In case anyone has been wondering about this - here is the authoritative answer to the question
"Where did the name Mercedes originate for the world-renowned luxury car line ?" :
https://x.com/i/status/1800684439858717024
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- Wed 12 June 2024 10:55 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous Issues
- Topic: Fanciest Mercedes in the world
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2065
Re: Fanciest Mercedes in the world
- Wed 12 June 2024 10:49 pm
- Forum: Heterodox Groupings
- Topic: Fake-saint Mother Olga of Alaska
- Replies: 3
- Views: 107
Re: Fake-saint Mother Olga of Alaska
Alas, I could not find this thread easily so I missed the excellent responses. Thank you, both !! I also see I missed a correction. This is something that screams out to be fixed on this Cafe ! When one copies a text here, ALL the paragraph marks are read as barely one space. It all runs together t...
- Wed 12 June 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: Site News
- Topic: Rearranging the Site Topics
- Replies: 24
- Views: 776
Re: Rearranging the Site Topics
Thanks, Jean-Serge, for expressing what many of us may be thinking - ! I didn't want to say anything, but i was wondering that, too. I was ALSO wondering WHERE to look to find this thread, but I didn't even bother as it is so futile to find anything anymore ! I don't feel like posting more than bar...
- Sat 8 June 2024 11:04 pm
- Forum: Heterodox Groupings
- Topic: Fake-saint Mother Olga of Alaska
- Replies: 3
- Views: 107
Fake-saint Mother Olga of Alaska
Matushka Olga - I will NOT call her a saint ! - is enthused over in this interview of the same Meagan Saliashvili who wrote the Texas Monthly article earlier this year. It's pretty boring, but just to show the sparsity of the information available on the life OR "miracles" of Matushka Olg...
- Thu 6 June 2024 12:13 am
- Forum: Heterodox Groupings
- Topic: Fr JWhiteford mistake-debate3/4/2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1691
Re: Fr JWhiteford mistake-debate3/4/2024
Apologies that i did not have time to continue on this topic, but for the moment, here is a rare portrait of Patriarch Macarius of Antioch [mid-17th century].
- Thu 6 June 2024 12:05 am
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Feast of Sts Constantine and Helen, ROAC, Suzdal (in Slavonic)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 89
Re: Feast of Sts Constantine and Helen, ROAC, Suzdal (in Slavonic)
Oh, good, I thought so. I watched the video : the iconostasis is ornate. Probably this Church was never touched during the Communist era ? Or was this the result of the rebuilding effort by ROAC ? But what are the duo of statues - looks like the same statue twice - beneath the main fresco ? These c...
- Tue 4 June 2024 11:56 pm
- Forum: Videos
- Topic: Feast of Sts Constantine and Helen, ROAC, Suzdal (in Slavonic)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 89
Re: Feast of Sts Constantine and Helen, ROAC, Suzdal (in Slavonic)
Yes, I hope you can travel there, Sava ! You would REALLY enjoy it. Suzdal is so calm and serene and actually rural. I went just by regular bus from Moscow, took awhile, but well worth the trip. I remember this Church very well. I have forgotten now, though - what HAS happened to it ? Is it still i...