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Notre Dame Cathedral is burning down...
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FlagDUDE08
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The Crown of Thorns remains. https://www.news.com.au/world/europ...e/news-story/479c5ced6b0ec8be4821e11fc694bc99
The Crown of Thorns remains. https://www.news.com.au/world/europ...e/news-story/479c5ced6b0ec8be4821e11fc694bc99
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Very cool! Something about European churches fascinates me.
Amazingly the one that stood out the most to me was a small country church in a sleepy Normandy town. Of course it was in Sainte-Mère-Église so it was the epicenter of the Normandy invasion and the church were Red Buttons hung around outside while still connected to his parachute (for those who have seen The Longest Day) in the early hours of 6 June. There were more bullet holes than one could count inside the church....holes in the walls, the pillars, doors, everywhere. Pillars inside the doors were especially full of holes as the invading paratroopers came in hot.
I haven't. It's... um... it's kind of a dessert!
<img src="https://www.bavaria.by/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wieskirche-innen-1600.jpg" height="300" >
The outside is wonderful:
<img src="https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0b/37/96/09/die-wieskirche-bei-schonstem.jpg" height="300" >
There are churches like this all through western rural Austria. They all have those wonderful churchyards:
<img src="https://c8.alamy.com/comp/H7C78E/the-cemetery-of-hallstatt-hallstatt-austria-H7C78E.jpg" height="300" >
Very cool! Something about European churches fascinates me.
Amazingly the one that stood out the most to me was a small country church in a sleepy Normandy town. Of course it was in Sainte-Mère-Église so it was the epicenter of the Normandy invasion and the church were Red Buttons hung around outside while still connected to his parachute (for those who have seen The Longest Day) in the early hours of 6 June. There were more bullet holes than one could count inside the church....holes in the walls, the pillars, doors, everywhere. Pillars inside the doors were especially full of holes as the invading paratroopers came in hot.
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There should be a couple pics from inside the Chartes Cathedral on my FB page, if you're interested. Nothing from afar as dramatic as the pics Kep posted.
There should be a couple pics from inside the Chartes Cathedral on my FB page, if you're interested. Nothing from afar as dramatic as the pics Kep posted.
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I will probably scroll though....it's just so majestic, and then the foreground that is so simple...love it.
There should be a couple pics from inside the Chartes Cathedral on my FB page, if you're interested. Nothing from afar as dramatic as the pics Kep posted.
I will probably scroll though....it's just so majestic, and then the foreground that is so simple...love it.
aparch
Acetaminamerican
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Crazy photo of the altar inside Notre Dame, by Reuters' Philippe Wojazer <a href="https://t.co/KjRPSVKJRA">pic.twitter.com/KjRPSVKJRA</a></p>— Stefan Becket (@becket) <a href="https://twitter.com/becket/status/1117919627642900480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Crazy photo of the altar inside Notre Dame, by Reuters' Philippe Wojazer <a href="https://t.co/KjRPSVKJRA">pic.twitter.com/KjRPSVKJRA</a></p>— Stefan Becket (@becket) <a href="https://twitter.com/becket/status/1117919627642900480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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It does look like the lower half was saved https://heavy.com/news/2019/04/notre-dame-damage-inside-altar-fire-photos/
(I tried to link it, but no success).
CNN is showing similar pictures- perhaps the lower part was saved by the pure size of the structure... We will see over the next few days,
(edit- aparch just posted the same pic)
It does look like the lower half was saved https://heavy.com/news/2019/04/notre-dame-damage-inside-altar-fire-photos/
(I tried to link it, but no success).
CNN is showing similar pictures- perhaps the lower part was saved by the pure size of the structure... We will see over the next few days,
(edit- aparch just posted the same pic)
Obviously not even in the same ballpark (not even the same sport), but my employer has the largest collection of laboratory mouse strains in the world, some only available from us. In 1989 construction workers started a fire that killed 350,000-500,000 mice. Luckily there were other buildings not affected, but it was a huge blow to biomedical research at the time, possibly jeopardizing >$1B in ongoing research projects at the time.
How would you like to be that construction worker?
It was our second devastating fire. In 1947 there was a huge wildfire that destroyed a large number of homes on the island and the lab and wiped out all the mice. This was before cryopreservation of embryos (now we have “backups” of all the important mice, and three different geographic locations with live mice now - two in Maine and one in California). Scientists from all over the world sent mice back to replenish the lines.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/15/us/world-research-disrupted-by-fire.html
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the-scientist.com/news/debris-cleared-jackson-begins-recovery-from-fire-61987/amp
RaceBoarder
Waiting for the Snow to fly...
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Even in destruction, there is sometimes beauty....
Even in destruction, there is sometimes beauty....
ticapnews
Never graduate.
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The front pages of Tuesday's newspapers are coming out.
The front of Liberation features a picture of the spire at the moment it collapsed with the caption: Notre Drame (Our drama) calling it a national catastrophe.
http://geographiesenmouvement.blogs...5/notre-drame-de-paris-catastrophe-nationale/
The front pages of Tuesday's newspapers are coming out.
The front of Liberation features a picture of the spire at the moment it collapsed with the caption: Notre Drame (Our drama) calling it a national catastrophe.
http://geographiesenmouvement.blogs...5/notre-drame-de-paris-catastrophe-nationale/
Handyman
Hug someone you care about...
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What a pathetic thing to be upset about. You really are just a bigoted human being.
What a pathetic thing to be upset about. You really are just a bigoted human being.
What Handyman has said is unimportant and I do not hear his words.
French Rage
NICKERSON HAS [CENSORED]
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And given how bad it looked like the internal damage could have been, that is a surprisingly uplifting picture.
And given how bad it looked like the internal damage could have been, that is a surprisingly uplifting picture.
aparch
Acetaminamerican
aparch
Acetaminamerican
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One thing I was getting irked with on the drive home was Brian Williams kept rambling about how the firefighters were just spraying water in and couldn't battle the fire because their equipment couldn't get high enough / lack of water pressure. My first thought was that they were merely trying to wet the stone/timbers down ahead of the fire in an attempt to slow the fire and contain it.
It's amazing that they were able to keep as much of the superstructure as they were. So glad these very early morning reports are hopeful, as day breaks I'm sure we'll get more reports. *edit* Especially after the initial reports directly from government officials that the building had been lost.
One thing I was getting irked with on the drive home was Brian Williams kept rambling about how the firefighters were just spraying water in and couldn't battle the fire because their equipment couldn't get high enough / lack of water pressure. My first thought was that they were merely trying to wet the stone/timbers down ahead of the fire in an attempt to slow the fire and contain it.
It's amazing that they were able to keep as much of the superstructure as they were. So glad these very early morning reports are hopeful, as day breaks I'm sure we'll get more reports. *edit* Especially after the initial reports directly from government officials that the building had been lost.
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unofan
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But you read flaggy and respond to him?
I think it's time you took a moment for introspection.
FlagDUDE08
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Macron had mentioned, somewhere, he wants to start rebuilding the thing today.
And here's some funding to help that along: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-towards-rebuilding-the-notre-dame-cathedral/
Macron had mentioned, somewhere, he wants to start rebuilding the thing today.
And here's some funding to help that along: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-towards-rebuilding-the-notre-dame-cathedral/