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Apollo Theatre, London. An extraordinarily ornate playhouse in the heart of the West End. Designed by Lewen Sharp (the only theatre he designed) with internal decorations by H van Hooydonk it opened in 1901. Now part of Nimax Theatres it is grade 2 listed.
City of Westminster, West End, London, England - Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue
May 2025
Crafted by the Muses for Apollo, the God of the Arts, this Lyre will supposedly give divine inspiration to all who heard its melodies.
The lyre is largely shaped using plate, SNOTted (ew) together to give an advanced curvature that brick wouldn't necessarily allow. Let us know what you think of the build!
The Lyre of Apollo was made as part of our touring show Mythical Beasts, which at the time of posting is debuting at Milestones Museum in Basingstoke, Hampshire. Be sure to follow us on social media to see when Mythical Beasts, or any of our other tours, are coming your way.
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The American flag heralds the flight of Apollo 11, the first Lunar landing mission. The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifted off with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., at 9:32 a.m. EDT July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. During the planned eight-day mission, Armstrong and Aldrin will descend in a lunar module to the Moon's surface while Collins orbits overhead in the Command Module. The two astronauts are to spend 22 hours on the Moon, including two and one-half hours outside the lunar module. They will gather samples of lunar material and will deploy scientific experiments which will transmit data about the lunar environment. They will rejoin Collins in the Command Module for the return trip to Earth.
The Leander-class frigate, HMS Apollo, giving a great show during our departure from the first full Op. Armilla patrol in the Straits of Hormuz. In those days, we weren't allowed by the MoD into the Persian Gulf - that came during later, much busier, deployments.
In addition to the orange and red smoke out of the funnel from out of date signal flares, she has got powerful fire hoses attached to her twin 4.5 inch guns giving the big jets out to port, and has also set up her engine room to produce great belches of steam out of an exhaust port low down on the hull amidships.
After some officer-of-the-watch manoeuvres with the rest of the departing and relieving ships, we were heading off back home, the end of what had been a tedious six-month deployment for most of both crews, in sight.
Die aus mehreren Einzelaufnahmen zusammengefügte Darstellung mit Katalognummer a11pan5930-2 gibt es auch im VR-Format. www.panoramas.dk/moon/apollo-11-the-first-man-on-moon.html
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(January 28, 1967) Officially designated Apollo/Saturn 204, but more commonly known as Apollo 1, this close-up view of the interior of the Command Module shows the effects of the intense heat of the flash fire which killed the prime crew during a routine training exercise. While strapped into their seats inside the Command Module atop the Saturn IB rocket, a spark ignited the pure oxygen environment. The speed and intensity of the fire quickly exhausted the oxygen supply inside the crew cabin. Unable to open the hatch due to its cumbersome design, the crew lost consciousness and perished. They were: astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, (the second American to fly into space) Edward H. White II, (the first American to "walk" in space) and Roger B. Chaffee, (a "rookie" on his first space mission).
Credit: NASA
Image Number: S67-21294
Date: January 28, 1967
Apollo female foraging inflorescence of tuberous thistle in a small alpine meadow. Parc Naturel Régional du Vercors, France.
Pregnant female with her chastity belt, the sphragis: horny part secreted by the male during copulation prohibiting any fertilization.
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Apollon femelle butinant une inflorescence de cirse tubéreux dans une petite prairie alpine. Parc Naturel Régional du Vercors, France.
Femelle fécondée avec sa ceinture de chasteté, le sphragis : pièce cornée secrétée par le mâle pendant la copulation interdisant toute autre fécondation.
