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In the early days of independent television seperate franchises existed for Monday to Friday and then weekend broadcasting. For many years this 'eye' symbol (or ident) was familiar to Midlands viewers (and indeed to Londoners at the weekend!). ATV in the Midlands existed from 1956 until 1982.
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St Helena Island in Moreton Bay contains evidence of both Aboriginal use and a number of structures of stone, brick and timber associated with the operation of a quarantine station and a prison during the period 1865 to 1933.
The name of the island recalls an incident in 1828 regarding an Aborigine nick-named Napoleon for his resemblance to the French general who was exiled on the island of St Helena. 'Napoleon', whose real name was Nugoon, stole an axe from the government stores at Dunwich and was 'exiled' by the authorities on one of the Green Islands, however, he constructed a canoe from materials on the island and returned to Dunwich within days. For many years the name of the island alternated between St Helena and Nugoon, however it was the former which gained official recognition.
During the 1840s and '50s the island was a base for the hunting and processing of dugong for meat and oil, which was valued for medicinal purposes. For some time this business was highly profitable, however due to mismanagement and diminishing supplies of dugong it eventually failed.
In 1865 when a quarantine station was planned, the vegetation of the island was divided between mangrove swamp, scrub land and grass flats. Its isolation made it ideal as a location for a quarantine station. Buildings were designed by Charles Tiffin, Colonial Architect, and construction work commenced in 1865 using labour from the prison hulk 'Proserpine', moored at the mouth of the Brisbane River. The first structure completed was a lock-up for the prisoners working on the island. Work proceeded slowly and by 1867 overcrowding in Brisbane prisons had increased to such an extent that it was decided to convert the proposed quarantine station into a prison and to retain the existing quarantine facilities at Dunwich. Despite this, the island was apparently used for quarantine purposes during this period and at least two graves for unidentified immigrants are within the vicinity of prison burials on the eastern shore of the island. The official prison cemetery is on the southern end of the island.
The first superintendent of the gaol was John McDonald, who served in this post for fifteen years, during which time he did much to establish the prison and its associated activities. The philosophy of prisoner rehabilitation was changing from the earlier ethos of punishment and isolation. The aim was to provide prisoners with a full day of constructive activity and instruction which would equip them with life skills. In addition, the financial strictures of the colony made it desirable for the prison to be as self-sufficient as possible. McDonald showed considerable initiative and perseverance in meeting these demands.
Punishment for defaulting prisoners, though considered less brutal than in many prisons, was still strict and included gagging and shot drill. Flogging was reserved for extreme offences and was eventually replaced by incarceration in underground isolation cells. Under McDonald's care the prison was described by newspaper journalists as being of the highest standard with clean, healthy prisoners engaged in constructive enterprises that provided them with excellent opportunities for self improvement. The aim of self-sufficiency was reflected in the process by which new prison buildings were constructed when they were needed. Plans were prepared by several long-serving prisoners to the requirements of the Superintendent, the government architect not being employed. The materials were obtained on the island when possible. The scrub was not sufficient to meet the demand for building timber, but the island stone and the lime extracted from neighbouring coral reefs provided raw materials for many of the structures. The lime was burned in a kiln constructed on the island by 1869 using bricks and the local stone. Later, when the sugar mill was operational, the lime produced was used for settling the vegetable matter suspended in the sugar syrup.
In 1868 a substantial timber barracks to house approximately 130 prisoners was completed, in addition to the buildings and jetty previously constructed for the quarantine station. A bakehouse, wash house, kitchen, punishment cells and a convalescent ward for sick prisoners were also built. On the rising ground behind these buildings, a large timber structure housed store rooms, doctors rooms, clerks rooms, quarters for twelve military personnel and one officer, and accommodation for ten warders. Also on rising ground, though separate, was a five room cottage for the superintendent in an acre of fenced land. A further area was devoted to growing maize, sugar cane and vegetables for the prison. Fifty acres were cleared with the intention of planting sugar cane. This was to be processed in a sugar refinery on site. A boat house of local stone, a coarse conglomerate, was being constructed near the landing area. It was also planned to construct a church and schoolhouse within the stockade.
