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Approximately 2500 students, faculty, staff and community members visited Lewis and Clark Community College for the total solar eclipse Aug. 21, during the first day of the 2017-2018 school year. L&C handed out free solar viewing glasses, spaced themed food and other giveaways. Photo by Louise Jett, L&C media specialist
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Approximately 400 attendees participated in the COD Cares 2015 Fall Day of Action and Pumpkin Party.
Yes, that is a deer leg immediately adjacent to my car. What you can't see in this picture is the dead possum, which is behind my car on the other side of the driveway. Today's series of events:
#1. Drive down driveway while on phone with friend.
#2. See dead possum, tell friend, freak out a little, discuss whom I should call, how I should not touch it, etc.
#3. Promptly park car in regular spot.
#4. Hop out of car, leaving driver's side door open, run over near possum, cautiously get close and tell friend that yes, it appears to be dead. Get incredibly skeeved out by rat-like tail and creepy, pale possum hands. My sister isn't home, so I tell my friend I need to call her to find out if she's seen it.
#5. Turn around to return to car, see deer leg immediately next to my car, within the arc of the open door. Realize in that split-second that it's likely I stepped on it while getting out of car.
#6. Make yelpy alarmed screaming noise, hyperventilate and vomit within a space of about ten seconds.
#7. Tell friend via hyperventilating gibberish that there is a deer leg next to my car, and that I probably stepped on it. Start seeing spots like I'm going to faint. Sit on porch.
#8. Calm down enough to assure friend that I'm not dying, I did not find one of our cats dead, and I'm okay, but there is a piece of bloody deer carcass in my driveway.
#9. Call my sister while still freaking out, scare the shit out of her but quickly clear up any possibility of sister/car/bloody deer/coyote accidents. Sister realizes she may have parked her car over deer leg last night.
Jesus my head still hurts from the panic attack/crying/freaking out/laughing hysterically when my sis came home and we had to get the whole mess into garbage bags, etc.
F-ing coyotes or something, wtf.
And I don't live out in the country, I live in Green Hills.
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The Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton’s (WMSL 753) crew poses with approximately 26,250 pounds of cocaine and 3,700 pounds of marijuana at Port Everglades, Florida, Nov. 22, 2021. The largest drug interdiction in the ship’s history. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jose Hernandez)
Approximately 1,500 community members attended College of DuPage’s STEMCON, a public outreach event designed to inspire and educate K-12 students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The all-day event featured more than 25 exhibits offering interactive, educational activities, including soldering a blankie, building a catapult, exploring archaeology, dissecting trees and tinkering with Edison Robots.
At approximately 8:40pm on Sunday February 26, 2023, 8 District (Grimsby/Lincoln/West Lincoln) uniform officers responded to reports of a collision in the area of Ridge Road West and Mountain Road in the Town of Grimsby.
When they arrived, they located an 82-year-old female without vital signs along with a 79-year-old male with injuries.
The female was transported to a local hospital where she was pronounced deceased while the male was transported to an out-of-town hospital for treatment of his injuries.
Initial investigation has revealed that their vehicle was allegedly intentionally struck by another vehicle, with the impact propelling the vehicle into a ditch.
Police arrested the other driver at the scene of the collision with the Homicide Unit taking carriage of the investigation.
44-year-old Sonya Sekhon of Stoney Creek is facing the following charge:
- First Degree Murder
- Attempted Murder
Sekhon is currently being held in custody pending a bail hearing on Monday February 27, 2023, at the Robert S.K. Welch Court House in the City of St. Catharines.
The people involved were not known to each other.
www.niagarapolice.ca/en/news/woman-facing-charges-followi...
Approximately 150 members of the bar and bench turned out in support of the MSBA Young Lawyers Section's 26th Annual Charity Event, held April 7, 2017, at Louisiana Restaurant in Baltimore. Proceeds from the evening, which included a silent auction, went to benefit the One Love Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to raise awareness of relationship violence.
Approximately 60 Soldiers returned home from deployment in the Middle East to the Salt Lake Air National Guard Base on July 28, 2018.
