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A light show honoring Antoni Gaudí has just lit up Sagrada Família.
It felt like the tallest church in the world, for a moment, let its impossible beauty be seen by its creator.
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Jeremy Wayne Tate
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Jeremy Wayne Tate
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Joined March 2016
- Details you missed and things you (probably) didn't know about the Sistine Chapel 🧵 1. The genius of Michelangelo
- The first time I heard something like this I was 22 and just happened to walk into a cathedral while in France. They were only practicing and it literally stopped me in my tracks. It was like heaven opened up. How did Catholics trade this for what sounds like bad 70s music?
00:00 - Easter traditions from around the world 🧵 1. Good Friday at the Amalfi Cathedral, Italy
- 73% of all women from every class survived the sinking of the Titanic. Only 19% of men survived.
- The stimulus package is over 5,000 pages, but can be summarized in 5 words We Need A New Congress
- Thread of religious wonders so surreal you won't believe they exist 🧵 1. Sumela Monastery, Turkey (386 AD)
- The first time I heard something like this I was 22 and just happened to walk into a cathedral while in France. They were only practicing and it literally stopped me in my tracks. It was like heaven opened up. How did Catholics trade this for what sounds like bad 70s music?
00:00 - The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.
- Why do students learn so much about the Egyptian pyramids and almost nothing about the great cathedrals that took far longer to build and were infinitely more complex? This one took more than 600 years to build.
- 8th grade graduation exam from 1912. This wasn’t for affluent kids in New England. This was rural Kentucky.
- The Lord of the Rings art by Ted Nasmith 🧵 1. Shelob
- Thread of religious wonders built in locations so surreal you won't believe they exist 🧵 1. Abuna Yemata Guh, Ethiopia
