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>>24695335, >>24695473 Ireland: Nutcase trying to cut a man's head off in the middle of a street in Belfast

when was the last beheading in Ireland… 100's of years ago

wonder what has changed in their society

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ty naker BV :)

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Giving the kun a shout out.

say it with your chest, how you really feel!

hiding behind a babylon bee post!

isn't Rachel Chandler married into blue bloods or something like that?

what about Carney's sister in law, also some titled nobility or what

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tab

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Yeay, yeah

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another glorious morning anon

o7

>>24696458

that is some altar

>>24696423

ty bakersan

Too much DARPA in this bread, roll out the next one!

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>>24696241

The middle pillar was represented by the Sculpure.

Conceived by the architect of the complex to represent the Kabaa at Mecca with the whirling of people around the centerpiece black cube.

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Artist named the Sphere, Caryatid and Cyclops,

Architect named it after the black cube at Mecca

Architect Minoru Yamasaki (who designed the Twin Towers and the plaza fountains) deliberately modeled the circular ring of fountains around the sphere to evoke the Grand Mosque of Mecca (Masjid al-Haram), with the rotating sphere itself standing in the exact central position of the Kaaba. This made the whole installation a modern, abstract reference to the Islamic ritual of Tawaf — the counterclockwise circumambulation (whirling/walking in circles) that pilgrims perform around the Kaaba during the Hajj.

Koenig himself described the sphere as a counterpoint to the towers and a symbol of “world peace through world trade,” but the plaza’s overall fountain layout (the “symbolic setting in the middle of the plaza” you recalled) was intentionally layered with this Mecca/Kaaba parallel by Yamasaki. Contemporary accounts and art-historical sources explicitly note the sphere as “standing in place of the Kaaba” within the Mecca-inspired fountain ring

This doesn’t add a brand-new official title from the artist (the documented names from Koenig remain Brunnenanlage mit Kugelkaryatide, N.Y. → Große Kugelkaryatide N.Y. / Die Kugelkaryatide / personal nickname Zyklopenauge, later popularly shortened to The Sphere). However, the Kaaba/Tawaf symbolism is frequently highlighted in descriptions of the original 1971–72 installation precisely because of the slow rotation + circular fountain “whirling” effect remembered.

Koenig personally nicknamed the polished central disc on his sphere the Zyklopenauge (“Cyclops Eye” or “Cyclops’ Eye”). The sculpture’s “staring” eye was meant to give it a watchful, almost living presence in the middle of the original plaza.

The 9/11 Memorial & Museum building itself doesn’t have a literal architectural “eye” feature in its design. However, the entire rebuilt World Trade Center site (right at the memorial plaza) prominently includes The Oculus—the striking white transportation hub designed by Santiago Calatrava, opened in 2016. “Oculus” is Latin for “eye,” and the building’s most iconic element is its massive retractable skylight/ocular opening that dramatically parts like a giant eye to let in sky and light. After 9/11—literally an “eye” gazing upward from the heart of the memorial grounds.

Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), the Japanese-American architect best known for the original World Trade Center Twin Towers (completed 1970–1973), drew extensively from Islamic architecture throughout his career. His influences were eclectic—he also cited Gothic, Japanese, Byzantine, and Moorish traditions—but Islamic elements like pointed arches, geometric filigree, courtyard plazas, and ornamental patterning became recurring motifs. These were not superficial decorations; Yamasaki saw them as ways to humanize modernist skyscrapers, create oases of calm, and blend cultural “otherness” with structural innovation. He never heavily publicized the Islamic connections (no plaques or official literature highlighted them), but they appear in his 1979 autobiography A Life in Architecture, project photos, and analyses by scholars like Nezar AlSayyad and Laurie Kerr.

Early and International Work: Saudi Arabia as a Turning PointYamasaki’s direct engagement with Islamic architecture began in the late 1950s–1960s through commissions in the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia. In 1961 (just before the WTC commission), he designed the King Fahd Dhahran International Airport terminal. It featured rectilinear modular plans, pointed arches, interweaving tracery in prefabricated concrete, and a minaret-like control tower. The Saudis admired it so much that the design appeared on a 1966 banknote, and they dubbed his signature pointed arches “Yamasaki arches,” copying them in later projects like the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals.

slate.com

What a coinkydink

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>roll out the next one

Same with rinos.

Rollin' it out

FINAL

NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS

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>>24696212 LIVE: The First Lady Hosts the Presidential A.I. Challenge National Champion Award Ceremony - 6/9/26

>>24696337, >>24696351 President Trump Gaggles with Press Upon Departure from Queens, NY, Jun. 9, 2026

>>24696322 @POTUS: "…out of my short 1.5 years, we've had 73 brand new highs on the various stock exchanges, and that's a record… and that's during a military conflict."

>>24696327 @POTUS on @stephenasmith: "I think he's a nice guy, but you need a certain aptitude to run for president. You need a high IQ. I'm not sure that Stephen has that. I don't think he does, actually."

>>24696335 @POTUS on NY natural gas extraction ban: "We're getting held up by the Governor of New York… and Connecticut is suffering and all of New England is suffering—and Upstate New York is really suffering."