One of the most successful early enterprises undertaken on the island was the growing and processing of sugar. McDonald trained himself in the processes involved and the mill was considered something of a wonder in its own right. The crushing rollers were horse-driven and hand fed by the prisoners. The syrup was gravity fed into vats for boiling down and crystallisation. The final product was a fine golden coloured sugar of table quality which was used, not only by other government institutions, but was sold commercially. Both cane and sugar won many awards at the annual International Exhibition. The cane served other useful functions on the island, the trash providing fuel for the warders' fires. The chief disadvantage of the cane crop was the cover it provided for malingerers or absconding prisoners. Following Macdonald's departure in 1882, his successor, Capt. Townley, reduced the acreage on the island to provide only for the prison's needs. This crop was subsequently reduced even further, until in 1890 the prison commenced purchasing sugar from external sources. The sugar mill was converted into a laundry and a herd of dairy cattle was introduced to provide milk, butter and cheese for the prison. A low flat area on the western side of the island was used for pasturing prison animals. It had stables, cowsheds, piggeries, sheep yards and a slaughter house.
The prison continued to expand until, at its peak, it could accommodate approximately 300 prisoners. Townley enforced a more rigid discipline than McDonald and the harsh conditions on the island soon earned St Helena the nicknames of the 'hell-hole of the Pacific' and 'Queensland's Inferno', although the press described it as a model prison. The shark-infested waters of Moreton Bay were a barrier to escape, although this was achieved on a few occasions.
A tramline had been constructed between the prison compound and the jetty in the late 1870s to move goods and raw materials. A series of temporary lines were also laid down and relocated as required to transport everything from laundry to the nightsoil brought from the mainland and buried in trenches on the island in the 1880s. A variety of rolling stock was used over the years including a two-handed pumper vehicle similar to that used on railways. This was eventually superseded by a horse drawn tram car which operated for some thirty years. In the 1930s the tramway fell into disrepair and the rails were removed, although much of the associated earthworks remain.
In 1891 five political prisoners were imprisoned on the island for their role in the Shearers' Strikes of that year. One of these, William Hamilton, was later to become Member of the Legislative Assembly for Gregory, Minister for Mines and President of the Legislative Council of Queensland. He later enjoyed reminding others that he had been incarcerated on St Helena for three years.
By the early twentieth century conditions had changed once more under the superintendence of James Ryan and visitors to the island extolled its virtues at length. It was described as the 'pearl of Moreton Bay' and 'the garden of beauty'. Such descriptions aroused public interest and in 1912 a campaign was mounted by the Moreton Bay League for the closure of the prison and the conversion of the island into a place of public recreation. The Government quashed this movement by announcing plans for a new, more substantial prison on St Helena, but this did not proceed and in 1921 it was decided to close the prison and make the island a prison farm. Most of the inmates were removed to Boggo Road Gaol and those who remained were occupied with the demolition of most of the gaol's infrastructure, including fences, stockade walls, workshops and other buildings. A few buildings were retained, possibly because they continued to be of use to the farm. Much of the material removed was later re-used in other government projects. In 1933 the farm was closed down and the remaining prisoners were transferred to Boggo Road Gaol.
In 1933 the island became the responsibility of Brisbane City Council whose plans for the island included golf courses, landing strips, holiday cabins and tennis courts. Of these, only a dance hall and kiosk were erected and a few trees planted to provide shelter at the picnic area near the wharf. A regular ferry service was supplied to carry people to the island, but the scheme proved uneconomic. In 1939 the Council surrendered its control of the island and a dairy farm was established once more.
In 1979 the island became the first 'historic' National Park in Queensland in recognition of the significance of the island's past and those buildings which remained. The island is now an open air museum and studies have been made of the island's history and of the ruins of the prison. Conservation and reconstruction work has been carried out on the surviving buildings and interpretive signage has been installed. In 1997 the Rotary Club of Wynnum/Manly constructed a tram track between the jetty and the principal group of buildings partially following the route of the old tramline.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
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This part of our adventures on our Grand Tour of Europe is in episode three of the Take Flight with Scott video series on YouTube. Please join us there for even more content from this trip. Part one is our time on Crete, Greece with our teen nieces Madeline and Emily.
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Associate Administrator for the Office of Small Business Programs Glenn Delgado delivers remarks during a flag raising ceremony in recognition and celebration of Juneteenth, Thursday, June 15, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
I attended the "Antique Flywheel Engine & Tractor Show" sponsored by the "Florida Flywheeler's Antique Engine Club" located at 7000 Avon Park Cutoff Road, Fort Mead, FL 33841 on Friday February 21, 2020.
This Photograph shows an Associated Line Flywheel Engine at the Antique Flywheel and Tractor Show, Fort Meade, Florida.
