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why take a photo of your sketching kit when you can sketch it??? (I think I need to slow down before I go away...one advantage of living down under is that the flights are so long that it forces me to chill!!!)
Last years trip was such a mammoth task to prepare for and organise that I hardly drew at all beforehand. this year I have love being able to enjoy sketching the process.
Can't wait for the USK symposium!!!
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Go red this February and join in the fun for National Heart Month.
2011 is the British Heart Foundation's 50th birthday, so what better time to join the celebrations? Get involved in Red for Heart to help raise funds for their vital work.
The BHF is the nation's heart charity. Their vision is a world where people don't die prematurely from heart disease.
They look to achieve this through pioneering research, vital prevention activity and ensuring quality care and support for everyone living with heart disease.
There's lots you can do to keep your heart healthy - whatever your age.
Taking exercise, eating a healthy diet, encouraging children to be heart healthy and being aware of dangers such as smoking, drinking, high blood pressure and stress.
Prevention really is better than cure. People of all ages who are physically active are half as likely to get cardiovascular disease as those that are inactive.And a healthy diet helps to reduce your risk of developing heart disease, or if you've already got heart problems it will help to protect your heart.
We should all be thinking about our heart health and what we can do to keep as healthy as possible.
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Nelle vicinanze di Castelsardo si trova questa spettacolare roccia risalente al periodo preistorico compreso tra il 6° e il 3° millennio a.C.
Venice (Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] Venetian: Venexia [veˈnɛsja]; (Latin: Venetia)) is a city in northeast Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges.[1] It is located in the marshy Venetian Lagoon which stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. Venice is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks.[1] The city in its entirety is listed as a World Heritage Site, along with its lagoon.[1]
Venice is the capital of the Veneto region. In 2009, there were 270,098 people residing in Venice's comune (the population estimate of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the whole Comune of Venezia; around 60,000[2] in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the Mainland), mostly in the large frazioni of Mestre and Marghera; 31,000 live on other islands in the lagoon). Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), with a total population of 1,600,000.
The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC.[3][4] The city historically was the capital of the Venetian Republic. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals". Luigi Barzini described it in The New York Times as "undoubtedly the most beautiful city built by man".[5] Venice has also been described by the Times Online as being one of Europe's most romantic cities.[6]
The Republic of Venice was a major maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century. This made Venice a wealthy city throughout most of its history.[7] It is also known for its several important artistic movements, especially the Renaissance period. Venice has played an important role in the history of symphonic and operatic music, and it is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi.
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Venice (Italian: Venezia [veˈnɛttsja] Venetian: Venexia [veˈnɛsja]; (Latin: Venetia)) is a city in northeast Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges.[1] It is located in the marshy Venetian Lagoon which stretches along the shoreline between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. Venice is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks.[1] The city in its entirety is listed as a World Heritage Site, along with its lagoon.[1]
Venice is the capital of the Veneto region. In 2009, there were 270,098 people residing in Venice's comune (the population estimate of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the whole Comune of Venezia; around 60,000[2] in the historic city of Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the Mainland), mostly in the large frazioni of Mestre and Marghera; 31,000 live on other islands in the lagoon). Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), with a total population of 1,600,000.
The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC.[3][4] The city historically was the capital of the Venetian Republic. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals". Luigi Barzini described it in The New York Times as "undoubtedly the most beautiful city built by man".[5] Venice has also been described by the Times Online as being one of Europe's most romantic cities.[6]
The Republic of Venice was a major maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century. This made Venice a wealthy city throughout most of its history.[7] It is also known for its several important artistic movements, especially the Renaissance period. Venice has played an important role in the history of symphonic and operatic music, and it is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi.
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This photo from Florida's Everglades National Park is Part 27 of 50 in a sporadic series. Yes, this is still a thing. This is, in fact, the longest of these things so far.
I'm going to jump a bit earlier into the Florida story than I have for the other states.
