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mariocki · 11 months

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The Saint: The Gadget Lovers (5.23, ITC, 1967)

"Start at the beginning - Mr. Templar."

"Oh. So you recognised me."

"The moment you entered this compartment. I've a photographic memory, and in the Kremlin there are many files."

"Well, it's nice to be known and loved the world over."

"Known, perhaps."

#the saint #the gadget lovers #itc #leslie charteris #john kruse #jim o'connolly #roger moore #mary peach #campbell singer #glynn edwards #nicholas donnelly #john bennett #burt kwouk #vernon dobtcheff #wolf frees #maurice browning #stephen hubay #peter burton #stefan gryff #trudi nielson #having gone back to basics for a couple of episodes‚ we once again take a hard swerve into pure spy fantasy #this is probably the most Bond like ep yet‚ with its episodic set up‚ each act in a different country‚ an international conspiracy and of #course a whole heap of gadgets (from the typical spy type to the frankly preposterous). if any one Bond film is to blame then it is surely #1963's From Russia With Love; like that film‚ this ep concerns a plot sow suspicion between Soviet and Western intelligence‚ as well as #having crucial scenes play out on a sleeper train. Simon (rather improbably) ends up working for British intelligence again purely by #chance; he happens to be present at an assassination attempt which he naturally thwarts (poor Vernon Dobtcheff‚ not only does he suffer the #indignity of being wounded by Simon‚ but shortly afterwards he's blown to smithereens as Simon and MI5's top man duck out to safety #not very noble guys. of course with Russia as much in the dark as the west‚ it can only be China to blame! cue the ever superb Burt Kwouk #who brought pure class and professionalism to many a role that didn't deserve it. alas‚ that doesn't prevent Simon making a highly #offensive gesture with his eyes at one point‚ on top of aggressively trying to westernize Russia's top lady agent (get a grip Simon)

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batri-jopa · 29 days

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Some tasty bits

#maurice 1914 #I love tasty suggestiveness😋#''bright brown eyes''#''now he knew very well what he wanted with the garden boy''#and the ''too smart to be straight'' sounds freaking funny today🤭 though I'm quite sure this was not the case 100 years ago #em forster #maurice and alec #maurice hall

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frenchcurious · 10 months

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Grille de départ du Grand Prix de Grande-Bretagne - Aintree 1959. - 1-Jack Brabham, Cooper T51 #12, Cooper Car Co (vainqueur) - 2-Roy Salvadori, Aston Martin DBR4/250 #2, David Brown Co - 3-Harry Schell, BRM P25 #8, Owen Racing Organization - 4-Maurice Trintignant, Cooper T51 #18, RRC Walker Racing Team - 5-Masten Gregory, Cooper T51 #14, Cooper Car Company - 6-Carroll Shelby, Aston Martin DBR4/250 #4, David Brown Co. - source UK Racing History.

#grand prix de grande bretagne #aintree #jack brabham #roy salvadori #david brown #harry schell #maurice trintignant #masten gregory #carroll shelby #cooper climax #aston martin #brm

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kemetic-dreams · 2 years

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Saint Maurice (also Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius; Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲙⲱⲣⲓⲥ) was an Egyptian military leader who headed the legendary Theban Legion of Rome in the 3rd century, and is one of the favorite and most widely venerated saints of that martyred group. He is the patron saint of several professions, locales, and kingdoms.

According to the hagiographical material, Maurice was an Egyptian, born in AD 250 in Thebes, an ancient city in Upper Egypt that was the capital of the New Kingdom of Egypt (1575-1069 BC). He was brought up in the region of Thebes (Luxor).

Maurice became a soldier in the Roman army. He rose through the ranks until he became the commander of the Theban legion, thus leading approximately a thousand men. He was an acknowledged Christian at a time when early Christianity was considered to be a threat to the Roman Empire. Yet, he moved easily within the pagan society of his day.

The legion, entirely composed of Christians, had been called from Thebes in Egypt to Gaul to assist Emperor Maximian in defeating a revolt by the bagaudae. The Theban Legion was dispatched with orders to clear the Great St Bernard Pass across the Alps. Before going into battle, they were instructed to offer sacrifices to the pagan gods and pay homage to the emperor. Maurice pledged his men's military allegiance to Rome. He stated that service to God superseded all else. He said that to engage in wanton slaughter was inconceivable to Christian soldiers. He and his men refused to worship Roman deities

Martyrdom

However, when Maximian ordered them to harass some local Christians, they refused. Ordering the unit to be punished, Maximian had every tenth soldier killed, a military punishment known as decimation. More orders followed, the men refused compliance as encouraged by Maurice, and a second decimation was ordered. In response to the Theban Christians' refusal to attack fellow Christians, Maximian ordered all the remaining members of his legion to be executed. The place in Switzerland where this occurred, known as Agaunum, is now Saint-Maurice, Switzerland, site of the Abbey of St. Maurice.

So reads the earliest account of their martyrdom, contained in the public letter which Bishop Eucherius of Lyon (c. 434–450), addressed to his fellow bishop, Salvius. Alternative versions have the legion refusing Maximian's orders only after discovering innocent Christians had inhabited a town they had just destroyed, or that the emperor had them executed when they refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods.

