Sur le parvis de l’église Saint-Sauveur, perché sur les hauteurs de la ville, chante un drôle d’oiseau. Resté muet pendant de longs mois, l’orgue de Saint-Sauveur s’est depuis peu remis à claironner. Inauguré au mois de mai après une longue restauration, cet orgue construit en 1645 et classé aux Monuments historiques a d’autant plus reprises … Lire la suite
Les Villages-Vovéens. RÉNOVATION D’ŒUVRES EGLISE SAINT LUBIN DE VOVES. Deux tableaux de l’église Saint-Lubin, aux Villages Vovéens, sont en cours de restauration. Lancé fin septembre, le chantier concerne tout d’abord une peinture à l’huile représentant La résurrection du Christ datant de 1691 et situé dans le retable du maître-autel de l’église, inscrit au titre des … Lire la suite
L’association « Un jour, une église », le collectif « Ouvrons nos églises », le festival Point d’orgue et autres partenaires font programme commun cet été. Quelque 333 animations vous sont proposées dans 113 églises et chapelles. Article réservé aux abonnés
When we hear of sunken cities, images of stone ruins might come to mind — eerie, beautiful and forever trapped in an underwater world. One would never imagine that a sunken city might return to the surface. Yet that is exactly what has happened in Iraqi Kurdistan, where a 3,400-year-old city believed to have once … Lire la suite
“And have you those excellent receipts, madam, to keep yourselves from bearing of children?” runs a line in an early 17th-century century English drama, Ben Jonson’s “Epicene.” A New World example of a pregnancy-ending receipt (an old word for recipe) appeared in a how-to manual, “The American Instructor,” adapted from an English title and published … Lire la suite
For centuries historians have debated just exactly where the Black Death — the world’s deadliest plague — originated. Now, thanks to 14th-century tombstones near Issyk-Kul, a lake in a mountainous area in what is now Kyrgyzstan, scientists claim that they’ve discovered the genesis of the plague that, in the span of eight years, killed 60% … Lire la suite
In 1926 author Walter Noble Burns published The Saga of Billy the Kid, the first book-length biography of the Kid since Charlie Siringo’s History of Billy the Kid, published in 1920. As Burns explained to readers, the unprovoked, sadistic murder of Englishman John Henry Tunstall on Feb. 18, 1878, was the event that kicked off … Lire la suite
The admiral stood victorious, his battered vessel rocking gently with the changing of tide that had served him so well. With his sword stained crimson and his face blackened with soot, he observed with elation the seascape of carnage laid out before him. He’d performed a miracle this day, and the exhausted yet heartened crews … Lire la suite
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected within days to rule on the validity of a New York state law that places strict limits on carrying handguns, New York State Rifle & Pistol Inc. v. Bruen — and the decision could rewrite the heated American debate over gun control. Opponents of the law, which requires those seeking … Lire la suite
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