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Dungeness is one of the largest expanses of shingle in Europe.[2] It is of international conservation importance for its geomorphology, plant and invertebrate communities and bird life. This is recognised and protected mostly through its conservation designations as a national nature reserve (NNR), a Special Protection Area (SPA), a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and part of the Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) of Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay.
There is a remarkable variety of wildlife living at Dungeness, with over 600 different types of plants: a third of all those found in Britain. It is one of the best places in Britain to find invertebrates such as moths, bees, beetles, and spiders; many of these are very rare, some found nowhere else in Britain.
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Parambikulam www.parambikulam.org is located in Palakkad district of Kerala state, south India. Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, 10°28′N 76°50′E established in 1973 is a Sungam range sprawling over 285 km².[1][2] It is at adistance of 135 km from Palakkad town and is situated adjacent to the Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu. The Western Ghats, Anamalai Sub-Cluster, including all of Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, is under consideration by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for selection as a World Heritage Site.[3]
Besides being an abode of elephants, wild boar, sambar, Gaur, crocodiles, and a few tigers and panthers, it has rich diversity of flora and fauna. Trekking in the forest is allowed with prior permission. Boating is available at the reservoir. There is the Kannimara Teak Tree, which is said to be Asia’s largest, near Thunakadavu.
Love, Laughter & Rockledge Rendezvous!"
🌅 Cheers to 25 Years of Pure Bliss! Dive into the Vibe with Pixel Groves Photography
Ready for a wild ride through the love-filled adventure of Cory and Derek? Buckle up as we whisk you away to the lush vibes of Rockledge Gardens, where this beachy duo celebrated 25 years of wedded wonder on November 18, 2023.
Sunshine & Smiles
Spoiler alert: it's impossible not to smile along with this radiant couple!
Garden Glam
Get lost in the greenery of Rockledge Gardens, the ultimate canvas for this casual-yet-classy affair. Who knew environmentally conscious could look this good?
Boho Chic Bash
Cory and Derek nailed the beachy boho vibe, and we've got the pics to prove it!
Love That Lasts
Catch a glimpse of those sweet, unscripted moments that define 25 years of love. Spoiler #2: it involves a lot of laughter, a few tears, and a whole lotta heart.
Vows & Wows
Relive the heartfelt vow renewal that melted hearts and caused a few happy tears. Pro tip: bring tissues; you're gonna need 'em.
Magic in the Gardens
Explore the enchanting corners of Rockledge Gardens where Cory and Derek let their love bloom. Spoiler #3: It's basically a fairy tale, but cooler.
Snapped by Pixel Groves
These magical moments weren't just magically captured—they were Pixel Groved! Ready to turn your story into a Pixel Groves masterpiece? Hit us up at www.PixelGroves.com and let's make some memories!
Captured with Love & Laughter by Pixel Groves Photography
Yellowstone day #2
It was a cold day today. This bison let out a little hot air while she grazed with a young one near the side of the road.
It is the first commercially operated high-speed magnetic levitation line in the world and only the third Maglev line to be operated. The train line was designed to connect Shanghai Pudong International Airport and the outskirts of central Pudong. The 30 Km trip takes about 8 minutes. The top operational commercial speed of this train is 431 km/h (268 mph), making it the world's fastest train in regular commercial service since its opening in 2004. During a non-commercial test run on 12 November 2003, a maglev train achieved a Chinese record speed of 501 km/h (311 mph).[2]
It cost $1.2 billion to build
Page 2, It Must Involve
From Rachel Denbow's art journaling class, IDSS
(The colors don't match but I was having entirely too much fun putting stuff on the page, lol)
Mount Hope Cemetery is a historic cemetery in southern Boston, Massachusetts, between the neighborhoods of Roslindale and Mattapan. It was established in 1852 as a private cemetery, and was acquired by the city five years later. It is the city's first cemetery to be laid out in the rural cemetery style, with winding lanes. It was at first 85 acres (34 ha) in size; it was enlarged by the addition of 40 acres (16 ha) in 1929. Its main entrance is on Walk Hill Street, on the northern boundary.[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 2009.
