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Viva Polonia
RIO2016: Maria Andrejczyk finishes 4th in Athletics - Women’s Javelin Throw. #TeamPoland #POL
Cassini’s Retirement
What were you up to back in 1997? It was an exciting year. Titanic was setting box office records, Dolly the sheep was getting cloned, and the very first Harry Potter book was hitting shelves. It was also the year that a bus-sized NASA spacecraft named Cassini launched. Carrying the ESA Huygens probe, Cassini set off for Saturn to learn all about the lovely ringed planet.
After almost 20 years, Cassini is entering its last phase, building up to the “Grand Finale” that will culminate in September 2017 (if all goes well).
~ Scientific American
Also check out: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/
Por favor disfruten las imágenes de la aurora boreal, son colosales!!!!
Nightsky / Tromvik, Norway by John A Hemmingsen
Plotina, la esposa de Trajano, el mejor emperador de Roma. Y dicen que junto a un gran hombre, una gran mujer.
Colossal portrait sculpture of the Empress Plotina, wife of Trajan, thought to have been made after her deification in 129 CE. Now in the Vatican Museum. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.
Vean esto!! La hermosa vía láctea y algo de arte histórico!!
Photo of the Day: The Juggler
Photographer caption: On seemingly random boulders scattered across the Utah desert one can find art. These are typically in dark places with little or no light pollution. Standing there at night with only the stone, wind and sky, one can feel the world as it was thousands of years ago.
Photo by Marc Toso (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA); San Rafael Swell, Utah, USA
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I also visited Tegea- but I didn’t make it to the museum, mostly due to bad planning. I arrived quite early but the Episkopi area was so refreshing that I postponed going back to the village for the museum until it was too late.
The Byzantine Church of Episkopi, devoted to the Dormition of the Virgin, is actually built on the ancient theater of Tegea. Tegea was a large city in a flat plain with no neighboring hills, so the theater was actually built from scratch. When I arrived it was the last day of a yearly fair that has been officially going on since 1893. The fair is held during the panhellenic celebration of the 15th of August, a day that is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Apparently in the antiquity during the same annual period, another Virgin goddess was celebrated across Greece, the goddess Athena. Athena was also worshipped in Tegea during the antiquity. A massive temple, now at the village near the museum, dedicated to her can be visited.
Tegea was also the home of the 3rd century B.C poetess Anyte.
Now a small, even obscure village in Arcadia, Tegea still amazes with its contemporary history. It was here that the torch flame relay from Olympia to any city that hosts the Olympic Games was first conceived. Apparently in 1934 the International Olympic Committee was brought to the site. Inspired by the ancient monuments and the beauty of nature they decided to attempt the first relay for the Olympic Games of Berlin, in 1936.
Arte en ruedas! Qué tal eh?
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