The belltowers at Notre Dame are basically a medieval version of one of those barbecue charcoal-lighter cylinders. During the fire, you could see that the pompiers were trying to soak them down thoroughly. Apparently, they succeeded.
My deepest sympathies to the people of Paris, France.
Don’t breathe the smoke; the roof of the building was solid lead.
This is a great tragedy for art and culture; I wonder what happened. I grew up scampering around that building, and I have no idea how many times I hauled myself up the stairs to the roof so I could see the city below, the clusters of tourists like ants.
According to The Guardian the fire was started by accident during maintenance/construction work.
What is a legitimate state? If you’ve been with this blog for the last couple of years, you’ll probably have encountered that question in a variety of forms. [stderr] It’s not as simple as it seems.
You can’t own all the problems; sometimes the best you can do is give a small nudge and let nature take its course.
At Frankfurt Airport:
“Unorthodox survival methods” sounds like it’s deliberately bypassing the orthodoxy, which is also known as “what works.”
If only it were this easy.
At what point are we shifting from political commentary to laughing at someone with a debilitating mental illness?
“Loses contact with” is not a good phrase, when used in conjunction with an aircraft. This is really not good.
This is probably old news, but I’m fascinated.