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Hype for the Future 192D: City of Hannibal, Missouri

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/hype-for-the-future-192d-city-of-hannibal-missouri/

Hype for the Future 192D: City of Hannibal, Missouri

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Hype for the Future 192D: City of Hannibal, Missouri

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Hype for the Future 192D: City of Hannibal, Missouri

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/hype-for-the-future-192d-city-of-hannibal-missouri/

Hype for the Future 192D: City of Hannibal, Missouri

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/hype-for-the-future-192d-city-of-hannibal-missouri/

https://www.europesays.com/iran/82813/ Turkey’s Quiet Strategy Along the Syria–Iraq Corridor #AnkaraStrategy #Iraq #Kirkuk #MiddleEastGeopolitics #NATODynamics #Palmyra #RegionalBalance #SecurityStrategy #SyriaIraqCorridor #Turkey #TurkishForeignPolicy

Observer | How Writer CEO May Habib Transforms Language Tech Into Enterprise A.I. by Tim Keary

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May Habib, a Lebanese‑Canadian refugee who grew up as her family’s English interpreter, co‑founded the language‑technology startup Writer (originally Qordoba) and now serves as its CEO. At the recent HumanX conference she explained why most enterprise generative‑AI pilots flop: companies focus on incremental tweaks rather than restructuring entire workflows. Writer tackles this by offering end‑to‑end AI agents and a proprietary suite of large‑language models (Palmyra) that automate multi‑step tasks, integrate with existing systems, and include robust governance controls such as layered kill‑switches. With over 300 enterprise customers—including Salesforce, Airbnb, and major firms in finance, healthcare, and retail—Writer has deployed more than 15,000 agents and positions itself as a rare pre‑ChatGPT player built for enterprise compliance, data control, and rapid, decisive implementation of AI‑first operations.

Read more: https://observer.com/2026/04/writer-ceo-may-habib-enterprise-ai/

#MayHabib #WaseemAlshikh #Writer #Qordoba #Harvard #AllyFinancial #AstraZeneca #Comcast #Uber #Salesforce #Airbnb #AmazonWebServices #ArtificialIntelligence #business #businessinterviews #Cigna #clorox #enterprise #HarvardUniversity #humanx #interviews #keurigdrpepper #lennar #marriott #mars #Meta #openclaw #palmyra #technology #vanguard

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Observer | How Writer CEO May Habib Transforms Language Tech Into Enterprise A.I. by Tim Keary

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May Habib, a Lebanese‑Canadian refugee who grew up as her family’s English interpreter, co‑founded the language‑technology startup Writer (originally Qordoba) and now serves as its CEO. At the recent HumanX conference she explained why most enterprise generative‑AI pilots flop: companies focus on incremental tweaks rather than restructuring entire workflows. Writer tackles this by offering end‑to‑end AI agents and a proprietary suite of large‑language models (Palmyra) that automate multi‑step tasks, integrate with existing systems, and include robust governance controls such as layered kill‑switches. With over 300 enterprise customers—including Salesforce, Airbnb, and major firms in finance, healthcare, and retail—Writer has deployed more than 15,000 agents and positions itself as a rare pre‑ChatGPT player built for enterprise compliance, data control, and rapid, decisive implementation of AI‑first operations.

Read more: https://observer.com/2026/04/writer-ceo-may-habib-enterprise-ai/

#MayHabib #WaseemAlshikh #Writer #Qordoba #Harvard #AllyFinancial #AstraZeneca #Comcast #Uber #Salesforce #Airbnb #AmazonWebServices #ArtificialIntelligence #business #businessinterviews #Cigna #clorox #enterprise #HarvardUniversity #humanx #interviews #keurigdrpepper #lennar #marriott #mars #Meta #openclaw #palmyra #technology #vanguard

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Observer | How Writer CEO May Habib Transforms Language Tech Into Enterprise A.I. by Tim Keary

