The elephant would later be in the show. Read more about Siam Niramit on my Phuket blog @ www.jamiesphuketblog.com/2013/12/the-siam-niramit-show.html.

ISS020-E-009048 (12 June 2009) --- Sarychev Peak Volcano eruption, Kuril Islands, is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 20 crew member on the International Space Station. A fortuitous orbit of the International Space Station allowed the astronauts this striking view of Sarychev volcano (Russia's Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan) in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009. Sarychev Peak is one of the most active volcanoes in the Kuril Island chain and is located on the northwestern end of Matua Island. Prior to June 12, the last explosive eruption had occurred in 1989 with eruptions in 1986, 1976, 1954, and 1946 also producing lava flows. Ash from the June 2009 eruption has been detected 2407 kilometers ESE and 926 kilometers WNW of the volcano, and commercial airline flights are being diverted away from the region to minimize the danger of engine failures from ash intake. This detailed photograph is exciting to volcanologists because it captures several phenomena that occur during the earliest stages of an explosive volcanic eruption. The main column is one of a series of plumes that rose above Matua Island (48.1 degrees north latitude and 153.2 degrees east longitude) on June 12. The plume appears to be a combination of brown ash and white steam. The vigorously rising plume gives the steam a bubble-like appearance; the surrounding atmosphere has been shoved up by the shock wave of the eruption. The smooth white cloud on top may be water condensation that resulted from rapid rising and cooling of the air mass above the ash column, and is probably a transient feature (the eruption plume is starting to punch through). The structure also indicates that little to no shearing winds were present at the time to disrupt the plume. Another series of images, acquired 2-3 days after the start of eruptive activity, illustrate the effect of shearing winds on extent of the ash plumes across the Pacific Ocean. By contrast, a cloud of denser, gray ash -- most probably a pyroclastic flow -- appears to be hugging the ground, descending from the volcano summit. The rising eruption plume casts a shadow to the northwest of the island (bottom center). Brown ash at a lower altitude of the atmosphere spreads out above the ground at upper right. Low-level stratus clouds approach Matua Island from the east, wrapping around the lower slopes of the volcano. Only about 1.5 kilometers of the coastline of Matua Island (upper center) can be seen beneath the clouds and ash.

Looking out across Wellington harbour to Oriental Bay and the eastern suburbs.

Photo 12 of 365.

And there was I thinking that I had caught up with the shots I had taken over the summer. But then I remembered the glass. The glass of Canterbury Cathedral.

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Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England and forms part of a World Heritage Site. It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion; the archbishop, being suitably occupied with national and international matters, delegates the most of his functions as diocesan bishop to the Bishop suffragan of Dover. Its formal title is the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ at Canterbury.

Founded in 597, the cathedral was completely rebuilt from 1070 to 1077. The east end was greatly enlarged at the beginning of the twelfth century, and largely rebuilt in the Gothic style following a fire in 1174, with significant eastward extensions to accommodate the flow of pilgrims visiting the shrine of Thomas Becket, the archbishop who was murdered in the cathedral in 1170. The Norman nave and transepts survived until the late fourteenth century, when they were demolished to make way for the present structures.

Christianity had started to become powerful in the Roman Empire around the third century. Following the conversion of Augustine of Hippo in the 4th century, the influence of Christianity grew steadily .[2] The cathedral's first archbishop was Augustine of Canterbury, previously abbot of St. Andrew's Benedictine Abbey in Rome. He was sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 596 as a missionary to the Anglo-Saxons. Augustine founded the cathedral in 597 and dedicated it to Jesus Christ, the Holy Saviour.[3]

Augustine also founded the Abbey of St. Peter and Paul outside the city walls. This was later rededicated to St. Augustine himself and was for many centuries the burial place of the successive archbishops. The abbey is part of the World Heritage Site of Canterbury, along with the cathedral and the ancient Church of St Martin.

Bede recorded that Augustine reused a former Roman church. The oldest remains found during excavations beneath the present nave in 1993 were, however, parts of the foundations of an Anglo-Saxon building, which had been constructed across a Roman road.[5][6] They indicate that the original church consisted of a nave, possibly with a narthex, and side-chapels to the north and south. A smaller subsidiary building was found to the south-west of these foundations.[6] During the ninth or tenth century this church was replaced by a larger structure (49 m. by 23 m.) with a squared west end. It appears to have had a square central tower.[6] The eleventh century chronicler Eadmer, who had known the Saxon cathedral as a boy, wrote that, in its arrangement, it resembled St Peter's in Rome, indicating that it was of basilican form, with an eastern apse.[7]

During the reforms of Dunstan, archbishop from 960 until his death in 988,[8] a Benedictine abbey named Christ Church Priory was added to the cathedral. But the formal establishment as a monastery seems to date only to c.997 and the community only became fully monastic from Lanfranc's time onwards (with monastic constitutions addressed by him to prior Henry). Dunstan was buried on the south side of the high altar.

The cathedral was badly damaged during Danish raids on Canterbury in 1011. The Archbishop, Alphege, was taken hostage by the raiders and eventually killed at Greenwich on 19 April 1012, the first of Canterbury's five martyred archbishops. After this a western apse was added as an oratory of St. Mary, probably during the archbishopric of Lyfing (1013–1020) or Aethelnoth (1020–1038).

The 1993 excavations revealed that the new western apse was polygonal, and flanked by hexagonal towers, forming a westwork. It housed the archbishop's throne, with the altar of St Mary just to the east. At about the same time that the westwork was built, the arcade walls were strengthened and towers added to the eastern corners of the church.

The cathedral was destroyed by fire in 1067, a year after the Norman Conquest. Rebuilding began in 1070 under the first Norman archbishop, Lanfranc (1070–77). He cleared the ruins and reconstructed the cathedral to a design based closely on that of the Abbey of St. Etienne in Caen, where he had previously been abbot, using stone brought from France.[9] The new church, its central axis about 5m south of that of its predecessor,[6] was a cruciform building, with an aisled nave of nine bays, a pair of towers at the west end, aiseless transepts with apsidal chapels, a low crossing tower, and a short choir ending in three apses. It was dedicated in 1077.[10]

The Norman cathedral, after its expansion by Ernulf and Conrad.

Under Lanfranc's successor Anselm, who was twice exiled from England, the responsibility for the rebuilding or improvement of the cathedral's fabric was largely left in the hands of the priors.[11] Following the election of Prior Ernulf in 1096, Lanfranc's inadequate east end was demolished, and replaced with an eastern arm 198 feet long, doubling the length of the cathedral. It was raised above a large and elaborately decorated crypt. Ernulf was succeeded in 1107 by Conrad, who completed the work by 1126.[12] The new choir took the form of a complete church in itself, with its own transepts; the east end was semicircular in plan, with three chapels opening off an ambulatory.[12] A free standing campanile was built on a mound in the cathedral precinct in about 1160.[13]

As with many Romanesque church buildings, the interior of the choir was richly embellished.[14] William of Malmesbury wrote: "Nothing like it could be seen in England either for the light of its glass windows, the gleaming of its marble pavements, or the many-coloured paintings which led the eyes to the panelled ceiling above."[14]

Though named after the sixth century founding archbishop, The Chair of St. Augustine, the ceremonial enthronement chair of the Archbishop of Canterbury, may date from the Norman period. Its first recorded use is in 1205.

Martyrdom of Thomas Becket

Image of Thomas Becket from a stained glass window

The 12th-century choir

A pivotal moment in the history of the cathedral was the murder of the archbishop, Thomas Becket, in the north-west transept (also known as the Martyrdom) on Tuesday, 29 December 1170, by knights of King Henry II. The king had frequent conflicts with the strong-willed Becket and is said to have exclaimed in frustration, "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" The knights took it literally and murdered Becket in his own cathedral. Becket was the second of four Archbishops of Canterbury who were murdered (see also Alphege).

The posthumous veneration of Becket made the cathedral a place of pilgrimage. This brought both the need to expand the cathedral and the wealth that made it possible.

Rebuilding of the choir

Tomb of the Black Prince

In September 1174 the choir was severely damaged by fire, necessitating a major reconstruction,[15] the progress of which was recorded in detail by a monk named Gervase.[16] The crypt survived the fire intact,[17] and it was found possible to retain the outer walls of the choir, which were increased in height by 12 feet (3.7 m) in the course of the rebuilding, but with the round-headed form of their windows left unchanged.[18] Everything else was replaced in the new Gothic style, with pointed arches, rib vaulting and flying buttresses. The limestone used was imported from Caen in Normandy, and Purbeck marble was used for the shafting. The choir was back in use by 1180 and in that year the remains of St Dunstan and St Alphege were moved there from the crypt.[19]

The master-mason appointed to rebuild the choir was a Frenchman, William of Sens. Following his injury in a fall from the scaffolding in 1179 he was replaced by one of his former assistants, known as "William the Englishman".

The shrine in the Trinity Chapel was placed directly above Becket's original tomb in the crypt. A marble plinth, raised on columns, supported what an early visitor, Walter of Coventry, described as "a coffin wonderfully wrought of gold and silver, and marvellously adorned with precious gems".[22] Other accounts make clear that the gold was laid over a wooden chest, which in turn contained an iron-bound box holding Becket's remains.[23] Further votive treasures were added to the adornments of the chest over the years, while others were placed on pedestals or beams nearby, or attached to hanging drapery.[24] For much of the time the chest (or "ferotory") was kept concealed by a wooden cover, which would be theatrically raised by ropes once a crowd of pilgrims had gathered.[21][23] Erasmus, who visited in 1512–4, recorded that, once the cover was raised, "the Prior ... pointed out each jewel, telling its name in French, its value, and the name of its donor; for the principal of them were offerings sent by sovereign princes."[25]

The income from pilgrims (such as those portrayed in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales) who visited Becket's shrine, which was regarded as a place of healing, largely paid for the subsequent rebuilding of the cathedral and its associated buildings. This revenue included the profits from the sale of pilgrim badges depicting Becket, his martyrdom, or his shrine.

The shrine was removed in 1538. Henry VIII summoned the dead saint to court to face charges of treason. Having failed to appear, he was found guilty in his absence and the treasures of his shrine were confiscated, carried away in two coffers and twenty-six carts.

Monastic buildings

Cloisters

A bird's-eye view of the cathedral and its monastic buildings, made in about 1165[27] and known as the "waterworks plan" is preserved in the Eadwine Psalter in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge.[28] It shows that Canterbury employed the same general principles of arrangement common to all Benedictine monasteries, although, unusually, the cloister and monastic buildings were to the north, rather than the south of the church. There was a separate chapter-house.[27]

The buildings formed separate groups around the church. Adjoining it, on the north side, stood the cloister and the buildings devoted to the monastic life. To the east and west of these were those devoted to the exercise of hospitality. To the north a large open court divided the monastic buildings from menial ones, such as the stables, granaries, barn, bakehouse, brew house and laundries, inhabited by the lay servants of the establishment. At the greatest possible distance from the church, beyond the precinct of the monastery, was the eleemosynary department. The almonry for the relief of the poor, with a great hall annexed, formed the paupers' hospitium.

The group of buildings devoted to monastic life included two cloisters. The great cloister was surrounded by the buildings essentially connected with the daily life of the monks,-- the church to the south, with the refectory placed as always on the side opposite, the dormitory, raised on a vaulted undercroft, and the chapter-house adjacent, and the lodgings of the cellarer, responsible for providing both monks and guests with food, to the west. A passage under the dormitory lead eastwards to the smaller or infirmary cloister, appropriated to sick and infirm monks.[27]

The hall and chapel of the infirmary extended east of this cloister, resembling in form and arrangement the nave and chancel of an aisled church. Beneath the dormitory, overlooking the green court or herbarium, lay the "pisalis" or "calefactory," the common room of the monks. At its north-east corner access was given from the dormitory to the necessarium, a building in the form of a Norman hall, 145 ft (44 m) long by 25 broad (44.2 m × 7.6 m), containing fifty-five seats. It was constructed with careful regard to hygiene, with a stream of water running through it from end to end.[27]

A second smaller dormitory for the conventual officers ran from east to west. Close to the refectory, but outside the cloisters, were the domestic offices connected with it: to the north, the kitchen, 47 ft (14 m) square (200 m2), with a pyramidal roof, and the kitchen court; to the west, the butteries, pantries, etc. The infirmary had a small kitchen of its own. Opposite the refectory door in the cloister were two lavatories, where the monks washed before and after eating.

[27]

Priors of Christ Church Priory included John of Sittingbourne (elected 1222, previously a monk of the priory) and William Chillenden, (elected 1264, previously monk and treasurer of the priory).[29] The monastery was granted the right to elect their own prior if the seat was vacant by the pope, and — from Gregory IX onwards — the right to a free election (though with the archbishop overseeing their choice). Monks of the priory have included Æthelric I, Æthelric II, Walter d'Eynsham, Reginald fitz Jocelin (admitted as a confrater shortly before his death), Nigel de Longchamps and Ernulf. The monks often put forward candidates for Archbishop of Canterbury, either from among their number or outside, since the archbishop was nominally their abbot, but this could lead to clashes with the king and/or pope should they put forward a different man — examples are the elections of Baldwin of Forde and Thomas Cobham.

Early in the fourteenth century, Prior Eastry erected a stone choir screen and rebuilt the chapter house, and his successor, Prior Oxenden inserted a large five-light window into St Anselm's chapel. [30]

The cathedral was seriously damaged by an earthquake of 1382, losing its bells and campanile.

