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Yet another shot from Worcester Cathedral, handheld, Zeiss ExoLens (Wide-Angle), ever so slightly indoctrinated in 'Photos' on iMac.
Como es habitual en la escultura románica, en el relieve del Descendimiento del claustro de Silos, prevalecen los valores simbólicos sobre los afanes naturalistas. La escena no intenta conmover, sino ilustrar y adoctrinar.
Sin embargo, en este relieve se cuida cada detalle y en su composición abundan las líneas ondulantes que le proporcionan un extraordinario dinamismo.
La Cruz ocupa el centro de la composición, Cristo aparece con la mano derecha desclavada que es sujetada por la virgen hacia su rostro; gesto de respeto con origen en el mundo bizantino.
Cristo es de mayor tamaño que el resto de personajes, siguiendo el mismo esquema que la perspectiva jerárquica del arte románico con origen en el bizantino.
As usual in Romanesque sculpture, in the relief of the Descent from the cloister of Silos, symbolic values prevail over naturalistic desires. The scene does not try to move, but to illustrate and indoctrinate.
However, in this relief every detail is taken care of and its composition abounds in undulating lines that provide it with extraordinary dynamism.
The Cross occupies the center of the composition, Christ appears with his right hand unnailed, which is held by the Virgin towards her face; gesture of respect originating in the Byzantine world.
Christ is larger than the rest of the characters, following the same scheme as the hierarchical perspective of Romanesque art originating from the Byzantine.
Stars the most influential symbol in our hierographic system. From authorities to praise, we are indoctrinated with stars from the nursery rhymes and up to death. Shine it on Star Bright, from rising star to Shooting star to falling star. The star is deeply embedded in everyone's mind.
Stars the most influential symbol in our hierographic system. From money to sweets, from authorities to praise, we are indoctrinated with stars from the nursery rhymes and up to death. Shine it on Star Bright.
My little empire for 10 years in the children home "Egon Schultz" in Rostock (former GDR). From that distance it looks almost cosy - I really don't know how that could happen!
The postcard on the left shows one of my few joys, "der kleine Maulwurf" (the little mole) - a czech cartoon series shown on GDR television. Only many years later I realised that one of the most popular cartoon characters in the GDR was a tunnel digging mole. And mole is also in German a synonym for a spy. :)
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Freecam by Otis & Skall_Edit
Universal UE4 Unlocker by Otis
Fortress Inquisitorius was an underwater stronghold located on the moon Nur. It served as the headquarters of the Imperial Inquisitor Program. The existence of the fortress was hidden from the majority of the Empire. In 14 BBY, during the Jedi Purge, a battle took place within the fortress.
The Imperial Dojo served as the training room of the Inquisitorius, allowing both Inquisitors and Purge Troopers to hone their skills. The training was fear-based, dark and abusive in nature, standing in contrast to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant.
Jedi and Force-sensitive beings were kept for interrogation, torture and experimentation. Prisoners remained confined here until they met their final abominable fate.
The central interrogation chamber was a torture room where Jedi and Force-users underwent a menacing procedure to transform them into Inquisitors. The room was designed, under instruction from Emperor Palpatine himself, to psychologically and physically drain a prisoner's will, forcing them to acquiesce to the evil indoctrination of the Inquisitorius.
How much longer are we going to allow children to be kept in cages here? We are supposedly a civilized country, and that is no way to treat children!! Surely we are above the fear we are being presented with!!! Release the children please!
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Football, it's an extraordinarily male thing... although my Dad never took me to a football match or even an empty football stadium EVER. And still he hasn't. I never "got" football, but my brothers did. Incessantly did my brothers and my (male) friends go on and on and on about football..... but it is a never ending subject for so many. And here another indoctrination begins......
There are adults who are actively teaching
Violence against others to their children
Indoctrination into a sort of religion
Glorifying violence as their God
Humanity….
"It was a nice idea while it lasted”
vs.
“It ain’t over ’till it’s over”
Which one is accurate?