About 330 million years ago, all the continents smashed together to form the big supercontinent scientific folks call Pangea. This is just something that happens sometimes. Things stayed cool that way for a while, but the planet got bored with the situation after about 155 million years, and the continents started splitting up again. The rift between North America and Africa popped up at about the same place where the two continents had come together, and both sides left the continental union roughly with what they'd brought to it. With one exception. When North America took off, it had one little piece of Africa still dangling from its southeastern corner. 175 million years later, a bunch of coral and sand perched on that little piece of Africa would become the American state of Florida.
Even from the very beginning, Florida was a thing apart. It's different from the rest of us.
The human story of Florida starts about 14,000 years ago, when some unknown batch of folks finally crossed into the peninsula's grasslands after spending a hundred millennia hiking in the long way from Africa. Nobody knows who those first Floridians were, but contrary to popular imagination, they were not the Seminoles. The Seminoles didn't come until well after the Europeans had started poking around the Florida coast. (We'll get to that in a minute.)
The dominant group of humans living in Florida when the first Spanish galleons popped over the horizon were a group of Carib people known as the Calusa. They only occupied the peninsula's southernmost third, but their culture was far more developed than that of the Muskogean-speaking people who lived along the coast in the peninsula's northern segment. Not that it would do them much good once the Europeans dug in.
That Fountain, and Other Tales
Those first Europeans were the Spanish, who'd gotten the jump on the rest of Europe by about a century in the exploration game. Thanks to the way the winds had blown Columbus's boats, though, the Spaniards' earliest forays into the Americas focused on the islands in the Caribbean, and it took them a little while to realize there was such a thing as a North American mainland.
The story goes that the first Spaniard to figure it out was a guy named Juan Ponce de León. You've probably heard of him. In 1512, he was the 38-year-old governor of Puerto Rico, but he figured there had to be something more out there, so he grabbed a boat and went looking. Sometime in the spring of 1513, he set foot on what he assumed was just another large island. He named the place La Florida, after the Easter festival the Spanish called La Pascua Florida, or the flowery feast. He spent a little while wandering the Florida coast down past the site of modern Miami and through the Keys, documenting enough of what was there to claim the thing for Spain, then went back to Puerto Rico.
Despite what you may have heard, though, Ponce de León was not looking for some mystical Fountain of Youth. I mean, sure, maybe he was "old" by 16th century standards, and it makes for a good story, I guess, but nobody wrote anything about any magic Fountain into the historical record until Ponce de León had already been dead a couple of decades, which made the fountain kind of moot. The entire quest was probably made up from the start.
Moonlight in Old St. Augustine
Over the next several decades, the Spaniards kept trying to set up a permanent colony on Florida, but it never seemed to take. In those early years, the Calusa were fiercely resistant to any Spanish colonists who tried to set down roots. They're the ones who actually killed Ponce de León, for instance, when they shot him with an arrow when he tried to settle with 200 Spaniards in 1521. For a while, then, the conquistadors like Pánfilo de Narváez or Hernando de Soto just passed right through on their way to someplace else.
What finally got the Spaniards in gear in Florida was the French. As we already know, the French efforts in North America focused on the far northern parts of the East Coast at first, and then on the parts along the Mississippi River. But to get to the mouth of the Mississippi River, you have to go right past Florida, and that gave a few Frenchmen ideas. In 1564, a French explorer named René Goulaine de Laudonnière decided to carve a colony called Fort Caroline from a piece of Florida near modern-day Jacksonville for French Huguenots, outcast Protestants who at that moment were being fiercely persecuted in extremely Catholic France. In a way, De Laudonnière--who was himself a Huguenot--was anticipating what the English Puritans would pull off in Massachusetts sixty years later, using the new continent as a refuge for Europe's misfits and castoffs.
Only things didn't go so well for de Laudonnière's Huguenots, because their sudden appearance in Florida--and, to be fair, Huguenot acts of piracy against the train of Spanish gold ships passing Florida on their way back to Spain from the mines in South America--caused the Spanish King Philip II to proclaim by royal decree, "Hey! That's mine!" The French Huguenots responded by saying, "But you weren't using it!" That argument carried no weight with the Spanish.
