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🇮🇷 The Armenian Holy Cross Chapel, built in Tehran, Iran, in 1987. Photos by Sadeq Miri

@CultureExploreX In these troubled times, one can only hope that the chains of command and approval for the worst can be upheld in that great democracy, America.

This is what is at stake in Iran… There are monsters all over the world. They wish beauty would die so they could roam freely… But God has other plans.

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

La bibliothèque de l’abbaye de Saint-Gall (Suisse), fondée en 612 par Gall, est considérée comme l’une des plus anciennes bibliothèques du monde et possède l’une des plus précieuses collections de manuscrits.

@CharmOfCulture 🤩

Step inside the Wiblingen Abbey 🇩🇪 Wiblingen Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in southern Germany, just outside the city of Ulm. It’s best known for having one of the most spectacular Baroque libraries in Europe.

@mamboitaliano__ For once, he avoids talking nonsense, which does him credit.

Shout out to Elon Musk this time 🤐 Contrary to his usual habit, he managed in 38 days of war in Iran 🇮🇷 to not utter even a shred of a syllable about this matter Who knows what arcane force is holding him back

@CharmOfCulture And yes, we don’t only have mountains — beautiful as they may be 😉

My apologies Switzerland, I was not familiar with your game.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” How are we supposed to spend this day after this message? Asking for a friend 🧐

@thinkingwest And yet, Generation X, which lived through the end of its civilization and the collapse of old certainties in real time—once overshadowed by the Boomers, now challenged by Generation Y—is no better off. And yet, no one ever talks about it…

Gen Z is the disinherited generation. They were born too late to enjoy the greatness of Western civilization; born just in time to face all the challenges. What is their path? It will not be like any other in the past century. It will be like those monks who built a parallel society after Rome's fall, or like the explorers who risked everything in the New World. The "Old Path" is not an option. My latest video explores this topic: youtu.be/9UrpMC0JKaM?si…

@CharmOfCulture Catania

What is the most underrated place you have been in Europe? I’m not talking about Budapest, true underrated places rarely talked about.

@BrivaelFr D’accord, mais pour être cohérent, il faudrait abolir la notion de réserve héréditaire. Tu dois pouvoir déshériter tes enfants si tu ne les juges pas à la hauteur. Même si cela peut parfois donner lieu des injustices et à des vengeances mesquines.

Non, je suis pas contre l’héritage. Pour une raison simple : la propriété privée est au dessus de tout. Si c’est ton argent, t’as le droit d’en faire ce que tu veux, y compris le donner à tes enfants. L’État n’a aucune légitimité à décider qu’il sait mieux que toi quoi faire de ce que tu as construit. Et le marché règle le problème tout seul. 70% des fortunes disparaissent en deux générations (Williams & Preisser). Parce que l’héritier qui ne sait pas gérer le capital le perd. L’argent retourne dans l’économie. Il est racheté, investi, redistribué par les mécanismes du marché, pas par un fonctionnaire. Penser que l’État est plus compétent que les individus pour allouer du capital, c’est littéralement le problème du calcul économique de Mises. On a essayé. 40 fois. Ça ne marche pas. L’héritage mal géré se détruit tout seul. L’héritage bien géré crée de la valeur pour tout le monde. Dans les deux cas, le marché fait le tri mieux qu’un bureau au ministère des finances.

@Oyvey99446 @hea8_ @neveu_matthieu Les coptes (chrétiens) sont les descendants des habitants autochtones de l’Egypte donc pas Arabes.

@lapindoux @hea8_ @neveu_matthieu Bah si il est arabe (copte)

Comment ce mec a pu faire fortune et durer si longtemps ça reste un mystère pour moi ? Il est très laid , Il a l'air idiot, il n'est pas vraiment drôle... Moi pas comprendre ! 🤔

@hea8_ @neveu_matthieu Faux rebeu. Ni maghrébin ni arabe.

@neveu_matthieu C'est le rebeu de serv, il en faut un. tjs

@Knightly_Hist You’re correct- it is Swiss 😄

Repeat with me: "The morion isn't a spanish helmet"

Avant d'être le palais du président, l'Élysée a été une salle de bal, un bordel et un garde-meuble. Construit en 1720 pour un comte qui voulait impressionner la Cour. Financé par la dot de son épouse, fille du plus riche banquier de France. Le comte n'y a jamais reçu le roi. À sa mort, Madame de Pompadour, favorite de Louis XV, rachète l'hôtel. Elle y installe des boiseries, des dorures et agrandit les jardins en mordant sur les Champs-Élysées. Pendant la Révolution, le palais sert d'entrepôt. Puis de salle de danse où l'on monte dans les chambres moyennant finance. De Gaulle appellera l'Élysée "le palais de la main gauche" en souvenir de ce passé sulfureux. Napoléon y signe son abdication en 1815, dans le salon d'Argent. La pièce existe toujours. En 1848, un décret assigne l'Élysée comme résidence du président de la République. Tous y ont dormi depuis. Aucun ne l'a aimé. Poincaré l'appelait "la maison des morts".

@filmdiary00 Malgré toute la sympathie que j’ai pour Paris…

Which city do you prefer: Paris or Rome?

Three days after his execution, Jesus rose from the tomb. But that wasn’t the end of the story. According to the New Testament, he remained on Earth for 40 days. Here’s what those days looked like and why they were the most important days in history: 🧵

@CultureExploreX A blessed Easter to you: Christ is risen from the dead — blessed is the Resurrection of Christ.

Happy Easter. Easter begins with betrayal, blood, public humiliation, a mother forced to watch, and a man nailed to wood while the crowd mocks him. Christianity conquered the world by looking straight at suffering, evil, guilt, and death, then made its claim from the darkest place imaginable: that even here, God did not abandon us. That is why Easter still matters. Because it says the worst thing is never the last thing. That despair is real, but not final. That the stone was heavy, the tomb was sealed, and still it did not hold. If you remove the horror of Good Friday, Easter becomes sentiment. If you face it, Easter becomes hope with scars still on it. And maybe that is what this age needs most. Not vague optimism. A reason to believe that death, failure, sin, and grief do not get the final word. If you want to go deeper, I made an eBook: 12 Life Lessons From 2000 Years of Christian Theology. Click on the link in the comments section to get your copy.

@CharmOfCulture A blessed Easter to you, and many thanks for your inspiring witness to beauty and culture.

Happy Easter everyone ✝️ 📍Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem Few places in the world carry as much historical and religious weight as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Built in the 4th century under Constantine the Great, the church stands on a site that includes both the location of Jesus’ crucifixion at Golgotha and his tomb. It quickly became one of the most important pilgrimage destinations in Christianity. Over the centuries, it has been destroyed, and rebuilt, and reshaped multiple times. It was notably damaged during the Persian sack of Jerusalem in 614, largely destroyed under the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah in 1009, and reconstructed again during the period of the Crusades. Today, the church is shared by several Christian denominations, including Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Armenian Apostolic communities, under a complex arrangement known as the “Status Quo,” which governs everything from maintenance to daily rituals. Despite its turbulent history, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre remains one of the most significant and continuously venerated sites in the world.