Veneration

Saint Maurice became a patron saint of the German Holy Roman Emperors. In 926, Henry the Fowler (919–936), even ceded the present Swiss canton of Aargau to the abbey, in return for Maurice's lance, sword and spurs. The sword and spurs of Saint Maurice were part of the regalia used at coronations of the Austro-Hungarian emperors until 1916, and among the most important insignia of the imperial throne (although the actual sword dates from the 12th Century). In addition, some of the emperors were anointed before the Altar of Saint Maurice at St. Peter's Basilica. In 929, Henry the Fowler held a royal court gathering (Reichsversammlung) at Magdeburg. At the same time the Mauritius Kloster in honor of Maurice was founded. In 961, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, was building and enriching Magdeburg Cathedral, which he intended for his own tomb. To that end,

in the year 961 of the Incarnation and in the 25th year of his reign, in the presence of all of the nobility, on the vigil of Christmas, the body of St. Maurice was conveyed to him at Regensburg along with the bodies of some of the saint's companions and portions of other saints. Having been sent to Magdeburg, these relics were received with great honour by a gathering of the entire populace of the city and of their fellow countrymen. They are still venerated there, to the salvation of the homeland.

Maurice is traditionally depicted in full armor, in Italy emblazoned with a red cross. In folk culture he has become connected with the legend of the Holy Lance, which he is supposed to have carried into battle; his name is engraved on the Holy Lance of Vienna, one of several relics claimed as the spear that pierced Jesus' side on the cross. Saint Maurice gives his name to the town St. Moritz as well as to numerous places called Saint-Maurice in French speaking countries. The Indian Ocean island state of Mauritius was named after Maurice, Prince of Orange, and not directly after Maurice himself.

Over 650 religious foundations dedicated to Saint Maurice can be found in France and other European countries. In Switzerland alone, seven churches or altars in Aargau, six in the Canton of Lucerne, four in the Canton of Solothurn, and one in Appenzell Innerrhoden can be found (in fact, his feast day is a cantonal holiday in Appenzell Innerrhoden).Particularly notable among these are the Church and Abbey of Saint-Maurice-en-Valais, the Church of Saint Moritz in the Engadin, and the Monastery Chapel of Einsiedeln Abbey, where his name continues to be greatly revered. Several orders of chivalry were established in his honor as well, including the Order of the Golden Fleece, Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, and the Order of Saint Maurice. Additionally, fifty-two towns and villages in France have been named in his honor.

Maurice was also the patron saint of a Catholic parish and church in the 9th Ward of New Orleans and including part of the town of Arabi in St. Bernard Parish. The church was constructed in 1856, but was devastated by the winds and flood waters of Hurricane Katrina on 29 August 2005; the copper-plated steeple was blown off the building. The church was subsequently deconsecrated in 2008, and the local diocese put it up for sale in 2011. By 2014, a local attorney had purchased the property for a local arts organization, after which the building served as both an arts venue and the worship space for a Baptist church that had been displaced following the hurricane.

On 19 July 1941, Pope Pius XII declared Saint Maurice to be patron Saint of the Italian Army's Alpini (mountain infantry corps). The Alpini have celebrated Maurice's feast every year since then.

The Synaxarium of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria does not mention Saint Maurice, although there are several Coptic churches named for him.

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gilfrespecter · 9 months

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I figured out animation in clip studio and made horsies for 1(one) page of my website

#doodles #www #pixel art #feel free to use these/if you want like? the 'sprite sheet' i made to make ur own hmu no credit needed #everyone except maurice and jericho have such brown horses #its very funny to me #ik its like. a common horse color #thats a lie actually Maverick is probably going to be the buttons and snowflakes on warbelrs page

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fidjiefidjie · 9 months

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“Avec une campagne de presse bien menée, au bout de deux mois, les Français croiraient en Dieu.” 📰 🗞

Maurice Donnay

Gif de Matthias Brown

#gif animé #matthias brown #journal #newspapers #news #presse #quotes #maurice donnay #fidjie fidjie

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lauracbreezy · 9 months

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Chris Brown

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beyourselfchulanmaria · 11 months

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#sona jobarteh #bannaya #💗#maurice brown #andi mclean #mouhamadou sarr #kora #super 🦖🦕

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badmovieihave · 26 days

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Bad movie I have Nightmare Cinema 2018

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blood-and-breath · 6 months

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the mutuals on Halloween

#rereading Maurice again because I’m going to greece and I think it’s so funny tagt Clive went to greece and decided to be heterosexual #struck always by what a faithful adaptation the movie is it’s crazy #except Maurice is NOT blonde. not on my watch.#every time em forester talks about Maurice’s ‘big brown hands’ I’m like nodding and taking notes

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filosofablogger · 3 months

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More Jackson Browne Week today! I don’t know about you guys, but I’m really enjoying this one … playing some old favourites, and learning some new tunes I hadn’t heard before! Today’s Jackson Browne song is probably my second favourite, after Doctor, My Eyes. I did not realize until tonight that this was a cover by Jackson Browne. It was originally written by Maurice Williams in 1953 when he…