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Understanding rover mobility by NASA Glenn Research Center

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Rafael Mariano Grossi (05310261) by IAEA Imagebank

Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, wave farewell to his counterparts Luo Zhaohui, Chairman, CIDCA and HE Mr Wang Qun, Resident Representative of China to the IAEA, present virtually at the recently concluded Memorandum of Understanding Signing Agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 14 October 2021.

Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA

CIDCA (Virtual):

Luo Zhaohui, Chairman, China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA)

HE Mr Wang Qun, Resident Representative of China to the IAEA

IAEA:

Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General

Hua Liu, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Technical Cooperation

Jane Gerardo-Abaya, IAEA Director, Division for Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation

Shota Kamishima, Senior Coordination Officer, Director General Office for Coordination

Diego Candano Laris, Senior Advisor to the Director General

Ruzanna Harman, IAEA Chief of Protocol

Understanding trends 1 by Michelle Drew

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Snapped this beautiful arrangement of scarves!

Würzburg, Bavaria (Germany), Augustinerkirche, la chiesa dell'Ordine di Sant'Agostino, la iglesia de la Orden de San Agustín, l'église des Augustins, Church of the Augustinians (Dominikanerplatz) by Josef Lex (El buen soldado Švejk)

(more pictures can be seen by clicking on the link at the end of page!)

St. Augustine's Church (Würzburg )

Look at the portal of the Church of St. Augustine

The St. Augustine's Church is a Catholic church building in Würzburg. The monastery church of the Augustinian Order is located in the city center, between Dominikanergasse and Dominikanerplatz.

History

Vault design to 2011

Altarpiece

With the construction of the Augustinian church in Würzburg was started in 1266 by order of the Dominicans, who lived in Würzburg since 1227. The Gothic building was completed in 1308.

1741 Balthasar Neumann got the order to remodel the church in baroque style. He had the Gothic nave completely demolished and created a baroque building which he combined with the Baroque style choir/apse area.

In the year 1813 the since 1263 in Würzburg based Augustinians (Hermits) had to move out of their monastery (on the site of today's police headquarters) and they occupied the vacant Dominican monastery.

Due to the bombing raid on Würzburg on 16 March 1945, the church lost almost all of its interior trim.

Since then the church has been renovated several times and redesigned the baroque orientation of the church being retained. It was not until the recent redesign (September 2010 - November 2011) as it was deviated from this by being transposed the communion model as a space- defining concept. The theological idea behind the transformation is the understanding of the Church as a "discipleship of equals", which is formulated in Galatians 3:28. "Among you there is no difference between Jews and Greeks, free ones and slaves, husband and wife". This idea finds its implementation, among others, in the following points:

In the Augustinian church not a single seat is reserved for someone because of his position, which he/she plays in worship. There is accordingly no priest seat.

The by 1720 by Jacob van der Auvera created Virgin Mary represents Mary, as it was then already about 200 years common, as queen with crown and at the same time barefoot standing on the floor. Here are two incompatible states united in one figure and thereby dissolved.

The 2011 by Thomas Hildenbrand created Augustine figure in the choir stalls of the Church represents the father of the Order of Augustinians as brother and creator of the monastic rule, however, without any ecclesiastical decorations (crosier and ring; mitre).

The 2011 by Jacques Gassmann created Way of the Cross accentuates - as any station of the cross - the voluntary renunciation of status (Phil 2:6-11).

The high altar painting "New Jerusalem" by Jacques Gassmann refers to Apk 21f, in which the new Jerusalem is described as a city where the streets are made of pure gold and the gates of each a pearl. The foundations of the city are decorated with precious stones. Assuming that in antiquity special jewelry served the presentation of honor and status, it becomes clear: In the new Jerusalem there are no differences in status anymore, since the material that has been used (gold, precious stones, pearls) to create the status marker, pure construction material is.

The Augustinian Church Würzburg with this concept inquires the classification in categories of God's people in clergy and laity as well as the obvious talk of the church as a hierarchical organization.

Organ

Overlooking the main organ

The Augustinian church has a three-part organ-system: On the west gallery is the main organ in the choir, the choir organ. Both instruments were built in 1995/1996 by the organ builder Klais: the main organ with 69 stops on four manuals and pedal, the choir organ with 14 stops on two manuals and pedal. In the course of the restoration of the church was in a blind window niche an English high pressure equipment errected (tubes work) and the dispositions of principal and choir organ slightly changed. The main organ now has 57 registers on three manuals and pedal.

I Hauptwerk C -a3

Praestant 16 '

Principal 8 '

Gamba 8 '

Double Flute 8 '

Bourdon 8 '

Octave 4 '

Recorder 4 '

Quinte 22/3 '

Superoctave 2 '

Mixture major IV 2 '

Minor mixture III 11/3 '

Cornet III- V 22/3 '

Bombard 16 '

Trompette 8 '

Chamade 8 '

Chamade 4 '

II solo work C -a3

Suavial 8 '

Salicional 8 '

Flute 8

Octave 4 '

Flauto Amabile 4 '

Mixture IV 2 '

8 'Clarinet

Cromorne 8 '

Celesta

tremulant

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Tuba 16 '

Tuba 8 '

Tuba 4 '

III Swell C -a3

Sweetly Gedackt 16 '

Horn 8 'Principal

Viola da Gamba 8 '

Aeoline 8 '

Reed flute 8 '

Violin Principal 4 '

Flute 4 '

Nasard 22/3 '

Flageolet 2 '

Third 13/5 '

Progressio III -IV 22/3 '

Basson 16 '

Harmonique Trompette 8 '

Hautbois 8 '

Harmonique Clairon 4 '

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Großbordun 64 '

Under 32 '

Principal Bass 16 '

Salicetbass 16 '

Subbass 16 '

Quinte 102/3 '

Octavbass 8 '

Cello 8 '

Hollow flute 8 '

Choral Flute 4 '

Aliquot III 51/3 '

Contra Trombone 32 '

Trombone 16 '

Bassoon 16 '

Trumpet 8 '

Clarine 4 '

Couplers: II / I, III / I, IV / I, III / II , IV / II , IV / III , I / P , II / P III / P IV / P

The choir organ has 15 stops on two manuals and pedal today. The organ can allude from the main organ, the manual divisions can be coupled together to the Manual IV of the main organ .

