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On Thursday, December 14th, the Los Angeles Fire Department provided a media demonstration of the UAVs, better known as drones. The LAFD drone fleet consists of two DJI Matrice 100s and two DJI Phantom 4 Pros. One Matrice 100 is equipped with a HD camera for area survey and the second Matrice 100 has Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR) to assess hotspots. For more information and to view the footage from the demonstration, go to: bit.ly/lafdUAV
Date: 12.14.2017
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Cast from matrices struck from the same punches as Mayeur & Co's Elzevir from 1878 (based on a model from a 1634 book by the Elzevirs of Leyden).
From A.D. Farmer & Son Typographic specimens 1900.
On the overlaps between eigenvectors of correlated random matrices. Bun, Bouchaud, Potters arxiv.org/abs/1603.04364 #q-fin
Calascibetta is a comune in Sicily, Italy in the Province of Enna.Calascibetta is a small town in Sicily. The town Calascibetta is located 7 kilometres north of Enna and can be seen from the provincial capital. Although once inhabited by Siculi, the town was seized in 841 by the Arabs and used as a base for the conquest of Enna. The Arabs gave the new town the name Kala Scibet. The Norman king Roger I also besieged Enna from Calascibetta. Only the bell tower of the present church of San Pietro remains from the former Norman castle. The Chiesa Matrice from the 14th Century houses a Bible in Gothic script in the treasury of the church.A number of necropolis of the 9th and 5th century BC show that the area was inhabited at least since that time. The present town was however founded in 851 by the Saracens, who named it Kalat Schibet (meaning castle on the Xibet mountain in a quiet place) it was fortified with walls and a castle which Count Roger had built in 1062, along with the church to St. Peter and Santa Maria Assunta. King Pietro of Aragona died here on 15 august 1532, though his body was then buried in Palermo, in the Palazzo dei Normanni. In 1428 king Alphonse gave to a Jewish community the quarter that still today is called "Giudea". Under Carles V in 1535 Calascibetta was given as a fiefdom to Ludovico Vernagallo, but the town collected the funds necessary to buy back its independence, which the emperor granted, along with exemption from custom duties. Again in 1668 the town had to ransom its independence with Charles II of Spain, who granted Calascibetta the title of "Fidelissima". The parish church of San Pietro and Santa Maria Maggiore, with an inscription along the left side of the main portal, declaring the origin of the town: "Rogerius comes et templi fundator et urbis" (=count Roger founder of both the church and the town). The church hosts an invaluable collection of art works, as well as a treasury with ancient items and relic holders. The church of Maria Santissima del Carmelo, inside which there is a fine marble sculpture, The Annunciation, the work of Antonello Gagini.
Calascibetta è un comune italiano di 4.629 abitanti della provincia di Enna in Sicilia.Calascibetta dista 6 km da Enna, 39 km da Caltanissetta e 111 km da Agrigento. È situata sui monti Erei, in una zona collinare interna; sullo spartiacque fra i bacini dei fiumi Simeto e Imera Meridionale. È posta a 619 metri sopra il livello del mare.Il nome Calascibetta deriva dall'arabo "Qalat-sciabat" che significa "il castello sulla vetta" a sottolineare la particolare posizione geografica del paese. Fu abitata già in epoca antichissima, come testimoniano le necropoli della Calcarella (XI-X secolo a.C.), di Realmese (con tombe dei secoli IX e VIII secolo a.C.), di valle coniglio (sec. X-VII a.C.) e di Malpasso (età del rame).Frequentata in epoca bizantina come attestano documenti ottocenteschi relativi a grotte basiliane affrescate, abitata in periodo arabo, come lo stesso nome suggerisce, Calascibetta, dopo la conquista normanna dell'isola appare menzionata nel 1062, quando fu fortificata da Ruggero I, che fece costruire il primo borgo, durante l'assedio di Castrogiovanni, e il grande duomo dedicandolo alla Vergine e San Pietro. In seguito rimasta città demaniale, conosce un periodo di ineguagliato splendore, favorita e preferita come fu dai re aragonesi, tra cui Pietro II che durante un soggiorno vi spirò, che la dotarono, sull'esempio dei normanni, di templi e monumenti.La Necropoli di Realmese è un sito archeologico presso Calascibetta. Questo sito è una necropoli con circa trecento tombe a "grotticella" molto particolari, risalenti al periodo compreso tra il IX e l'VIII secolo a.C.Per trovarlo ci sono molte indicazioni stradali però non è molto facile raggiungerlo a causa dell'orografia del territorio circostante
Matrix-engraving pattern from D. Stempel AG for Hermann Zapf’s Aldus typeface (Aldus-Buchschrift). Photographed at the Schriftgießerei Gerstenberg at the Haus für Industriekultur in Darmstadt – an Außenstelle of the Hessisches Landesmusuem.
