What have you learnt today?

[pat grimshaw]

A Judas hole is a peephole in a door. ...

I've seen that in lots of Italian movies about convents. The nuns [Carmelites???] aren't allowed to talk to outsiders and especially not men. So it's a trauma when they need a man to do fix their plumbing.

It makes sense that a window in a monastery would be known as a Judas Trap. For a monk, contemplation of the outside world is a "self-defeating" behavior; a monk's work ought to be focused on the interior of the cloister.

Yes, I guess that makes sense.

 

[star-warrior]

http://www.abc.es/videos-otros/20141118/after-fall-conservation-tullio-3896664899001.html

Conservation is all about using reversible processes. They seem to have done a fairly good job but one could still see where the repair was.

 

[belamyi]

^ What genius put the statue on a plywood pedestal to begin with?

Oh, just any American: which gives them the opportunity to display their celebrated American ingenuity by spending twelve years in putting the pieces back together.
The day they will not have access to seemingly unlimited resources anymore, they will do it just in a month, like one of the guys said.

At least they don't scrap artwork away, as they are wont to do in London.


Anglos! They are the hope of the Western world once Europe starts going down the drain, and this time for good...

 

[dpnice]

One must admit that as an exercise in reconstruction they have done an incredible job.

But I would agree with the comments of what the hell was it doing posed on a plywood plinth. Hopefully they are checking all the other plinths and changing them for something less likely to collapse.

 

[carey579]

Finally someone who's actually sexy!

I was really hoping for this. Now I hope that cameo is going to be a strip/any form of skin show!

 

[belamyi]

Finally someone who's actually sexy!

I was really hoping for this. Now I hope that cameo is going to be a strip/any form of skin show!

I was going to elaborate but... *usual belamian remark about officially "hot" guys*

Ok... I can't hold it: Mac had implants precisely to be accounted for as "sexy" (that is, in the old-fashioned, mainstream foppish way), and Chris... his face is not precisely to be envied, and his body is one in a few dozens... ok, hundreds.

Jamie Dornan... poor guy: you can't be more honest and tougher on him than himself.

 

[belamyi]

http://books.google.es/books?id=sdO...page&q=shakespeare sonnets rhyme-link&f=false

Since I lurve the more mature plays, but detest the style of the sonnets.

 

[unloadonme]

The battle during the Wars of the Roses where Henry VI was defeated and which led to Edward IV taking power (and so marked the passing of the House of Lancaster over to the House of York) I learn was called the Battle of Towton, and that furthermore, its location is astoundingly close to Tadcaster in Yorkshire!

I never knew this!

Where is that post-whoring F&G vampire? (a.k.a. Sir ULOM of York) I hope he sees this post.

You called?

I actually knew about Towton. I drive past the memorial regularly.

 

[belamyi]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...50000-bill-giving-birth-in-america/ar-BBeGZH4

 

[belamyi]

You called?

I actually knew about Towton. I drive past the memorial regularly.

Wow. I wonder how would that look when that memory is nothing to the history of the people living in that area-... you know... like the glories of the Brigantes to any average Yorkshireman today.

 

[pat grimshaw]

@ # 8334 Can the Wars of the Roses be called a 'civil war'?

@ # 8354 You have forced me to Google the Chronology of Shakespeare's plays. I can see the early ones are the basic plot plays but the later ones are a mix of dramatically-successful ones (i.e. Hamlet) and some awkward, tedious ones.

 

[pat grimshaw]

A recent thread on the Al-Falluja jihadist forum discussed the case of whether a Muslim who has nothing else to eat may kill an infidel in order to eat him. The discussion was prompted by a recently published book by Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi, one of the most influential jihadist sheikhs active today.

 

[pat grimshaw]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...50000-bill-giving-birth-in-america/ar-BBeGZH4

I advise you, Belamo, against having babies!

 

[JPGhost]

Etheric plane

 

[JPGhost]

More like..a thing Im still confuse to learn today:

So..all hi-tech and advance skyscrapers around the world actually using 'cheap' metallic paper-like material for their glass panelling?

 

[belamyi]

@ # 8334 Can the Wars of the Roses be called a 'civil war'?

@ # 8354 You have forced me to Google the Chronology of Shakespeare's plays. I can see the early ones are the basic plot plays but the later ones are a mix of dramatically-successful ones (i.e. Hamlet) and some awkward, tedious ones.

It was in fact, my way of trying to set the years around Romeo and Juliet apart from the more decent "comedies, histoires and tragedies" that came later on.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

More like..a thing Im still confuse to learn today:

So..all hi-tech and advance skyscrapers around the world actually using 'cheap' metallic paper-like material for their glass panelling?

Glass is just about the cheapest material you can use for a facade. I don't think the white material behind the hole in the window pane is part of the actual window. It might be a layer of thermal insulation or even more likely a layer of textile to block the sun that doesn't open.

 

[pat grimshaw]

 

[Mr-Pickles]

Today I have learnt that people on here can reply to specific posts that you have made! I had no idea and just discovered all these nice replies to posts from years ago! Sorry if you thought I was ignoring you!

 

[carey579]

Mac had implants

Really

and Chris... his face is not precisely to be envied, and his body is one in a few dozens... ok, hundreds.

I agree about the face - none of the Hemsworth brothers imo are classically handsome - although Chris is a different league than Liam I think Chris has an exceptional body - certainly one of the best in Hollywood - that small circle of men on whom this title is passed around. The final point being he's infinitely a better choice than last year's disaster.

Jamie Dornan... poor guy: you can't be more honest and tougher on him than himself.

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