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

May Habib, a Lebanese‑Canadian refugee who grew up as her family’s English interpreter, co‑founded the language‑technology startup Writer (originally Qordoba) and now serves as its CEO. At the recent HumanX conference she explained why most enterprise generative‑AI pilots flop: companies focus on incremental tweaks rather than restructuring entire workflows. Writer tackles this by offering end‑to‑end AI agents and a proprietary suite of large‑language models (Palmyra) that automate multi‑step tasks, integrate with existing systems, and include robust governance controls such as layered kill‑switches. With over 300 enterprise customers—including Salesforce, Airbnb, and major firms in finance, healthcare, and retail—Writer has deployed more than 15,000 agents and positions itself as a rare pre‑ChatGPT player built for enterprise compliance, data control, and rapid, decisive implementation of AI‑first operations.

Read more: https://observer.com/2026/04/writer-ceo-may-habib-enterprise-ai/

#MayHabib #WaseemAlshikh #Writer #Qordoba #Harvard #AllyFinancial #AstraZeneca #Comcast #Uber #Salesforce #Airbnb #AmazonWebServices #ArtificialIntelligence #business #businessinterviews #Cigna #clorox #enterprise #HarvardUniversity #humanx #interviews #keurigdrpepper #lennar #marriott #mars #Meta #openclaw #palmyra #technology #vanguard

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Observer | How Writer CEO May Habib Transforms Language Tech Into Enterprise A.I. by Tim Keary

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

May Habib, a Lebanese‑Canadian refugee who grew up as her family’s English interpreter, co‑founded the language‑technology startup Writer (originally Qordoba) and now serves as its CEO. At the recent HumanX conference she explained why most enterprise generative‑AI pilots flop: companies focus on incremental tweaks rather than restructuring entire workflows. Writer tackles this by offering end‑to‑end AI agents and a proprietary suite of large‑language models (Palmyra) that automate multi‑step tasks, integrate with existing systems, and include robust governance controls such as layered kill‑switches. With over 300 enterprise customers—including Salesforce, Airbnb, and major firms in finance, healthcare, and retail—Writer has deployed more than 15,000 agents and positions itself as a rare pre‑ChatGPT player built for enterprise compliance, data control, and rapid, decisive implementation of AI‑first operations.

Read more: https://observer.com/2026/04/writer-ceo-may-habib-enterprise-ai/

#MayHabib #WaseemAlshikh #Writer #Qordoba #Harvard #AllyFinancial #AstraZeneca #Comcast #Uber #Salesforce #Airbnb #AmazonWebServices #ArtificialIntelligence #business #businessinterviews #Cigna #clorox #enterprise #HarvardUniversity #humanx #interviews #keurigdrpepper #lennar #marriott #mars #Meta #openclaw #palmyra #technology #vanguard

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Observer | How Writer CEO May Habib Transforms Language Tech Into Enterprise A.I. by Tim Keary

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

May Habib, a Lebanese‑Canadian refugee who grew up as her family’s English interpreter, co‑founded the language‑technology startup Writer (originally Qordoba) and now serves as its CEO. At the recent HumanX conference she explained why most enterprise generative‑AI pilots flop: companies focus on incremental tweaks rather than restructuring entire workflows. Writer tackles this by offering end‑to‑end AI agents and a proprietary suite of large‑language models (Palmyra) that automate multi‑step tasks, integrate with existing systems, and include robust governance controls such as layered kill‑switches. With over 300 enterprise customers—including Salesforce, Airbnb, and major firms in finance, healthcare, and retail—Writer has deployed more than 15,000 agents and positions itself as a rare pre‑ChatGPT player built for enterprise compliance, data control, and rapid, decisive implementation of AI‑first operations.

