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The Parable of the Weeds. Matthew 13
24 Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. 26 When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.
27 “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’
28 “‘An enemy did this,’ he replied.
“The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’
29 “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’”
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STAY AWAKE.
Operator 1: I spotted enemy vehicle at my 10 o'clock. Need the MAAWS here.
Operator 2: Roger. On my way.
A special operations reconnaissance team encountered enemies during their patrol.
*Lethal Force Engaged*
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It's May the 4th today - figured I would post something Star Wars to celebrate!
"Enemies at our doors"
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Tell you you're the greatest
But once you turn, they hate us
Oh, the misery
Everybody wants to be my enemy
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Ventured beyond the cheese curtain up to Milwaukee this weekend. You-know-who makes motorcycles there. A guy in the HD parking lot was trying to stuff about 12 quarts of oil into one of the bags on his bagger for some reason.
Luigi lives next door. He likes to look under our mini barn for bunnies. Maxwell goes ballistic when he sees him, he's barking his head off here. You can see how bothered Luigi is, lol.
The enemy of photographers in the Black Hills... farmers fence line! Here the train is rolling to a stop and will have a short wait for a Track Warrant.
Photo's from the concert Arch Enemy gave at the Alcatraz Metal Festival in Belgium 2014
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"Found in the Agora of the Italians on Delos
in Greece a Greco-Roman trading island at the time.The warrior, wounded in the thigh, has fallen to the ground on his right knee and will have been attempting to defend himself against his enemy with his left arm.On the ground, next to him rests a Galatian helmet.Typical example of Late Hellenistic sculpture with features of the Pergamene school ".
Compare to the 'Dying Gaul' or 'Dying Galatian' Roman copy from a Greek/Hellenistic original.
www.flickr.com/photos/celtico/4711208522/
Some classical writers were awed by the warriors or mercenaries of Celtic tribes.Some wore helmets and chain mail , again some 'classic' writers say specific bands fought almost naked? Three tribes were invited into Anatolia from the Balkans or Thrace and eventually became the Galatians. Agasias, son of Menophilus was an Ancient Greek sculptor from Ephesus. He was possibly the cousin of Agasias, son of Dositheus, sculptor of the 'Borghese Gladiator' (misnamed a gladiator due to an erroneous restoration) .
He is mentioned in a Greek inscription, from which it appears that he exercised his art in Delos while that island was under Roman sway; probably some time about 100 BC. He probably sculpted this striking figure of a Celtic warrior now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
The Attalid dynasty was a Hellenistic dynasty that ruled the city of Pergamon after the death of Lysimachus, a general of Alexander the Great. The Attalid kingdom was the rump state left after the collapse of the Lysimachian Empire. One of Lysimachus' officers, Philetaerus, took control of the city in 282 BC. The later Attalids were descended from his father, and they expanded the city into a kingdom. Attalus I proclaimed himself King in the 230s BC, following his victories over the Galatians. The Attalids ruled Pergamon until Attalus III bequeathed the kingdom to the Roman Republic in 133 BC to avoid a likely succession crisis. A war with Eumenes III resulted in the creation of Roman province of Asia over much of the territory.There was a later Roman genocide of the Galatians.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galatian_War
On the interior of the Pergamon Altar is a frieze depicting the life of Telephus, son of Herakles, whom the ruling Attalid dynasty associated with its city and utilized to claim descent from the Olympians. Pergamon, having entered the Greek world much later than its counterparts to the west, could not boast the same divine heritage as older city-states, and retroactively had to cultivate its place in Greek mythology.
IN ENGLISH BELOW THE LINE
Foto presa amb una Zeiss-Ikon Contax II fabricada el 1936; objectiu Zeiss Sonnar f2/50mm; pel·licula Revelab BW-XX (Kodak Double-X o Eastman 5222), revelada amb Bellini D96 sense diluir.
