleiben. Das Problem ist, die Stille mitzuteilen, ohne sie zu verlassen. Aus diesem Grunde vermeidet Zen es soviel wie möglich, Zuflucht zur Sprache zu nehmen, und bemüht sich, uns hinter die Worte dringen zu lassen, damit wir gleichsam – was dort ist – auszugraben. Eckhart tut das unentwegt in seinen Predigten.
Er wählt einige harmlose Worte aus der Bibel und lässt sie ein „Inneres“ aufdecken, das er in seiner unbewussten Bewusstsein erfährt.
Sein Gedanke liegt keineswegs in den Worten selbst. Er macht sie zu Instrumenten seiner eigenen Absicht.
Auf ähnliche Weise bedient sich der Zen-Meister irgendwelcher Dinge um ihn herum, einschließlich der eigenen Person, irgendwelcher Bäume, Steine, Stöcke u.s.w. Er mag dann laut schreien, schlagen oder Fusstritte austeilen. Hauptsache es wird klar, was hinter all diesen Handlungen steckt. Um zu zeigen, dass die Wirklichkeit „Leere“ ist, kann er stillstehen mit gefalteten Händen über der Brust. Wenn ihm eine weitere Frage gestellt wird, mag er die Teepflanze schütteln oder wortlos davon gehen oder dem Frager einen Stockhieb versetzen.
Zuweilen ist der Meister poetischer und vergleicht den Geist der „Leere“ mit dem Mond, nennt ihn den „Geist-Mond“ oder den Mond der So-heit- Ein alter Meister der Zen-Philosophie singt von diesem Mond:
Der Mond ist einsam und vollendet:
Das Licht verschlingt die zehntausend Dinge,
noch dass die Welt der Dinge existiert,
Licht, Welt und Dinge sind dahin,
und das was bleibt – was ist´s?
Der Meister lässt die Frage offen. Würde sie beantwortet, wäre der Mond nicht mehr da. Wirklichkeit spaltet sich auf, und Leere mündet in Leere.
Wir sollten die Sicht auf den ursprünglichen Mond nicht verlieren, den uranfänglichen Geist-Mond, und der Meister möchte, dass wir uns auf ihn besinnen, denn bei ihm haben wir begonnen.
Leere ist nicht leerer Raum, in sich enthält sie unbegrenztes Licht, und alle Vielfalt der Welt nimmt sie in sich auf.
Die buddhistische Philosophie ist die Philosophie der „Leere“, die Philosophie der Selbst-Identität. Selbst-Identität ist zu unterscheiden von bloßer Identität.
Bei bloßer Identität gibt es zwei Objekte, die als miteinander identisch festgestellt werden, Bei der Selbst-Identität gibt es nur ein Objekt oder Subjekt, ein einziges, und dieses eine stellt seine Identität fest, indem es aus sich herausgeht.
Selbst-Identität schließt also Bewegung ein. Und wir stellen fest: Selbst-Identität ist Geist, der aus sich heraus geht, um in sich selbst gespiegelt zu sehen.
Selbst-Identität ist das logische Substrat reiner Erkenntnis oder von „Leere“.
In der Selbst-Identität gibt es keinerlei Widersprüche. Die Buddhisten nennen es So-heit. […]
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Source: D.T. Suzuki, „Der westliche und der östliche Weg“ (The Western and Eastern Weg),
Chapter: „Meister Eckhart und der Buddhismus“ (Meister Eckhart and the Buddhism)
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Introduction (Cover)
This book is a volume of "World Perspectives", which set the task to issue short writings of contemporary thinkers responsible in various areas.
The intention is to show fundamental new directions in the 'modern civilization, to interpret the creative forces that are in the east and west, at work, and the new consciousness to make clear that a deeper understanding of the interaction between man and the universe, can the individual and society and all nations shared values.
The "world outlook" represent the world community of ideas in a universal call, emphasizing the principle of unity of mankind, the continualness in the conversion.
Ullstein Publishing house - 1957
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I was able to pet this amazing Cheetah at the Ukutula Conservatory in South Africa.
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The historic Hercules Tugboat at the Maritime Museum in San Francisco, California. I added the old time photo effect.
