Exploring an Abandoned Medieval Castle - 15th Century Architecture

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  @bubullenoiraude · 1 year ago (edited)

  The cast iron plate in the fireplace has two main functions. It accumulates heat and it reflects infrared radiation from the fire, helping to distribute warmth throughout the room. After the fire dies down, the plate continues to release the heat it has stored, gradually radiating it over time. Positioned at the back of the fireplace, it optimizes the retention and reflection of heat.

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  @Darxide23 · 1 year ago

  Random French lesson of the day:<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAXKMJIUhbs&amp;t=540">9:00</a> There&apos;s no spectrum between castle and château. Château is just the French word for castle. We have borrowed the French word into English and use it a bit differently, as we do with a ton of other French words. In fact, our word castle is just an Anglicized version of the word château. In French, an â is pronounced exactly the same as an a and it&apos;s only reason for having the hat is to indicate a letter was removed from the word. In Old French the word was chastel. Over time, the s in a <i>lot</i> of French words stopped being pronounced and became silent and the L at the end of words morphed into the &quot;o&quot; sound, spelled au in French. Eventually the spelling caught up and the s was removed, but to indicate this, the a got a hat. But the word entered English in the 11th century after the Norman conquest and we didn&apos;t change our pronunciation of it nearly as much, so chastel became castle. It&apos;s like the word hostel. We use that word in English, but it&apos;s really just the French word for hotel, which is hôtel. Again, the hat indicates a letter was removed and you guessed it, it was an s. The Old French word was hostel. And in English, a hostel is different from a hotel. Even though the words are technically the same.<br><br>So the next time you see a French word that you don&apos;t understand, if it has a little hat on top of a vowel, try putting an S after that letter and see if it starts to make sense. 30% of all English words are of French origin, so there are a ton of them that you&apos;ll be able to figure out with this one little trick.

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  @artszabo1015 · 1 year ago

  I am a 73 year old prick that does not compliment/flatter anybody. But, to keep a balance I never neglect to compliment when it is due. I could write a whole chapter about your videos but I will keep it short.<br>I am an amateur photographer and as you well know I would see everything differently than others. You young men are absolutely amazing, you are far superior to anything I have ever seen on television. Your attention to natural lighting and surface textures is on a par with Ansel Adams. Your narrative is so informative yet very natural not sounding scripted. I love the way you flow from monologue to dialogue again utterly unscripted. You immerse me in the experience and I actually forget that I am watching a video and feel like I am there with you.<br>I like the way you use music sparingly and it never clashes with the video or your voice. It seems you have developed the perfect balance of all the ingredients to make perfect and beautiful documentary. National Geographic could use you as a model.<br>You just earned five stars from a stingy prick. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟+🌟<br>Art &amp; Joshua from Ohio<br>PS: I watched this with my son and stopped every few minutes to rewind and point out different things he may have missed. I could take out a hundred stills from your video, print them and hang them on the walls of my house (I won&apos;t out of respect).

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  @QuintusAntonious · 1 year ago

  The concrete-like material in the newer section is a plaster technique called &quot;stuc pierre&quot;. They are mimicking the look of a more expensive cut stone with a cementitious plaster--either cement (if it&apos;s new enough) or a mixture of lime and gypsum. &nbsp;This was a high end technique as it showed you have the money to hire people not just to plaster your wall, but to actually do it in a fancy labor and skill intensive way.

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  @jamesly89 · 1 year ago

  I didn&apos;t want this episode to end.. this is one of the most beautiful places you&apos;ve explored. I wish someone would buy it and fix it up. How grand it would be!

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  @silent.hills.explorations · 1 year ago

  It&apos;s so sad seeing properties like this fall into disrepair and decay. It is interesting to imagine all the loving and fun moments that have happened inside when it was still lived in. Keep up the good work 🔥

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  @pekkatoikkanen3996 · 1 year ago

  The bird singing is probably a common chiffchaff. As the name suggests. There&apos;s a woodpigeon too.

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  @TheFullmetal88m · 1 year ago

  The lack of respect for a building like that....looting. vandalism... gross.

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  @DeFlandres · 1 year ago

  The castle itself is from the medieval period. It was renovated and modified in the early 20th century. A lot of what you are seeing is from the 19th and some from the 18th centuries. As owners come and go, or through inheritances, these castles are renovated into the styles of each era.

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  @madaboutmowers · 1 year ago

  Can you imagine the amount of manual labor to get this place built back in the day before machine&apos;s did that type of work

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  @mxslick50 · 1 year ago

  In 2022 I went to Dublin, Ireland and the Isle of Man. While in Dublin I took the tour of Dublin Castle. I cannot really describe the beauty and range of emotions I experienced there. In the lower levels, I was leaning on an original stone wall, and it hit me....I was in a castle, in a place where knights, servants, royalty and possibly enemies of the kingdom were held. I was actually touching a wall hundreds of years old, the same walls that those people from long ago touched, in a place they lived (and died). &nbsp;I have Irish ancestors on my mother&apos;s side. I get chills thinking about it now as I am writing this.

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  @MasterSgtSlappy · 1 year ago

  Bye bye, boys. Have fun stormin&apos; the castle!

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