It was the commission to crown Michelangelo's astonishing life and career. He was asked at the age of 71 to take over as chief architect of the project, and guide the near-impossible task of raising a dome the size of Rome's Pantheon atop the mighty church.
The people here indicate the unbelievable scale of St. Peter's.
Michelangelo's breathtaking dome is 447 feet tall - the letters around the base are themselves 2 meters tall, and read: "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven."
How do we go back to being a society that builds things like this?
“Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.” - Sir Roger Scruton
USA 🇺🇸: In addition to cocaine, the Secret Service confirmed that it found marijuana twice in the White House during the year 2022.
"No one was arrested in these incidents because the weight of confiscated marijuana did not meet the legal threshold for federal charges or DC felony misdemeanors since the District of Columbia decriminalized possession," said a Secret Service spokesperson. "The marijuana was collected by the police and destroyed."
USA 🇺🇸: A survey by “Siena College” revealed that for 87% of respondents, crime is a “very or somewhat serious” problem in the state of New York and New York City.
France 🇫🇷: Fearing the return of demonstrations in France, the government has put 130,000 police officers on standby due to the anniversary of the French revolution this Friday (14)
For comparison, when Russia invaded Ukraine, an estimated 180,000 troops were involved.
Blockchain developer Pedro Magalhães claims that he has successfully reverse-engineered the source code of Brazil’s pilot central bank digital currency (CBDC).
He revealed the existence of functions that empower a central authority to freeze funds or reduce balances.
An easy way to speed up your fat loss is to avoid snacking.
You need to give your digestive system a break and let your body snap out of fat storage mode.
When you eat food, insulin is released.
When insulin is released, your body starts to store fat.
Stop grazing already. 🐂
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🇦🇺 Australia at one point had the 2nd most #Bitcoin of any government on 🌍 Earth and has since sold it all.
One of the worst geopolitical bag fumbles of all time 👀
JUST IN: Europes’s first #Bitcoin ETF is ready to launch this month after a year delay. 👀
Following the crash of Terra Luna last year, the fund decided “the time wasn’t right” but now “demand has shifted”. 🙌
Paying for McDonald's with #Bitcoin in 🇸🇻 El Salvador 👀🙌
https://nostr.build/av/ad96cd0ebb0582a69ae78f5260f688ab92076aef201450696c95ccd36601c5f8.mp4
More disinflation in the offing: US PPI slowed to 0.1% YoY in June, from 0.9% in May and lower than expected. This is smallest pace since Aug 2020 and is down from the all-time high of 11.7% YoY from March 2022 in a promising sign for CPI.
Good Morning from Germany, whose export model is coming under pressure. Exports to #China (on a 12mth rolling basis) have fallen to their lowest level since 2021, exports to the US also seem to have hit a top & those to France cannot make up for the shortfall.
🚨United Kingdom 🇬🇧: China has successfully penetrated all sectors of the British economy and effectively “bought” universities – but the government was slow to wake up to the “threat” posed by Beijing.
The British Parliament's intelligence and security committee has published a report that the communist country's ambition to become an economic superpower poses the "biggest risk" to the UK.
The report says China has been "particularly effective in using its money and influence to penetrate or buy out academia to ensure its international narrative is advanced and criticism suppressed."
🚨Germany 🇩🇪: Members of the “Last Generation” climate terrorist group blocked the runways at Hamburg and Düsseldorf airports in Germany this Thursday morning (13)
In the video below, we can see a girl sticking her hand on one of the runways at Düsseldorf airport.
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