"This Will Be The First Time That Mass Has Been Celebrated In This Mediaeval Church Since Pre-Reformation Times."

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent.

It is possible that a small private Chapel stood on this site before the present building was commenced in the Late-13th-Century. The East End is unusual in that The Lady Chapel (more recently used as a school room) vies for importance with The Chancel.

Declared redundant in 1983, Saint Augustine's Church is now entirely maintained by

The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust.

Text: © 2014 Joan Campbell.

Photograph: © 2014 John Hendy.

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Missa Cantata.

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday,

26 September 2015,

1200 hrs.

Celebrant:

Fr. Marcus Holden,

Rector of The Shrine of Saint Augustine,

Ramsgate, Kent.

Music:

The Victoria Consort.

Director:

Dominic Bevan.

Further Details:

Mrs. Marygold Turner

01580 291372.

Travel Directions:

See, below,

Permission for this Mass at Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent, has been kindly given by

THE ROMNEY MARSH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Missing The Twiddly Bits ? A 3D Printing Project Has Taken The Cost Out Of Baroque Detailing.

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Could the inherent flexibility of 3D printing spark a return to more ornate and flamboyant forms of architecture?

That’s the question posed by architects Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger with their Digital Grotesque project, which is thought to be the world’s first ever 3D printed room designed to echo the complex organic detailing of the Baroque period.

The project began as a commission from FRAC Centre in Orléans, France, for the practice to design and construct a grotto. It developed a software algorithm able to generate a complex form for the grotto that appears simultaneously synthetic and organic. Over the course of one month the design was 3D printed in large chunks, using a combination of sand and a binding agent, then assembled in just one day.

The resulting structure is both disturbing and reminiscent of HR Giger, famous designer of the sets in the movie Alien, while also being evocative of aspects of Renaissance and Baroque architecture. In addition, the structure is very robust with a similar compressive strength to solid sandstone.

My New Bathroom.

Bert, the odd-job man, did a great job on the new bathroom.

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The Unbelievable Universe (Unless You Have The Gift Of Faith).

"Let Those Who Have Eyes, See . . ."

"Little Green Apples".
Sung by Roger Miller.
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Some of the most breathtaking views in The Universe are created by Nebulae — hot, glowing clouds of gas. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the centre of The Lagoon Nebula, an object with a deceptively tranquil name, in the Constellation of Sagittarius. The region is filled with intense winds from hot Stars, churning funnels of gas, and energetic Star formation, all embedded within an intricate haze of gas and pitch-dark dust.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Trauger (Jet Propulson Laboratory).

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Wikipedia states that Charles Darwin promoted "Natural Selection" to explain things.

He described himself as an Agnostic.

Wikipedia states that Richard Dawkins is an Atheist, a patron of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights Movement. He is well known for his criticism of

Creationism and Intelligent Design.

In his 1986 book, The Blind Watchmaker, Dawkins argues against the Watchmaker Analogy, an argument for the existence of a Supernatural Creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker.

If you travel for 15,000 Light Years,

and if you go to the Constellation of Sagittarius,

you will see this.

It is the spectacular cosmic pairing of the Star "Hen 2-427" — more commonly known as

"WR 124" — and the nebula "M1-67", which surrounds it. Both objects, captured here

by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, are found in the Constellation of Sagittarius

and lie 15,000 light-years away.

The Star "Hen 2-427" shines brightly at the very centre of this explosive image,

and around the hot clumps of surrounding gas that are being ejected into Space

at over 93,210 miles (150,000 km) per hour.

Illustration: NASA

Charles Darwin promoted "Natural Selection" to explain things.

He described himself as "an Agnostic".

Although we are used to seeing Saturn's Moons lit directly by the Sun, sometimes we can catch them illuminated by "Saturn-Shine." Here, we see Saturn's Moon "Mimas" (upper right of The Rings of Saturn) lit by light reflected off of Saturn.

Illustration: NASA

Wikipedia states that Jainism believes The Universe is eternal

and has no need for a Creator Deity.

"Every time I hear a new-born baby cry,

I Believe",

by

The Bachelors.

