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American Airlines Airbus A330-200 N285AY rotates under the gaze of the control tower at Manchester Airport as it begins its flight to Philadelphia.
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhychos)
Cedar Hill State Park. Cedar Hill, Texas.
Dallas County. 25 February 2018.
Nikon D800. Tamron SP 150-600mm f5-6.3 Di VC USD
(600mm) f7.1 @ 1/640 sec. ISO 800.
Medic 2 - Caldwell Memorial Hospital, Caldwell, Idaho.
Canyon County Paramedics, the ambulance service, can trace its lineage from three private providers: Canyon County Ambulance Service of Caldwell, Idaho, Pyra-Med Emergency Services, Inc. of Caldwell/Boise, Idaho, and Twin Cities Ambulance service of Nampa, Idaho. Not too much is known about the first two services, Canyon County and Pyra-Med; the former may have given rise to the latter around 1976. I became aware of Canyon County Ambulance Service in the early 70s; it faded from existence sometime in the late 70s. Pyra-Med existed between 1976 and 1978 according to the State of Idaho, Secretary of State website. Twin Cities, owned and operated by Claude Ellis from 1971 to 1979, was the last private ambulance service in Canyon County. Headquartered in Nampa, Idaho, Twin Cities provided the wheels under which the county paramedic program was able to gain traction and immerge as the third-service utility know as Canyon County Paramedics. This transition took place between 1975 and 1979. Once the county completed acquisition of all necessary equipment needed to operate independently of Twin Cities, Mr. Ellis closed the doors to his company, sold all assets, and left the area to become “ . . . the pastor of a church in California,” he told me prior to his departure. That was 1979.
The vehicle shown is a Type-1 remount of a 1975 American Coaches "Amliner" on 1980 Chevrolet C-30 Chassis. In 1975, Canyon County purchased two such units through the State of Idaho using a program of matching funds, each entity paying 50% of the vehicle’s cost. This purchasing program effectively ushered out the era of Cadillac and home-built ambulances for vehicles that conformed to current standards of the day.
American Crow (Corvus brachyrhychos)
Cedar Hill State Park. Cedar Hill, Texas.
Dallas County. 25 February 2018.
Nikon D800. Tamron SP 150-600mm f5-6.3 Di VC USD
(600mm) f7.1 @ 1/500 sec. ISO 800.
While shooting bald eagles in Le Claire, IA I stopped by Antique Archeology shop. This is one of 2 shops that the show "American Pickers" is televised. Unfortunately, Danielle, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz were not there. They had just completed a taping session the week prior. The other shop is in Nashville. They normally are on the road looking for junk - oops...ah...I mean antiques. : )
- Le Claire, IA - Jan 2013-3987
The American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is one of the longest bird native to North America.It has the second largest average wingspan of any North American bird, after the California Condor. In the breeding season the male has a large horn on its beak. Unlike the brown pelican, the white pelican does not dive for fish, it catches its prey whilst swimming.
A flock of some 30 birds descended on the lake in Hesperia on their migration South - to the chagrin of the local fishermen. These birds eat around 4lbs of food each day!
2013 © David White Photography. Please do not use without permission.
WUOG, the UGA radio station, did some volunteer work at the Athens-Clarke County Animal Control Center.
Check the animal shelter out here, and WUOG here
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Everything was shot with a 50mm prime lens and f/1.8
ISO varied from 100 to 200 and shutter speeds from 1/3000 to 1/4000.
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Following the United States entry into World War I, the American government promised
to raise and send a trained army numbering more than one million men to France to fight
on the side of the Allies. America’s army at the time numbered only 200,000 men and no
formed divisions existed. Beginning in May 1917, American troops began arriving in
France, initially to train, not to fight.
