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youtube.com1900s Abandoned Copper Mine Lost in Time
Today, the church is functioning without any restrictions. There is no priest in it, there is no denominational division. Orthodox, Greek-Catholic icons and the icon of God the Father stand next to each other:
— Today it is a monument of national importance, which performs a single function: not to divide people by the confessions, to allow everyone... See more
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The history of Bakota’s St. Michael’s Cave Monastery has started back in pre-Christian times. Age of caves reaches almost 4 thousand years. Almost all this time they served to worship natural elements. Until now, some pagan artifacts have been saved: a man’s foot etched in stone, stone idols and altars.
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Here is what the sea smells like.
It is more texture than scent, because the sea is primarily made of two substances that have no smell of their own: water and salt. Salt has no smell, but makes the air sting, and so all of the other smells of the sea are layered upon the pang of salt. Water has no smell but instead a comfort. We feel moisture as
There’s nothing to be done about the damp, the slow seep of salt into every crevice, every board. Every sweater she owned felt damp to the touch. The low mist rolled in overnight, only to burn off in the sun, but nothing ever fully dried out before darkness fell again.
Across the shallow beds, the rock flats are stained ochre, bright goldenrod, and
... See moredriving through the painted hills
tufts of sagebrush, bristled like a beard
mounds and dips of earth
striations, crimson bands stacked high like a mesozoic birthday cake.
sunset over painted hills. it’s showy and dramatic,
a topograph of bloody knuckles,
a necklace and a port wine stain.
makes me think of confections, but it’s too serious, too ancient,
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