15
Aug
People keep telling me I have a clear voice like a boy soprano. I can turn the vibrato off and on. And I do other genres like opera, but my initial voice training was in the cathedral tradition.
Would this info totally be meaningless considering I am a 21 year old female sounding like a [...]
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15
Aug
http://jorgetavares.planetaclix.pt
Bragança (Portugal):
is a city and a municipality in north-eastern Portugal and the capital of the district of Bragança, in Alto Trás-os-Montes.
The population of the municipality is 34,774and its total area is 1,173.6 kmª.
It lies on a branch of the Sabor River south of the Culebra Mountains, 255 km northeast of Porto, 515 km from Lisbon [...]
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15
Aug
No: IT IS NOT HOMEWORK! IT IS TRIVIA TO SEE HOW FAST PEOPLE READ AND REACT TO 10 POINT QUESTIONS!
Magna Carta
Monastery
Nun
Convent
Cathedral
Saint
Crusade
Plague
Renaissance
Humanism
Magna Carta: Document signed by King John of England in 1215 AD that limited the king’s power and guaranteed certain basic rights. Considered the beginning of constitutional government in England.
Monastery: the residence of a religious [...]
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14
Aug
War damage to the Gothic-Renaissance Cathedral of Sibenik in Croatia, Sept. 1991. Cathedral was clearly marked with a sign of a protected heritage monument.
Video authorship: Gojko Lambasa, The City Museum.
Cathedral dome was hit several times with Bofors 40 mm cannon from Navy PC 180 and PC 173 patrol warships during the battle for Sibenik at [...]
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14
Aug
Theist culture is unparalleled: medieval cathedrals, Islamic architecture, the Renaissance, Bach, Dante, Milton, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, etc. etc. Atheists have had hundreds of years to produce great cultural works and have produced little of note except ugliness and distortion. Is this because they have no source of inspiration?
Furthermore, the atheist philosophers of the nineteenth century (primarily [...]
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14
Aug
GTR-DVD-1256 - Today Cesky Krumlov is a lively town and one of the most beautiful in the Czech Republic. Although the history of settlement in this area dates back to the Bronze Age the high season of Bohemian Krummau can be traced back to the Middle Ages. At that time the Germans as well as [...]
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14
Aug
Behind the imposing cathedral and the Palau de 1'Almudaina, the narrow Old Town streets wind to reveal peaceful courtyards, pretty squares and Renaissance, Baroque and Gothic architecture. Places to visit amongst this maze are the Museu de Mallorca, Banys Arabs and Basilica de Sant Francesc.
Tras la imponente catedral y el palacio de la Almudaina, las [...]
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14
Aug
This video clip was taken on July 31, 2007 during my trip to Austria , my home country. My brother, sister-in-law, two friends and I drove to an area called “Südsteiermark” ( Southern Styria ). Styria is a province in southern Austria , located about 1.5 hours southwest of Vienna and immediately adjacent to Slovenia [...]
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13
Aug
It is black and white and printed on paper [220cm x 140cm].
The centre scene looks as though a King is issuing a piece of paper to the men that are queing up and kneeling before him. In the background is a harbour with a church. There is one tall ship, and a gondola [...]
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13
Aug
a brief slide show of renaissance architecture
Duration : 0:3:22
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