Available on YouTube at

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows Messier 96,

a Spiral Galaxy just over thirty-five million Light-Years away,

in the Constellation of Leo (The Lion). It is the nearest group containing

both bright Spirals and a bright Elliptical Galaxy (Messier 105).

Charles Darwin promoted "Natural Selection" to explain things.

He described himself as "an Agnostic".

Wikipedia states that Jainism believes The Universe is eternal

and has no need for a Creator Deity.

Wikipedia states that Richard Dawkins is an Atheist, a patron of the British Humanist Association, and a supporter of the Brights Movement. He is well known for his criticism of

Creationism and Intelligent Design.

Illustration: NASA

The Lady Chapel. Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.

The Lady Chapel,

Liverpool Cathedral, England.

The Lady Chapel of Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott,

overseen by G. F. Bodley. The Lady Chapel was the first part of the Cathedral to be

completed, in 1910, and retains many of the Gothic features of the original design.

As Scott grew in confidence, the rest of the Cathedral was re-designed and streamlined

to arrive at a much more massive, austere style of architecture.

Photo: © Andrew Dunn, 4 December 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: Andrew Dunn.

Web-Site: http://www.andrewdunnphoto.com

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Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Week 2015. The Shrine Of Saint Augustine, Ramsgate.

Shrine of Saint Augustine,

Saint Augustine’s Road,

Ramsgate,

Kent CT11 9PA.

Telephone: 01843 592071.

Saint Adrian. Martyr. Feast Day 8 September.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saint Adrian.
Martyr.
Feast Day 8 September.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Saint Adrian's Church,

West Wemyss,

Scotland.

The Church was built in 1890.

Date: 20 February 2006.

Source: From geograph.org.uk.

Author: Kevin Rae.

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"At Nicomedia", says The Roman Martyrology, "Saint Adrian, Martyr, and twenty-three other Saints, who, after undergoing many torments, had their legs crushed and thus ended their glorious fight under the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian, about 303 A.D.

"The body of Saint Adrian was later Translated to Rome on the day when his Feast is Solemnised".

Mass: In virtúte.

English: Stained-Glass Window, depicting Saint Adrian (centre)

in the Basilica of Saint-Nicolas, 

Saint-Nicolas-de-Port,

Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France.

Below are the Armorial Crests of The House of Lorraine (left),

The House of Anjou (centre) 

and the City Arms of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port.

Deutsch: Bleiglasfenster (Baie 17) in der Basilika Saint-Nicolas in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port im Département Meurthe-et-Moselle (Lothringen/Frankreich), mit Fragmenten aus der Renaissance; Darstellung: Ehepaar Fiacre Fériet (links) und Jennon Thierie (rechts), hl. Adrian von Nikomedien; unten Wappen des Hauses Lothringen (links), des Hauses Anjou (Mitte) und Stadtwappen von Saint-Nicolas-de-Port.

Photo: 26 April 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: GFreihalter.

(Wikimedia Commons)

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Saint Adrian (also known as Hadrian), or Adrian of Nicomedia, was a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian. After becoming a convert to Christianity, with his wife Natalia, Adrian was Martyred at Nicomedia.

Saint Adrian and Saint Natalia lived in Nicomedia, during the time of Emperor Maximian, in the Early-4th Century. The twenty-eight-year-old Adrian was Head of the Praetorium.

It is said that, while presiding over the torture of a band of Christians, he asked them what reward they expected to receive from God. They replied:

"Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him" (1 Corinthians 2:9).

He was so amazed at their courage that he publicly confessed his Faith, though he had not himself yet been Baptised. He was then immediately imprisoned. He was forbidden visitors, but accounts state that his wife Natalia came to visit him, dressed as a boy, to ask for his Prayers when he entered Heaven.

The executioners wanted to burn the bodies of the dead, but a storm arose and quenched the fire.

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The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 8 September.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

The Nativity of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Feast Day 8 September.

Double of the Second-Class
      with a Simple Octave.

White Vestments.

Birth of The Virgin.

Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682).

Date: 1660.

Current location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art.

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This very ancient Feast was already Solemnised in the 7th-Century A.D., and Pope Innocent IV, to fulfil the Vow made by the Cardinals before the election of his predecessor, gave it an Octave at The First Council of Lyons in 1245.

