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Impressive images of the Notre Dame restoration in Paris - France 🇫🇷, as the long-awaited reopening is set for December 8th, with a special ceremony on the 7th
Fifteen million visitors are expected—and the bells have already begun to ring!
Fifteen million visitors are expected—and the bells have already begun to ring!
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The Notre Dame bells rang for the first time since the April 2019 fire and church on track to re-open on December 8, 2024.
In past 5 years, 250+ companies and 100s of artisans worked to restore the 861-year old cathedral based on medieval building plans:
▫️Arch Roof: Over 2,000 oak trees from French forests used to rebuild roof (using medieval ax cutting techniques).
▫️Transept crossing: Ultrasonic scans were used to see how medieval masonry work was done and arch was rebuilt stone by stone (stonecutters used traditional techniques).
▫️Grand Organ: Frances’s largest organ had its 8,000 pipes removed and cleaned.
There are some necessary modern touches, including a new water-misting system in roof to fight future fires.
The reconstruction efforts funded in large part by ~$1B from France’s 3 richest families (LVMH, Kering and L’Oreal).
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In past 5 years, 250+ companies and 100s of artisans worked to restore the 861-year old cathedral based on medieval building plans:
▫️Arch Roof: Over 2,000 oak trees from French forests used to rebuild roof (using medieval ax cutting techniques).
▫️Transept crossing: Ultrasonic scans were used to see how medieval masonry work was done and arch was rebuilt stone by stone (stonecutters used traditional techniques).
▫️Grand Organ: Frances’s largest organ had its 8,000 pipes removed and cleaned.
There are some necessary modern touches, including a new water-misting system in roof to fight future fires.
The reconstruction efforts funded in large part by ~$1B from France’s 3 richest families (LVMH, Kering and L’Oreal).
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Japan just launched a wooden (yes made of wood) satellite called LignoSat.
It is the world's first wooden satellite and I t'll stay in orbit for six months in an attempt to prove wood is a space-grade material.
It’s one step in Kyoto university’s long and distant dream of building timber houses on the moon and mars .
It is the world's first wooden satellite and I t'll stay in orbit for six months in an attempt to prove wood is a space-grade material.
It’s one step in Kyoto university’s long and distant dream of building timber houses on the moon and mars .
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Pain is the touchstone of growth. Struggle shapes character.
Through adversity, Bobby Kennedy has emerged as a leader who understands suffering, redemption, and the fight for something greater than himself.
Through adversity, Bobby Kennedy has emerged as a leader who understands suffering, redemption, and the fight for something greater than himself.
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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is
why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such
infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture
of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may
be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.
- C. S. Lewis
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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is
why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such
infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture
of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may
be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.
- C. S. Lewis
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The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy:
the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!
A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in
somebody else's imagination,
as if that were the only
place in which one could at last become real!
- Thomas Merton
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The logic of worldly success rests on a
fallacy:
the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!
A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in
somebody else's imagination,
as if that were the only
place in which one could at last become real!
- Thomas Merton
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