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Designed and built Apollo Automobili to celebrate the company's 60th anniversary, the P72 plays tribute to the original De Tomaso P70, a collaboration with Alejandro De Tomaso and Carroll Shelby. Norman Choi, chairman of De Tomaso says that the De Tomaso P72 is a modern day homage to the prototype days of the '60s. The P72 is based on an all-car bon chassis, featuring the first all-carbon fibre production chassis. The monocoque, as well as subframes and crash structure adhere to FIA LMP safety requirements. Only 72 examples of this bespoke all carbon-fibre chassis will be produced.
Class XIV : Hyper cars
Zoute Concours d'Elegance
The Royal Zoute Golf Club
Zoute Grand Prix 2019
Knokke - Zoute
België - Belgium
October 2019
Apollo Module--Permann Collection Image--Please tag these photos so information can be recorded.---Note: This material may be protected by Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S.C.)--Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The Lapith women [Figures E, H, O, R in A. F. Stewart recostruction] play an unusually prominent role here: to my knowledge, they are not present in any earlier depictions of the myth. In addition, several of the Lapith women ("E", "V" , R) have one breast bared an innovation that may have been designed to remind the ancient viewer of the competitors in the Heraia, the footraces held in honor of the goddess Hera in Olympia, Greece since early ancient times. The presence of the Lapith women appealed to the ancient viewer, who easily would be reminded of the women at Olympia who were participants in the Heraia and spectators at the male games, women who were elevated to marriageable status in the former venue and were perhaps seeking husbands in the latter. Although the Lapith women do not seek husbands, they are assaulted by the Centaurs at a wedding and are defended by the heroic, athletic Lapiths, overseen by the god Apollo.
Source: The Temple of Zeus at Olympia, Heroes and Athletes – Hesperia (2005)
Marble Statuary group
ca. 470 BC - ca. 457 BC
Olympia, Peloponnese
Taken 24th December, 1968
Apollo 8 mission
Courtesy: NASA
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This is the first photograph taken of Earthrise taken by a human as he watched the event unfold. Interestingly, it is not the image that has become iconic over the years by virtue of the fact it is monochrome. Two colour photographs taken in a minute or so will become the images that are favourite of photo editors around the world. Note how close the Earth is to the lunar horizon. We are looking across the middle of Pasteur, a large degraded mini-basin at 224-km diameter. The lighting renders its rim invisible but the distinct crater in the central foreground is Pasteur G. A cluster of craters at the top of the frame are centred around Pasteur U.]
[We have presented this photograph in an unconventional orientation with the Moon's horizon vertical. On Earth, the convention for a sunrise or moonrise shot is to have the horizon running left to right. Bill Anders has said that this is how he see this image. They were orbiting around the Moon's equator and with north being to the top, Earth came out from behind a vertical horizon. ]
history.nasa.gov/ap08fj/14day4_orbits456.htm
The first of these two images is likely the photograph that has become an icon for environmental groups around the world. It manages to contrast the rugged, hostile, barren landscape of the Moon with the dynamic, colourful life-giving sphere of the Earth.]
[So who took the famous Earthrise photograph? Bill Anders had always been sure he had taken it, and strictly speaking he had, as it is quite clear he did take the two colour images. Yet, in his book, Countdown, Frank Borman claims that the famous colour image was taken by him.]
[There are competing theories to explain this difference which were laid out in an article and subsequent letters in The Sciences magazine on the thirtieth anniversary of the flight by Robert Zimmerman, author of Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, and Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon. Both of these historians agree that Bill took the two colour images and can take credit for the famous image. But who took the first black and white image? The controversy hinges on the identity of the speaker at 075:47:30 who expresses astonishment at the sight of the rising Earth. If the transcripts are correct and it is Frank, then it seems likely that he actually took the early B+W image by grabbing the camera Bill had been using and firing off a shot while Bill jokingly admonishes him for carrying out unscheduled photography. If, on the other hand, the utterance at 075:47:30 is made by Bill then it seems likely that he had kept the camera as Frank was rotating the spacecraft, spotted the rising Earth and fired off a shot before getting Jim to help him.]
[The unfortunate fact about this controversey is that Frank and Bill have very similar voices and it can often be difficult to distinguish between them. When possible, we will make a recording of the moment available to readers so they can judge for themselves.]
[As the crew are enjoy an historic view of their home planet, the other Hasselblad in its mounting is still photographing the landscape below.
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