We are in a time when it is ok to follow the leader
Even if the person in power incites violence
Convinces you that you are somehow better
And separate from the others
You actually have much more in common with
Darwin would recognize all of this as
Survival of the Fittest
And say it’s in our DNA
Unavoidable like an endless plague.
Humanity should come with a warning label.
Just because you say it over and over again
Doesn’t make it true
Rhymes and media can’t change the fact
The one in power is filled with hatred and damage
No TV spots will change the reality of a reality star
His actions speak louder than words
But the words are not so great, either
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody,
and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?” "
I keep wondering…
Were there two early humans who picked up a sharp rock…
Each determined to make different choices
One, decided to do art and drew on the cave
The other chose the path to violence
Art vs. War which one will last longer?
And the one who saw nature as a weapon…
Did that early human bludgeon the artist anyway?
Have we been doomed from the start?
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Proverbs 31:8 “Speak out for the one who cannot speak, for the rights of those who are doomed.”
Canada’s euthanasia program is called Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID). They give the “patient” a paralytic; then they give them a drug, which causes their lungs to fill with liquid. Therefore, the patient drowns to death. If the patient does this “medical treatment” by IV, it takes 10-15 minutes for them to drown. If the patient takes the drug orally, it takes between 30 minutes to 24 hours for them to drown.
I first heard of euthanasia when I was in high school. It was touted as a good and compassionate thing. When I heard about it, I immediately thought of the Nazis. I spoke up against it, and I was ridiculed. Indoctrination masked as education: the Nazi’s liked to use propaganda too. Nihilism breeds useful idiots.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YYxOfwrsrU
Jeremiah 8:22 “Is there no medicine in Gilead? Are there no doctors there? Why, then, have my people not been healed?”
Inside the Cherry Hill Church, Highway 16, South of Culbertson, Montana. These drawings have been on the wall for more than 20 years. Possibly as long as forty years.
For the back story, click on the image below.
“The term (political correctness) first appeared in Marxist-Leninist vocabulary following the Russian Revolution of 1917. At that time it was used to describe adherence to the policies and principles of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (that is, the party line).” – Encyclopedia Britannica
The communists killed millions and millions of their people in order to create a utopian society based on equality. In communism, one must be “politically correct.” If you say something wrong you might disappear in the night, never to be seen again. Of course, self-censorship and voluntary compliance are preferred by the regime. Indoctrination keeps an individual within the proper ideological bounds of the state.
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” – William Douglas
Many cannot recognize the threat of censorship, because they are ignorant of the crimes of communism. The public is more aware of the atrocities of the Nazis, as opposed to the atrocities of the communists. This is what happens when universities are bastions of Marxism, and professors are fond of Karl Marx. (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto). My grandpa, who went through the Great Depression, used to say, “People go to university to become socialists.” So this stuff is nothing new! This is what leftists call the “long march through the institutions.” The plan was to infiltrate the institutions of the West in order to transform them from the inside out. The Long March of the 1960s sowed the doctrines of critical theory (neo-Marxism). (Critical theory came out of the Frankfurt School). These seeds produced various kinds of critical theory: critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial/decolonial theory, feminist theory, critical environmental theory, and critical pedagogy. Our children are being taught these subversive ideologies, even though they are rooted in evil. The fruits of these ideologies have produced mass death and misery. They gave us Stalin’s Great Purges and Mao’s Great Leap Forward. Indeed, the communists regulated speech, and millions died.
“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” – Potter Stewart
Regulating hate speech is undemocratic; it is rooted in totalitarianism. Regulating hate speech is a way of enforcing the politically correct doctrine of the day. It suppresses free speech, and it suppresses open dialogue. It suppresses critical thinking, and it suppresses creativity. And it will eventually lead to the criminalization of ideological opposition.