If you want your statistic students taught, or your donuts eaten, Tealeaf can get it done!
Tealeaf ( twitter.com/tealeafraccoon )
This looks like I don't know what the hell I'm doing with my PCB editor, but its just that I couldn't find a library for square LEDs. The large upper and lower matrices are all made with 2mm x 5mm rectangular
LEDs
I suspect no relationship here.
Ado's theorem states that every finite-dimensional Lie algebra L over a field K of characteristic zero can be viewed as a Lie algebra of square matrices under the commutator bracket. More precisely, the theorem states that L has a linear representation ρ over K, on a finite-dimensional vector space V, that is a faithful representation, making L isomorphic to a subalgebra of the endomorphisms of V.
No, not made up:
Editorial use only. No book cover usage.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Jasin Boland/Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5886046bq)
Keanu Reeves
The Matrix - 1999
Director: Andy & Larry Wachowski
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Matrix (La Matrice)
Calascibetta is a comune in Sicily, Italy in the Province of Enna.Calascibetta is a small town in Sicily. The town Calascibetta is located 7 kilometres north of Enna and can be seen from the provincial capital. Although once inhabited by Siculi, the town was seized in 841 by the Arabs and used as a base for the conquest of Enna. The Arabs gave the new town the name Kala Scibet. The Norman king Roger I also besieged Enna from Calascibetta. Only the bell tower of the present church of San Pietro remains from the former Norman castle. The Chiesa Matrice from the 14th Century houses a Bible in Gothic script in the treasury of the church.A number of necropolis of the 9th and 5th century BC show that the area was inhabited at least since that time. The present town was however founded in 851 by the Saracens, who named it Kalat Schibet (meaning castle on the Xibet mountain in a quiet place) it was fortified with walls and a castle which Count Roger had built in 1062, along with the church to St. Peter and Santa Maria Assunta. King Pietro of Aragona died here on 15 august 1532, though his body was then buried in Palermo, in the Palazzo dei Normanni. In 1428 king Alphonse gave to a Jewish community the quarter that still today is called "Giudea". Under Carles V in 1535 Calascibetta was given as a fiefdom to Ludovico Vernagallo, but the town collected the funds necessary to buy back its independence, which the emperor granted, along with exemption from custom duties. Again in 1668 the town had to ransom its independence with Charles II of Spain, who granted Calascibetta the title of "Fidelissima". The parish church of San Pietro and Santa Maria Maggiore, with an inscription along the left side of the main portal, declaring the origin of the town: "Rogerius comes et templi fundator et urbis" (=count Roger founder of both the church and the town). The church hosts an invaluable collection of art works, as well as a treasury with ancient items and relic holders. The church of Maria Santissima del Carmelo, inside which there is a fine marble sculpture, The Annunciation, the work of Antonello Gagini.