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A photographer stands on the edge of the Higger Tor escarpment and the silhouette just reminds me of the phrase "chasing the light". Well I certainly got the light on this occasion as the sun dipped over the western horizon in the Peak District. I was precariously perched on the Kit Kat rocks looking along the escarpment as there was a photography workshop taking up the usual positions for sunset when I arrived there. So I was forced to improvise! These book end shaped rocks normally feature in sunrise shots as they are lit up by the dawn light. You can make out some other photographers on the far ridge near the setting sun.
My tripod was set at a strange angle just to get this shot and I was balancing shakily to utilise the live view on my camera. Good job it wasn't too windy up there. I have posted a portrait view of this scene, but I like this one and the photographer on the ridge helps make it more poignant.
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The caption is a phrase that has been used as the title for a myriad of novels, poems, essays and musical works. Its meaning (in various languages) has been discussed for almost 2000 years. This famous English version is from the New Testament portion of the King James Bible (1st Corinthians, 13:12). For links to uses of the phrase, see:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_a_Glass_Darkly.
What is seen, darkly, in the glass in my photo is a double-reflection of the house across the street from the one with the window. The morning sun, in a blue sky, was shining brightly and almost directly on the window. Consequently, the house across the street was in the shade. All of this, and the beauty of this old Alsace house, gave me a striking window image to shoot and share.
NB - If you look closely, you will see one of Alsace's little metal people who faithfully keep shutters open,
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A wonderful outside restaurant at the Gambao Rain Forest Resort on the Panama Canal in Panama. I saw monkeys, alligators, and lots of other animals and birds here.
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We saw many elephants in Kruger National Park in South Africa. I particularly liked these wonderful elephants.
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The architecture at the Imperial War Museum in London, England, is impressive. The museum is also full of impressive galleries from WW I, WW II, and more.
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View from our front porch last night... after mine and Miss A's very first game of hide-n-seek.. "ready or not, here i come" that phrase takes me back to my own childhood... :)
So often people will utter the phrase, "Wow, your camera takes good pictures!". Those who have never invested time/money/effort into photography will never know what it takes to simply "Get The Shot". This particular specimen was one that, with no joking, could have caused serious injury or death. What started out as a quick test climb to see if we could get above the code line quickly turned stressful upon realizing that there was no way back down, momentum and gravity would simply fling you at a rapid speed towards the boulders, cacti, and earth below. So we climbed. As I said out loud in between gasps for air, I now understand Sam and Frodo's journey up the side of Mount Doom to destroy the Ring of Power. After a tense moment scaling straight shale sides near the top, we reached a plateau with a gorgeous view. After shooting a few trains we hiked the long way to a less deadly but still potent drop off. We got the shot, but nearly at great cost! In other news, the town of Rock Springs can be seen in the background as a westbound grain train rolls along the gorgeous Wyoming countryside.
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Walking on the long pier on the Choptank River in Maryland.
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The Blue Whale display at the Museum of Natural History in London, United Kingdom. The exhibits and the architecture are both amazing here.
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There were not many people at the Great Wall of China at Mutianyu when I visited, so it made for great photos. The toboggan slide down the mountain from the wall is very from wall here too!
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{Note} some phrases from Gilson ({ The} Spirit of Medieval Philosophy30) on the Cistercian theology of love: (1) “Born of love, the whole universe is penetrated, moved, vivified from within, by love that circulates through it like life-giving blood through the body” (p. 276); 31 (2) “Human love, in spite of all its ignorance, blindness and even downright error, is always a participation in God’s own love for Himself.… even in the midst of the lowest pleasures, the most abandoned voluptuary is still seeking God” (p. 274); 32
“The question is then not how to acquire the love of God, but rather how to make it fully aware of itself, of its object, and of the way it should bear itself towards its object. In this sense the only difficulty is that of education, or, if you prefer, the re-education of love. The whole effort of Cistercian mysticism is therefore brought to bear on this point.” 33
-The life of the vows : initiation into the monastic tradition 6 / by Thomas Merton ; edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell ; preface by Augustine Roberts.
Artistic, vibrant red street lights outside of the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art in Ishøj, Copenhagen. Taken with a Canon 16-35mm lens at its widest.
