Posted on 01/31/2014 6:39:02 PM PST by marshmallow
Since 1844, millions of photographs have probably been taken of Jerusalem. But these blurry snaps are the very first.
Few places in the world are as revered, fought over and thought about as Jerusalem. For millenia, people have made pilgrimages here, often at great expense and great risk. So imagine for a second what it would be like to hear, from a young age, about this holy city, and then to see the first photographs ever taken of it:
These photos come from 1844 and were taken by French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey. According to Retronaut, they weren’t discovered until the 1920s, in a store room on Girault’s estate. Retronaut adds:
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
I will be honored by your presence visiting the Western Wall. G-dly women go there, which you are onyx!
(((HUGS)))
Oh gosh!
(Serious blushing, I’ not worthy)
I really want to pray there!
Don’t ask me how I know....just don’t stumble into the wrong side of the wailing wall - for your gender. They will give you the business!
ROTFLOLOL.
I bet I can guess, but I won’t.
I’m just hoping and praying I will one day manage to get there.
God bless and keep you, dearest RFEngineer!
I second that.
“Am I a racist hater to want that ugly desolation of a mosque torn down, and the Temple restored, as well as want the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople turned back into a Christian cathedral?”
It’s okay to hate evil, and the mooselimbs are at great pains to make the world aware of how many races are represented in their blood cult. It’s a cult, not a race.
bucksheesh — I have learned a new word. Thanks.
According to Wiki:
Baksheesh (from Persian: بخشش bakhshesh[1]) is tipping, charitable giving, and certain forms of political corruption and bribery in the Middle East and South Asia.
Origins and usage[edit]
Baksheesh comes from the Persian word بخشش (bakhshesh), which originated from the Pahlavi (Middle Iranian) language.[2] It is further traced back to Sanskrit "Bhiksha" or "Bheeks" which has the same meaning.
The word had also moved westward. In the Albanian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, Macedonian, and Turkish languages, bakshish or бакшиш means "tip" in the conventional western sense. In Greek, μπαξίσι (baksisi) can mean a gift in general. In German and French, Bakschisch is a small bribe (in Romanian as well, depending on the context; usually employed as a euphemism to şpagă, which means outright bribe).
Thanks for that info.
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