FRENCH QUARTER, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, USA
Very bad roads, park your car anywhere in the area and then just WALK.
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New Orleans French Quarter #3
New Orleans French Quarter #3
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Happy New Year! Hope you had a good rest during the holiday season. I would like to thank the first responders in New Orleans, who keep the city safe. Check out a brief description of the places I visited or walked past with my sister.
Pat O'Brien's: has a main bar, patio and piano lounge. I actually went to the patio for the flaming fountain and to the piano lounge. The flaming fountain gave off a lot of heat but the concept of having fire and water put together is rather interesting. The piano lounge is really popular so of course, there was a line when I went about 11 pm. In my opinion, it was worth the wait.
There are two pianos in the lounge. Dueling pianos evolved from the late 1890's. Pianists would duel to get attention and tips. The musicians now duet instead of duel. The atmosphere in this lounge is one of luxury and class. This also means the drinks are really expensive and the waiters might not like you so much if you do not order an alcoholic beverage.
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Latrobe Park: is a nice, very small park with a pretty sculpture fountain. The park has benches you can sit on but the park looks a little sketchy. Nobody was there when I visited.
Travel tip:
Avoid quiet or non-touristy areas, especially if you travel alone or in small groups.
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Ode to Benjamin Henry Latrobe
On Nov. 4, 2006, a ceremony was held to mark the restoration and reopening of the Baltimore Basilica, designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe. He also designed the U.S. Capitol. The Hon. Alan M. Hantman, FAIA, pays tribute to Latrobe's talent and memory in his remarks. Mr. Hantmen is presently the Architect of the U.S. Capitol. Latrobe's maternal grandfather was John Henry Antes of New Frederick, PA, an immigrant from Germany.
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Degas House, New Orleans
Congo Square New Orleans - The sacred ground of the ancestors
Congo Square in New Orleans, the sacred grounds where many enslaved people gathered to dance, sing, play instruments and practice their spirituality in secrecy.
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Basilica Restore the Light - History
Baltimore Basilica - Restore the Light - History
Restore the Light
Baltimore, Maryland
Case for Support for the Baltimore Basilica - 2003
Our Nation’s Most Historic Catholic Church
The history of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is at the center of the origins of the Catholic Church in America. When Pope Pius VI named John Carroll of Maryland the first Bishop of our nation in 1789, he assigned John Carroll the task of building a cathedral for our infant Church.
For this undertaking, Bishop Carroll chose Benjamin Latrobe, who was at that time charged with the design and supervision of the construction of the nation’s capitol in Washington. Latrobe has been considered one of the greatest of the 19th Century architects. He submitted a plan for the proposed cathedral during the same period that he held the post of Architect of the United States Capitol under Thomas Jefferson.
Following instructions given him by Bishop John Carroll, Latrobe designed a neo-classical cathedral in the style of the newly formed District of Columbia. It was the most extraordinary ecclesiastical building of its day. Built high on a hill in central Baltimore, the Basilica was both the symbol of the City of Baltimore and the symbol of the Catholic Church in America.
The Cathedral was dedicated on May 31, 1821, with the third archbishop, Ambrose Marechal presiding. In its original design, the interior was bathed with natural light from windows in its dome. To this day, the Church is considered Latrobe’s masterpiece and one of the finest buildings in America. The major historian of architecture, Niklaus Pevsner, calls it “the most beautiful church in North America.”
The Basilica has witnessed many of the most important events in the early history of our Church. Many Bishops were consecrated here to be pastors and apostles across the nation including the Sees where Cardinals now serve. Early Bishops of Boston and New York were consecrated at the Basilica as well as Bishops for diocesan churches from Florida to Idaho, from New England to New Mexico. The Archdiocese of Washington claimed this Church as its cathedral for a century and a half until 1940.
The Basilica is also the site of seven Provincial Councils as well as the First, Second and Third Plenary Councils in the United States. The Basilica thus played an extraordinary role in establishing Catholic education and schools in America, service to the poor, and promoting quality higher education. In May 1884, then Archbishop James Gibbons convened the first meeting of the committee to establish The Catholic University of America in the dining room of his residence, located on Charles Street, behind the Basilica.
