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Airplane on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport overhead from Donaldson Run Park, Arlington, VA
Compared to the other munros I tackled during my vacations, Ben Lawers was by far the easiest to climb. Nonetheless it was fun too and an enjoyable walk.
152 approaches Newbridge with the 11.00 Dublin Heuston - Galway.
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We took a boat from Elounda to the island of Spinalonga, a very pleasant trip in its own right. Nowadays the island is best known as the setting for Victoris Hislop's novel 'The Island' based on an island leper colony.
As this view clearly shows the island was not originally intended as a leper colony. The Venetians occupied the area from the 13th to the 17th centuries. (It is probably no coincedence that the island of Guidecca in Venice was also known as Spinalunga). The shallow seas in Elounda bay were ideally for the production of salt and Spinalonga island had a key strategic position at the entrance to the bay.
In the 16th century the Ottoman Turks began to take a keen interest in the area so the Venetians decided to fortify the island using the latest techniques. This including building two Mezzaluna Bastions, one at each end of the island, plus high defensive walls where there were no natural cliffs.
The fortifications proved to be very effective as the Turks invaded the island of Crete in 1645 but Spinalonga did not surrender to them for another 60 years.
The final Turkish inhabitants left in 1903 when the island was designated a leper colony. In what now seems a rather barbaric approach, people with leprosy were transferred to from the main island to Spinalonga, provided with a small allowance and left to their own devices. However, at that time there was no known cure for leprosy and it was thought to be highly contagious.
Conditions for the inhabitants changed for the better after 1930 when a law student, Epameinondas Remoundakis, was sent to the island. He started a process of establishing a more 'normal' lifestyle on the island encouraging people to help each other and work to provide more creature comforts. In time a cafe, cinema, theatre and even a small church were established. People also fell in love, married and had children, some of whom grew up on the island without ever catching the disease.
In 1948 a cure for leprosy was discovered and the inhabitants gradually left until the colony was finally closed in 1957.
A late #3, Southwest Chief, nears Hill 582 as it enjoys a daytime run down the Cajon Pass, that was blanketed in snow courtesy of an extremely cold winter storm the day before.
While the Cajon Pass is known to get snow from time to time, it is rare for it to get this much snow. The tracks in the foreground are near the summit of the pass and Main 3, on the left is completely covered by the snow.
Freightliner liveried 66619 approaches Wellingborough with the 09.57 Bletchley RMC - Peak Forest Cemex Sidings bogie hoppers.
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Thames Clipper, river taxi, passing Canary Wharf. It is approaching Greenland Pier in Southwark. This is the Hurricane Clipper. It was built in 2001 by the Cairns based Australian company NQEA - shipbuilders. I seem to remember she was the third Clipper to join the fleet - the first two were Moon and Sky and were smaller vessels. I took the photo in 2009.
The fourteenth day of my trip to Peru and Easter Island.
I then drove to Ahu Tongariki passing horses, pigs and other animals along the way. At Ahu Tongariki I take lots of pictures of the Moai and me pratting about with them.
Ahu Tongaiki, probably one of the most photographed Ahu’s on the Island and the biggest. It contains 15 moai that have been
recently restored after the Ahu was destroyed in the 1960’s by a Tsunami. On the approach to the Ahu you pass by a lonely
moai know as the “Travelling Moai” due to the fact it went on a tour around Japan a few years ago. The size of the 15 statues
is immense and with them being on top of their platform increases their scale as you look up at them. There is also some
petroglyphs carved into the ground in front of the Ahu showing a turtle.
Ahu Tongariki is the largest ahu on Rapa Nui/Easter Island (a Chilean island in the Pacific). Its moai were toppled during
the island's civil wars and in the twentieth century the ahu was swept inland by a tidal wave. It has since been restored and
has fifteen moai including an 86 tonne moai that was the heaviest ever erected on the island. Ahu Tongariki is close to Rano
Raraku and Poike in the Rapa Nui National Park. All the moai here face sunset during Summer Solstice, and their backs
therefore face sunrise during Winter Solstice.[citation needed]
Ahu Tongariki was substantially restored in the 1990s by a multidisciplinary team headed by archaeologists Claudio Cristino
(Director) and Patricia Vargas (Co-director executive team), in a five year project carried out under an official agreement
of the Chilean Government with Tadano Lt. and the University of Chile.
Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the
southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile annexed in 1888, Easter Island is widely
famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people. It is a World Heritage Site
(as determined by UNESCO) with much of the island protected within the Rapa Nui National Park. In recent times the island has
served as a cautionary tale about the cultural and environmental dangers of overexploitation. Ethnographers and
archaeologists now argue that the introduction of diseases carried by European colonizers and the slave raiding[4] that
devastated the population in the 1800s had a much greater social than environmental impact.
To see my full travelblog from my trip to Peru and Easter Island visit: www.travelshorts.com/travel-blogs/peru-and-
easter-island-2010/
This red/white mark is the navigation-system, as it indicates the "Grande Randonnée" (here GR653)
I was on. But I was not the only creature using this kind of navigation . Hundreds of small snails had followed the sign as well - vertically.
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
The house at No. 677, which was built in 1890 from designs by the New York architect L.C. Holden, faces the north side of Tompkins Park from Lafayette Avenue. it is located in an area that was formerly the old village of Bedford which had been incorporated into the City of Brooklyn in 1834. The park is one of the original eleven parks or squares in the 1839 Brooklyn city plan. A commission was authorized in 1835 to lay out streets, avenues, and squares in the expanding City of Brooklyn, taking into consideration the proposed suggestions of a Citizens Committee. Tompkins Park was undoubtedly named for Daniel D. Tompkins (1774-1625). Governor of New York State and Vice President of the United States, 1817-1825. He was a forceful advocate of liberal reform measures and served valiantly in directing the defense of the New York area during the Mar of 1812.
The residential development of Bedford took place mainly from the 1860s through the 1890s when many private residences were constructed. Mr. Moses Aibert Scull purchased his property at 677 Lafayette Avenue on March 27, 1890, and commissioned the New York architect L.C. Holden to design his new townhouse. Plans for this residence were filed on June 12, 1890, and by May 1, 1892, M. Albert Scull was listed in the Brooklyn directory. According to the directories, Mr. Scull was in the cement business. The Scull family retained the residence until 1916.
Three stories in height, above a high basement, this handsome brick and brownstone townhouse is a fine example of the late Romanesque Revival; this is a style which perpetuated the rock-faced stonework and some of the bold character of the earlier Romanesque Revival, but it also introduced certain minor variations, new materials and a general sense of refinement. These materials included brick and terra-cotta for trim; radial arches of brick, either fiat or segmental were introduced, in contrast to the traditional Romanesque Revival half-circle arch.
The basement is faced with regular rock-faced ashlar as opposed to the rock-faced random ashlar of the L-shaped stoop which abuts it. The steps, with straight-faced risers without round-nosed treads, have dressed stone copings on the wing-walls so typical of the Romanesque Revival. In the wing-wall facing the street, beneath the landing at the turn of the "L", there is a small window just above the sidewalk which admits light to the basement entry beneath the stoop. A handsome curvilinear wrought-iron grill protects this window. A deeply recessed door under the top landing gives across to the basement, and a wide window opening in the front wall of the building provides light for the basement.
At the first floor the square-heeded doorway, approached by the stoop at the left-hand side of the house, is complemented on the right by a wide window which is the same width and directly above that at the basement. This window, like the doorway, is square-headed; each has a sprayed fat arch of rock-faced stonework which accords with the stonework of the front wall of the first floor.
- From the 1977 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report
VWS6383 Taken on the Wing-Soulbury road August 18 2017. A day of sun and bursts of rain. I don't know where the rain dropped but I was fortunate enough not to get wet! I took this photograph because I just loved that huge cloud.
The sun was still very bright and I only had my iPhone so I used the tree to block the sun - I like the final image. I think i might use this a cover for some blank inside note cards.
Photographed during the 21st and final stage of the 2015 Tour de France cycle race in Paris, France.
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Puffy cumulous clouds dot the sky over the mountains as we approach Isafjordur, iceland.
This trip was an expedition voyage from Norway to Iceland put on by UK-based sailing company Rubicon 3. To learn more about them, visit their web site:
Reno is a city in the US state of Nevada. Known as "The Biggest Little City in the World", Reno is famous for its casinos and as the birthplace of Caesars Entertainment Corporation. The city is situated in the northwestern part of the state and is the county seat of Washoe County. Reno is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 225,221 making it the fourth most populous city in the state after Las Vegas, Henderson, and North Las Vegas. The city sits in a high desert at the foot of the Sierra Nevada and its downtown area (along with Sparks) occupies a valley informally known as the Truckee Meadows.
Reno is part of the Reno–Sparks metropolitan area which consists of all of both Washoe and Storey counties and has a 2013 estimated population of 437,673. making it the second largest metropolitan area in Nevada.
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