The watertower of Straßenheim features very basic mosaic patterns made of bricks.
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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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