Calascibetta è un comune italiano di 4.629 abitanti della provincia di Enna in Sicilia.Calascibetta dista 6 km da Enna, 39 km da Caltanissetta e 111 km da Agrigento. È situata sui monti Erei, in una zona collinare interna; sullo spartiacque fra i bacini dei fiumi Simeto e Imera Meridionale. È posta a 619 metri sopra il livello del mare.Il nome Calascibetta deriva dall'arabo "Qalat-sciabat" che significa "il castello sulla vetta" a sottolineare la particolare posizione geografica del paese. Fu abitata già in epoca antichissima, come testimoniano le necropoli della Calcarella (XI-X secolo a.C.), di Realmese (con tombe dei secoli IX e VIII secolo a.C.), di valle coniglio (sec. X-VII a.C.) e di Malpasso (età del rame).Frequentata in epoca bizantina come attestano documenti ottocenteschi relativi a grotte basiliane affrescate, abitata in periodo arabo, come lo stesso nome suggerisce, Calascibetta, dopo la conquista normanna dell'isola appare menzionata nel 1062, quando fu fortificata da Ruggero I, che fece costruire il primo borgo, durante l'assedio di Castrogiovanni, e il grande duomo dedicandolo alla Vergine e San Pietro. In seguito rimasta città demaniale, conosce un periodo di ineguagliato splendore, favorita e preferita come fu dai re aragonesi, tra cui Pietro II che durante un soggiorno vi spirò, che la dotarono, sull'esempio dei normanni, di templi e monumenti.La Necropoli di Realmese è un sito archeologico presso Calascibetta. Questo sito è una necropoli con circa trecento tombe a "grotticella" molto particolari, risalenti al periodo compreso tra il IX e l'VIII secolo a.C.Per trovarlo ci sono molte indicazioni stradali però non è molto facile raggiungerlo a causa dell'orografia del territorio circostante
7 cicero polytype (from a wood matrice). circa 1837. Sadly not complete... Ornées, Laurent & Deberny, 1837
I got bored of proportional covariance matrices, so I made my first triptych with my friend the 50mm
Una matrice per aiutare ad identificare “che cosa vendo” seguendo due variabili chiave: l’orientamento al “prodotto” o al cliente e la razionalità dell’approccio rispetto al lato emotivo-psicologico.
i'm getting a couch for my birthday :)
shoes - Guess
jeans - Bullhead
tank - Ann Taylor
crop top - Modcloth ("Mod Matrices Top")
belt - unknown
Bracelet - the Sand Dollar
The Französische Antiqua typeface that Genzsch & Heyse and their E.J. Genzsch subsidiary sold was cast from matrices acquired from Paris. The French name for the original typeface is Série 16, produced at Laurent et Deberny. The original Série 16 punches were cut by Constant Aubert and Auguste Aubert. The site showing Berthe, ABYME’s revival of Série 16 mentions Jan Tschichold’s recommendation of the typeface in Die Neue Typografie:
“To my mind, looking at the modern romans, it is the unpretentious work of the anonymous type-designers that have best served the spirit of their age: Sorbonne, Nordische Antiqua, Französische Antiqua, and so on. These three typefaces and their derivatives are the best designs from the pre-war period. They are easily legible; they are also above all in a technical sense useful and free from personal idiosyncrasies – in the best sense of the word, uninteresting.”
Jan Tschichold, The New Typography: A Handbook for Modern Designers [1928] (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1998), p 76.
As an aside, I find it rather funny that none of the typefaces Tschichold named in that passage are anonymous works. We know the designers for each of them.
These Französische Antiqua pages are scanned from E.J. Genzsch’s 1902 catalog. In the 1920s, Genzsch & Heyse reissued their Französische Antiqua under the name Fridericus-Antiqua. Letterform Archive has two Fridericus-Antiqua brochures in its online archive, which you can see here and here.
On April 25, 2019 the Los Angeles Fire Department provided a demonstration of the Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) program for Councilmember Blumenfield and his staff. This event showcased the entire fleet, provided a live stream demo and highlighted the arrival of the newest addition, the DJI Matrice 600. The Matrice 600 was donated via the LAFD Foundation and is the largest drone in the fleet. It is capable of performing an active role within an incident. For example, it can drop rope lines and/or life preservers during a water rescue which could facilitate a quicker rescue.
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Furci Siculo is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 180 km east of Palermo and about 30 km southwest of Messina. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,287 and an area of 17.9 km².The municipality of Furci Siculo contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Grotte, Calcare, and Artale.Furci Siculo borders the following municipalities: Casalvecchio Siculo, Pagliara, Roccalumera, Santa Lucia del Mela, Santa Teresa di Riva, Savoca.