I choir organ Hauptwerk C -a3

Principal 8 '

Viola 8 '

Augustina 8 '

Fugara 4 '

Flauto 4 '

Forest Flute 2 '

Mixture II 2 '

II choir organ echo chamber C -a3

Gedackt 8 '

Aeoline 8 '

Violin 4 '

Harmonia Aetheria III 22/3 '

Vox humana 8 '

tremulant

Choir organ pedal C- g1

Echo Bass 16 '

Open Bass 8 '

Trombone 8 '

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Understanding Weather by Richard Weston

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Cover design by: Derek Birdsall

Understanding... Arty things of 2day... by Bethel

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I've crocheted my Mum a new cover for a little pillow her eldest great-Granddaughter gave her, as the original cover is becoming a little tatty & Mum loves it.

It's just that good little size for propping up an arm or just adding height while sitting in bed or in her chair etc...

I wonder if Mum, as a 95 year old, will understand my aryty choice of buttons to finish her pillow case off with as I remember she would wait weeks to get the exact same size, shape & colour buttons for her projects... I wonder if she will think this choice is a bit remiss of me...

Understanding and revelation by Lynchburg Virginia

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“Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”

― Emily Dickinson

Smiling and understanding by f & b

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Group Discussion (05810758) by IAEA Imagebank

Closing session of the International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 13 December 2018

Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA

Maaike Arts

Lawrence Grummer-Strawn

Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Director, Division for Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation

Cornelia Loechl, IAEA Section Head, Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies

Felix Stenschke raising a point by International Transport Forum

Felix Stenschke, Head of the Directorate for Waterways in the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, speaks at the Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation and Extreme Events: Ensuring Network Performance in a Changing World during the 2014 Summit on "Transport for a Changing World" of the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany, on May 21.

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Wien, 1. Bezirk, Burgring/Bellariastraße/Museumstraße, Naturhistorisches Museum, Natural History Museum Vienna, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle Vienne, Museo de Historia Natural de Viena, Museo di storia naturale (Vienna), Muzeum Historii Naturalnej by alfred lex

History of the Museum

Scientific research and gathering in Austria found relatively late understanding and promotion. Indeed contained the chambers of art and curiosities of the Habsburgs also natural produce but for a long time they have been regarded as mere oddities, not as objects of scientific importance. It was not until Emperor Franz I. (Francis Stephen of Lorraine, 1745-1765), the husband of Maria Theresia, founded in 1748 with the purchase of the famous collection of Johann Baillous a private Naturalienkabinett. It was put up in accordance to Baillous' own scientific system in the Hofburg and was initially managed by this self.

The main emphasis was put on minerals and fossils as well as snail and mussel shells and corals. Plants and animals with soft parts were then (mainly because of the preparation problems) yet little appreciated as collector's items. They were held alive in botanical gardens and menageries.

After the death of Francis I the collection in which the Emperor had invested large sums of money was transferred into state ownership, reorganized and made twice a week accessible to the public. 1776 appointed Maria Theresa, particularly dear to her being mainly the earth sciences as a basis for mining and industry, the excellent mineralogist and montanist Ignaz von Born to Vienna and entrusted him with the systematic expansion of the collection. Born was a leader of the Enlightenment and Freemasonry, he might even have given the model for Sarastro in Mozart's "Magic Flute". With him for "Austria", definitely, dawned the scientific-technological age. The Naturalienkabinett (a cabinet of curiosities) then became a center of mineralogical research in Europe.

The nature-loving Emperor Franz II (I, 1792-1835) expanded the natural history collection for a private animal cabinet. The foundation for this were the trophies of the Habsburgs, which date back to Emperor Maximilian II (1564-1576), as well as the famous collection of prepared native vertebrates and insects of the falconer Joseph Natterer. After several reclassifications followed in 1807 the foundation of a separate plants cabinet. The Emperor lay with the gift of his Privatherbars (private plant collection) the foundation.

The exhibition practice around 1800 was marked by an often curious juxtaposition of little scientific and very progressive tendencies. The stuffed animals were shown in artificial landscape dioramas, ie already in ecological context. Alongside, however, stood also Stopfpräparate (stuffed compounds) of people of non-native breeds such as the "high princely Moor' Angelo Soliman, who came to literary fame.

The eminent scholar and organizer Carl Schreibers who from 1806 until 1851 headed the Natural History Collection, provided for key reforms in all areas. He extented all departments to major research centers and was supported not only by the museum officials, but also by a number of often highly skilled, unpaid volunteers.

On the occasion of the marriage of his daughter Leopoldina with the Brazilian crown prince Dom Pedro in 1817 sent Emperor Franz also well-known researchers to South America. Through their collecting activities, the growth of the museum's experienced a glorious climax. So stayed the zoologist Johann Natterer for 18 years in South America and established an in an exemplary manner documented collection of scientific and ethnographic objects for Vienna. This contributed significantly to the worldwide reputation of the museum, but also led to a decades-long lack of space.

With various, not always felicitous chosen emergency solutions on tried in vain to handle space problems sussesfully. During the revolutionary turmoil of 1848, the Imperial Palace was bombarded by imperial troops and partially set on fire. A part of the collection was destroyed, tragically, also many irreplaceable objects from the Brazilian material.