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About Ta Prohm
Ta Prohm is the modern name of a temple at Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara. Located approximately one kilometre east of Angkor Thom and on the southern edge of the East Baray, it was founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Ta Prohm has been left in much the same condition in which it was found: the photogenic and atmospheric combination of trees growing out of the ruins and the jungle surroundings have made it one of Angkor's most popular temples with visitors.
Four notable things about Ta Prohm are:
1. It was the inspiration for Lara Croft's tomb Raider.
2. It is being restored by ASI (Archaeological Society of India)
3. It has a inscription of a Stegosaurus.
4. It is one of the few Temples dedicated to Brahma. Ta Prohm means "Ancestor Brahma"
About Ta Prohm
Ta Prohm is the modern name of a temple at Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara. Located approximately one kilometre east of Angkor Thom and on the southern edge of the East Baray, it was founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Ta Prohm has been left in much the same condition in which it was found: the photogenic and atmospheric combination of trees growing out of the ruins and the jungle surroundings have made it one of Angkor's most popular temples with visitors.
Four notable things about Ta Prohm are:
1. It was the inspiration for Lara Croft's tomb Raider.
2. It is being restored by ASI (Archaeological Society of India)
3. It has a inscription of a Stegosaurus.
4. It is one of the few Temples dedicated to Brahma. Ta Prohm means "Ancestor Brahma"
About Ta Prohm
Ta Prohm is the modern name of a temple at Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, built in the Bayon style largely in the late 12th and early 13th centuries and originally called Rajavihara. Located approximately one kilometre east of Angkor Thom and on the southern edge of the East Baray, it was founded by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and university. Unlike most Angkorian temples, Ta Prohm has been left in much the same condition in which it was found: the photogenic and atmospheric combination of trees growing out of the ruins and the jungle surroundings have made it one of Angkor's most popular temples with visitors.
Four notable things about Ta Prohm are:
1. It was the inspiration for Lara Croft's tomb Raider.
2. It is being restored by ASI (Archaeological Society of India)
3. It has a inscription of a Stegosaurus.
4. It is one of the few Temples dedicated to Brahma. Ta Prohm means "Ancestor Brahma"
In 2008, This Hardy Begonia was growing on the Reynolds Nursery Floor. Although it wasn't for sale officially I asked for a sample and the clerk dug it up and sold it to me for $2. It has made volunteers which I will spread around.
Presents Round 2 - it's a Learning Piggy Bank from Aunty Wendy, Uncle Andy and cousin Cameron. Not sure Aimee thinks though?
For two reasons. 1 All the boards were put away today and 2 It's the only picture I took! It's been a long, long day of working hard at closing up shop.
Parambikulam www.parambikulam.org is located in Palakkad district of Kerala state, south India. Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, 10°28′N 76°50′E established in 1973 is a Sungam range sprawling over 285 km².[1][2] It is at adistance of 135 km from Palakkad town and is situated adjacent to the Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu. The Western Ghats, Anamalai Sub-Cluster, including all of Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, is under consideration by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for selection as a World Heritage Site.[3]
Besides being an abode of elephants, wild boar, sambar, Gaur, crocodiles, and a few tigers and panthers, it has rich diversity of flora and fauna. Trekking in the forest is allowed with prior permission. Boating is available at the reservoir. There is the Kannimara Teak Tree, which is said to be Asia’s largest, near Thunakadavu.
Wynkoop House, Old Haarlem - 1888
Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859 - 1937)
“Wynkoop House, Old Haarlem” represents a frequently misunderstood aspect of Tanner's oeuvre. Along with his characteristic biblical subjects, the artist depicted specific sites and buildings that have erroneously been seen by some writers on Tanner "as diversions from the intense work of composing elaborate biblical subjects intended for the Salon."(1)1 Recent research, however, has demonstrat¬ed that subjects such as “Wynkoop House” were important to the core of Tanner's symbolic civil-rights messages.
