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3rd piece of the year. Painted with ME & Eras CBS MOB.
Definitely the best thing I've put up this year I reckon.
As the Bass isn't what it used to be and Doom Bar is everywhere, that narrows it down somewhat!
The Globe Inn, Snarestone, Leicestershire.
When you sit and contemplate what 4 more minutes would have accomplished but unlike others, you actually followed the rules.....
In Hinduism, it is believed that the opening of Shiva's third eye causes the eventual destruction of the universe.
This magnificent Victorian marble statue of The Flight from Pompeii resides in the Statuary House of the Ballarat Botanic Gardens.
Inspired by the gift of twelve marble statues to the people of Ballarat by Thomas Stoddart (1828 - 1905), James Russell Thomson (1818 - 1952) left a bequest from which The Flight from Pompeii and five other statues were purchased. They were presented to the people of Ballarat on 3rd August 1888.
This photo sent to me by Bert Dugdale, shows our 5 Squadron RAAF Iroquois display team, "The Wockettes" in action at the Edinburgh Air Show on the above date.
Iroquois A2-490 was lead with Jock Alexander, Jim Cole, Terry Pinkerton and myself as crew.
It appears to be A2-507 in second slot with A2-486 trailing.
Bert Dugdale Copyright.
A touch too much Good Life at an impressionable age?
The allotment: as if I don't have enough guilt in my life with 2 children and a part time job that should be full time. And a cat. And a garden. Oh and a husband,
Haven't made it down there for months between the snow & grumpy ill children. Got some blackcurrant bushes from the ILs last week and they needed to go in the ground before the snow comes again. Surprisingly, it was lovely digging down there, nice & soft and easy. Got the bushes plantedm plus some garlic which I've had for 3 months now. Oops. Still, the leeks are growing and the onions too, although I've culled the cabbage.
And we had a bagful of root veg worth, oooh, almost £2. More if you count it as organic. That's worth a year of guilt and days of weeding, isn't it? I heard they even sell them in Tescos these days...
Selects of Anime Expo 2016 at the Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, CA
07/02/15
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West-German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag G.m.b.H., Minden/Westf., no. 2487 Photo: Columbia. Publicity still for The Guns of Fort Petticoat (George Marshall, 1957).
Audie Murphy (1925-1971) was the most decorated US soldier of World War II. Subsequently, he was a film actor and songwriter. In the 1950s and 1960s, he enjoyed success as a performer in Westerns and adventure films. Murphy received every military award his country had to offer, some of them more than once - a total of 33 awards and medals; among others, he was a recipient of the Medal of Honor. He received five of his decorations from France and one from Belgium. During his three years of service, he served in the 3rd US Infantry Division, where he rose from Private to First Lieutenant.
Audie Leon Murphy was born in Kingston, Texas in 1925. His parents were Josie Bell (Killian) and Emmett Berry Murphy, poor sharecroppers of Irish descent. There was great poverty in his family which counted eleven children, two of whom died. As soon as these children were old enough, they were employed to help earn a living. His father disappeared one day and was never heard from again. Over the years, the mother became increasingly weak and died when Murphy was 16 years old. The three youngest children were sent to an orphanage and Murphy went to work, first at a petrol pump and then at a radio repair shop. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he decided to enlist in the army. On his seventeenth birthday, he applied to a Marine recruiting station but was rejected because he was not of sufficient weight. Finally, after another unsuccessful application to the paratroopers, he was accepted into the infantry. With the help of his sister, he had used a forged birth certificate, with 1924 as his date of birth, to make himself look old enough. At Fort Meade, where his training was to be completed, he kept insisting on being sent overseas and in early 1943 Murphy landed with the rest of the troops in North Africa. He would become the most decorated American soldier of World War II and participated in combat operations for 27 months. Early in June 1945, a month after the German capitulation, Murphy returned to the United States, where he received a hero's welcome in his native Texas. He was honourably discharged from the army with the rank of a first lieutenant on 21 September 1945. Murphy became world famous when he appeared on the cover of Life (16 July 1945) as the "most decorated soldier". After the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, he reenlisted in the 36th Infantry Division of the Texas National Guard. However, this division did not participate in combat. When Murphy left the Guard in 1966 it was with the rank of major. After Murphy returned from Europe, he bought a house in Farmersville for his eldest sister Corrine, her husband Poland Burns and their three children. His intention was that his youngest sister and two brothers, Nadine, Billie and Joe, who had been in an orphanage since their mother's death, would also move in with them but six children under one roof proved a bit much so Murphy took them in.
