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Pompeii (Rediscovered in 16th - 18th CE)
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Vesuvius seen from Pompeii

Ruins of the Temple of Jupiter
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Bodies became molds of hardened volcanic ashes
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Mosaic
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Rome
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Colosseum since 70 C.E.

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Circus Maximus, Rome
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Now a public park where concerts are usually held

Italy
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Amalfi Coast

Great Wall of China
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Hagia Sophia - Church of the Holy Wisdom

Brazil
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Crystal Palace (made of steel and glass) in Petropolis

Sputnik: First Artificial Satellite
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USSR

October 4, 1957 - Kazakhstan, USSR
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Launching of Sputnik

Sputnik above Earth
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1957 - The Space Age
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Jerusalem 1967
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The Six-Day War

The Six-Day War 1967
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The Project Apollo, USA
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Earth seen from outer space
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Earth seen from the Moon
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Apollo 11 in 1969

Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Mary of Medjugorje 24 June 1981

Ships, Jets, Stealth
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Aircraft Carrier
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USS Ronald Reagan

USA 2002
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2006
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Our Solar System

Alaska
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Northern lights (aurora borealis)

Northern lights viewed from space in 2007
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Antarctica
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First sighted in 1820, the environment is hostile to humans.

Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, France
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Year 2008 as 150th anniversary of the apparitions, site of inexplicable healings.

What will happen next...
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Our Dying Sun
death of our sun
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In about five billion years, our Sun will become a red giant as it runs out of fuel, swelling to many hundreds of times its present size and destroying the inner planets. However, new findings suggest the outer planets could survive.

Rome

The Pantheon
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The temple for all the gods

Originally built as a temple to the seven dieties of the seven planets in the state religion of Ancient Rome. Since the 7th century, the Pantheon has been used as a Christian church. Today, it is still a church and masses are still celebrated in the church, particularly on important Catholic days of obligation, and for weddings.

Basilica, St. Paul Outside-The-Walls
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St. Peter's Basilica, since 2nd century
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The spot was thought to be the location of the tomb of Apostle Peter.

Tuscany
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The Duomo, Siena Cathedral since 1284-1299

Florence, Basilica di Santa Croce since 1294
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Burial place of some of the most illustrious Italians:Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, & Marconi.

Amalfi Cathedral
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Greece

Corinthia, Greece
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Greek Orthodox Church of Rabbi Paul in Corinth

The Holy Land

Bethlehem

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Bethlehem (Greek: Βηθλεέμ; Hebrew: בית לחם‎, Beit Lehem, lit "House of Bread")

Bethlehem 2007
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Jerusalem
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The Americas

Ecuador
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Basilica

Ecuador
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El Sagrario Church

Ecuador
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Santo Domingo Church

Ecuador
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San Francisco Church

Brazil
Christ the Redeemer
Christ The Redeemer since 1931

NWT, Canada
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Our Lady of Victory Church (Igloo Church) since 1960

Asia

Chengdu, China
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Mongolia
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The Catholic Church Sts.Peter and Paul Cathedral (1992)

Mongolia
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Protestant Church (1992)

Mongolia
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Christ Church Sanctuary Troitckii Church (Russian, 1998)

Television and Internet

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Books and Novelty

Chennai, India
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Little Mount

The name of St. Thomas Mount is linked with other important things of India. In the year 1972, to venerate the nineteenth centenary of the martyrdom, the Post and Telegraphs department of the Government of India, brought out a postage stamp describing the image of the blood strewn cross of St. Thomas Mount. In the beginning, i.e. in the year 1964, another stamp was being brought out by the Post and Telegraph department of Indian government. It depicts the ‘Ortona silver bust of St. Thomas’.

India
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St. Thomas 19th-Death-Centenary Stamp

St. Thomas
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Why Did Christianity Win?

http://y-jesus.com/body_count10.php

By all rights, Christianity should have died out at the cross when the disciples fled for their lives. But the apostles went on to establish a growing Christian movement.

J. N. D. Anderson wrote, "Think of the psychological absurdity of picturing a little band of defeated cowards cowering in an upper room one day and a few days later transformed into a company that no persecution could silence;" and then attempting to attribute this dramatic change to nothing more convincing than a miserable fabrication. "That simply wouldn't make sense."

Many scholars believe (in the words of an ancient commentator) that "the blood of the martyrs was the seed of the church." Historian Will Durant observed, "Caesar and Christ had met in the arena and Christ had won."

Peace

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crosscards

catholic greetings

Send Greetings to the Crew
NASA

Well wishes will be sent to the Intl. Space Stn.
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Schooltime
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