At first glance, the title of our painting, “Wynkoop House, Old Haarlem”, suggests that the building is in the Netherlands. However, a Wynkoop House also known as Vredens-Hof and Vrendens Berg existed at Northha¬mpton Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, not far from Tanner's home in Philadelphia.(2)2 It was built in 1739 by Nicolas Wynkoop, who named the place Vrendens-Hof, "abode of peaceful rest."(3)3 "When a house is distin¬guished by association with such sturdy and loyal characters as Vrendens-Hof has been, it assumes a greater dignity; Washington, Lafayette, and James Monroe having been guests, under its hospitable roof at the same time, at the close of the American Revolution."(4)4 When it was owned by George Washington's abolitionist friend Judge Henry Wynkoop5 the house would have been of interest to Tanner because Judge Wynkoop "treated his slaves so well that although he gave them their freedom, most of them remained on the farm and upon their deaths, according to legend, were buried under a tree" near Vrendens-Hof.(6)6 Tanner emphasized the tree in the foreground of “Wynkoop House” and by so doing gave it the type of social underpin¬ning found in his other site-specific works.
Although Tanner's building is in basically the same architectural style as published photographs of Wynkoop House, it does not match exactly with any section of the mansion, even when remodeling is taken into consideration.(7)7 On the other hand, an illustration in a book on Vredens-Hof published in 1908 shows individual, unattached structures on either side of the manse and behind it that call to mind the configuration at Washington's estate in Mount Vernon.(8)8 In point of fact, Tanner's rendition of Wynkoop House may be seen as a sophisticated architectural version of the slave quarters at Mount Vernon.
Stylistically, Tanner's approach in “Wynkoop House” is inconsistent with his working method in the late 1880s, as is the signature. The painting does not echo the drawing skill or spatial arrangement of the 1888 illustration “It Must Be My Very Star” and does not bear the monogram signature.(9)9 Moreover, the treatment of Wynkoop is far removed from the confident handling of “Lion Licking Its Paw” (1886; Allentown Art Museum, Pa.). The overall style of the picture, however, is perfectly consistent with Tanner's treatment in “Boy and Sheep Lying under a Tree” (1881; private collection). The middle-ground compositions and palettes of these works match up very well. Even more compelling is the dabbled sparkling light in both works which presages one of the most beautiful aspects of Tanner's mature style.
Henry O. Tanner, African-American painter and printmaker, was born in Pittsburgh. He was the son of Sarah Miller, a freed slave, and Benjamin Tucker Tanner, a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the editor of the “Christian Recorder”. Tanner's parents were strong civil-rights advocates, which accounts for the fact that his middle name, Ossawa, was a tribute to the abolitionist John Brown of Osawatomie.
In 1868 the Tanner family moved to Philadelphia, where Henry saw an artist at work in Fairmont Park and decided immediately to become one. His mother encouraged this ambition, though his father apprenticed him in the flour business after he graduated, valedictorian, from the Roberts Vaux Consolidated School for Colored Students in 1877. Flour work proved too strenuous for Tanner and he became ill. After his convalescence near John Brown's farm in the Adirondacks in 1879, he entered the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and studied under Thomas Eakins, and Thomas Hovenden was his mentor. Tanner's professional career began while he was still a student. He made his debut at the Pennsylvania Academy annual in 1880, that year he also exhibited at the Progressive Works Men's Club in Philadelphia, the first exhibition ever of African-American artists organized by African Americans. During this period he specialized in seascape paintings such as “Point Judith” (ca. 1880; private collection), while also rendering memories of his Adirondack sojourn, as evinced by “Burnt Pines: Adiron¬dacks” (ca. 1880; Hampton University Museum, Va.). A tendency to use overlapping shapes and diagonal lines to create recession into space was announced in these works and can be seen over his entire career. The rich browns, blues, blue-greens, and mauve, with accents of bright red, in these pictures also remained constant in his oeuvre.
During the mid-1880s Tanner decided to become an animal painter. A superb example of this genre is “Lion Licking Its Paw” (1886; Allentown Art Museum, Pa.). In addition to easel paintings, Tanner provided illustrations for short stories for the July 1882 issue of Our Continent and the January 10, 1888, “Harper's Young People”.
In 1889 Tanner opened a photography studio in Atlanta. After this business failed, he remained in that city and taught drawing at Clark University, where he met Bishop and Mrs. Joseph Crane Hartzell. They arranged Tanner's first solo exhibition, in Cincinnati in 1890, to help the young artist raise funds for European study. Tanner set sail for Italy on January 4, 1891, but after reaching Paris he decided to remain there. He enrolled in the Académie Julian, where his teachers were Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant. He made Paris and Trépied, France, his permanent homes for the rest of his life.