Read more: https://observer.com/2026/04/writer-ceo-may-habib-enterprise-ai/

#MayHabib #WaseemAlshikh #Writer #Qordoba #Harvard #AllyFinancial #AstraZeneca #Comcast #Uber #Salesforce #Airbnb #AmazonWebServices #ArtificialIntelligence #business #businessinterviews #Cigna #clorox #enterprise #HarvardUniversity #humanx #interviews #keurigdrpepper #lennar #marriott #mars #Meta #openclaw #palmyra #technology #vanguard

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https://www.europesays.com/iran/61683/ Crews battle Lebanon County house fire #block #BreakingNews #command #crew #EmergencyResponse #FireCrews #flame #flames #HouseFire #Lebanon #LebanonCounty #LebanonCountyHouseFire #NorthChestnutStreet #OnScene #PM #Palmyra #PalmyraFireDepartment #Pennsylvania #photo #ResidentialFire #Smoke #Update #video #ViewerPhoto #WGAL #WgalViewer

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 9 - Day 28

Spanish Pipedream

Remembering John Prine!

“Well, I sat there at the table and I acted real naive
For I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve”

#johnprine #johndenver #TheAvettBrothers #thebrotherscomatose #stevepoltz #maggieantone #Palmyra

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/spanish-pipedream-an-age-of-aquarius-anthem-musicislife-tedtockscovers-johnprine/

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 9 - Day 28

Spanish Pipedream

Remembering John Prine!

“Well, I sat there at the table and I acted real naive
For I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve”

#johnprine #johndenver #TheAvettBrothers #thebrotherscomatose #stevepoltz #maggieantone #Palmyra

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/spanish-pipedream-an-age-of-aquarius-anthem-musicislife-tedtockscovers-johnprine/

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 9 - Day 28

Spanish Pipedream

Remembering John Prine!

“Well, I sat there at the table and I acted real naive
For I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve”

#johnprine #johndenver #TheAvettBrothers #thebrotherscomatose #stevepoltz #maggieantone #Palmyra

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/spanish-pipedream-an-age-of-aquarius-anthem-musicislife-tedtockscovers-johnprine/

Gotta respect a woman who knows what she wants!

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1946345/gotta-respect-a-woman-who-knows-what-she-wants

Gotta respect a woman who knows what she wants!

Gotta respect a woman who knows what she wants!

Gotta respect a woman who knows what she wants!

Gotta respect a woman who knows what she wants!

https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1946345/gotta-respect-a-woman-who-knows-what-she-wants

Gotta respect a woman who knows what she wants!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1946344/gotta-respect-a-woman-who-knows-what-she-wants

Gotta respect a woman who knows what she wants!

Gotta respect a woman who knows what she wants!

Gotta respect a woman who knows what she wants!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1946344/gotta-respect-a-woman-who-knows-what-she-wants

Gotta respect a woman who knows what she wants!

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1946344/gotta-respect-a-woman-who-knows-what-she-wants

Ruins in the Valley of Tombs, Palmyra, Syria, 1927

https://piefed.social/c/historyruins/p/1874840/ruins-in-the-valley-of-tombs-palmyra-syria-1927

https://www.europesays.com/iran/16729/ Lebanon County couple’s train display finds new home #brittany #Brittany'sHope #buffenmyers #CarolynBuffenmyer #CharitableDonation #charity #child #condition #donation #hope #jay #JayAndCarolynBuffenmyer #Lebanon #LebanonCounty #LebanonCountyCouple #NewHome #Palmyra #story #ThirdWorldCountry #TrainDisplay

The First Thing They Burn: Why War Always Comes for Beauty

When the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258, they did not stop at killing the Caliph. They threw the contents of the House of Wisdom into the Tigris. Manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and poetry turned the river black with ink for days. Killing people was not enough. What those people had made, what they had thought and dreamed and rendered into form, that had to be annihilated too. Kill a generation and you end a bloodline. Destroy what a generation built and you erase the proof that the bloodline mattered. This is strategy, not collateral damage. Invading armies have always understood something about beauty that peacetime democracies pretend not to know: beauty is power. A public display of beauty is a sovereignty claim, and no occupying force has ever been able to tolerate one.

