When I originally wrote my paper on “The Genesis of the Round Dance,” I included a short section on the ancient Greek dance forms:
The ancient choruses, dances, and songs of the dithyramb of Greece displayed the familiar pattern of a dignified, circular dance around the altar of Dionysus in the theater’s orchestra. In fact, the [...]
The Telegraph reported today about a man from Norfolk, England, who has spent the last 30 years building an awesome, gigantic and highly detailed scale model of Herod’s Temple. Here are some interesting facts about it:
Estimated 33,000 hours to construct
Measures 20ft by 12ft
Includes 4,000 tiny human figures, with authentic time-period dress
1:100 scale
Everything is hand-made down [...]
There is a very well done 44-minute professional video about LDS temples, and why the LDS Church builds temples, entitled “Between Heaven and Earth.” Above is a preview of this video. It is an excellent overview and introduction of the Mormon temples.
Also, yesterday lds9999 posted on LDS.net an awesome collection of 125 videos that he [...]
The Curitiba Brazil Temple public open house began a couple days ago, on May 10th, and will run through May 24th. Can’t attend? Mike Batie has put together another well-done video of official photographs of the outside and inside of this new temple. It does the good service of feeling like you [...]
Here is yet another excellent temple video, this time of the interior of the Newport Beach California Temple. It was compiled by a member of the church, mikebatie on YouTube, from official photos published by the Church, taken probably during the time of the open house of the temple before the dedication. The [...]
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