After actor James Cagney had seen Audie Murphy's picture on the cover of Life magazine, he invited him to Hollywood in September 1945. The first years there were difficult for Murphy. Cagney Productions paid for acting and dancing lessons but was reluctantly forced to admit that Murphy - at least at that point in his career - didn't have what it took to become a movie star. For the next several years he struggled to make it as an actor. Due to a lack of work, he became disillusioned, often ran out of money and slept on the floor of an old gym 'Terry Hunt's Athletic Club', owned by his friend Terry Hunt. He eventually got a bit role in the film Beyond Glory (John Farrow, 1948) starring Alan Ladd, and in Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven (William Castle, 1948) with Guy Madison and Diana Lynn. In this third film, Bad Boy (Kurt Neumann, 1949), Murphy got a leading role. Murphy also appeared in the film adaptation of Stephen Crane's book The Red Badge of Courage (John Huston, 1951), for which he received rave reviews. Murphy wrote his autobiography 'To hell and back' in 1949 and it became a national bestseller. The book was written by his friend David "Spec" McClure, a professional writer. He had great difficulty playing himself in the film version, To Hell and Back (Jesse Hibbs, 1955). He initially saw it as a kind of sell-out of his actions during the war and thought Tony Curtis should be given the lead role in the film. In the film, the reality was followed and Murphy's comrades died just as was mentioned in the book. At the end of the film, Murphy was the only member of his original regiment left. During the ceremony in which Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor, his friends were represented as ghosts. This was Murphy's idea to honour his friends. The film was a huge hit and brought in almost 10 million US dollars during its first years, setting a box-office record for Universal that wasn't broken for 20 years until it was finally surpassed by Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975). One of his better pictures was Night Passage (James Neilson, 1957), a Western in which he played the kid brother of James Stewart. In 1959 he starred in the Western No Name on the Bullet (Jack Arnold, 1959), which was well received, despite Murphy playing a professional killer. He worked for Huston again on The Unforgiven (John Huston, 1960) opposite Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn.
Audie Murphy was plagued by insomnia, bouts of depression and nightmares, probably a result of the many battles he had to fight during his life. His first wife, Wanda Hendrix, often spoke of Murphy's struggles. During the 1960s Murphy was addicted to the sleeping pill Placidyl for a time. When he realised he had become addicted he locked himself in a hotel room and taught himself not to use it. He also broke the taboo of talking about war-related mental conditions. To draw attention to the problems of returning veterans from Korea and Vietnam, he spoke candidly about his own. He called on the US government to pay more attention to this issue and to study more closely the impact of war on mental health. Meanwhile, the studio system that Murphy grew into as an actor crumbled. Universal's new owners, MCA, dumped its "International" tag in 1962 and turned the studio's focus toward the more lucrative television industry. For theatrical productions, it dropped its roster of contract players and hired actors on a per-picture basis only. That cheap Westerns on the big screen were becoming a thing of the past bode no good for Murphy, either. The Texican (Lesley Selander, 1966) with Broderick Crawford, his lone attempt at a new, European form of inexpensive horse opera, to become known as "the Spaghetti Western", was unsuccessful. His star was falling fast. He made a total of 44 films, but Murphy was also a rancher and businessman. He bred and raised thoroughbred horses and owned several ranches in Texas, Arizona and California. Murphy was also successful as a country singer and composer. He worked with Guy Mitchell, Jimmy Bryant, Scott Turner, Coy Ziegler and Ray and Terri Eddlemon, among others. Murphy's songs were recorded and sung by Dean Martin, Eddy Arnold, Charley Pride, Jimmy Bryant, Porter Waggoner, Jerry Wallace, Roy Clark and Harry Nilsson, among others. His two biggest hits were 'Shutters and Boards' and 'When the Wind Blows in Chicago'. In 1949, Murphy married film actress Wanda Hendrix and divorced her in 1952. He then married flight attendant Pamela Archer, with whom he had 2 children, Terrance Michael and James Shannon - named after two of his closest friends. Audie Murphy died in 1971 in a plane crash in the mountains of Virginia. Murphy was buried with military honours in Arlington National Cemetery. The official government representative was the decorated World War II veteran and future President G.H.W. Bush.
Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch) and IMDb.
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Not many strangers feature more than once in my "Hello Strangers" set. This lady however has been featured not twice but three times!
No, I didn't stalk her.
I am oddly happy with this print - Ilford HP5 on Kentmere VC paper. The film tore as I was trying to load it onto the spool, but fortunately just over this frame... I decided to print it anyway this afternoon and rather like the fact it is damaged and imperfect.
Whilst the photo was taken last weekend, the processing, printing and scanning were all done today - making it a today photo of the day!
On Friday, June 24th, 2022, as I was enduring day 285th of my 3rd-Hunger Strike outside the UNHCR office, I went to the #USEmbassyAthens again in order to plead for urgent support both in terms of In-Kind Donations for my survival as well as mediation for resolving my dire situation in Greece.
But they called the Police right away and I was consequently immediately taken to the Ambelokipi Police Station where they placed me in Detention at the basement of the building for 42-Days along with 7 to 8 other foreigners under conditions totally unfit for holding people for such a prolonged period of time supposedly due to being undocumented before they finally decided for my release 7-weeks later on Friday, August 05th, 2022.
Back at my protest site outside the #UNHCR office currently enduring my 4th #HungerStrike which began on Saturday, August 06th, 2022.
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(Photos 08/22)
507005 departs Sandhills, Merseyrail, 3rd April 1980.
Unit History
In 1977 the existing class 502 units working the Merseyrail suburban 750v dc third rail system were approaching forty years in service and the class 507 three car EMU’s were ordered as replacements. Delivery commenced in September 1978 and thirty three units were built by York works between 1978 and 1980. The class 507 is a dc only version of the standard 1972 design for suburban EMUs, which eventually encompassed over seven hundred and fifty vehicles of five classes (313, 314, 315, 507, 508). One unit has been withdrawn following collision damage and the remaining thirty two sets continue to work Merseyrail services.
This was shot for Macro Monday’s theme “How does it work?”.
This is 3rd gear along with it’s synchromesh ring out of my B18C1 (94-01 Acura Integra GS-R) powered 1995 Honda Civic EX-A (she was stolen ‘bout 3 years ago – I miss her!)
The transmission got to a point where I was afraid to use 3rd gear cuz it kept popping out.. took it to Sticks Only in Sun Valley and they made it like new. Now I have this extremely expensive paper weight!
Explored #294 thanks!
There is something very, very compelling about this tiny settlement. No roads... just peace and tranquility.
This is Isle Martin, an uninhabited, community run island off Ardmair Point noth of Ullapool. It is the closest of the Summer Isles and one that can be visited by prior arrangement via a locally operated small ferry.
I feel an adventure coming on!
My 3rd gen Licca (1982) with cut hair (cut by original owner in Japan).
The 3rd gen was from 1980 - 1988, with a new, slightly different Licca headmold introduced again. The new 'default' haircolor of Licca was in a bit lighter shade of brown than before and the hair was often straight, not wavy like during the 2nd gen.
3rd gen was a step forward to the Licca look we know and love today. It may not be as popular as 1st or 2nd gen but its own charm left an imprint in Licca's rich history just like her other incarnations.
I got her very cheap due to the harsh yet cute haircut. I love her just the same, it's BECAUSE of the haircut that I fell in love with her!
Outfit is from vintage Skipper collection and boots are Takara Licca.
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some people are very in tune with their third eye aka intuition, the universe, the spirit world... call it what you will, i believe!
huge thanks to Jerry Jones for the awesome textures!
odc-coming to our senses
totw-comic book hero (or villan in this case... despero)
bokeh thursday-all the way up