[:de:User:Caro1409|Caro1409 Public domain but above is uploader. Gertrude and Andrew II of Hungary in a psalter. A. Savin, Wikimedia Commons Front door of Saint Elizabeth's Church. St Elizabeth of Thuringia (aka Elizabeth of Hungary) Church in Marburg, Hesse, Germany. Very Gothic but made of brick not stone. https://www.saintsfeastfamily.com/copy-of-st-kinga-of-poland-july-24-2 Saint Kinga of Poland. Bela IV's oldest [...]
Another lovely APOD Jupiter and Venus picture ... The Astronomy Picture Of the Day website has a new glorious picture of Jupiter and Venus together in the sky, along with a telescope, and children being shown this wonder. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230315.html ~*~*~*~ I got to thinking about Andrew II of Hungary, again. He seemed to be the [...]
Also known as, getting deep in the weeds... ; ) Dante began the 14th century, dying in 1321. Saint Jadwig finished it. She died in 1399, along with her only child, when she was about twenty-five years old. Her footprint is immortalized in the walls of a Carmelite church. She was declared King [sic] of [...]
Recently I came across a blog post discussing two geniuses from the 14th century, Guillame de Machaut and Nicole Oresme. https://yardsaleofthemind.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/timelines/ Machaut was musical and lived from 1300 to 1377. Oresme (~ 1320 to 1382) was a priest, professor, and scientist (natural philosopher). The blogger says that he can’t think of any other genius from [...]
(The two little crescents in the above picture are the planets Jupiter and Venus. Their shape is an artifact of my camera and blowing up the picture beyond what it can manage.) There are two definitions of the ecliptic that are easy to find. One says that the ecliptic is the plane of the earth's [...]
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