Hospital

St Paul's Cathedral
India
Maryland
Patriarch
The English Patient
Sinai Hospital
Clifton 
Green Beans
Vainicas

James 1:3
"Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience."

"Everything has a string of precedents"~~~Glen Hughes

"Pensar de tarde en tarde en Sherlock Holmes es una 

de las buenas costumbres que nos quedan. La muerte 

y la siesta son otras. También es nuestra suerte

 convalecer en un jardín o mirar la luna."

Jorge Luis Borges, Los conjurados.

“It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do. As the latter will not be made well in body by such a course of treatment, the former will not be made well in soul by such a course of philosophy.” Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, ch.4

St Paul's from the south-east with the tower of the destroyed Church of St Augustine to the right.

The English Patient

The Jaivana  cannon is a large 18th-century weapon.It was cast in 1720, by Jai Singh II of Jaipur the administrator ofJaigarh Fort during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah. The formidable strength of its builder, the scientifically inclined warrior Sawai Jai Singh II, lay in the large number of artillery and copious supply of munitions which he maintained. Four elephants were used to swivel it around on its axis.Now it is located at the Jaigarh Fort, Jaipur (India)

"Everything has a string of precedents"~~~Glen Hughes

Fresh Green Beans (a.k.a Tom Cruise Green Beans) Recipe : Trisha Yearwood : Food Network

Jaigarh Fort (Victory Fort), Jaipur, India

Cannon foundry

During the reign of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, Jaigarh Fort, which is located 150 miles south-west of Delhi, became one of the world's most efficient cannon foundries mainly due to the abundance of iron ore mines in the vicinity of the fort. The cannon foundry Jaigarh Fort had a massive wind tunnel that sucked air from the high mountains into its furnace creating temperatures as high as 2400 °F, the heated air would melt the metal. The liquid molten metal would fill a reservoir chamber and into a cannon mold in the casting pit. Most of those cannons were massive, mostly 16 ft long and had to be prepared within a single day. The Rajput also built a large ingenious mechanical device that had a precision gear system driven by four pairs of oxen, the device was used for hollowing out the cannon barrels. When the Mughal war of succession broke out in 1658 Dara Shikoh secured the cannon outpost of Jaigarh Fort until he was defeated and executed by his younger brother Aurangzeb. Later however, the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah appointed Jai Singh II as the official MughalQiladar of Jaigarh Fort according to a Firman, ultimately Jai Singh II is known to have molded the great Jaivana Cannon by utilizing the important foundry and devices inside Jaigarh Fort.

Jaigarh Fort compound Jaipur, Rajasthan

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