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Thirumurai(Tamil:திரு முறை, meaning holy division) is a twelve volume compendium of songs or hymns in the praise of Shiva in the Tamil language from 6th century to 11th century by various poets in South India. Nambi Andar Nambi compiled the first seven volumes by Appar, sampandhar and sundarar as Tevaram during the 12th century. During the course of time, a strong necessity was felt by scholars to compile Saiva literature to accommodate other works. Tiruvacakam and Tirukovayar by Manickavasagar is included as eighth, nine parts are compiled as ninth Tirumurai out of which most are unknown, tenth as Tirumandiram by Tirumular the famous Siddhar. Eleventh is compiled by Karaikal Ammaiyar, Cheraman Perumal and others. The contemparary Chola king was impressed by the work of Nampi and included Nampi's work in the eleventh Tirumurai. Sekkizhar's Periya Puranam, composed a century later, contains the life depiction of all the 63 nayanmars. The response for the work was tremendous among Saiva scholars and Kulothunga Chola I that it was included as the 12th Tirumurai. Tirumurai along with Vedas and Saiva agamas from the basis of Saiva Siddantha philosophy in Tamil Nadu.
The Shaiva Tirumurais are twelve in number. The first seven Tirumurais are the hymns of the three great Shaivite saints, Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar. These hymns were the best musical compositions of their age.
The first three Tirumurais (meaning parts) of Tevaram are composed by Sambanthar, the next three by Appar and the seventh one is composed by Sundarar. There is a famous saying about the Saiva trio that "Appar sang for me, Sambanthar sang for himself and Sundarar sang of gold". Appar and Sambanthar lived around the 7th century, while Sundarar lived in the 8th century. During the Pallava period these three travelled extensively around Tamil Nadu offering discourses and songs characterised by an emotional devotion to Shiva and objections to Vaishnavism, Jainism and Buddhism.
Sambanthar is a 7th-century poet born in Sirkali in Brahmin community and was believed to be suckled by the goddess Parvathi, whereupon he sang the first hymn. On the request of queen of Pandya Nadu, Sambandar went on pilgrimage to south, defeated Jains in debate, the Jains' provocation of Sambandar by burning his house and challenging him to debate, and Sambandar's eventual victory over them He was a contemporary of Appar, another Saiva saint. Information about Sambandar comes mainly from the Periya Puranam, the eleventh-century Tamil book on the Nayanars that forms the last volume of the Tirumurai, along with the earlier Tiruttondartokai, poetry by Cuntarar and Nambiyandar Nambi's Tiru Tondar Tiruvandadi. A Sanskrit hagiography called Brahmapureesa Charitam is now lost. The first volumes of the Tirumurai contain three hundred and eighty-four poems of Campantar (in 4181 stanzas), all that survive out of a reputed more than 10,000 hymns. Sambanthar is believed to have died at the age of 16 in 655 CE on the day of his marriage. His verses were set to tune by Nilakantaperumalanar who is set to have accompanied the poet on his yal or lute.
Appar's (aka Tirunavukkarasar) was born in the middle of 7th century in Tiruvamur, Tamil Nadu, his childhood name for Marulneekiar. His sister, Thilagavathiar was betrothed to a military commander who died in action. When his sister was about to end her life, he pleaded with her not to leave him alone in the world. She decided to lead an aesthetic life and bring up her only brother. During boyhood, Appar was very much interested in Jainism and started studying its scriptures. He went away from home and stayed in their monastery and was renamed Darmasena. Details of Appar's life are found in his own hymns and in Sekkizhar's Periya Puranam (the last book of the Tirumurai). Appar had travelled to nearby Patalipura to join a Jain monastery where he was given the name Dharmasena. "Seeing the transient, ephemeral world he decided to probe into truth through renunciation." After a while, afflicted by a painful illness, Dharmasena returned home. He prayed for relief at the Siva temple where his sister served and was cured. He was also involved in converting the Pallava king, Mahendravarman to Saivism. This was also the period of resurrection of the smaller Shiva temples. Appar sanctified all these temples by his verses and was also involved in cleaning of the dilapidated temples called uzhavarapadai. He was called Tirunavukkarasu, meaning the "King of divine speech". He extolled Siva in 49,000 stanzas out of which 3130 are now available and compiled in Tirumurais 4-7. When he met Campantar, he called him Appar (meaning father). He is believed to have died at the age of 81 in Tirupugalur.