“Misinformation, disinformation, hate speech and other risks to the information ecosystem are fueling conflict, threatening democracy and human rights, and undermining public health and climate action.” – United Nations
The West is losing its freedom of speech. People in England are being arrested for social media posts. In Germany, they are trying to ban a political party. We saw Western governments colluding with big tech to censor dissenting views during COVID-19. Various politicians want to fight misinformation and disinformation. The European Union also wants to crackdown on what it deems as misinformation and disinformation. What they are doing, however, is fighting against freedom of speech—against freedom.
“The proliferation of misinformation and disinformation threatens to erode the credibility of public institutions and limit their capacity to implement policies that enhance public well-being.” – World Bank
When central bank digital currencies and social credit scores are implemented, you better watch what you say or do. If you say or do the wrong thing, you will have your money frozen. You will be like the Canadian truckers, who had their bank accounts frozen during COVID-19. With quantum computing, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven technologies, a surveillance apparatus is being built. This Beast system will be an authoritarian dystopia like the world has never known.
“In this case wisdom is needed: Let the person who has understanding calculate the total number of the beast, because it is a human total number, and the sum of the number is 666.” – Revelation 13:18
Now you can join the ranks of the illustrious
In history's great dark hall of fame
All our greatest killers were industrious
At least the ones that we all know by name
But you can reach the top of your profession
If you become the leader of the land
For murder is the sport of the elected
And you don't need to lift a finger of your hand
Because it's murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your ABC
Murder by numbers, one, two, three
It's as easy to learn as your A, B, C, D, E
THE POLICE - PLAY
The idea for this photo was conceived after watching the appalling and horrific scenes after the attack on the Children’s and Maternity hospital in Mariupol by Russian air strikes, ordered by Vladimir Putin.
My scene represents the innocence of childhood, violently blown away by bombs on Ukraine.
But the scene also works another way.
I also see the innocent minds of Russian children, indoctrinated from birth into false truths, blind acceptance, and (in some cases) pointless early violent deaths; all because of the deluded visions of one man’s tyrannical obsessions.
None of these children win.
CAN YOU HELP?
Millions of ordinary Ukrainians have lost their loved one’s, their homes, their livelihoods.
Many of these people now have no access to food, clean clothing, warm blankets, shelter, and clean running water.
Please donate if you can, to:
The INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS (HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN UKRAINE) :
www.icrc.org/en/where-we-work/europe-central-asia/ukraine
The DISASTERS EMERGENCY COMMIT Y (UKRAINE HUMANITARIAN APPEAL) :
www.dec.org.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAiAvaGRBhBlEiwAiY-yMLlwl8yvJkI...
Thank you for not looking away.
Determined, hardened feral feline climbs wall as guards blast him... with 00 ought catnip!!!
Questioned after his capture, "Rusty LeRoux" (aka, "Bengal") was asked why he tried to escape.
LeRoux said, "I am a newborn kitten and I just wanted a better life for myself".
Prison officials said he wouldn't have made it far on the outside due to his home-made prison stripe tattoos and hardcore personality.
The warden was overheard saying, "Once they are indoctrinated to prison life they never stay straight, they always come back, one way or another".
The struggle is real...
(This is a feral cat...)
A detail from the “Ordensburg Vogelsang”, an “educational” center of the National Socialists used between 1936 and 1939 where they indoctrinated their aspiring leaders with the idea that they are superior to all other human beings. These young men went through this door – a so well-crafted place on a most beautiful spot in the Eifel National Park, but all with such an awful idea. An idea so hard to grasp and so hard to eradicate.
explored June 21st, 2021
I've seen several mentions of Fathers Day in the posts today and thought I'd add one of my own from my early indoctrination to railfanning. We're in the Pennsylvania RR's Dennison yard in December 1961 on a family drive and Dad has decided that a little elevation would improve the shot fo a PRR center cab Lima that he's about to take. i can still hear Mom yelling at me to get back in the car while not being too happy with Dad. I did get my own lousy shot of the above mentioned PRR Lima. Times were way different then. Dad was a couple years removed from being an NKP employee and while it was never 'legal', he didn't give much thought to getting up on a box car in the middle of an active yard. To say the damage was done to an impressionable 9 year old is an understatement. At 91, he isn't an active railfan, but we did spend some time today talking trains. It's been a great 'affliction' to inherit.
