Der Tag der Nähmaschine findet jährlich am 13.Juni statt.
Der #Tag_der_Nähmaschine erinnert an die #Erfindung der #Nähmaschine durch #ThomasSaint im Jahr 1790. #Saint hat am 13. Juni 1790 das erste #Patent für den #Entwurf einer aus #Holz konstruierten Nähmaschine mit #Gabelnadel, #Vorstecher und #Hakennadel erhalten... Seine Pläne wurden 1874 für das #LondonerScienceMuseum durch William Newton Wilson nachgebaut.
https://welcher-tag-ist-heute.org/gedenktage/tag-der-naehmaschine
La Brigade propreté, grande alliée de Saint-Roch
Bruno Savard a suivi un brigadier dans sa tournée quotidienne. La Brigade propreté se déploie dans Saint-Roch pour assurer le nettoyage du quartier, mais ses bénéfices vont bien au-delà du ménage.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/videos/1-10687929/brigade-proprete-grande-alliee-saint-roch
La Brigade propreté, grande alliée de Saint-Roch
Bruno Savard a suivi un brigadier dans sa tournée quotidienne. La Brigade propreté se déploie dans Saint-Roch pour assurer le nettoyage du quartier, mais ses bénéfices vont bien au-delà du ménage.
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/en-bref/1-10687782/brigade-proprete-grande-alliee-saint-roch
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“Nor is heaven as is alleged.
Nor is hell as is asserted.
Nor is the good eternally happy.
Nor is the bad eternally unhappy.”
Scaring off the Loch Ness Monster is quite an achievement, but my favourite St Columba story is the one where he buries St Oran alive, twice
—from the CARMINA GADELICA, via the National Library of Scotland
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https://digital.nls.uk/early-gaelic-book-collections/archive/75758828?mode=transcription
#Scottish #literature #folklore #medieval #earlymedieval #StColumba #saint #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #theology
“Thou shalt go no further, nor touch the man; go back with all speed”
The first recorded sighting of a monster connected to Loch Ness is given in Adomnán’s VITA COLUMBÆ (“Life of St Columba”, c.7th/8th century CE). St Columba sends it packing
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https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/columba-e.asp
#Scottish #history #LochNess #LochNessMonster #StColumba #saint
Columba has a fair claim to being Scotland’s first patron saint. Scottish kings were buried in Reilig Odhráin, the cemetery next to Columba’s abbey on Iona between the 9th & 11th centuries CE, & what were (possibly) his relics were (perhaps) carried in front of the Scottish army at Bannockburn
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Where’s Brude? Where’s Brude?
So many souls to be saved!
—Edwin Morgan, “Columba’s Song”
in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)
9 June is the feast day of St Columba (c521–97 CE), who led the Irish monastic missions to Dál Riata & the kingdoms of the Picts
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https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/
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