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On the left: Preparing to film midnight Mass at the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris in 1948. Look at that stunning High Altar.
On the right: A giant cereal bowl. pic.twitter.com/w3MRjecN5l
— Mason-Dixon Latin Mass Society (@MDLatinMass) November 30, 2024
I am not sure that I agree about “only one”, but this is a good choice.
P.D. James – The Children of Men
So much recent dystopian fiction out there, only one that should be assigned in every high school. pic.twitter.com/Q0nU3J6dZL
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 29, 2024
AVOID THE DREADFUL MOVIE!
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Black to move and mate in 3.
It’s Magnus Carlsen’s Birthday. He is 34 today.
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Black to move and mate in 3.
[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
In Singapore, Gukesh had white, Ding played the French Defense again. Draw.
We got most everything right in the rebuilding of Notre Dame; it was [sadly] to be expected they would get something.
Well, I think high-school students should be reading Xenophon, Caesar, and Plutarch; they ought to be filling their minds with the virtuous deeds of glorious men, not the grey cataracts of ignominious demise.
Time for a resurgence of traditional altar frontals to camouflage the giant cereal bowl.
Watts & Co. London have a nice selection of frontals designed to hide all kinds of church furnishing sin.
https://www.wattsandco.com/collections/altar-frontals?srsltid=AfmBOoqplecN00UJYZOExSlftBuD3fT5v6ZZ-sNGu0Fpv-7OijKStEtD
… , Nc5
Qf6, Pxf6
Any move, Qb2#
1…Nc4
2. Qd4, Na3+
3. Kc1, Qxc2#
… , Nc4
Qf6, Pxf6
Any move, Qb2#
Or
…, Nc4
Qd4, Nh3+
Kc1, Qxc2#