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L'église dédiée à Saint François-Xavier a été construite par les Jésuites sur la place de la mairie de la vieille ville de Kaunas en Lituanie
Deux fontaines symétriques représentant Neptune et Amphitrite sont disposées dans les angles qui relient les basses faces aux pavillons latéraux. Elles sont dans un style rococo qui rompt avec l'architecture classique de la place.
I've been in the succulent greenhouse. It's not very exciting there, cacti and all that. But when I saw this plant through the branches, I had to make a pictures.
Le Mans se trouve à la confluence des rivières de la Sarthe et de l'Huisne. Ancienne capitale provinciale du Maine et du Perche à partir du xvie siècle, elle voit le mariage de Geoffroy V d'Anjou et Mathilde l'Emperesse, fille du roi d'Angleterre, jetant ainsi les bases de l'Empire Plantagenêt, et la naissance d'Henri II. Le vieux Mans, dénommé Cité Plantagenêt, est le quartier historique de la ville.
Antiche strutture.
La chiesa dedicata a Sant'Audoeno di Rouen fu costruita intorno al 1190 dagli anglo-normanni, appena arrivati in Irlanda. Come molte chiese medioevali, aveva un cimitero, oggi diventato parco, dove furono seppelliti diverse importante figure, tra cui alcuni vescovi e politici della città. È considerata come la chiesa più antica di Dublino oggi dedicata al rito anglicano, mentre al suo fianco ne sorge una più moderna per il rito cattolico romano. Guarda il timelapse in 4k nel link di seguito.
Ancient structures.
The church dedicated to St. Audoen of Rouen was built around 1190 by the anglo-normans, that had recently arrived in Ireland . As many other medieval churches it had a cemetery, today a park, were many important figures were buried, from bishops to lord mayors of Dublin. It is considered the oldest church of Dublin, today dedicated to the Anglican rite, while adjacent there is a modern church dedicated to the Roman Catholic rite. Check the 4k timelapse in the link below.
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I went to the Falkirk Wheel to get this shot a while back, but at the time it was closed fro maintenance. Anyway decided to go again yesterday on way back from Dunkeld.
On a very prominent hilltop site on Morgan's Hill, the Furze Knoll is a circular ring of trees which dominates the landscape between Devizes and Calne. I am not sure how old the wood is or if it has ever held any religious or spiritual significance.
This location marks the hydrological triple divide of Great Britain, where rainfall drains into the English Channel (via this River Avon), the Atlantic Ocean (via the Bristol Avon and Severn Estuary) and the North Sea (via the Kennet and Thames).
The site has an interesting history in radio communications. A Marconi Imperial Wireless Chain receiving station was built on the south-east slopes of the hill in 1913, as the receiving station for the Leafield transmission station in Oxfordshire. The structure was converted to military use in 1916, used to determine the position of German Zeppelins and communication stations.
In 1919 the General Post Office and the Marconi Company agreed to convert the receiving station into Britain's first long-range maritime communications station. The station opened in 1920 with the callsign 'GKT' and was equipped with a six-kilowatt valve transmitter and a receiver. In 1924 a second mast with callsign 'GKU' was added. Then by 1926, Britain's first short-wave maritime transmitter was added. By 1929 the site was proving too small and over the subsequent six years it was replaced by the seashore site at Portishead outside Bristol. The site is still heavily used for communications transmitters.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have put together a detailed map of a rare collision between four galaxy clusters. Eventually all four clusters – each with a mass of at least several hundred trillion times that of the Sun -- will merge to form one of the most massive objects in the universe.
Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the cosmos that are held together by gravity. Clusters consist of hundreds or even thousands of galaxies embedded in hot gas, and contain an even larger amount of invisible dark matter. Sometimes two galaxy clusters collide, as in the case of the Bullet Cluster, and occasionally more than two will collide at the same time.
The new observations show a mega-structure being assembled in a system called Abell 1758, located about 3 billion light-years from Earth. It contains two pairs of colliding galaxy clusters that are heading toward one another. Scientists first recognized Abell 1758 as a quadruple galaxy cluster system in 2004 using data from Chandra and XMM-Newton, a satellite operated by the European Space Agency (ESA).
Each pair in the system contains two galaxy clusters that are well on their way to merging. In the northern (top) pair seen in the composite image, the centers of each cluster have already passed by each other once, about 300 to 400 million years ago, and will eventually swing back around. The southern pair at the bottom of the image has two clusters that are close to approaching each other for the first time.
X-rays from Chandra are shown as blue and white, depicting fainter and brighter diffuse emission, respectively. This new composite image also includes an optical image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The Chandra data revealed for the first time a shock wave -- similar to the sonic boom from a supersonic aircraft -- in hot gas visible with Chandra in the northern pair's collision. From this shock wave, researchers estimate two clusters are moving about 2 million to 3 million miles per hour (3 million to 5 million kilometers per hour), relative to each other.
This year, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory celebrates its 20th year in space exploring the extreme universe.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/G.Schellenberger et al.; Optical:SDSS
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