Every modern idea is dedicated to the advancement of civilization for a select few yet none of them address the most glaring human problems which are poverty, armed conflict, famine, and human diseases. How sad and ironic.
Some secrets may be better left behind the curtain. Why is it so tempting to peek, though?
#LittleNightmares III’s first DLC – The Backstage – arrives June 12 as part of the Secrets of The Spiral Expansion Pass.
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the galaxy is waiting.
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This is the largest monastic library on Earth.
It’s hidden in an Austrian mountain valley and is believed to have inspired the design of the iconic library in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, but you’ve probably never even heard of it...
Completed in 1776 within the Benedictine monastery Admont Abbey, the library was designed by architect Josef Hueber as the intellectual crown of the abbey. It is 70 metres long, lit by 48 windows, and lined with white-and-gold bookcases that hold 70,000 volumes. Across the entire abbey, the collection runs to roughly 200,000 books and 1,400 medieval manuscripts.
Hueber designed the room to embody the philosophy of his era. "Like our understanding, spaces too should be filled with light," he said. The walls are white. The shelves are gilded. Sunlight pours through the windows and reflects off the gold leaf until the entire hall seems to glow from inside.
The ceiling holds seven frescoes painted by Bartolomeo Altomonte in the summers of 1775 and 1776. He was almost eighty years old. Each fresco depicts a stage of human understanding, beginning with the sciences and rising, dome by dome, toward Divine Revelation in the central cupola.
In 1865, a fire tore through the monastery. It destroyed the church, the dormitories, the workshops, almost everything. But the library survived untouched.
Two and a half centuries after it was completed, it is still called the eighth wonder of the world...
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These are the droids we were looking for.
A collection of iconic droids from the #StarWars universe on display at a special #MandalorianAndGrogu screening in Los Angeles.
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