Several other shows/exhibitions were as follows: Functioning Sawmill Demonstrations, Running 1914 400 HP Snow Making Machine Demonstration, Antique Construction Equipment Demonstrations, Model-T Put-Together Demonstration, Daily Antique Tractor Pulls, Kids Pedal Tractor Pulls on Friday & Saturday, Daily Antique Car Parade, Daily Antique Tractor Parade, Florida Flywheeler Antique Engine Club Gift Shop Opened, Huge Flea Market & the Antique Village (was opened) to Wander Through.
This Place is HUGE ! - - One of the attendants told me it is approx 480 ACRES !
Educational/Cultural Sites
July 2014
Mid-Century Modern Architecture
University of Minnesota
West-Bank Campus
Wilson Library
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Architect: Cerny Associates
Ardvreck Castle is a castle, now ruinous, standing on a rocky promontory in Loch Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland, UK. The structure dates from about 1490 and is associated with the then landowners, the Macleods of Assynt.
The castle was built in the 15th century by the MacLeods of Assynt. It replaced Assynt Castle which was four miles north-west of Inchnadamph.
Ardvreck is notable as the place where the royalist James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose was handed over in 1650 to the Covenanter forces by MacLeod, Laird of Assynt after the Battle of Carbisdale. The true history of this event is unclear. One account is that MacLeod, loyal to the Covenanters, arrested the weary, fleeing, Montrose and held him. Another is that he provided comfortable shelter, but betrayed Montrose for a £25,000 reward.
Clan Mackenzie attacked and captured Ardvreck Castle in 1672, and then took control of the Assynt lands. In 1726 they constructed a more modern manor house nearby, Calda House which takes its name from the Calda burn beside which it stands. A fire destroyed the house in 1737 and both Calda House and Ardvreck Castle stand as ruins today. They are designated as scheduled monuments.
The castle was a simple rectangular keep with a round staircase tower at the south-east angle. It was corbelled out on the upper floors to form square rooms, the small stair turret to these upper rooms being carried on the corbelling. There were three compartments on the ground floor which were all vaulted. There appear to have been four floors, and the first of these is also vaulted with the other floors being simply joisted. The castle also had several gunports.
The Highlands is a historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots language replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. The term is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east. The Great Glen divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands. The Scottish Gaelic name of A' Ghàidhealtachd literally means "the place of the Gaels" and traditionally, from a Gaelic-speaking point of view, includes both the Western Isles and the Highlands.
The area is very sparsely populated, with many mountain ranges dominating the region, and includes the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis. During the 18th and early 19th centuries the population of the Highlands rose to around 300,000, but from c. 1841 and for the next 160 years, the natural increase in population was exceeded by emigration (mostly to Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and migration to the industrial cities of Scotland and England.) and passim The area is now one of the most sparsely populated in Europe. At 9.1/km2 (24/sq mi) in 2012, the population density in the Highlands and Islands is less than one seventh of Scotland's as a whole.
The Highland Council is the administrative body for much of the Highlands, with its administrative centre at Inverness. However, the Highlands also includes parts of the council areas of Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Moray, North Ayrshire, Perth and Kinross, Stirling and West Dunbartonshire.
The Scottish Highlands is the only area in the British Isles to have the taiga biome as it features concentrated populations of Scots pine forest: see Caledonian Forest. It is the most mountainous part of the United Kingdom.
Between the 15th century and the mid-20th century, the area differed from most of the Lowlands in terms of language. In Scottish Gaelic, the region is known as the Gàidhealtachd, because it was traditionally the Gaelic-speaking part of Scotland, although the language is now largely confined to The Hebrides. The terms are sometimes used interchangeably but have different meanings in their respective languages. Scottish English (in its Highland form) is the predominant language of the area today, though Highland English has been influenced by Gaelic speech to a significant extent. Historically, the "Highland line" distinguished the two Scottish cultures. While the Highland line broadly followed the geography of the Grampians in the south, it continued in the north, cutting off the north-eastern areas, that is Eastern Caithness, Orkney and Shetland, from the more Gaelic Highlands and Hebrides.