Furci Siculo è un comune italiano di 3.375 abitanti della provincia di Messina in Sicilia.
Fa parte del comprensorio della Valle d'Agrò e dell'Unione dei Comuni delle Valli joniche dei Peloritani, dal 2010 è gemellata con la città francese di Octeville-sur-Mer.Gli abitanti sono detti furcesi.Esso si sviluppa prevalentemente lungo la costa jonica messinese nonostante il suo territorio si estenda per circa 17 km all'interno della Sicilia fino a confinare con il comune di Santa Lucia del Mela.Fu, fino al 1854, frazione del Comune di Savoca, e successivamente, dal 1854 al 1919, frazione del Comune di Santa Teresa di Riva. Il 16 maggio 1924, con Bolla Arcivescovile venne eretta la chiesa-baracca della Madonna del Rosario a Chiesa Matrice, Parrocchiale ed Archimandritale. La costruzione del nuovo Duomo avvenne intorno al 1928. La solenne inaugurazione e benedizione avvenne il 4 ottobre 1931 da parte dell'Arcivescovo ed Archimandrita Mons. Angelo Paino ed alla presenza dell'Arciprete-Parroco don Vincenzo Castorina. Nel 1957 venne iniziata la costruzione della Cappella del SS.mo Rosario sul lato nord della Matrice, ad opera del benemerito Arciprete don Francesco Donsì. Essa venne inaugurata il 1° Ottobre del 1960 da Mons. Carmelo Canzonieri. In occasione del 50° anniversario dell'inaugurazione di suddetta Cappella (1° Ottobre 2010), la comunità parrocchiale di Furci Siculo si appresta a vivere, per volontà dell'Arciprete Mons. Giacinto Tavilla, il primo Anno Mariano Giubilare che porterà il piccolo comune ad essere centro di continui ed incessanti pellegrinaggi da parte dei fedeli dell'hinterland jonico e di tutta l'Arcidiocesi Metropolitana di Messina. A distanza di 86 anni dalla costituzione a parrocchia autonoma, la chiesa parrocchiale non è stata ancora eretta ad Arcipretura com'era nel cuore del popolo furcese.
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I had ordered some mats from the Type Archive recently, apparently the last they will produce before they go "into storage". One matrix was a lower case "t" that I thought was not aligned properly in my original mat case. I'm very new at operating a comp caster and don't know if I'm wrong about this, however, in the past with Lanston Monotype, this was an apparent concern from time to time. From correspondence with Roy Gurney, the late manager of the University of Toronto Press, he wrote the following about matrix alignment.
"I had several jousts with Lanston Monotype especially during the 50"s. My main customer for formula setting was becoming extremely critical about some items. E.g. the colon used in ratio viz 1:1 looked different when the ratio was for instance 1:2 it didn't look centred, this was getting a little 'hairy' so I ordered four or five matrices of the colon punctuation sign and because of the worn out machinery for punching the matrices they varied I selected one that would look centred and threw the rest away. We cast up some `sorts' and whenever the problem arose we would insert one by hand. Deliveries of special matrices was a 'bugbear'. For instance although we had alternate mats for the Greek letter `alpha', one of our big customers was not satisfied and showed me what she wanted, it was out of a British journal of course it was from the British Monotype Corporation's catalogue, it was frustrating to try and explain that that particular matrice was not available to Canadian typesetters. I ordered it from Lanston who had punches made (which they charged me for) and I got a matrix or two, (months later). While I was away one year our associate director told me that she had met the president of the Monotype Canada and had ordered the Bembo "it only cost $1500.00". Several years later and thousands of dollars we had a setup to ensure a reasonable quality job. We paid for I don't know how many punches to be cut, the irony was we paid for the punches and then any typesetter could order a matrix at a fraction of the cost. Later on when we had some British keyboards and casters I threw the original Bembo away and replace in its entirety with British matrices. "
Matrix-engraving pattern from D. Stempel AG for Hermann Zapf’s Palatino typeface (here still called by its working title, Medici-Antiqua). Photographed at the Schriftgießerei Gerstenberg at the Haus für Industriekultur in Darmstadt – an Außenstelle of the Hessisches Landesmusuem.