Tanner visited the United States in 1893 and concentrated on sober sympathetic depictions of African-American life to offset a history of one-sided comic representations. “Banjo Lesson” (1893; Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Va.), in which an older man instructs a young lad, is the first painting that can be ascribed to Tanner's new desire. He debuted at the Paris Salon of 1893 with this painting.
At the turn of the century, Tanner devoted himself almost exclusively to biblical scenes, a result of both his devout family background and the economic opportuni¬ties provided by the subject. Almost all Tanner's biblical themes centered around ideas of birth and rebirth, both physical and spiritual. Tanner expressed his upbringing in the fledgling civil-rights movement through these themes that relate to Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, which promised freedom or "birth and rebirth" to black slaves. This approach was also consistent with Tanner's desire to render sympathetic depictions of African Americans.
Tanner's relatively few portraits brought to the fore images of individuals involved with civil rights and other humane concerns. Stylistically, the portraits are characterized by a very shallow recession into space or a certain flatness, while maintaining the rich brown, blue, blue-green, and mauve palette spiked with bright reds and multiple light sources. These characteris¬tics are particularly notable in his genre scenes based on visits to North Africa in 1908 and 1912.
Frustrated by World War I, Tanner stopped painting and instead became a major figure in the American Red Cross. He resumed his career as artist on November 11, 1918, the very day of the Armistice, when the American Expeditionary Force authorized Tanner's travel to make sketches of the front, such as “Canteen at the Front” (1918; Ameri¬can Red Cross, Washington, D.C.). Tanner's mature style was characterized by experiments with thickly built up enamel-like surfaces, seen in one of his last paintings “Disciples Healing the Sick” (c. 1930; Clark Atlanta University Collection of African-American Art, Atlanta).
Tanner garnered ample recognition in the international art literature of his time and exhibited frequently on both sides of the Atlantic. He received a gold medal at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco and the prestigious Cross of the Legion of Honor in 1923. He was elected a member of the American Negro Academy, Washington, D.C., in 1898; associate and full academician of the National Academy of Design, New York, in 1909 and 1927, respectively. It would be impossible to imagine the generation of African-American artists who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance without the example of Tanner's single-minded pursuit of artistic success and his international recognition.
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"Acknowledged as the first museum in the world dedicated solely to collecting American art, the NBMAA is renowned for its preeminent collection spanning three centuries of American history. The award-winning Chase Family Building, which opened in 2006 to critical and public acclaim, features 15 spacious galleries which showcase the permanent collection and upwards of 25 special exhibitions a year featuring American masters, emerging artists and private collections. Education and community outreach programs for all ages include docent-led school and adult tours, teacher services, studio classes and vacation programs, Art Happy Hour gallery talks, lectures, symposia, concerts, film, monthly First Friday jazz evenings, quarterly Museum After Dark parties for young professionals, and the annual Juneteenth celebration. Enjoy Café on the Park for a light lunch prepared by “Best Caterer in Connecticut” Jordan Caterers. Visit the Museum Shop for unique gifts. Drop by the “ArtLab” learning gallery with your little ones. Gems not to be missed include Thomas Hart Benton’s murals “The Arts of Life in America,” “The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy, September 11, 2001” by Graydon Parrish,” and Dale Chihuly’s “Blue and Beyond Blue” spectacular chandelier. Called “a destination for art lovers everywhere,” “first-class,” “a full-size, transparent temple of art, mixing New York ambience with Yankee ingenuity and all-American beauty,” the NBMAA is not to be missed."
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The NBMAA collection represents the major artists and movements of American art. Today it numbers about 8,274 paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photographs, including the Sanford B.D. Low Illustration Collection, which features important works by illustrators such as Norman Rockwell, Howard Pyle, and Maxfield Parrish.