From the late fourteenth century the nave and transepts were rebuilt, on the Norman foundations in the Perpendicular style under the direction of the noted master mason Henry Yevele.[31] In contrast to the contemporary rebuilding of the nave at Winchester, where much of the existing fabric was retained and remodelled, the piers were entirely removed, and replaced with less bulky Gothic ones, and the old aisle walls completely taken down except for a low "plinth" left on the south side. [32][6] More Norman fabric was retained in the transepts, especially in the east walls,[32] and the old apsidal chapels were not replaced until the mid-15th century.[30] The arches of the new nave arcade were exceptionally high in proportion to the clerestory.[30] The new transepts, aisles and nave were roofed with lierne vaults, enriched with bosses. Most of the work was done during the priorate of Thomas Chillenden (1391–1411): Chillenden also built a new choir screen at the east end of the nave, into which Eastry's existing screen was incorporated.[30] The Norman stone floor of the nave, however survived until its replacement in 1786.

From 1396 the cloisters were repaired and remodelled by Yevele's pupil Stephen Lote who added the lierne vaulting. It was during this period that the wagon-vaulting of the chapter house was created.

A shortage of money, and the priority given to the rebuilding of the cloisters and chapter-house meant that the rebuilding of the west towers was neglected. The south-west tower was not replaced until 1458, and the Norman north-west tower survived until 1834, when it was replaced by a replica of its Perpendicular companion.[30]

In about 1430 the south transept apse was removed to make way for a chapel, founded by Lady Margaret Holland and dedicated to St Michael and All Angels. The north transept apse was replaced by a Lady Chapel, built in 1448–55.[30]

The 235-foot crossing tower was begun in 1433, although preparations had already been made during Chillenden's priorate, when the piers had been reinforced. Further strengthening was found necessary around the beginning of the sixteenth century, when buttressing arches were added under the southern and western tower arches. The tower is often known as the "Angel Steeple", after a gilded angel that once stood on one of its pinnacles.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury_Cathedral

SAN JOSE, CA—NOVEMBER 12: The San Jose Barracudas play against the Colorado Eagles on November 12, at the Tech CU Arena in San Jose, California (Photo by Meredith Williams/Barracudas)

youtube has all 12 chapters at the following link.

youtu.be/RJoDhBPN4zc The Crimson Ghost Chapter 1 “Atomic Peril”

Starring Charles Quigley, Linda Stirling, Clayton Moore, I. Stanford Jolley, Kenne Duncan, Forrest Taylor, and Emmett Vogan. Directed by William Witney and Fred C. Brannon.

The Crimson Ghost---attired in black hood and cloak, skull mask and surgical gloves---skulks to an abandoned mansion and informs his henchmen, Louis Ashe (Clayton Moore) and Bain (Rex Lease),of his plans to seize the Cyclotrode, a device invented by Dr. Chambers (Kenne Duncan), that is designed to detect-and-repeal atomic bomb attacks. The Crimson Ghost intends to use the Cyclotrode as an offensive weapon for sabotage and extortion via its ability to stop any electrically-controlled mechanism.

THE CRIMSON GHOST (1946)

(Jan 24, 2002)

This Republic serial is a lot of fun to watch, but somehow it's never been one of my favorites. All the right ingredients are there but it seems like not enough is done with them. The first thing fans remember is (of course) the Crimson Ghost his own self--- one of the coolest- looking masked villains ever to hit the screen. In his hood and robes, skeleton-design gloves and gruesome skull mask, he certainly must have sent a few younger viewers out to the lobby when he first appeared. The Crimson Ghost is not only a mastermind willing to commit murder to obtain the gizmo he craves, he's also a traitor. He intends to sell the death ray Cyclotrode to the highest bidder, even if it's the Soviet Union. In 1946, with the Cold War getting bitter, this marked him as vile indeed.

Yet it's humbling when he fares poorly in hand to hand fights, getting knocked out several times in free-for-alls and getting run down by a dog. I also wondered why the heck he informs everyone he's a member of the academic science council in his real identity. You think that's the last thing he would want his henchmen and adversaries to know.

Linda Stirling is fine as the heroine, leaping out of cars at the last second and looking completely serious as she discusses how to counter the Crimson Ghost. She is also very restful to gaze upon. As the hero, Charles Quigley is energetic and athletic but he makes no lasting impression and seems a bit bland. I haven't watched my copy of DAREDEVILS OF THE RED CIRCLE yet, and maybe that will show him in a better light.

Clayton Moore is almost always very good as a hero or a villain, and here he pretty much carries the thrust of the plot, acting as the Ghost's lieutenant. Moore can handle himself in the action scenes, and he's very convincing as a thug. Check out his wicked leer as the mask is pulled off when he's been impersonating the Crimson Ghost-- that's about as far from the noble Lone Ranger as you can get.

Republic villains all seemed to belong to some sort of underground brotherhood, judging by the gadgets they have access to. Did the Crimson Ghost buy his slave-making control collars from the same firm that supplied similar devices to Dr Satan? Or (more likely) did the Ghost get them on the black market after Dr Satan met his fate? And what about all these wonderful blasters? If you assembled this serial's Cyclotrode, the Sonic Decimator (KING OF THE ROCKETMEN), the Golden Scorpion (CAPTAIN MARVEL) the ray cannon (THE PURPLE MONSTER STRIKES) and the Munitions Disintegrator (SECRET SERVICE IN DARKEST AFRICA), you'd be able to repel an attack by Godzilla!

Dir: William Witney and Fred Bannon - 12 Chapters

More from my Lensbaby B&W Project - just catching up.

Have a lovely weekend!

Doctor Who

The Companion Chronicles

3.12 - The Stealers of Saiph

Big Finish Alternate Cover (Classic Logo and Credits)

The Peugeot 406 is a large family car made by the French automaker Peugeot from 1995 to 2004. Available in saloon, estate and coupé bodystyles with a choice of petrol or turbodiesel engines, the 406 replaced the Peugeot 405 in Peugeot's lineup, and was itself replaced by the Peugeot 407. It used the same platform as the Citroën Xantia, though without that car's sophisticated hydropneumatic suspension system.

The project:

The styling of the 406 is heavily influenced by its predecessor, the 405, which began to be phased out from the 406's launch in September 1995, and eventually finished production in Europe in 1997, when the last estate models were discontinued. United Kingdom sales of the 406 began in February 1996.

Initially, the car was available with 1.8 L and 2.0 L petrol and 1.9 L turbodiesel engines, followed by a turbocharged 2.0 petrol, 3.0 (2946cc) V6 petrol, and 110 bhp 2.1 L turbodiesel. The diesel versions were very popular, and the 406 became one of Europe's best-selling diesel-powered cars.

The 2-door coupé was both designed and manufactured by Italian design studio Pininfarina, with choices of a 2.0 L 4-cylinder engine or a 3.0 L V6, and from 2001, a 2.2 L HDi diesel engine. On later models, a 2.2 L petrol engine was available. Total of 107,633 coupés were made.

For its final year on sale in the United Kingdom, the model was simply called the Peugeot Coupé, with the 406 branding dropped from the name.

The 406 was notably successful in the United Kingdom, having broken into the key UK fleet sales market, with a high percentage of units becoming company cars and taxis.

In 2002, a Peugeot 406 HDi set the world record for the longest distance driven on a single tank of fuel. The car travelled across Australia between Melbourne to Rockhampton, with a total distance of 2,348 km.

Facelift:

The facelifted 406 sedan was introduced in 1999 and safety, strength and speed enhancements resulted in improved Euro NCAP performance. Where the old 406 had one star and a struck off star, the post facelift models gained 3 stars. The changes included the new and improved EW/DW Engine Family HDI with greater power, torque and fuel efficiency along with increased refinement, making it comparatively quiet for a diesel. A downside was an increase in the car's insurance group from 9 to 12.

The exterior look was amended as the 406 featured more pronounced ribs, clear headlights, chrome trim and a new honeycomb grill. The rear lights were finished in red with a strip of the car's paint colour across the centre.

The interior was also redesigned to improve comfort and space. New equipment included automated digital climate control/air conditioning on most models except the most basic and a multi-function display for warning messages, trip computer, radio and external temperature. There was a more extensive use of wooden trim, better quality plastics, including soft touch plastics, and in addition some models received electrically folding mirrors, with automatic headlights and wipers. The top-of-the-range Executive model was specified a 10 speaker JBL sound system, electrically adjusted and heated leather seats, a memory position for the seats and mirrors, headlight washer jets, a rear sun blind, thicker carpeting, lights in the sun visors, satellite navigation and ambient lighting.

406 ended production in 2004.

[Text from Wikipedia]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_406

This miniland-scale Lego Peugeot 406 Coupe (1996 - Pininfarina) has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 92nd Build Challenge, - "Stuck in the 90's", - all about vehicles from the decade of the 1990s.

The Pininfarina-styled Peugeot 406 Coupé is one of my very favourite 1990s cars, particularly the graceful styling.

REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - APRIL 12: The Guard poses for the VALORANT Masters Features Day on April 12, 2022 in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Photo by Lance Skundrich/Riot Games)

This is the middle of the slot from about 6' above the ground to about 12'.

The Slot is a narrow siltstone canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

PAZ_2673

01 I Know You Baby3.19

02 Misty Water6.13

03 Ivor9.14

04 Troubled Mind12.16

05 Sally Sensation16.35

06 Just 1519.45

07 An Image Of You23.13

08 Comanche25.26

09 ?32.08

10 Throw Back35.15

11 Girl From 6237.08

12 The Sneeze Song41.42

13 Lie Detector43.39

14 Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot46.54

15 Come On and Hold Me51.59 feat Ludella Black

16 Wild Man54.39 feat Ludella Black + Kyra

17 Davey Crockett58.16 feat Ludella Black + Kyra

18 Archive From 19591.01.17

www.stitchedincolor.com/2015/12/the-spark.html

sterling silver, pearls

pendant cum brooch

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Classic Disney Princess Tiana Doll - 12''

Photographed boxed, during deboxing, and fully deboxed.

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Description from Disney Store US website:

Classic Disney Princess Tiana Doll -- 12''

Item No. 6070040908161P

Our Price: $14.50

2 for $22 Classic Dolls and Accessories

Bayou beauty Tiana sparkles in her signature dress of green petals. This Classic Disney Princess Tiana Doll fetaures poseable arms and legs so your young royal can recreate her own animated The Princess and the Frog fairytale.

Product Details

•Deluxe costume features green glitter petal bodice with flower accent, white satin skirt and gloves

•Coordinating tiara

•Poseable arms and legs

•Combine it with it with our 12'' The Princess and the Frog Classic Prince Naveen Doll and 12'' Classic Charlotte Doll, each sold separately

•Coordinates with our Princess Tiana Classic Doll Collection Accessory Set, sold separately

•Part of the Disney Princess Classic Doll Collection

•Plastic/polyester

•12'' H

•Ages 3+

•Imported

•Combine it with it with our 12'' The Princess and the Frog Classic Prince Naveen Doll and 12'' Classic Charlotte Doll, each sold separately

•Coordinates with our Princess Tiana Classic Doll Collection Accessory Set, sold separately

•Part of the Disney Princess Classic Doll Collection

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

2012 Disney Princess Classic 12'' Dolls

By The Disney Store

First Look

Released June 25, 2012, Online (US site)

Purchased June 30, 2012, In Store

Scheduled release to Disney Stores: Second week of July (North America)

$14.50 US Each

2 for $22 US

The newly redesigned Disney Princess Classic 12'' Dolls, called the Disney Princess Classic Doll Collection. The Princess dolls now include the exciting fully articulated legs that were first introduced in the Classic Merida 11'' doll. They have external hinged knee joints and ball/hinge ankle joints that allow much greater poseability of the legs than the previous releases. The collection also includes the Prince dolls and Friends and Villains dolls (which currently includes King Triton, Charlotte, and Mother Gothel), and the Princess accessory (wardrobe) sets.

Each Princess doll has been redesigned, including the face, hairdo, outfit, articulation, and in some cases (apparently) the head mold.

The price of the dolls and accessory packs have increased from $12.50 US to $14.50. However, on June 26, 2012, the Disney Store has all of the dolls and accessory sets in the Disney Princess Classic Doll Collection as part of a 2 for $22 sale.

The 10 Princesses and their movies are:

Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937)

Cinderella (Cinderella, 1950)

Aurora (Sleeping Beauty, 1959)

Ariel (The Little Mermaid, 1989)

Belle (Beauty and the Beast, 1991)

Jasmine (Aladdin, 1992)

Pocahontas (Pocahontas, 1995)

Mulan (Mulan, 1998)

Tiana (The Princess and the Frog, 2009)

Rapunzel (Tangled, 2010)

The new Princess dolls are photographed new in boxes, during their unboxing, and finally fully deboxed. They are also compared with other versions of the Disney Princess dolls.

WIESBADEN, Germany – The USO ended its annual Chairman’s Holiday Tour at the Wiesbaden Fitness Center, here, Dec. 12.

The tour lineup included the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, his Senior Enlisted Advisor, U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Bryan B. Battaglia, "Duck Dynasty" stars Willie Robertson and Jep Robertson, Washington Nationals first baseman Adam LaRoche, Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Bridget Kelly, former New England Patriots offensive tackle and three-time Super Bowl champion Matt Light, actor and comedian Thomas “Nephew Tommy” Miles and former correspondent for NBC's “The Voice” Alison Haislip.