This artwork imagines the ground beneath the city, with its vast network of tunnels, water and sewer lines, electrical and communication cables as an enormous bio-industrial rhizomatic organism with Node emerging from a confluence, growing outward to seek light and nutrients. Standing approximately 103 feet tall, the sculpture functions as a beacon, indicating the location of the station from blocks away. The form tapers from a diameter of 48 inches at the base to 1/2 of an inch at its peak, establishing a connection of earth to sky, people to station, and sculpture to city.
Collection of the City and County of San Francisco
Photo Credit: Ethan Kaplan Photography
Images are for Press Purposes Only
I found this Phantom Midge (Chaoborus) larva in a shallow pool. I placed it in an aquarium and took some shots. This is a 1:1 shot. The bubbles front and rear are air bladders . Looking toward the head the fangs are modified antenna used to grab food.
This model is only approximate, since it uses equilateral triangles, whereas the actual great stellated dodecahedron has isosceles triangles with angles of 72º, 72º, and 36º.
One of the Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra. Made with Geofix pieces at home in Cambridgeport, MA.
Approximately 140 Soldiers from the 10th Headquarters and Special Troops Battalion, 10th Mountain Division (LI) Sustainment Brigade received awards for completing the "Commander's Challenge" Oct. 13, 2020, on Fort Drum, NY.
The challenge is based off of the anniversary of the opening of the 10th HSTB on Fort Drum, NY, on Sept. 16, 1958. It consisted of a 3-mile run, 6-mile bike ride, 16 hand-release push-ups, 20 squats, with a 58-minute time limit.
Approximately 960 winter warriors Plunged in Duluth on February 16, 2013, to support Special Olympics Minnesota. These Plungers raised $170,000! Photo taken by Nancy J. Lindberg.
Coast Guard Cutter Waesche crewmembers offload seized cocaine from the Waesche in San Diego on June 13, 2016. Totalling approximately 21 tons, the drugs were interdicted in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Central and South America between early April and late May. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Rob Simpson.
Approximately one hundred Calgarians attended a rally on December 4th in front of the Harry Hayes Federal building, supporting the formation of a governing coalition consisting of the Liberals and NDP and supported by the Bloc Quebecois. The rally was organized on short notice and even though it was a chilly -5 celsius, it was very well attended by Calgary standards.
Earlier that day, the Governor General agreed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's request that parliament be prorogued (suspended) until the end of January 2009, rather than have the Conservative government face imminent defeat.
A coalition government is widely regarded by those supporting the opposition parties as more favorable than holding another election only a couple months after the previous one.
Hong Kong Transport
Motorbikes | Motorcycles | Scooters | Tricycles - All Brands
There are approximately 75,000 - 82,000 (ish) Licenced | Registered motorcycles, scooters and tricycles in Hong Kong, it never really changes much and dealers keep large stocks of popular models for immediate delivery due to heavy demand - The Transport Department classifies motorcycles and scooters as the same type of vehicle, personally I prefer the term motorbikes rather than motorcycles .....and yes, Hong Konger‛s love fast bikes.
There is nothing at all unusual about the popularity of motorcycles in Hong Kong, big powerful bikes are a lot more popular than the entry level 125cc and 250cc bikes simply because here you can get a motorcycle from all the major brands that do 190mph + and 0 - 60mph in 2.8 seconds, fast enough to outperform most supercars and even hypercars in Hong Kong and at a fraction of the price of a typical supercar, it is an easy sale. Scooters, well they are popular for food delivery companies!
There are over 125 brands of motorcycles, scooters and trikes for sale in Hong Kong
Motorbikes - the top 7 selling brands of motorbikes as far as I can determine in Hong Kong are as follows
Honda ✚ Yamaha ✚ Suzuki ✚ Kawasaki ✚ Ducati ✚ Harley Davidson ✚ BMW
Scooters - the top 5 selling brands of scooters as far as I can determine in Hong Kong are as follows :
Kymco ✚ Sym ✚ Piaggio ✚ San Yang ✚ Vespa
Tricycles - the top 5 selling brands of tricycles | trikes as far as I can determine in Hong Kong are as follows :
Adiva ✚ BRP ✚ Gilera ✚ Paiggio ✚ Harley Davidson
All the numerous biker clubs are out in force on Sunday‛s when weather permits! It is not unusual to see 50+ big bikes in formation on country roads on Hong Kong Island and the New Territories
(Source of statistics - The Transport Department of the Hong Kong Government)
☛.... and if you want to read about my views on Hong Kong, then go to my blog, link below
✚ www.j3consultantshongkong.com/j3c-blog
☛ Photography is simply a hobby for me, I do NOT sell my images and all of my images can be FREELY downloaded from this site in the original upload image size or 5 other sizes, please note that you DO NOT have to ask for permission to download and use any of my images!
Approximately 15 AEC and IMCOM employees gloved up with another 15 Boy Scouts and their family members to pick up trash and spread mulch on newly planted trees suffering from Texas' drawn-out draught the morning of Friday, July 29 at John James Park.
The Installation Management Community formed a relationship with the City of San Antonio last Earth Day when Army and City leadership signed a joint proclamation recognizing the importance the environment and sustainability. The IMC adopted John James Park and has pledged to provide volunteers to assist with upkeep.
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Approximately 1,500 community members attended College of DuPage’s STEMCON, a public outreach event designed to inspire and educate K-12 students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The all-day event featured more than 25 exhibits offering interactive, educational activities, including soldering a blankie, building a catapult, exploring archaeology, dissecting trees and tinkering with Edison Robots.
The tiny village of Castrillo de Duero (pop <200) lies approximately 60km due east of the provincial capital, Valladolid, and about 110km north of the capital, Madrid, within the 'Castilla y León' region of Spain. Although well off the beaten track, it has a long history with many ancient buildings and monuments to keep the passing visitor cheerfully occupied. At the centre of the town, on top of a small rise, sits the 'La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción', part of which dates back to the 12th century Romanesque period. Other sites worth exploring include an impressive, albeit rather new, town hall, a Roman fountain in the 'Piazza Santa Maria' and the remains of a Roman bridge. But, arguably, the greatest pleasure from visiting this village is just wandering around its quiet, unspoilt streets. There are plenty more photos of Castrillo and other Spanish towns if you take a look at my 'Sets' page, www.flickr.com/photos/36623892@N00/sets/ - thank you.
Approximately 200 police officers, law enforcement officials, alumni and members of the community gathered in the street scene of the Homeland Education Center to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy (SLEA).
This year’s convention featured a wide variety of gaming attractions, including foam-padded swordplay, board and card games, video game tournaments and events, a Diplomacy Tournament, live action role-play, as well as exhibits from various gaming companies and concessions.
Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. It is located approximately 3 miles (5 kilometres) south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, near to the village of Aldfield. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for 407 years becoming one of the wealthiest monasteries in England until its dissolution in 1539 under the order of Henry VIII.
The abbey is a Grade I listed building owned by the National Trust and part of the designated Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Foundation
After a dispute and riot in 1132 at the Benedictine house of St Mary's Abbey, in York, 13 monks were expelled (among them Saint Robert of Newminster) and, after unsuccessful attempts to form a new monastery were taken under the protection of Thurstan, Archbishop of York. He provided them with land in the valley of the River Skell, a tributary of the Ure. The enclosed valley had all the natural features needed for the creation of a monastery, providing shelter from the weather, stone and timber for building, and a supply of running water. After enduring a harsh winter in 1133, the monks applied to join the Cistercian order which since the end of the previous century was a fast-growing reform movement that by the beginning of the 13th century was to have over 500 houses. So it was that in 1135, Fountains became the second Cistercian house in northern England, after Rievaulx. The Fountains monks became subject to Clairvaux Abbey, in Burgundy which was under the rule of St Bernard. Under the guidance of Geoffrey of Ainai, a monk sent from Clairvaux, the group learned how to celebrate the seven Canonical Hours according to Cistercian usage and were shown how to construct wooden buildings in accordance with Cistercian practice.
Consolidation
After Henry Murdac was elected abbot in 1143, the small stone church and timber claustral buildings were replaced. Within three years, an aisled nave had been added to the stone church, and the first permanent claustral buildings built in stone and roofed in tile had been completed.
In 1146 an angry mob, annoyed at Murdac for his role in opposing the election of William FitzHerbert as archbishop of York, attacked the abbey and burnt down all but the church and some surrounding buildings.The community recovered swiftly from the attack and founded four daughter houses. Henry Murdac resigned as abbot in 1147 upon becoming the Archbishop of York and was replaced first by Maurice, Abbot of Rievaulx then, on the resignation of Maurice, by Thorald. Thorald was forced by Henry Murdac to resign after two years in office. The next abbot, Richard, held the post until his death in 1170 and restored the abbey's stability and prosperity. In 20 years as abbot, he supervised a huge building programme which involved completing repairs to the damaged church and building more accommodation for the increasing number of recruits. Only the chapter house was completed before he died and the work was ably continued by his successor, Robert of Pipewell, under whose rule the abbey gained a reputation for caring for the needy.
The next abbot was William, who presided over the abbey from 1180 to 1190 and he was succeeded by Ralph Haget, who had entered Fountains at the age of 30 as a novice, after pursuing a military career. During the European famine of 1194 Haget ordered the construction of shelters in the vicinity of the abbey and provided daily food rations to the poor enhancing the abbey's reputation for caring for the poor and attracting more grants from wealthy benefactors.
In the first half of the 13th century Fountains increased in reputation and prosperity under the next three abbots, John of York (1203–1211), John of Hessle (1211–1220) and John of Kent (1220–1247). They were burdened with an inordinate amount of administrative duties and increasing demands for money in taxation and levies but managed to complete another massive expansion of the abbey's buildings. This included enlarging the church and building an infirmary.
Difficulties
In the second half of the 13th century the abbey was in more straitened circumstances. It was presided over by eleven abbots, and became financially unstable largely due to forward selling its wool crop, and the abbey was criticised for its dire material and physical state when it was visited by Archbishop John le Romeyn in 1294. The run of disasters that befell the community continued into the early 14th century when northern England was invaded by the Scots and there were further demands for taxes. The culmination of these misfortunes was the Black Death of 1348–1349. The loss of manpower and income due to the ravages of the plague was almost ruinous.
A further complication arose as a result of the Papal Schism of 1378–1409. Fountains Abbey along with other English Cistercian houses was told to break off any contact with the mother house of Citeaux, which supported a rival pope. This resulted in the abbots forming their own chapter to rule the order in England and consequently they became increasingly involved in internecine politics. In 1410, following the death of Abbot Burley of Fountains, the community was riven by several years of turmoil over the election of his successor. Contending candidates John Ripon, Abbot of Meaux, and Roger Frank, a monk of Fountains were locked in conflict until 1415 when Ripon was finally appointed, ruling until his death in 1434. Under abbots John Greenwell (1442–1471), Thomas Swinton (1471–8), John Darnton (1478–95), who undertook some much needed restoration of the fabric of the abbey, including notable work on the church, and Marmaduke Huby (1495–1526) Fountains regained stability and prosperity.
At Abbot Huby's death he was succeeded by William Thirsk who was accused by the royal commissioners of immorality and inadequacy and was dismissed as abbot. He was replaced by Marmaduke Bradley, a monk of the abbey who had reported Thirsk's supposed offences, testified against him and offered the authorities six hundred marks for the post of abbot. In 1539 it was Bradley who surrendered the abbey when its seizure was ordered under Henry VIII at the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
The abbey precinct covered 70 acres (28 ha) surrounded by an 11-foot (3.4 m) wall built in the 13th century, some parts of which are visible to the south and west of the abbey. The area consists of three concentric zones cut by the River Skell flowing from west to east across the site. The church and claustral buildings stand at the centre of the precinct north of the Skell, the inner court containing the domestic buildings stretches down to the river and the outer court housing the industrial and agricultural buildings lies on the river's south bank. The early abbey buildings were added to and altered over time, causing deviations from the strict Cistercian type. Outside the walls were the abbey's granges.[citation needed]
The original abbey church was built of wood and "was probably" two stories high; it was, however, quickly replaced in stone. The church was damaged in the attack on the abbey in 1146 and was rebuilt, in a larger scale, on the same site. Building work was completed c.1170.[11] This structure, completed around 1170, was 300 ft (91 m) long and had 11 bays in the side aisles. A lantern tower was added at the crossing of the church in the late 12th century. The presbytery at the eastern end of the church was much altered in the 13th century. The church's greatly lengthened choir, commenced by Abbot John of York, 1203–11, and carried on by his successor terminates, like that of Durham Cathedral, in an eastern transept, the work of Abbot John of Kent, 1220–47. The 160-foot-tall (49 m) tower, which was added not long before the dissolution, by Abbot Huby, 1494–1526, is in an unusual position at the northern end of the north transept and bears Huby's motto 'Soli Deo Honor et Gloria'. The sacristry adjoined the south transept.
The cloister, which had arcading of black marble from Nidderdale and white sandstone, is in the centre of the precinct and to the south of the church. The three-aisled chapter-house and parlour open from the eastern walk of the cloister and the refectory, with the kitchen and buttery attached, are at right angles to its southern walk. Parallel with the western walk is an immense vaulted substructure serving as cellars and store-rooms, which supported the dormitory of the conversi (lay brothers) above. This building extended across the river and at its south-west corner were the latrines, built above the swiftly flowing stream. The monks' dormitory was in its usual position above the chapter-house, to the south of the transept. Peculiarities of this arrangement include the position of the kitchen, between the refectory and calefactory, and of the infirmary above the river to the west, adjoining the guest-houses.
The abbot's house, one of the largest in all of England,is located to the east of the latrine block, where portions of it are suspended on arches over the River Skell.It was built in the mid-twelfth century as a modest single-storey structure, then, from the fourteenth century, underwent extensive expansion and remodelling to end up in the 16th century as a grand dwelling with fine bay windows and grand fireplaces. The great hall was an expansive room 52 by 21 metres (171 by 69 ft).
Among other apartments, for the designation of which see the ground-plan, was a domestic oratory or chapel,
1/2-by-23-foot (14 by 7 m), and a kitchen, 50-by-38-foot (15 by 12 m)
Medieval monasteries were sustained by landed estates that were given to them as endowments and from which they derived an income from rents. They were the gifts of the founder and subsequent patrons, but some were purchased from cash revenues. At the outset, the Cistercian order rejected gifts of mills and rents, churches with tithes and feudal manors as they did not accord with their belief in monastic purity, because they involved contact with laymen. When Archbishop Thurstan founded the abbey he gave the community 260 acres (110 ha) of land at Sutton north of the abbey and 200 acres (81 ha) at Herleshowe to provide support while the abbey became established. In the early years the abbey struggled to maintain itself because further gifts were not forthcoming and Thurstan could not help further because the lands he administered were not his own, but part of the diocesan estate. After a few years of impoverished struggle to establish the abbey, the monks were joined by Hugh, a former dean of York Minster, a rich man who brought a considerable fortune as well as furniture and books to start the library.
By 1135 the monks had acquired only another 260 acres (110 ha) at Cayton, given by Eustace fitzJohn of Knaresborough "for the building of the abbey". Shortly after the fire of 1146, the monks had established granges at Sutton, Cayton, Cowton Moor, Warsill, Dacre and Aldburgh all within 6 mi (10 km) of Fountains. In the 1140s the water mill was built on the abbey site making it possible for the grain from the granges to be brought to the abbey for milling.Tannery waste from this time has been excavated on the site.
Further estates were assembled in two phases, between 1140 and 1160 then 1174 and 1175, from piecemeal acquisitions of land. Some of the lands were grants from benefactors but others were purchased from gifts of money to the abbey. Roger de Mowbray granted vast areas of Nidderdale and William de Percy and his tenants granted substantial estates in Craven which included Malham Moor and the fishery in Malham Tarn. After 1203 the abbots consolidated the abbey's lands by renting out more distant areas that the monks could not easily farm themselves, and exchanging and purchasing lands that complemented their existing estates. Fountains' holdings both in Yorkshire and beyond had reached their maximum extent by 1265, when they were an efficient and very profitable estate. Their estates were linked in a network of individual granges which provided staging posts to the most distant ones. They had urban properties in York, Yarm, Grimsby, Scarborough and Boston from which to conduct export and market trading and their other commercial interests included mining, quarrying, iron-smelting, fishing and milling.
The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 was a factor that led to a downturn in the prosperity of the abbey in the early fourteenth century. Areas of the north of England as far south as York were looted by the Scots. Then the number of lay-brothers being recruited to the order reduced considerably. The abbey chose to take advantage of the relaxation of the edict on leasing property that had been enacted by the General Chapter of the order in 1208 and leased some of their properties. Others were staffed by hired labour and remained in hand under the supervision of bailiffs. In 1535 Fountains had an interest in 138 vills and the total taxable income of the Fountains estate was £1,115, making it the richest Cistercian monastery in England.
After the Dissolution
The Gresham family crest
The Abbey buildings and over 500 acres (200 ha) of land were sold by the Crown, on 1 October 1540, to Sir Richard Gresham, at the time a Member of Parliament and former Lord Mayor of London, the father of Sir Thomas Gresham. It was Richard Gresham who had supplied Cardinal Wolsey with the tapestries for his new house of Hampton Court and who paid for the Cardinal's funeral.
Gresham sold some of the fabric of the site, stone, timber, lead, as building materials to help to defray the cost of purchase. The site was acquired in 1597 by Sir Stephen Proctor, who used stone from the monastic complex to build Fountains Hall. Between 1627 and 1767 the estate was owned by the Messenger family who sold it to William Aislaby who was responsible for combining it with the Studley Royal Estate.
Burials
Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray
John de Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray
Abbot Marmaduke Huby (d. 1526)
Rose (daughter of Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester), wife of Roger de Mowbray, 1st Baron Mowbray
Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy
William II de Percy, 3rd feudal baron of Topcliffe
Becoming a World Heritage Site
The archaeological excavation of the site was begun under the supervision of John Richard Walbran, a Ripon antiquary who, in 1846, had published a paper On the Necessity of clearing out the Conventual Church of Fountains.In 1966 the Abbey was placed in the guardianship of the Department of the Environment and the estate was purchased by the West Riding County Council who transferred ownership to the North Yorkshire County Council in 1974. The National Trust bought the 674-acre (273 ha) Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal estate from North Yorkshire County Council in 1983. In 1986 the parkland in which the abbey is situated and the abbey was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It was recognised for fulfilling the criteria of being a masterpiece of human creative genius, and an outstanding example of a type of building or architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates significant stages in human history. Fountains Abbey is owned by the National Trust and maintained by English Heritage. The trust owns Studley Royal Park, Fountains Hall, to which there is partial public access, and St Mary's Church, designed by William Burges and built around 1873, all of which are significant features of the World Heritage Site.
The Porter's Lodge, which was once the gatehouse to the abbey, houses a modern exhibition area with displays about the history of Fountains Abbey and how the monks lived.
In January 2010, Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal became two of the first National Trust properties to be included in Google Street View, using the Google Trike.
Film location
Fountains Abbey was used as a film location by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark for their single "Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)" during the cold winter of December 1981. In 1980, Hollywood also came to the site to film the final scenes to the film Omen III: The Final Conflict.Other productions filmed on location at the abbey are the films Life at the Top, The Secret Garden, The History Boys, TV series Flambards, A History of Britain, Terry Jones' Medieval Lives, Cathedral, Antiques Roadshow and the game show Treasure Hunt. The BBC Television series 'Gunpowder' (2017) used Fountains Abbey as a location.
Black Dolerite (also called Diabase) present as an intrusion in to the ancient Lewisian gneiss (approximately 1,800 million years old) near Rhiconich in north-west Scotland. Pink granite pegmatites then intruded in to the dolerite to produce this amazing natural work of art!
Approximately 200 police officers, law enforcement officials, alumni and members of the community gathered in the street scene of the Homeland Education Center to celebrate the 25-year anniversary of the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy (SLEA).
Approximately 1,500 community members attended College of DuPage’s STEMCON, a public outreach event designed to inspire and educate K-12 students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The all-day event featured more than 25 exhibits offering interactive, educational activities, including soldering a blankie, building a catapult, exploring archaeology, dissecting trees and tinkering with Edison Robots.
Approximately 140 soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 113th Field Artillery Regiment, returned to the High Point Army National Guard armory Sept. 7 from a nearly one-year deployment to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, as Multi-National Force Observers in accordance with the Camp David Peace Accord or 1979. The soldiers conducted observation and reporting operations along the Egypt and Israeli border as part of the accord.
Approximately 1,000 protesters rallied in downtown Louisville, Kentucky November 10, 2016 to register their concern about harmful rhetoric used by president-elect Trump and the consequences it may produce in his emboldened followers.
Approximately 900 khachkars (headstones) dating from as far back as the 10th-century dot this breathtaking cemetery on the western edge of Lake Sevan.
Approximately 140 soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 113th Field Artillery Regiment, returned to the High Point Army National Guard armory Sept. 7 from a nearly one-year deployment to the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, as Multi-National Force Observers in accordance with the Camp David Peace Accord or 1979. The soldiers conducted observation and reporting operations along the Egypt and Israeli border as part of the accord.
Angkor is a region of Cambodia that served as the seat of the Khmer Empire, which flourished from approximately the 9th to 15th centuries. The word Angkor is derived from the Sanskrit nagara, meaning "city". The Angkorian period began in AD 802, when the Khmer Hindu monarch Jayavarman II declared himself a "universal monarch" and "god-king", and lasted until the late 14th century, first falling under Ayutthayan suzerainty in 1351. A Khmer rebellion resulted in the 1431 sacking of Angkor by Ayutthaya, causing its population to migrate south to Longvek.
The ruins of Angkor are located amid forests and farmland to the north of the Great Lake (Tonlé Sap) and south of the Kulen Hills, near modern-day Siem Reap city, in Siem Reap Province. The temples of the Angkor area number over one thousand, ranging in scale from nondescript piles of brick rubble scattered through rice fields to the magnificent Angkor Wat, said to be the world's largest single religious monument. Many of the temples at Angkor have been restored, and together, they comprise the most significant site of Khmer architecture. Visitor numbers approach two million annually, and the entire expanse, including Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom is collectively protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This popularity of the site among tourists presents multiple challenges to the preservation of the ruins.
In 2007, an international team of researchers using satellite photographs and other modern techniques concluded that Angkor had been the largest preindustrial city in the world, with an elaborate infrastructure system connecting an urban sprawl of at least 1,000 square kilometres to the well-known temples at its core. The closest rival to Angkor, the Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala, was between 100 and 150 square kilometres in total size. Although its population remains a topic of research and debate, newly identified agricultural systems in the Angkor area may have supported up to one million people.
The Angkorian period may be said to have begun shortly after 800 AD, when the Khmer King Jayavarman II announced the independence of Kambujadesa (Cambodia) from Java and established his capital of Hariharalaya (now known as Roluos) at the northern end of Tonlé Sap. Through a program of military campaigns, alliances, marriages and land grants, he achieved a unification of the country bordered by China to the north, Champa (now Central Vietnam) to the east, the ocean to the south and a place identified by a stone inscription as "the land of cardamoms and mangoes" to the west. In 802, Jayavarman articulated his new status by declaring himself "universal monarch" (chakravartin) and, in a move that was to be imitated by his successors and that linked him to the cult of Siva, taking on the epithet of "god-king" (devaraja). Before Jayavarman, Cambodia had consisted of a number of politically independent principalities collectively known to the Chinese by the names Funan and Chenla.
In 889, Yasovarman ascended to the throne. A great king and an accomplished builder, he was celebrated by one inscription as "a lion-man; he tore the enemy with the claws of his grandeur; his teeth were his policies; his eyes were the Veda." Near the old capital of Hariharalaya, Yasovarman constructed a new city, called Yasodharapura. In the tradition of his predecessors, he also constructed a massive reservoir called baray. The significance of such reservoirs has been debated by modern scholars, some of whom have seen in them a means of irrigating rice fields, and others of whom have regarded them as religiously charged symbols of the great mythological oceans surrounding Mount Meru, the abode of the gods. The mountain, in turn, was represented by an elevated temple, in which the "god-king" was represented by a lingam. In accordance with this cosmic symbolism, Yasovarman built his central temple on a low hill known as Phnom Bakheng, surrounding it with a moat fed from the baray. He also built numerous other Hindu temples and ashrams, or retreats for ascetics.
Over the next 300 years, between 900 and 1200, the Khmer Empire produced some of the world's most magnificent architectural masterpieces in the area known as Angkor. Most are concentrated in an area approximately 24 km east to west and 8.0 km north to south, although the Angkor Archaeological Park, which administers the area, includes sites as far away as Kbal Spean, about 48 km to the north. Some 72 major temples or other buildings are found within this area, and the remains of several hundred additional minor temple sites are scattered throughout the landscape beyond. Because of the dispersed, low-density nature of the medieval Khmer settlement pattern, Angkor lacks a formal boundary, and its extent is therefore difficult to determine. However, a specific area of at least 1,000 qkm beyond the major temples is defined by a complex system of infrastructure, including roads and canals that indicate a high degree of connectivity and functional integration with the urban core. In terms of spatial extent (although not in terms of population), this makes it the largest urban agglomeration in human history prior to the Industrial Revolution, easily surpassing the nearest claim, that of the Mayan city of Tikal.
The principal temple of the Angkorian region, Angkor Wat, was built between 1113 and 1150 by King Suryavarman II. Suryavarman ascended to the throne after prevailing in a battle with a rival prince. An inscription says that, in the course of combat, Suryavarman leapt onto his rival's war elephant and killed him, just as the mythical bird-man Garuda slays a serpent.
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Approximately 2.5 Mio people have visited the Museumsuferfest in Frankfurt that has taken place on the last August weekend. The weather was not that great, but this event is always worth visiting it.
Approximately 2,000 community members attended College of DuPage’s third annual STEMCON, an interactive conference celebrating science, technology, engineering and math. The all-day event featured more than 60 booths offering interactive activities designed to inform, entertain and stimulate an interest in STEM.
Approximately 90 % of the population practice Buddhism in Myanmar, some 4 % Islam. This mosque is situated in Yangon. Photo: Hanna Öunap.
Approximately 1200 middle and high school students and their teachers from 50 schools across the state on campus on Tuesday April 23, 2019, for the third annual UW Oshkosh Mathematical Problem Solving Contest.
Asakusa (浅草) is a district in Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, most famous for the Sensō-ji, a Buddhist temple dedicated to the bodhisattva Kannon. There are several more temples in Asakusa, as well as various festivals.
History
For most of the twentieth century, Asakusa was the major entertainment district in Tokyo. The golden years of Asakusa are vividly portrayed in Kawabata's novel The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (1930; English translation, 2005). It has now been surpassed by Shinjuku and other colorful areas in the city, in its role as a pleasure district,.
Geography
Asakusa is on the north-east fringe of central Tokyo, at the eastern end of the Ginza subway line, approximately one mile east of the major Ueno railway/subway interchange. It is central to the area colloquially referred to as Shitamachi, which literally means "low city," referring to the low elevation of this old part of Tokyo, on the banks of the Sumida River. As the name suggests, the area has a more traditionally Japanese atmosphere than some other neighborhoods in Tokyo do.
Sightseeing and historic sites
With so many religious establishments, there are frequent matsuri (Shinto festivals) in Asakusa, as each temple or shrine hosts at least one matsuri a year, if not every season. The largest and most popular is the Sanja Matsuri in May, when roads are closed from dawn until late in the evening.
In a city where there are very few buildings older than 50 years because of the wartime bombing, Asakusa has a greater concentration of buildings from the 1950s and 1960s than most other areas in Tokyo do. There are traditional ryokan (guest-houses), homes, and small-scale apartment buildings throughout the district.
In keeping with a peculiarly Tokyo tradition, Asakusa hosts a major cluster of domestic kitchenware stores on Kappabashi-dori, which is visited by many Tokyoites for essential supplies.
Next to the Sensō-ji temple grounds is a small carnival complex with rides, booths, and games, called Hanayashiki. The neighborhood theaters specialize in showing classic Japanese films, as many of the tourists are elderly Japanese.
Cruises down the Sumida River depart from a wharf only a five minute walk from the temple.
Because of its colorful location, downtown credentials, and relaxed atmosphere by Tokyo standards, Asakusa is a popular accommodation choice for budget travelers.
Asakusa is Tokyo's oldest geisha district, and still has 45 actively working geisha, including Sayuki, Japan's first Western geisha.