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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
Just Too Cool: Panoramic View on MARS!
From poor little Spirit’s twin, Opportunity, comes this panoramic view. HERE. It is stitched together from 817 images taken between 12 Dec 2011 and 8 May 2012 while Opportunity was stationed on an outcrop called “Greeley Haven” during the Martian … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Mars Rover, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit
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4 Comments
Just Too Cool: the stolen “Codex Calixtinus” found in a garage
Remember THIS? From Vatican Insider: This is not another one of Dan Brown’s mysteries but the unravelling of a story that seem to go way beyond any creative fiction. Finally, after one year of investigations, police found the stolen “Codex … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Linking Back
Tagged camino, Codex Calixtinus, Roland, Santiago de Compostela
11 Comments
11 Comments
“I am satisfied so long as I keep my books closed”
From the estimable Laudator: By Yuan Mei (1716–1797), tr. J.D.Schmidt: I am satisfied so long as I keep my books closed, But I start to worry, when I open their covers. The books are long, but the day is short; … Read More
All Alone in the Night
A reader alerted me to this video, which is way too cool. Time-lapse video taken from the International Space Station when on the night-side of our little blue marble. [wp_youtube]FG0fTKAqZ5g[/wp_youtube]
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged aurora, International Space Station, ISS
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4 Comments
“The things of the spirit come first”
From Bill Bennett’s American Patriot’s Almanac we have this entry for today, 5 July: “The things of the spirit come first” On July 5, 1926, in a speech in Philadelphia commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, President Calvin … Read More
Happy Birthday “Ara Pacis”
A tip of the biretta to Rogueclassicism for the reminder that today is the anniversary of the dedication of the Ara Pacis in Rome in 13 BC. The Ara Pacis, which has new digs that look rather like a poorly … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool
Tagged Ara Pacis, Augustus Caesar, fullness of time, Temple of Janus
2 Comments
2 Comments
Nifty! Virtual Vigil for Religious Liberty
Have you seen the Virtual Vigil for Religious Liberty? You can virtually attend a rally. BUT… BUT… you have to PRAY too, right? Prayer for the Protection of Religious Liberty O God our Creator, through the power and working of your … Read More
Westminster Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica
I am catching a few minutes of the rebroadcast of the Holy Father’s Mass for Sts. Peter and Paul on EWTN. I only have a few fleeting minutes. The Choir of Westminster Abbey is there. Is it my imagination or … Read More
VIDEO Fr. Ted Martin responds to the “talky-women” who confronted him
The other day I posted a video about confused liberal feminist protesters challenging a good young priest, after Mass, outside the Cathedral of Kalamazoo, MI. HERE. The video was made by the protesters. Fr. Ted Martin did a video response. … Read More
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