The visit to USAREUR concluded their seven-day, four-country holiday program. The USO has worked with the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2000 to bring celebrity sports figures and entertainers overseas to visit troops during the holiday season.

Conception and construction of the Mark I

Bernard Lovell built the Transit Telescope at Jodrell Bank in the late 1940s. This was a 218 ft (66 m)-diameter radio telescope that could only point directly upwards; the next logical step was to build a telescope that could look at all parts of the sky so that more sources could be observed, as well as for longer integration times. Although the Transit Telescope had been designed and constructed by the astronomers that used it, a fully steerable telescope would need to be professionally designed and constructed; the first challenge was to find an engineer willing to do the job. This turned out to be Charles Husband, whom Lovell first met on 8 September 1949.[11][12]

The Mark 1 under construction.

Credit: Jodrell Bank.

Two 15-inch (38-cm) gun turret bearings were bought cheaply in 1950; these came from the World War II battleships HMS Revenge and Royal Sovereign, which were being broken up at the time. The bearings became the two main altitude rotator bearings of the telescope, with the appropriate parts of the telescope being designed around them.[13] Husband presented the first drawings of the proposed giant, fully steerable radio telescope in 1950. After refinements, these plans were detailed in a "Blue Book",[14] which was presented to the DSIR on 20 March 1951;[15] the proposal was approved in March 1952.[16]

Construction began on 3 September 1952.[17] The foundations for the telescope were completed on 21 May 1953 after being sunk 90 ft (27 m) into the ground.[18][19] it then took until Mid-March 1954 to get the double railway lines completed due to their required accuracy.[20][21] The central pivot was delivered to the site on 11 May 1954,[22] and the final bogie in mid-April 1955.[23]

The Mark 1 under construction.

Credit: Jodrell Bank.

The telescope bowl was originally going to have a wire mesh surface to observe at wavelengths between 1 and 10 meters (3.2 and 32 feet);[24] this was changed to a steel surface so that the telescope could observe at the 21 cm (8 in) hydrogen line, which was discovered in 1951.[25] Also, in February 1954 Lovell and the Air Ministry met to see if funding could be made available for improving the accuracy of the dish so that it could be used on centimeter wavelengths, for research at these wavelengths for the Ministry as well as "other purposes". Although the funding was not ultimately made available from the Air Ministry, the planning process had already progressed too far and so this improvement was made anyway.[26]

The telescope was constructed so that the bowl could be completely inverted. Originally, it was intended to use a movable tower at the base of the telescope to change the receivers at the focus.[27] However, the movable tower was never built, due jointly to funding constraints and the fact that much of the receiver equipment was placed at the base of the telescope rather than at the focus.[27] Instead, receivers were mounted on 50-foot (15-m) long steel tubes, which were then inserted by a winch into the top of the aerial tower while the bowl was inverted. The cables from the receivers then ran down the inside of this tube, which could then be connected when the telescope was pointed at the zenith. Associated receiver equipment could then be placed either in the small, swinging laboratory directly underneath the surface; in rooms at the tops of the two towers; at the base girders, or in the control building.[28]

The telescope moved for the first time on 3 February 1957: by an inch.[29] It was first moved azimuthally under power on 12 June 1957;[30] the bowl was tilted under power for the first time on 20 June 1957.[30] By the end of July the dish surface was completed,[31] and first light was on 2 August 1957; the telescope did a drift scan across the Milky Way at 160 MHz, with the bowl at the zenith.[1] The telescope was first controlled from the control room on 9 October 1957,[32][33] by a purpose-built analogue computer.[25]

There were large cost overruns with the telescope's construction, mainly due to the steeply rising cost of steel at the time the telescope was constructed. The original grant for the telescope's construction came jointly from the Nuffield Foundation and the government; this amounted to £335,000.[16] The government increased its share of the funding several times as the cost of the telescope rose; other money came from private donations. The final part of the debt from the construction of the telescope, £50,000, was paid off by Lord Nuffield and the Nuffield Foundation on 25 May 1960[34] (partly due to the telescope's early, very public role in space probe tracking; see below), and Jodrell Bank observatory was renamed to the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories. The final total cost for the telescope was £700,000.#Cheshiredaysout

LENARD'S CASINO ` BEVERLY SHORES, INDIANA `

Date: Circa 1940

Source Type: Postcard

Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Chips

Postmark: August 5, 1940, Beverly Shores, Indiana

Collection: Mike Fleming

Remark: Lenard's Casino was located on Lake Front Drive, west of Broadway. Constructed in 1935 by the Beverly Shores Construction Company, the first level at the beach contained lockers and showers. The second level contained inside dining rooms and an outside refreshment stand. The third floor consisted of living quarters. The structure was made of sandstone and sea-green terra cotta with jet black trim and was leased by W. J. McCain of Chicago, Illinois. In 1938, the structure was purchased by Ignatz Lenard (1881-1944), a noted restaurateur who owned the Little Poland Restaurant on 1166 Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Lenard later added a hotel wing consisting of 37 single rooms and two apartments.

Mrs. Karolina Lenard and her five five children took over the management of the operation after Mr. Lenard's death, while also maintaining their Chicago business. During the off-season months, Lenard's would close.

The 1966 National Lakeshore Acquisition Plan and its potential impact on the community, as well as rising lake levels, convinced the family to sell the property.

A document contained in a folder of the Federal Writers' Project contains the following information concerning this casino:

THE CASINO ( BEVERLY SHORES )

The Casino one of the most attractive spots along Lake Michigan in Beverly Shores, Porter county, Indiana, is located one block west of Broadway facing Lake Front drive and bordering Lake Michigan in the rear. Beverly Shores is four miles west of Michigan City on U.S. Highway 12.

The building was built by W. Post of Beverly Shores for the Bartlett Realty Company at a cost of $40,000. It was finished in 1935.

Constructed of Sand Tan and sea green Terra Coatta [sic] with jet black trim, it is designed by the Beverly Shores Construction Company. It is located on a 50 by 250 feet riparian right site and included a private beach for guests, a dining room and dance floor as well as living accommodations for operating personnel. At the present time this building has been leased to W. J. McCain of Chicago, who is operating it. It is a two story structure.

The Casino is furnished with the latest all steel design leather furniture. To the rear is a large terrace over looking Lake Michigan.

Sources:

Federal Writers’ Program, Works Progress Administration. 1936-1942. Porter County, Indiana. Indiana Writers’ Program, Microfilm Reel No. 20, Folder 611. Terre Haute, Indiana: Indiana State University, Cunningham Memorial Library. 1,193 p. [see p. 668]

Communication with Carl O. Reed.

Copyright 2005. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.

Original photo by Wesley Fryer from here, reproduced under a cc by-sa 2.0 license.

See Wesley's post: Beyond the digital native / immigrant dichotomy.

Used in The Digital Native and Learning with Tech.

New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA)

New York City, NY, USA

December 2001

Major differences include:

- South Ferry, Rector St, and Cortlandt St on the Broadway-7th Avenue Line, World Trade Center on the 8th Avenue Line, and Cortlandt St on the Broadway Line closed due to 9/11

- (1) between Van Cortlandt Park-242 St and New Lots Av via Broadway-7th Avenue local, Clark St, Eastern Parkway local, and New Lots

- (2) via Broadway-7th Avenue local

- (3) between Harlem-148 St and 14 St

- (E) to Canal St

- (G) Smith-9 Sts to Court Sq, off peak extension to Forest HIlls-71 Av

- (M) to 9 Av (peak extension to Bay Pkwy) via 4th Avenue local and West End local

- (N) via Montague Tube, to Gravesend-86 St

- (Q) 57 St to Coney Island-Stillwell Av via Broadway express and Brighton local

- 57 St to Coney Island-Stillwell Av via Broadway express and Brighton express

- (S) W4 St to Grand St

- (V) Forest Hils-71 Av to Lower East Side-2 Av via Queens Boulevard local and 6th Avenue local

- (W) Astoria-Ditmars Blvd to Coney Island-Stillwell Av via Astoria express, Broadway express, 4th Avenue express, and West End local

O Auditório Ibirapuera é um edifício concebido por Oscar Niemeyer para a apresentações de espetáculos musicais, situado no Parque do Ibirapuera, em São Paulo, Brasil.

O auditório completa o grupo de edifícios no Parque Ibirapuera, como concebido originalmente pelo arquiteto Oscar Niemeyer em 1950.[1] Em relação à proposta original que está faltando apenas a praça de acesso que separa a Oca, que serviria como o principal entrada para o parque.

A construção do auditório foi alvo de intensa polêmica, que não se esgotou com sua inauguração, em outubro de 2005, pois, em virtude de o conjunto arquitetônico do Parque Ibirapuera ser tombado, o acréscimo de novas construções ao conjunto sofreu críticas e embargos judiciais, até ser permitido o início da obra em 2002.

Em 2008 o Grammy Latino brasileiro foi apresentado no Auditório Ibirapuera.

O prédio possui simplicidade volumétrica singular, sendo composto de um bloco único, que em planta tem a forma de um trapézio e, em corte, a forma de um triângulo e, assim como os demais prédios do parque, e grande parte da obra do arquiteto, o auditório é inteiramente branco, composto de concreto armado e pintura impermeabilizante na cor branca.

O bloco único contrapõe-se à arquitetura usual de salas para concertos com o chamado "palco italiano", exemplificado pela Ópera de Paris e pelos Teatros Municipais de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro. As características destes espaços se manifesta em edificios com três volumes principais: o foyer ou entrada, seguido pela platéia e seus acessos, culminando com a caixa cenica e seu urdimento altissimo criando uma "corcova" tipica dos edifícios de Óperas. No Auditório Ibirapuera o arquiteto passou um traço unindo os tres volume, criando um sólido em forma de cunha.

Destaque para a impressionante perspectiva, que cria um edificio pequeno e não intrusivo ao ser visto de frente, com a ilusão de ótica reduzindo o tamanho da parte alta do prédio exatamente ao mesmo tamanho do encontro da rampa com a grama, duas vezes menor no trapézio em planta. Isto gera uma sensação de "criação de espaço" ao se entrar na platéia, que não cabe na percepção do prédio que temos, iludida.

O conjunto formado pelo auditório juntamente com a Oca, que é uma semi-esfera, composto de dois edifícios de volumes puros e brancos, é considerado por Niemeyer, o mais importante do projeto, do ponto de vista arquitetônico. A articulação do conjunto seria feita por uma grande praça cívica e uma marquise com passarela, que não foram realizadas.[2]

Uma marquise, executada em metal pintado de vermelho, cobre o acesso principal e devido à sua forma e cor dá identidade ao prédio, caracterizando-o e o diferenciando dos demais. Por este motivo, o elemento foi transformado em logomarca do auditório e batizado oficialmente de "Labareda".

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The Ibirapuera Auditorium (Portuguese: Auditório Ibirapuera) is a building conceived by Oscar Niemeyer for the presentation of musical spectacles, situated in Ibirapuera Park in São Paulo.

The auditorium completes the group of buildings in Ibirapuera park, as designed originally by the architect in the 1950s.[1] Compared to the original proposal it is lacking only the access square that would separate it from the Oca, which would serve as the main entrance to the park.

At the 2008 Latin Grammy Awards the Brazilian Field awards were presented at the Ibirapuera Auditorium. In December of the same year, the Ibirapuera Auditorium was the host of the final fashion show of America's Next Top Model, Cycle 12.

The building possesses volumetric simplicity, composed of a single block that in plan has the form of a trapezoid and, in section, the form of a triangle. As well as the other buildings in the park such as the Oca dome, and a great part of the architect's work, the auditorium is composed of reinforced concrete painted white.

The unique form and spatial massing sets it apart from other auditoriums for concerts since the conception of the Paris Opera in the 19th century. It is composed of a separation of three parts, which makes a sequence of foyer, audience, stage from the exterior to the interior.

The group formed by the auditorium together with the Oca, which is a semi-sphere, composing two buildings of pure and white geometrical volumes, is considered the most important of the project from an architectural point of view. The articulation of the group would be made complete by a great civic square, marquee, and footbridge, that have not been realized.[2]

A marquee, executed in red painted metal, covers the main access and gives identity to the building, characterizing it and differentiating it from other buildings. For this reason, the form and color of this element have transformed the branding of the auditorium and act as an architectural logo. It is called officially the Labareda - Portuguese for flame.

The difference between a walk and a wander is the time spent. I had little over an hour spare once I arrived, so instead of getting some lunch, I took photos instead.

Down the street lined with shops to the town square with the large church, town hall and many wonderful looking bars and restaurants.

I was in town for a few hours for a meeting, I drove over, then drove back. As you do.

Not a bad day, but I think I will try the train next time....

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Leuven (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈløːvə(n)] ( listen); French: Louvain, pronounced: [luvɛ̃], often used in English) is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels, close to other neighbouring towns such as Mechelen, Aarschot, Tienen, and Wavre. The municipality itself comprises the historical city of Leuven and the former municipalities of Heverlee, Kessel-Lo, a part of Korbeek-Lo, Wilsele and Wijgmaal.

It is home to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewing group and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world; and to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence.[2] It is also home to the UZ Leuven, one of the largest hospitals of Europe.

The earliest mention of Leuven ("Loven") is from 891, when a Viking army was defeated by the Frankish king Arnulf of Carinthia (see: Battle of Leuven). According to a legend the city's red and white arms depict the blood-stained shores of the river Dyle after this battle.

