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Thank you @romolo90 for grabbing one from the secondary. This makes you the great collector of interactive clocks, i present you the ⏰ badge. Afaik you have all 3 of them now

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Live webcast of Starship's 13th flight test starts now

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What you’re looking at isn’t just Venice’s, Italy’s, or Europe’s largest painting.

It’s the world’s largest canvas painting.

A monumental work by Gian Antonio Fumiani.

Over 443 square meters, created between 1680 and 1704 from more than 40 canvases stitched into one.

You wouldn’t assume that the modest façade of San Pantalon would guard such a wonder.

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There is a rule in Florence that has not been broken in over five hundred years: nothing in the city may be built taller than a dome finished in 1436.

The dome belongs to the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, and it is the work of Filippo Brunelleschi.

When you look at a photograph of Florence and notice that its skyline seems strangely, impossibly intact, you are not imagining it...

The city has protected that view, by custom and by law, since the Renaissance. To this day, no building in Florence is permitted to rise higher than the cupola.

What it guards is one of the most astonishing structures ever built. When Brunelleschi began in 1420, no one in Europe knew how to raise a dome that wide. The technology had been lost with the Romans. The cathedral had stood for decades with a hole in its roof, because the span was considered impossible to cover, and the city had essentially gambled that someone would one day work out how.

Brunelleschi built it without the wooden scaffolding everyone assumed was necessary, laying over four million bricks in a self-supporting double shell, one dome inside another, in a herringbone pattern that let each ring hold itself up as it rose.

Six centuries later, it remains the largest masonry dome in the world. Nothing built since, in brick and stone, has surpassed it.

The Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, who was born in Florence, once explained what that means to him. "When I feel depression creeping in," he said, "I return to Florence to gaze at Brunelleschi's dome. If human genius was able to achieve something so great, then I too can and must try to create, to act, to live."

That is what a skyline can be when a city decides that beauty is worth protecting...

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Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25 on digital storefronts and at other select retailers.

Check out the official cover art, also available as downloadable artwork at https://t.co/XPwC8URCQ4

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We could’ve been playing GTA 6 right now.

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12 anni fa, a New York, sulla portaerei Intrepid, firmavo un telo che venne imbarcato sul primo volo di Orion. Oggi quel modulo è in viaggio per la Luna.

#Artemis

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@romatoday Vercingetorix deditur - De Bello Gallico di Giulio Cesare (Libro VII, cap. 89)

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@TerraOstile grazie @andst7

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