From directly below…
When you walk diagonally across the nave while looking up, there is an optical illusion. It looks like the figures are moving.
The first woman to earn a PhD in computer science in the U.S. was a Catholic nun, Mary Keller. pic.twitter.com/nHCla3G8Hp
— Sachin Jose (@Sachinettiyil) February 26, 2025
Donald Trump secured 56 percent of the Catholic vote in this election and appointed numerous devout Catholics to his Trump 2.0 administration. Here is a ?on the list of Catholics serving in his second administration: pic.twitter.com/76pV1Ys740
— Sachin Jose (@Sachinettiyil) February 26, 2025
On 25 February, T.A. 3019 in Middle-earth: the Fellowship pass the Argonath, and then camp on the Parth Galen on the shores of Nen Hithoel.
The Argonath were erected around 1,800 years earlier and show Isildur and Anárion.
Image: The Argonath by Ted Nasmith #Tolkien pic.twitter.com/ZssXddwpFJ
— Tolkien Society (@TolkienSociety) February 25, 2025
Be sure and go outside, look up, and see the planetary alignment this week! Start looking as soon as the Sun sets below the horizon. Venus is brightest. https://t.co/yNh1dYZKbd
(image ©Vito Technology, Inc.) pic.twitter.com/D8yuQrdJ0y— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) February 25, 2025
Help also for life…
Chess is never complicated:
1. Study openings that suit your style
2. Master middlegame principles
3. Always respect your opponent’s ideas
4. Improve your calculation skills
5. Analyze your games often
6. Surround yourself with stronger players for growth— Igor Smirnov (@GMIgorSmirnov) February 25, 2025
In other chessy news… HERE
Black to move and force mate in 4.
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Black to move and force mate in 4.
[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
At chess.com – I’m an affiliate – there is a break down of the Esports chess teams. HERE
Yesterday at OTB I did well. I had four games, won three and drew.
kd2+ Kg2
Bf3+ Kh3
k*f2+ Kh4
Bf6#
I am finishing up reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy for the second time. I am getting much more out of it this time.
One of the things I noticed this time is that Theoden was killed on the Ides of March.
And In that glorious Church, please do as Father Z does: keep your eyes -and prayers- heavenward. Walk about in wonder!!
Do NOT use the novelty-tourist-trap mirror that has been installed in the nave.
If Master Pozzo wanted you to see his work in reverse, he would have painted it in reverse.
Christ does not bless with His left hand!!!!
I think it is beyond sad that this glorious church (Sant’Ignazio, if I’m not mistaken) is in the hands of an order rife with corruption.