In the years after the Revolution, the collection was converted into an independent zoological, botanical and mineralogical Hofkabinett (Court cabinet). These cabinets with their extremely rich stocks offered not only ideal possibilities to explore, they contributed to the establishment of scientific disciplines in the university sector in 1870 also considerably to the formation of young scientists. The collections have been enhanced through exchange and purchases, by the collecting activities of the researchers as well as legacies, especially of scientifically inclined travelers, constantly . In addition, the by the Imperial Court generously funded cooperation with the Austrian navy became very important: Especially the circumnavigation of the world of the frigate "Novara" (1857-1859), which was attended by numerous excellent naturalist, gave an exceedingly rich collection of new material to the museum. The scientific word off should take decades.

This scientific Poiniergeist (pioneering spirit), reflecting the general belief in progress in the second half of the 18th Century, was facing the more and more oppressive need of space. Although Emperor Franz Joseph had already in 1857 the razing of the fortification lines around the city center ordered. On the cleared area should along a boulevard alongside other representative public buildings also new museums emerge. Up to the completion of this project, however, it was still a long way to go.

The liberal bourgeoisie then undergoing a steep political and economic upswing was inclined to replace the old cabinets through research and education centers for broad strata of the population and thus make its own cultural advancement clearly visible. But the neo-absolutist empire of the gradually decaying Habsburg monarchy, too, wanted erect itself a modern, artistically accomplished monument: A monumental Imperial Forum following the ancient example was planned, that should be reaching from the Imperial Palace to the royal stables. Realized of it was only a torso: the New Castle and Maria Theresa Square with Museum of Art History and Museum of Natural History.

The internal organization of the new 'Imperial and Royal Natural History Court Museum", which on 10 August was officially opened in 1889, goes back to the great geologist, New Zealand researcher and first director of the museum, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, and has been preserved largely in its clear systematic today. However, the proliferation of resources and new demands on the research and display collection activities required new spatial and structural solutions. Thus, an underground storage was created in 1990, which extends under the building on four levels and in fully air-conditioned rooms keeps a portion of the collection material. Due to the roof extension (1991 to 1995) further collection, but also numerous new working rooms were gained.

The research, the preservation and completing of the major scientific collections and the presentation of selected natural objects to this day have not lost any of their topicalities. In a time of increasingly rapid destruction of our environment, they are more important than ever. Just as the white patches have become smaller on the map, penetrates the science into ever smaller areas. Long scanning electron microscope and X-ray equipment have replaced hand magnifier. In the permanent exhibition area visitors also have access to advanced optical devices, especially in "Microcosmos" ( Hall 21). The preservation of collection, too, follows modern conservation knowledge.

Over a century ago, the Museum hace been created for the systematic presentation - the diversity of nature sorted strung together, the palace-like building, the interplay of means and objects as well as the historic atmosphere giving it a distinctive character.

Even with the redesign of many exhibition halls systematic classification was basically retained to make the visitors aware of the immense diversity of life. However, the presentation is successively adapted to the museological requirements and needs of the 21st century. Also presented are interesting topics and new contents in a contemporary didactic form.

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Understanding Pathophysiology - ANZ Adaptation - Craft, Gordon & Tiziani by Elsevier Health Solutions Asia Pacific

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Pathophysiology is a complex, though essential, component of all undergraduate nursing courses and there is an identified need for a text tailored specifically for the Australian and New Zealand student. The entrenched bio-medical terminology can often be difficult to relate to nursing practice. To overcome this, the authors have presented pathophysiology in an accessible manner appropriate to undergraduate students, providing a balance between science, clinical case material and pharmacology.

This adaptation prioritises the diseases relevant to nursing students and presents them according to their prevalence and rate of incidence in Australia and New Zealand. This focused approach prepares students for the presentations they will experience in a clinical setting.

Each body system is explored first by structure and function, then by alteration.This establishes the physiology prior to addressing the diseases relative to the system and allows the student to analyse and compare the normal versus altered state. A lifespan approach is incorporated in the Alterations chapters, as each chapter addresses childhood diseases through to the aged with respect to each body system.

A new section on Contemporary Health Issues examines the effects of an aging population and lifestyle choices on the overall health of our society. These are explored through specific chapters on Stress; Genes and the Environment; Obesity and Diabetes; Cancer; Mental Illness and Indigenous health issues.

Concept maps are used to assist students to understand the basic concepts of each chapter and are used as a foundation for more complex discussions. Clinical case studies are also included in each chapter to bring pathophysiology into practice. Each patient case study will highlight relevant symptoms of a given disease within a clinical setting. This is analysed with respect to the relevancy of each given symptom, their respective affect on body systems and the best course of pharmacological treatment.

This adaptation of Understanding Pathophysiology 4e by Huether & McCance builds on the strengths of the US edition while tailoring it to the specific needs of Australia and New Zealand undergraduate nursing students. As such it is an invaluable text which will compliment your suite of Elsevier nursing titles.

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Joe Knowles and His 1925 Rickenbacker Vertical Eight Superfine by A.Davey

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Sometimes a single image can change one's understanding of a person, place or thing.

Here, seeing a photo of Joe Knowles standing next to his car, one of the most advanced vehicles of the era, transformed my view of the pioneering reality star who was known in his day as The Nature Man from coast to coast.

Yes, Americans are notorious for living beyond their means, and that may have been the case here. Or perhaps Joe Knowles was just enjoying the rewards of his hard work.

As newspapers of the era liked to point out, Joe Knowles became famous for his ability to abandon the trappings of civilization and survive in the wilderness, but he was equally well adapted to the comforts and luxuries of city living.

Proving a point about humankind's ingenuity under primitive conditions was Knowles' passion, but he was also a hard-working entrepreneur and promoter. This photo suggests that Knowles not only made good money but was able to hang onto it.

As soon as Knowles returned from the forests of the Siskiyous in 1914, he began making personal appearances in Oregon and California to demonstrate his survival skills. In time he added a tame bear to his act. Then he landed a movie deal that took him back to the Siskiyous, There, his encounters with a cougar and perilous rapids put him back in the headlines.

