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Wishing you a fine evening from Ghent.
Lordy, don't even get me started....
In de Antwerpse Sint-Pauluskerk hangt al vierhonderd jaar een schilderijencyclus waaraan enkele van de grootste kunstenaars van de zeventiende eeuw meewerkten, onder wie Rubens, Jordaens en Van Dyck.
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The Willibrord Basilica in Hulst. I finally made it to Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, the region where my mother was born.
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A case study in how AI is destroying peer review.
There is a wonderfully funny novel called "Gospel" by Wilton Barnhardt whose premise is the race to find a supposed gospel of Mathias. I highly recommend it.
Vierhonderd jaar ging eroverheen. Voor het eerst zijn de originele 15 Mysteriën van de rozenkrans uit de Antwerpse Sint-Pauluskerk te zien in Het Noordbrabants Museum. Hoe uitzonderlijk is dat?
Citation software? LOL. I'm so old that I learned how to do footnotes on a typewriter.
I'll write my own citations, thanks all the same.
Christine Kooi
It took me until today to learn that Saint Mathias (he who replaced Judas) had the wackiest adventures. Also Andreas, if the many many many manuscripts are to be believed (which they most assuredly should not).