England v Ghana is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries' capitals sit right on the Prime Meridian
England has London, where the Prime Meridian was fixed. Ghana has Accra, the only other world capital to sit on the zero degree longitude line.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
Today is #SussexDay - Ravilious was born in London but Sussex was his heartland and his work depicts that essential essence of the landscape of Sussex and the Downs.
Awesome 22 degree solar halo over Stonehenge today 🌈☀️ Photo credit Nick Bull 🙏
A 22° halo is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists of a halo with an apparent radius of approximately 22° around the Sun or Moon. Around the Sun, it may also be called a sun halo Around the Moon, it is also known as a moon ring, storm ring, or winter halo. It forms as sunlight or moonlight is refracted by millions of hexagonal ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Its radius, as viewed from Earth, is roughly the length of an outstretched hand at arm's length.
#solarhalo #sun #sunhalo #June #spring #rainbow
Nous apprenons avec tristesse le décès du professeur Rosamond McKitterick, dont les travaux ont tant contribué à renouveler notre compréhension de la société carolingienne.
Dans cette vidéo parue récemment, on pourra l'entendre revenir sur son parcours : https://t.co/yA5sgjDHtt
Continuing the tweets on #Dalby church, from ca 1060, this column is interesting. It probably had a twin across from it, and they are probably meant to represent the columns in the temple of Solomon, Jakin and Bias.
Il più grande complesso romano della #Calabria, ovvero villa romana di Casignana, edificata nel I d.C. con esistenza fino al V sec. d.C.. Dotata di terme, ambienti di servizio e un'area residenziale, sito che conserva numerosi mosaici tra cui "nereide su leone"
#arte#Heritage
Vaticanus graecus 666 in the flesh! This manuscript of the Panoplia Dogmatica of Euthymios Zygabenos (a patristic 'arsenal') is famous for its stunning image of the Church Fathers. You can view the digitized image here: https://t.co/0DtHaQfvbJ
15thC font at St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, entirely defaced by iconoclasm. Canonically, a 7-Sacrament font, no trace of the original iconographic scheme remains. A curious trace of a later drawing (Marian?) on one of the panels may have represented Baptism. #FontsonFriday
15thC font at St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, entirely defaced by iconoclasm. Canonically, a 7-Sacrament font, no trace of the original iconographic scheme remains. A curious trace of a later drawing (Marian?) on one of the panels may have represented Baptism. #FontsonFriday