INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
WORTH READING
G'day folks,
Feeling down? Well, check these wise words.
Clancy's comment: I hope they fired you up. Now, pass them onto others.
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25 May 2021 - TEMPLE OF APOLLO, GREECE
TEMPLE OF APOLLO, GREECE
G'day folks,
The Temple of Apollo is located at Delphi,
the center of the Ancient Greek world, and was built on the location of
two earlier temples.
The temple was first built around the 7th century
BC by the two iconic architects Trophonios and Agamedes and was rebuilt
after a fire in the 6th century BC. The temple was of the Doric order
and had 6 columns at the front, and 15 columns at the flanks.
In 373 BC, the Temple of Apollo was destroyed by an earthquake and was
rebuilt for the third time in 330 BC. Even after so many centuries, the
foundations of the iconic temple still survive today along with several
Doric columns that are made of porous stone and limestone.
Not much is
known about the temple’s interior arrangement. However, ancient writers
have mentioned that the walls of the temple were inscribed with the
aphorisms of the seven sages.
Clancy's comment: I can only imagine what it looked like when it was built.
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10 May 2021 - LUXOR TEMPLE, EGYPT
LUXOR TEMPLE, EGYPT
G'day folks,
This temple is Located on the east bank of the Nile River
in Luxor, in the ancient city of Thebes.
The Luxor Temple was built in
1,100 and 1,600 BC during the reigns of several pharaohs - Amenhotep III
(1390-52 BC), Tutankhamun (1336-27 BC), and Horemheb (1323-1295 BC),
and then added to by Rameses II (1279-13 BC). The temple was dedicated
to the three Egyptian gods Amun, Mut, and Chons, and is considered the
largest and most important site in ancient Egypt.
The Luxor temple served as a place of worship for nearly 3,500 years and
was also the center of the festival of Opet (ancient Egyptian festival
of the second month of the lunar calendar).
According to Egyptian
legends, the Luxor Temple was “the place of the First Occasion,” where
the god Amun experienced a rebirth. Today, the massive Great Colonnade
Hall is one of the most vital remains of this vast temple complex.
Clancy's comment: The age of these temples is gob smacking.
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5 May 2021 - TEMPLE OF AMADA, EGYPT
TEMPLE OF AMADA, EGYPT
G'day folks,
The Temple of Amada is one of the oldest
temples in Egypt and was first constructed by Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose
III of the 18th dynasty, sometime around the 15th century BC.
Dedicated
to the gods Amun and Ra-Horakhty, the temple is considered to be one of
the earliest examples of Egyptian temple architecture in the area of the
Middle Nile. While it was originally constructed on the east bank of
the Nile, the Temple of Amada was moved in the 1960s and '70s to a
higher site on Lake Nasser to protect it from flooding.
One of the most significant features of the temple is a relief along
with two important inscriptions describing the military feats of the
pharaohs who built it - Tuthmosis III and his son Amenhotep II. While
the temple is quite small and dilapidated, it is still quite fascinating
and vibrant from inside.
Clancy's comment: Imagine moving a temple this old?
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1 May 2021 - ARTISTIC WATERMELON CARVINGS
ARTISTIC WATERMELON
CARVINGS
G'day folks,
We've seen food carvings before, but the
competitors in this watermelon carving competition have undeniably
elevated the genre to a higher art form! And if you think it looks easy,
just remember that any tiny mistake requires you to start all over
again with a new watermelon.
Clancy's comment: Amazing skills, eh?
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27 March 2021 - WHO INITIATED THE FIRST SUSPENSION BRIDGE?
WHO INITIATED THE
FIRST SUSPENSION BRIDGE?
G'day folks,
The Inca people of South America were noted
for making durable suspension bridges by weaving mountain grasses and
other vegetation into thick cables. These sturdy ropes were ideal for
crossing long gorges and were called simp’achaka, which means “braided
bridges.”
Workers would create the cables at the site where the bridge
was to be erected and it was a technique that was used centuries later
for the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City in 1864.
Many of these suspension bridges stretched longer than what even
European engineers of the time had made with stone. Today, the last
remaining Incan-style grass cable suspension bridge, the Queshuachaca,
can be found over a gorge in Peru’s Canas Province.
Clancy's comment: I've walked on some of these bridges and did so with great fear.
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29 April 2021 - FACTS ABOUT WOODROW WILSON - 28th US PRESIDENT
FACTS ABOUT WOODROW WILSON
- 28th US PRESIDENT -
G'day folks,
A
progressive politician, Woodrow Wilson became President of Princeton University
in 1902, Governor of New Jersey in 1910 and was nominated for President by the
Democratic Party in 1912.
Wilson served two terms. His first saw the introduction of progressive
legislation that would be unseen in scale until Franklin D.
Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s. This legislation included the Federal
Reserve Act, the Underwood Revenue Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal
Farm Loan Act and child labor laws.
In 1914, World War I broke out and Wilson maintained neutrality, while pursuing a more aggressive course in Mexico's civil war. Wilson became the first Democrat since Andrew Jackson to be re-elected to consecutive terms in 1916. The following year, when Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare and the existence of the Zimmerman Telegram was disclosed, he changed his earlier stance on entering the war and asked the Senate to declare war on Germany, taking the country into the final stages of World War I.
After the Allied victory he was instrumental in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles and establishing the League of Nations. Wilson had first put forward the idea of a League as part of his 'Fourteen Points' speech in a Senate address.
In 1919 he won the Nobel Peace Prize. The same year he suffered a severe stroke which left his power and influence diminished, and the Treaty of Versailles was eventually rejected by the Senate. He lost a bid to be re-nominated at the Democratic National Convention and left office in 1921, before dying in 1924.
Clancy's comment: He led a full life, and certainly had some challenging moments.
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