Situated beside this river, and near to the stronghold of the Dukes of Brabant, Leuven became the most important centre of trade in the duchy between the 11th and 14th centuries. A token of its former importance as a centre of cloth manufacture is shown in that ordinary linen cloth is known in late-14th-century and 15th-century texts as lewyn (other spellings: Leuwyn, Levyne, Lewan(e), Lovanium, Louvain).[3]

In the 15th century a new golden era began with the founding of what is now the largest and oldest university in the Low Countries, the Catholic University of Leuven, in 1425.[4]

In the 18th century the brewery Den Horen (meaning "the horn") flourished. In 1708 Sebastien Artois became the master brewer at Den Horen, and gave his name to the brewery in 1717, now part of AB InBev, whose flagship beer, Stella Artois, is brewed in Leuven and sold in many countries.

Leuven has several times been besieged or occupied by foreign armies; these include the Battle of Leuven (891), Siege of Leuven (1635) and Battle of Leuven (1831).

Both world wars in the 20th century inflicted major damage upon the city. Upon Germany's entry into World War I, the town was heavily damaged by rampaging soldiers. Some German soldiers shot the burgomaster, the university rector and all of the city's police officers.[5] In all, about 300 civilians lost their lives.[6] The university library was also destroyed on 25 August 1914, using petrol and incendiary pastilles.[7][8] 230,000 volumes were lost in the destruction, including Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts, a collection of 750 medieval manuscripts, and more than 1,000 incunabula (books printed before 1501).[8][9] The destruction of the library shocked the world, with the Daily Chronicle describing it as war not only against civilians but also against "posterity to the utmost generation."[10] It was rebuilt after the war, and much of the collection was replaced. Great Britain (on the initiative of the John Rylands Library, Manchester) and the United States were major providers of material for the replenishment of the collection.[6] The new library building was financed by the National Committee of the United States for the Restoration of the University of Louvain and built to the design of architect Whitney Warren; it was officially opened on 4 July 1928.[11]

In World War II, after the start of the German offensive, Leuven formed part of the British Expeditionary Force's front line and was defended by units of the 3rd Division and Belgian troops. From 14 to 16 May 1940, the German Army Group B assaulted the city with heavy air and artillery support. The British withdrew their forces to the River Senne on the night of 16 May and the town was occupied the next day.[12] The new university library building was set on fire by shelling on 16 May and nearly a million books were lost.

The Town Hall, built by Sulpitius van Vorst (nl), Jan II Keldermans, and, after both of them died, Matheus de Layens between 1439 and 1463 in a Brabantian late-Gothic style. In the 19th century, 236 statues were added to the exterior, each representing a prominent local scholar, artist or noble from the city’s history. The reception hall dates from 1750.

The St. Peter's Church (1425–1500) was finished by Jan Keldermans and Matheus de Layens. During the Second World War the church was damaged; during the restoration a Romanesque crypt from the 11th century was found. In the church itself there are several paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries (among others, Dirk Bouts's famous painting of the last supper) and the grave of Duke Henry I of Brabant. The 50-metre-high tower — which was meant to be 169 metres high, but was never completed — is home to a carillon. The tower was included in UNESCO's list of Belfries of Belgium and France in 1999.

Saint-Anthony's Chapel, Pater Damiaanplein, from the 17th to the 20th centuries, contains the tomb of Father Damien, the "leper priest" of Molokai, who was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday October 11, 2009.[15][16] The Catholic Encyclopedia calls him "the Apostle of the Lepers",[17] and elsewhere he is known as the "leper priest". The Catholic priest's remains were returned in Belgium with great fanfare in 1936, after having been originally buried on the Hawaiian Island of Molokai where he had served the outcast lepers until his death.

The Linen-hall, in an early-Gothic style, with baroque addition, is today the University Hall.

The Church of Saint Michael was built in the typical Jesuit Baroque Style.

The Church of Saint Quinten incorporates remains of a Romanesque church built in the 13th century.

The University Library on the Ladeuzeplein was built by the American architect Whitney Warren. It was a gift from the American people to Leuven after World War I, during which the Germans burned down the original library. The tower houses one of the largest carillons in the world.

Totem is a statue at the centre of the Ladeuzeplein; it is a work of the Belgian artist Jan Fabre. Featuring a 23-metre-high needle impaling a giant jewelled beetle, the statue towers over the square in front of the university library.

There is a neo-Romanesque Abbey on the Keizersberg ("Emperor's Mountain"), where there once stood a 12th-century ducal castle, which was demolished in the 17th Century.

The Large Beguinage is one of the world's best remaining examples of its architectural type. It was recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1998.

There are several other smaller churches and chapels throughout the town.

"Fonske" is a statue near the centre of town. Its full name is Fons Sapientiae, Latin for "fountain of wisdom". The statue represents a university student who, while reading a book, lets wisdom flow into his head as liquid from a glass. Just like Manneken Pis in Brussels, Fonske is, from time to time, dressed in costumes appropriate for specific occasions.

The 'Oude Markt' or "Old Market" square located in the center of Leuven features a vibrant social scene the center of which displays a lifesize statue of 'De Kotmadam', or "The Landlady" resting on a bench.

Lerkeveld is a famous Jesuit abbey, and headquarters of the Jesuits in Belgium.

St Anthony's College, Leuven was located in the city, on Pater Damiaanplein. The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe is now located on the premises.

Sint-Donatus Park contains remains of the medieval city wall

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuven

Preparing young Queenslanders for life in the 1990s, we saw personal computers make their way into schools during the 80s with a strong focus on health, regional education and the arts by Queensland Education.

The photographic unit at the Premier’s Department, Office of State Affairs, captured a snapshot of various events, programmes and initiatives for school children throughout Queensland. This collection contains several arts, music and drama as well as students participating in computer usage.

In the early 1980s, several different computer manufacturers were vying for a foothold in the education market, Apple, Tandy, Atari, Sinclair, Amstrad, Microbee and many others. By 1985 Apple Macintosh was considered a standard system (alongside several others) for all states except Western Australia which adopted the BBC Model B and Microbee computer systems as a standard.

These photos are part are the photographic records held at Queensland State Archives, www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/series/S189

1985

The discussion paper, Education 2000: Issues and options for the future of Education in Queensland was released.

The use of technology to enhance distance education, work in schools and educational administration was supported.

Approval was given for schools to alter the placement of the three pupil free days.

The Department of Education developed a policy on the education of gifted children.

The Special Education Resource Centres were formed as state-wide services, as part of the Division of Special Education.

Early special education officially commenced.

1986

The age of first attendance at primary school increased. Children had to turn five years by 31 January to be eligible for enrolment in Year 1.

There was an expansion of the curriculum in secondary schools and TAFE colleges evident in the further development of co-operative secondary-TAFE programs.

The Advisory Committee which reviewed submissions made in response to Education 2000 reported to the Minister.

The distance education trial began through the Mt Isa School of the Air.

A Preschool to Year 10 (P–10) Syllabus Framework was developed.

Endeavour Foundation schools transferred to Department of Education.

Policy Statement 15 Integration: Mainstreaming of Students with Special Needs introduced.

1987

Children had to turn 5 years by 31 December to be eligible for enrolment in Year 1 in the following year.

The Department of Education launched a series of documents entitled Meeting the Challenge which highlighted a corporate style of management.

The Department reshaped its central administration by strengthening the role of the Policy Committee, appointing a Chief Inspector and adopting comprehensive strategic planning processes.

In regions, initiatives were built on the commitment to decentralisation, while further devolution of responsibility occurred in the operational management of educational programs.

Two new education regions were formed (South Coast and Sunshine Coast regional offices).

The P–10 Curriculum Framework was developed and curriculum documents revised.

The Roma Middle School opened and catered for students in Years 4–10.

A post-compulsory college, the Alexandra Hills Senior College opened.

Two new centres of distance education opened at Longreach and Charters Towers.

1988

The Inspectorate was regionalised.

There was continued development of an integrated P–10 curriculum.

The senior secondary curriculum was broadened to cater for all learners.

Cooperative programs between secondary schools and TAFE colleges were conducted.

The use of computers and information technology in schools was given a high priority.

The Special Education Resource and Development Centres were formed as a consequence of the reorganisation of the Division of Special Education.

Individual education plans for students with disabilities were introduced as part of the new policy Policy Statement 16: Policy and Practice for Special Education Services.

The report National Overview of Educational Services for Isolated Severely Handicapped Children resulted from a Project of National Significance undertaken as a joint project of the Commonwealth Department of Employment Education and Training and the Department of Education Division of Special Services.

The Queensland School for the Deaf closes, as a consequence of decentralisation of services to students with hearing impairments during the 1980's. Programs for students with vision impairment were also decentralised during this period.

1989

A new Education Act 1989 was enacted.

The Department of Education's first strategic plan was adopted.

Decisions about school budgets were devolved to the school level.

There was an amalgamation of correspondence schools which became the School of Distance Education — Brisbane Centre P–12.

The first high school built to a new design opened at Bribie Island.

New prototype buildings for preschool, primary and special education units were assessed.

1989–1990

A comprehensive internal review of the Department of Education commenced through the consultation process, Education Have Your Say.

Professor Nancy Viviani reviewed Tertiary Entrance and produced the report, A Review of Tertiary Entrance in Queensland.

The Offices of Higher Education and Non-State Schooling were established.

The Department developed The Corporate Vision for Senior Schooling in Queensland to accommodate the diverse needs of students in Years 11 and 12.

The first entire primary school based on the new building model opened to students.

1990–1991

The report, Focus on Schools was released. A major restructure of the Department of Education followed.

The Public Sector Management Commission (PSMC) reviewed the Department of Education including its role, operations, responsibilities and management.

Greater responsibilities were devolved to 11 regions for resource, financial administration and human resource management.

A new English Language Arts Syllabus was introduced.

Priority was given to expanding languages other than English (LOTE).

The Viviani Report recommended the establishment of the Tertiary Entrance Procedures Authority (TEPA).

Consultants were engaged to assist in the development of an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) management plan.

The Equity Directorate (Workforce and Studies) was established. A social justice strategy was developed.

The PSMC developed guidelines for recruitment and selection based on merit and equity principles.

The inspectorate ended.

The report Focus on Schools recommended that a strategy for managing the integration policy in Queensland schools be developed as a matter of urgency, and that a state-wide support centre for students with low incidence disabilities be established. A restructure of the Department of Education followed.

Occupational therapists and physiotherapists were employed by the Department of Education to work in schools with students with disabilities. (These services were transferred from the Department of Families).

Policy Statement — Management of Support Teaching: Learning Difficulties (P–7) was introduced.

education.qld.gov.au/about-us/history/chronology-of-educa...

Dinner Menu D11 (Day 12, the last night) in the main Trellis Restaurant aboard Celebrity Infinity during the 12-night Wine Cruise in October 2013.

Queen Sliverleaf is a character in a story linked to the Story of latex Sorceress Shimmerah. She ruled the Kingdom of Latxrubbero, which is the biggest jungle and home to the rubber trees that can be made into latex. Latex clothing has been around in Latxrubbero for over a 1,000 years, and many queens and princesses have been seen wearing latex clothing to show beauty and wealth.

Book 1 - The queen of rubber

Chapter 1 - Early latex life

Chapter 2 - The new princess of Latxrubbero

Chapter 3 - The royal wedding

Chapter 4 - Vine-cave town

Chapter 5 - The fortress of time

Chapter 6 - The latex fashion designer

Chapter 7 - The lust for latex

Chapter 8 - Pleasure potion

Chapter 9 - Fetishiah the succubus of lust

Chapter 10 - The 3 sage's

Chapter 11 - Magic for more

Chapter 12 - The journey

Chapter 13 - Voyage to the cave

Chapter 14 - The uncrowned queen

Chapter 15 - The island

Chapter 16 - The cave of greed

Chapter 12 - The journey

Sliverleaf at the age of 25, developed an overwhelming lust for more, driven by a desire for increased power and sexual pleasure. She feared sending someone else to the Cave of greed, believing they might keep the desired outcomes for themselves, so she decided to undertake the journey personally. So she put on lots of latex, packed a latex bag full of latex sex toys that she could enjoy upon the way. She took no food as Latxrubbero was a vast jungle and she grew up in Latxrubbero knowing all the fruit that she could eat. But all the fruit she did eat was dil-fruit, librub-fruit, and xes-fruit, which were her favorites, and she knew they pushed up her libido to the max, keeping her horny, while orgasming many times while she walked.

Her initial destination was Wallfort, heading south, where she planned to rest in Poilshvil town. Her journey was long as she walked the wilds masturbating wildly upon the way which slowed her steps, at night the slept in a latex body-bag with latex virbating dildo in both holes. She left the jungle Latxrubbero and headed along the west side of Kingdom of Toweron,

The 1st town she came to in the queendom of Wallfort which was a Market town. Many knew when she came that she was the lost slutty queen of Latxrubbero. When there, Sliverleaf came looking for food, sex, and seeing if the market stalls maybe had some new sex toys or even a sex shop. All saw queen Sliverleaf to be the most sexyest girl they had ever seen and her pretty face was so lustful showing her lust for constant pleasure. She spent a night there having wild sex all night long. She woke up late the day masturbating with virbarting rubber dildo before she headed off to the next town.

More about queen Sliverleaf

Name: Sliverleaf

Her parents: her mother Flowery and her father Stick-root

Her sister's Greenleaf and Pinkleaf

Her husband: King Root

Birthplace: Weed town

Crownd queen at: age 18 teen.