Auschwitz. Què més puc dir més enllà d’aquest toponim en alemany d’una vila polonesa. Tots ja sabeu què fou, de 1940 a 1945. Aquí es creà un camp de concentració per la explotació salvatge i mortal dels enemics del III Reich. Però sobretot a partir de 1943 i a la seva extensió (i futur camp independent) de Birkenau: l’extermini dels jueus europeus a nivell industrial.
Aquesta casa gris del fons, no forma estrictament part del camp, però és una peça essencial del entramat. Fou la casa on el comandant Rudolf Höss va viure amb tota la seva familia. Està situada literalment a 10 metres del mur de Auschwitz I... i avui en dia hi viu una familia polonesa. Costa de creure que hom pot viure en un lloc amb aquest passat. Si, en aquesta casa mateix no es deuria produir cap crim però, així i tot...
Per altra banda, just ha coincidit la meva visita a Auschwitz amb la estrena de la pel·licula The Zone of Interest (guanyadora de 2 Oscars), que mostra precisament la vida de la familia Höss en aquesta casa amb aquest entorn. La pel·licula no es va filmar aquí (és un domicili privat)... però si a només 100 metres carrer amunt. Més noticies aviat.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz
www.auschwitz.org/en/history/kl-auschwitz-birkenau/
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_zona_d%27inter%C3%A8s
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Picture taken with my Zeiss Ikon Contax II made in 1936; Carl Zeiss Sonnar f2/50mm lens; Revelab BW-XX (Kodak Double-X a.k.a. Eastman 5222) film, developed in undiluted Bellini D96.
Auschwitz. What else can I say beyond this toponym in German of a Polish town. You all know what it was, from 1940 to 1945. Here a concentration camp was created for the savage and deadly exploitation of the enemies of the Third Reich. But especially from 1943 and in its extension (and future independent camp) of Auschwitz II - Birkenau. The extermination of European Jews at an industrial level.
The gray house in the background is not strictly part of the concentration camp, but it is an essential part of it's framework. It was the house where camp commander Rudolf Höss lived with his whole family. It is located literally 10 meters from the wall of Auschwitz... and today a Polish family lives there. It's hard to believe that you can live in a place with this past. Yes, no crime happened in this house itself, but even conceding that...
On the other hand, my visit to Auschwitz just coincided with the premiere of the film The Zone of Interest (winner of 2 Oscar awards), which shows precisely the life of the Höss family in this house with this surroundings. The movie wasn't filmed here (it's a private residence)...but it was just shoot almost on location 100 meters up the street. More news soon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp
70.auschwitz.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...
www.auschwitz.org/en/history/kl-auschwitz-birkenau/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zone_of_Interest_(film)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFNtVaAuVYY
Pictures of inside the house, and even words from the current owner:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9197209/Unseen-photos-re...
A brief history of the U.S.S. COD
by Paul Farace, curator
U.S.S. Cod (SS 224), named after the world's most important food fish, is a World War II era GATO class fleet submarine. The 312-ft, (95-m) 1,525-ton submarine began her life on July 21, 1942 when her keel was laid at the Electric Boat Co., Groton, Connecticut. Cod was launched on March 21, 1943 under the sponsorship of Mrs. Grace M. Mahoney, wife of a veteran shipyard employee, and was placed in commission on June 21, 1943, under the command of CDR James C. Dempsey, USN. Dempsey had already won fame by sinking the first Japanese destroyer lost in the war while in command of a tiny, World War I-era submarine.
It was on Cod's third patrol, Dempsey's last in command, that Cod fought her biggest battle. Tracking a massive Japanese convoy heading for Subic Bay in the Philippines on the night of May 10, 1944, Cod maneuvered into firing position just after sunrise. Cod fired three of her four stern tubes at the Japanese destroyer Karukaya before unloading all six of her bow tubes at two columns of cargo ships and troop transports. Dempsey watched as the first torpedo exploded under the destroyer's bridge after a short, 26 second run. Both smoke stacks collapsed and dozens of enemy sailors (watching for submarines) were tossed high into the air. The enemy ship started to sag in the middle, with both bow and stern rising, just as the second torpedo hit near the main mast causing the whole rear half of the Karukaya to disintegrate.