>>24696375 @POTUS on his call with PM Netanyahu: "I said, 'Do what's right, but I want you to stop as quickly as you can' — because they have to stop. This had to do with Lebanon, and it has to stop. We want to get it finished."

>>24696340 House Oversight Committee Hearing on Immigration Policy

>>24696343 The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II

>>24695845 Pope: 4:20 AM EDT MEETING WITH VOLUNTEERS in Pavilion 3 of IFEMA Madrid

>>24695887, >>24695890, >>24695899, >>24695902 The Beast in NYC

>>24695935, >>24695938, >>24696229, >>24696236 AMERICAN APACHE ATTACK HELICOPTER DOWNED OVER HORMUZ - Crew Safely Rescued

>>24695973 China is preparing to spend about 2 trillion yuan ($295 billion) over the next five years on a nationwide network of data centers

>>24695986 Latin America since USAID defunding:

>>24696030 At some point @realDonaldTrump all elections (local, state & federal) become a national security issue.

>>24696035 To call me and @JudicialWatch liars for doing so based on secret material which you have withheld from us and the court is beneath contempt.

>>24696026, >>24695831, >>24695836, >>24695855, >>24695858, >>24695983, >>24696042, >>24696069, >>24696092, >>24696101, >>24696109, >>24696119, >>24696176 A Somalian has been arrested following the attempted beheading. A Restore Britain Government would end all immigration from Somalia

>>24696042 7:00 AM EDT MIDDAY PRAYER in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia

>>24696112, >>24696083, >>24696120, >>24696171, >>24696226 The black cube

>>24696243 The world’s richest countries are not always the most prosperous. USA is #38

>>24696247 Democrat operative Joel Caldwell on hidden camera admiting dems stuffed Fulton County ballot boxes 2024

>>24696249, >>24696304, >>24696347, >>24696349, >>24696352, >>24696353, >>24696387 Swamp Today posted in End Bunker +

>>24696251 JamesOKeefeIII - Los Angeles Election Fraud Caught on Hidden Camera

>>24696252 WHO webinar on Ebola outbreak significance

>>24696329 French jets down mystery drone over Latvia (VIDEO)

>>24696333 Ahoy The Ship Show - 06/09/2026

>>24696360 NASA to Announce Artemis III Crew, Provide Mission Progress Update

>>24696392 Today in Q Post History we have - 05 Deltas and 05 Posts that mention today’s date of June 09

>>24696420 Zelensky’s open letter to Russian President Putin was a publicity stunt rather than a sincere invitation

>>24696472 WATCH elite Russian drone unit hunt Ukrainian UAVs

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He continued in Saudi Arabia into the 1970s and early 1980s with the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency Headquarters in Riyadh, the Eastern Province International Airport, and the King Fahd Royal Reception Pavilion at Jeddah Airport. These works blended high-tech modernism with traditional Islamic forms (arabesques, arches, and geometric patterns), solidifying his fascination. As UC Berkeley professor Nezar AlSayyad (who collaborated with Yamasaki) noted, “The idea of a pointed, ribbed arch was beautifully replicated in the World Trade Center.”

The World Trade Center: The Plaza as a “Mecca”The WTC’s most explicit Islamic-inspired feature was the Austin J. Tobin Plaza (the open courtyard between the Twin Towers), which Yamasaki deliberately modeled after the courtyard of the Grand Mosque of Mecca (Masjid al-Haram). He described the plaza as “a mecca, a great relief from the narrow streets and sidewalks of the surrounding Wall Street area” — an oasis with a circular fountain, seating, greenery, and sculptures where people could pause.

slate.com

The layout replicated Mecca’s vast delineated square, isolated from the city by low colonnaded structures.

The two enormous square towers functioned symbolically like minarets.

A radial circular pattern and sculptural elements (including the central fountain) echoed Mecca’s holy sites: the Kaaba (the cube at the center), the holy spring, and related shrines. The rotating bronze Sphere by Fritz Koenig (which we discussed earlier) stood precisely where the Kaaba would be in this symbolic scheme, with the surrounding fountain jets evoking the ritual circumambulation (Tawaf).

slate.com

At the towers’ base, implied pointed arches (derived from Islamic mosque architecture) created a graceful transition from wide column spacing below to the dense structural mesh above. The towers’ shimmering aluminum-and-glass skin acted as a giant truss wrapped in dense filigree — a direct nod to Islamic traditions of ornamenting geometric forms (compare the inlaid marble of the Taj Mahal or the carved courtyards of the Alhambra). Scholars like Oleg Grabar described this as evoking “a higher spiritual reality,” with the surface shimmering like the veil over the Kaaba; Middle Eastern designers even called the façade a giant mashrabiya (the ornate lattice screens in mosques).

They made two black cube wells, for the Memorial?

passages to the underworld.

death.

wow.

Wonder who all enjoyed the snuff movie and laughed at the rubes.

Just as the nurses, doctors laughing as the gave people the death shot.

Or the laughing an celebration at the killing of Kirk?

>>24696241 (You)

The middle pillar was represented by the Sculpure.

Conceived by the architect of the complex to represent the Kabaa at Mecca with the whirling of people around the centerpiece black cube.

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FRARSH

MEEOOW

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