Her queendom: Latxrubbero

Continent - The 12 kingdoms and queendoms

Planet: Dommalex

Height : 5, 4

Age: 25

Hair colour: brown

Eye colour: green

Favourite colours: Black

Sexually: bisexual

Libido: very high

Personality: selfish, greedy, avarice, dominant, latex fetish, kinky, slutty, naughty, flirtatious, lustful, erotic, hypersexual

Fears: lost of her high libido and Ageing

Talking voice: sultry erotic, filled with seduction and sexual desire.

How she see's herself, sexy, attractive lustful, seductress, naughty, kinky.

Favourite fashion: Sexy shiny latex clothing, catsuits, corsets, boots, gloves and latex hoods, with wear latex mini-skirt and bloused but mostly likes to be a latex rubberdoll.

Favourite clothing, kinky latex outfits, to look like a latex queen and be a rubberdoll.

Wish in life: to be shiny latex forever and have the highest forms of sexual pleasure

Obsessions: Latex, sex toys, sex and pure sexual pleasure

Also known as: The queen of rubber and The queen of lust.

St Barts is a very historical area, and one I knew little of before my visit last week. So many thanks to my friend Henry for suggesting it.

Just beyond the hospital is Smithfield Market, still the main suppliers of meat to London, and the pub next to St Bart the Great was overflowing with butchers and porters having their first weekend drinks, it being a Friday afternoon.

St Bartholomew the Great feels like no other City church, in that it feels much older, and it is, of course. Its Norman arches really show the church's age.

You enter the church grounds through a fine arched gateway, but from what I gather, the top part is not as old as it looks, it still is impressive, with the tower of the church visible over the top of the archway.

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The Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great, sometimes abbreviated to Great St Bart's, is an Anglican church in West Smithfield within the City of London. The building was originally founded as an Augustinian priory in 1123 and adjoins St Bartholomew's Hospital of the same foundation.

Founded in 1123 by Rahere, a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral and an Augustinian canon regular, its establishment is recorded as being in gratitude for his recovery from fever. His fabled miraculous return to good health contributed to the priory gaining a reputation for curative powers and with sick people filling its aisles, notably on 24 August (St Bartholomew's Day).

St Bartholomew the Great Priory Church's coat of arms (after its founding patron, Henry I)

The surviving building originally comprised part of a priory adjoining St Bartholomew's Hospital,[4] but while much of the hospital survived the Dissolution of the Monasteries about half of the priory's church was ransacked before being demolished in 1543.[5] Its nave was pulled down up to the last bay but the crossing and choir survive largely intact from the Norman and later Middle Ages, enabling its continued use as a parish church. Part of the main entrance to the church remains at West Smithfield, nowadays most easily recognisable by its half-timbered Tudor frontage, which was erected by the post-Reformation patron of the advowson,[6] Lord Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (1547-51).[7] From there to its west door, the church path leads along roughly where the south aisle of the nave formerly existed. Very little trace of its monastic buildings now survive, although parts of the cloister now house a café.[8]

St Bartholomew the Great is so named to distinguish it from its neighbouring smaller church of St Bartholomew the Less which was founded at the same time within the precincts of St Bartholomew's Hospital to serve as the hospital's parish church and occasional place of worship. The two parish churches were reunited in 2012 under one benefice.

Having escaped the Great Fire of London of 1666[9] the church fell into disrepair, becoming occupied by squatters in the 18th century. W. G. Grace, however, was one famous congregant before its restoration in the late 19th century,[10] when it was rebuilt under Sir Aston Webb's direction.[11] During Canon Edwin Savage's tenure as rector the church was further restored at the cost of more than £60,000.[12]

The Lady chapel at the east end had been previously used for commercial purposes and it was there that Benjamin Franklin worked for a year as a journeyman printer. The north transept was also formerly used as a blacksmith's forge in order to make ends meet. The Priory Church was one of the few City churches to escape damage during the Second World War and, in 1941, was where the 11th Duke of Devonshire and the Hon Deborah Mitford were married.

The poet and heritage campaigner Sir John Betjeman kept a flat opposite the churchyard on Cloth Fair. Betjeman considered the church to have the finest surviving Norman interior in London.[13]

In 2005 a memorial service was held for Sir William Wallace, on the 700th anniversary of the Scottish hero's execution, organised by the historian David R. Ross.

Charitable distributions in the churchyard on Good Friday continue. A centuries-old tradition established when twenty-one sixpences were placed upon the gravestone of a woman stipulating that the bequest fund an annual distribution to twenty one widows in perpetuity,[14] with freshly-baked hot cross buns nowadays being given not only to widows but others.[15]

The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 4 January 1950.[16] In April 2007 it became the first Anglican parish church to charge an entrance fee to tourists not attending worship.

The oriel window was installed inside St Bartholomew the Great in the early 16th century by Prior William Bolton,[18][19] allegedly so that he could keep an eye on the monks. The symbol in the centre panel is a crossbow "bolt" passing through a "tun" (or barrel), a rebus or pun on the name of the prior.

William Camden wrote:

“It may be doubtful whether Bolton, Prior of St Bartholomew, in Smithfield, was wiser when he invented for his name a bird-bolt through his Tun, or when he built him a house upon Harrow Hill, for fear of an inundation after a great conjunction of planets in the watery triplicity".

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JABAL PETRA, Jordan – Marines with India Battery, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit introduce the M777 lightweight 155 mm Howitzer, Internally Transportable Vehicle and a 120 mm Towed Rifled Mortar System, commonly called the Expeditionary Fire Support System, to members of the Royal Jordanian Armed Forces May 14, 2012, during Exercise Eager Lion 12. The Marines and Jordanian soldiers shared information on capabilities and standard operating procedures to better prepare them for upcoming bilateral training they will conduct during the exercise. Eager Lion 12 is scheduled to take place throughout the month of May and is designed to strengthen the military-to-military relationships of 19 nations and more than 11,000 participants. This is the second major exercise for the 24th MEU which, along with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, is currently deployed to the Central Command area of operations as a theater-reserve and crisis-response force. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Gunnery Sgt. Chad R. Kiehl)

Temperatures of -10 degrees C saw most of Amsterdam's canals freeze over, including Entrepotdok just north of Artis Zoo.

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A view of the pyramids at Giza from the plateau to the south of the complex. From left to right, the three largest are: the Pyramid of Menkaure, the Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Pyramid of Khufu. The three smaller pyramids in the foreground are subsidiary structures associated with Menkaure's pyramid.

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A view of the Pyramid of Khafre from the Sphinx.

The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt.

As of November 2008, sources cite either 118 or 138 as the number of identified Egyptian pyramids.[1][2] Most were built as tombs for the country's pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods.[3][4][5]

The earliest known Egyptian pyramids are found at Saqqara, northwest of Memphis. The earliest among these is the Pyramid of Djoser (constructed 2630 BC–2611 BC) which was built during the third dynasty. This pyramid and its surrounding complex were designed by the architect Imhotep, and are generally considered to be the world's oldest monumental structures constructed of dressed masonry.[6]

The most famous Egyptian pyramids are those found at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. Several of the Giza pyramids are counted among the largest structures ever built.[7] The Pyramid of Khufu at Giza is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence.

Contents

1 Historical development

2 Pyramid symbolism

3 Number and location of pyramids

3.1 Abu Rawash

3.2 Giza

3.3 Zawyet el-Aryan

3.4 Abu Sir

3.5 Saqqara

3.6 Dahshur

3.7 Mazghuna

3.8 Lisht

3.9 Meidum

3.10 Hawara

3.11 el-Lahun

3.12 El-Kurru

3.13 Nuri

3.14 Construction dates

4 Construction techniques

5 See also

6 References

7 Bibliography

8 External links

Historical development

The Mastabat al-Fir’aun at Saqqara

By the time of the Early Dynastic Period, those with sufficient means were buried in bench-like structures known as mastabas.[8][9]

The second historically-documented Egyptian pyramid is attributed to the architect Imhotep, who planned what Egyptologists believe to be a tomb for the pharaoh Djoser. Imhotep is credited with being the first to conceive the notion of stacking mastabas on top of each other, creating an edifice composed of a number of "steps" that decreased in size towards its apex. The result was the Pyramid of Djoser, which was designed to serve as a gigantic stairway by which the soul of the deceased pharaoh could ascend to the heavens. Such was the importance of Imhotep's achievement that he was deified by later Egyptians.[10]

The most prolific pyramid-building phase coincided with the greatest degree of absolutist rule. It was during this time that the most famous pyramids, the Giza pyramid complex, were built. Over time, as authority became less centralized, the ability and willingness to harness the resources required for construction on a massive scale decreased, and later pyramids were smaller, less well-built and often hastily constructed.

Long after the end of Egypt's own pyramid-building period, a burst of pyramid-building occurred in what is present-day Sudan, after much of Egypt came under the rule of the kings of Napata. While Napatan rule was brief, ending in 661 BC, Egyptian culture made an indelible impression, and during the later Kingdom of Meroë (approximately in the period between 300 BCE – 300 CE), this flowered into a full-blown pyramid-building revival, which saw more than two hundred Egyptian-inspired indigenous royal pyramid-tombs constructed in the vicinity of the kingdom's capital cities.

Al-Aziz Uthman (1171–1198) tried to destroy the Giza pyramid complex. He gave up after damaging the Pyramid of Menkaure because the task proved too huge.[11]

Pyramid symbolism

Diagram of the interior structures of the Great Pyramid. The inner line indicates the pyramid's present profile, the outer line indicates the original profile.

The shape of Egyptian pyramids is thought to represent the primordial mound from which the Egyptians believed the earth was created. The shape of a pyramid is thought to be representative of the descending rays of the sun, and most pyramids were faced with polished, highly reflective white limestone, in order to give them a brilliant appearance when viewed from a distance. Pyramids were often also named in ways that referred to solar luminescence. For example, the formal name of the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur was The Southern Shining Pyramid, and that of Senwosret at el-Lahun was Senwosret is Shining.

While it is generally agreed that pyramids were burial monuments, there is continued disagreement on the particular theological principles that might have given rise to them. One suggestion is that they were designed as a type of "resurrection machine."[12]

The Egyptians believed the dark area of the night sky around which the stars appear to revolve was the physical gateway into the heavens. One of the narrow shafts that extend from the main burial chamber through the entire body of the Great Pyramid points directly towards the center of this part of the sky. This suggests the pyramid may have been designed to serve as a means to magically launch the deceased pharaoh's soul directly into the abode of the gods.[12]

All Egyptian pyramids were built on the west bank of the Nile, which, as the site of the setting sun, was associated with the realm of the dead in Egyptian mythology.[13]

Number and location of pyramids

In 1842, Karl Richard Lepsius produced the first modern list of pyramids – see Lepsius list of pyramids – in which he counted 67. A great many more have since been discovered. As of November 2008, 118 Egyptian pyramids have been identified.[3]

The location of Pyramid 29, which Lepsius called the "Headless Pyramid", was lost for a second time when the structure was buried by desert sands subsequent to Lepsius' survey. It was found again only during an archaeological dig conducted in 2008.[14]

Many pyramids are in a poor state of preservation or buried by desert sands. If visible at all, they may appear as little more than mounds of rubble. As a consequence, archaeologists are continuing to identify and study previously unknown pyramid structures.

The most recent pyramid to be discovered was that of Sesheshet at Saqqara, mother of the Sixth Dynasty pharaoh Teti. The discovery was announced by Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, on 11 November 2008.[4][15]

All of Egypt's pyramids, except the small Third Dynasty pyramid of Zawyet el-Amwat (or Zawyet el-Mayitin), are sited on the west bank of the Nile, and most are grouped together in a number of pyramid fields. The most important of these are listed geographically, from north to south, below.

Abu Rawash

Main article: Abu Rawash

The largely destroyed Pyramid of Djedefre

Abu Rawash is the site of Egypt's most northerly pyramid (other than the ruins of Lepsius pyramid number one)[5]— the mostly ruined Pyramid of Djedefre, son and successor of Khufu. Originally it was thought that this pyramid had never been completed, but the current archaeological consensus is that not only was it completed, but that it was originally about the same size as the Pyramid of Menkaure, which would have placed it among the half-dozen or so largest pyramids in Egypt.

Its location adjacent to a major crossroads made it an easy source of stone. Quarrying – which began in Roman times – has left little apart from about 15 courses of stone superimposed upon the natural hillock that formed part of the pyramid's core. A small adjacent satellite pyramid is in a better state of preservation.

Giza

Main article: Giza pyramid complex

Map of Giza pyramid complex.

Aerial view of Giza pyramid complex

Giza is the location of the Pyramid of Khufu (also known as the "Great Pyramid" and the "Pyramid of Cheops"); the somewhat smaller Pyramid of Khafre (or Kephren); the relatively modest-sized Pyramid of Menkaure (or Mykerinus), along with a number of smaller satellite edifices known as "Queen's pyramids"; and the Great Sphinx of Giza.

Of the three, only Khafre's pyramid retains part of its original polished limestone casing, near its apex. This pyramid appears larger than the adjacent Khufu pyramid by virtue of its more elevated location, and the steeper angle of inclination of its construction – it is, in fact, smaller in both height and volume.

The Giza pyramid complex has been a popular tourist destination since antiquity, and was popularized in Hellenistic times when the Great Pyramid was listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Today it is the only one of those wonders still in existence.

