Our Monday Evening Parting Quote comes to us from Rod Davies, Australian-born British astronomer (died 2011). Our LSU Tigers will be plaing a Home Women’s College Basketball game with the Nicholls Colonels, and our LSU Tigers will be playing a Home Men’s College Basketball game with the ULM Warhawks. Tomorrow is also the birthday of my first cousin Marianne (1962). World Freedom Day is tomorrow, celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. Tomorrow is the Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome (324). National Vocation Awareness Week continues. Our New Orleans Pelicans lost their Divisional NBA game with the Dallas Mavericks by the score of 92 to 108 our New Orleans Pelicans will next play a Home NBA game with the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday, November 10th. We then watched Rebirth of Mothra II (1997) and Rebirth of Mothra III (1998). Richard and I then left the house, picked up my prescriptions at Walmart, and picked up a pizza pizza from Little Caesar’s on the way home. We then watched News, Jeopardy!, and more News. Guiron) (1969), followed by Rebirth of Mothra (1996). I did my Internet Devotional Reading, and we watched Attack of the Monsters (aka Gamera vs. Richard went to drink coffee, and I ate my breakfast toast and read the morning paper out on the porch. I woke up at 7:45 am, did my Book Devotional Reading, and brought in the New Orleans Saints Flag. Yesterday Richard gathered up the trash and wheeled the trash bin out to the curb, Through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. May our community of faith support vocations of sacrificial love in our youth and young adults. Send your Holy Spirit to help others to respond generously and courageously to your call. He is the Patron of Academics, the city of Cologne, Germany, apologies, scholars, students, theologians and philosophers if you know of any miracles that can be attributed to him, please contact the Vatican. National Vocation Awareness Week continues, and we pray, “God our Father, we thank you for calling men and women to serve in your Son’s Kingdom as priests, deacons, and consecrated persons. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1993. Duns Scotus was given the scholastic accolade Doctor Subtilis (“the Subtle Doctor”) for his penetrating and subtle manner of thought. He is one of the four most important philosopher-theologians of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages, together with Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, and William of Ockham. Duns Scotus died unexpectedly in Cologne in November 1308 the date of his death is traditionally given as November 8th. He continued lecturing there until, for reasons that are still mysterious, he was dispatched to the Franciscan studium at Cologne, probably in October 1307. Duns Scotus was back in Paris before the end of 1304, probably returning in May. The work by Scotus thus contained nearly all the philosophical views and arguments for which he is well known, including the univocity of being, the formal distinction, less than numerical unity, individual nature or “thisness” (haecceity), his critique of illuminationism and his renowned argument for the existence of God. Instead, Peter Lombard’s original text was used as a starting point for highly original discussions on topics of theological or philosophical interest. Scotus’s great work is his commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard by the time of Scotus, these ‘commentaries’ on the Sentences were no longer literal commentaries. Later in that academic year, however, he was expelled from the University of Paris for siding with Pope Boniface VIII in his feud with King Philip IV of France over the taxation of church property. He began lecturing on Peter Lombard’s Sentences at the prestigious University of Paris towards the end of 1302. His ordination to the priesthood at St Andrew’s, Northampton, England, on Maand was educated at Oxford. He received the religious habit of the Friars Minor at Dumfries, where his uncle, Elias Duns, was guardian. National Vocation Awareness Week continues.īlessed John Duns Scotus, Religious (died 1308) was born between December 23rd, 1265 and March 17th,1266, born into a leading family of the region at Duns Castle in Scotland. Today is the Optional Memorial of Blessed John Duns Scotus, Religious (died 1308).