Many important figures in the history of the church in the United States have close ties with the Basilica in addition to Bishop (later Archbishop) John Carroll. Saint Elizabeth Ann Bailey Seton, the first native-born American to be declared a saint, established a home just four blocks from the Basilica. Mother Mary Lange founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence in 1829. St. John Neumann worshiped at the Basilica on many occasions. Significantly, Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, was ordained a priest at the Basilica in 1877 by then Archbishop James Gibbons.
The Basilica still plays a significant role in the Church today. In addition to the visits from Pope John Paul II, first in 1976 as a Cardinal, and in his pastoral visit to Baltimore in 1995. More recently, Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew have worshiped and spoken recently at the Basilica.
Heartland Highways Program 1106: Walldogs, Lawn Rangers, Mattoon Baseball
Heartland Highways is close to home in this episode! It's off to Arcola to meet the Walldogs! This group of traveling muralists are from all over the world and they made a stop in Arcola last summer to paint murals depicting the history of the town. Then, we meet the Arcola Lawn Rangers. This group of parade enthusiasts pushes lawn mowers and lives by the motto, You're only young once, but you can always be immature. And finally we'll take a look at the nostalgic history of baseball in Mattoon.
Experts in Athletic Field Design - CPL
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Wedding Day In The Quarter
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Huguenots | Wikipedia audio article
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Huguenots
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Huguenots (; French: Les huguenots [yɡ(ə)no]) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.
The term has its origin in early 16th century France. It was frequently used in reference to those of the Reformed Church of France from the time of the Protestant Reformation. Huguenots were French Protestants who held to the Reformed tradition of Protestantism, while the populations of Alsace, Moselle and Montbéliard were mainly German Lutherans. In his Encyclopedia of Protestantism, Hans Hillerbrand claimed that on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, the Huguenot community included as much as 10% of the French population, but it declined to 7–8% by around 1600 and even further after the return of heavy persecution in 1685 with Louis XIV's Edict of Fontainebleau.
Huguenot numbers peaked near an estimated two million by 1562, concentrated mainly in the southern and western parts of the Kingdom of France. As Huguenots gained influence and more openly displayed their faith, Catholic hostility grew. A series of religious conflicts followed, known as the French Wars of Religion, fought intermittently from 1562 to 1598. The Huguenots were led by Jeanne d'Albret, her son, the future Henry IV (who would later convert to Catholicism to become king) and the princes of Condé. The wars ended with the Edict of Nantes, which granted the Huguenots substantial religious, political and military autonomy.
Huguenot rebellions in the 1620s prompted the abolition of their political and military privileges. They retained the religious provisions of the Edict of Nantes until the rule of Louis XIV, who gradually increased persecution of Protestantism until he issued the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685), ultimately ending any legal recognition of Protestantism in France and forcing the Huguenots to either convert or flee in a wave of violent dragonnades. Louis XIV laid claim that the French Huguenot population was reduced from about 800,000 to 900,000 adherents down to just 1,000 to 1,500; although he overexaggerated the reduction, the dragonnades certainly were devastating for the French Protestant community. Nevertheless, the remaining Huguenots faced continued persecution under Louis XV. At the time of Louis XV's death in 1774, Calvinism had been nearly eliminated from France. Persecution of Protestants officially ended with the Edict of Versailles, signed by Louis XVI in 1787. Two years later, with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789, Protestants gained equal rights as citizens.The bulk of Huguenot émigrés relocated to Protestant states such as England and Wales, the Channel Islands, Scotland, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the Dutch Republic, the Electorate of Brandenburg and Electorate of the Palatinate in the Holy Roman Empire, the Duchy of Prussia, as well as majority Catholic but Protestant-controlled Ireland. They also fled to the Dutch Cape Colony in South Africa, the Dutch East Indies, the Caribbean, New Netherland and several of the English colonies in North America. A few families also went to Orthodox Russia and Catholic Quebec.
By now, most Huguenots have been assimilated into various societies and cultures, but remnant communities of Camisards in the Cévennes, most Reformed members of the United Protestant Church of France, French members of the largely German Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine and the Huguenot diaspora in England and Australia all still retain their beliefs and Huguenot designation.