Among collection highlights are colonial and federal portraits, with examples by John Smibert, John Trumbull, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and the Peale family. The Hudson River School features landscapes by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Martin Johnson Heade, John Kensett, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Church. Still life painters range from Raphaelle Peale, Severin Roesen, William Harnett, John Peto, John Haberle, and John La Farge. American genre painting is represented by John Quidor, William Sidney Mount, and Lilly Martin Spencer. Post-Civil War examples include works by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, George de Forest Brush, and William Paxton, and 19 plasters and bronzes by Solon Borglum. American Impressionists include Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Willard Metcalf, and Childe Hassam, the last represented by eleven oils. Later Impressionist paintings include those by Ernest Lawson, Frederck Frieseke, Louis Ritman, Robert Miller, and Maurice Prendergast.
Other strengths of the twentieth-century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson, and Ralston Crawford; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter’s celebrated five-panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).
Works by the American Abstract Artist group (Stuart Davis, Ilya Bolotowsky, Esphyr Slobodkina, Balcomb Greene, and Milton Avery) give twentieth-century abstraction its place in the collection, as do later examples of Surrealism by artists Kay Sage and George Tooker; Abstract Expressionism (Lee Krasner, Giorgio Cavallon, Morris Graves, Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Cleve Gray), Pop and Op art (Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselman, Jim Dine), Conceptual (Christo, Sol LeWitt), and Photo-Realism (Robert Cottingham). Examples of twentieth-century sculpture include Harriet Frishmuth, Paul Manship, Isamu Noguchi, George Segal, and Stephen DeStaebler. We continue to acquire contemporary works by notable artists, in order to best represent the dynamic and evolving narrative of American art.
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A mortgage loan, also referred to as a mortgage, is used by purchasers of real property to raise money to
buy the property to be purchased or by existing property owners to raise funds for any purpose. The loan is
"secured" on the borrower's property. This means that a legal mechanism is put in place which allows the lender
to take possession and sell the secured property ("foreclosure" or "repossession") to pay off the loan in the
event that the borrower defaults on the loan or otherwise fails to abide by its terms. The word mortgage is
derived from a "law French" term used by English lawyers in the middle ages meaning "death pledge", and refers
to the pledge ending (dying) when either the obligation is fulfilled or the property is taken through foreclosure.[1]
Mortgage borrowers can be individuals mortgaging their home or they can be businesses mortgaging commercial
property (for example, their own business premises, residential property let to tenants or an investment portfolio).
The lender will typically be a financial institution, such as a bank, credit union or building society, depending
on the country concerned, and the loan arrangements can be made either directly or indirectly through intermediaries.
Features of mortgage loans such as the size of the loan, maturity of the loan, interest rate, method of paying off
the loan, and other characteristics can vary considerably. The lender's rights over the secured property take priority
over the borrower's other creditors which means that if the borrower becomes bankrupt or insolvent, the other creditors
will only be repaid the debts owed to them from a sale of the secured property if the mortgage lender is repaid in full first.
In many jurisdictions, though not all (Bali, Indonesia being one exception[2]), it is normal for home purchases to be
funded by a mortgage loan. Few individuals have enough savings or liquid funds to enable them to purchase property outright.
In countries where the demand for home ownership is highest, strong domestic markets for mortgages have developed.
Too hot to handle - 2. It's really hot here...
A remake, if you will, of this shot from last year.
I'm growing a moustache for Movember - an annual charity raising money for prostate cancer and depression research. Please donate to my Mo to help find causes and cures here.
Strobist: Canon 430EX@1/2, 50mm, camera right through an umbrella, triggered by poverty wizards.
Sun providing backlighting.
Canon 400D, EF18-55mm@f11, ISO100, 1/200.
Forest Seduction Series 2
It is late, it is raining and it is getting dark, and you are far from home. Far far away, in another galaxy, suddenly you see rays of light, rays of hope. You set course, determined, push on branches one after another....However where you are headed, you eventually dont know ...
It was late, It was raining, and... unlike above, Edith and I found this branch and made this happen in no time! It was really fun to work with talented Edith!