Modern cults pose a significant danger due to their ability to manipulate and control individuals, leading to psychological, emotional, and even physical harm. These cults often employ sophisticated techniques of indoctrination, isolation, and mind control to exploit the vulnerabilities of their members. They employ charismatic leaders who manipulate their followers' beliefs, coerce them into severing ties with family and friends, and enforce strict obedience to their ideologies.
Barcelona, Spain.
Excerpt from agb.life/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/agb-tir-brochure-fina...:
Time Isn’t Real
Time isn’t real. Well, it is, and it isn’t. The sun and moon rise and fall, and stuff happens in between. At the Art Gallery of Burlington (AGB), that stuff in between has been happening for fifty years!
The exhibitions, projects, and programs in our golden anniversary year push beyond celebratory timestamping and make space for open discussions on the futurity of art and clay. We are using this half-century celebration of artistic production, cultural festivities, connections, and storytelling as an opportunity to bring multiple generations of Canadian clay artists together to disrupt the arrogance of time. It is not a survey or biennale of contemporary ceramics, but a blending (or bending) of time, so that what we might call the past, or understand as the future, can be seen as imagining the now—the now as the future. It works against prescribing a unidirectional time trap because the gallery, like clay, is active and our histories are complex and many.
The exhibition’s title is taken from the words and guidance of Kim Wheatly, Ojibwe Anishinaabe Grandmother from Shawanaga First Nation Reserve, who reminds us that indoctrinated time is not the only reading or measure of time, and that the natural cycles of earth and cosmos inform our ways of being. What is time in the context of one of the oldest artforms in existence, one comprised of a material—earthen clay—that embodies the passing of time itself?
Ekorak V2 (?) WIP Finally fixed his stupid back, so I can show a picture of that.
Obtained the pod piece from Brickfair Alabama this year. Got to meet Evan (Maethorneth), and Black Six, indoctrinated a fellow friend into MOCing, and such. Expect a post relatively soon about said new MOCist, as he's gonna need some help to get on his feet MOC wise.
Sorry for the long gap in posts. I've been burned out and had a MOC block for a while now. Hopefully more frequent posts soon. Thanks!
On January 25, 1554, was held in front of the hut covered with palm leaves of about ninety square meters - or, as described by Anchieta, ten by fourteen steps carnation (Portuguese carnation step was a linear measure) - Mass who officiated at the birth of the Jesuit college.
In 1556, Father Afonso Brás, precursor of Brazilian architecture, was responsible for the construction of rammed earth and a school attaches church. Quarrels between the settlers and the religious who defended the Indians, culminating in the expulsion of the Jesuits in place in 1640, where he would return only thirteen years later. In the second half of the seventeenth century, was erected the third building of rammed earth and stone.
The Courtyard of the College hosted the state government between the years 1765 and 1912, after allocation of the local state, serving as Palace of the Governors, due to the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portuguese lands, determined by the Marquis of Pombal in 1759 The former colonial house was completely disfigured by deep reforms during that period, especially in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
There are fragments of a wall of 1585, remnant of the old Jesuit College in the current building, which has inspired the original seventeenth century, since the church was demolished in 1896 and the Palace of the Governors in 1953, with the opening set in the current format 1979 houses the museum Anchieta.
Source: Wikipedia
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Like - will the kitchen in its wisdom be serving it up cold and wet again today and why?
(This is my 3rd visit to see Ngozi's new baby and the 3rd time I've missed him. Is he undergoing some special indoctrination procedure? Naaah. Just some basic courses on how to deal with his public. Haven't got a clue who this is - but I guess I should be more respectful.)