Zawyet el-Aryan

See also: Zawyet el'Aryan

This site, halfway between Giza and Abu Sir, is the location for two unfinished Old Kingdom pyramids. The northern structure's owner is believed to be pharaoh Nebka, while the southern structure, known as the Layer Pyramid, may be attributable to the Third Dynasty pharaoh Khaba, a close successor of Sekhemkhet. If this attribution is correct, Khaba's short reign could explain the seemingly unfinished state of this step pyramid. Today it stands around 17 m (56 ft) high; had it been completed, it is likely to have exceeded 40 m (130 ft).

Abu Sir

Main article: Abusir

The Pyramid of Sahure at Abu Sir, viewed from the pyramid's causeway.

There are a total of fourteen pyramids at this site, which served as the main royal necropolis during the Fifth Dynasty. The quality of construction of the Abu Sir pyramids is inferior to those of the Fourth Dynasty – perhaps signaling a decrease in royal power or a less vibrant economy. They are smaller than their predecessors, and are built of low-quality local limestone.

The three major pyramids are those of Niuserre, which is also the best preserved, Neferirkare Kakai and Sahure. The site is also home to the incomplete Pyramid of Neferefre. Most of the major pyramids at Abu Sir were built similar construction techniques, comprising a rubble core surrounded by steps of mud bricks with a limestone outer casing. The largest of these 5th-Dynasty pyramids, the Pyramid of Neferirkare Kakai, is believed to have been built originally as a step pyramid some 70 m (230 ft) high and then later transformed into a "true" pyramid by having its steps filled in with loose masonry.

Saqqara

Main article: Saqqara

The Pyramid of Djoser

Major pyramids located here include the Pyramid of Djoser – generally identified as the world's oldest substantial monumental structure to be built of dressed stone – the Pyramid of Userkaf, the Pyramid of Teti and the Pyramid of Merikare, dating to the First Intermediate Period of Egypt. Also at Saqqara is the Pyramid of Unas, which retains a pyramid causeway that is one of the best-preserved in Egypt. Together with the pyramid of Userkaf, this pyramid was the subject of one of the earliest known restoration attempts, conducted by Khaemweset, a son of Ramesses II.[16] Saqqara is also the location of the incomplete step pyramid of Djoser's successor Sekhemkhet known as the Buried Pyramid. Archaeologists believe that had this pyramid been completed, it would have been larger than Djoser's.

South of the main pyramid field at Saqqara is a second collection of later, smaller pyramids, including those of Pepi I, Isesi, Merenre, Pepi II and Ibi. Most of these are in a poor state of preservation.

The Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Shepseskaf either did not share an interest in, or have the capacity to undertake pyramid construction like his predecessors. His tomb, which is also sited at south Saqqara, was instead built as an unusually large mastaba and offering temple complex. It is commonly known as the Mastabat al-Fir’aun.[17]

A previously unknown pyramid was discovered at north Saqqara in late 2008. Believed to be the tomb of Teti's mother, it currently stands approximately 5 m (16 ft) high, although the original height was closer to 14 m (46 ft).

Dahshur

Main article: Dahshur

Sneferu's Red Pyramid

This area is arguably the most important pyramid field in Egypt outside Giza and Saqqara, although until 1996 the site was inaccessible due to its location within a military base, and was relatively unknown outside archaeological circles.

The southern Pyramid of Sneferu, commonly known as the Bent Pyramid, is believed to be the first Egyptian pyramid intended by its builders to be a "true" smooth-sided pyramid from the outset; the earlier pyramid at Meidum had smooth sides in its finished state – but it was conceived and built as a step pyramid, before having its steps filled in and concealed beneath a smooth outer casing of dressed stone.

As a true smooth-sided structure, the Bent Pyramid was only a partial success – albeit a unique, visually imposing one; it is also the only major Egyptian pyramid to retain a significant proportion of its original smooth outer limestone casing intact. As such it serves as the best contemporary example of how the ancient Egyptians intended their pyramids to look.

Several kilometeres to the north of the Bent Pyramid is the last – and most successful – of the three pyramids constructed during the reign of Sneferu; the Red Pyramid is the world's first successfully completed smooth-sided pyramid. The structure is also the third largest pyramid in Egypt – after the pyramids of Khufu and Khafra at Giza.

Also at Dahshur is the pyramid known as the Pyramid of Amenemhat III, as well as a number of small, mostly ruined subsidiary pyramids.

Mazghuna

Main article: Mazghuna

Located to the south of Dahshur, several mudbrick pyramids were built in this area in the late Middle Kingdom, perhaps for Amenemhat IV and Sobekneferu.

Lisht

Main article: el-Lisht

The pyramid of Amenemhet I at Lisht

Two major pyramids are known to have been built at Lisht – those of Amenemhat I and his son, Senusret I. The latter is surrounded by the ruins of ten smaller subsidiary pyramids. One of these subsidiary pyramids is known to be that of Amenemhat's cousin, Khaba II.[18] The site which is in the vicinity of the oasis of the Faiyum, midway between Dahshur and Meidum, and about 100 kilometres south of Cairo, is believed to be in the vicinity of the ancient city of Itjtawy (the precise location of which remains unknown), which served as the capital of Egypt during the Twelfth Dynasty.

Meidum

Main article: Meidum

The pyramid at Meidum

The pyramid at Meidum is one of three constructed during the reign of Sneferu, and is believed by some to have been started by that pharaoh's father and predecessor, Huni. However, that attribution is uncertain, as no record of Huni's name has been found at the site.

It was constructed as a step pyramid, and then later converted into the first "true" smooth-sided pyramid when the steps were filled in, and an outer casing added.

The pyramid suffered several catastrophic collapses in ancient and medieval times; medieval Arab writers described it as having seven steps – although today only the three uppermost of these remain, giving the structure its odd, tower-like appearance. The hill on which the pyramid is situated is not a natural landscape feature – it is the small mountain of debris created when the lower courses and outer casing of the pyramid gave way.

Hawara

Main article: Hawara

The Pyramid of Amenemhet III at Hawarra

Amenemhat III was the last powerful ruler of the Twelfth Dynasty, and the pyramid he built at Hawarra, near the Faiyum, is believed to post-date the so-called "Black Pyramid" built by the same ruler at Dahshur. It is the Hawarra pyramid that is believed to have been Amenemhet's final resting place.

el-Lahun

Main article: el-Lahun

The Pyramid of Senusret II. The pyramid's natural limestone core is clearly visible as the yellow stratum at its base.

The pyramid of Senusret II at el-Lahun is the southernmost royal-tomb pyramid structure in Egypt. Its builders reduced the amount of work necessary to construct it by ingeniously using as its foundation and core a 12-meter-high natural limestone hill.

El-Kurru

Main article: El-Kurru

Pharaoh Piye's pyramid at El-Kurru

Piye, the first ruler of the Egyptian 25th dynasty, built a pyramid at El-Kurru. He was the first Egyptian pharaoh to be buried in a pyramid in centuries.

Nuri

Main article: Nuri

Egyptian Pharaoh Taharqa's pyramid at Nuri

Taharqa, a legitimate ruler and Pharaoh of Egypt, built his pyramid at Nuri. It was the largest in the area (North Sudan).

Construction dates

Drawing showing transportation of a colossus. The water poured in the path of the sledge, long dismissed by Egyptologists as ritual, but now confirmed as feasible, served to increase the stiffness of the sand, and likely reduced by 50% the force needed to move the statue.[19]

The following table lays out the chronology of the construction of most of the major pyramids mentioned here. Each pyramid is identified through the pharaoh who ordered it built, his approximate reign, and its location.

Pyramid / Pharaoh Reign Field

Djoser c. 2670 BC Saqqara

Sneferu c. 2612–2589 BC Dashur

Sneferu c. 2612–2589 BC Meidum

Khufu c. 2589–2566 BC Giza

Djedefre c. 2566–2558 BC Abu Rawash

Khafre c. 2558–2532 BC Giza

Menkaure c. 2532–2504 BC Giza

Userkaf c. 2494–2487 BC Saqqara

Sahure c. 2487–2477 BC Abu Sir

Neferirkare Kakai c. 2477–2467 BC Abu Sir

Nyuserre Ini c. 2416–2392 BC Abu Sir

Amenemhat I c. 1991–1962 BC Lisht

Senusret I c. 1971–1926 BC Lisht

Senusret II c. 1897–1878 BC el-Lahun

Amenemhat III c. 1860–1814 BC Hawara

Khendjer c. 1764–1759 BC Saqqara

Piye c. 721 BC El-Kurru

Taharqa c. 664 BC Nuri

Construction techniques

Main article: Egyptian pyramid construction techniques

Constructing the pyramids involved moving huge quantities of stone. The quarried blocks were likely transported to the construction site by wooden sleds, with sand in front of the sled wetted to reduce friction. Droplets of water created bridges between the grains of sand, helping them stick together.[20]

Packard was an American luxury automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899 and the last in 1958.

Packard was founded by James Ward Packard (Lehigh University Class of 1884), William Doud Packard and their partner, George Lewis Weiss, in the city of Warren, Ohio. James Ward believed that they could build a better horseless carriage than the Winton cars owned by Weiss (an important Winton stockholder) and, being himself a mechanical engineer, had some ideas for improvement on the designs of current automobiles. The story goes:

From the very beginning, Packard automobiles introduced a number of innovations in its designs, including the modern steering wheel and, years later, the first production 12-cylinder engine.

Henry Bourne Joy, a member of one of Detroit's oldest and wealthiest families, bought a Packard. Impressed by its reliability, he visited the Packards and soon enlisted a group of investors—including Truman Handy Newberry and Russell A. Alger Jr. On October 2, 1902, this group refinanced and renamed the New York and Ohio Automobile Company as "Packard Motor Car Company", with James as president. Alger later served as vice-president.[6] Packard moved its automobile operation to Detroit soon after, and Joy became general manager, later to be chairman of the board. An original Packard, reputedly the first manufactured, was donated by a grateful James Packard to his alma mater, Lehigh University, and is preserved there in the Packard Laboratory. Another is on display at the Packard Museum in Warren, Ohio.

The 3,500,000-square-foot (325,000 m2) Packard plant on East Grand Boulevard in Detroit was located on over 35 acres (0.142 km2) of land. It was designed by Albert Kahn, and included the first use of reinforced concrete for industrial construction in Detroit. When opened in 1903, it was considered the most modern automobile manufacturing facility in the world, and its skilled craftsmen practised over eighty trades. The dilapidated plant still stands,despite repeated fires. Architect Kahn also designed the Packard Proving Grounds at Utica, Michigan.

1906-1930dPackard Twin-Six Touring, 1916

Packard Fourth Series 426 Roadster, 1927

From this beginning, through and beyond the 1930s, Packard-built vehicles were perceived as very competitive in the class of high-priced luxury American automobiles. The company was commonly referred to as being one of the "Three P's" of American motordom royalty, along with Pierce-Arrow of Buffalo, New York and Peerless of Cleveland, Ohio.[citation needed]For most of its history Packard was guided by its President and General Manager Alvan Macauley who also served as President of the National Automobile Manufactures Association.Inducted into the Automobile Hall of Fame, Macauley took Packard to the number one designer and producer of luxury automobiles in the United States and was highly competitive abroad, with markets in sixty-one countries and gross income of $21,889,000 in 1928. Macauley was responsible for the iconic Packard slogan, "Ask the Man Who Owns One."

Packard built trucks as well as excellent luxury cars. In 1912, a Packard truck, carrying a three-ton load, drove from New York City to San Francisco between 8 July and 24 August.[ The same year, Packard had Service Depots in 104 cities.[12] The Packard Motor Car Showroom and Storage Facility at Buffalo, New York and designed by Albert Kahn in about 1926, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

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The big spiny three: Aloe ferox, Aloe spectabilis, Aloe aculeata. With me since 2008-06, 2008-03, 2005-03, respectively. All planted in the ground in 2011-05.

This is page 1 of the Dutch version of the LEGO patent for the internal tube connections. (Full document available here).

What makes this really interesting is that it directly references the Kiddicraft patent for the self-locking building bricks GB633055 (left column, line 12).

The text basically states that the new LEGO design is an improvement over known designs without internal protrusions such as the Kiddicraft bricks.

I have not found the same reference in other translations of the patent.

1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits by many waters. 2 With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.”

3 Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries. 5 The name written on her forehead was a mystery:

BABYLON THE GREAT

THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES

AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH

6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God’s holy people, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.

When I saw her, I was greatly astonished. 7 Then the angel said to me: “Why are you astonished? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman and of the beast she rides, which has the seven heads and ten horns. 8 The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.

9 “This calls for a mind with wisdom. The seven heads are seven hills on which the woman sits. 10 They are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; but when he does come, he must remain for only a little while. 11 The beast who once was, and now is not, is an eighth king. He belongs to the seven and is going to his destruction.

12 “The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as kings along with the beast. 13 They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the beast. 14 They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because he is Lord of lords and King of kings—and with him will be his called, chosen and faithful followers.”

15 Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. 16 The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17 For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to hand over to the beast their royal authority, until God’s words are fulfilled. 18 The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”

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Toponymy

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Byzantium (Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion) is the first known name of the city. Around 660 BC,[note 1] Greek settlers from the city-state of Megara founded a Doric colony on the present-day Istanbul, and named the new colony after their king, Byzas.[12] After Constantine I (Constantine the Great) made the city the new eastern capital of the Roman Empire in 330 AD, the city became widely known as Constantinopolis or Constantinople, which, as the Latinised form of "Κωνσταντινούπολις" (Kōnstantinoúpolis), means the "City of Constantine".[13] He also attempted to promote the name Nea Roma ("New Rome"), but this never caught on.[14] Constantinople remained the official name of the city throughout the Byzantine period, and the most common name used for it in the West until the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.

