Pope Leo XIV, on his first official visit to a Muslim place of prayer since his election seven months ago, made history this morning in Istanbul. Stepping into the Blue Mosque, named for its 21,000 blue İznik tiles, the Pope paused in a moment of silent reflection alongside

The Global Indies British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756-1815 Ashley L. Cohen, Yale Univ Pr 2021 degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… Introduction:The Indies Mentality PDF on author's Academia 🔽 academia.edu/45086339/The_G…

Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I sign a Joint Declaration in Istanbul reaffirming their commitment to the path toward full communion and forcefully rejecting any use of religion to justify violence. loom.ly/5iHoVKg

When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits. Due to our policies, we've done it in 9. Bold climate action is transforming the lives of Londoners 💚

Broadcasting from the Arch of Galerius in Thessaloniki.

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The doorway of a post-1917 big fire Neo-Hellenic style apartment house in the environs of Saint Sophia church in Thessaloniki. #doorway #salonikastudytrip #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

Chapel of the Holy Trinity in Lublin Castle, Poland, is known for its amazing Byzantine‑Ruthenian frescoes decorating its Gothic architecture (a pretty uncommon fact). It was built in the 14th century and rebuilt in 1407. Inscriptions from a Mass in 1569 during the Union of

Thessaloniki Art Deco: modern urban-scape and lighthouse reflector bursts seen in the ironwork of a doorway for a grand building/ megaron.

The straight, majestic Roman road of Via Egnatia, linking Constantinople with Rome, still very much in use two thousand years after its construction, and giving to Thessaloniki the character and potențial of a great metropolis.

When you analyse Hitler's DNA from a bloodstained piece of the sofa on which he killed himself, you're bound to raise a few eyebrows. The media response to a documentary that did just that was intense. ZEITGEIST on what we can learn from Hitler's blood 👇 katjahoyer.uk/p/what-can-we-…

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For Romania's national day, the president gave a high award to a 107-year-old veteran for fighting to "liberate" Bessarabia & on the Don in WW2. Left out was that his regiment was implicated in the Iași Pogrom or other atrocities against Jews. A troubling whitewashing of history.