Sundarar (aka Sundaramurthi) was born in Tirunavalur in a Brahmin family during the end of 7th century. His own name was Nambi Arurar and was prevented from marrying by the divine grace of Siva. He later married a temple girl namely Paravi and a vellala community girl by name Cankili.[17] He is the author of 1026 poems compiled as 7th Tirumurai.
Manikkavasagar's Tiruvacakam and Tirukovayar are compiled as the eighth Tirumurai and is full of visionary experience, divine love and urgent striving for truth. Manickavasgar was the king's prime minister and renounced his post in search of divinity.
The ninth Tirumurai has been composed by Tirumalikaittever, Sundarar, Karuvurttevar, Nampikatava Nampi, Gandaraditya, Venattatikal, Tiruvaliyamutanar, Purutottama Nampi and Cetirayar. Among these the notable is Gandaraditya (950-957 CE), a Chola king who later turned a saivite saint.
Tirumandiram by Tirumular unfolds siddantha (attainment) as a fourfold path - virtous and moral living, temple worship, internal worship and union with Siva. Tirumular worked out an original philosophical system and southern scholl of Saiva siddantha draws its authority from Tirumandiram, a work of 3000 verses. Tirumandiram represents another school of thought detailing agamic traditions, which run parallel to the bhakthi movement. It does not glorify temples or deities as in the case of other Tirumurais.
The eleventh Tirumurai has been composed by Karaikkal Ammeiyar, Ceraman Perumal, Pattinattu p-pillaiyar, Nakkiratevar, Kapilateva, Tiruvalavaiyudaiyar, Nampiyantarnampi, Iyyadigal katavarkon, Kalladateva, Paranateva, Ellamperuman Adigal and Athirava Adigal. Nambi's Tirutottanar Tiruvanthathi followed an exclusive style of mincing Tamil and Sankrit verses in anthati meter similar to Tevaram of the trio. Karaikkal Ammaiyar (550-600 CE)is the earliest of the woman Saivite poets who introduced the kattalai-k-kali-t-turai meter, which is a complicated structural departure from the old classical Tamil meters. The other meter used by Ammaiyar was old venba and also antathi arrangement in which offset of one line or stanza is identical with the onset of next line or stanza.
Periya Puranam (Tamil:பெரிய புராணம்), the great purana or epic, sometimes also called Tiruttontarpuranam(read as "Tiru-Thondar-Puranam") (the purana of the holy devotees) is a Tamil poetic account depicting the legendary lives of the sixty-three Nayanars, the canonical poets of Tamil Shaivism. It was compiled during the 12th century by Sekkizhar. It provides evidence of trade with West Asia Sekkizhar compiled and wrote the Periya Puranam listing the life stories of the sixty-three Shaiva Nayanars, poets of the God Shiva) who composed the liturgical poems of the Tirumurai, and was later himself canonised and the work became part of the sacred canon. Sekkizhar was a poet and the chief minister in the court of the Chola King, Kulothunga Chola II.