Turning up In New York, Knowles announced the next chapter in his wilderness adventures: he would mentor two intrepid women in his woodcraft! To prove he was serious, Knowles sat for a publicity photo with the two "Eves" that graced the pages of many a publication.

This twist was hardly surprising. By then, several women had already made their own bids for the limelight by publicly professing their intention to emulate The Nature Man on their own. Almost from the outset, the press had evinced a coy preoccupation over how Knowles's female imitators might be attired on Day One. Victorian prudishness had receded far enough by the teens of the 1900s that reporters could write that Knowles planned to enter the forest nude, though not far enough that they could publish photos of Knowles in the altogether. Today, some might call that state of affairs titillating.

The story behind Joe Knowles' announcement that Elaine Hammerstein (a cousin of the hugely famous Oscar Hammerstein II) would be joining him in the Adirondacks for a reprise of his earlier exploits in the woods is surely worthy of a movie. Nothing in Elaine's basic biography even hints that such a feat might have interested her. Nothing more appeared about the project in the New York press after the splash of the announcement. An item in a Western newspaper reported that an early winter had forced the two of them to call off their plans. Joe himself said that Elaine found her grass skirt not up to the challenge of keeping her warm.

When America's entry into the Great War in 1917 muted the public's enthusiasm for Joe Knowles' nature act, he reinvented himself as the West's leading instructor on woodlore at scout gatherings.

It was his first such event that brought him to the North Beach Peninsula for the first time around 1916. By 1917 Joe Knowles had settled in the village of Seaview, where was immediately hailed as a regional celebrity and accomplished artist. In other words, he was the classic local character. Knowles was famous for being famous, making him a celebrity, but unlike many of that ilk, he had solid accomplishments to his name. By then, "Knowles" had entered the American lexicon as a metaphor for nudity or a penchant for roughing it.

His stature led him to secure numerous commissions, including a series of murals in 1924 for the newest theater in Astoria, Oregon, which was just then rebuilding its downtown after a devastating fire. That year he also painted portraits of the chief justices of the Supreme Courts of Oregon and Washington. The former was received with great fanfare in the press and in real life.

It's at that juncture that we catch up with Joe Knowles standing next to his flashy new car in Portland. This was as much a publicity shot for Knowles as it was for the auto dealership.

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About the Rickenbacker Vertical Eight Superfine

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By

David Conwill

Updated

August 27, 2024

in Classics, Hemmings Classic Car, Magazine

Too Much, Too Soon – 1925 Rickenbacker Vertical Eight Superfine

The creative genius of car enthusiasts and the cold calculations of businessmen are the age-old yin and yang of the automobile industry. Think of the car enthusiast as an artist, driven to create the purest expression of his or her vision in steel, glass, and rubber–regardless of expense. The businessmen are there to make sure that the unfettered vision doesn’t bankrupt the company. Both the artist and his or her fans may decry the artificial limitation on mechanical genius, but the graveyard of the car business is littered with nameplates that went too far, too fast, and were unable to sustain themselves.

By the time he was approached to append his appellation to the eponymous company in 1921, Eddie Rickenbacker’s car-enthusiast credentials were already well-established: He first rose to prominence as a race-car driver in the 1911-’17 era, having appeared in every Indianapolis 500 race before World War I, and as a driver for the factory teams of Peugeot and Maxwell.

During the war, he was the United States’ “Ace of Aces,” having shot down a confirmed 26 enemy aircraft at the controls of his Nieuport and SPAD biplanes. He was promoted to the rank of major at the end of his service, but throughout his life preferred the rank he felt he had earned, that of captain. By 1918, “Captain Eddie” was already a household name in America.

Rickenbacker wasn’t merely a good driver and pilot. Before his skill at the wheel was recognized, Rickenbacker had seen to his education via a correspondence course in engineering. An early internal-combustion enthusiast, he had also worked for the Columbia Buggy Company selling its Firestone-Columbus automobiles.

Further, Rickenbacker was already associated with General Motors founder Billy Durant, thanks to a marketing arrangement wherein Rickenbacker promoted GM’s Sheridan division. In 1922, he would actually marry Durant’s ex-daughter-in-law. So when Barney Everitt, William Metzger, and Walter Flanders– three men with enormous experience in the auto industry– joined with Rickenbacker, they were getting far more than just a famous name.

Everitt, Metzger, and Flanders are best remembered for the E-M-F Company, which was eventually folded into Studebaker– though that was far from their only accomplishment. They were, respectively, a body man, a salesman, and a production man. All three had good reputations as auto executives, though their companies usually did not survive long after their personal leadership had departed. Rickenbacker was, sadly, not to be an exception.

Captain Eddie himself had initially wished to stay in aviation after the war. Unfortunately, the postwar recession, combined with a glut of surplus aircraft, meant that the fledgling aircraft industry was struggling. Instead, he reverted to his prewar enthusiasm for the automobile. In the 1920s, the line between automotive technology and aviation was far thinner than today, and the disciplines cross-pollinated liberally.

What Rickenbacker wanted in his own new car was to bring the high-performance technology of military aircraft and racing cars to the street. He was not alone in this, with the Chevrolet brothers (who had previously sold their family name to Durant) making similar plans at the same time to turn their Frontenac racing team into a producer of road cars. Rickenbacker got further, however, and while Frontenac was forced to produce speed parts for the Ford Model T, Rickenbacker really did produce what the company termed “a car worthy of its name.”

The biggest technical triumph of the original Rickenbacker Six was its “tandem flywheel.” Captain Eddie had been impressed by the smoothness of the liquid-cooled inline engines of his German opponents in the skies over France. When he was able to inspect the inner workings of crashed or captured airplanes, he discovered that their crankshafts had flywheels at both ends, greatly reducing the vibration transmitted outside of the engine.

