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Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre.

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · Nov 20
18 years ago today I took one of my favorite photos. I followed a small path behind a church in Pienza and suddenly : sunset on the slopes of Monte Amiata, from behind the palace of Pius II...

#photography
#Italy
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Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania on the monument in Matejko Square Krakow erected in 1910 on the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald, where an alliance of Poles and Lithuanians defeated the Teutonic Knights.

#Photography #Krakow
The Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great. Details of the monument in Matejko Square Krakow erected in 1910 on the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Grunwald, where an alliance of Poles and Lithuanians defeated the Teutonic Knights. A gift to Krakow from the famous pianist Paderewski. Destroyed by the Nazis in WWII but reconstructed and returned to its original site in 1976.
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Epitaph of Benedictus Cosminensis (Benedykt Koźmińczyk) - humanist, professor at the Kraków Academy, poet, orator - the "Polish Erasmus". 1497-1559. Cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Photography #Architecture #Krakow
November 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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#StAndrewsDay
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St Andrew.
Stained glass fragments in the cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #StainedGlass #Photography
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Baroque Lobster.

(sorry)

#Krakow #Poland #baroque #Photography
November 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Baaaaaroque Krakow.

#Krakow #Poland #baroque #Photography
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Of course, there is a reason the Dominicans kept getting martyred. They were nasty to women and board gamers....
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Monument to Jan VIII Zaborowski. Died 1577, just after being appointed Bishop of Chelm. Cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #monument #Photography #beard
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Monument to Stanisław Maleszewski, who died of the Plague, 1555. Cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #Monument #Photography
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Magi at the #Nativity.
Stained glass fragments in the cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #StainedGlass #Photography
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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St Andrew.
Stained glass fragments in the cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #StainedGlass #Photography
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Stained glass fragments in the cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #StainedGlass #Photography
November 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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A Dominican monk in the cloister of Holy Trinity in Kraków.

#Ghost #Krakow #Poland #photography
November 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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1496 bronze tomb relief of Filippo 'Callimachus' Buonaccorsi from the Republic of Siena. Homoerotic Poet, politician, philosopher, diplomat, historian, rhetorician, teacher, one of the foremost humanist figures in Poland. Holy Trinity, Kraków.

(see alt text for why he had to flee Rome...)
Veit Stoss' 1496 bronze tomb relief for Filippo Buonaccorsi from the Republic of Siena. Poet, politician, philosopher, diplomat, historian, rhetorician, teacher first user of the term "Balkan" and - after fleeing Rome due to his penchant for writing homoerotic poetry as part of the Accademia of Pomponio Leto (and suspicion of involvement in an attempt on the life of Pope Paul II) - he ended up in Krakow and became one of the foremost humanist figures in 15thC Poland.
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Detail of the High Altar, Dominican monastic church of Holy Trinity, Stolarska Street, Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #photography
November 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Wet tramlines.

#Krakow #Poland #photography
November 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Remnants of brick gothic detailing high on the nave of the Dominican monastic church of Holy Trinity, Stolarska Street, Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #photography
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:

His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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1614 dedicatory epitaph of Sigismund Myszkowski, Margrave Gonzaga (he was adopted by the Duke of Mantua) and Mirow. Outer wall of the family mausoleum in the Dominican monastic church of Holy Trinity, Stolarska Street, Kraków.

#Krakow #Poland #photography
November 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Charming as Kraków was, it's good to be back in the Pot Still - via a call at Good Spirits to pick up some Springbank 10.

#whisky
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Kentigern's Well is back. See in particular the video at the foot showing clear water running at last. I initially thought the artwork was rather tacky, but now I know the materials, and that it's suspended, I'm rather less apprehensive.
#Glasgow
karinepolwart.substack.com/p/the-well-w...
The Well Within
Lessons in health, healing and enough-ness via an abandoned medieval well at Glasgow Cathedral
karinepolwart.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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... and whilst I'm in this physionomic determinism mood... he looks exactly how you'd expect too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Obviously just my personal prejudices... but Annette Mullen looks exactly how I'd imagine her to look, right down to the dark glasses. Wonder if she reads the Daily Mail.

#Glasgow #necropolis

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Would a new gate ruin Glasgow's Necropolis - or give it new life?
Glasgow City Council plans to install a new entrance on the eastern side of the Victorian graveyard.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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"at risk of exiting the market"

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told
Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Thick as shite.
The Anglican priest isn't far behind.

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Why Tommy Robinson supporters are turning to Christianity
The Church of England is grappling with what to do about followers of the far-right figure embracing faith.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Pork Lords.
In the legislature for life.
I hope this is the last time we hear Dannat, in particular, on the BBC. He's a regular rentaquote on Radio 4 news programmes.
#indyref2

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Two peers suspended from House of Lords for breaking lobbying rules
Lord Evans of Watford and Lord Dannatt were filmed breaking rules in undercover footage recorded by Guardian
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM