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Constantines headline the 2009 Noise for the Needy Festival at Neumo's benefitting: Transitional Resources, June 14th, 2009 in Seattle, Washington
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Well my sweetie Celia bought this for me. She went to Hollywood Video and got this for me without me knowing it of course.
Thank you baby doll, I LOVE YOU and I love the movie. Thank you.
Bessa R2A + Cosina Voigtlander Color-Skopar 35mm f/2.5 PII; Iflord Delta 3200 (shot at box speed); developed and scanned at Toronto Image Works -- for 13 dollars (!!) a god damn roll.
St. Vladimir’s Russian Orthodox Cemetery was organized in 1939 by the ROVA Society. 316 Cassville Road, Jackson, New Jersey 08527
Artwork for the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen & Constantine episode of the movie podcast Double Feature.
Constantine XI Palaiologos, ; 8 February 1404 – 29 May 1453) was the last reigning Byzantine Emperor, from 1449 to his death as member of the Palaiologos dynasty. After his death in battle during the fall of Constantinople, he became a legendary figure in Greek folklore as the "Marble Emperor" who would awaken and recover the Empire and Constantinople from the Turks. His death marked the end of the Roman Empire, which had continued in the East for 977 years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Constantine II, Obv. CONSTAN-TINVS AVG, Laureate draped cuirassed bust right, Rev. GLORI-A EXER-CITVS, Two soldiers holding a military standard, Mintmark in Exergue TR??. Ref. RIC VIII Trier 80, date 337-348 AD. Possibly barbarous imitation.
Acknowledgements to Alisdair Menzies
Black soul and rhythms were vibrating at The Metropolitan Club courtesy of dj Nisa Constantine. Yummy tunes!
Nisa is also a top model in Second LIfe winning several competitions and representing fashion houses on the grid.
Today, she brings a soulful sexy set of music featuring hip hop, contemporary and blues. Woot!
Outakes from our teeny tiny surfing holiday in Cornwall. Yes, I know it's where I live but shhhhhh.
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One of the interesting things about the Arch of Constantine is that many of the carvings decorating it were recycled from older monuments. There are four distinct styles of carvings on the arch, which almost certainly came from four different periods. The face of the central figure on many of the carvings was altered to look like Constantine.
I didn't get any good photos of the parts of the arch that were in shadow, but brightredspud did. Check his flickr page for some close-ups of the carvings.
The Arch of Constantine
It is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill
CONSTANTINE THE GREAT 274-337
Near this place, Constantine was proclaimed Roman Emperor in 306. His recognition of the civil liberties of his Christian subjects, and his own conversion to the Faith, established the religious foundations of Western Christendom.
The Column of Constantine (or Burnt Column) is a Roman monumental column constructed on the orders of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great in 330 AD. It commemorates the declaration of Byzantium (renamed by Constantine as Nova Roma) as the new capital city of the Roman Empire. The column is located on Yeniçeriler Caddesi in central Istanbul, along the old Divan Yolu (the 'Road to the Imperial Council') between Sultanahmet and Beyazıt Square (known as Forum Tauri in the Roman period.)
San Giovanni in Laterano. Alessandro Galilei's early 18thC baroque facade. Porch. Statue of Constantine taken from the Imperial Baths on the Quirinal.
Constantine II, Obv. CONSTAN-TINVS AVG, Laureate draped cuirassed bust right, Rev. GLORI-A EXER-CITVS, Two soldiers holding a military standard, Mintmark in Exergue TR??. Ref. RIC VIII Trier 80, date 337-348 AD. Possibly barbarous imitation.
Identification acknowledgements to Alisdair Menzies
The Hagia Sophia was a Greek Orthodox Christian church, later converted into an Ottoman mosque, and is now a museum. Unfortunately, nothing remains of the original Hagia Sophia, which was built on this site in the Fourth Century by Constantine the Great and was burned down during rioting that took place in 404 A.D.. Constantine was the first Christian emperor and the founder of the city of Constantinople, which he called "the New Rome." From the date of its reconstruction, ordered by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in 537 AD, and until 1453, the Hagia Sofia served as an Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarch of Constantinople, except between 1204 and 1261, when it was converted by the Fourth Crusaders to a Roman Catholic cathedral. The building was a mosque from 1453 until 1931, when it was closed to the public for four years and then re-opened in 1935 as a museum by Ataturk, the leader of the Republic of Turkey. While the Blue Mosque is a famous Istanbul landmark, the Hagia Sophia actually Turkey’s most visited tourist attraction, with over 3 million visitors a year.
Famous for its massive 18 story high, 103 foot dome, it's considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture." When the dome of Hagia Sophia was placed, walls began to lean outward because of the weight. Then walls to support the dome were built. It remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until the Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520.
The Hagia Sophia was designed by two Greek mathematicians who specialized in geometry. Their work was a technical triumph, even though the structure was severely damaged several times by earthquakes. The original dome collapsed after an earthquake in 558 and its replacement fell in 563. Steps were taken to better secure the dome, but there were additional partial collapses in 989 and 1346.
In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II, who ordered this main church of Orthodox Christianity converted into a mosque. By that point, the church had fallen into a state of disrepair. Nevertheless, the new Ottoman rulers decided to convert it into a mosque. The bells, altar, a 49 foot silver wall of icons and religious paintings, and sacrificial vessels and other relics were removed and the mosaics depicting Jesus, his Mother Mary, and Christian saints and angels were also removed or plastered over. Islamic features—such as the mihrab, pulpit and four minarets—were added.
The Byzantine architecture of the Hagia Sophia served as inspiration for two other Istanbul mosques-the Blue Mosque and the Süleymaniye Mosque, and was the main mosque of Istanbul from its initial conversion until the construction of the Blue Mosque in 1616.
The Arch of Constantine is a triumphal arch in Rome, situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill. It was erected to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge on October 28, 312. Dedicated in 315, it is the latest of the existing triumphal arches in Rome, from which it differs by spolia, the extensive re-use of parts of earlier buildings.
[Source: Wikipedia]