Kohler School District | Sheboygan County Wisconsin
Mary travels into the hill country to visit Elizabeth. At Mary’s Mary answers with the Magnificat: she magnifies the Lord and rejoices “My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my “Hail, Holy Queen” Chapel | R.A.M. Stern Architects Young people curious about Christianity might learn more by skipping Christmas and Easter for a year and attending church instead on the quieter Sundays and lesser festivals of the Christian calendar. The great holidays are magnificent, but they are exceptional occasions: crowded pews, elaborate music, flowers, candles and congregations enlarged by people who may attend only once or twice a year. They can present Christianity at its most ceremonial without necessarily revealing the ordinary rhythm that sustains it. Try an August Sunday instead. Attend on Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, All Saints, Ascension or a lesser observance such as the Assumption of Mary in mid-August. The congregation may be smaller. The music may be simpler. The sermon may assume that everyone knows where they are in the Christian year. Precisely for those reasons, a visitor encounters something closer to the continuing life of the church. Liturgy also becomes less boring once its recurring forms become recognizable. Language initially heard as repetition begins to disclose structure and meaning. The Christian calendar was designed to be inhabited, not sampled. Sometimes the best way to understand its great festivals is to begin with the days when hardly anyone is watching. Something was in the air 🎃 🍂 ✨ — Salve Regina University (@SalveRegina) August 10, 2026 “Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (From “The Gulag Archipelago”) Today we explain our collaboration with other education settlements in the US and other nations. We conform to participation requirements set by ANSI US Technical Advisory Groups to the International Organization for Standardization but we also have liaison with other universities in the European Union who conform to the participation requirements of their own national standards bodies. Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. Because a great deal of content is copyright protected by the International Electrotechnical Commission, International Organization for Standardization and International Telecommunications Union. Around the world – André Henri Dargelas, 1860 pic.twitter.com/u9SgXbEHsU — Muse (@xmuse_) March 7, 2026 Don’t say ‘right-wing’, say ‘pattern recognizer’ https://t.co/0s5FNnlCOB pic.twitter.com/s0YuVy4jw6 — 𝒩𝒶𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝒶 (@classicspilled) November 3, 2025 Happy #WorldStandardsDay! 🎉 Standards connect people, systems and nations — building trust through quality. This year we focus on SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals 🤝🌎 Together, we raise standards for a better world.#BSJ #WorldStandardsDay2025 #StandardsInAction #SDG17 pic.twitter.com/vWKHGW75p4 — Bureau of Standards (@StandardsJa) October 14, 2025 New Modern Methods of Construction Toolkit from the NSAI! 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Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page. https://standardsmichigan.com/planetariums/ Happy solstice! ☀️ Yesterday kicked off astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This time of year, the summer triangle rises into view in the night sky. Between these stars, amazing deep-sky objects are visible with a telescope, including the Ring and Veil Nebulas. pic.twitter.com/WznMmSrXj5 — NASA JPL (@NASAJPL) June 22, 2026 Éric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale (1996) follows Gaspard, a recent mathematics graduate, through several weeks of summer holiday on the Brittany coast. He arrives expecting to meet one young woman, befriends another and is introduced to a third. What follows is less a conventional romance than a study of young adults discovering how uncertain they can be about one another and themselves. Rohmer gives them room to find out. They walk beaches, eat together, make music, talk, flirt and make plans that may or may not survive another day. There are no grand institutions directing their choices and little technology competing for their attention. Place, weather, conversation and unstructured time do most of the work. For educators and essential works staff whose professional lives are governed by calendars, classrooms and obligations, the film offers a gentle reminder: summer also provides time for friendship, courtship and possibilities that cannot be scheduled. Standards Florida Are you curious about the impact of NIST's work on your daily life? Our "NIST In Your State" guide is a great place to start exploring! See how NIST is making a difference in your state. Explore at https://t.co/Sh8bkwfLkV pic.twitter.com/ek2SEEvjCL — National Institute of Standards and Technology (@NIST) July 9, 2026 
The Assumption of Our Lady
greeting, Elizabeth’s child leaps within her, and Elizabeth blesses
Mary and the child she carries.
in God, who has regarded the lowly, shown strength, humbled the proud
and powerful, lifted up the lowly, filled the hungry with good things
and remembered his promise of mercy.
Saviour.”
— Luke 1:46–47, KJV
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Hello World!
End Summer Recess
così anche la vacanza …
“ by”
Norman Rockwell “il grande” 
Water
Observatories & Planetariums
"A Summer's Tale"
"I Ain't Gonna Worry" Paxton High School 1958
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“Couple near Booksellers” – Bernard Boutet de Monvel, French (1881 – 1949)
Scales Mound School District | Jo Daviess County Illinois 815
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The calendar of Anglosphere educational settlements subtly shapes life of the mind, generally; and family and community life, specifically. Its cadence has roots in the cathedral schools and monastic learning communities of medieval Europe. Universities were not originally organized around modern “semesters.” Instead, the year followed the Christian liturgical calendar, agricultural seasons, food paths, daylight availability, and travel conditions.
In America educational calendars were nudged along by agricultural cycles. In the United Kingdom university calendars evolved into three major terms: Michaelmas in autumn, associated with arrival and beginnings; Hilary or Lent in winter, associated with discipline and study; and Trinity or Easter in spring, associated with examinations, outdoor rituals, music, rowing, gardens, and celebration.
Modern commencement traditions across the Anglosphere are descendants of medieval spring degree ceremonies. Academic gowns, hoods, processions, Latin phrases, formal dining, chapel music, and public recognition all preserve traces of the university as a scholarly guild and religious-civic community.
Before railways, electric lighting, and central heating, universities had to adapt to muddy roads, short winter days, limited candles, cold buildings, and agricultural obligations. Spring therefore became the natural season of culmination, reunion, athletic competition, courtship, and ceremony.
The medieval university was not merely a school but an educational settlement — a self-governing town of scholars, libraries, chapels, kitchens, workshops, residences, and dining halls. That settlement pattern survives in residential colleges, quadrangles, tutorial systems, common rooms, chapel choirs, and formal meals.
Anglosphere campuses retain this ancient emotional rhythm: autumn seriousness, winter inwardness, and spring release. That continuity helps explain why colleges and universities still feel culturally distinct from ordinary commercial society. (Relata: Gulliver Visits the Great Academy of Lagado)
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at a conference where you don’t have to present
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