Drepung Gonpa འབྲས་སྤུངམཚོ་
Drepung Monastery was founded in 1416 by Jamyang Choje Tashi Palden (1397-1449), and named after the sacred abode of Shridhanyakataka in South India. Jamyang Choje was one of Tsongkhapa`s foremost disciples, and it is known that Tsongkhapa himself taught at the site of the new monastery. The complex developed rapidly with the assistance of the Phakmodru kings, especially Nedong Namka Zangpo, so that by its second year there were 2000 monks. In the early years of the 16th century, the Second Dalai Lama took possesion of the Ganden Podrang at Drepung, which was later to become an important centre of political power in Tibet. At the time when the Fifth Dalai Lama assumed spiritual and temporal power in 1641, Drepung had approximately 10000 affiliated monks, who hailed from 321 different branch monasteries and lived according to nationality in 50-60 different houses, making it the largest monastery in the world. Drepung`s influence within the Gelukpa world extended far to the east and northeast through Amdo and Mongolia. The abbot-preceptor of drepung, known as the Tripa Khenpo, was formerly an influential figure within the Tibetan government. Much of the 20000 sq m complex at Drepung has survived unscathed, despite repeated plunder inflicted upon it - by King Tsangpa Desi of Zhigatse during the civil war in 1618, by the Mongols in 1635, Lhazang Qan in 1706 and the Chinese during the recent Cultural Revolution. Many of the surviving buildings date from the 17th-18th century. The monastery reopened in 1980, with a population of approximately 500, most of them young novices, but in recent years the numbers have been considerably reduced in consequence of the active programme of political indoctrination initiated here by resident communist party cadres. The complex consists of the Central Assembly Hall ( Tsokchen Lhakang), the Ganden Palace ( Ganden Podrang), and a series of seven colleges ( Tratsang), each originally under the control of one or other of Jamyang Choje`s students, and each containing its own residential units (Khangtsang). Four of these colleges (Ngakpa, Loseling, Deyang, and Tashi Gomang) survive to the present. The other three, Dulwa, Sha-khor, and Tosamling, unfortunately declined during the 18th century. The pilgrim`s circumambulatory route around Drepung follows the sequence Ganden Podrang, assembly Hall, Ngakpa Tratsang, Jamyang Lhakhang, Loseling Tratsang, Tashi Gomang Tratsang and Deyang Tratsang. Drepung Monastery [In U west of Lhasa at dge 'phel dbu rtse. One of three great Geluk monasteries established by Jamyang lord of Dharma Tashi Palden. The 5th Dalai, by means of uniting the two traditions of the stream of Geluk dharma, and Tibetan administration of the Tibetan government Tibet completely kha lo sgyur ba'i lam lugs de first built this monastery's Gandan palace.].. Drepung Monastery [W of Lhasa [R] www.footprinttravelguides.com/c/2848/tibet/&Action=pr...
Check out this kid I snapped at Ueno Zoo the other day. Looked about six years old and he is already handling a serious body while manual focusing a 50mm. Nikon probably has this one hooked for life.
Can any Nikon users identify the body (you can zoom in to original 24MP size)?
To the people linking to this on tumbler saying this will be their future son, pray that your son or daughter finds for themselves something that makes them happy even if it doesn't involve blogging or photography.
why does the soul, the psyche need so much indoctrination? in order to live? (in order that the body may continue its biological life?) or because the whole life of the soul is a life of learning: passing from one experience to another and learning through each, of becoming more wise through each, more enlightened, and eventually, more and more, one with the source of all light.
--The Contemplative words of Robert Lax (In the Beginning was Love)
www.divine-name.info/coins.htm
Origin: The Netherlands - 1619
Silver coin of the Synod of Dort (by W. van Bijlaer)
Image:
The temple on mountain Sion, below the radiating Divine Name, wind coming from 4 directions.
The temple is used as a symbol for heaven. Pilgrims are climbing the hill. The pilgrims are used as a symbol for ‘the wind of false indoctrination’, tossed back and forth by the waves – Ephesians 4:14.
