“What is the art of healing other than a daily service of love and charity to advance the wellbeing of the suffering!”
Johann Christian Senckenberg
Senckenberg, a physician, naturalist, and collector, set up a foundation and to this day the noted natural history museum in Frankfurt carries his name. He was instrumental in establishing the first proper hospital in Frankfurt in the mid 18th century. The walls on the ground floor are decorated with quotes by him.
When you go hiking in the alps you have to get up at an unearthly hour. On the plus side you get rewarded with views like this.
The statue of Mary in front of the St Bartholomew Cathedral in Plzeň in the Czech Republic.
At first, she had a crush on him.
Then she had to watch out that he wouldn’t crush her in his loving embrace.
Patterned columns and chimneys (basically hollow columns) – from oldest to newest. Solid stone columns were patterned by Romans and later. Around the turn of the 19th century they used bricks and often patterned structures either plastically or by using different coloured bricks. Slate are thin plates and pattern are achieved by overlapping the pieces.
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