Retired computer scientist & church crawler living in 🇩🇪 who loves to travel in 🇮🇪 and 🇫🇷. Photographs are all my own except where noted.
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Renaissance stained glass window of Bayonne Cathedral (baie 19), depicting Jesus and the woman of Canaan. Created 1531 by Jean Chastellain and restored in 1854 by Coffetier and Steinheil. #Bayonne #WindowsOnWednesday
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The Boyle monument, designed by Roger Leverett and sculpted by Edward Tingham was completed in 1633 and initially erected on the east side of the choir. Shortly afterwards, the liturgy was changed and required worshippers to kneel when receiving communion. 🧵 1/3
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St Columba's feast day is today. This detail from a window by David Esler at Saint Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh, depicts the legend of his rescue of an exhausted crane.
Visit the church: nationalchurchestrust.org/ch…
📸 © Andreas F. Borchert (CC BY-SA 3.0)
ALT A stained-glass window showing St Columba standing on a cliff beside the sea, holding a cross. Beside him is a crane.
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Lesenswertes Interview mit der Sozialwissenschaftlerin Eirliani Abdul Rahman in der SZ, nachdem sie von Harvard zur Uni Mannheim wechselte. Zitat: „In Deutschland spürt man die Rechtsstaatlichkeit.“ sueddeutsche.de/wissen/deuts…
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114 years on, Belfast witnesses a full-scale drone Titanic depart into the night...a powerful tribute.
#titanic #rmstitanic
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! The depicted window of St. Patrick's Church in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, displays St. Patrick as slave on Slemish (a hill close to Ballymena). Created in 1954 by Antoine Theodore Acket (1918–1981) in the studio of C. E. Welstead, Croydon.
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The #NorthMayo sculpture trail is indeed amazing! Depicted is the sculpture “Thin Places” created in 2002 under the direction of the American architect and artist Travis Price with his students at Poll na Seantoinne, a blowhole in the townland of Gladree.
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I've watched the first landing on the moon live on TV on 20 July 1969. I have taken now the opportunity to let at least my name be flown around the moon during the coming Artemis II mission. Earliest launch date is 6 February 2026.
1.5 million names are flying around the Moon on Artemis II. Is yours one of them?
It's not too late to add your name to the mission—and it's absolutely free: go.nasa.gov/artemisnames
ALT The Moon. This natural-color global mosaic is based on a composite of images from the wide-angle camera on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/SVS
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Ancient texts from Plato's Symposium can apparently no longer be taught or discussed at Texas A&M. Diotima's Ladder of Love and Aristophanes' split humans appear to be in conflict with new A&M policies: nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/ta…. So much for the illusion of free speech in the US.
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The relevant policy is 08.01 Civil Rights Protections and Compliance. See § 2.1b: “No system academic course will advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity.” And as it appears that covers Plato as well: policies.tamus.edu/08-01.pdf
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Saint-Martin et de la Sainte-Trinité de Néville-sur-Mer, Manche. 11th-century church close to the coastline in North Cotentin in France. Structural weaknesses have been found in the upper part of the 18th-century bell tower. Donations: fondation-patrimoine.org/les…
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Saint-Vigor de Joganville, Manche, is a church with parts of the nave from the 11th century. Disaster struck in WW2 when a shell hit the bell tower, causing it to collapse into the nave. Repairs are now urgently needed. Donations: fondation-patrimoine.org/les…
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Netherlandish roundel from c. 1525, depicting St. #Nicholas with donor. This roundel is since 1812 integrated into the east window of St. Nicholas's Church in Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland.
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This is the only stained glass window of Notre-Dame de Verdun that survived the Great War. It is located below the organ in the old choir on the western end of the nave and depicts St. Nicholas calming a storm and leading the sailors to a safe haven.
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More about the story of this stained glass window can be found in this article of L'est républicain, unfortunately behind a paywall: c.estrepublicain.fr/culture-…
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Die Plagiatsvorwürfe gegen Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf erscheinen unredlich. Ihre Dissertation erschien 1997, die Habilitationsschrift Ihres Ehemanns folgte 1998. Die Vorwürfe gehen auf Stefan Weber zurück: plagiatsgutachten.com/blog/d…
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The walls of Dunmanoge medieval church are visible for the first time in living memory!
Conservation work is being carried out thanks to @NationalMonuments Service’s #CommunityMonumentsFund and support from @KildareHeritage and our #AdoptaMonument scheme.
@Castledermothistory
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