Japanese Wedding Girdle

Hicde Virgine Maria Iesus Christus Natus Est

This morning I went to Bethlehem to visit the Church of the Nativity. Well yes I carry forward in Advent ..

The door you see (is high nenache a meter) is not a secondary entrance or cellar but the entrance of the Church of the Nativity. It was built as to prevent the invading Persians in the seventh century could not come with their camels to destroy it.

altar from the nave under the Orthodox, there is a small door with stairs leading to a small chapel / underground cave where you can breathe a strong smell of incense and the temperature is much higher for the effect of the numerous candles.

The manger where Jesus was laid after birth ..

E 'was a great experience one of the most important of the Earth is in a small cave from the ceiling blackened by the candles and incense. It 's true that the smallest things in the most beautiful things are born. There it all began:

From the Gospel according to Luke: [1] In those days a decree from Caesar Augustus ordered that a census should be of the whole earth. [2] This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria. [3] all went to be enrolled, each to his city. [4] Even Joseph, who was of the house and lineage of David, from the town of Nazareth in Galilee for Judaea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, [5] to be enrolled with Mary his wife, she was pregnant. [6] And while they were there, the time came for her to be delivered. [7] she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the.

Roller Skates With Peace Sign

yet it floats ...

Finally I went on a mission to the Dead Sea ... Of course under cover ....

Yes, after the initial hesitation to understand the new laws of physics that ruled the Dead Sea. Floating here has its rules that Archimedes would have found it hard to understand. It 's even hard to stay upright.


But it becomes very easy to read ..


.... sleep ...


... meditate ...


..... Well we are planning for the flight but we have good prospects, the next!

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Run Time Error

Masada: attention to the second brigade slingers zealot!

A little 'history ...
The ancient fortress city of Masada in fact was never conquered by the Roman soldiers who also went there in year 74. Before their eyes, they found only a horrendous massacre: the mass suicide of Jewish zealot resistant to the power of Rome and the occupied. Masada was built on a plateau of about six km ² situated on a rock 400 m above sea level compared to the Dead Sea, in south-eastern Judea. Walls five meters high - along a perimeter of a mile, with about forty more than twenty meters high towers - the enclosed, making it almost impregnable.

palace of Herod the Great

In the first century BC, the fortress was the winter palace of Herod the Great perched on three different levels to the cliff on the north side of the cliff, with a thermal bath with central boiler , and large underground storage tanks for water collection and a large spa complex.


in 66 had been conquered by thousands of zealots who settled there with women and children, four years later - in 70 - the fall of Jerusalem, they found the last refuge strenuous rebels not yet willing to give up.

Two-year siege

The fort was besieged by Legio X Fretensis Flavio Sergio and other 7000 men for the most part slaves, as inaccessible as an eagle's nest, for almost three years, was built a rampart (sort of limes often two feet, still visible today) and an embankment seventy feet that rose up from below the walls of the fortress.

Realizing the imminent defeat, since the Romans were finally able to open a breach in the walls, the Zealot leader Eleazar Ben Yair, spoke to his people by inducing them to a collective suicide by the sword (drawn at random to groups, are in fact were still pieces of earthenware with written names drawn by lot, the men of the community, killing women and children then took off his life story) and this seemed to be a lot preferable to a secure state of slavery.
When the last resistance fell while the city was in flames, were to save only a few children and two women who had been hiding in a ravine to escape death. The Romans were thus able to enter Masada in now without defense, surprised to what happened, become a silent tribute to the brave resistance.

"Nevermore Masada fall"

After his seizure, Masada remained in the hands of the Romans to the Byzantine era to be discovered over a century and a half ago to become a symbol the Zionist cause. Israeli army recruits today are conducted on site to take the oath of allegiance to the cry of "Nevermore Masada fall" .

Masada was partially reconstructed and has become one of the most important archaeological sites in Israel thanks to the excavations carried out since the early '60s under the guidance by the archaeologist Yigael Yadin. Were brought to light the remains of the fortress are clear signs of Roman military camps, with mosaics of high quality bathrooms and even boulders launched from catapults. As a sign of employment zealot is only a small synagogue, while more recent, dating from the fifth century. is a basilica built by Byzantine monks of penitence.