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Tag: quadratisch
Very Old Geometrical Patterns
I thought I might kick off with some famous geometric forms. I featured this building before. It’s a UNESCO world heritage site, the gatehouse of the Abbey Lorsch, sometime called the King’s Hall. It was built over 1,200 years ago during the Carolingian era. Geometric … Continue reading Very Old Geometrical Patterns
It’s not Five Minutes to Midnight yet
Nor quite seven either. But it’s almost seven.
I suppose I could have gone out and caught a clock at exactly 7 o’clock but it was much more fun to look at all the clocks in my archive. The closest I came to 7 o’clock was half past six (or “half seven”) on the face of the Uhrtürmlein in Frankfurt
and three minutes to seven in Bourg-en-Bresse at the con-cathedral Notre Dame.
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The Seven Pillars of Wisdom II
Purity: The German order of purity dictates what is allowed to go into a beer brew.
Consideration: “Being considerate makes roads wider”, written on a road leading through the vineyards of Rheinland-Pfalz.
The second lot of pillars of wisdom. Which ones do you prefer?
- I: counsel, understanding, strength, power of authority, riches, honour, knowledge
- II: purity, peacefulness, sincerity, mercy, impartiality, submissiveness, consideration
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The Seven Pillars of Wisdom I
As counted in Proverbs 9. A few translation seem to be in order.
Strength: The inscription on a house in Wiesbaden. It reads: “German house, German land, protect it, God, with your strong hand.”
Honour: The crest of a student fraternity, loosely translated as “Honour doesn‘t come cheap“.
I found these seven pillars on the web and looked in my archive for photos to illustrate them. Then I got curious and found seven different pillars of wisdom. It’s possibly a translation or even an interpretation issue as in German they don’t match either list completely. I’ll do a part 2 tomorrow with different pillars.
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The Seventh Sense
No, this is not a counting mistake.
We all know the five senses:
In the English language we speak of a sixth sense when somebody has a power of perception seemingly independent of the five senses. But in the German language, we talk of the seventh sense when we mean that (and ignore the sixth, I think).
But what does this seventh sense look like?
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More Swabians
The phone area code for Stuttgart is 0711. Stuttgart is the official capital of Baden-Württemberg and the in-official capital of Swabia tying in nicely with yesterday’s seven Swabians.
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Seven in Fairy Tales VIII
Technically not a fairy tale but rather a “funny tale”, however The Seven Swabians appeared in the collection of the Brothers Grimm. The people in the photo might not be born Swabians or even Germans some of them but they lived long enough in the Stuttgart area and identify as Stuttgarter and therefore Swabians.
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