Leonardo da Vinci invented the self supporting bridge in the 1400s. Here’s how it works:

2 years ago today. Fergie on the pipes. What a picture. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎵

John McGinn’s last five games: beat Liverpool, beat Man City, win the Europa league, beat Bolivia 4-0, score at the World Cup. No one has had this much fun in the last month

Love this World Cup themed post box topper, featuring that goal by Scott McTominay, at Broomhill Cross on the west of Glasgow. C'mon Scotland! #glasgow #streetart #postboxtopper #yarnbombing #scotland #tartanarmy #worldcupfinals

Big News this morning : The George Washington statue near Fenway Park in Boston has been given the Highest Honour By the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Fans. Someone has got up there God knows how and placed a traffic cone □on his heed. 😅🤣😂😂. This is a proud moment for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland. 👍🏻

IPSWICH 1981 Ipswich Town 2-3 Celtic Goals - McCluskey 38 Nicholas 87 McGarvey 88 ☘️☘️

CHOOSE SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏆 @ScotlandNT @LewisCapaldi

As always, when we get a new Shoot! in, we share the player profile! This week! Jim McDonagh of Bolton Wanderers! Wait.....it was Larry Hagman you meant.....not.....you know what, never mind (From Shoot! - 22/03/1980) #shoot #shootmagazine #Bolton #BWFC #BoltonWanderers

28 years of waiting for our Scottish friends come to an end on Sunday morning, as the World Cup gets underway tonight! After the wonderful moments we all enjoyed in the city two years ago, here's hoping for more magic and an Archie Gemmill moment for this generation! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #effzeh

We just bumped into these legends - John, Brian, Bob and Hugh from Aberdeen - who stopped off in Dublin on their way to the USA to cheer on @ScotlandNT at the @FIFAWorldCup. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Easily our best dressed passengers of the day! 👌

This day in '78.

Valentina, una niña invidente emociona a los Reyes Felipe y Letizia y al Papa León XIV al presentar una maqueta de la Torre de Jesucristo, la más alta de la Sagrada Familia, a través de una magistral explicación del legado de Antoni Gaudí.

Spike Lee with the Pope Leo jersey for NBA Finals Game 3

Brian Clough, who loved cricket, bowling at Lord's in a charity match in front of 8000 spectators in August 1975. Clough took 2 for 45 dismissing the great cricketing pair of Geoff Boycott and, er, Clement Freud. With the bat he scored 13. A lover of cricket, he once said he would have prefer to make a Test century at Lord's than to have scored a hat-trick at Wembley

The dropped points, the failure to accept responsibility, the inability to move on.

Pope Leo just gave a major catechesis on the place of religion in the public square in Spain -- celebrating Mass in front of the city's town hall, Palacio Cibeles -- and the impact that Catholic heritage of the Spanish people can have on the common good and human relationships. This is precisely what Spaniards were hoping for, which we learned in Madrid before the papal trip -- that Pope Leo would encourage Catholics in the country to be signs of hope and have courage to speak up about their faith in public. During his homily Pope Leo emphasized that a remedy for Spain's problems and wounds today is the Catholic faith lived truly and publicly by Spanish people. "The task of Spain today and in the future," Pope Leo said, is "to ensure that the religiosity which has shaped and defined this country for centuries is not a museum of the past to be visited, but a school of faith from which to draw even today." He said it's a "school that teaches us to kneel before God and before our neighbor, because no one can kneel before the Lord and despise their brother; A school that teaches us of the gratuitousness of love that becomes a gift, so that it may flow among us and break the chains of all selfishness; A school from which we learn that God is a real presence and that we too are called to be present in the realities and challenges of society, not shying away, but personally committing ourselves to the building of the common good." The historical memory of the Corpus Christi processions, he said, "is not confined to wistful nostalgia." "Instead, it stands as an invitation in the present moment, in our daily lives, in our relationships, in society, and in the building of the future," Pope Leo said before he will take to the streets to walk with the monstrance on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi in Spain. "It is not merely a matter of bringing out the monstrance, but of allowing ourselves to be brought out of our selfishness and indifference, of a comfortable, private faith, so as to respond to his invitation to conversion, to change our perspective, and to welcome his presence which transforms us and makes us builders of a new world," Pope Leo said. "Here in Madrid, as in many other parts of Spain, Corpus Christi is more than just another celebration on the liturgical calendar. It is a way of returning to the heart of the faith to renew our love and fidelity to God." "It is a profession of faith in the presence of the risen Lord, who is alive and continues to walk among us, who becomes bread to satiate our hunger for life, and visits the recesses of our hearts and history, even those shrouded in darkness." "Just as Christ gives himself as food in the Eucharistic celebration," he said, "the procession shows that he is not confined to the church, but comes out to meet us." "Jesus travels the streets, crosses the squares and visits our neighborhoods, dwelling in the settings of our daily lives. He is a God who is close to us, who walks with his people, the Lord of history. He is comfort to the weak, light for families, hope for the sick and peace for those who suffer. The Christ who processes through the streets in the monstrance is the same one who identifies with the poor, the downtrodden, those who are alone and forsaken. It is no coincidence that the Church here in Spain has long combined the Solemnity of Corpus Christi with the Day for Charity," Pope Leo said at Plaza de Cibeles. The appeal he gave at the end of Mass is in the video below: "Let us drink anew from this Eucharistic spring, which does not enclose us in private devotion, but sends us out to refresh our brothers and sisters, our families, the poor, the suffering, and those who have lost hope. Eucharistic grace transforms us and makes us protagonists of the transformation of history, a sign of hope for those we meet." "May the Lord Jesus, present in the Eucharist, transform you into bread that is broken, given, and offered, so that a life of fullness may spring forth for you, for your families, and for your country." Video: Vatican Media.

Throughout the night, a team of 24 "carpet makers from Ponteareas" coordinated 160 volunteers to set up 500mts×3mts of flower carpets, for the Eucharistic procession. The people in the photo are the fifth generation of artists creating these ephemeral beauties honoring Christ. Over 30,000 flowers were used! #ConElPapa

When I see photos like this, I always imagine the feelings of the people in them. Today a woman at CEDIA 24 Hours, a social service agency in Madrid, encountered Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex. Perhaps she has difficulty speaking and asked for this sign to be written, so that Pope Leo could understand her. Perhaps she was worried that she would be too nervous to get the words out once the Pope was passing by. Perhaps those are her daughters, or caretakers, behind her, looking on, grateful that she has had this moment with the Pope. Once she heard the Pope would be visiting, perhaps she prayed for weeks that she would be able to meet him. Maybe she has a photo of him in her room, like my own mom did. Think of how much time she and her daughters spent getting her dressed and ready this morning. Look at her elegant dress, maybe her favorite one, and how lovely her freshly painted nails look. She seems to use an IV and so getting ready would have been an even more arduous task, but worth it. At the same time, when I see photos like this I also think of passages from the Gospels. In the story of Bartimaeus, a man who is blind and a beggar, is sitting by the roadside in Jericho, when Jesus passes by. Bartimaeus cries out "Son of David, have pity on me!" The woman's sign reads: "Please, Your Holiness, could you bless my family, especially my grandson Will, all my friends, and the sick throughout the world?" Jesus, busy in Jericho, on his way to Jerusalem to face his Passion, stops to listen to Bartimaeus, and heals him of his blindness. Pope Leo of course doesn't have the same kind of power to heal, but he offers Christ's love to all he meets. How blessed we are to be able to see photos like this, just a few hours after the event. Still more blessed are we to have Pope Leo as the Vicar of Christ. Thanks to @vaticannews_it for this photo.)

That’s how good Kenny was