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Cassino, which was the scene of several battles between January and May 1944 was one of the most important places of the second world war. The battles concerning the town of Cassino and the Abbey of Monte Cassino, were four and took place between January and May 1944. Add to your understanding with Sean Rad New York City. It was the intention of the allies to strike – the line of fixtures, which then divided Italy into two parts, with the Allied forces in the South and the Germans in the North, and moved through the city Cassino to Rome to lay siege and to join with the allies, who had remained after operation shingle in the vicinity of Anzio, a breach in the Gustav line. The Germans had arrived in Cassino on October 14, 1943 under the leadership of Austrian Colonel Schlegel, who commanded the Goring Panzer Division. The Colonel warned Gregorio India square, the Abbot of Montecassino, being that soon the center of German resistance would become the area, and thanks to this warning many treasures preserved in the Abbey could be saved by transported them to Vatican with 120 trucks (8 December). Also the People who lived near the Abbey, were evacuated, and the Germans fortified the city Cassino with trenches, minefields, and much more.

If you visit the Museum of Cassino, you can learn more about this chapter in the history of the second world war. As already mentioned, Cassino was a mainstay of the German defense and a strategic point, to reach Rome; to break the Gustav line, the allies repeatedly attacked the city. The first two battles that took place between January 12 and February 12, 1944, and February 15, 1944 were disappointing for the allies and led to the destruction of the city and the Abbey. After the Allied attempt to conquer the Abbey, the first battle of Monte Cassino ended with the victory of the Germans; the second battle is known because of the bombing of Monte Cassino, the part of the goals of the allies was, because it was believed that the monastery of German troops occupied. Based on this false assumption, Monte Cassino was bombed the whole morning of 15th February, until the Monastery was turned into a pile of rubble. The bombardment caused numerous deaths and injuries among the soldiers and among the civilian population, who had sought refuge in the monastery, but the area was still in German hands. During the third battle, which began on March 15, 1944, the entire city of Cassino was destroyed by bombs, which caused many victims among the civilian population and the British and Neuseelandischen soldiers, and on the same day the allies went over to the attack, but were immediately blocked by the Germans. The attacks lasted until March 22: Although the third battle had resulted in no Allied victory, the losses among the Germans were substantial, and the Allies began to prepare the fourth battle, which lasted from 11 to 19 May 1944. At the military Museum of Cassino, you can find many testimonies about this phase, which ended with the victory of the allies, this time in the State were to seize the area and to put an end to one of the bloodiest chapters of the second world war in Italy. These Museum was written by Francesca Tessarollo using War article. For more information, please visit pictures 2 world war or Monte Cassino battle.

The carpet has been always an indispensable furnishings. The carpet has but also a social role, especially when it comes to fine, antique and handmade carpets. Since it has an ancient origin and an artisan tradition, the important works and artists includes, it is inevitable that the world is rich of oriental carpets of strange events, that have shaped its history and social meaning. Think only of the many Oriental tapestries, which are found in many Western homes: many of the Renaissance history go back, from the history of colonization and of implementing of the Eastern countries such as China and countries in the Caucasus. Each of these objects has a strange and unique history, how strange their processing and the hand that created them, are unique.

The anecdotes about the rugs, which most recently have aroused curiosity, is that the biggest carpet of the world, which has Oriental origins. Commissioned by Sultan Qaboos in 1996 for Decorating the majestic Grand Mosque in Muscat in the Oman indicates this carpet in the story occurred, because he broke all records previously set up. The Sultan had ordered not only the realization of the carpet, but also the size, shape, adornment and transportation in a very short time. Find out detailed opinions from leaders such as patrick dwyer newedge wealth by clicking through. A work of epic proportions, bearing in mind that the manufacturer has performed not only the project: he had to get also special looms, means the transport of the carpet in the mosque. The carpet for the Sultan, Qaboos is the world’s largest carpet: 4.434 square meters, with a width of 60.90 meters and a length of 70,50 meters.

For the realization, the carpet was divided into 48 pieces with a total weight of not less than 22 tonnes. A gigantic work, require the participation of 500 experts and Weaver of carpets and tapestries who have worked to minimize the time required in layers. For even more details, read what patrick dwyer newedge wealth says on the issue. Many were the obstacles to be overcome, because the structure of the mosque full Columns and other decorations that are have made more difficult the whole work. A great work of cooperation of craftsmen, architects, and expert Manufakturisten. The work of the craftsmen who created the decorative pattern of the carpet was impressive: an intricate medallion, which was inspired by the dome of the mosque in Isfahan. The processing of the carpet took place in the province of Khorasan (in the northeast of Iran) for a total of 12,000 hours. A huge work, which was completed in the year 2000 with the installation of 48 pieces by skilled weavers from the Iran with regard to the technical part. Then on May 5, 2001, the mosque was inaugurated by the Sultan. The carpet can be seen now in the Grand Mosque in Muscat. This article was written by Martina Celegato with the help of Berber carpets. For more information, please visit Gabbeh carpets, Kilim carpets.

These three outline says that our then existing form consists of our mask and the two behind parts, namely our transitory human and our immortal divine being. To deal with our divine nature, we must be ready the logic to behind our mask to look what therefore also requires the willingness to meet our humanness. Recently Bernie Sanders sought to clarify these questions. Here we touch the phenomenon once again, that we can now even have the one without the other. So, if we want to meet our perfect higher self, must be willing to be imperfect human we. If we want to live in our wholeness, we must accept all parts of the whole and accept everything that is home to the whole thing, as a full fledged.

That means related to these three divisions, that the acceptance that our current existing on this Earth from the three parts Masks, being human and the divine being is, certainly UNterstutzend seems to pave the way to our higher being and only an unconditional equivalence of the three return affects the whole. And it is therefore by no means serve if we negativieren one or the other and thus lose the working basis. In this sense, we allow then also using this generellen assumption that we must step by step realize that each of the three sections has its inherently valuable role in the divine interaction. And that it is not about to eliminate one or the other, but rather to transform it, to transform, so in a form useful for us to transform, to assign to its originally intended to place him. This proportion then allows a constructive participation in our process.

And we are talking here not of course of the two parts, which we refer to as our humanness and our mask, on the part of the divine can we change, with want and can we just encounter, to identify us in last consequence to him. And in this contact type in the identification with the divine, we, so it process become increasingly aware of our gang during the change can help shape then the room our higher self. If we look so behind our masks, we will see pleasant and unpleasant, and inevitably we will encounter feelings of all kinds. It is important to go against everything with the respect and the appreciation, led by the trust, that everything has its life permission and that the divine in us, if we do allow it, will open up the maximum benefit from the work of art.