The Testimony of Walls

When an army takes a city, the administrative buildings get repurposed. The granaries get seized. The roads still work. But a cathedral cannot serve a conqueror who worships a different god. A public statue celebrating a national hero cannot remain standing in a square patrolled by the forces that hero fought against. And a library full of a people’s philosophy, jurisprudence, and literature makes a case, just by sitting there on its shelves, that the conquered had minds worth preserving. That case has to be silenced.

The Nazis grasped this with clinical precision. The Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, the regime’s art looting operation, was organized before the invasions were finished. It was catalogued and systematic. Over five million cultural objects were seized across occupied Europe. Paintings by Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Raphael ended up crated in salt mines or hanging in private collections. But for Jewish communities, the seizure of Torah scrolls, menorahs, and cultural artifacts did something beyond theft. If you take a people’s art, you remove the physical evidence that they existed as a civilization. You flatten them from a culture into a population, from citizens into bodies. Bodies are easier to dispose of than civilizations.

ISIS followed the same logic at Palmyra in 2015. The Temple of Baalshamin had stood for nearly two thousand years. It threatened no one. It held no weapons, commanded no strategic high ground, and generated no revenue for the Syrian state. But it was beautiful, and old, and it testified to a version of human civilization that predated the caliphate’s claim to be the sole legitimate ordering of human life. So they packed it with explosives and filmed the detonation for propaganda. They filmed it. The explosion was not a byproduct of the war. The explosion was the content.

The Taliban’s demolition of the Bamiyan Buddhas in March 2001 spoke the same language. Mullah Omar initially said the statues would be preserved. Then the order reversed: destroy them. Artillery, anti-aircraft weapons, and dynamite were unleashed on sixth-century sandstone carvings. Those statues had survived over 1,400 years of Islamic governance in the region without incident. The destruction had nothing to do with theology and everything to do with demonstrating total authority, authority that extended beyond the living and reached backward into the inherited visual landscape of Afghan memory. If you can obliterate what a people have looked at for a millennium, you have announced a power that administration alone cannot claim.

Beauty as Collective Selfhood

So why does beauty threaten power? Strip away the geopolitics and the answer is startlingly intimate.

A fountain in a town square is not decoration. People sit near it, eat lunch beside it, talk beside it, propose marriage in front of it. Over decades, a public work of beauty weaves itself into the social fabric of a place. It accrues meaning the way a family home accrues meaning, not because of its market value but because of what happened there. The residents of Sarajevo did not love their National Library because it held books. They loved it because it was theirs, because its existence confirmed that Sarajevo was a city of readers, of thinkers, of people who built beautiful things and expected them to last. When Serbian forces shelled it in August 1992, destroying an estimated 1.5 million volumes and over 155,000 rare books and manuscripts, the target was never the building. The target was the idea of Sarajevo as a civilized place.

Beauty is identity made visible. A mural on a government building announces: we are the kind of people who commission murals. A concert hall full on a Tuesday night announces: we gather to hear music performed with skill, and we do it on a weeknight because it matters that much. Under occupation, every one of these announcements becomes defiance. They all say the same thing: we had a life before you arrived, and that life had grace.

Conquerors understand this instinctively. Occupation depends on the conquered internalizing a particular story: the old order was weak, corrupt, worthless, and the new order is the only legitimate reality. But every beautiful thing that predates the conquest talks back. Every church, every mosaic, every hand-carved doorframe contradicts the occupier’s narrative just by continuing to exist. Something fine was here before you, and it did not need you.

The American Erasure

Bring this logic home. The United States is not being invaded by a foreign army. But beauty is being removed from American public life through a mechanism that is slower and quieter than artillery while producing a structurally identical outcome: defunding.

The National Endowment for the Arts runs on a budget that, adjusted for inflation, has been shrinking for decades. In 2024 its allocation stood at roughly $207 million, which is approximately what the Department of Defense spends in under three hours. The NEA funds the infrastructure that makes beauty visible where people actually live: murals in post offices, sculptures in civic plazas, theater programs in rural communities, music education in public schools. Cut that funding and you do not inconvenience artists. You remove beauty from the spaces where ordinary people encounter it without paying admission.