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Life happens! I put the phrase into ChatGPT (an AI app on my phone) and it replied: “Indeed, life is full of surprises, challenges, and unexpected events.” Not bad, if that is all it said, but it continued: “It’s all about how we navigate through these changes and find meaning along the way.” Okay, that sounds positive-but incomplete. What is missing? In Today’s Gospel reading we get a clear answer- the gift of the Holy Spirit. On this Pentecost Sunday we are celebrating this “constant presence” within each one of us. This celebration is a deliberate and yearly reminder of how important this gift of the Holy Spirit is to our pilgrimage through life…our constant companion through the ups, the downs, the twist and turns.
Imagine with me, that you are one of the disciples, in the upper room. The doors are locked. They are afraid, because too much change is embracing them-they hold in tension both the passion of Christ and His glorious resurrection. It is too much to take in alone, so they do what they were taught by their Shepherd, they gather in community. It may be hot, stuffy and noisy in this room, but they are together. Suddenly, “Jesus came and stood in their midst.” HE say’s to them “Peace be with You.” HE shows them HIS hands and the wound on HIS side. He then repeats “Peace be with You.” The disciples rejoice.
What Jesus says next is profound, our mission and purpose is made clear, and we are given the gift of companionship to carry it out. Listen carefully…
“As the Father has sent me, so I send you."
And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,
"Receive the Holy Spirit.”
In our first reading from the Act of the Apostles, we hear about the details of this momentous event. The physical effects of hearing, feeling, and seeing-this manifestation of the Holy Spirit flowing across the room and bursting out into a broken world-a new creation has been unleashed…and we are still feeling and experiencing the effects today.
What do we gain individually from this event? Our first personal encounter happened at our own Pentecost-our confirmation. Our purpose becomes clear and are echoed in Jesus’ words “so I send you.” Where are we being sent? Life happens! We respond by living out our purpose! At our baptism we are given a candle that is lite from the Easter candle, it is a visible sign of what we have received…the reality of God’s constant presence burning within each of us.
Blessed are those who have an awareness of the presence of the Trinity within. This precious gift is the light by which we navigate through life. We are never alone! Our very lives become a constant prayer. We are not afraid of change, and we understand that because of change we grow. We learn to navigate life because God is our constant companion guiding us in the rough waters of life-a deep peace confirms it.
A few weeks ago, life made sense to me, but a phone call from the diocese changed everything. I wasn’t seeking this change, but it found me anyway and that is how the mystery of God works. The change is here, and this is my last day serving as your deacon. I have mixed feelings-and feel as though I am leaving something’s undone.
We have been through so much together. I remember my first Sunday with you-which included donuts and coffee. I felt a peaceful and warm embrace. COVID soon after, shut down our Church. As a community, we navigated this wave of uncertainty and we adapted. Who would dream that Mass would be streamed on the internet, but we did it-and that is how the Holy Spirit works in our community.
As your deacon, I had the privilege of greeting you at mass, baptizing your children, visiting our homebound, participating in weddings and saying goodbye to parishioners who left our sight. We have learned and taught each other. What a gift you have been to me. You are our spiritual family- Rocio and I will miss you all. Together, we say thank you for inviting us into your community.
In the Lord’s Prayer, we pray that God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven. As his followers, we should understand that this means whether we recognize or understand HIS will in any given situation-HIS will “will be done. We often-hear the phrase that “Life Happens,” and a natural result is that we are flooded with various emotions: fear, excitement, joy, and sadness. On such occasions, may we hear the soft voice of our Shepherd the words “Peace be with You.”
This lonely dog was just hanging out on the corner in Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay. This historic part of the city has a lot of historic Portuguese and Spanish architecture.
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One of my friends' cat wearing the Lion's custom but very cute.
很多人喜歡幫貓咪，戴獅子的頭套，雖然都是貓科動物，但是貓咪實在太可愛了，完全沒有獅子的雄壯威武^^"
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The Moon out at last light in Gran Canaria. High ISO and wide aperture, focusing on the clothes peg with the moon blurred out in the distance.
This container ship was heading out of the Port of Miami when I caught this shot before the storm rolled into the city.
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You may have heard the phrase “sleep with one eye open.” While it’s usually meant as a metaphor about protecting yourself, you may wonder if it’s actually possible to sleep with one eye open and one closed.
There are a variety of medical conditions that may make it impossible to close your eyes when you sleep. Some of these may lead to sleeping with one eye open and one eye closed.
Unihemispheric sleep is when one half of the brain sleeps while the other is awake. It mostly happens in risky situations, when some sort of protection is necessary.