Raja Raja Chola I (985-1013 CE) embarked on a mission to recover the hymns after hearing short excerpts of Tevaram in his court. He sought the help of Nambi Andar Nambi, who was a priest in a temple. It is believed that by divine intervention Nambi found the presence of scripts, in the form of cadijam leaves half eaten by white ants in a chamber inside the second precinct in Thillai Nataraja Temple, Chidambaram. The brahmanas (Dikshitars) in the temple opposed the mission, but Rajaraja intervened by consecrating the images of the saint-poets through the streets of Chidambaram.Rajaraja thus became to be known as Tirumurai Kanda Cholan meaning one who saved the Tirumurai. Thus far Shiva temples only had images of god forms, but after the advent of Rajaraja, the images of the Nayanar saints were also placed inside the temple. Nambi arranged the hymns of three saint poets Campantar, Appar and Sundarar as the first seven books, Manickavasagar's Tirukovayar and Tiruvacakam as the 8th book, the 28 hymns of nine other saints as the 9th book, the Tirumandiram of Tirumular as the 10th book, 40 hymns by 12 other poets as the 10th book, Tirutotanar Tiruvanthathi - the sacred anthathi of the labours of the 63 nayanar saints and added his own hymns as the 11th book. The first seven books were later called as Tevaram, and the whole Saiva canon, to which was added, as the 12th book, Sekkizhar's Periya Puranam (1135 CE) is wholly known as Tirumurai, the holy book. Thus Saiva literature which covers about 600 years of religious, philosophical and literary development.
“To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again.”
― Marilynne Robinson,
Took this on Sunday as an idea for my 52 but couldn't get one I was completely happy with. People kept walking along and giving me weird looks, my default reply was "Oh, it's for a uni project!".
...It's not.
WARNING: angry political content
The title, A VERY PERSONAL WAR, resonated with me, being a 1967 Vietnam War draftee. Finding this book 40 years after it's initial publication, I flinched at the prospect of stirring up long settled anger but was driven by the promise of cool truth surfacing over an ocean of warm (and on-going) government lies. I do not recommend this book for any who need to avoid anger or rocky leaking boats.
Before I read this book, I perceived the United States' long involvement in Vietnam as an ironic mystery: How could a
superpower with huge military, personnel, and economic advantages, lose? Wasn't winning the point? (blushing at my naivete). In A VERY PERSONAL WAR I was to learn of blatant unstoppable corruption on a staggering scale and schemes at play then (and now) that redefine war (for the connected) as for-profit enterprise.
A VERY PERSONAL WAR is the non-fiction account of the experiences of investigator and security specialist
Cornelius Hawkridge. Author James Hamilton Paterson begins with riveting details of Hawkridge's early life in Hungary
during the Russian occupation, where young Hawkridge engaged in ruthless close guerilla-style combat and later survived two and a half years of solitary confinement and Stalin's labor camps.
I was so full of respect and awe of Hawkridge at this point in my reading that whatever this man did with his life
afterward had my engaged interest. His personal grudge against communism would eventually lead him to Vietnam, but
to the awakening there that communists were as rare as officials who cared and corruption common as the air he breathed. He knew in 1966 that the "war" was lost and that the real question was how long the scams could continue.
What did Hawkridge do about it? He dug for, at great personal risk, and found the facts -where the military, medical, building and humanitarian supplies were going (to both sides and parties selling to both sides), and where most of the currency exchange profits were ending up (44 Wall Street -Hannover Trust at the time, now JP Morgan Chase).
Hawkridge wrote letters to anybody he thought had effective corrective power. Westmoreland ignored him. The Department of Defense ignored him. The State Department gave him the classic
Snow Job. The book has supporting photographs and letters and replies in appendices.
Hawkridge's best whistle-blowing success was through contact with Senator Ribicoff, a Democrat who later turned against the war. Closed door hearings were held. Transcripts were labeled classified material for reasons of "national security." The book contains though, recalled from memory, the straight to the heart-of-the-matter questions that Hawkridge, in angry frustration, fired back at the committee.
It was somewhat of a miracle that Hawkridge's testimony even took place, because of the very nearly successful
assassination attempt he survived that killed his wife -in an uninvestigated highway "accident" -in Washington State -
USA -shortly after people associated with the Senate committee started keeping tabs on him.
The most frightening disclosure though in this book for me, a citizen of the "land of the free, home of the brave" was that no publisher in the U.S. would touch Hawkridge's story. Life Magazine had the findings fully investigated and written up, when it was gutted and tossed in as filler in an issue full of Kennedy and Mary Jo. A British Publisher, Hodder and Stoughton, to their everlasting credit, printed this masterpiece of good and important writing.