Wedding celebration on jackson square.
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Land of a Thousand Pagodas: The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bagan, Myanmar
In June 2019, the ancient city of Bagan, Myanmar, was finally inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, some 24 years after it was first nominated. Join us to learn more about the outstanding universal value of this sacred landscape, and the process by which its historical and religious significance was acknowledged and celebrated by the international community.
The event featured a keynote address by Professor Richard Mackay, AM, a World Heritage Adviser for the International Council on Monuments and Sites, who undertook the technical ‘in-country’ assessment of the nomination for Bagan as part of the World Heritage Committee’s evaluation process.
About the speaker:
Prof Richard Mackay, AM is the ‘Director of Possibilities’ at Mackay Strategic, founding Partner of GML Heritage, an Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University and a Member of the NSW Independent Planning Commission. Richard has been an ICOMOS cultural advisor at recent Sessions of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, and is a member of the National Executive Committee of Australia ICOMOS and the Convenor of the ICOMOS global General Assembly which will be held in Sydney in October 2020. He is a past Chair of the Australian World Heritage Advisory Committee, and wrote the ‘Heritage’ theme of the 2011 and 2016 Commonwealth State of the Environment reports. In 2003 he was made a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia for services to archaeology and cultural heritage. In 2018 Richard undertook the technical advisory mission to Bagan as part of the ICOMOS evaluation of the World Heritage nomination.
Geographic Information Science (GIS) Day 2019
Join us as we celebrate GIS (Geographic Information Science) Day on Nov. 13 with an all-day series of talks on the use of GIS technology and 3D mapping in cultural heritage preservation and disaster response.
GIS Day — held during Geography Awareness Week (Nov. 12-18) — is an annual, global celebration of GIS and mapping technology, with events held by organizations around the world. Formally started in 1999, GIS Day aims to provide a forum to promote the benefits of GIS research, demonstrate real-world applications of GIS and foster open idea sharing and growth in the GIS community.
The Library’s morning session will open with a keynote address by Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas, co-chair of the Congressional French Caucus focusing on Cultural Heritage Preservation Mapping and Congressional Policy. The morning also will feature talks on the aftermath of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire and the use of GIS and computer vision in disaster response planning and cultural heritage preservation.
The afternoon session will concentrate on applications of the technology with case studies on historic building and engineering archives in cultural preservation, advanced spatial analysis and 3D mapping of UNESCO World Heritage sites
Schedule
Welcome and Introduction of Librarian
Paulette Hasier, Chief, Geography and Map Division
Opening Remarks
Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress
Cultural Heritage Preservation, Mapping and Congressional Policy Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas
Notre Dame, Computer Vision and the Future of GIS in Cultural Heritage Preservation
John Hessler, Library of Congress & Topology Lab for Virtual Geographic Environments
Documenting Cultural Resources Through GIS
Diedre McCarthy and Catherine Lavoie, Historic American Buildings Survey,
National Park Service
Afternoon: 1-3:30 p.m.
Architectural Archives in Cultural Preservation
Mari Nakahara, Curator of Architecture, Prints and Photographs Division
The Evolution of Data Driven 3D GIS at the National Capital Planning Commission
Kenneth Walton, National Capital Planning Commission, Policy & Research Division
Lhasa VR - Documenting the Historic Tibetan Capital Through 3D GIS
Will Rourk and Guoping Huang, Scholars Lab, University of Virginia.
Questions and Closing Remarks
All Speakers
Inside The Greyhound Bus Station Harrisburg Pa.
Adentro el terminal de autobuses Greyhound en Harrisburg, Estado de Pennsylvania Railroad Stations. Ferrocarriles. Waiting Room. Greyhound Bus Passengers. Harrisburg Tourism. Transit News. Downtown Harrisburg.
Uni battle, Gold Coast
QUT's Social 7s softball teams at the first Uni battle, filmed on a Go Pro 3 and 4
riding the little rock streetcar
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The Brown Wedding Recap Video
Enjoy this beautiful wedding of Isaac and Caroline Brown, captured at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Course in Muscle Shoals, AL.