One thing about Manchester weather being so ... er, precipitous, is that we do get some wonderful skies when the sun finally peeks through. This is a smoke vent on top of my house that I shoot a lot. I mean a LOT. Why? Because A) my office is upstairs and there are days when I never make it down before bed, and B) it is exactly how far I can squeeze my hand/camera combo out of my crazy tilt-windows and still cut out the outline of the windowframe.
Fallacious yet widespread and documented beliefs courtesy of Wikipedia.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say exactly three magi came to visit the baby Jesus, nor that they were kings, rode on camels, or that their names were Casper, Melchior and Balthazar. Matthew 2 has traditionally been combined with Isaiah 60:1–3.
60:1 Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,
and thick darkness the peoples;
but the Lord will arise upon you,
and his glory will be seen upon you.
And nations shall come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your rising.
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