charge of the Chartreuse de Champole by‚ Philip the Bold‚ in charge of the sculptural program. Here’s where Claus achieved the Well of Moses. The Well of Moses was designed over a well‚ were Carthusians Monastery worshiped. The well served as a water source for the monastery. The fountain actually spouted water‚ cause the Carthusian commitment to silence and prayer would have rejected anything that made sound. Above the fountain was a tall hexagonal pillar‚ with six of the
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So Much Happiness It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness. With sadness there is something to rub against‚ a wound to tend with lotion and cloth. When the world falls in around you‚ you have pieces to pick up‚ something to hold in your hands‚ like ticket stubs or change. But happiness floats. It doesn’t need you to hold it down. It doesn’t need anything. Happiness lands on the roof of the next house‚ singing‚ and disappears when it wants to. You are happy either way
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The Lindisfarne Gospels include the St. Matthew cross-carpet page‚ St. Luke portrait page‚ and the St. Luke incipit page. It was created in early medieval‚ or Hiberno Saxon‚ Europe‚ around 700 C.E. The Lindisfarne Gospels is an illuminated manuscript‚ created using ink‚ pigments‚ and gold on vellum. The work is known for its decorative patterning and its abstracted zoomorphic representations. “Carpet pages” depict decorative panels of abstract and zoomorphic motifs. The Lindisfarne Gospels exemplify
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For instance‚ every time someone call to the door of the monastery asking for help‚ he answered‚ no one would leave with empty hands. When a men went to ask if he could give him 12 shilling‚ he had the man take 13 shilling so he had 1 shilling for himself. Likewise‚ when a family had ben ran out of bread and went
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On 21 March 1098‚ the saintly abbot of the thriving Benedictine Abbey of Molesme‚ Robert‚ led twenty-one of his monks into the inhospitable thickets of Citeaux to establish a new monastery where they hoped to follow Benedict of Nursia’s Rule for Monasteries in all its fullness. The unhappy monks of Molesme‚ grieved at the loss of their holy leader‚ soon obtained a papal command for his return. The new struggling community continued until 1109 under the leadership of Alberic‚ who introduced the idea
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Apostles‚ the Gospel mentions that he was the first to profess his faith believing Jesus was the Son of God (Internet Chronology). Charters found in the Abbey support the existing folklore (Chronology). Records prove that King Offa made a grant for the monastery in 785 to St. Peter and the needy people of God in Thorney in the terrible‚ awful place which is called "act Westmunster"’ (Chronology). The charter was also significant in first
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TO: Pamela Hunt‚ President of Robeson Community College FROM: Taylor Britt‚ Employee at Robeson Community College DATE: April 11‚ 2013 SUBJECT: Family Vacation to Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil INTRODUCTION A family vacation to Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil‚ a new experience‚ a new beginning‚ a new awakening‚ a new picture‚ and most certainly a new memory. Traveling companions are Taylor Britt‚ nineteen‚ Cynthia Britt‚ mother‚ forty-eight and Megan Britt‚ sibling‚ twenty-three. The approximate length
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Lima now is a city populated with people of many nations and ethnic backgrounds. The population is swollen with people leaving the mountains‚ sierra‚ and the amazon rain forest‚ selva‚ areas looking for a better life in the capital. This leads to ever growing shantytowns ringing the capital. These pueblos jóvenes or young towns‚ pollution‚ heavy traffic‚ poverty and other unsavory features are what a visitor often sees first on a visit to Lima‚ and is a most off-putting feature. Add the city’s turbulent
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The spread of religion during the Classical Period for both Christianity and Buddhism was directly influenced by economic and social exchange‚ between various societies‚ through prosperous trade routes and political connections spawned from within individual civilizations. Over time‚ these persistent religions will develop into the basis of Western and Eastern culture that would eventually influence the emergence of new societies ruled with renewed political and religious structures even rivaling
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Although in modern times‚ the Triads are mostly associated with criminal activity‚ they originated as mutual support organizations for people at the bottom of the social hierarchy and to defend the common people from those of positions in power "to offer unacquainted people the kind of protection and mutual aid normally afforded by family members" (Murray 178). How they began has been agreed back and forth for many years and lots of theories have come up. However it is generally accepted that the
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