P.T. Barnum is reputed to have said "There's a sucker born every minute." Barnum was a talented promoter. Governments are still successfully promoting wars, getting taxpayers to borrow for them and soldiers, Loved Ones, and innocents to die in them
by selling fear and patriotism. Contractors/corporations with little accountability or oversight now outnumber troops in Afghanistan. Don't be a sucker. That is the lesson for me in
this book.
The renewal brought by rain
Is sweet nectar to all of Nature's creatures
This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera with a KOWA LENS-S 1:3.5/150mm lens mounted on a T/1 extension tube using Kodak Ektar 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.
Shotgate Post Office, Wickford 3/8/99
New as Merthyr Tydfil 111 (D111NDW) 3/87
Bought by Hillingdon Borough Council 3/90 and subsequently by London Buses 9/91 as LX11 and re-registered 811 DYE. Became a Centrewest vehicle 9/94 and was transferred to Eastern Counties as 501 & re-registered again as D876 ELL. Transferred to Essex Buses 2/99 and again to Leeds 12/03.
... andam cada vez mais atrevidos.
Vou ver hoje de manhã e estava um todo repimpado no meu vaso de hortenses...
Here is one of our little starfish as it exits the mould after cooling - giant sprue, but it removes very easily, and they polish up a treat.
St Francis Xavier's Cathedral Adelaide September 2, 2013 Australia
St Francis Xavier's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Adelaide, South Australia. It is classified as being a Gothic Revival building in the Early English style. The tower stands 36 m high and is 56.5 m lengthwise and 29.5 m horizontally. The foundation stone was laid in 1856, and construction of the tower began in 1887. However, it was not completed until 1996.
In 1838, two years after the proclamation of South Australia, an advertisement was put up to organise religious meetings for South Australian Catholics. The first mass was held in a house on East Terrace in 1840. In 1845, a Catholic Primary School was set up, and used as the religious centre for Catholics, until the foundation stone for a cathedral was laid in 1851 for a design by Richard Lambeth. However, with a gold rush in Victoria, Lambeth left along with many of the population, leaving no plans, and with the community in economic depression.
The original foundation stone was put in place on 17 March 1856 by the Vicar General Father Michael Ryan, with the first part of the cathedral being dedicated on 11 July 1858. It was first extended when construction began at the southern end of the Cathedral, including the sanctuary, Side Chapel, Lady Chapel and Sacristy in January 1859. Construction of the first extension finished the following year in November 1860. With further growth in the population of Adelaide, another extension was required to seat more worshippers. In November 1886, Bishop Reynolds laid the foundation stone for an extension on the eastern side for a further 200 people, as well new vestries and confessionals. These were completed in August the following year. In 1904, electric lighting was introduced. The Cathedral was expanded again in 1923, with extensions to the Western aisle and northern end of the bell tower, and was opened in April 1926 by Archbishop Spence. The cornerstone of the current bell tower was laid in 1887, and although the lower part was
built between 1923 and 1926, it was not completed until 1996, 109 years after construction of the tower commenced. The bell used in the tower is the Murphy Bell of 1867, surrounded by thirteen other bells hung for change ringing, installed in 1996, 7 of these bells date from 1881 and were previously in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney.
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As of March Alison and I have been working together for seven months now. You see the pictures, but what you don't see is what goes on behind the scenes. Over these last seven months Alison has become more or less a permanent fixture at the house with Anna and I. She has become more or less my official assistant; my personal guinea pig; and a very close friend. To sum it all up, I freaking love this girl.
PS: Get excited for Alison's boudoir set, coming this way sometime next week.
Barbie as Titania from "A Midsummer's Night Dream", 2004
Classic Ballet Series
Silver Label
MIB
Her outfit looks amazing, especially the skirt.