Historically, the major social unit of the Highlands was the clan. Scottish kings, particularly James VI, saw clans as a challenge to their authority; the Highlands was seen by many as a lawless region. The Scots of the Lowlands viewed the Highlanders as backward and more "Irish". The Highlands were seen as the overspill of Gaelic Ireland. They made this distinction by separating Germanic "Scots" English and the Gaelic by renaming it "Erse" a play on Eire. Following the Union of the Crowns, James VI had the military strength to back up any attempts to impose some control. The result was, in 1609, the Statutes of Iona which started the process of integrating clan leaders into Scottish society. The gradual changes continued into the 19th century, as clan chiefs thought of themselves less as patriarchal leaders of their people and more as commercial landlords. The first effect on the clansmen who were their tenants was the change to rents being payable in money rather than in kind. Later, rents were increased as Highland landowners sought to increase their income. This was followed, mostly in the period 1760–1850, by agricultural improvement that often (particularly in the Western Highlands) involved clearance of the population to make way for large scale sheep farms. Displaced tenants were set up in crofting communities in the process. The crofts were intended not to provide all the needs of their occupiers; they were expected to work in other industries such as kelping and fishing. Crofters came to rely substantially on seasonal migrant work, particularly in the Lowlands. This gave impetus to the learning of English, which was seen by many rural Gaelic speakers to be the essential "language of work".
Older historiography attributes the collapse of the clan system to the aftermath of the Jacobite risings. This is now thought less influential by historians. Following the Jacobite rising of 1745 the British government enacted a series of laws to try to suppress the clan system, including bans on the bearing of arms and the wearing of tartan, and limitations on the activities of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Most of this legislation was repealed by the end of the 18th century as the Jacobite threat subsided. There was soon a rehabilitation of Highland culture. Tartan was adopted for Highland regiments in the British Army, which poor Highlanders joined in large numbers in the era of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1790–1815). Tartan had largely been abandoned by the ordinary people of the region, but in the 1820s, tartan and the kilt were adopted by members of the social elite, not just in Scotland, but across Europe. The international craze for tartan, and for idealising a romanticised Highlands, was set off by the Ossian cycle, and further popularised by the works of Walter Scott. His "staging" of the visit of King George IV to Scotland in 1822 and the king's wearing of tartan resulted in a massive upsurge in demand for kilts and tartans that could not be met by the Scottish woollen industry. Individual clan tartans were largely designated in this period and they became a major symbol of Scottish identity. This "Highlandism", by which all of Scotland was identified with the culture of the Highlands, was cemented by Queen Victoria's interest in the country, her adoption of Balmoral as a major royal retreat, and her interest in "tartenry".
Recurrent famine affected the Highlands for much of its history, with significant instances as late as 1817 in the Eastern Highlands and the early 1850s in the West. Over the 18th century, the region had developed a trade of black cattle into Lowland markets, and this was balanced by imports of meal into the area. There was a critical reliance on this trade to provide sufficient food, and it is seen as an essential prerequisite for the population growth that started in the 18th century. Most of the Highlands, particularly in the North and West was short of the arable land that was essential for the mixed, run rig based, communal farming that existed before agricultural improvement was introduced into the region.[a] Between the 1760s and the 1830s there was a substantial trade in unlicensed whisky that had been distilled in the Highlands. Lowland distillers (who were not able to avoid the heavy taxation of this product) complained that Highland whisky made up more than half the market. The development of the cattle trade is taken as evidence that the pre-improvement Highlands was not an immutable system, but did exploit the economic opportunities that came its way. The illicit whisky trade demonstrates the entrepreneurial ability of the peasant classes.
Agricultural improvement reached the Highlands mostly over the period 1760 to 1850. Agricultural advisors, factors, land surveyors and others educated in the thinking of Adam Smith were keen to put into practice the new ideas taught in Scottish universities. Highland landowners, many of whom were burdened with chronic debts, were generally receptive to the advice they offered and keen to increase the income from their land. In the East and South the resulting change was similar to that in the Lowlands, with the creation of larger farms with single tenants, enclosure of the old run rig fields, introduction of new crops (such as turnips), land drainage and, as a consequence of all this, eviction, as part of the Highland clearances, of many tenants and cottars. Some of those cleared found employment on the new, larger farms, others moved to the accessible towns of the Lowlands.
In the West and North, evicted tenants were usually given tenancies in newly created crofting communities, while their former holdings were converted into large sheep farms. Sheep farmers could pay substantially higher rents than the run rig farmers and were much less prone to falling into arrears. Each croft was limited in size so that the tenants would have to find work elsewhere. The major alternatives were fishing and the kelp industry. Landlords took control of the kelp shores, deducting the wages earned by their tenants from the rent due and retaining the large profits that could be earned at the high prices paid for the processed product during the Napoleonic wars.
