I am able to accept some more Mass intentions right now. HERE
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Compare this to what you hear in your suburban parish. I’d embed, but the code is hideous and it looks bad. HERE
A Roma c’è una fogna costruita nel 600 a.C. che funziona ancora. Senza manutenzione.
Cloaca Maxima, fatta dai Tarquini. Canale alto 4 metri, largo 3, tutto in pietra a volta. Scaricava nel Tevere e lo fa ancora oggi dopo 2600 anni. Quando piove forte, Roma si allaga ovunque… pic.twitter.com/l6Buhiwu36— pier luigi pinna (@pierpi13) July 22, 2026
And… another glimpse at the past…
I felt this picture! pic.twitter.com/CK0nFAldGU
— Johnny Midnight ?? (@its_The_Dr) July 22, 2026
Oh my…
1937 model Bentley Speed Six’in sahip oldu?u aura e?sizdir. pic.twitter.com/fpw0HCOo98
— Mühendislik Harikas? (@muhendisIiktr) July 22, 2026
Which it’s ready when it’s ready…
Inside an 18th-century British warship. Twelve-year-old me could’ve spent hours staring at this.
A cross-section of an 18th-century British man-of-war in the midst of battle reveals the intense coordination behind naval warfare during the Age of Sail. From the crowded upper… pic.twitter.com/OTxQQNkZN9
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) July 22, 2026
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.
There must be some mistake, Fr. Z — as shown, the position allows an easy mate for White in two:
1. Rh8+ Kf7 (forced)
2. Qe6++
White to move and mate in 4
1. Rh8+ Kf7 {forced}
2. Re7+ Kg6 {or Kxe7}
3. Rxg7+ Kxg7 {forced}
4. Qh7#
If
2. Re7+ Kxe7
3. Qe6+ Kd8 {forced}
4. Rxf8#
A. S. Haley:
After 2. Qe6+ Black can escape check with Kg6.
I bought that book (or one very like it) about British ships for the kids a while ago. It’s as good as it looks/sounds. I think I wound up enjoying it more than the kids.
Rh8+ Kf7
Re7+!
If … KxR, then
Qe6+ Kd8
RxR#
If … Kg6, then
Qh7#
The mistake in A.S. Haley‘s answer is that black can respond with
… Kg6.
That’s actually MY childhood in the dodgeball meme picture. I recognize the teacher as someone who used to volunteer coach hockey, the boy with the ball as Shawn and the girl with the pigtails as Veronica, but can’t for the life of me remember their surnames–and I’m pretty sure that’s the Brackett Elementary School in Arlington, MA (since demolished and rebuilt). Very cool photo. Not AI.
No mate in 2 because after
1. R-h8+ . K-f7
2. Q-f6+
. . . . . . . . K-g6
Thanks, everyone, for correcting my error. I am so used to visualizing the squares to which a King can move when the Queen applies check from an adjacent square (they are each a Knight’s move away) that I was blind to the pawn on f6.
anj:
Yup – as you show, my first variation should be 3 not 4 moves since 3) Qh7# mates immediately without the unnecessary 3rd move Rxg7+ pawn capture.