What most people remember about Rickenbacker, however, was its pioneering use of four-wheel brakes in the medium-price field. Even the prototype chassis, displayed at the 1922 New York Auto Show, had front-wheel brakes present, a major departure for the time. In June of 1923, both Duesenberg and Rickenbacker announced that four-wheel braking would now be standard. For Duesenberg, a race-bred, high-performance, luxury car, this was not much of a surprise. For a less-expensive car like Rickenbacker, it was remarkable in the extreme.

Other companies soon followed suit, though Studebaker actually launched a smear campaign attempting to paint front brakes as unsafe, and Rickenbacker felt the pressure to continue to update its product line. For 1925, the year of our feature car, the original 58-horsepower, 218-cu.in. straight-six was upgraded to a 236-cu.in. engine with seven main bearings, producing 68 horsepower. The six-cylinder engine was also joined by an L-head, 80-horsepower, 268-cu.in. straight-eight with nine main bearings. The six retained the traditional 117-inch wheelbase, but the eight received a lengthened 121.5-inch wheelbase. The lines were otherwise quite similar.

This “Vertical Eight Superfine,” as the new-for-1925 eight was called, was an excellent car–smooth and powerful. The details are outstanding for a car at its price point, right down to the “hat-in-the-ring” logo, borrowed from the United States Army Air Service’s 94th Pursuit Squadron, Rickenbacker’s own unit, cast into the rear axle housing where only someone crawling underneath the car could see it. In bringing luxury-car features to the mid-price field, it was arguably five years ahead of the competition.

Unfortunately, just as the company seemed to be finding its footing, Flanders–a crack production specialist who had helped Ford Motor Company on its way to the moving assembly line– was killed in a car accident. At the same time, dealers began fleeing the fold, possibly due to Studebaker’s hatchet job (though it wouldn’t stop newcomer Chrysler from adopting four-wheel hydraulic brakes that year) or possibly due to word of the kind of executive infighting that had brought down other efforts by the founders of E-M-F.

It was in this environment that Captain Eddie left the automotive firm bearing his name in 1926. Soon after, he would buy the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which he would own until 1945, and embark on a career as an aviation executive that would keep his name in the public eye until his death in 1973.

Rickenbacker, the company, kept trying, promoting its Super Sport boat-tailed coupe as the fastest four-passenger automobile for sale (faster models from the likes of Duesenberg seated only two) and introducing dual-carburetor engines for 1927. But it was not enough, and the firm did not survive to sell 1928 models.

It is said that after the company folded, Captain Eddie personally repaid all debts he had guaranteed for the company, despite a bankruptcy discharge, burnishing his reputation as an ethical businessman. Everitt went on to help found the Verville Aircraft Company in the same Detroit factory building that had housed Rickenbacker. Metzger also got into aviation, helping form Stinson Aircraft in 1926.

As an interesting aside, the tooling for both the six-cylinder and eight-cylinder 1927 Rickenbackers was sold to a Danish businessman in Germany named Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen who had planned to produce the engines for sale to European automakers. When no orders were forthcoming, Rasmussen instead shopped his designs to Audi, in which he was the majority shareholder. This resulted in the Rickenbacker 6-70 becoming the Audi Type-T “Dresden” and the eight-cylinder Rickenbackers becoming the Audi Type-SS “Zwickau.” Both were produced until 1932.

That makes the four-passenger coupe on these pages a rarity to begin with. In fact, it is believed by the Rickenbacker Club of America to be the only surviving 1925 eight-cylinder coupe. It should come as no surprise, then, that for the past 48 years it has been a part of the Automobile Gallery of the Heritage Museums & Gardens, in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The Automobile Gallery has as its nucleus the collection of pharmaceutical heir J.K. Lilly III, and the Rickenbacker was acquired by Lilly in 1966.

We spoke with Director of Collections and Exhibits Jennifer Madden, and she told us that Lilly acquired the car from a Dearborn, Michigan, collector named J. Walter Heater. We don’t know if there is a connection, but Heater was an executive with a Detroit firm called Fleet Supply Corp. (“parts and supplies for trucks, trailers, and cars”). The address for Fleet Supply, 2896 Central Avenue, was less than a mile from the still-extant former Rickenbacker factory at 4815 Cabot Street–could that have sparked Heater’s interest in finding a Rickenbacker?

Heater found the car in 1960 in what the Detroit Free Press described as “an abandoned garage on Ferry Park Avenue near the Lodge Freeway.” The previous owner, a man named Gauss, was a retired Army engineer. According to a letter in the car’s file at the Heritage Museums, Gauss had sold his home and actually lived in the car in his garage for 15 years!

Heater restored the Rickenbacker, completing the job in 1962. The coupe was immediately recognized as Grand Champion at the Henry Ford Museum’s Old Car Festival in the division for cars built between 1917 and 1925. While it was in his care, it was reunited with Captain Eddie for a television show apparently called On the Street.

Sometime around 1966, Heater and Lilly happened to encounter one another, and Heater told Lilly about his Rickenbacker. The two men corresponded that summer regarding the car, and eventually it was settled that Lilly would purchase it for $5,000 (a little more than $37,500 adjusted for inflation).

Heater even offered to drive the Rickenbacker from Dearborn to Boston for Lilly to take delivery. In a letter, he noted “it runs very well at 55-60 mph, which means two days on the road from here.” Eventually, it was settled that Heater would meet a representative of Lilly’s in Syracuse, New York, about half way between the two men. Heater apparently took the Greyhound home.

It’s not recorded why the Rickenbacker caught Lilly’s fancy. Perhaps it was just the excellent restoration that the car still wears today–having been museum-kept since 1969 and undriven since sometime in the 1970s, although the museum intends to get it driving again soon. It is worth noting that the Lilly family’s roots are not in Boston, or Cape Cod, but rather in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the Rickenbacker name and the speedway are icons. It’s not impossible that Lilly, who was six when this car was built, recalled the excitement associated with Captain Eddie and his airplane-inspired car way back when.

