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Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 116,250 at the 2010 U.S. Census, which makes it the state's sixth most-populous city, the second largest outside of the Chicago metropolitan area (after Rockford), and the largest in central Illinois. As of 2019, the city's population was estimated to have decreased to 114,230, with just over 211,700 residents living in the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Sangamon County and the adjacent Menard County.
Present-day Springfield was settled by European Americans in the late 1810s, around the time Illinois became a state. The most famous historic resident was Abraham Lincoln, who lived in Springfield from 1837 until 1861, when he went to the White House as President. Major tourist attractions include multiple sites connected with Lincoln including his presidential library and museum, his home, and his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The city lies in a valley and plain near the Sangamon River. Lake Springfield, a large artificial lake owned by the City Water, Light & Power company (CWLP), supplies the city with recreation and drinking water. Weather is fairly typical for middle latitude locations, with four distinct seasons, including, hot summers and cold winters. Spring and summer weather is like that of most midwestern cities; severe thunderstorms may occur. Tornadoes hit the Springfield area in 1957 and 2006.
The city has a mayor–council form of government and governs the Capital Township. The government of the state of Illinois is based in Springfield. State government institutions include the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Illinois. There are three public and three private high schools in Springfield. Public schools in Springfield are operated by District No. 186. Springfield's economy is dominated by government jobs, plus the related lobbyists and firms that deal with the state and county governments and justice system, and health care and medicine.
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The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum documents the life of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln, and the course of the American Civil War. Combining traditional scholarship with 21st-century showmanship techniques, the museum ranks as one of the most visited presidential libraries. Its library, in addition to housing an extensive collection on Lincoln, also houses the collection of the Illinois State Historical Library, founded by the state in 1889. The library and museum is located in the state capital of Springfield, Illinois, and is overseen as an agency of state government. It is not affiliated with the U.S. National Archives and its system of libraries.
"Surgeons' Hall in Edinburgh, Scotland, is the headquarters of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSED). It houses the Surgeons' Hall Museum, and the library and archive of the RCSED. The present Surgeons' Hall was designed by William Henry Playfair and completed in 1832, and is a category A listed building.
Surgeons' Hall Museum is the major medical museum in Scotland, and one of Edinburgh's many tourist attractions. The museum is recognised as a collection of national significance by the Scottish Government.
The museum reopened in September 2015, after being closed for an eighteen-month period of redevelopment.
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh was incorporated in 1505, when it received its Seal of Cause or charter and became styled as 'The Incorporation of Surgeons and Barbers of Edinburgh'. The Museum at Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh dates from 1699 when the Incorporation announced that they were making a collection of ‘natural and artificial curiosities’. and advertised for these in the first edition of a local paper, the Edinburgh Gazette. Daniel Defoe, an early visitor in 1726, wrote in his Tour thro' the whole Island of Great Britain that the 'chamber of rarities' contained many curious things too numerous for him to describe. Much of this early collection was given to the University of Edinburgh in the 1760s.
By the early years of the 19th Century, the Incorporation had received a Royal Charter to become the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The College saw its primary role as the teaching of anatomy and surgery, the training of surgeons, and examination of their acquired knowledge. Anatomy and pathology specimens were crucial to that function. The museum expanded dramatically with the acquisition of two large collections. John Barclay, a successful anatomy demonstrator in the extramural school of medicine donated his collection, while Sir Charles Bell, Professor of Surgery in the University of London and latterly in the University of Edinburgh sold his collection to the museum. These collections were much too large to be housed in the original 1697 Surgeons' Hall, and so the surgeons commissioned the leading Edinburgh architect William Playfair to build the present day Surgeons Hall, which opened in 1832. At first the entire upper floor of the building was devoted to the museum collections, which were open to the public and attracted large visitor numbers. Throughout the 19th and early 20th century the collection expanded as it became customary for surgeons and pathologists to donate not only specimens which they regarded as interesting or instructive, but surgical instruments and equipment. With the great scientific and technical advances of the time, the museum began to acquire anaesthetic equipment, histology slides, X-rays and photographs.