After three years of fighting, however, the Allies needed relief. In late summer
1917, small engineer contingents were released to assist Britain’s army in its sector of the
Western Front northeast of Paris. Be war’s end, five American divisions and many
separate units would fight alongside their British allies, most in the department (region)
of France named for the River Somme. For the Americans who would fight there, first combat came at Cambrai, approximately 130 miles/209 killometers to the northeast of
Paris.
The British attack at Cambrai, the first massed tank offensive in history, began on
20 November 1917 and made significant gains. By 30 November, the British attack
ground to a halt due to lack of reserves, the mechanical unreliability of the primitive
tanks, and a greatly reinforced German defense. About ten miles/16 kilometers to the
southeast of the British salient’s tip at Cambrai, lay the town of Gouzeaucourt. Here the
American 11th Engineer Regiment was repairing rail lines and building a rail yard for the
British.
On 30 November, the Germans mounted a major counterattack aimed at the
salient’s flanks and directly in front of the Americans. When the British line buckled,
U.S. engineers armed themselves and joined the British defense, some fighting as
infantry while others joined the counterattack force that recaptured the town by the end of
the day. The 11th Engineers suffered eighteen casualties. Earlier in September, the 11th
had suffered the first U.S. battle casualties while serving in the same sector.
While American divisions were arriving in increasing numbers, the separate peace
treaty signed by the Russia with Germany freed nearly 60 enemy divisions for use in the
west. In March 1918, the Germans massed 50 divisions in the Somme Region of
northern France, intending to split the British armies serving in the north from the main
body of the French armies serving in the center and southern sectors of the Western
Front. Attacking on 21 March, the Germans made great initial gains and pluged the front
into crisis. Again, U.S. engineers supporting the British became part of the defense. Two
companies of the 6th Engineer Regiment serving in the vicinity of Peronne, approximately
20 miles/32 kilometers east of Amiens, joined a mixed American-British-Canadian
defense force to block the road about ten miles/16 kilometers east of Amiens. Fighting in
the village of Warfusee-Abancourt on the Peronne-Amiens road during the last days of
March and into early April, the Americans helped repel three German attacks and fought
as infantry for eight days.
The German March offensive changed the nature of the war. American
Commander- in-Chief, General John J. Pershing placed the American Expeditionary
Force at the call of the new Allied Supreme Commander Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Soon
arriving American divisions both trained and fought alongside the armies of Britain and
France.
The U.S. 1st Division was attached to the French First Army in late April. In the
early morning hours of 28 May, the 1st Division’s 28th Infantry Regiment with two
companies of her sister regiment, the 18th Infantry, attacked and seized the hill town of
Cantigny which bulged into the Allied line. Withstanding furious counterattacks and
three full days of bombardment, the 1st Division held its gains. The attack at Cantigny
was America’s first division-sized offensive in World War I.
By summer, the main weight of Pershing’s forces shifted to the Champagne area
and further west into Lorraine to help form the American First Army, but American
divisions continued to arrive on the still active Somme front which would retain an
American presence until the war’s end.
On the 4th of July, four companies from the U.S. 33rd Division, interspersed with
units from the Australian Corps, helped to seize the village of Hamel, east of Amiens and
near the 6th Engineers’ battlefield. On 8 August 1918, the British began a series of major offensives that would continue until the Armistice. The U.S. 80th Division took part in
these attacks from the 8th to the 18th of August near the village of Serre while farther
south, the 131st Infantry drawn from the U.S. 33rd Division cleared the heights and woods
overlooking the Somme River from Chipilly to Braysur-Somme.
The U.S. II Corps with the 27th and 30th Divisions was attached to the British
Fourth Army in September and alternately served as a complete corps under the tactical
direction of Australian and British corps. Recently arrived from combat with the British
in Flanders, the II Corps was assigned to seize one of the Western Front’s strongest
enemy objectives: the St. Quentin tunnel complex of the Hindenburg Line.
The Corps’ objective lay about 40 miles/64 kilometers east of Amiens. The
Hingenburg Line consisted of multiple tiers of trenches, strong points, underground
protective bays, barbed wire, and machine gun nests sited on defensively superior
ground.
