On March 11, 2025, the former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested by the Philippine National Police and Interpol Manila on the basis of a warrant for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Some more stills from The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)
The Count of Monte Cristo (2024), a French historical action adventure film based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas. Set in France in the early 1800s.
The Chapel of the Return of the Holy Family from Egypt, Comino, Malta. The island has a population of two. [2640×1760]
Eva Brunne, Bishop of Stockholm from 2009 until 2019, is the first openly lesbian bishop of a mainstream church in the world. Brunne proposed the removal of symbols of Christianity, including crosses, from the Seamen's Church to open it to all beliefs and to mark the direction of Mecca for Muslims.
Non Expedit were the words with which the Holy See enjoined upon Italian Catholics the policy of boycott from the polls in parliamentary elections.
Mortality salience is the awareness that one's death is inevitable.
Some more shots from He Knew He Was Right (2004)
St Pancras Old Church, London [2500x1667]
Jeong Su-il (1934-2025) was a Chinese-Korean historian who specialised in Silk Road history. Raised in China, Jeong worked as a Chinese diplomat before immigrating to North Korea in the 1960s. He was trained as a North Korean spy in the 1970s, moved to South Korea and was discovered and imprisoned.
He Knew He Was Right (2004), a TV adaptation of the Anthony Trollope novel of the same name. Set in mid-1800s England.
Persuasion (2007)
Some of my favourite shots from Miss Austen (2025)
The Ashram of the Holy Trinity, Saccidananda Ashram, India [1024x784]
The Wake is a 2014 novel by British author Paul Kingsnorth. Written in an imaginary language, a hybrid of Old English and Modern English, it tells of an Anglo-Saxon freeman forced to come to terms with the effects of the Norman Invasion of 1066, during which his wife and sons were killed.
Holy Trinity Church in Yanshui, Taiwan [2048x2048]
The Association of German National Jews was a German Jewish organization during the Weimar Republic and the early years of Nazi Germany that eventually came out in support of Adolf Hitler. In 1935, the organization was outlawed, and its leader was briefly imprisoned by the Gestapo.
State Religious Affairs Bureau Order No. 5 states that a Reincarnation Application must be filed by all living Buddha within the People's Republic of China before they are allowed to reincarnate.
Cornish nationalism is a cultural, political and social movement that seeks the recognition of Cornwall – the south-westernmost part of the island of Great Britain – as a nation distinct from England. Various political and militant groups have participated in nationalistic efforts since the 1800s.
"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." is a phrase reportedly spoken by papal legate Abbot Arnaud Amalric prior to the massacre at Béziers on 22 July 1209. A direct translation of the Medieval Latin phrase is "Kill them, for the Lord knows those that are His".
Fun piece of trivia: Robin Ellis, the actor who played Reverend Dr Halse, played Ross Poldark in the 1975 TV series.
Qué tan seguro / inseguro es Soacha?
Side By Side Character Comparison: Prince Philip
Shadow work is a kind of unpaid labor performed by the consumer. It includes assembling of goods that come "in pieces", self-checkout at super markets, and self-service at gas stations.
A young Larry Russell in the third season of Poldark