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There were a few times when I seriously considered not finishing the book, but this is Lee Child and Reacher, surely it can only get better? No, the writing was consistent throughout, it was boring and repetitive. It pains me to say this, as these books have been the highlight of my reading calender for a long time. I am a huge Lee Child / Jack Reacher fan, and have been reading these books for years, but it has got to the point where I say that this could very well be my last Jack Reacher purchase. There were a few times when I seriously considered not finishing the book, but this is Lee Child and Reacher, surely it can only get better? No, the writing was consi Where is Jack Reacher? Who is this imposter? Where is Jack Reacher? Who is this imposter? I am a huge Lee Child / Jack Reacher fan, and have been reading these books for years, but it has got to the point where I say that this could very well be my last Jack Reacher purchase. It was the closest thing to a home he ever had. His destination: a sturdy stone building a short bus ride from Washington D.C., the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. It was published on 3 September 2013 in the United States.Īfter an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. Never Go Back is the eighteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. تاریخ نخ Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18), Lee Child After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. It was published on 3 September 2013 in the United States. Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18), Lee Child Never Go Back is the eighteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. Will he be sorry he went back? Or – will someone else?. And he certainly doesn't expect to hear these words: ‘You’re back in the army, Major. He himself is in big trouble, accused of a sixteen-year-old homicide. What Reacher doesn’t expect is what comes next. But the officer sitting behind Reacher’s old desk isn't a woman. Why? He wants to meet the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner. He After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. Henry Huttleston Rogers, "father" of the Virginian, did not want low-profit passenger trains to complicate the scheduling of the Virginian through-freights to Norfolk that were loaded with high-profit coal. It bypassed existing towns, letting its competitor (the Norfolk and Western Railroad) have almost all the passenger traffic. The last major rail line in Virginia, the Virginian Railway, was constructed in 1909. (its leased lines,) and their connections (1882) Source: Library of Congress, The Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia Air Line the Shenandoah Valley R.R. The Shenandoah Valley Rail Road chose to bypass the towns west of Massanutten Mountain in order to access the freight traffic from Big Gem Mine at Milnes (later renamed Shenandoah) east of Massanutten Mountain Today, the only rail line still operating through the entire valley uses the route of the old Shenandoah Valley Rail Road east of Massanutten Mountain The Valley Rail Road did link all the major towns between Winchester and Staunton, but revenues from the extra passenger traffic was inadequate and the railroad went into bankruptcy. Instead, it connected directly with the Big Gem iron furnace east of Massanutten Mountain. The Shenandoah Valley Rail Road (soon renamed the Norfolk and Western Railroad) bypassed the Shenandoah Valley towns of Harrisonburg and Staunton west of Massanutten Mountain. The route chosen by that railroad illustrates the relative priority of freight vs. Passengers also found trains to be faster and more convenient, but the railroads found freight to be more profitable.Īfter the Civil War, the Shenandoah Valley Rail Road built its line through the Page Valley east of Massanutten Mountain. The costs of hauling freight across mountains in wagons pulled by horses or mules were high, and the railroad offered a far more efficient transportation choice for farmers, iron furnaces, salt makers, and lead mines. The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad extended west from Lynchburg to Bristol. The South Side Railroad, built before the Civil War, twisted through Southside Virginia between Petersburg-Lynchburg to gather tobacco and a variety of freight from small markets in little towns. Other rail lines expected to make profits from carrying passengers, but more profits rrom carrying freight. Not until 1900 did revenue from freight exceed RF&P's revenue from passengers. People traveling between Richmond and Washington would get on an RF&P train in Richmond, ride at 20mph to a Potomac River wharf north of Fredericksburg, then transfer at Aquia Landing to a steamboat to go up the Potomac River to Washington.įreight traffic was expected to provide only minimal profits. It was designed from the beginning to transport passengers between central Virginia and Washington, DC. The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, now part of Norfolk Southern Railroad, also managed to make more revenue from passengers than freight. The only major railroad built primarily for passengers in Virginia was the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac (RF&P), which is now part of the CSX Railroad. The "passengers" on Virginia's first railroad were in the last car - mules, who were unloaded at the end of the trip and used to haul the empty cars uphill to be loaded with coal again. Loaded coal cars were sent downhill by gravity from the mines for 13 miles to wharves on the James River. The Chesterfield Railroad was designed to haul coal, and the original line was constructed before locomotives were acquired.Īmtrak runs through Manassas today, over the route initiated by the Orange and Alexandria Railroad before the Civil War The state's first railroad was a freight line built to link the Midlothian coal fields of Chesterfield County with Richmond. State and Federal subsidies are required to keep the unprofitable passenger railroad in business.įrom the beginning, freight was more important to railroad planners than passengers. Amtrak was created to maintain long-distance passenger rail service rather than freight, and every year Amtrak's operations in Virginia lose money. Most railroads in Virginia were built to carry freight - not people. Source: Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, Amtrak Routes Operating in Virginia Far more Amtrak trains stop in downtown Alexandria compared to downtown Richmond |
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