Taken in Gothenburg, August 2020
For high quality image check out fine art gallery (on mehdipixel.com) mehdipixel.com/forest-seduction-series-2/
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Curtiss 1911 Model D
In 1911 the U.S. Army Signal Corps purchased its second airplane, a Curtiss Model D Type IV. The military version of the Curtiss Model D could be easily disassembled and transported on Army wagons. Like other Curtiss aircraft of the time, the Model D was a pusher, meaning the rear-mounted propeller "pushed" the aircraft. Designated Signal Corps Airplane No. 2, it was accepted at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, on April 27, 1911, one of five airplanes ordered by the Army that year.
The control system for the Curtiss Model D operated differently than that used on Signal Corps No. 1, a Wright aircraft. A pilot flying the Curtiss operated the ailerons with his shoulders, and the front elevator and rear rudder with the wheel mounted on a column in front of him. Also, rather than sitting next to the pilot, the observer sat behind the pilot.
The Signal Corps scrapped the original aircraft, so museum personnel constructed the reproduction on display, completing it in 1987. They relied heavily on measurements scaled from early photographs of the original Signal Corps No. 2 because the original drawings and adequate written descriptions were not available. Additional details were gathered from an existing factory-built Curtiss pusher and from recent drawings. Except for the engine, which is made of wood and plastic, all materials used in the reproduction are essentially the same as those used in the original.
TECHNICAL NOTES:
Engine: Curtiss V-8 of 60 hp
Maximum speed: 50 mph
Endurance: 2 1/2 hours
Span: 38 ft. 3 in. (including ailerons)
Length: 29 ft. 3 in.
Height: 7 ft. 10 in.
Weight: 700 lbs. empty; 1,300 lbs. loaded
Plymouth Northside Historic District
Plymouth, Indiana
Listed 09/25/2013
Reference Number: 13000760
The Plymouth Northside Historic District qualifies for the National Register of Historic Places under criteria A and C. The residential district was developed first as part of the original plat of the city of Plymouth and included the courthouse square . Its boundaries increased as residential development occurred north of the original plat during the early 1900s. The district is important architecturally for two reasons: 1) it has a broad inclusion of architectural types that include some from the earliest period of the city's development and 2) it has a variety of well-executed architectural styles that were popular during the period of development in district. Areas of significance for which the district qualifies are Architecture, Community Planning and Development, Entertainment/Recreation, and Politics/Government. The district's architecture represents some of the finest examples that were popular during the Period o f Significance in Plymouth and Marshall County . The district also has the distinction, though residential in nature , of having t he courthouse square in its southern half. This was a design feature in the original plat of the city . The inclusion of this community planning feature allowed the influence of county government to be a part of the district's history which led to the designation of the Lincoln Highway through the district. Also a part of the district's history is the development of the city 's first park; it is located on the east side of the district along the Yellow River. It is acutely linked to the city's early residents and was substantially developed further under the Work Progress Administration . A heavy influence in the district's history is the role religion played in establishing churches, parsonages, and educational buildings in the area.
National Register of Historic Places Homepage
Plymouth Northside Historic District, Plymouth, Indiana, Summary Page
Mount Auburn Cemetery is the first rural cemetery in the United States, located on the line between Cambridge and Watertown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Boston.
With classical monuments set in a rolling landscaped terrain,[2] it marked a distinct break with Colonial-era burying grounds and church-affiliated graveyards. The appearance of this type of landscape coincides with the rising popularity of the term "cemetery", derived from the Greek for "a sleeping place." This language and outlook eclipsed the previous harsh view of death and the afterlife embodied by old graveyards and church burial plots.[3]
The 174-acre (70 ha) cemetery is important both for its historical aspects and for its role as an arboretum. It is Watertown’s largest contiguous open space and extends into Cambridge to the east, adjacent to the Cambridge City Cemetery and Sand Banks Cemetery. It was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2003 for its pioneering role in 19th-century cemetery development.
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We learned a lot that day:
1. Latte macchiato is 2 different drinks
2. it looks and tastes like cappuccino
3. you have exactly 5 minutes to order, drink, pay it AND LEAVE!!!
But I like the portrait anyway...
Double Vee Tuskegee Airmen AT-6
This North American AT-6 known as Double Vee was named in honor of a historic campaign in World War 2. It’s the only authentic and completely restored Tuskegee Airmen aircraft in existence!