Text:
ERVNT VT MONS SION CIC IC CXIX
“Up to mountain Sion 1619”
The Synod of Dort was set up by the Dutch Reformed Church, to resolve serious disputes caused by followers of Arminianism. Remonstrants had published a publication, in 1610, outlining the teachings of James Arminius. The main objective of the Synod was a rule between Remonstrants and opponents of the Remonstrants. The first meeting was on November 13, 1618. The President of the Council, Reverend John Bogerman of Leeuwarden, was an opponent of the Remonstrants. The Remonstrant party was summed, not as an equal party but as defendants. They were even excluded from the deliberations of the Synod on January 14, 1619. The Synod ruled in favour of the Contra - Remonstrants. The decision of the Synod of Dort was displayed in 5 main points known as the Canons of Dort. The Canons of Dort are part of the three official declarations of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Netherlands.
The Synod of Dort also decided to translate the Bible in dutch. The ‘Statenvertaling’ (The State Translation) was ready in 1637. Also adopted was the Canon Law of Dort, still used in many Reformed Churches.
The Synod closed on May 9, 1619, after 154 meetings. Members of Reformed Churches from eight foreign countries were present.
For more explanation and a larger picture please visit our page "Worldwide - The Netherlands - Dordt"
On January 25, 1554, was held in front of the hut covered with palm leaves of about ninety square meters - or, as described by Anchieta, ten by fourteen steps carnation (Portuguese carnation step was a linear measure) - Mass who officiated at the birth of the Jesuit college.
In 1556, Father Afonso Brás, precursor of Brazilian architecture, was responsible for the construction of rammed earth and a school attaches church. Quarrels between the settlers and the religious who defended the Indians, culminating in the expulsion of the Jesuits in place in 1640, where he would return only thirteen years later. In the second half of the seventeenth century, was erected the third building of rammed earth and stone.
The Courtyard of the College hosted the state government between the years 1765 and 1912, after allocation of the local state, serving as Palace of the Governors, due to the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portuguese lands, determined by the Marquis of Pombal in 1759 The former colonial house was completely disfigured by deep reforms during that period, especially in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
There are fragments of a wall of 1585, remnant of the old Jesuit College in the current building, which has inspired the original seventeenth century, since the church was demolished in 1896 and the Palace of the Governors in 1953, with the opening set in the current format 1979 houses the museum Anchieta.
Source: Wikipedia
Thanks for visiting and comments on my photo.
To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is it's justice; that is it's morality.
Talking Heads “Psycho Killer”
I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I
Can't relax
I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire
Don't touch me I'm a real live wire
[Chorus:]
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-far better
Run run run run run run run away
Psycho Killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-fa-far better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run, away
You start a conversation you can't even finish it.
You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything.
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
Say something once, why say it again?
[Chorus]
Ce que j'ai fais, ce soir la
Ce qu'elle a dit, ce soir la
Realisant mon espoir
Je me lance, vers la gloire, OK
We are vain and we are blind
I hate people when they're not polite
[Chorus]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
On January 25, 1554, was held in front of the hut covered with palm leaves of about ninety square meters - or, as described by Anchieta, ten by fourteen steps carnation (Portuguese carnation step was a linear measure) - Mass who officiated at the birth of the Jesuit college.
In 1556, Father Afonso Brás, precursor of Brazilian architecture, was responsible for the construction of rammed earth and a school attaches church. Quarrels between the settlers and the religious who defended the Indians, culminating in the expulsion of the Jesuits in place in 1640, where he would return only thirteen years later. In the second half of the seventeenth century, was erected the third building of rammed earth and stone.
The Courtyard of the College hosted the state government between the years 1765 and 1912, after allocation of the local state, serving as Palace of the Governors, due to the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portuguese lands, determined by the Marquis of Pombal in 1759 The former colonial house was completely disfigured by deep reforms during that period, especially in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
There are fragments of a wall of 1585, remnant of the old Jesuit College in the current building, which has inspired the original seventeenth century, since the church was demolished in 1896 and the Palace of the Governors in 1953, with the opening set in the current format 1979 houses the museum Anchieta.