When the Napoleonic wars finished in 1815, the Highland industries were affected by the return to a peacetime economy. The price of black cattle fell, nearly halving between 1810 and the 1830s. Kelp prices had peaked in 1810, but reduced from £9 a ton in 1823 to £3 13s 4d a ton in 1828. Wool prices were also badly affected. This worsened the financial problems of debt-encumbered landlords. Then, in 1846, potato blight arrived in the Highlands, wiping out the essential subsistence crop for the overcrowded crofting communities. As the famine struck, the government made clear to landlords that it was their responsibility to provide famine relief for their tenants. The result of the economic downturn had been that a large proportion of Highland estates were sold in the first half of the 19th century. T M Devine points out that in the region most affected by the potato famine, by 1846, 70 per cent of the landowners were new purchasers who had not owned Highland property before 1800. More landlords were obliged to sell due to the cost of famine relief. Those who were protected from the worst of the crisis were those with extensive rental income from sheep farms. Government loans were made available for drainage works, road building and other improvements and many crofters became temporary migrants – taking work in the Lowlands. When the potato famine ceased in 1856, this established a pattern of more extensive working away from the Highlands.
The unequal concentration of land ownership remained an emotional and controversial subject, of enormous importance to the Highland economy, and eventually became a cornerstone of liberal radicalism. The poor crofters were politically powerless, and many of them turned to religion. They embraced the popularly oriented, fervently evangelical Presbyterian revival after 1800. Most joined the breakaway "Free Church" after 1843. This evangelical movement was led by lay preachers who themselves came from the lower strata, and whose preaching was implicitly critical of the established order. The religious change energised the crofters and separated them from the landlords; it helped prepare them for their successful and violent challenge to the landlords in the 1880s through the Highland Land League. Violence erupted, starting on the Isle of Skye, when Highland landlords cleared their lands for sheep and deer parks. It was quietened when the government stepped in, passing the Crofters' Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1886 to reduce rents, guarantee fixity of tenure, and break up large estates to provide crofts for the homeless. This contrasted with the Irish Land War underway at the same time, where the Irish were intensely politicised through roots in Irish nationalism, while political dimensions were limited. In 1885 three Independent Crofter candidates were elected to Parliament, which listened to their pleas. The results included explicit security for the Scottish smallholders in the "crofting counties"; the legal right to bequeath tenancies to descendants; and the creation of a Crofting Commission. The Crofters as a political movement faded away by 1892, and the Liberal Party gained their votes.
Today, the Highlands are the largest of Scotland's whisky producing regions; the relevant area runs from Orkney to the Isle of Arran in the south and includes the northern isles and much of Inner and Outer Hebrides, Argyll, Stirlingshire, Arran, as well as sections of Perthshire and Aberdeenshire. (Other sources treat The Islands, except Islay, as a separate whisky producing region.) This massive area has over 30 distilleries, or 47 when the Islands sub-region is included in the count. According to one source, the top five are The Macallan, Glenfiddich, Aberlour, Glenfarclas and Balvenie. While Speyside is geographically within the Highlands, that region is specified as distinct in terms of whisky productions. Speyside single malt whiskies are produced by about 50 distilleries.
According to Visit Scotland, Highlands whisky is "fruity, sweet, spicy, malty". Another review states that Northern Highlands single malt is "sweet and full-bodied", the Eastern Highlands and Southern Highlands whiskies tend to be "lighter in texture" while the distilleries in the Western Highlands produce single malts with a "much peatier influence".
The Scottish Reformation achieved partial success in the Highlands. Roman Catholicism remained strong in some areas, owing to remote locations and the efforts of Franciscan missionaries from Ireland, who regularly came to celebrate Mass. There remain significant Catholic strongholds within the Highlands and Islands such as Moidart and Morar on the mainland and South Uist and Barra in the southern Outer Hebrides. The remoteness of the region and the lack of a Gaelic-speaking clergy undermined the missionary efforts of the established church. The later 18th century saw somewhat greater success, owing to the efforts of the SSPCK missionaries and to the disruption of traditional society after the Battle of Culloden in 1746. In the 19th century, the evangelical Free Churches, which were more accepting of Gaelic language and culture, grew rapidly, appealing much more strongly than did the established church.