Edinburgh (/ˈɛdɪnbərə/; Scots: Edinburgh; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann [ˈt̪uːn ˈeːtʲən̪ˠ]) is the capital of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore.
Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Government, the Scottish Parliament and the supreme courts of Scotland. The city's Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of the monarch in Scotland. The city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, literature, philosophy, the sciences and engineering. It is the second largest financial centre in the United Kingdom (after London) and the city's historical and cultural attractions have made it the United Kingdom's second most visited tourist destination attracting 4.9 million visits including 2.4 million from overseas in 2018.
Edinburgh is Scotland's second most populous city and the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. The official population estimates are 488,050 (2016) for the Locality of Edinburgh (Edinburgh pre 1975 regionalisation plus Currie and Balerno), 518,500 (2018) for the City of Edinburgh, and 1,339,380 (2014) for the city region. Edinburgh lies at the heart of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland city region comprising East Lothian, Edinburgh, Fife, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian.
The city is the annual venue of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. It is home to national institutions such as the National Museum of Scotland, the National Library of Scotland and the Scottish National Gallery. The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1582 and now one of four in the city, is placed 20th in the QS World University Rankings for 2020. The city is also known for the Edinburgh International Festival and the Fringe, the latter being the world's largest annual international arts festival. Historic sites in Edinburgh include Edinburgh Castle, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the churches of St. Giles, Greyfriars and the Canongate, and the extensive Georgian New Town built in the 18th/19th centuries. Edinburgh's Old Town and New Town together are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, which has been managed by Edinburgh World Heritage since 1999." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
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Still painted in the colors of their former owners, two patched Union Pacific AC4400CW's, the 6258 and 6708 are leading an eastbound train of auto carriers at Kansas City, MO on August 6, 2010.
Approaching C.P. Broadway on UP's Omaha Main with autos originating at GM's Fairfax Assembly Plant across the state line in Kansas, the train curves along a bend in the Missouri River.
Union Pacific AC4400CW 6258 is former Southern Pacific 251 built in July 1995 and UP AC4400CW 6708 is former Chicago & North Western 8806 built November, 1994.
Shop floor of a garment making factory where top of the line international brands are manufactured and exported. This is one of the few factories where stringent safety and social compliance norms are met. This sector is one of the largest employer of skilled manpower in India.
Test fold for Meenakhi Mukerji (www.origamee.net)
Thanks to her!
3-unit assembly (by Toshie Takahama) and
6-unit assembly (By Meenakshi Mukerji)
Made from Snow-capped sonobe units (Meenakshi Mukerji)
Diagrams to be published in OrigamiUSA's magazine "The Fold"
we had some huge protests and stuff last year at university and that's a photo I took during our Student Assembly. I've never seen this lecture hall SO CROWDED. There are about 800 seats but everybody was standing at the back and sitting on stairs...
The shutter & aperture assembly consists of five layers of 0.01" (0.25mm) and 0.02" (0.51mm) stainless steel.
The aperture is a rotary waterhouse stop, with openings for f/4.5, f/8 and f/22. The other small holes are to make contact with sprung pogo pins, which act as a detent to hold the aperture plate in place, and report the aperture value to the microcontroller.
Similar to Lux, the 645PS (working name) uses a single-leaf shutter, controlled by a solenoid. When activated, the solenoid causes a slider with a small pin in it to shift. As the pin moves horizontally, the leaf rotates and the film is exposed.
Janie and Triv spent Talk Like a Pirate Day assembling a wheelb-arrrr-ow.
19th o' Septembarrr - A Doll A Day 2024
The Assembly Hall, run by the City of Toronto, on the grounds of Colonel Samuel Smith Park.
The building was originally built as part of the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital.