Arts education in American public schools has been gutted with special thoroughness. Since the 1980s, school boards under budget pressure have treated music, visual art, drama, and dance as luxuries to be trimmed first. The framing is always fiscal: we cannot afford it. But the effect is ideological, and it compounds. A child who never learns to draw, who never stands on a stage, who never reads music, becomes an adult for whom beauty is something that happens elsewhere, to other people, in expensive places behind glass. Beauty turns into a class marker instead of a civic inheritance. The public square goes aesthetically bare, and nobody notices because nobody was taught to notice.

No conspiracy is required. Indifference operating over time is the peacetime equivalent of what artillery accomplishes in a week. The Mongols threw the books into the river. American school boards stopped buying them. The destination is the same: a population severed from its own capacity to create, recognize, and demand beauty.

The Deeper Threat

Beneath the political, there is a still more fundamental reason beauty makes power nervous. Beauty tells the truth. Not factual truth in the journalistic sense, but existential truth: that human life has dimensions which cannot be quantified, administered, or optimized. A Rothko painting produces no revenue. A Beethoven string quartet contributes nothing to GDP. A poem by Wislawa Szymborska will never improve worker productivity. These things assert, simply by existing, that the economic vocabulary fails to describe what it means to be alive.

Authoritarians have always known this. Stalin did not go after Shostakovich because the symphonies were bad. He went after him because the symphonies were good, because they carried an emotional truth that exceeded the party’s official version of reality and, by exceeding it, exposed it as insufficient. Mao’s Cultural Revolution did not target art by accident. Art is where a culture keeps its unauthorized thoughts, its unofficial feelings, its capacity for complexity that slogans cannot hold. The Red Guards who smashed temple carvings and burned classical texts were doing what the Mongols had done in Baghdad seven centuries earlier: destroying the evidence that human experience is richer than any ideology can contain.

Beauty is an argument for human dignity. A carved stone lintel above a doorway in a medieval village means that someone, centuries ago, decided it was worth spending hours making that doorway more than functional. That impulse, the impulse to ornament, is the fundamental assertion of human worth. We are not creatures that only eat, sleep, reproduce, and die. We are creatures that decorate our world because the world, and our brief presence in it, deserves decoration.

Destroy the ornamentation, by bombs or by budget cuts, and you deny the premise. The invading army denies it with fire. The indifferent legislature denies it with a line item. And the child who graduates from an American high school without ever having held a paintbrush has received the same message the people of Palmyra received when the temple came down: beauty is not for you.

The Preservation Imperative

When a government defunds the arts, it is declaring what kind of citizens it wants: consumers instead of creators, audiences instead of participants, workers instead of whole human beings. When an army shells a library, it makes the same declaration with more efficient tools. The scale differs. The intent rhymes.

Preserving beauty, then, is a form of resistance, and it always has been. A community that maintains a public mural, a school that fights to keep a music program, a city that funds a free museum day, these are acts of civilizational self-defense, whether the people performing them think of it that way or not.

The people who rebuilt the Mostar Bridge in Bosnia understood. Croat forces destroyed the bridge in 1993, a masterpiece of Ottoman architecture that had spanned the Neretva River since 1566. Its reconstruction, completed in 2004, was not an engineering project. It was a rebuttal. You may destroy what we build, but we will build it again, because the building is the point.

In the American context, every fight over arts funding is a fight over something much larger than a budget line. Do we believe beauty belongs in public life, or are we content to let it retreat behind gallery walls and subscription paywalls? Does a child in rural Nebraska deserve the same access to the experience of beauty as a child on the Upper East Side? What kind of civilization do we intend to be?

The armies that burn the beautiful things know exactly what they are destroying. The rest of us should start asking whether we know what we are losing.