A minute later, all six of Cod's bow shots hit targets among the columns of enemy ships. Cod submerged to her 300-foot test depth and ran at her top underwater speed of 8.5 knots for 10 minutes to clear the firing point, which was clearly marked by the white wakes of Cod's steam-powered torpedoes. The high-speed run had to be kept to 10 minutes to preserve as much of the submarine's electric battery as possible for later evasive maneuvers. The firing point was quickly saturated with aircraft bombs and depth charges dropped by enemy escort ships. Between the explosions of enemy depth charges, Cod's sonar operators could hear the sounds of several Japanese ships breaking up and the distinct firecracker sound of an ammunition ship's cargo exploding. Cod's own firecracker show soon followed: a barrage of more than 70 Japanese depth charges shook Cod in less than 15 minutes. After 12 hours submerged Cod surfaced 25 miles away from the attack area in the midst of a heavy night thunderstorm.
It was on Cod's seventh and final war patrol that she would carve a unique niche for herself, not for destroying enemy ships, but for performing the only international submarine-to-submarine rescue in history. On the morning of July 8, 1945 Cod arrived at Ladd Reef in the South China Sea to aid the Dutch Submarine O-19 which had grounded on the coral outcropping. After two days of attempts at pulling O-19 free, the captains of both vessels agreed that there was no hope of freeing the Dutch sub from the grip of the reef. After removing the 56 Dutch sailors to safety, Cod destroyed the O-19 with two scuttling charges, two torpedoes, and 16 rounds from Cod's 5-inch deck gun. The Cod was home to 153 men for the two and a half-day run to the recently liberated Subic Bay naval base.
After delivering the O-19 crew, Cod returned to her patrol area off the coast of Vietnam where she resumed boarding and sinking Junks carrying enemy supplies. During one of these "pirate-like" operations, a five-man boarding party was stranded on a junk after Cod was strafed by a Japanese plane and forced to crash dive. It was several hours before Cod could surface to retrieve her boarding party. When she did, the horizon was littered with Junks.
After a two-day search involving several U.S. submarines, the lost crewmen were recovered by the submarine Blenny. Highlights of the patrol, including the O-19 rescue and return of the lost boarding party, were recorded in color movies made by Norman Jensen, a Navy photographer, who was assigned to film Cod's war patrol. The films were discovered in the National Archives in 1992.
Cod returned to her Perth, Australia base on August 13, 1945, and was met at the dock by the men of the O-19 who invited their rescuers to a thank-you party. It was during the party that word of the Japanese surrender was received. Today, Cod's battleflag and conning tower both carry a cocktail glass above the name "O-19" to commemorate the rescue and the party.
Mothballed in 1946, Cod was recommissioned in 1951 to participate in NATO anti-submarine training exercises. Her Cold War voyages took Cod to St. John's Newfoundland, as well as ports in Cuba and South America. During LANTFLEX' 52 fleet exercise, Cod was credited with "sinking" a U.S. aircraft carrier.
Cod was decommissioned in 1954 and placed in reserve. In 1959 she was towed through the newly opened St. Lawrence Seaway to serve as a naval reserve training vessel in Cleveland, Ohio. The veteran submarine was an instant hit with school children who visited her on field trips. In 1971, no longer useful as a training ship, Cod was stricken from the register of Navy ships.
A handful of Clevelanders formed the Cleveland Coordinating Committee to Save Cod, Inc., to preserve her as a memorial on the city's lakefront. In January, 1976, the Navy gave guardianship of the submarine to the group. Cod began her career as a floating memorial in May of 1976 when she opened for public tours and quickly established herself as a popular tourist attraction. In 1986, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated Cod a National Historic Landmark.