By the 19th century, the city had acquired a number of names used by either foreigners or Turks. Europeans often used Stamboul alongside Constantinople to refer to the whole of the city, but Turks used the former name only to describe the historic peninsula between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara. Pera was used to describe the area between the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, but Turks also used the name Beyoğlu, which is still in use today.[15] However, with the Turkish Postal Service Law of 28 March 1930, the Turkish authorities formally requested foreigners to adopt İstanbul, a name in existence since the 10th century,[16] as the sole name of the city within their own languages.[17]

Etymologically, the name "İstanbul" (Turkish pronunciation: [isˈtanbuɫ], colloquially [ɯsˈtambuɫ]) derives from the Medieval Greek phrase "εἰς τὴν Πόλιν" [is tin ˈpolin] or, in the Aegean dialect, "εἰς τὰν Πόλιν" [is tan ˈpolin] (Modern Greek "στην Πόλη" [stin ˈpoli]), which means "in the city" or "to the city".[13][16] In modern Turkish, the name is written "İstanbul", with a dotted İ, as the Turkish alphabet distinguishes between a dotted and dotless I. Also, while in English the stress is on the first syllable ("Is"), in Turkish it is on the second syllable ("tan"). Like Rome, Istanbul has been called "The City of Seven Hills" because the oldest part of the city is supposedly built on seven hills, each of which bears a historic mosque.[18]

History

First settlements

Main article: Byzantium

Byzantine remains of a column found at Byzantium's acropolis, located today within the Topkapı Palace complex.

Recent construction of the Marmaray tunnel unearthed a Neolithic settlement underneath Yenikapı on Istanbul's peninsula. Dating back to the 7th millennium BC, before the Bosphorus was even formed, the discovery indicated that the peninsula was settled thousands of years earlier than previously thought.[19] Thracian tribes established two settlements—Lygos and Semistra—on the Sarayburnu, near where Topkapı Palace now stands, between the 13th and 11th centuries BC. On the Asian side, artifacts have been found in Fikirtepe (present-day Kadıköy) that date back to the Chalcolithic period.[20] The same location was the site of a Phoenician trading post at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC as well as the town of Chalcedon, which was established by Greek settlers from Megara in 685 BC.[10]

However, the history of Istanbul generally begins around 660 BC,[note 1] when the settlers from Megara, under the command of King Byzas, established Byzantion (Latinised as Byzantium) on the European side of the Bosphorus. By the end of the century, an acropolis was established at the former locations of Lygos and Semistra, on the Sarayburnu.[12] The city experienced a brief period of Persian rule at the turn of the 5th century BC, but the Greeks recaptured it during the Greco-Persian Wars.[21] Byzantium then continued as part of the Athenian League and its successor, the Second Athenian Empire, before ultimately gaining independence in 355 BC.[22] Long protected by the Roman Republic, Byzantium officially became a part of the Roman Empire in AD 73.

Byzantium's decision to side with the usurper Pescennius Niger against Roman Emperor Septimus Severus cost it dearly; by the time it surrendered at the end of 195, two years of siege had left the city devastated.[23] Still, five years later, Severus began to rebuild Byzantium, and the city regained—and, by some accounts, surpassed—its previous prosperity.[24]

Rise and fall of Constantinople

Main article: Constantinople

Further information: Fall of Constantinople

Created in 1422 by Cristoforo Buondelmonti, this is the oldest surviving map of Constantinople and the only one that predates the Ottoman conquest.

When Constantine I defeated Licinius at the Battle of Chrysopolis in September 324, he effectively became the emperor of the whole of the Roman Empire.[25] Just two months later, Constantine laid out the plans for a new, Christian city to replace Byzantium. Intended to replace Nicomedia as the eastern capital of the empire, the city was named Nea Roma (New Rome); however, most simply called it Constantinople ("the city of Constantine"), a name that persisted into the 20th century.[26] Six years later, on 11 May 330, Constantinople was proclaimed the capital of an empire that eventually became known as the Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire.[27]

The establishment of Constantinople served as one of Constantine's most lasting accomplishments, shifting Roman power eastward and becoming a center of Greek culture and Christianity.[27][28] Numerous churches were built across the city, including the Hagia Sofia, which remained the world's largest cathedral for a thousand years.[29] The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople developed in the city, and its leader is still one of the foremost figures in the Greek Orthodox Church. Constantinople's location also ensured its existence would stand the test of time; for many centuries, its walls and seafront protected Europe against invaders from the east as well as from the advance of Islam.[28] During most of the Middle Ages and the latter part of the Byzantine period, Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in the western world.[30]

The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled the end of the Byzantine Empire.

Constantinople began to decline after the Fourth Crusade, during which it was sacked and pillaged.[32] The city subsequently became the center of the Latin Empire, created by Catholic crusaders to replace the Orthodox Byzantine Empire, which was divided into splinter states.[33] However, the Latin Empire was short-lived, and the Byzantine Empire was restored, weakened, in 1261.[34] Constantinople's churches, defenses, and basic services were in disrepair,[35] and its population had dwindled to forty thousand from nearly half a million during the 9th century.[36][37]

Various economic and military policies instituted by Andronikos II, such as the reduction of forces, weakened the empire and left it more vulnerable to attack.[38] In the mid-14th century, the Ottoman Turks began a strategy by which they took smaller towns and cities over time, cutting off Constantinople's supply routes and strangling it slowly.[39] Finally, on 29 May 1453, after an eight-week siege (during which the last Roman Emperor, Constantine XI, was killed), Sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror" captured Constantinople and declared it the new capital of the Ottoman Empire.[40][41] Hours later, the sultan rode to the Hagia Sofia and summoned an imam to proclaim the Islamic creed, converting the grand cathedral into an imperial mosque.[42]

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Mars Bars "Ceremonies of the Coronation" issued in 1937

#12 The Archbishop of Canterbury

CARING FOR HEALTH IN IRELAND LAUNCH..Today (13.2.12) the launch of 'Caring For Health In Ireland' by the Council For Justice and Peace of the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference took place in the Mater Hospital Dublin. Caring for Health in Ireland is a response to the health care reform outlined in the current Programme for Government. The response is inspired by key principles from Catholic social teaching-human dignity, the common good, participation, solidarity and subsidiarity. From the health perspective, issues analysed by Caring for Healthcare in Ireland include the current public health consultation, the proposed universal health insurence scheme and related changes to the structure of the hospital system; mental health services; disability; older people and palliative care. According to Bishop Raymond Field chair of the Council for Justice and Peace "the issues of health care and justice has been a long-standing concern to the Council for Justice and Peace. Pic shows Bishop Raymond Field Chair of the Council for Justice and Peace listening to a speaker at the launch of the document Caring For Health In Ireland. Pic John Mc Elroy.

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Bürogebäude der Verbund AG (Nr. 6a), erbaut 1952 bis 1954 von Carl Appel. Die Nebenfassaden wurden 1982 nach Plänen von Sepp Stein und der Eingangsbereich 2005/2006 nach einem Entwurf von Christian Knechtl gestaltet. Am 9. Oktober 2008 wurde die vom dänisch-isländischen Künstler Olafur Eliasson projektierte Installation "Yellow Fog", die die Fassade des Gebäudes bei Einbruch der Dunkelheit 20 Minuten in gelben Nebel hüllt, in Betrieb genommen.

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At the Court

This article is about the place in Vienna. See also: Am Hof ​​(White Castle), Bavaria, or At the court of King Arthur, movie.

The square Am Hof ​with the Marian Column and the former Civil armory

Basic Information

City of Vienna

District Innere Stadt

Roads leading to the square Am Hof, Heidenschuss, Färbergasse, Drahgasse, Schulhof, Bognergasse, Irisgasse

Buildings, church Kirche am Hof​​, palais Collalto, Marian Column, Central Fire Station

Use

Usergroups; foot traffic, bicycle traffic, car traffic

Square design, partially one-way

Am Hof historically is one of the most important places of Vienna. It is located between Bognergasse, Naglergasse, Heidenschuss, Färbergasse, Jews square and Schulhof in the oldest part of the city in the immediate vicinity of the medieval ghetto.

History

Am Hof ​​(1865) with armory (left), Marian column, "House to the Golden Ball", palais Collalto and Kirche am Hof ​​(right)

Market life before the Radetzky monument Am Hof​​, about 1890 (watercolor by Carl Wenzel Zajicek)

The body of the lynched War Minister, Count Latour is hanged on October 6, 1848, on a lantern

The Civil armory 1737

The square Am Hof ​​was already part of the Roman military camp Vindobona and was uninhabited in the early Middle Ages.

Between 1155 and about 1275, the completion of the New Castle at the site of today's Swiss tract of the Hofburg, was here the Court of the Babenberg, that Henry Jasomirgott built himself in 1155/56, after he had moved his residence from Klosterneuburg (Lower Austria) to Vienna. This residence was a complex of buildings around an open space, so a court, with the home of the Duke as a center. To the north-west and southwest the "court" leaned against the wall of the Roman fort, into town, it was limited by gates against the bourgeois Old Town and Jewish Town. Here received Heinrich Jasomirgott and his wife Theodora in 1165 Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who was on the Third Crusade to the Holy Land.

Under Henry's son Leopold V was the tournament and subsequent market place 1177-1194 scene of glittering events where singers and poets such as Reinmar of Haguenau and his student Walther von der Vogelweide appeared in minstrelsy-contests.

With the move of the Prince Regnants in the Swiss wing of the then much smaller Hofburg in 1275, came the "Babenbergerpfalz" (Am Hof​​) in the late 13th century to the Princely Mint. The houses no. 10 and no. 12 the neighboring ghetto around the Jews square were incorporated. From 1340 At the Court were held markets. In 1365 it came to the temporary accommodation of the Carmelites in the Mint, 1386 to the official donation by Albrecht III., the place for the first time being called "Am Hof​​". The Carmelites instead of Roman Mint court chapel (Münzhofkapelle) erected a three-nave Gothic monastery church, that they finished about 1420. The Gothic choir still today is visible from the alley behind it. The Carmelites had already owned the house of the Jew Muschal, to that they obtained yet more houses, inter alia, the by Albrecht III. purchased house of the poet Peter Suchenwirt.

The place was originally isolated from the nearby Freyung by houses that left only a narrow connection alley and were demolished in 1846. As early as from the 14th century, it was used as a market, later also as a place of execution. 1463 was here the mayor Wolfgang Holzer on command of Albrecht Vl. executed. 1515 the Habsburg-Jagellonian double wedding of Emperor Maximilian I was held here. In the 16th and 17th centuries the place was also called Crab market, since saltwater fish and crabs were offered. In the 18th century at the market only vegetables and fruits were sold.

After the handing over of the church and convent to the Jesuits in 1554, the square was listening to the name of "At the Upper Jesuits" and was the scene of spiritual performances of the Jesuits before their church. After the dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773 the place was again called "Am Hof​​". The convent building of the Jesuits was 1783-1913 the seat of the Imperial War Council and the War Ministry.

1782 Pius VI. from the terrace of the church gave the blessing Urbi et Orbi. On August 6, 1806 also from the loggia of the church announced an Imperial herald the end of the Holy Roman Empire, at the top of which the Habsburgs had stood for over half a millennium, and the abdication of the Imperial crown by Francis II.:"... that We the band, which has bound us until now to the body politic of the German Empire, as having been dissolved consider".

Took place on 14 March 1848 in the wake of the 1848 revolution the storming of the Arsenal, on 6 October the minister of war Theodor Count Baillet von Latour was pulled out from the building, killed and by the crowd hung in the middle of the square on a lantern. The place for a short time was called "People's Square".

1842-1918 and 1939-1942, the Christmas market Am Hof enjoyed great popularity. In 1973, arose here the Vienna Flea market, which in 1977 due to space limitations was relocated on the Naschmarkt. Today again yearly a Christmas market is taking place.

In 1892, before the building of the k.k. Hofkriegsrathsgebäude (the War Department), the equestrian statue of Field Marshal Radetzky of Caspar von Zumbusch was unveiled, which was transferred in 1912 before the newly constructed building of the War Department At Stubenring. The place of the Hofkriegsratsgebäude in 1915 took the Headquarters of the Länderbank.

Furthermore, Am Hof was still the main police station (Hauptwache), the Nunciature and the Lower chamber office.

In Carol Reed's film "The Third Man" (filmed in 1948) the place Am Hof appears prominently, on it stands the advertising column, through which one enters the underworld of the Vienna sewer system.

1962-63 in the course of excavations for an underground garage under the square Am Hof remains of the Roman settlement have been found. In the basement of the present fire station in original location a piece of the main channel of the camp can be visited, which absorbed the wastewater from the southern camp and led it into the Deep Ditch to the brook Ottakringerbach.

Pope John Paul II. did as his predecessor had done and gave in 1983 on the occasion of his visit to Vienna from the loggia also the Easter blessing.

On September 7, 2007 Pope Benedict XVI celebrated with approximately 7,000 people in the pouring rain as the first major program of his Austria trip one Stational Mass. After just six minutes, the microphone of the Pope and the video walls became inoperative, which is why the speech of Benedict XVI. had to be stopped.