Fat Faces
Advertising and publishing typographers will be interested to know that Stephenson Blake have recently been examining some original matrices which they have in their archives of nineteenth-century Fat Faces, and hope, at a later date, to reissue a range of sizes of these types, particularly the vigorous early specimen shown here.
Stephenson Blake
Caslon
THE CASLON LETTER FOUNDRY SHEFFIELD
In: Alphabet and Image 5, September 1947
Encontrar plantillas nuevas, en las calles de la ciudad donde vivo, se está convirtiendo en algo muy difícil. Hay una persecución voraz contra de todo lo que tenga que ver con el graffiti. Es rara la semana que no sale algún artículo en el periódico sobre este tema. Multas y más multas a todo el que pillan infraganti. Bien es cierto que, algún capullo que solo se dedica a tachar con su nombre buenos murales, lo tenga bien merecido.
Está en la Plaza de Azcárraga, en un armario de suministro eléctrico blanco enfrente de la entrada al cuartel.
Una vez más, gracias a Erre por seguir mostrándonos todo su arte y talento. No pares nunca.
Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (Außendepot). Cabinet of steel typographic punches from the Bundesdruckerei, Berlin.
This is a partial showing of a collection of matrices originally sold at the final auction of American Type Founders in 1993. I couldn't bear to see the mats sold off on eBay one at a time, and purchased the whole lot in an attempt to keep them together. Hopefully they can be cast again sometime in the future.
On April 25, 2019 the Los Angeles Fire Department provided a demonstration of the Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) program for Councilmember Blumenfield and his staff. This event showcased the entire fleet, provided a live stream demo and highlighted the arrival of the newest addition, the DJI Matrice 600. The Matrice 600 was donated via the LAFD Foundation and is the largest drone in the fleet. It is capable of performing an active role within an incident. For example, it can drop rope lines and/or life preservers during a water rescue which could facilitate a quicker rescue.
LAFD Event: 042519
Photo Use Permitted via Creative Commons - Credit: LAFD Photo | Alex Gillman
LAFD Event: 031419
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Calascibetta is a comune in Sicily, Italy in the Province of Enna.Calascibetta is a small town in Sicily. The town Calascibetta is located 7 kilometres north of Enna and can be seen from the provincial capital. Although once inhabited by Siculi, the town was seized in 841 by the Arabs and used as a base for the conquest of Enna. The Arabs gave the new town the name Kala Scibet. The Norman king Roger I also besieged Enna from Calascibetta. Only the bell tower of the present church of San Pietro remains from the former Norman castle. The Chiesa Matrice from the 14th Century houses a Bible in Gothic script in the treasury of the church.A number of necropolis of the 9th and 5th century BC show that the area was inhabited at least since that time. The present town was however founded in 851 by the Saracens, who named it Kalat Schibet (meaning castle on the Xibet mountain in a quiet place) it was fortified with walls and a castle which Count Roger had built in 1062, along with the church to St. Peter and Santa Maria Assunta. King Pietro of Aragona died here on 15 august 1532, though his body was then buried in Palermo, in the Palazzo dei Normanni. In 1428 king Alphonse gave to a Jewish community the quarter that still today is called "Giudea". Under Carles V in 1535 Calascibetta was given as a fiefdom to Ludovico Vernagallo, but the town collected the funds necessary to buy back its independence, which the emperor granted, along with exemption from custom duties. Again in 1668 the town had to ransom its independence with Charles II of Spain, who granted Calascibetta the title of "Fidelissima". The parish church of San Pietro and Santa Maria Maggiore, with an inscription along the left side of the main portal, declaring the origin of the town: "Rogerius comes et templi fundator et urbis" (=count Roger founder of both the church and the town). The church hosts an invaluable collection of art works, as well as a treasury with ancient items and relic holders. The church of Maria Santissima del Carmelo, inside which there is a fine marble sculpture, The Annunciation, the work of Antonello Gagini.
