Okay fellas. Here we go again. C*****e c****e affects the earth. To say there is no c*****e c****e because it's snowing in your neighborhood is like saying there is no sun because it's dark out at night.
I don't know what it's going to take for you guys to catch on but I think it will probably be too late.
I understand when some 70 year old, nearly dead, retiree from Florida tells me it's not getting warmer because he forgot to wear his pants. But, Dave, you are younger than that and shouldn't have any signs of Alzheimers yet. So do us all a favor and study some science instead of listening to this right wing nut jobs who's only goal is making sure the oil companies keep pumping money into their pockets.

Sent to me by fellow UHHer Widetracker. Thanks Bob.
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These are amazing works of art




Didn't have the conventional tools of today to carve into marble.
This sculpture below, " The veiled virgin" is most impressive! Notice the effect of transparency, from the Italian artist Giovanni Strazza of the nineteenth century.

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Think of the epic difficulty of modeling a veil on a face of a material that is among the toughest on the planet; marble -- mineral hardness 3 on Friedrich Mohs scale. Another problem is that nothing is added. It is a sculpture made by subtracting. To sculpt a figure, you take a block of marble and "simply take everything off that is not in the figure ."



Other large sculptures that have beautiful marble veils


Think of the level of difficulty to carve without breaking it
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This is a monument to the father of Prince Raimondo Sangro Antonio (1685-1757)
The Italian name of the monument Disinganno is often translated as " disappointment ".
"Freedom of the spell " (after 1757 ) of Franschesko Kvirolo and is the most famous of his works. Just look at this netting!
All made of a single piece of marble. Kvirolo was the only Neapolitan master who accepted the challenge . Other great sculptors would not, believing that the network would break into pieces ..
Amazing master sculptors for centuries the art of precise cutting of the stone.
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How about that texture of the skin in the sculpture by Lorenzo Bernini, which depicts the abduction of Persephone! Look at the finger pressures on the skin.

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The sculptor was only 23 years old when he made it in 1621.

London cab driver's answer to a request from a Muslim to turn off the radio.


A devout Arab Muslim entered a black cab in London . He curtly asked the cabbie to turn off the radio because as decreed by his religious teaching, he must not listen to music because in the time of the prophet there was no music, especially Western music which is the music of the infidel.

The cab driver politely switched off the radio, stopped the cab and opened the door.

The Arab Muslim asked him, "What are you doing?"

The cabbie answered, "In the time of the prophet there were no taxis, so piss off and wait for a camel.."