PictionID:42186134 - Title:Atlas Assembly Line------- - Catalog:14_002069 - Filename:14_002069.tif - - - - Image from the Convair/General Dynamics Astronautics Atlas Negative Collection---Please Tag these images so that the information can be permanently stored with the digital file.---Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum
The London Assembly is such a great piece of architecture it's hard to resist taking a picture, even when you've done plenty before. At night there's some internal lighting that allows you so see the internal helix, but in order to bring out all the detail I bracketed the shot +/- 2EV and merged them together in Photoshop.
There were quite a few people walking past while I was taking this, so I ended up taking 9 sets and luckily one of them was people free! I can't help but feel it looks like a giant glass and steel mushroom!
I know it's a cliché, but this looks better on black!
Grade A office space in a prime city centre location, according to the advertising blurb. On the site of the old Clerical & Medical building vacant for many years, For me one of the least inviting new buildings I've seen in a while & and in the light of the working from home revolution whom will it benefit ?
The Vehicle (originally Vertical) Assembly Building, or VAB, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) was used to assemble American manned launch vehicles from 1968-2011. At 129,428,000 cubic feet it is one of the largest buildings in the world by volume. It is the largest single-story building in the world, was the tallest building in Florida until 1974, and is still the tallest building in the U.S.A. outside an urban area.
The VAB, which was completed in 1966, was originally built to allow for the vertical assembly of the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo program and referred to as the "Vertical Assembly Building". When the Space Shuttle program began, it was renamed to the "Vehicle Assembly Building" and used for the shuttle's external fuel tanks and flight hardware, and to mate the Space Shuttle orbiters to their solid rocket boosters and external fuel tanks. Once assembled, the complete Space Shuttle was moved on the Mobile Launcher Platform and Crawler-Transporter to LC-39 Pad A or B.
The VAB is 526 feet tall, 716 feet long and 518 feet wide. It covers 8 acres, and encloses 129,428,000 cubic feet of space. The building has at least 10,000 tons of air conditioning equipment, including 125 ventilators on the roof supported by four large air handlers (four cylindrical structures west of the building) to keep moisture under control. Air in the building can be completely replaced every hour. The interior volume of the building is so vast that it has its own weather, including "rain clouds forming below the ceiling on very humid days", which the moisture reduction systems are designed to minimize.
Located on Florida's Atlantic coast, the building was constructed to withstand hurricanes and tropical storms with a foundation consisting of 30,000 cubic yards of concrete and 4,225 steel rods driven 160 feet into limestone bedrock.
The American flag painted on the building was the largest in the world when added in 1976 as part of United States Bicentennial celebrations, along with the star logo of the anniversary, later replaced by the NASA insignia in 1998. It is 209 feet high, and 110 feet wide. Each of the stars on the flag is 6 feet across, the blue field is the size of a regulation basketball court, and each of the stripes is 9 feet wide, the width of a standard road lane.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39
Delegates, observers and media attendees at the opening of the 28th regular session of the IMO Assembly.
IMO HQ, London, 25/11/2013.
The Right Honourable Stephen Hammond MP, UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport, addresses the 28th regular session of the IMO Assembly.
IMO HQ, London, 25/11/2013.
I found this picture just now and I honestly don't remember even taking it. I'm always amazed at how much I can dislike my pictures when I take them and then months later looking at them again I feel completely different about them.
Kebeh Sumo, rural woman leader from Liberia, listens as her Ellen Johnson Sirleaf delivers remarks at the lunch event on Accelerating Progress toward the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women hosted by UN Women, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) on 27 September 2012.
Photo credit: UN Women/Catianne Tijerina
Some of the 1:24 scale 1320 Inc. vintage drag racing die-cast models were also offered in "kit" form for those who enjoy assembling model cars. The tubular frame and body are cast metal with most of the remaining parts being plastic, along with rubber tires, plug wires and hoses. The dragster measures 10 1/2 inches from the front of the body to the back of the roll cage. Out of the 14 1320 dragsters I have, 4 were in kit form. I have already assembled the other 3 kits and soon this one will join the line-up.