On a walk in the Botanic Gardens September 13, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
Founded in 1863 with the planting of an English oak tree, the Christchurch Botanic Gardens have grown from small beginnings to become a much-loved destination for Cantabrians and visitors alike. Over the years natural wetlands and sand dunes have been transformed into an elegantly cultivated 30 hectare park with more than 10 different gardens framed by mature trees and expansive lawns, which are mostly contained within a loop of the Avon River.
For More Info: www.newzealand.com/int/feature/christchurch-botanic-gardens/
Malayan Eggfly (Hypolimnas anomala anomala)
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Nymphalinae Genus Hypolimnas
Species: anomala
Subspecies: anomala
Common Name: Malayan Eggfly
Wingspan: 75 mm
Status: locally common
Life History: complete
Extant in countries: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand
Hostplants: Pipturus argenteus (Native Mulberry)
Description
The Malayan Eggfly might pass as a mimic of a species of Euploea "Crows". This species is subject to considerable variation and occurs in two forms in Singapore - f. anomala (pictured here) and f. nivas which has a diffused white post discal bands on the hindwings.
Habitat & Habits
Ocassionally, examples of f. anomala occurs which has a prominent blue gloss on the forewings above. The species frequents lowland forests and is relatively common in Singapore. Sometimes, two or three butterflies are seen flying together. The butterfly appears to be territorial and individuals are seen returning to its favorite perch time and again despite being disturbed. They also "chase" away other butterflies who fly within range of their territory.
Other Observations
This species showing a unique behaviour of "guarding" their eggs. The female remains standing over their eggs even until the larvae dispersed to other leaves, and apparently may die in this position (Johnston et al., 1981). This remarkable behaviour is not recorded in others butterfly except Hypolimnas antilope (Schreiner and Nafus, 1991).
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Star trek III, The Search for Spock
There is a wisdom as old as time that says "There is no such thing as a good odd-numbered Star Trek movie." While we could get bogged down in arguing minutiae, I would rectify that statement and say that there is no great odd-numbered Trek film, but there are at least two good ones, and the best of the odd-numbered Treks is arguably Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Forming the middle portion of a trilogy with Wrath of Khan and The Voyage Home, Search for Spock picks up immediately after the events of Khan, with the Enterprise crew still mourning the loss of their former Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy). Upon returning to space dock, the crew is given a commendation and extended shore leave (except poor Scotty, who has to report to the new Excelsior engine room to help with their transwarp drive). The crew is resigned to the fact that the Enterprise, being over twenty years old, is going to be decommissioned, but a visit from Spock's father Sarek (Mark Lenard) leads Kirk (William Shatner) to believe that while Spock's body may be dead, his consciousness is alive in someone else... Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley).
Kirk and a skeleton crew (Scotty, Sulu, Chekov & Bones) set out in the Enterprise to return to the Genesis planet and retrieve Spock's body, in hopes of returning it to Vulcan. What they have yet to find out, however, is that Lt. Saavik (Robin Curtis) & Kirk's son David Marcus (the unfortunately named Merritt Butrick) have discovered, on Genesis, that Spock has been reborn as a child. Further complications arise when a Klingon ship, commanded by Kruge (Christopher Lloyd) gets wind of the failed Genesis project and travels there in hopes of stealing the technology for the Klingons.
Okay, we need to get this out of the way immediately; The Search for Spock is not a very good film, even by Star Trek standards. It suffers from horrendous budget restrictions which first time director Nimoy couldn't shoot around as well as his predecessor, Nicholas Meyer. A lot of the recycled sets & costumes look terrible, and really distract on the 2009 blu-ray high def transfer. It's likewise hindered by being sandwiched between arguably the two best Star Trek films ever made, and can't help but feel like a trifle compared to the other two. It's got more substance than I remember it having, but the stakes are relatively low from beginning to end, and the sense of danger imposed by Khan in the previous film is just not met by the Klingons in this film.