Today's date (8 September) served to fix The Feast of The Immaculate Conception on 8 December.

Mary is inseparable from Jesus in The Divine Plan, wherefore The Liturgy applies to her what Holy Scripture says of The Eternal Wisdom, which is The Word "by Whom all was made".

Nativity of The Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church,

located along State Route 119 in Cassella, an unincorporated community in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States. Built in 1858, the Church and its Rectory were

listed together on The National Register of Historic Places as a part of the

Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio Thematic Resources.

Photo: 27 May 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Nyttend.

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Like Christ, The Virgin presides over the whole work of Creation, for, having been chosen of All Eternity to give us The Saviour, it is she, with her Son, whom God had chiefly in view when He created the World.

Every Parish Priest celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

Mass: Salve, sancta parens.

Commemoration: Saint Adrian.

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Saint Volodymyr Cathedral, Kiev, Ukraine.

Saint Volodymyr's Cathedral (Ukrainian: Патріарший кафедральний собор св.

Володимира, Patriarshiy kafedralniy sobor sv. Volodimira) is a Cathedral in the

centre of Kiev. It is one 

of the City's major landmarks and the Mother Cathedral of

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchy, one of two major

Ukrainian Orthodox Churches.

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Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Week 2015. The Shrine Of Saint Augustine, Ramsgate.

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Shrine of Saint Augustine,

Saint Augustine’s Road,

Ramsgate,

Kent CT11 9PA.

Telephone: 01843 592071.

Saint Laurence Justinian. Bishop. Confessor. Feast Day 5 September.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Saint Laurence Justinian.
Bishop and Confessor.
Feast Day 5 September.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

San Lorenzo Giustiniani adoring The Baby Jesus.

Private Neapolitan collection.

Artist: Luca Giordano (1632–1705).

Date: 17th-Century.

Source: http://santiebeati.it/immagini/?mode=view&album=34500&pic=34500C.JPG&dispsize=Original&start=0

Author: Luca Giordano (1632–1705).

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Saint Laurence, born in Venice, Italy, in the 15th-Century, of the illustrious family of Giustiniani, preferred the severe austerities of the Cloister to a glorious alliance arranged for him by his mother.

Looking at a Crucifix, he exclaimed: "It is Thou, O Lord, Who art my hope, and in Thee is consolation and strength." He then entered among The Canons of Saint George of Alga.

All hiss life, he practised the greatest austerity and it was chiefly in assiduous Prayer that he was inflamed with ardent love for God and Devotion to his neighbour. He was called by Pope Eugenius IV to share in the full power of Christ's Priesthood: He was made Patriarch of Grado, but, Transferring the See to Venice, in 1451, he became the first Patriarch of this City.

He died in 1455, saying: "I am going to Thee, O Good Jesus."

Mass: Státuit.

Saint Lorenzo Giustiniani.

Artist: Gentile Bellini (1429–1507).

Date: 1465.

Current location: Accademia of Venice, Italy.

This File: 15 July 2007.

User: user:Manuel Anastácio.

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Lawrence Giustiniani, C.R.S.A. (Italian: Lorenzo Giustiniani, 1 July 1381 – 8 January 1456), is Venerated as a Saint by The Catholic Church. He was a Canon Regular, who was appointed as a Bishop and became the first Patriarch of Venice.

He was a member of the well-known Giustiniani family, which includes several Saints. The piety of his mother seems to have served as an inspiration for his own Spirituality, as he chose of a life of Prayer and Service. In 1404, after he had been Ordained a Deacon, at the suggestion of an uncle who was a Priest, he joined a Community of Secular Canons following a Monastic form of life on the Island of San Giorgio in Alga. He was admired by his fellows for his poverty, mortification, and fervency of Prayer. Two years after his Ordination to The Catholic Priesthood, in 1407, the Community accepted The Rule of Saint Augustine. He was chosen to be the first Prior of the Community.

Giustiniani promoted the Constitutions which he had established for the Canons of Saint George, which was embraced by other Communities of Canons in the region, and, shortly thereafter, he became the Prior General of a Congregation. He was so zealous in spreading it that he was looked upon as if he were the actual Founder of The Order.