Hype for the Future 121D: Fluvanna County, Virginia

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/hype-for-the-future-121d-fluvanna-county-virginia/

The Glyptotek opens a new presentation of its exceptional #Palmyra collection: the world’s largest collection of Palmyrene funerary portraits outside Syria.
Starting 5 February, the museum will display more than 100 works from Palmyra—the ancient oasis city in the Syrian desert, which flourished during the first three centuries CE as a major trading metropolis and vital hub between East and West.

https://glyptoteket.com/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions #globalmuseum #museums

UK and French warplanes carried out a joint airstrike on an ISIS underground weapons facility near Palmyra, Syria, targeting tunnels used to store arms and explosives. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/uk-france-airstrike-isis-underground-weapons-facility-palmyra-syria-smea0xyp?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ISIS #SyriaAirstrike #UKFrance #Palmyra #WarOnTerror

https://www.europesays.com/nl/83569/ Drie Amerikanen gedood bij aanslag in Centraal-Syrië #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #Dutch #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #Hoofdpunten #IslamitischeStaat #LatestNews #LatestNews #Nederland #Nederlanden #Nederlands #Netherlands #News #Nieuws #NL #Palmyra #Syrië #TopStories #TopStories #Voorpaginanieuws #VS #Wereld #World #WorldNews #WorldNews

Wie der #IS-#Terror das #Weltkulturerbe #Palmyra verwüstet.

Fast 100 Jahre lang haben #Archäologen die prächtigen Ruinen von Palmyra für die #Welt sichtbar gemacht. Im August 2015 beginnt deren #brutale #Zerstörung durch #Terroristen.

https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/zeitzeichen/audio-wie-der-is-terror-das-weltkulturerbe-palmyra-verwuestet-100.html

#Zeitzeichen

Palmyra was once a bustling city and a crucial stop on the Silk Road, acting as a bridge between East and West during the Roman Empire. Now, after Syria’s civil war led to the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, some residents hope tourists will come back to the UNESCO World Heritage Site. @npr talks to Syrians about preserving their history.
https://flip.it/Ot34GC
#Syria #Rome #Palmyra #War #ISIS

I pass by this mural every day.

How I would have loved to visit Palmyra on my last bike tour to the Middle East.

I would have honored a great person, Khaled Mohamad al-Asaad.

He was a Syrian archaeologist who headed the antiquities in the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

He held this position for over forty years.

Al-Asaad was publicly beheaded by the Islamic State on 18 August 2015, at the age of 83.

#khaledalasaad
#palmyra
#siria
#ciubekka
#milano

Cornelis de Bruijn (6) Terugkeer

Dit is het zesde van dertien stukjes over Cornelis de Bruijn. Het eerste was hier.

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Libanon

Cornelis de Bruijn verliet Jeruzalem op 16 november 1681 en bleef even hangen in Ramla om daar – vandaag 343 jaar geleden – Kerstmis te vieren. Nieuwjaar en Drie Koningen volgden en op 8 januari 1682 was hij weer in Jaffa, waar hij onmiddellijk aan boord van een schip ging. De volgende dag arriveerde hij in Tripoli.

Daar verbleef De Bruijn vier maanden in het huis van de Hollandse consul, maar hij maakte wel enkele rondreizen. Een daarvan bracht hem naar de Libanon, waar hij de beroemde cederbomen bewonderde. Op een tweede reis bezocht hij Akko, Nazaret, het Meer van Genesaret en de berg Tabor. Op de weg terug bezocht hij opnieuw Tyrus en deed hij Sidon aan alvorens terug te keren naar Tripoli.

Syrië

Daarvandaan vervolgde zijn weg naar Aleppo, waar hij van mei 1682 tot april 1683 woonde in de karavanserai. In zijn verslag vertelt hij over de Romeinse munten die hij op de markt kocht. Hij geeft er een uitvoerige beschrijving van.

Vanuit Aleppo wilde De Bruijn verder reizen naar de onlangs geïdentificeerde ruïnes van Palmyra. Vijf jaar eerder waren de overblijfselen van de oude stad bezocht door een groep Engelsen, en nu wilde de Nederlandse kunstenaar de plek ook zien. Helaas weigerde een lokale bedoeïenenstam mee te werken. Na een klein jaar verliet De Bruijn Aleppo, enigszins teleurgesteld.