Spanish colonization in those days was all about finding gold and saving souls, and though Florida had no gold and all the Florida native souls were still committed to filling Spanish missionaries with arrows, Spain couldn't handle letting a bunch of Frenchmen use the peninsula as a base to attack the shipping lanes. So the Spaniards attacked Fort Caroline and drove out whatever Huguenots could escape. What Huguenots couldn't escape, the Spanish killed, and that was that for the French in Florida. Spain claimed all the East Coast of North America all the way up past what wasn't yet called New England as its own.
They would protect their North American possessions from a permanent fort a conquistador named Pedro Menéndez de Avilés finally managed to establish in 1565. The settlement around that fort would be called St. Augustine, and it still exists today as the oldest permanent European settlement in the United States of America. I went there once when I was a teenager. There were strip malls.
Spanish Florida, Part I
Things stayed quiet in Spanish Florida after the Huguenot thing went down, even as Spanish influence in North America, the Caribbean, and the rest of the world faded. Under the "Use It or Lose It" clause of the 17th century Book of Colonization Rules, all the other Europeans started ignoring the Spanish claims on America's East Coast north of Florida. Most of this series so far has talked about how that went. The Spaniards only managed to keep Florida because they had that town at St. Augustine and, later, a few other towns in places like Fort Lauderdale and Fort Meyers and Tampa Bay. As time went on, that proved something of a sore spot to English settlements in the Carolinas and Georgia. The Carolina English spent most of their early years constantly worried that the Spanish in Florida would invade, and there was a near endless series of little wars and invasions going back and forth along the I-95 corridor for most of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Meanwhile, the big Indian war the Spanish in St. Augustine feared never really came to pass. The Calusas in southern Florida never warmed up to the Spanish, but they suffered horribly in the onslaught of European diseases that decimated so many other Native American cultures. The Muskogean people of northern Florida sometimes joined the English in raids on St. Augustine or the French in raids on Pensacola. Other times, Muskogean people wound up fleeing some English Indian war and came pouring into Spanish Florida, looking for refuge. Sometimes, African slaves who'd escaped from the English colonies came with them. For the most part, the Spanish just tolerated this, as it turned out there wasn't much they could do about it anyway.
Interegnum of Brits, then Spanish Florida, Part II
Everything changed for Florida with the Seven Years' War, that vastly under-taught war in the historical record of Europe that in America is known as the French and Indian War. The Spanish were neither French nor Indian, and their colonists in Florida had nothing to do with all those French running around the wilderness forts way up north. But for reasons associated with the arrangement of European dynasties and the fact that the King of Spain was a distant cousin to the King of France, Spain decided to jump into the Seven Years' War in Europe on the French side just as things were going really bad for France. When everybody sat down in Paris to write the treaties ending the war in 1763, the refs couldn't just let Spain off with a warning. The Spanish were charged with a technical foul, and they wound up having to give up Florida to England. These same refs punished France for getting Spain in the mess to begin with by having the French hand over the Louisiana Territory, but as we've seen, the Spanish never did anything with Louisiana, so it really wasn't much of a consolation.
The main consequence of British rule in Florida was that almost all the Spanish settlers left. The British built roads into Georgia and split off western Florida into its own, separate colony, which they expanded through the southern portions of the future states of Alabama and Mississippi all the way to the Mississippi River. They tried to encourage British colonial settlement in Florida--that's part of what the Royal Proclamation of 1763 was about--and a few British colonists took them up on it. But Florida was hot and swampy, and nobody really wanted to go there, so it mostly stayed empty.
Which, as it turned out, was probably for the best, because the British didn't stay long anyway. After getting beat in the American Revolution, the treaty refs in Paris decided the Brits didn't deserve Florida. So in 1783, the new Treaty of Paris kicked them out and gave the territory back to the Spanish. All the British colonists left after that, but the old Spanish colonists didn't come back. The Calusa Indians, meanwhile, were almost wiped out by this time, and all those northern Muskogeans had been beaten west in various Indian wars. Florida after 1783 was virtually empty.