Today, Cod is one of the finest restored submarines on display and is the only U.S. submarine that has not had stairways and doors cut into her pressure hull for public access. Visitors to this proud ship use the same vertical ladders and hatches that were used by her crew. Cleveland can claim partial credit as Cod's birthplace, since the submarine's five massive diesel engines were built by General Motors' Cleveland Diesel plant on Cleveland's west side.
Cod is credited with sinking more than 12 enemy vessels totalling more than 37,000 tons, and damaging another 36,000 tons of enemy shipping. All seven of her war patrols were considered successful and Cod was awarded seven battle stars. Patrols 1, 2, and 3 were under the command of CDR James C. Dempsey, USN; patrols 4, 5, and 6 were under the command of CDR James "Caddy" Adkins, USN; and patrol 7 was under the command of LCDR Edwin M. Westbrook, Jr., USN. When recommissioned in 1951, Cod was under the command of CAPT. Francis E. Rich, USN, and was placed out of commission by CAPT. Joseph Adelman, USN.
During WW II, U.S. submarines sank more than 55% of the Japanese ships lost, including more than 70% of her merchant fleet and more than 220 warships. They also conducted secret intelligence gathering missions and rescued more than 550 aviators who were forced to ditch at sea in enemy waters, including former President George Bush. The U.S. Navy lost 52 submarines with a loss of more than 3,500 men, or 22% of the submarine force.
Cod is now docked in Lake Erie at Cleveland, Ohio and is maintained and operated as a memorial to the more than 3900 submariners who lost their lives during the 100 year history of the United States Navy Submarine Force.
Here is my character on Brink. He is half asian half african american.
Hmm I wanted to make a female character too, but there is only men on the ark. I don't get the theme of the game, there is a side that wants off the Ark because of lack of resources and the other side is trying to keep them on the Ark so they fight with guns... it does not make sense. Personally I understand the guys trying to get off the Ark because there are no women on it.
I like Battlefiled Bad Company 2 better, I miss spawning on squad members. Brink is ok, fun to play around with, but there are other games that are better. A couple times when I died, I had to spawn at the home base and in the proccess to running over to where the action was I ran into the enemy on my own and died. It was a little frustrating. In Battlefield Bad Company I can spawn on my squad mates, it allows for more fun and less times to experience being outnumbered on the battlefield.
Cdv of Frédéric François Xavier Ghislain de Mérode, Minister of the War of the Papal States, Archbishop, Count and creator of the unit of the Papal Zouaves (Brussels, 26th March 1820 – Rome, 12th July 1874) by Fratelli D’Alessandri.
Atelier address: Via del Babuino 65, Rome.
Activity: from 1856 to 1950.
Date: before 1865.
More about Monsignor de Mérode:
Frédéric François Xavier Ghislain de Mérode was born in Brussels on 26th March 1820 and was the son of Count Félix de Mérode-Westerloo, who held in turn the portfolios of foreign affairs, war, and finances under Leopold I of Belgium, and of Rosalie de Grammont. He was allied through the House of Mérode to the aristocracy of France. He lost his mother at the age of three and was raised at Villersexel, in Franche-Comté, by his aunt Philippine de Grammont, his father's second wife.
He attended religious colleges before entering the Military Academy of Brussels in 1839. He graduated with the rank of second lieutenant and in 1844, after a short period serving at the armoury of Liège, he joined the staff of Maréchal Bugeaud in Algeria where his heroism earned him the famous Legion d'honneur.
However, in 1847 he suddenly decided to change armies and exchange his sword for a rosary. He studied at the Gregorian University in Rome and was ordained priest in 1849. He was assigned as chaplain to the French garrison of Viterbo. In 1850, while his family was urging him to return to Belgium, Pope Pius IX, with a view to attach him permanently to his court, made him Cameriere Segreto, the chief prison warden of Rome.