In 1433, Pope Eugene IV, one of the Founders of the Monastery of San Giorgio, named Giustiniani as the Bishop of Castello. He found a Diocese in shambles, and his Administration was marked by considerable growth and reform. In 1451, Pope Nicholas V united the Diocese of Castello with the Patriarchate of Grado, and the Seat of the Patriarchate was moved to Venice, making Giustiniani the first Patriarch of Venice, a Post that he held for over four years.

It was during Giustiniani's rule that Constantinople fell to Muslim forces. Due to their Centuries of close trading partnerships with the Byzantine Empire, the people of Venice were in panic as to their future. He took a leading role in helping the Republic of Venice to deal with the crisis, working with the Senate to help chart its future, as well as with the Clergy and people to calm them.

He died on 8 January 8 1456, and was Canonised by Pope Alexander VIII (1689–1691). His works, consisting of Sermons, Letters and ascetic Treatises, have been frequently reprinted.

Pope Innocent XII (1691–1700) inserted his Feast Day in The General Roman Calendar for Celebration on 5 September, the Anniversary of his elevation to the Episcopate.

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"This Will Be The First Time That Mass Has Been Celebrated In This Mediaeval Church Since Pre-Reformation Times."

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent.

It is possible that a small private Chapel stood on this site before the present building was commenced in the Late-13th-Century. The East End is unusual in that The Lady Chapel (more recently used as a school room) vies for importance with The Chancel.

Declared redundant in 1983, Saint Augustine's Church is now entirely maintained by

The Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust.

Text: © 2014 Joan Campbell.

Photograph: © 2014 John Hendy.

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Missa Cantata.

Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent TN26 2QJ.

Saturday,

26 September 2015,

1200 hrs.

Celebrant:

Fr. Marcus Holden,

Rector of The Shrine of Saint Augustine,

Ramsgate, Kent.

Music:

The Victoria Consort.

Director:

Dominic Bevan.

Further Details:

Mrs. Marygold Turner

01580 291372.

Travel Directions:

See, below,

Permission for this Mass at Saint Augustine's Church,

Snave, Ashford, Kent, has been kindly given by

THE ROMNEY MARSH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Week 2015. The Shrine Of Saint Augustine, Ramsgate.

Shrine of Saint Augustine,

Saint Augustine’s Road,

Ramsgate,

Kent CT11 9PA.

Telephone: 01843 592071.

An Act Of Consecration To The Immaculate Heart Of Mary.

This Article is from AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM

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Act of Consecration to

The Immaculate Heart of Mary

With last month, August, being dedicated by Holy Mother Church as the month of The Immaculate Heart of Mary, it was a fitting time to make an Act of Consecration to her Immaculate Heart.

The beautiful Consecration, provided below, reminds us of the importance of being united to Mary, for, through her guidance, we can more easily follow Christ's Will and gain our Heavenly reward.

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Act of Consecration to

The Immaculate Heart of Mary

Heavenly Mother Mary, I come to thy most lovable and sweet Heart, refuge of sinners.

I offer myself to thee and Consecrate my entire life to thine Immaculate Heart.

In this Consecration of my total person,

I offer thee my body and Soul, with all its miseries and weaknesses.

I offer thee my heart, with all its affections and desires, my Prayers, works, joys and sufferings.

I offer thee every temptation that comes to me, so that my every thought and desire may be purified through thy Holy Intercession.

My Queen, my Mother, I offer thee in Consecration all sufferings which come into my life, both physical and spiritual.

I offer thee especially my death, with all that will accompany it.

I offer thee my last agony.

Accept all this, my Mother, and take all into thy Immaculate Heart as I give to thee irrevocably all that I am and all that I have, together with all property and possessions.

I offer thee my family and all who are near and dear to me. Take them all into thine Immaculate Heart and keep us ever one in thy Son Jesus Christ.

I renew today the vows of my Baptism and Confirmation.

Keep me ever Faithful to God and to Holy Church, and loyal in obedience to The Holy Father, the Pope.

I desire to pray The Rosary properly, meditating on its Mysteries.

I desire to participate in The Sacrifice of thy Son, perpetuated at Holy Mass, and receive Him frequently, even daily, in Holy Communion.