American Florida
So what happens in North America when you have an empty territory without much infrastructure or rule of law? What happened in Vermont when the overlapping legal claims of New York and Massachusetts cancelled each other out? What happened west of the 1763 Proclamation Line where English settlement was supposedly prohibited? What will happen all over the American West any time settlement outruns the legal framework of American expansion in the states to come?
Though the Spanish techinically owned Florida, they had no means to rule over it. And soon enough, they'd be so preoccupied with Napoléon that they couldn't have spared any troops even if they'd wanted. So Spanish Florida: The Second Coming became a haven for English and American outcasts and rebels and crooks and refugee slaves. Lawless folks who didn't fit into the new American civilized society poured into East and West Florida, where American law couldn't reach them and Spanish law didn't care. The peninsula filled with rough, rowdy, disreputable, drunk and debt-ridden people, along with a lot of poor innocents who'd just been caught up on the wrong side of some economic failure. Sometimes, it was just people who didn't fit into the new American framework, or people who the new American framework just didn't want.
There's the Seminoles, for instance, the Native American group most closely associated with Florida. The Seminoles weren't necessarily native to Florida. They weren't necessarily native to anywhere, in fact. They were a collection of different sets of people--Yamassee and Creek and Mikasuki--who'd been kicked out of one place or another in the Southeast, and who'd banded together, formed a new group, and fled into Florida. Over the first couple of decades of the 1800s, various bands of Seminole used Florida as a base to attack American settlements in Georgia ... which, in fact, is how the United States wound up in possession of Florida.
There'd been that whole deal in the 1790s and early 1800s when Spain tried to use Florida and Louisiana to leverage control over the Lower Mississippi River, but they'd been too afraid of American bluster to force that issue, and then Napoléon wound up undercutting the claim, anyway by retaking the Louisiana Territory and then turning around and selling the whole thing to the Americans. Spain still meant to hold onto Florida, though, and they joined with the Seminole refugees to sponsor attacks into Georgia and against the lawless Americans who'd set up their illegal settlements in Florida.
The illegal American settlers in West Florida responded in 1810 by declaring themselves an independent republic. Illegal Americans in East Florida followed suit in 1812. The Seminoles responded with a slow-burn war against the Americans that built over time into the First Seminole War. This finally led to an American invasion commanded by Andrew Jackson of both East and West Florida in 1818. Ultimately, the Americans used the Seminole War to justify claiming Florida outright, and they formally took over the territory in 1821.
This ultimately meant bad things for the Seminoles, who over the next decade or so were chased down into the Everglades. They held out in the swamp for a while and endured two more wars, but by the 1840s, they were largely wiped out.
Watcha Gonna Do?
After the First Seminole War and the resulting cession of Florida from Spain to the United States, all those outlaw Floridians suddenly turned respectable. They grabbed up what land they could, and soon they were joined by the slave-holding plantation men, then the speculators and bamboozelers and con artists looking for swampland to sell. By 1845, there were enough of them to justify statehood, and Florida became the 27th state of the Union. (A slave-holding state, or course.)
But Florida never really lost the seedy side it took on in that lawless interegnum when it was a swampy haven for castoffs and outlaws. I'm editorializing a bit here, but Florida has always seemed like a dark place to me, sort of the state version of that crumbling house in every neighborhood where you just know bad things have happened. I think that intergnum is where that begins. This is why almost every crazy thing that happens in America happens in Florida. It's why Florida was where Cops filmed 90% of their episodes. It's why Florida still, even today, is a thing set apart.
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Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest is now the unspeakable ignorance and inattention of mankind - in respect to the influences which form human character.
Whatever any portion of the human species now are, or seem to be, such, it is supposed, they have a natural tendency to be: when the most elementary knowledge of the circumstances in which they have been placed, clearly points out the causes that made them what they are.
- John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women ( 1869 )