The American sector was about 7,500 yards wide, sited south of the Escaut River at
Vendhuile running through Bony and Bellicourt to Ville Noire. Enemy trenches were
sited both on the forward and reverse slopes of a long ridge perpendicular to the
American attack. Behind the ridge, the St. Quentin canal ran through a four-mile
underground tunnel used by the Germans to protect their troops from bombardment.
Moving into the front lines to replace British units in late September, both divisions
began limited objective attacks to secure jump-off lines for the main offensive. While
some success was achieved to the flanks by both divisions, the 27th Division’s attempt to
clear the strongpoints dominating its attack zone was repulsed with heavy casualties in
one of its regiments on 27 September. The offensive, nevertheless, proceeded two days
later.
Attacking through furious fire on 29 September, the two American divisions fought
side by side for two days to clear the ridge and tunnel. The 27th Division’s sector which
encompassed the northern half of the attack proved to be particularly vicious. In the area
which includes the Somme American Cemetery and the hill to its north known as “the
knoll,” the 27th Division’s 107th Infantry suffered 995 casualties during the first day’s
attack, the largest one-day American regimental loss for the entire war. The II Corps
suffered over 7,500 casualties during their Hindenburg Line assault. There were nine
Medal of Honor recipients.
On 6 October, after having been temporarily relieved from the front, the II Corps’
two divisions were recommitted four miles/6.4 kilometers to the east of their original
sector. The fighting continued with the II Corp making a further nine mile/14.6
kilometers advance. The II Corps was relieved from the line on 21 October, and with the
armistice in November, the 27th and 30th Divisions never again saw battle on the Western
Front. The II Corps’ battles on the Somme cost over 13,500 American casualties.
Captain America, at some point I had no representation of Cap. Now I have 3!
This one is very .. what's the word, kid like in the face, youthful. Not sure how that will sit with other collectors and fans, Also the shield has changed.
The connecting tab to attach his shield to wrist/arm is now molded to the shield and without straps. So if the tabs snap/break.. then you'll need a replacement.
The shield also reminds me of the Atletico Madrid Football Badge.. ;-p
A 1988 MD-82, climbing out of Los Angeles for a trip to Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (STL/KSTL.)
thepageantplanet.com/8-swimsuit-workout-myths-debunked.html
Do you want a Miss America swimsuit model body? The official trainer of the Miss Arizona pageant tells how.
I keep most of my outfits and accessories in these boxes (the ones on the floor in front of the metal shelves, not the ones behind which hold everything from rocks to letters to Nancy Ann Storybook dolls), which just lost their place when I rearranged the shelves. They are lined with acid free paper and sorted by doll, or, for the Girl of Todays, by category. Although I don't have evil carpet beetles etc. at this house, each one has a cedar ball just in case, and highly problematic outfits are in their own plastic bags. I have a box for hangers that is full, hence the ones on the top. The Felicity poster was an awesome find: $3 in the frame at Goodwill!
Golden Gate Bridge, 1934
Ray Strong, Born: Corvallis, Oregon 1905 Died: Three Rivers, California 2006
oil on canvas 44 1/8 x 71 3/4 in. (112.0 x 182.3 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service 1965.18.50
Not currently on view
Personal, educational and non-commercial use of digital images from the American Art Museum's collection is permitted, with attribution to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, for all images unless otherwise noted. http://americanart.si.edu/collections/rights/
Sad, I think it's a Yellow-rumped Warbler, which I haven't seen in my yard in years. Didn't see this one either while it was among the living :(
American Avocet (Recurvirostra americana)
Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge.
Grayson County, Texas. 2 July 2016.
Nikon D7200. AF-S Nikkor ED 500mm f4 D + TC-14e III teleconverter.
(700mm) f5.6 @ 1/1250 sec. ISO 560.