Though it survived only a brief six model years, and only an estimated two dozen examples remain, the Rickenbacker is well remembered today, thanks to its technical sophistication and its association with one of America’s greatest aviation heroes. If you are lucky enough to see or experience one, linger awhile and soak in the details, quality construction, mechanical elegance, and handsome styling. You will be glad you did.

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Understanding Your Teenager by neshachan

Listen up, Mom & Dad! Teenagers aren't weird beings from outer space! In fact, YOU were once a teenager!

Understanding and Addressing Humanitarian Crises RAW by World Economic Forum

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Raul Rosende, Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Gaziantepe at the World Economic Forum - Special Meeting on Unlocking Resources for Regional Development 2014 / Benedikt von Loebell

Understanding Fiscal Responsibility 1 by Kevin Gong

Presentiment by wilson hurst

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Understanding unity

Individuation spell

Restored oneness

Annual inter-faith Iftar 2015 by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem

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On July 8, 2015 Charge d’Affaires William Grant hosted the US Embassy’s annual inter-faith Iftar welcoming a diverse gathering of Arab and Jewish community leaders from all faiths and backgrounds to celebrate multiculturalism during the holy month of Ramadan. With a message of tolerance and partnership, educators, religious, political and community leaders gathered to dine for an evening meal at the Ambassador’s residence in Herzliya Pituach. During the evening, Charge d’Affaires Grant awarded the State Department’s Outstanding Volunteer Service Certificate to 7 Youth Exchange Students and Study Alumni in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the community and for fostering mutual understanding during their one year of high school year stay in the US. Guests enjoyed views of the setting sun over the Mediterranean Sea while prayers were chanted, remarks were given, and beautiful Arabic musical performed.

Понимание/Understanding by Ivan Gusarov

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Быть может я вам всем сейчас скажу,

Секрет,

Но не уверен я и в этом,

Но все же, раз об этом я пишу,

Скажу,

И буду без сoмненья прав,

Хоть до сих пор я не уверен,

Но к черту жалкий серый страх!

А может лучше промолчать?

Тогда, раз уж никто и не узнает,

Спокойней будет мне,

И вам,

И дальше буду я в себе держать,

А снег и дальше таять..

Но белый, потом серый, снег

Растает в летнем свете,

А мой секрет

Всю жизнь и будет мукой мне.

Я лишь хотел сказать вам этим,

Что лучше полоснуть чистейшей правдой по глазам,

Чем лить вкуснейшую неправду.

И словно бабочка крылом

Твои слова из чистой правды

Застряли в сердце топором,

А я забыл сказать о главном…

Я не могу так поступать как ты,

Я не могу так сухо молвить факты,

Ведь раньше в сердце был лишь белый свет,

Оставленный твоими черными глазами,

Сейчас там лишь топор,

Оставленный твоими нежными руками.

Я вам скажу, секретов нет,

Мою любовь втоптали в пыль ногами.

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Susan Warner

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Marshall McLuhan, 1964. This edition 1966. Signet

Josephine baker letter 2 by John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com

Quotes from the Official Josephine Baker site...

By Josephine | About Josephine

"Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood."

"The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts."

"... I improvised, crazed by the music... Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone."

"I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven."

"Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes."

"I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely."

"Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life."

"We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural."

"It [the Eiffel Tower] looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty?"

"I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so profoundly love and respect humanity."

"We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?"

"I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die."

"I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that."

"The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks."

"Art is an elastic sort of love."

"One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people. Not black. So I left. I had been suffocating in the United States... A lot of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we couldn't stand it anymore... I felt liberated in Paris."

"I am tired of that artificial life. The work of being a star disgusts me now. All the intrigues which surround the star disgust me... I want to work three or four more years and then quit the stage. I'll go live in Italy or the South of France. I will get married, as simply as possible. I will have children, and many animals. I love them. I want to live in peace surrounded by children and animals. But if one of my children wanted to go onstage in the music hall, I would strangle it with my own two hands."

"The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another."

"You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you."

- Josephine, speaking at the '63 March on Washington

"Salt and pepper. Just what it should be."

- Josephine, looking over the crowd at the 1963 March

"Until the March on Washington, I always had this little feeling in my stomach. I was always afraid. I couldn't meet white American people. I didn't want to be around them. But now that little gnawing feeling is gone. For the first time in my life I feel free. I know that everything is right now."

"I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits

Twelve-Month Irish Work and Travel (IWT) Program Memorandum of Understanding by Exchanges Photos

Ambassador of Ireland to the United States Anne Anderson and Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Evan Ryan signed a Diplomatic note on Monday, December 5th, lengthening the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the twelve month Irish Work and Travel (IWT) Program between the Government of the United States and the Government of Ireland.

Photo by: Kelsey Brannan, ECA, U.S. Department of State. Federal Contractor, Async-Nu Microsystems

~ I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. by Dana.G

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i'm an opened book but people only bother themselves in reading titles !!

Hero Recon Team: Agent Steel by Electro-10 Mocs

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Moc slideshow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI5i0dtiTB0

Bio: Jason Steel is a skilled technician when it comes to digital interfaces as well as mechanical devices, finding enjoyment in completely understanding technology. Steel often spends a lot of his down time between missions helping the HF science team develop new technology. Steel was recruited into the HRT shortly before [Redacted] Electro ,he joined in part to be able to use experimental HF tech in the field that he himself designed without having to go through the long arduous testing process before the tech would be declared “safe” so it could be mass produced and added to the assembly tower’s arsenal.