I attach special importance to The First Saturday of the month, in reparation to thine Immaculate Heart, and I will work for the conversion of sinners.

I will strive to live daily, the Spirit of Eucharistic Reparation.

O Queen of the Angels, my Queen and my Mother, I humbly prostrate myself before thee, as I approach thee with my Guardian Angel.

I desire all the Holy Angels, and especially my Guardian Angel, to Venerate thee always as Queen of Heaven and Earth.

Command my Guardian Angel, and all Holy Angels, to keep me always in thy love and in the Union of Grace with thy Divine Son.

Send forth thy Angels to assist me in spreading Devotion to thine Immaculate Heart, so that, through thine intercession, there may be Peace in the World and in The Church, and The Kingdom of Christ may come on Earth, as it is in Heaven.

Amen.

God Bless.

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Saint Stephen. King And Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 2 September.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless otherwise stated.

Saint Stephen.

King and Confessor.

Feast Day 2 September.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Matthias Church, Budapest, Hungary.

[Editor: The first Church on the site was founded by Saint Stephen, King of Hungary, in 1015]

Magyar: Mátyás-templom és a Szentháromság tér.

Photo: 27 January 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Thaler Tamas.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: Coat-of-Arms of Hungary.

Magyar: Magyarország címere.

English: “Per pale, the first barry of eight Gules and Argent, the second Gules, on a mount Vert a crown Or, issuant therefrom a double crossArgent. In crest the Holy Crown of Hungary.”

Magyar: A Magyar Köztársaság címere hegyes talpú, hasított pajzs. Első mezeje vörössel és ezüsttel hétszer vágott. Második, vörös mezejében zöld hármas halomnak arany koronás kiemelkedő középső részén ezüst kettős kereszt. A pajzson a magyar Szent Korona nyugszik.

Blazon Reference:

English: Fundamental Law of Hungary - Foundation - Article I.

Magyar: Magyarország Alaptörvénye - Alapvetés - I cikk.

Date: 1 January 2009.

Source: Own work.

Artist: Thommy.

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The Hungarian National Anthem.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/_N3gfzk-5bw.

Magyar: Nemzeti dal, a Magyar

Szent István magyar király, templom,

Chicago, Illinois, Egyesült Államok.

English: National Song of Hungary,

Saint Stephen, King of Hungary, Church,

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/B23zPPeDtts

A descendant of those proud and terrible invaders, The Huns, Stephen was chosen by God to win over his subjects to Christ and His Vicar.

He was given the Baptismal name of Stephen, in consequence of his mother having a vision of the Martyr, Saint Stephen, who foretold her that he would convert Hungary, whose first King he became when the Pope had raised the Country into a Kingdom.

English: Saint Matthias Church, Budapest, Hungary.

Magyar: Mátyás-templom.

Photo: 12 November 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Thaler Tamas

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Having married the sister of the Emperor, Saint Henry, he surrounded himself, to govern his Kingdom, with men of tried Holiness and Prudence. He passed entire nights in the contemplation of Heavenly things (Introit), practised the greatest austerities, and, seconded by the Queen, his pious spouse, gave abundant alms (Epistle) to widows and Churches.

English: Budapest, Hungary,

and the River Danube.

Saint Matthias Church can be seen on the sky-line.

Magyar: Magyar: Pestről nézve.

Photo: 12 November 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Thaler Tamas.

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The greatness of his zeal, for the propagation of The Faith, justly won for him the Title of Apostolic King or of Apostle of Hungary, and deservedly obtained for him from The Holy See the privilege, transmitted to his successors, to have The Cross borne before him.

He built a large Basilica in honour of Mary, whom he proclaimed Patroness of Hungary. "His zeal in propagating and strengthening The Faith in his Kingdom earned for him the glory of a Heavenly Crown" (Postcommunion).

He died in 1038 on "The Day of The Great Lady", as The Feast of The Assumption was called by the Hungarians, in virtue of an edict of the Holy King.

Mass: Os justi.

English: Interior of Saint Matthias Church,

Budapest, Hungary.

Magyar: Mátyás-templom.

Photo: 23 June 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: Thaler Tamas.

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