All that being said, the film is actually much better than I remember it being, if for no other reason than the script is actually surprisingly well written. The dialogue and interplay, particularly between the Enterprise crew is as good as it's been in any of the films, and the humor throughout (much of it by, or at the expense of, Bones) is pretty reliably funny. The two truly emotional moments in the film (Kirk learning of the death of David & Spock's recognition of Kirk at the end) still land incredibly well and make up for some of the more ridiculous acting choices made by the other actors throughout the entire film.
William Shatner, the actor, was never better than he was in these three films. His moment I mentioned a moment ago, learning of the death of his only son, is very powerful and as good as he's ever been on screen. He also appears to be having a good deal of fun in this film, which is odd considering he was unhappy at having to be directed by his co-star (all of which led to Shatner taking the helm of arguably the worst Star Trek film not directed by JJ Abrams, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier). The rest of the crew is good as well, of course all resigned to one or two bits (one of the few lessons Abrams & his writers wrongly incorporated from the original films).
Lloyd is also nowhere near as bad as I remember him to be. His casting is ridiculous, to be sure, but he's not quite as bad in actuality as I seemed to have thought he was. Curtis, taking over the role of Saavik from Kirstie Alley, though, doesn't fare as well. Granted she's not given much to do, but her line readings are spotty at best and she's not terribly convincing as a Vulcan. Beyond some ridiculous stunt work in the final fight between Kruge & Kirk on the dying Genesis planet, there's really not much else bad I can say about the film.
Star Trek III is a fairly lightweight effort in the Trek canon, but it still manages to have far more good moments than bad, and is ultimately a genuinely enjoyable entry in the series. It has its flaws, to be sure, and they are numerous, but it still manages to be solidly entertaining and never insulting in the way some of the other odd numbered Trek films were. It can't help but pale in comparison to the two films bookending it, but I wholeheartedly recommend checking it out, particularly if it's been a while since you've seen it. It holds up much better than you might remember.
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"City as Canvas: Graffiti Art from the Martin Wong Collection" explores the work of young graffiti “writers” in 1980s New York City through the works amassed by East Village artist and collector Martin Wong.
Comprised of 150 works on canvas, sketchbooks, and photographs of graffiti writing long erased from subways and buildings, this compelling exhibition sparks conversation about the importance of street art today.
For more information, references refer to -https://www.mcny.org/exhibition/cityascanvas
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For a fun interlude, this is an alternative image based off of one of my popular pics posted here on flickr in the last year+. This particular image was done with the help of the FaceApp application, where I took a photo of the original "2002-12-13 pic-7" pic I've posted here, then just applied a rather moderate filter. This was done to help for example with the poor lighting or graininess in the original, and to have some fun. What do you think? How do I look? :-)
LADY AND MAN WALKING ALONG THE PROMENADE AT AN EAST COAST HOLIDAY RESORT ENGLAND . THE LADY APPEARS TO HAVE INJURED HER LEG AND I WOULD IMAGINE IN GREAT PAIN AND DISCOMFORT AS SHE NEEDS APPLIANCE SUPPORT. HOPE SHE HAS RECOVERED BY NOW AND BACK TO HER NORMAL LIFE ..DSCN1434
Double-crested Cormorant
The Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax Auritus) is a member of the cormorant family of seabirds. It occurs along inland waterways as well as in coastal areas, and is widely distributed across North America, from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska down to Florida and Mexico. Measuring 70–90 cm (28–35 in) in length, it is an all-black bird, which gains a small double crest of black and white feathers in breeding season. It has a bare patch of orange-yellow facial skin. Five subspecies are recognized.
The Double-Crested Cormorant is found near rivers, lakes and along the coastline. It mainly eats fish and hunts by swimming and diving. Its feathers, like those of all cormorants, are not waterproof and it must spend time drying them out after spending time in the water. Once threatened by the use of DDT, the numbers of this bird have increased markedly in recent years.
Swimming River Reservoir
The Swimming River Reservoir is a reservoir and water treatment plant in Monmouth County, New Jersey. It is located on the border of Colts Neck and Lincroft. The Swimming River ends up in the reservoir, as well as other small tributaries.