Annual inter-faith Iftar 2015 by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem

On July 8, 2015 Charge d’Affaires William Grant hosted the US Embassy’s annual inter-faith Iftar welcoming a diverse gathering of Arab and Jewish community leaders from all faiths and backgrounds to celebrate multiculturalism during the holy month of Ramadan. With a message of tolerance and partnership, educators, religious, political and community leaders gathered to dine for an evening meal at the Ambassador’s residence in Herzliya Pituach. During the evening, Charge d’Affaires Grant awarded the State Department’s Outstanding Volunteer Service Certificate to 7 Youth Exchange Students and Study Alumni in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the community and for fostering mutual understanding during their one year of high school year stay in the US. Guests enjoyed views of the setting sun over the Mediterranean Sea while prayers were chanted, remarks were given, and beautiful Arabic musical performed.

Hong Kong Private Tour Guides - A few of My Friends by Jamie Lloyd

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Hong Kong Culture | Modern Hong Kong History started in 1841.

Visit Hong Kong - one of the World‛s GREATEST and SAFEST Cities!

Hong Kong is blessed with some of the most amazing panoramic city views in the World today and even better is full of surprises!

Victoria Peak, The Peak Tram, Victoria Harbour, The Big Buddha | Po Lin Monastery, Tai O Fishing Village, The iconic Star Ferry, The Ocean Terminal Deck, The iconic Street Tram on HK Island, TST Promenade, Cheung Chau Island, Peng Chau Island, Temple Street Night Market, The Ladies Market, Chi Lin Nunnery | Nan Lian Garden, Statue Square, The Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple, Tsz Shan Monastery, Tai Kwun Centre, Hollywood Road, The Mid Levels Escalator, Aberdeen, Stanley, The West Kowloon Cultural Centre, Food Markets... the list goes on and on of cool and unusual places you should “visit or do 75% of the land area consists of country parks and wetlands plus we have 575+ named hills and peaks offering some great hiking trails and lots of very fine beaches and remote islands - in a nutshell, Hong Kong ” when you come to Hong Kong.

Book a Private Tour of Hong Kong to maximise your time here and gain an in depth understanding of this amazing city, in addition we have a great food culture and night life scene with some 17,000 - 20,000 Restaurants and Bars officially and unofficially and any and all visitors should take a private or group food tour in Hong Kong!

Hong Kong has one of the very best public transport systems in the world (MTR Subway and Buses + 18,163 Taxi‛s) they are cheap, reliable and easy to use.

☛.... and if you want to read about my personal views on Hong Kong, then go to my blog, link is shown below, I have lived in Hong Kong for over 50 years and completed over 2,360+ Private Tours of Hong Kong.

✚ www.j3consultantshongkong.com/j3c-blog

☛ Photography is simply a hobby for me, I do NOT sell my images and all of my images can be FREELY downloaded from this site in the original upload image size or 5 other sizes, please note that you DO NOT have to ask for permission to download and use any of my images!

Understanding music notes. My future #pianist. #mygirl #piano #pianolesson #music #musicnotes by Digna Toledo Photography LLC

Dance Lesson in Havana by Rebecca Gordon-Nesbit (Geography and Sociology) by Strath Images

In the years following the 1959 Cuban Revolution, culture was placed at the heart of society on the understanding that aesthetic experience could contribute to human happiness. For a PhD project examining the cultural policy developed in Cuba between the 1950s and the 1970s, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt spent five months conducting fieldwork in Havana. It was there that her eye was caught by a group of primary school students having a dance lesson in a sunny playground. This image captures the centrality of colour in Cuba, the vibrant leotards of the dancers standing out against the faded blue colonial façade of their school and the burgundy uniforms of their contemporaries in a scene encircled by rainbow paper chains. In the process, the joy of the dancing children conveys the effect of prioritising social understandings of culture. Rebecca’s research – which was recently awarded a doctorate – contributes to our understanding of this process.

Wien, 1. Bezirk, Stephansdom, la chiesa di Santo Stefano, la Catedral de San Esteban de Viena, La Cathédrale Saint-Étienne, St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, Katedra św. Szczepana w Wiedniu (Stephansplatz) by Alfred Lex

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A cathedral without a bishop: St. Stephan in Vienna

In order to fully fulfill the function of a capital in its medieval understanding, Vienna lacked a decisive factor: Vienna was indeed a major city, but not the seat of a bishopric, but was subordinate to the Prince-Bishop of Passau in ecclesiastical matters. St. Stephen, the most important church in the city, had only the rank of a parish church.

Therefore, the first attempts to found a diocese in Vienna date back to the time of the Babenbergs. Also the under Ottokar II Přemysl after the fire of 1258 begun generous new building of the Saint Stephen's church in the late Romanesque style pursued this goal.

The Habsburgs' representational aspirations also focused on St. Stephen after they had taken control of Austria. Albrecht I began in 1304 with the construction of a new choir. The highlight, however, was reached under Duke Rudolf IV. This ambitious Habsburg wanted to turn Vienna into an important royal residence and St. Stephen as the "Capella regia Austriaca" into the court church of the Austrian sovereign princes, the sacral center of the country.

The background for this lay in the competition with the dynasty of Luxembourg: Emperor Charles IV was just about to expand his residence Prague to a metropolis of European importance. One of his measures was the elevation of Prague to the Archbishopric of 1344, which prompted the great expansion of St. Vitus' Cathedral on Prague's Hradcany.

Rudolf's plan to make St. Stephen the seat of a bishop failed because of the resistance of Passau, because the bishop rightly feared a reduction of his diocese. Nevertheless, Rudolf found a way to give St. Stephan a special rank. In 1359 he obtained the papal confirmation for the founding of a collegiate, an association of 24 dressed in cardinal red robes priests, which was headed by a provost in a bishop-like costume. By subordinating the collegiate directly to the Pope, it was beyond the Passau influence. Thanks to complicated ecclesiastical chess moves he finally succeeded in 1365 to transfer his foundation to St. Stephen, which increased the importance of the church.