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Many Royal Families and Representatives from All Over the World Attend the Royal Cremation Ceremony

28 October 2017

Many royal families and distinguished representatives from 42 countries are on a visit to Thailand to attend the Royal Cremation Ceremony for His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Royals and foreign dignitaries from 42 countries who have attended the Royal Cremation Ceremony on 26 October 2017 are as follows:

1. H.M. King Letsie III and H.M. Queen Masenate Mohato Seeiso from the Kingdom of Lesotho;

2. H.M. King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and H.M. Queen Ashi Jetsun Pema Wangchuck from the Kingdom of Bhutan;

3. H.M. King Tupou VI and H.M. Queen Nanasipau’u from the Kingdom of Tonga;

4. President U Htin Kyaw and his spouse Mrs. Su Su Lwin from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar;

5. President Bounnhang Vorachith and his spouse Mrs. Khammueng Vorachith from the Lao People’s Democratic Republic;

6. President Halimah Yacob and her spouse Mr. Mohamed Abdullah Alhabsee from the Republic of Singapore;

7. H.M. Queen Silvia from the Kingdom of Sweden;

8. H.M. Queen Maxima from the Kingdom of the Netherlands;

9. H.M. Queen Mathilde from the Kingdom of Belgium;

10. H.M. Queen Sofia, the former Queen of Spain from the Kingdom of Spain;

11. H.E. General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove and Lady Cosgrove from the Commonwealth of Australia;

12. The Right Honourable Madame Julie Payette from Canada;

13. Former President Megawati Soekarnoputri from the Republic of Indonesia;

14. Former President Joseph Deiss from the Swiss Confederation;

15. Former President Christian Wulff from the Federal Republic of Germany;

16. H.R.H. Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa from the Kingdom of Bahrain;

17. H.R.H. Crown Prince Frederik from the Kingdom of Denmark;

18. H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon Magnus from the Kingdom of Norway;

19. Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume Jean Joseph Marie from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg;

20. H.R.H. the Sultan of Perak Darul Ridzuan Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah Al-Maghfur-Lah and H.R.H. Tuanku Zara Salim the Raja Permaisuri of Perak Darul Ridzuan from Malaysia;

21. H.R.H. Prince Andrew, Duke of York, from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;

22. H.I.H. Prince Akishino and H.I.H. Princess Akishino from Japan;

23. H.H. Prince Thani bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani from the State of Qatar;

24. H.R.H. Princess Margaretha from the Principality of Liechtenstein;

25. Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;

26. Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen from the Kingdom of Cambodia;

27. Prime Minister Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini from the Kingdom of Swaziland;

28. Former Prime Minister James Bolger from New Zealand;

29. Former Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and his spouse Mrs. Brigitte Ayrault from the French Republic;

30. Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Gaoli from the People’s Republic of China;

31. Deputy Prime Minister Fikri Iบik from the Republic of Turkey;

32. Deputy House Speaker Pak Joo-sun from the Republic of Korea;

33. Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Olga Epifanova from the Russian Federation;

34. Prime Minister’s Office Minister Hon. Pehin Dato Lim Jock Seng from Negara Brunei Darussalam;

35. Defense Secretary James M. Mattis from the United States of America;

36. Foreign Minister Alan Peter S. Cayetano and his spouse Mrs. Maria Laarni Cayetano from the Republic of the Philippines;

37. Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana and his spouse Mrs. Stella Marapana from the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka;

38. Defense Minister Bhimsen Das Pradhan and his spouse Mrs. Bidya Banmali Pradhan from the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal;

39. Federal Minister for Power Division Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan;

40. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Sahriar Alam from the People’s Republic of Bangladesh;

41. Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar from the Republic of India;

42. H.E. Archbishop Giambattista Diquattro from the Holy See.

These foreign royals and dignitaries were invited to sit at the Royal Merit-Making Pavilion, or Phra Thinang Song Tham, at Sanam Luang ceremonial ground before offering sandalwood flowers to the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the Royal Crematorium.

The Royal Merit-Making Pavilion is a hall located to the west of the Royal Crematorium. This pavilion is the site where His Majesty the King takes his seat to listen to prayers and where he performs meritmaking ceremonies.

There is space for members of the Royal Family, the Privy Council, the Cabinet, military and civilian senior officials, and members of parliament, the diplomatic corps and representatives of various religions in Thailand, as well as high-ranking courtiers.

The Royal Merit-Making Pavilion for the Royal Cremation of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej is 44.5 meters wide, 15.5 meters long, and 22 meters high. It is the largest ever built for the Royal Cremation Ceremony in Thai history. The walls inside the Royal Merit-Making Pavilion consist of

paintings depicting royally initiated projects in all regions of Thailand.

H.M.S. Delhi

HMS Delhi was a Danae-class cruiser that served with the Royal Navy through the Second World War, from the Caribbean to eastern China. She was laid down in 1917, launched in 1918 and commissioned for service in 1919, serving until decommissioning in mid-1945 due to extensive battle damage, and was to be scrapped in 1948 after lengthy war and peacetime service around the world.

Service history

After completion, sea trials and working up as part the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron with the Atlantic Fleet, Delhi served in the Baltic as part of a wider multinational intervention in the Russian Civil War against the nascent Soviet republics. Departing the Baltic, Delhi returned to Britain and spent the next three years with the Atlantic Fleet.

She was to be chosen in 1923, along with her sisters Danae, Dauntless, Dragon and Dunedin, for the Empire Cruise of the Special Service Squadron, representing the most modern and most powerful cruisers of the Royal Navy, as escorts to the battlecruisers Hood and Repulse. Returning in December 1924, she was paid off from the Special Service Squadron and joined the 1st Cruiser Squadron with the Mediterranean Fleet in January 1925. After a brief ten-month detachment to the China Station, engaging in anti-piracy operations, she returned to the Mediterranean before being paid off to refit.

On 15 November 1925, Delhi left Malta in the company of HMAS Sydney and HMAS Adelaide and cruised to "southern skies" on a goodwill cruise which, from contemporary photographic sources, included Ceylon; Fremantle, Hobart, Jervis Bay, and Sydney (Australia); Christchurch and Wellington (New Zealand).

The 1930s dawned with Delhi cruising the Caribbean as part of the 8th Cruiser Squadron on the America and West Indies Station. During the Carib War, Delhi's guns were called to deter the actions of local insurgents on Dominica and landed a detachment of Royal Marines. As flagship, 8th Cruiser Squadron, she would once more operate in concert with Hood and Repulse during a visit to the West Indies, along with their escorts, the heavy cruisers Norfolk and Dorsetshire. Her West Indies service ended in 1933, and she deployed with the 3rd Cruiser Squadron, once again serving with the Mediterranean Fleet.

Based at Malta at this time, with the Spanish Civil War raging, Delhi operated off Spain, picking up refugees from Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona and Valencia, under the command of Captain Farquhar Smith RAN.[1] During these operations, she was engaged by the Nationalist heavy cruiser Canarias, coming under heavy fire, as well as suffering from aerial attacks.[2]

When World War II broke out, Delhi was freshly out of reserve, and joined the 11th Cruiser Squadron at Scapa Flow. On the night of the sinking of HMS Royal Oak, Delhi had just departed for a periodic sweep of the North Sea to enforce the blockade of Germany. While patrolling the Iceland-Faroes Gap, Delhi captured the freighter Rheingold, and then intercepted and assisted in the scuttling of the blockade-runner Mecklenburg, whose crew scuttled the merchant vessel, and abandoned ship. Delhi's captain decided that boarding to attempt to salvage the ship was impractical due to the sea state, and instead sank Mecklenburg with gunfire.

Sortieing from Scapa Flow on patrol on 23 November 1939, she joined the cruisers Caledon, Cardiff, Newcastle and the armed merchant cruiser Rawalpindi. During this patrol, Rawalpindi encountered the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and was sunk in a furious hour-long surface action. However, with Newcastle and Delhi shadowing and the rapid approach of heavy units of the Home Fleet, Admiral Marschall withdrew his battleships into inclement weather, slipping his pursuers and retreating to Wilhelmshaven.

Deployed to the Mediterranean in March 1940, Delhi undertook extensive operations as part of Force H against Vichy and Italian forces in Italy and North Africa. After five months service in the Mediterranean, she joined Force M at Freetown, operating off West Africa and in the South Atlantic. Delhi and her sister ship Dragon participated in Operation Menace, the Battle of Dakar, and then continued in the trade protection role in the South Atlantic.

Bomb damage to the stern of HMS Delhi during operations in North Africa

From May to December, 1941 Delhi was refitted as an anti-aircraft cruiser at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This refit included 5-inch/38 calibre guns originally intended for the US destroyer USS Edison, and were hand-picked by Edison's commanding officer, but were transferred to Delhi on the direct instructions President Roosevelt.[3] With her new dual purpose main armament, she provided shore bombardment and AA support for a number of Allied landings in the Mediterranean, (Algiers, Sicily, Salerno and the Anzio Landings). On 20 November 1942 Delhi was damaged by enemy action in Algiers Bay when her stern was blown open by a bomb dropped by Italian aircraft. Two crewmen were killed in the attack.[4] She returned to Britain and was under repair until April 1943.

On 3 September 1943, six days before the Landings at Salerno, she collided with the cruiser Uganda in the Straits of Messina whilst laying a smokescreen. She was repaired at sea and remained in service for the landings where she provided shore bombardment and AA support. Continuing to serve through the rest of the war, Delhi took part in Operation Dragoon, a follow-up to D-Day in the South of France to utilise Free French troops and to open new supply routes to Allied forces in Europe.

On 12 February 1945 she was attacked by German explosive motorboats in the harbour at Split, Croatia, where she had, three months beforehand, hosted the German surrender. The attack missed Delhi and struck LCF-8, a Landing Craft Flak. The force of the resulting explosion damaged Delhi's rudder and a propeller shaft bracket.

Deployed to the Mediterranean in March 1940, Delhi undertook extensive operations as part of Force H against Vichy and Italian forces in Italy and North Africa. After five months service in the Mediterranean, she joined Force M at Freetown, operating off West Africa and in the South Atlantic. Delhi and her sister ship Dragon participated in Operation Menace, the Battle of Dakar, and then continued in the trade protection role in the South Atlantic.

Bomb damage to the stern of HMS Delhi during operations in North Africa

From May to December, 1941 Delhi was refitted as an anti-aircraft cruiser at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This refit included 5-inch/38 calibre guns originally intended for the US destroyer USS Edison, and were hand-picked by Edison's commanding officer, but were transferred to Delhi on the direct instructions President Roosevelt. With her new dual purpose main armament, she provided shore bombardment and AA support for a number of Allied landings in the Mediterranean, (Algiers, Sicily, Salerno and the Anzio Landings). On 20 November 1942 Delhi was damaged by enemy action in Algiers Bay when her stern was blown open by a bomb dropped by Italian aircraft. Two crewmen were killed in the attack. She returned to Britain and was under repair until April 1943.

On 3 September 1943, six days before the Landings at Salerno, she collided with the cruiser Uganda in the Straits of Messina whilst laying a smokescreen. She was repaired at sea and remained in service for the landings where she provided shore bombardment and AA support. Continuing to serve through the rest of the war, Delhi took part in Operation Dragoon, a follow-up to D-Day in the South of France to utilise Free French troops and to open new supply routes to Allied forces in Europe.

On 12 February 1945 she was attacked by German explosive motorboats in the harbour at Split, Croatia, where she had, three months beforehand, hosted the German surrender. The attack missed Delhi and struck LCF-8, a Landing Craft Flak. The force of the resulting explosion damaged Delhi's rudder and a propeller shaft bracket.

Disposal

Delhi returned to Britain and was laid up after the war. She was assessed as uneconomic to fully repair as an aged design in a rapidly downsizing Royal Navy, and was instead sold on 22 January 1948 to be broken up. She arrived at the yards of Cashmore, of Newport, Wales in April 1948 to be scrapped.

H.M.S. Dunue:

HMS Danae was the lead ship of the Danae-class cruisers (also known as the D class), serving with the Royal Navy between the world wars and with the Polish Navy during the latter part of World War II as ORP Conrad.

Service

Danae was laid down on 1 December 1916 in the Armstrong Whitworth Shipyard in Walker-on-Tyne and launched on 26 January 1918. The lead ship of her class, she was one of the fastest cruisers of her time. Propelled by two Brown-Curtis steam turbines of 40,000 horsepower (30,000 kW), 6 boilers and 2 propellers, she could travel at 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph). With 1,060 tons of oil in her tanks, she had a range of 1,480 nautical miles (2,740 km; 1,700 mi) at 29 knots and 6,700 nautical miles (12,400 km; 7,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph). She was also well armoured, with the sides and the command deck protected with 3 inches (76 mm) of reinforced steel, the tanks and munition chambers with 57 millimetres (2.2 in), and the main deck with 2 inches (51 mm).

Attached to the Harwich-based 5th Light Cruiser Squadron, she took part in several North Sea patrols during the last months of World War I. Between October and November of the following year, she passed to the Baltic Sea, where she supported the Whites in the Russian Civil War, along with her sister ships Dragon and Dauntless. In February 1920 she was attached to the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet.

Card XII of the tarot's major arcana, the Hanged Man.

Symbolism: A siginficant departure from the tranditional iconography. A city underwater shows Neptune's influence. A humanoid figure hangs upside down; but whether it is falling, tied in place or drifting in neutral buoyancy is unknown. For me this captures the feel of the Hanged Man which can mean: letting go, surrender, passivity, suspension, acceptance, non-action, waiting or giving up. Being upside down, it can also signify seeing things from a different perspective.