Unihemispheric sleep is most common in certain aquatic mammals (so they can keep swimming while they sleep) and birds (so they can sleep on migratory flights).
There’s some evidence that humans have unihemispheric sleep in new (or risky) situations. In sleep studies, data shows that one brain hemisphere is in less deep sleep than the other during the first night of the new situation.
Because one-half of the brain is awake in unihemispheric sleep, the eye on the side of the body that the awake hemisphere of the brain controls may stay open during sleep.
The tunnel from the main building at the Congress Center Leipzig (Convention center) and the main hall has some awesome patterns.
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Winter in the old town part of Montreal, Canada, is a bit cold, but when the snow starts melting and it starts warming up, it is the place to be. There are lots of puddles though.
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The color green represents envy and jealousy. The phrase "green with envy" is a fairly common saying that is said to come from Shakespeare's metaphorical use of color in both Othello and The Merchant of Venice. In Othello, Iago uses "green-eyed monster" to describe the jealousy that threatens to drive Othello mad.
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It's hard not to be distracted by all the graffiti on the walls...
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When we hear the phrase “first impression,” we tend to think of a person. Was the politician I recently voted for as inspiring when I heard his first speech as he was years later? (More so, sadly.) Was the girl that I married as beautiful at 13 as she was years later, in her twenties and thirties? (Yes, and yes.) Did Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind send more of a shiver down my spine in 1963 than it did when I heard it drifting from a car radio 45 years later? (No. It stops me dead in my tracks every time I hear it.)
It’s not just people that make first impressions on me. Cities do, too, perhaps because I encountered so many of them while my family moved every year throughout my childhood. Or perhaps it’s because, after seeing so many cities that I thought were different in the United States, I was so completely unprepared for the wild variety of sights and sounds and smells that I encountered as a grown man, when I traveled to Europe and South America, to Africa and Asia and Australia. And even today, there are cities that I’m visiting for the first time, and which continue to take me by surprise.
Athens is one of those cities. I don’t know what I was expecting… Something old, of course, something downright ancient, filled with smashed statues and marble columns like Rome, engraved with unreadable inscriptions in a language I never learned — but probably not as ancient as Cairo. Something hot and noisy and polluted and smelly, perhaps like Calcutta or the slums of Mumbai. Something gridlocked with noisy, honking traffic congestion, perhaps like Moscow.
What I didn’t expect was the wide, nearly-empty highways leading from the airport into the city. I didn’t expect the cleanliness of the tree-lined streets that ran in every direction. I did expect the white-washed buildings and houses that climbed the hills that surround the city — but the local people told me that buildings in Athens were positively gray compared to what I would have seen if I had stayed longer and ventured out to the Greek islands.
I also didn’t expect the graffiti that covered nearly every wall, on every building, up and down every street. They were mostly slogans and phrases in Greek (and therefore completely unintelligible to me), but with occasional crude references in English to IMF bankers, undercover policemen, a politician or two, and the CIA. There were a couple slogans from the Russian revolution of 1917, from the Castro uprising in Cuba, and even from the American revolution (“united we stand, divided we fall.”)
Naturally, I thought all of this had come about in just the past few months, as Greece has wrestled with its overwhelming financial crisis. But I was told by local citizens that much of the graffiti has been around for quite a bit longer than that – just as it has been in cities like New York and London. Some of it was wild and colorful, with cartoon figures and crazy faces … though I don’t think it quite rises to the level of “street art” that one sees in parts of SoHo, Tribeca, and the East Village in New York. What impressed me most about the graffiti in Athens was its vibrant energy; I felt like the artists were ready to punch a hole through the walls with their spray-cans.
These are merely my own first impressions; they won’t be the same as yours. Beyond that, there are a lot of facts, figures, and details if one wants to fully describe a city like Athens. Its recorded history spans some 3,400 years, and it includes the exploits of kings and generals, gods and philosophers, athletes and artists. There are statues and columns and ruins everywhere; and towering above it all is the breath-taking Acropolis. It’s far too rich and complex for me to describe here in any reasonable way; if you want to know more, find some books or scan the excellent Wikipedia summary.
