
A Warning from History.
A year after WW1 ended, A French Pilot, Jacques Trolley de Prévaux, flew an Airship from the Belgian coast to the devastated battlefields of France where millions died.
Lost for decades this is part of what he saw remastered in color and HD. pic.twitter.com/b7mCJZiCZ0
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) November 12, 2025
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97-year-old Cardinal Simoni reverently greeting Leo XIV at the general audience today
Simoni spent decades in prison camps at the hands of the Albanian Communists
A friend of the traditional Mass, he recently gave a deliverance prayer in the Vatican at the Latin Mass pilgrimage pic.twitter.com/NzvqTZ9f6q
— Michael Haynes ?? (@MLJHaynes) November 12, 2025
Folks need to read Jungmann’s “The Mass of the Roman Rite” (1948). He was one of the first to describe the Latin rite of the Mass as marked by a ‘noble simplicity’—a perspective affirmed by VCII and developed further by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in “The Spirit of the Liturgy”… https://t.co/PNTnXI8S4R
— Father V (@father_rmv) November 11, 2025
On this date (November 12, 1955) at 10:04 pm lightning struck the Hill Valley clock tower, sending Marty McFly “Back To The Future”! #80s pic.twitter.com/Gj4q34XI1i
— LandOfThe80s (@landofthe80s) November 12, 2025
White to move and mate in 4.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
























The winning move is
1) Qh6 after which black must prevent Qg7 mate or Rxe8 mate. Since Qh6 does not put the black queen in check there are numerous variations
4 move variations
1) Qh6 Nf3+
2) gxf3 Qxf6 (denying white Qg7 mate)
3) Rxe8 Bxe8 (forced)
4) Rxe8#
If
1) Qh6 Nxh3+ white proceeds, mutatis mutandis, as above.
I snuck in some Latin!
If
1) Qh6 Ne6 (again denying white Qg7 mate)
2) Rxe6 Qxf6
3) Rxe8+ Bxe8 (forced)
4) Rxe8 mate
3 move variations
1) Qh6 Qxf6 (denying white Qg7 mate)
2) Rxe8 Bxe8 (forced)
3) Rxe8 mate
1) Qh6 Ne6
2) Rxe6 fxe6
3) Qg7 mate
2 move variations
Responses to Qh6 other than those above lead directly to the Qg7 mate.
1) Qh6 …
2) Qg7 mate
Hope I’ve covered everything and there are no notation typos.