Mérode was so successful in this position that many rulers, even some hostile to the Church, wanted to use the same policies to improve conditions in their own prisons.
In 1860, Mérode, much against the views of the Roman Prelature, headed by Cardinal Antonelli, persuaded Pius IX to form a unit of Catholic volunteers that later became known as the Papal Zouaves and recruited his cousin, the famous Algerian war hero and noted French legitimist, Cristofe de Lamoriciere as commander-in-chief. Several days later the Pope appointed him Minister of War.
Mérode devoted many years to public works. He paid for the construction of the Campo Pretoriano outside Porta Pia, the construction of new streets, the sanitation of the old quarters by the Tiber and other projects.
His temperament and progressive views made him enemies among the Roman society. He attacked the French Emperor's duplicity, making enemies in the leadership of the French army of occupation. Opposition to the Monsignor finally forced Pope Pius IX to dismiss him in 1865, but he was not about to abandon one of his most faithful servants. Mérode became papal almoner and titular Archbishop of Melitene in 1866. His new duties were to distribute the papal alms and to confirm children in danger of death. At the First Vatican Council, he showed the influence exercised over him by his brother-in-law de Montalembert and sided with the minority that deemed the definition of papal infallibility inopportune and even dangerous, but submitted the day the dogma was defined.
After the capture of Rome by the Piedmontese on 20th September 1870, he joined the Pope in retirement within the Vatican, leaving only to fight the Piedmontese government's pretensions on the Campo Pretoriano or to share de Rossi's work in the excavations of Tor Marancino, which resulted in the discovery of the Basilica of St. Petronilla.
Monsignor de Mérode made one of his last official speeches on 14th June 1874 when he addressed a group of American pilgrims and talked about his family connections with the famous French and American revolutionary Lafayette. He spoke of his regret that the talented general had turned away from the faith, but also spoke of the great contributions to Catholicism that were being made by the nation he helped to build. Not long after, de Mérode died of pneumonia in the arms of Blessed Pius IX, only a matter of months before he was scheduled to be made a Cardinal and Prince of the Catholic Church.
He was buried in the Flemish Cemetery near the Vatican with a turnout that included his fellow clergymen , princes whose rights he always supported and a mass of poor people of Rome for whom he had done so much.
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Father Antonio D’Alessandri ( L’Aquila, 1818 – Rome, 1893) and his brother Paolo Francesco D’Alessandri (L’Aquila, 1824 – Rome, 1889) were the founder of one of the most famous ateliers in Rome and in Italy.
The two brothers moved from L'Aquila to Rome in 1850 and started to travel across Italy and Europe in order to study photography. As a result, they opened their atelier in Rome in 1856. It was the first atelier ever opened in Rome.
Father Antonio was very talented and the atelier became very popular among the Roman Society and Curia. Pope Pius IX and his court, cardinals, bishops, nobles, soldiers and the King and Queen of Naples in exile were portrayed in the atelier. Its reputation spread soon in whole Europe.
In 1862, the brothers photographed the camp of the Papal Zouaves and five years later they photographed the battlefields of Monterotondo and Mentana.
In 1870, they portrayed the Bersaglieri over the ruins of Porta Pia after the fall of Rome and the atelier gained the hostility of the Roman Curia which revoked all the privileges granted.
The many arguments between the Roman Curia and Father Antonio became so exasperating he decided to leave the priesthood.
The atelier was already successful and didn’t need any privileges of the Roman Curia. They continued to portray the Roman Society, from the poor to the nobles, for many years until their deaths. Tito and Renato, son and grandson of Paolo Francesco, took over the atelier and ran it until 1950, when it was definitively closed.
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Last evening five bombs have ripped through busy shopping areas of India's capital, Delhi, within minutes of each other, killing at least 20 people and injuring about 90 people.
Four unexploded bombs were also found and defused, police said.
More than 400 people have died since October 2005 in bomb attacks on Indian cities such as Ahmedabad and Bangalore.
