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Russian Patriarch holds mass at the Bellingshausen Antarctic base
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on Wednesday served mass at Russia’s Bellingshausen Antarctic station on Waterloo Island and raised a prayer for the entire world. It was the last leg of the Patriarch's Latin American tour that included a meeting with Pope Francis in Cuba, ending a Christianity schism of almost a thousand years. Read full article
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Feb 18th, 2016 - 01:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Most of us refer to the place as King George Island since it's a British territory. Even the chilenos call it Isla Rey Jorge. But the Russians seem to call it Ватерло́о which is evidently Cyrillic for Waterloo.
I got to visit that church on the island. The Russians kept it heated, which seems extravagant given the cost of fuel down there. Inside you can see the rather prominent chains that hold the church to the rock, to keep it from being blown away in the wind. If your boss ever says “hey, do you want a free trip to King George Island?” then I'd recommend the affirmative.
The guy in the funny hat clearly has a real grasp on world geography, NOT.
Feb 18th, 2016 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I always thought the Antarctic was at the bottom of the world.
@2 Heavens, no. Surely you are aware of McArthur's Universal Corrective Map of the World? It reveals the supremacy of all things Australian in the greater scheme of terrestrial matters.
Feb 18th, 2016 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://www.flourish.org/upsidedownmapimages/mcarthur.jpg
I thought Papa Noel lived at the North Pole.
Feb 18th, 2016 - 10:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0First we send the church to evangelize. After we send soldiers to ensure the catechism.
Feb 18th, 2016 - 10:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BRICS
The Turnipidity of Anglos as (2) ChrisR and (3) Marti Llazo NEVER ceases to amaze me ...
Feb 18th, 2016 - 11:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H1KWtG66lEQ
Get me drift?
The history of that Russian church on King George island is rather interesting. And it is rather unlike what the habitually ignorant brasshole suggests.
Feb 19th, 2016 - 12:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0For one thing, it's a post-Soviet era construction. It was funded by private contributions and apparently did not receive a lot of state support other than transport. The whole time I was on the island it was open to anyone who wanted to climb the hill to get to it. The Russians indicated that part of the purpose of the church was to make it available to anyone and not just the Russian staff. The view from vestibule looking I think northward is inspiring. The photo I took there is one of my favourites from my stay.
The Chilean air force C130 aircraft that typically arrive twice a day in summer often fly quite near that church on their approach.
There is a text in the vestibule with some of the details of the construction, delivery, and assembly of this church.
The church was built of a particularly resistant Siberian cedar and larch in Kyzil-Ozek, in 2002, when the initial structure was blessed by the Russian Orthodox church. Then it was dismantled and taken to Poland where it was put on a Russian ship and sent to King George Island. I think it was finally reassembled and consecrated in 2004.
Any religion is welcome to worship in Argentine Antarctica, I'm glad he had a good time.
Feb 19th, 2016 - 06:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0The Russian Orthodox Church has been fully co-opted into the Russian state and therefore acts as an extension of a tyrant.
Feb 19th, 2016 - 06:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0However, Russia's ability to project power south of the equator is severely limited and will become even less so in the coming decades.
@2
Feb 19th, 2016 - 06:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Actually the illiterate one is you, and that's no surprise of course.
The Earth is a spheroid (this may be a surprise to many Anglos). The Russians proved the Earth was a spheroid once and for all 57 years or so ago.
As a spheroid, there is no 'top or bottom”: you are standing on it's surface then your point of reference is equally close and distant on a 2-dimensional plane to all other points on the surface of that spheroid. There is no TOP or BOTTOM from any point of a spheroid to any other point of it.
When he is standing in Antarctica, furthermore, he is not standing on his HEAD, he still uses his feet. As such (and this has nothing to do with the above mathematics, but it is strictly a HUMAN organoleptic-noetic construct), then all points on the globe, from his frame of eyesight, lie BELOW HIS FEET. So he is indeed, at the “top of the world” when discussed in this manner.