Toch hoeft de lezer van Reizen door de vermaardste Deelen van Klein Azië niet te delen in deze teleurstelling. Acht jaar na De Bruijns poging hadden dominee William Halifax en een Nederlander genaamd Gerard Hofsted van Essen
meer succes. In zijn boek bood De Bruijn zijn lezers een samenvatting van wat Halifax had geschreven, met enkele kleine toevoegingen. Ook voegde hij een gravure toe, die een kopie was van een groot schilderij dat Hofsted van Essen had  gemaakt. Het schilderij is nu in het Allard Pierson-museum. Ik blogde er al eens over.

Terug naar Italië

De Bruijn verliet Syrië vanuit Alexandretta (het huidige Iskenderun), bezocht Cyprus en reisde in de eerste helft van juni van Antalya naar Smyrna. De binnenlandse route was ongebruikelijk. Het was bekend dat deze gevaarlijk was. Het grootste gevaar bleek echter niet een overval, maar een grote slang, die De Bruijn uitschakelde met zijn pistool.

Veilig en wel arriveerde hij in Smyrna, waar hij nog zestien maanden zou blijven. Pas nu ontdekte hij dat de Hollandse consul en de ambassadeur in Constantinopel tijdens zijn eerdere bezoek hadden geloofd dat De Bruijn de potentiële moordenaar van Johan de Witt was. Toen de kunstenaar Smyrna uiteindelijk verliet, op 25 oktober 1684, was hij al meer dan tien jaar van huis.

Op 10 november arriveerde hij in Venetië, waar hij tot 1692 zou verblijven in het atelier van een Beierse schilder wiens echte naam Johann Carl Loth was, hoewel elke Italiaan hem Carlotto (1632-1698) noemde. De Bruijn ging werken in zijn atelier.

Venetië

Over de Venetiaanse jaren van De Bruijn is vrijwel niets bekend. Het is mogelijk dat onderzoek in Italiaanse archieven nog eens iets zal opleveren. In elk geval heeft hij Johann Michael Rottmayr (1656-1730) ontmoet, die op dat moment ook in dienst was van Loth.

Natuurlijk moet De Bruijn hebben gehoord hoe Willem III in 1688 een nogal dubieuze uitnodiging had aanvaard om koning van Engeland te worden, het reguliere leger had verslagen, Londen had veroverd, koning was geworden en had aangekondigd dat hij, zoals hij in de Republiek gewend was, de macht zou delen met het parlement. Het verhaal van de Glorious Revolution moet De Bruijns belangstelling hebben gehad, want Willem was aan de macht gekomen na een moord waarvan de kunstenaar nog steeds werd verdacht.

Het is mogelijk dat De Bruijn heeft bijgedragen aan het enige werk uit het atelier van Loth dat in deze jaren kan worden gedateerd, een kopie van Titiaans Dood van Petrus van Verona. Het origineel bevond zich vroeger in San Zanipolo in Venetië, maar is nu verloren gegaan.

In 1692 werd Loth naar Wenen geroepen om hofschilder van keizer Leopold I te worden. Hij zou die positie tot zijn dood bekleden en worden opgevolgd door Rottmayr. Misschien wilde De Bruijn met zijn collega’s mee, maar omdat hij niet katholiek was, ging dat niet. In plaats daarvan keerde hij terug naar huis. Het Rijnland was niet langer een oorlogsgebied en hij kon Frankfurt en Keulen bezoeken. In Keulen vierder hij Kerstmis, Nieuwjaar en Drie Koningen (die in Keulen begraven zouden liggen). Ook het beroemde Keulse carnaval maakte hij mee.

Daarna reisde hij verder. Op 14 maart 1693 arriveerde hij in Amsterdam; vijf dagen later was hij in Den Haag.