A sun porch on a really old, nice large home and very cool property (barns, trees) that had just been sold while we were on vacation in PA. This was a "Peacock Farm" when I was a kid, at least that's what we called it. My twin brother and I would ride our bikes over to this property and the owners would let us kids hang out, the best part was they had dozens of peacocks running loose on the grounds. It was so cool for us to just watch and observe these beautiful birds, and take some feathers home that had dropped off a bird or 2. It might of been less than 2 dozen, but it seems that many as I remember. They were so loud when they started singing, or whatever you call it, great watch birds!
A note to All; If you are interested in visiting this N.P., there are a couple of things you need to know up front. #1. It has an East & a West entrance and the two do not meet in the middle! You can't drive from one side through to the other! #2. It is protected habitat for the California Condor. Do your research if you plan on trying to see them, there's lots of info. on the parks web site.. alw
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It is known for its enormous monolith of massive rock, the Peña de Bernal, the third highest on the planet.
(Otomi: Ma'hando), better known as Bernal (Spanish About this sound [berna'l] (help·info)) (from Basque Vernal, 'place of stones or boulders'), is a colonial village in the Mexican state of Querétaro. It was founded in 1642 by Spanish soldier Alonso Cabrera.[1]
Peña de Bernal
Street in Bernal Town.
Bernal is located 40 minutes by road from state capital Santiago de Querétaro and two and a half hours from Mexico City.[2] It is located in Ezequiel Montes municipality, a few minutes from Colón and Cadereyta.[2]
It has a current population of 2909. 1377 are males and 1532 are females. 1014 persons are counted as Economic Active Population and there are only 630 inhabited homes in town.[3]
It is known for its enormous monolith of massive rock, the Peña de Bernal, the third highest on the planet.[2]
Likewise, in the Otomi language: Ma'hando, in Chichimeca: De'hendo, has the same meaning: “In the middle of two”.[1]
Recently, the town of Bernal acquired the tourism quality labelPueblo Mágico ("Magical Town"). The Magical Towns are admitted for being localities that have magic symbolic attributes, legends, history, transcendental facts, that associate in each of his cultural manifestations, and that today mean a great opportunity for tourism.[2]
Price - $2. It is for kids to try to place the shapes through the correct holes. It also have picture puzzles on two side. The whole toy is dismantled and can be placed back correctly.
Roskilde Cathedral (or Roskilde Domkirke in Danish), on the island of Zealand (Sjælland), is an important cathedral of the Lutheran Church of Denmark.
The cathedral is the most significant church in Denmark, the official royal burial church of the Danish monarchs, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1995. Its UNESCO designation is attributable to two criteria: 1) the architecture of the cathedral shows 800 years of European architectural styles, and 2) it is one of the earliest examples in Scandinavia of a Gothic cathedral to be built with brick, which encouraged the spread of the Brick Gothic style throughout Northern Europe. Built from 1170 to 1636, the cathedral incorporates both Gothic and Romanesque architectural features in its design. The cathedral has been the main burial site for Danish monarchs since the 15th century. As such, it has been significantly extended and altered over the centuries to accommodate a considerable number of burial chapels. The many added chapels display a range of different architectural styles.
Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roskilde_Cathedral
Roskilde is a small city located roughly 20 miles west of Copenhagen on the Danish island of Zealand. With a population of approximately 53,000 (in 2023), the city is a business and educational center for the region and the 10th largest city in Denmark.
Roskilde has a long history, dating from the pre-Christian Viking Age. Its UNESCO-listed Gothic cathedral, now housing 39 tombs of the Danish monarchs, was completed in 1275, becoming a focus of religious influence until the Reformation. With the development of the rail network in the 19th century, Roskilde became an important hub for traffic with Copenhagen, and by the end of the century, there were tobacco factories, iron foundries, and machine shops.
Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roskilde_Cathedral
A. Japan is silly.
2. it is a real treat to get a block of cheese (even a small one!) in this country.