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Niobid Painter, "Niobid Krater," Attic red-figure calyx-krater, c. 460-50 B.C.E., 54 x 56 cm (Musée du Louvre)
Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith. Opened as the Gaumont Palace in March 1932, having been long planned (from 1925) with initially the Davis family as promoters, but latterly Gaumont British. It was designed by Robert Cromie, and had 3,487 seats in stalls and balcony levels, plus standing room for a further 225. It is art deco in style, with panels by Newbury A. Trent. The Gaumont was equipped with a 35ft deep stage, full fly tower with 28 double purchase counterweight lines, a 64ft wide proscenium arch, and 20 dressing rooms. There is an 4 rank / 15 rank Compton organ, reinstated in 2005 after many years in storage. The Gaumont was renamed Odeon in 1962, regular films ceased in 1984, but sometimes occasionally play dates. It became the Apollo in 1992, and has been taken over by various companies over the years (Clear Channel; MAMA; HMV; Stage C) but is currently owned by CTS Eventim. As the finest surviving work by Robert Cromie, and (together with the Plaza Stockport), one of the greatest, and least altered 1930s super cinemas, the Apollo is grade 2* listed, and had a major refurbishment (Foster Wilson Architects) in the summer of 2013, uncovering and restoring many decorative features of the building. The Apollo is regularly featured on film and television, from "The Smallest Show on Earth" (1956 feature film) to "Live From The Apollo" regular TV Stand-up recording (18, and counting, series beginning 2004). Taken on a visit arranged by the Cinema Theatre Association.
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, West London, Greater London, England - Eventim Apollo Theatre, Queen Caroline Street / Talgarth Road / Fulham Palace Road
April 2024
The Apollo 2000 (originally the Marshall Square Theatre) on Cermak in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood. This building was designed by Alexander Levy and opened in 1917 as a vaudeville theater. It now hosts community events and concerts.
One of the first steps taken on the Moon, this is an image of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint from the Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
The Roman god is pictured here wearing his latest invention - the shower cap. Millions of grateful women have worshipped him ever since.
Praxiteles (?) or a follower, Apollo Sauroktonos (Cleveland Apollo), c. 350 B.C.E., bronze, copper, and stone, 150 x 50.3 x 66.8 cm (The Cleveland Museum of Art)
The December 21, 1968 launch of Apollo 8 (AS-503) from Cape Kennedy, Fla. was the beginning of a mission designed to test the Apollo system and gain the operational experience necessary to realize President Kennedy’s goal of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth.” In this photo, Commander Colonel Frank Borman leads the way as he, Command Module Pilot Captain James A Lovell Jr., and Lunar Module Pilot Major William A. Anders head to the launch pad for humanity’s maiden voyage around the moon and its first aboard the Saturn V vehicle, developed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC
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The Apollo was Buick's version of the early 1970s GM X-body, a platform
mate to the Chevy Nova, Pontiac Ventura, and Oldsmobile Omega. This
somewhat forlorn example currently resides in Imperial Beach, California,
albeit with North Dakota plates.
At the Apollo Fountain, the Sun God Apollo, his horses and chariot rise out of the water. In Versailles, Paris; October 2008
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{ This theme is repeated again and again, including here in the Apollo Salon:- www.flickr.com/photos/justaslice/2962403401/in/pool-20077... }
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Apollo. final plaster model. 1996.
Apolo. Modelo final em gesso (português).
Apolo. modelo final en yeso ( español).
Apolo. modello finale dell'intonaco (italiano).
Century II quatrain 62
Mabus will soon die and there will come
A dreadful destruction of people and animals,
Suddenly vengeance will be revealed,
Hundred, hands, thirst and hunger when the comet will pass.
Mabus vai morrer em breve e virá
A terrível destruição de pessoas e animais,
De repente, a vingança será revelada,
Centenas, as mãos, a sede e a fome, quando o cometa passará.
Century VI quatrain 33
His hand finally through the bloody ALUS,
He will be unable to protect himself by sea,
Between two rivers he will fear the military hand,
The black and angry one will make him repent of it.
Apollo Belvedere (Roman copy of a Greek(?) original), original late 4th century B.C.E. marble, 2.3 m high (Vatican Museums, Rome)
Second only to Apollo 11 in fame, Apollo 13 was, when it was launched, seen as almost routine: Apollo 11 had put men on the Moon and Apollo 12 had proven it could be done twice. Few people outside of space enthusiasts and NASA were thinking much of Apollo 13 when it was launched on April 11, 1970. Onboard were the three crew: command pilot Jim Lovell (veteran of three previous spaceflights), lunar module (LM) pilot Jack Swigert, and command module (CM) pilot Fred Haise. Their destination was the Fra Mauro highlands on the Moon.