Calascibetta è un comune italiano di 4.629 abitanti della provincia di Enna in Sicilia.Calascibetta dista 6 km da Enna, 39 km da Caltanissetta e 111 km da Agrigento. È situata sui monti Erei, in una zona collinare interna; sullo spartiacque fra i bacini dei fiumi Simeto e Imera Meridionale. È posta a 619 metri sopra il livello del mare.Il nome Calascibetta deriva dall'arabo "Qalat-sciabat" che significa "il castello sulla vetta" a sottolineare la particolare posizione geografica del paese. Fu abitata già in epoca antichissima, come testimoniano le necropoli della Calcarella (XI-X secolo a.C.), di Realmese (con tombe dei secoli IX e VIII secolo a.C.), di valle coniglio (sec. X-VII a.C.) e di Malpasso (età del rame).Frequentata in epoca bizantina come attestano documenti ottocenteschi relativi a grotte basiliane affrescate, abitata in periodo arabo, come lo stesso nome suggerisce, Calascibetta, dopo la conquista normanna dell'isola appare menzionata nel 1062, quando fu fortificata da Ruggero I, che fece costruire il primo borgo, durante l'assedio di Castrogiovanni, e il grande duomo dedicandolo alla Vergine e San Pietro. In seguito rimasta città demaniale, conosce un periodo di ineguagliato splendore, favorita e preferita come fu dai re aragonesi, tra cui Pietro II che durante un soggiorno vi spirò, che la dotarono, sull'esempio dei normanni, di templi e monumenti.La Necropoli di Realmese è un sito archeologico presso Calascibetta. Questo sito è una necropoli con circa trecento tombe a "grotticella" molto particolari, risalenti al periodo compreso tra il IX e l'VIII secolo a.C.Per trovarlo ci sono molte indicazioni stradali però non è molto facile raggiungerlo a causa dell'orografia del territorio circostante.
Mosaics are created using small pieces of colored materials arranged to form images or patterns, set into plaster or other adhesive support. Mosaics set into waterproof matrices were used in ancient times to decorate moist environments such as baths, fountains, and gardens. Mosaics were an important form of decoration in Roman buildings, and during the Christian era were of particular importance in the iconographic programs of Byzantine churches. Mosaics were also used by Muslim artists to embellish the interiors of mosques with richly detailed Arabic calligraphy and abstract designs.
The ancient Greeks began making pebble mosaics around the fourth century BCE, using small colored stones found in rivers and streams. To achieve more nuanced color effects, the Romans began using colored marble during the second century BCE, cutting the stone into small cubes called tesserae.
When the Byzantines began to use glazed tile and opaque colored glass to make tesserae for their mosaics, they gained a much richer and more intense color palette. The Byzantine mosaic artist selected each color and shaped each individual tessera as the composition evolved, using a special small hammer with a beveled head to tap out each cube of the desired size and color from small spalls, or puddles, of glass on a miniature anvil. Byzantine mosaic compositions tended to be rather linear, with figures outlined in dark colors and portrayed frontally. Still, within these stylistic constraints, Byzantine mosaic artists often used very small tesserae to achieve subtle effects of shading and tonal variation.
Byzantine churches, though often quite plain on the exterior, were rich and colorful inside due to the profusion of mosaic decoration. The principal image of God or Christ enthroned (Greek, Christos Pantokrator = “Christ as the Ruler of the Universe”) or the Virgin and Child (Greek, Theotokos = literally “She who carries God”) was often placed overhead in the dome, while on the pendentives and squinches supporting the dome would appear scenes from the life of Christ, or other stories from the Bible. At the lower levels were mosaic figures of saints, apostles, and prophets. The entire mosaic program worked together to remind the worshipper that it was the church that brought together the divine (the dome, representing heaven) and the earthly (the square floor plan).