C. getting cheese in school lunch is even more amazing!
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Paws Atlanta a local animal shelter, and Snap-2-It a low cost spay and neutering operation, teamed up for an awesome night all to help out the cute furry ones they hold so dear! A silent auction was held with donated items with all proceeds going to both non-profits! It was a pretty awesome time for a great cause! :D
this tent is great because, 1)it is square thus maximizing the space inside and 2) it has a hinged door!!!! (dorky engineer-me coming out here....sorry)
Unable to get full sheets of drywall into the basement means one does what one can, and gets proficient at taping and plastering. Fortunately, it's a utility room.
CHARLIE SHEEN is really a wonderful little boy. He just appeared at our barn one day when he was around 6 weeks old. He was fast and it was hard to catch him. When I finally got my hands on him, he reminded me of the wild pitches Charlie Sheen threw in the baseball movie where he was nick named Wild Thing! So here was this little kitten, hissing, spitting and trying his hardest to get out of my hold! Guess I won! He loves to play and is currently fostered with Tommy Girl if you were looking for two! (From the SNAP 2 It Website)
These are cats available from SNAP 2 It rescue. They took in 28 cats from a hoarding case & most of those cats are ready to be adopted. For more info check out their website.
Navy Pier is a 3,300-foot (1,010 m) long pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. It is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area. The pier was built in 1916 at a cost of $4.5 million, equivalent to $96.1 million today.[2] It was a part of the Plan of Chicago developed by architect and city planner Daniel Burnham and his associates.
Day 2: It was very wet and windy overnight and not much better the next morning so we stayed put. Quite a change from the perfect summers day on Pender Island a year before. At least Amy had suitably updated her wardrobe swapping the wedding dress for a dry suit ;)
A good day for building fires and perfecting tarp pitching.
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Paws Atlanta a local animal shelter, and Snap-2-It a low cost spay and neutering operation, teamed up for an awesome night all to help out the cute furry ones they hold so dear! A silent auction was held with donated items with all proceeds going to both non-profits! It was a pretty awesome time for a great cause! :D
The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was an American supersonic fighter-bomber used by the United States Air Force. Capable of Mach 2, it conducted the majority of strike bombing missions during the early years of the Vietnam War; it was the only American aircraft to have been removed from combat due to high loss rates. It was originally designed as a single-seat, nuclear-attack aircraft; a two-seat Wild Weasel version was later developed for the specialized Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) role against surface-to-air missile sites. The F-105 was commonly known as the "Thud" by its crews.
As a follow-on to the Mach 1 capable North American F-100 Super Sabre, the F-105 was also armed with missiles and a rotary cannon; however, its design was tailored to high-speed low-altitude penetration carrying a single nuclear weapon internally. First flown in 1955, the Thunderchief entered service in 1958. The single-engine F-105 could deliver a greater bomb load than some American heavy bombers of World War II such as the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The F-105 was one of the primary attack aircraft of the Vietnam War; over 20,000 Thunderchief sorties were flown, with 382 aircraft lost including 62 operational (non-combat) losses (out of the 833 produced). Although less agile than smaller MiG fighters, USAF F-105s were credited with 27.5 kills.
During the war, the single-seat F-105D was the primary aircraft delivering heavy bomb loads against the various military targets. Meanwhile, the two-seat F-105F and F-105G Wild Weasel variants became the first dedicated SEAD platforms, fighting against the Soviet-built S-75 Dvina (NATO reporting name: SA-2 Guideline) surface-to-air missiles. Two Wild Weasel pilots were awarded the Medal of Honor for attacking North Vietnamese surface-to-air missile sites, with one shooting down two MiG-17s the same day. The dangerous missions often required them to be the "first in, last out", suppressing enemy air defenses while strike aircraft accomplished their missions and then left the area.
When the Thunderchief entered service it was the largest single-seat, single-engine combat aircraft in history, weighing approximately 50,000 pounds (23,000 kg). It could exceed the speed of sound at sea level and reach Mach 2 at high altitude. The F-105 could carry up to 14,000 lb (6,400 kg) of bombs and missiles. The Thunderchief was later replaced as a strike aircraft over North Vietnam by both the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and the swing-wing General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark. However, the "Wild Weasel" variants of the F-105 remained in service until 1984 after being replaced by the specialized F-4G "Wild Weasel V".
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_F-105_Thunderchief
This aircraft
USAF Serial: 61-0106
Photo by Eric Friedebach