It’s also hard to figure out what one should photograph on a first visit to a city like Athens. It’s impossible not to photograph the Acropolis, especially since it’s lit at night and visible from almost every corner of the city. I was interested in the possibility of photographing the complex in the special light before dawn or after sunset, but it’s closed to visitors except during “civilized” daytime hours. It’s also undergoing extensive renovations and repair, so much of it is covered in scaffolding, derricks, and cranes. In the end, I took a few panorama shots and telephoto shots, and explored the details by visiting the new Acropolis Museum, with the camera turned off.
Aside from that, the photos you’ll see here concentrate on two things: my unexpected “first impression” of the local graffiti, and my favorite of all subjects: people. In a couple cases, the subjects are unmistakably Greek – Greek orthodox priests, for example – and in a couple cases, you might think you were looking at a street scene in São Paulo or Mexico City. But in most of the shots, you’ll see examples of stylish, fashionable, interesting people that don’t look all that much different from the people I’ve photographed in New York, London, Rome, or Paris. Maybe we can attribute that to the homogenization of fashion and style in today’s interconnected global environment. Or maybe we can just chalk it up to the fact that people are, well … interesting … wherever you go.
In any case, enjoy. And if you get to Athens yourself, send me some photos of your own first impressions.
Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere
The phrase "in Trastevere" (beyond the Tiber) describes the neighborhood of Rome in which the Basilica of Santa Maria is located. In ancient times, the neighborhood was mainly inhabited by immigrants, sailors, fishermen, and retired soldiers. Before Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (306–337 AD) decriminalized Christian worship by issuing the Edict of Milan in 313, Christian worship took place in "tituli"--private "house churches" that were sometimes named for the priest designated by church authorities as the patron. The original house church in this site was founded in 220 by Pope Callixtus I, who died in 222; and it became known as "Titulus Callisti."
The oratory of the house church that Pope Callixtus I proposed to build at this location necessitated displacement of part of the "Taberna meritoria" (a tavern and refuge for retired soldiers). This created a dispute between Christians and tavern-keepers. The new and young Roman Emperor Alexander Severus (approximately 14 years old)--not himself a Christian--settled the dispute in favor of the Christians, reportedly declaring, "I prefer that it should belong to those who honor God, whatever be their form of worship." Implicit in the young emperor's ruling, Christian worship in the church was known about and allowed 93 years before such worship's official decriminilization in 313's Edict of Milan. This then became one of the first locations (perhaps the very first location) of imperially permitted Christian worship in Rome.
According to inscriptions in the basilica, the original structure was rebuilt and enlarged in 340, restored in the 5th and 8th centuries, then re-erected on its old foundations in 1140-1143. The remains of Pope Callixtus I are preserved under the altar.
The central nave down which this photo looks, is built on the original floor plan. It is bounded on the sides by an assortment of granite columns that were taken from various ancient Roman ruins.
“The paths taken by strollers consist of a series of turnings and returnings that can be likened to “turns of phrase” or “stylistic devices”. A perambulatory rhetoric does exist. The art of “turning” a phrase has its counterpart in the art of “turning” course.”
By Michel de Certeau
The blue VW stood out in the old section of Bremen, Germany.
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Colorful fishing boats and tall ships line the harbor at Nyhavn in Copenhagen, Denmark. The restaurants here are all fantastic also!
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The seven-year itch is a popular belief, that happiness in a marriage or long-term romantic relationship declines after around seven years.
The phrase was used in the title of the play The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod, and gained popularity following the 1955 film adaptation starring Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell.
The notion of a husband cheating on his wife was considered a completely unacceptable action onscreen during the 1950’s. It was a time when the censors had a field day deciding what they believed was morally accepted. That is why The Seven Year Itch (1955) succeeded and failed at the same time as a film. It failed because Director Billy Wilder was hamstrung by film censor rules and a moral code of decency. Wilder always personally felt that his vision for the film was unjustly compromised. But it succeeded because the forced changes allowed it to play out as a wonderful comedy/fantasy film, teasing the audience about infidelity without actually going too far unlike the stage play it was based on, which actually showed the husband cheating on his wife. For Wilder, who was known for pushing the envelope, by showing themes no one else would dare do, it was a compromise that he eventually accepted and surprisingly for him payed dividends.
The scene in the film, where Marilyn stood over a subway grate and her white dress blew up in the air by a train passing underneath made cinematic history.
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The historic and amazing Strahov Monastery Library in Prague, Czech Republic.
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