This was also reflected in the structural design of the church. In 1359 Rudolf IV began with a large-scale expansion, which was to bear all the symbols of a ruling church: a princely gallery above the west portal was framed by two-storey Duke's chapels, in which the relic treasure was kept. A princely tomb was erected as the tomb of the rulers of the country and finally four towers were planned, which was actually a building prerogative of a bishop's church. By integrating parts of the late Romanesque predecessor building (the main portal and the westwork called "Giant Gate") into his concept, Rudolf gave his building program historical depth.

With the death of Rudolf, the interest of the Habsburgs in St. Stephen palpably came to an end, and the citizens of Vienna took the initiative for the further expansion of the church. Only with Frederick III., who saw his example in Rudolf IV, did a Habsburg take part in the expansion of the church. Friedrich ordered the beginning of the work on the north tower. However, his high tomb in the Apostle Choir of the Dome, which is another notable example of the dynastic program of the Habsburgs in the late Middle Ages, is particularly reminiscent of this Habsburg.

Frederick III. finally managed to bring the prestige matter of his ancestor Rudolf to a successful end: 1469 Frederick III succeeded in to bring about the Pope to elevate Vienna to a diocese. Although the Viennese diocese initially had only a minimal extension - it was smaller than the current urban area - but the Habsburgs had imposed their own will: The Cathedral of St. Stephen had finally a bishop.

Eine Kathedrale ohne Bischof: St. Stephan in Wien

Um im mittelalterlichen Verständnis die Funktion einer Hauptstadt vollends zu erfüllen, fehlte Wien eine entscheidende Sache: Wien war zwar eine bedeutende Großstadt, aber nicht Sitz eines Bistums, sondern unterstand in kirchlichen Belangen dem Fürstbischof von Passau. St. Stephan, die wichtigste Kirche der Stadt, hatte nur den Rang einer Pfarrkirche.

Daher datieren die ersten Versuche einer Bistumsgründung in Wien bereits in die Zeit der Babenberger. Auch der unter Ottokar II. Přemysl nach dem Brand von 1258 begonnene großzügige Neubau der Stephanskirche im spätromanischen Stil verfolgte dieses Ziel.

Auf St. Stephan konzentrierten sich auch die Repräsentationsbestrebungen der Habsburger, nachdem sie die Herrschaft in Österreich übernommen hatten. Albrecht I. begann bereits 1304 mit dem Bau eines neuen Chores. Der Höhepunkt wurde jedoch unter Herzog Rudolf IV. erreicht. Dieser ehrgeizige Habsburger wollte Wien zu einer bedeutenden Residenzstadt und St. Stephan als “Capella regia Austriaca”, als Hofkirche der österreichischen Landesfürsten, zum sakralen Zentrum des Landes machen.

Der Hintergrund dafür lag in der Konkurrenz mit der Dynastie der Luxemburger: Kaiser Karl IV. war gerade dabei, seine Residenz Prag zu einer Metropole europäischer Geltung auszubauen. Eine seiner Maßnahmen war die Erhebung Prags zum Erzbistum 1344, was den Anstoß gab für den großartigen Ausbau des Veitsdomes am Prager Hradschin.

Rudolfs Plan, St. Stephan zum Sitz eines Bischofs zu machen, scheiterte zwar am Widerstand Passaus, denn der Bischof fürchtete zu Recht eine Verkleinerung seiner Diözese. Dennoch fand Rudolf einen Weg, St. Stephan einen besonderen Rang zu verleihen. 1359 erwirkte er die päpstliche Bestätigung für die Gründung eines Kollegiatstiftes, einer Vereinigung von 24 in kardinalsrote Gewänder gekleideten Priestern, denen ein Probst in bischofsähnlicher Tracht vorstand. Indem er das Kollegiat direkt dem Papst unterstellte, war es dem Passauer Einfluss entzogen. Dank komplizierter kirchenrechtlicher Schachzüge gelang es ihm schließlich 1365 seine Stiftung auf St. Stephan zu übertragen, was die Bedeutung des Gotteshauses erhöhte.

Dies schlug sich auch in der baulichen Gestalt der Kirche nieder. 1359 begann Rudolf IV. mit einem groß angelegten Ausbau, der alle Symbole einer Herrscherkirche tragen sollte: Eine Fürstenempore über dem Westportal wurde von doppelstöckigen Herzogskapellen eingerahmt, in denen der Reliquienschatz verwahrt wurde. Eine Fürstengruft als Grablege der Herrscher des Landes wurde angelegt und schließlich waren vier Türme geplant, was eigentlich ein bauliches Vorrecht einer Bischofskirche war. Indem Rudolf Teile des spätromanischen Vorgängerbaues (das als “Riesentor” bezeichnete Hauptportal und das Westwerk) in sein Konzept integrieren ließ, gab er seinem Bauprogramm historische Tiefe.

Mit dem Tod Rudolfs erlosch das Interesse der Habsburger an St. Stephan spürbar, die Wiener Bürgerschaft übernahm die Initiative für den weiteren Ausbau der Kirche. Erst mit Friedrich III., der in Rudolf IV. sein Vorbild sah, beteiligte sich wieder ein Habsburger am Ausbau der Kirche. Friedrich veranlasste den Beginn der Arbeiten am Nordturm. An diesen Habsburger erinnert vor allem jedoch sein Hochgrab im Apostelchor des Domes, ein weiteres bemerkenswertes Beispiel für das dynastische Programm der Habsburger im Spätmittelalter.

Friedrich III. gelang es schließlich auch, die Prestigeangelegenheit seines Ahnen Rudolf zu einem erfolgreichen Ende zu bringen: 1469 erreichte Friedrich III. beim Papst die Erhebung Wiens zum Bistum. Die Wiener Diözese hatte zwar zunächst nur eine minimale Ausdehung – sie war kleiner als das heutige Stadtgebiet – aber die Habsburger hatten ihren Willen durchgesetzt: Der Dom zu St. Stephan hatte endlich einen Bischof.

Martin Mutschlechner

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