Mosaic tesserae made of clear glass backed with gold foil were used to create a halo around the head of each holy figure, and often would be used for the entire background of a scene set in heaven. As the viewer moves toward each mosaic, these golden grounds create an effect of shimmering radiance, and the fact that the golden tesserae are naturally set at slightly different angles makes them seem to glitter with transcendent light.
These specimens were collected during restoration work in the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy by Allan T. Kohl in 1989.
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Calascibetta is a comune in Sicily, Italy in the Province of Enna.Calascibetta is a small town in Sicily. The town Calascibetta is located 7 kilometres north of Enna and can be seen from the provincial capital. Although once inhabited by Siculi, the town was seized in 841 by the Arabs and used as a base for the conquest of Enna. The Arabs gave the new town the name Kala Scibet. The Norman king Roger I also besieged Enna from Calascibetta. Only the bell tower of the present church of San Pietro remains from the former Norman castle. The Chiesa Matrice from the 14th Century houses a Bible in Gothic script in the treasury of the church.A number of necropolis of the 9th and 5th century BC show that the area was inhabited at least since that time. The present town was however founded in 851 by the Saracens, who named it Kalat Schibet (meaning castle on the Xibet mountain in a quiet place) it was fortified with walls and a castle which Count Roger had built in 1062, along with the church to St. Peter and Santa Maria Assunta. King Pietro of Aragona died here on 15 august 1532, though his body was then buried in Palermo, in the Palazzo dei Normanni. In 1428 king Alphonse gave to a Jewish community the quarter that still today is called "Giudea". Under Carles V in 1535 Calascibetta was given as a fiefdom to Ludovico Vernagallo, but the town collected the funds necessary to buy back its independence, which the emperor granted, along with exemption from custom duties. Again in 1668 the town had to ransom its independence with Charles II of Spain, who granted Calascibetta the title of "Fidelissima". The parish church of San Pietro and Santa Maria Maggiore, with an inscription along the left side of the main portal, declaring the origin of the town: "Rogerius comes et templi fundator et urbis" (=count Roger founder of both the church and the town). The church hosts an invaluable collection of art works, as well as a treasury with ancient items and relic holders. The church of Maria Santissima del Carmelo, inside which there is a fine marble sculpture, The Annunciation, the work of Antonello Gagini.
Calascibetta è un comune italiano di 4.629 abitanti della provincia di Enna in Sicilia.Calascibetta dista 6 km da Enna, 39 km da Caltanissetta e 111 km da Agrigento. È situata sui monti Erei, in una zona collinare interna; sullo spartiacque fra i bacini dei fiumi Simeto e Imera Meridionale. È posta a 619 metri sopra il livello del mare.Il nome Calascibetta deriva dall'arabo "Qalat-sciabat" che significa "il castello sulla vetta" a sottolineare la particolare posizione geografica del paese. Fu abitata già in epoca antichissima, come testimoniano le necropoli della Calcarella (XI-X secolo a.C.), di Realmese (con tombe dei secoli IX e VIII secolo a.C.), di valle coniglio (sec. X-VII a.C.) e di Malpasso (età del rame).Frequentata in epoca bizantina come attestano documenti ottocenteschi relativi a grotte basiliane affrescate, abitata in periodo arabo, come lo stesso nome suggerisce, Calascibetta, dopo la conquista normanna dell'isola appare menzionata nel 1062, quando fu fortificata da Ruggero I, che fece costruire il primo borgo, durante l'assedio di Castrogiovanni, e il grande duomo dedicandolo alla Vergine e San Pietro. In seguito rimasta città demaniale, conosce un periodo di ineguagliato splendore, favorita e preferita come fu dai re aragonesi, tra cui Pietro II che durante un soggiorno vi spirò, che la dotarono, sull'esempio dei normanni, di templi e monumenti.La Necropoli di Realmese è un sito archeologico presso Calascibetta. Questo sito è una necropoli con circa trecento tombe a "grotticella" molto particolari, risalenti al periodo compreso tra il IX e l'VIII secolo a.C.Per trovarlo ci sono molte indicazioni stradali però non è molto facile raggiungerlo a causa dell'orografia del territorio circostante.