Wordt vervolgd.

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SDF commander pledges to protect historic sites from ISIL

#ISIL destroyed several ancient and medieval sites across Syria and Iraq in the 2010s – when it controlled large swaths of both countries – as the extremist group imposed its fundamentalist vision of Salafi Islam.

#Syria
#Palmyra

@gnurpsnewoel formuliert auf Bluesky noch prägnanter:

"In der Syrischen Wüste kämpfen IS und die kurdischen SDF um die zurückgelassenen Gebiete von Assads Truppen.

Während die SDF #DeirEzZor befreit hat – und den Euphrat überschritten, rückt der IS bei #Quriyah bis an den Euphrat vor.

Der IS nähert sich #Palmyra."

(Quelle: LiveUAMap)

https://libnanews.com/baalbeck-sous-les-bombes-lhotel-palmyra-et-les-habitations-voisines-des-ruines-romaines-gravement-endommages
Un hôtel plein de souvenirs qui disparaît sous les bombes, c'est certainement un détail dans cette guerre, mais c'est plein de joies et d'amour qui s'envolent pour toujours
Les médias ne le disent pas réellement parlant de frappes "ciblées" "chirurgicales" pourtant il y a une #guerreauLiban
#Baalbeck sous les bombes : l’hôtel #Palmyra et les habitations voisines des ruines romaines gravement endommagés

#liban

In het vierde van vijf blogjes over de Syrische oase-stad #Palmyra behandel ik de Crisis van de Derde Eeuw en de regering van #Zenobia.

https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2024/02/01/het-rijk-van-palmyra/

it’s hotter than hell outside,
so why am i shakin’, why am i cryin’?
https://youtu.be/1sgDTC974NU

#Palmyra #FloydCountryStore

#Missouri #FFA members from #Palmyra and #Neosho prevailed in their Career Development Events at last week's National Convention, while #NorthShelby picked up two top-three finishes.
https://www.centralmoinfo.com/palmyra-neosho-ffa-members-claim-top-cde-scores/

#Missouri #FFA members from #Palmyra and #Neosho prevailed in their Career Development Events at last week's National Convention, while #NorthShelby picked up two top-three finishes.
https://www.centralmoinfo.com/palmyra-neosho-ffa-members-claim-top-cde-scores/

#Missouri #FFA members from #Palmyra and #Neosho prevailed in their Career Development Events at last week's National Convention, while #NorthShelby picked up two top-three finishes.
https://www.centralmoinfo.com/palmyra-neosho-ffa-members-claim-top-cde-scores/

#Missouri #FFA members from #Palmyra and #Neosho prevailed in their Career Development Events at last week's National Convention, while #NorthShelby picked up two top-three finishes.
https://www.centralmoinfo.com/palmyra-neosho-ffa-members-claim-top-cde-scores/

One-year terms have begun for officers with #Missouri #Corn. Matt Lambert of #Laclede is the new chairman of the merchandising council, while Brent Hoerr of #Palmyra is the new president of the growers association.
https://www.centralmoinfo.com/lambert-hoerr-assume-top-posts-with-missouri-corn/

One-year terms have begun for officers with #Missouri #Corn. Matt Lambert of #Laclede is the new chairman of the merchandising council, while Brent Hoerr of #Palmyra is the new president of the growers association.
https://www.centralmoinfo.com/lambert-hoerr-assume-top-posts-with-missouri-corn/

One-year terms have begun for officers with #Missouri #Corn. Matt Lambert of #Laclede is the new chairman of the merchandising council, while Brent Hoerr of #Palmyra is the new president of the growers association.
https://www.centralmoinfo.com/lambert-hoerr-assume-top-posts-with-missouri-corn/

One-year terms have begun for officers with #Missouri #Corn. Matt Lambert of #Laclede is the new chairman of the merchandising council, while Brent Hoerr of #Palmyra is the new president of the growers association.
https://www.centralmoinfo.com/lambert-hoerr-assume-top-posts-with-missouri-corn/