CNN-IBN, a local TV news channel, said it had received an e-mail before the blasts from a group calling itself the "Indian Mujahideen".
"Do whatever you can. Stop us if you can," the e-mail reportedly said.
The same group has claimed responsibility for two other recent bombing attacks.
Pakistan has joined in official Indian condemnation of the attacks.
Connaught Place, Karol Bagh , Barakhamba Road, Greater Kailash area, all those places where I always enjoy to go on Saturday evenings...
They want to break the spirit of Delhi, the city of all people, all languages, all religions, all colours...
But those who did this are not humans no more, they have no religion, no God, they are nothing.
This is a close-up of "Le Squelette", a sculpture by Ligier Richier (1500-1567) which is on the grave of René de Châlons, Prince of Orange wich is in the Saint-Maxe church located in Bar-le-Duc in Meuse (France).
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Avignon was Greek Emporium founded by Phocaeans from Marseille around 539 BC. Much later it became a Roman colony, named "Colonia Julia Hadriana Avenniensis". During the migration period the Goths looted the town and in 472 Avignon was sacked by the Burgundians.
In 500 Clovis I, King of the Franks besieged Avignon as his arch-enemy Gondebaud had taken refuge in Avignon. Clovis devastated the fields, cut down the vines and olive trees, and destroyed the orchards.
In 734 it fell into the hands of the Saracens, and it was destroyed in 737 by the Franks under Charles Martel. Avignon recovered and in 916 King of Provence Louis the Blind restored the churches of Saint-Ruf and Saint-Géniès to the diocese of Avignon. At the end of the 9th century, Avignon suffered again by Muslim attacks.
After the division of Charlemagne´s empire, Avignon was owned jointly by the Count of Provence and the Count of Toulouse. In 1135 the rights were resigned to the local Bishops and Consuls.
At the end of the 12th century, Avignon declared itself an independent republic. When in 1226, the citizens refused to open the gates to King Louis VIII of France, the French besieged the Avignon and after it was captured forced it to pull down its ramparts .
In 1271, Philip III of France inherited Avignon and passed it to his son Philip the Fair in 1285. It passed in turn in 1290 to Charles II of Naples, who thereafter remained the lord of the city.
The University of Avignon was founded by Pope Boniface VIII in 1303 and was famed as a seat of legal studies, flourishing until the French Revolution.
In 1309 the city was chosen by Pope Clement V as his residence at the time of the Council of Vienne. Avignon, rather than Rome was the seat of the Papacy. Avignon became the Pontifical residence under Pope Clement V in 1309. His successor, John XXII made it the capital of Christianity and transformed his former episcopal palace into the primary Palace of the Popes.
Under the Papal rule, the Court seethed and attracted many painters, sculptors and musicians. The Gothic palace was the result, in its construction and ornamentation, of the joint work of the best French architects. The papal library in Avignon was the largest in Europe in the 14th century with 2,000 volumes.
Gregory XI decided to return to Rome. His death caused the Great Schism. Clement VII and Benedict XIII reigned again in Avignon. Overall it was nine popes who succeeded in the papal palace.
Avignon was a papal possession up to the French Revolution.
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The construction of the Palais, that is one of the largest medieval structures in Europe, began in 1252. The Palais was built in two phases with two distinct segments, known as the "Palais Vieux" and "Palais Neuf". By the time of its completion, it occupied an area of 11,000 m².
The Palais Vieux was constructed by Pierre Poisson of Mirepoix at the instruction of Pope Benedict XII. Benedict had the original episcopal palace razed and replaced with a much larger building centred on a cloister, heavily fortified against attackers. Under Popes Clement VI, Innocent VI and Urban V, the building was expanded to form what is now known as the Palais Neuf.
The Palais des Papes is the main attraction in Avignon, so tourists line up in front of the entrance. Seen to the left is the Romanesque cathedral "Notre Dame des Doms". The gilded statue of the Virgin was added in the 19th century.