As operations chief inspector in my office at Boston Police Station 1989. Lincolnshire Police. On the wall 'Nine Pints of the Law' and my wife's watercolour of Lincoln Cathedral.
As the result of the archaeological excavations that started in Bergama in 1878 under the direction of Carl Humman and Alexander Conze, a depot museum has been constructed near the German Excavation House of today during the excavations made in the acropolis between the years 1900 - 1913. This depot is one of the two archaeological opus depots that existed in Turkey at that time. The excavations in Bergama, which were interrupted because of the 1st World War, were re - started under the direction of Theodor Wiegand. In the same year, with the start of the excavations in Asklepieion in addition to the acropolis excavations, the number of opuses has increased and a new museum building was needed.
Marshall Fevzi Çakmak, who came to Bergama in 1932 has closely interested with the issue and ordered the foundation of a new museum after his visit. For the new building that was planned to be constructed with Turkish - German cooperation, the location of today which is an old cemetrey has been found appropriate. The project that was prepared by the architects Bruno Meyer and Harold Hanson was completed at the end of 1932 and the works for base excavation were started in 1933 with the formal request of the governor of İzmir, Kazım Dirik. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who visited Asklepieion, which was a health centre, during his visit to Bergama on April 13th 1934, has seen that the construction of the museum building was continuing.
Bergama museum, whose construction has been completed, was opened for visit on October 30th 1936 by the governor of İzmir, Fazlı Güleç. The museum building consisted of a large rectangular courtyard surrounded with galleries, and a rectangular exhibition hall behind this courtyard. Since the galleries of the courtyard were suitable for open - air museum, the opuses were exhibited there. When Ethnography and Archaeology Museum was taken into operation in Bergama Public House building in 1924, the archaeological opuses were taken to the new museum building. The ethnographic opuses were taken into the museum building of today in 1979 after the construction of the additional building. The additional building has a rectangular plan placed beside the part, in which the courtyard and exhibition hall exist, its entrance is provided via a door opening from the courtyard to the hall. Units such as depot, laboratory, photograph room, archive have been added to the other side of the museum which was left empty and to its rear part.
Most of the archaeological opuses in the museum, which belong to various periods from early bronze era to the Byzantine Period, have been found in the excavations made in Bergama and its surrounding. Among the finds found in the archaic residences around, samples belonging to Pergfamon sculpture school, Archaic Period finds coming from Pitane and Gryneion, Myrina terracotta draw attention. In the ethnography section, carpets, kilims of the region (Yuntdağ, Yağcıbedir, Kozak, Bergama weavings), cloth weaving samples, hand works and other hand made opuses belonging to other regions of Anatolia are exhibited
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As their common and scientific names suggest, these unusual raptorial insects do, indeed, look quite mantid-like. The resemblance is superficial, however, and the two groups are only distantly related. Mantidflies occupy a much higher position on the evolutionary tree of life with a pupal stage in their life-cycle like butterflies and beetles. They are in the order Neuroptera and are closely related to the more familiar green lacewings. Mantids metamorphose gradually from nymph to adult, with their closest relatives being cockroaches and termites. This one was attracted to a high-intensity moth light in Costa Rica.
Leaving Swansea bus station on route 157 is First Cymru 41393 X393 HLR. Saturday 6th September 2014. DSCN31008.
Dennis Dart SLF 10.2m-Marshall Capital. New as Centrewest DML 393.
Artista: We Came As Romans
Evento: Imperial Never Say Die Tour
Fotografo: Emanuela Giurano
Data: 03 Novembre 2010
Venue: HMV Forum
Città: Londra
As far as one can hike in a day there is this beautiful silica, a purched lake was extra amazing. No signs of any life, not even animals.
Taken during our 2011 expedition to the reefs end.
Holliday Grainger as Anastasia with a more contemporary look by artist Noel Cruz.
The 2015 Live Action Cinderella with Cate Blanchett as Lady Tremaine, Helena Bonham Carter as The Fairy Godmother and Lily James as Cinderella.
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