Source: Wikipedia
Thanks for visiting and comments on my photo.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (Aug. 12, 2022) Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, from the United States Naval Academy class of 2026 are given the opportunity to meet with their families during Plebe Parents Weekend, a time for the families of the incoming class to see the progress made during Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. As the undergraduate college of our country's naval service, the Naval Academy prepares young men and women to become professional officers of competence, character, and compassion in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. (U.S. Navy photo by 2nd Lt. Duncan Stoner)
DESIGNATION: Protector-018
NICKNAME: Galaar
RANK: ARC Lieutenant Grade 1
UNIT: Vornskr, First Regiment, "Bralor's First", 253rd Elite Clone Legion
"Galaar means hawk in Mando'a the native language of the Mandalorians, a name given to Protector Class ARC Trooper 018 for his abnormally keen vision and hunting instinct. In a sense, like the rest of his Protector brethren, Galaar was everything that the Kaminoans had designed him to be, an apex predator. It was during the initial combat simulations when Galaar first learned of his aptitude towards reconnaissance and tracking, a bi-product of a slight genetic mishap which heightened his senses. While not significant enough to warrant special assignment, Galaar's mutation peaked the interest of Mandalorian Huntress and Cuy'val Dar member, Vhonte Tervho. Tervho took Galaar under her wing and taught him the ways of the hunt, indoctrinating him further into the Mandalorian culture and molding him into an expert scout, tracker, and sapper. She would later give him the name "Galaar" after observing him during his 3rd phase combined arms trials, where 018 served as a point man for his platoon, acting as their eyes and ears on the battle field. It was here he exceled, often cut off from his unit, but still effective, relaying information and sabotaging the enemy at every opportunity, he was good at it that he was put up for promotion prior to the First Battle of Geonosis. Galaar was confident and rightfully so, Cabur and Vhonte Tervho has trained him well, he was part of what may be the most elite fighting force the Galaxy would ever see, so when word came that the Legion would be mobilized and sent to Geonosis to rescue a Jedi task force, Galaar didn't worry, the mission would be textbook, just like the simulations.
Unfortunately for the young ARC trooper he was wrong.
The First Battle of Geonosis, saw the integration of over a thousand regular clone troopers into the 253rd's ranks, separating the elite ARC troopers of Fenn Bralor's Raysh'olan Ade, and putting them in charge of brothers whom they never met nor trained with before. This decision by the commanders of the newly formed Grand Army of the Republic would prove to be disastrous for the 253rd and result in heavy casualties among both the ARCs and their trooper brethren. Galaar, was restricted during the battle, unable to play to his strengths, due to being forced to baby sit a platoon of troopers. Unlike is ARC brethren, Galaar could not just leave them and play the role of the scout as by doing so would jeopardize the entire squad and their mission. This put Galaar at a major disadvantage and it showed when Galaar's platoon took over fifty-percent casualties during their mission to destroy a small droid foundry in the planets southern hemisphere. Geonosis taught Galaar a harsh lesson, one he did not wish to repeat on the frozen waist land of Rhen Var. To remind himself of his responsibility as a leader to his men, Galaar would paint his armor with green markings, as the color green symbolizes "duty" in the Mandalorian culture. With his armor serving as a solemn reminder of the brothers lost on Geonosis and as promise to those who survived, Galaar began the work of transforming his squad of regular clone troopers into force which would make the Mandalorians back on Kamino proud...
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Well that was long, please let me know if I started to ramble anywhere if you happen to read the whole thing.
After deciding that giving Vornskr cold assault armor Rhen Var would break the timeline I'm trying to follow and my goals of a more structured story, I've decided to retcon their initial appearance, by giving Galaar standard Phase 1 ARC armor, and the members of Vornskr Squad unpainted phase 1 armor.
I hope to post my 1.2 build tomorrow in celebration of May 4th and my 1.3 some time in the next week or two. After that it'll likely be time to build again for World in Darkness.
As always thanks for stopping by, especially if you've read this far and have a good one!
-Tommy