Anglos...
(10) Toby
Feb 19th, 2016 - 07:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0You got me drift at (6 :-)
Anglocentric Anglos..., indeed
The Brazil will provide logistical and political support for that Russia and China have a greater presence in Antactica.
Feb 19th, 2016 - 10:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0The more allies we have in Antarctica easier it will be to overthrow the dreams of expansionism of the Saxons.
Harass and undermine all the interests of the 5 Eyes that is the duty of all men and women who fight for freedom and democracy.
@8 ”Any religion is welcome to worship in Argentine Antarctica,
Feb 19th, 2016 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The AMIA bombing was an attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA; Argentine Israelite Mutual Association) building. It occurred in Buenos Aires on July 18, 1994, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds. It was Argentina's deadliest bombing ever.
@ 6 The Lunatic of Chubut
Feb 19th, 2016 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Being able to amaze you never ceases to disinterest me.
Defying conventional terrestrial geometry as you do certainly doesn't amaze me.
Or is it because that hacked French watch movement now touted as a Russian Pilots chronometer so beloved by you has still to start?
This little plane will supply the bases of Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa/Angola in Antarctica.
Feb 19th, 2016 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2016/02/19/Embraers-KC-390-surpasses-100-test-flight-hours/4031455899144/
The Turnipidity of Anglo (14) ChrisR NEVER ceases to amaze me ...
Feb 19th, 2016 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Two paragraphs... two conceptual faults...
1) Where the heck is a sphere's top in “conventional terrestrial geometry”..?
2) It's not called a “Chronometer” it's called a “Chronograph”. Diferent things..!
Geeeeee....
There was a time when Engrish engineers were top dollar...
Get me drift?
@13
Feb 20th, 2016 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0And that terrorist attack still breathes more freedom of religion than in your homeland Chile, one of the most religiously intolerant for non catholic faiths in the Western Hemisphere. Or in the UK for that matter. Check how the US was first invaded why lousy EUians... what were they escaping from?
@ 16 The Lunatic of Chubut
Feb 20th, 2016 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are, for once, correct.
The definition of chronograph just refers to any watch which has a hack into the movement so that it can be stopped and started at will. It says nothing about the accuracy of the movement.
It's as well really, given that your watch is a French original design, the whole production facility of which was carted off to Russia, the design bodged by a hack and the whole lot encased in steel of the rusting variety if not well cared for.
My gold and steel Rolex GMT Master II with flip lock Oyster bracelet does have a certified degree of accuracy from the Swiss and doesn't rust in any type of water, free or saline and can survive 100M, unlike me, who would die.
No point buying anything else, you get a superb timepiece and your money back for what you paid for it as long as you go up a model.
This is the model down from mine, without the gold:
http://www.rolex.com/watches/gmt-master-ii/m116710blnr-0002.html
But I suppose your watch, being correct twice a day, must be worth something, perhaps you could swap it for a Timex if you add the balance?
@ Crybaby
Feb 20th, 2016 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And the clock works?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prwNNP2eoN8&index=16&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A
Anglo Turnip at (18)
Feb 20th, 2016 - 05:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Here's what I think about Rolex's...:
http://en.mercopress.com/2014/07/19/china-extends-a-financial-hand-to-dollar-and-credit-strapped-argentina#comment339732
Here' s a picture of me blue hands non Russian favourite beater...:
http://en.mercopress.com/2014/07/19/china-extends-a-financial-hand-to-dollar-and-credit-strapped-argentina#comment339732
Rolex's...
Pfff...
@ 19 Brasso
Feb 20th, 2016 - 07:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's watch you stupid bugger.
@ 20 Lunatic
IWC, about the mid-fifties? Lovely elegant design but the gun-blued hands are prone to surface rust if the watch is not kept in a reasonable atmosphere. You can usually detect it at the edges, not the face of the hands.
Lost their way a bit of late going for VERY expensive fashions.
My uncle was a watch MAKER.
I'll stick with the real thing.
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