Other than a early engine shutoff on the second stage (which could have been more catastrophic than originally believed), the launch and everything required for Apollo 13 to go to the Moon went smoothly. On April 14, however, not long after a television broadcast--that was watched by no one outside NASA, as none of the networks were interested in carrying it--Mission Control requested Swigert turn on the stirring fans in the service module's oxygen tanks. What no one knew was that the insulation on the wires in Apollo 13's second SM oxygen tank were damaged: when Swigert switched on the fans, the wires shorted. This instantly ignited the oxygen tank, which exploded. While luckily the explosion was vented into space (which also snuffed the fire), it destroyed one oxygen tank and severely damaged the other. Apollo 13 was now in trouble.
No one knew what had happened; Lovell reported "Houston, we've had a problem," and at first it was thought that either the spacecraft had been hit by a meteor or it was an instrument problem. When Lovell spotted oxygen being vented to space, however, both crew and Mission Control knew that the situation was now desperate. There was no thought of landing on the Moon: now it was a fight just to survive. There had been some vague ideas about using the LM as a "lifeboat" for the crew, but it had never really been tried. Now NASA had no choice. To conserve as much power as possible, the CM was shut down and all three men moved into the LM.
Problem after problem began to crop up, each requiring something entirely new to be invented on the spot. Getting the crew back to Earth involved them moving to an new orbit and using the Moon's gravity to slingshot them home--but the LM's engine had to be used, as the SM's might've been damaged. (It was done successfully, and Apollo 13's crew set a record for the furthest human beings have ever gone from Earth--over 248,000 miles away.) Once that was done, the rising levels of carbon dioxide meant that a scrubbing system had to be devised using whatever could be found on the spacecraft. The crew's water had to be rationed, leading to Haise developing a urinary tract infection. Finally, the temperature in the minimally-operating LEM dropped to 38 degrees Fahrenheit: the crew, without any sort of cold-weather clothing, simply had to endure it.
But endure it they did, and all the innovations and improvisations by crew and Mission Control worked: Apollo 13 splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean on April 17. The near disaster spurred worldwide interest and concern for the astronauts, and for a short time, renewed interest in the Apollo program--though only four of the planned seven additional missions after Apollo 13 were flown, the others cancelled due to budget cuts. Neither Lovell, Swigert or Haise flew in space again; Swigert passed away in 1982.
Interest in Apollo 13, much like the Apollo program itself, waned after the program wound down. Lovell wrote a book in the early 1990s titled "Lost Moon", which spurred interest in a movie, "Apollo 13," which came out in 1995. This made the "successful failure" of the mission, in some ways, more well known than the success of the rest of the Apollo program.
After the mission, the only surviving part of Apollo 13--the Command Module, "Odyssey"--was disassembled and each part examined during the investigation into the accident. The capsule itself was reassembled and placed on display at the Kennedy Space Center; the interior was reassembled later and put in one of the "boilerplate" trainers and displayed at the Museum of Natural History at Louisville, Kentucky. In 1983, Odyssey was sent to the Museum of Air and Space in Paris, France, where it would remain until 1995. After the popularity of "Apollo 13" the film, Odyssey was brought home and moved to the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, where it was reunited with the interior, taken from the boilerplate. A 12-year restoration project resulted, and finally the complete Apollo 13 went on display at the Cosmosphere in 2007.
My 2020 trip was delayed and rescheduled due to coronavirus, but eventually a friend and I decided to go through the Midwest (where the museums were open). I looked into the Cosmosphere, and when I learned it had the real Apollo 13 (to say nothing of Gemini 10 and Liberty Bell 7!), my friend--who is a huge space enthusiast--was onboard for making a planned 3-day trip into a 6-day one. It was worth the extra days, mileage and sore butt to see the real thing. The restoration was beautifully done, and to be able to look inside and see where the real Lovell, Swigert and Haise sat on their mission--words cannot describe it.
HMS Apollo, a Leander-class frigate, arriving in the River Dart. The reason for the Procedure Alpha arrival and the College's boats providing ceremonial escort was that she was carrying the then-Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command (CINCNAVHOME) who was retiring back to his house in the area.
Commissioned in 1972, Apollo was the penultimate in a class of 26 ships and served her entire career with the Royal Navy as a standard 4.5-inch gun platform, unlike so many of the class which were converted in their later years to Ikara, Exocet and Exocet-Sea Wolf weapons platforms and towed-array units.
She was sold to the Pakistani Navy in 1988, where she became the Zulfiquar (F-262), serving into this millennium.