For the most part, however, the Highlands are considered predominantly Protestant, belonging to the Church of Scotland. In contrast to the Catholic southern islands, the northern Outer Hebrides islands (Lewis, Harris and North Uist) have an exceptionally high proportion of their population belonging to the Protestant Free Church of Scotland or the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland. The Outer Hebrides have been described as the last bastion of Calvinism in Britain and the Sabbath remains widely observed. Inverness and the surrounding area has a majority Protestant population, with most locals belonging to either The Kirk or the Free Church of Scotland. The church maintains a noticeable presence within the area, with church attendance notably higher than in other parts of Scotland. Religion continues to play an important role in Highland culture, with Sabbath observance still widely practised, particularly in the Hebrides.
In traditional Scottish geography, the Highlands refers to that part of Scotland north-west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which crosses mainland Scotland in a near-straight line from Helensburgh to Stonehaven. However the flat coastal lands that occupy parts of the counties of Nairnshire, Morayshire, Banffshire and Aberdeenshire are often excluded as they do not share the distinctive geographical and cultural features of the rest of the Highlands. The north-east of Caithness, as well as Orkney and Shetland, are also often excluded from the Highlands, although the Hebrides are usually included. The Highland area, as so defined, differed from the Lowlands in language and tradition, having preserved Gaelic speech and customs centuries after the anglicisation of the latter; this led to a growing perception of a divide, with the cultural distinction between Highlander and Lowlander first noted towards the end of the 14th century. In Aberdeenshire, the boundary between the Highlands and the Lowlands is not well defined. There is a stone beside the A93 road near the village of Dinnet on Royal Deeside which states 'You are now in the Highlands', although there are areas of Highland character to the east of this point.
A much wider definition of the Highlands is that used by the Scotch whisky industry. Highland single malts are produced at distilleries north of an imaginary line between Dundee and Greenock, thus including all of Aberdeenshire and Angus.
Inverness is regarded as the Capital of the Highlands, although less so in the Highland parts of Aberdeenshire, Angus, Perthshire and Stirlingshire which look more to Aberdeen, Dundee, Perth, and Stirling as their commercial centres.
The Highland Council area, created as one of the local government regions of Scotland, has been a unitary council area since 1996. The council area excludes a large area of the southern and eastern Highlands, and the Western Isles, but includes Caithness. Highlands is sometimes used, however, as a name for the council area, as in the former Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service. Northern is also used to refer to the area, as in the former Northern Constabulary. These former bodies both covered the Highland council area and the island council areas of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.
Much of the Highlands area overlaps the Highlands and Islands area. An electoral region called Highlands and Islands is used in elections to the Scottish Parliament: this area includes Orkney and Shetland, as well as the Highland Council local government area, the Western Isles and most of the Argyll and Bute and Moray local government areas. Highlands and Islands has, however, different meanings in different contexts. It means Highland (the local government area), Orkney, Shetland, and the Western Isles in Highlands and Islands Fire and Rescue Service. Northern, as in Northern Constabulary, refers to the same area as that covered by the fire and rescue service.
There have been trackways from the Lowlands to the Highlands since prehistoric times. Many traverse the Mounth, a spur of mountainous land that extends from the higher inland range to the North Sea slightly north of Stonehaven. The most well-known and historically important trackways are the Causey Mounth, Elsick Mounth, Cryne Corse Mounth and Cairnamounth.
Although most of the Highlands is geographically on the British mainland, it is somewhat less accessible than the rest of Britain; thus most UK couriers categorise it separately, alongside Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and other offshore islands. They thus charge additional fees for delivery to the Highlands, or exclude the area entirely. While the physical remoteness from the largest population centres inevitably leads to higher transit cost, there is confusion and consternation over the scale of the fees charged and the effectiveness of their communication, and the use of the word Mainland in their justification. Since the charges are often based on postcode areas, many far less remote areas, including some which are traditionally considered part of the lowlands, are also subject to these charges. Royal Mail is the only delivery network bound by a Universal Service Obligation to charge a uniform tariff across the UK. This, however, applies only to mail items and not larger packages which are dealt with by its Parcelforce division.
The Highlands lie to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which runs from Arran to Stonehaven. This part of Scotland is largely composed of ancient rocks from the Cambrian and Precambrian periods which were uplifted during the later Caledonian Orogeny. Smaller formations of Lewisian gneiss in the northwest are up to 3 billion years old. The overlying rocks of the Torridon Sandstone form mountains in the Torridon Hills such as Liathach and Beinn Eighe in Wester Ross.
These foundations are interspersed with many igneous intrusions of a more recent age, the remnants of which have formed mountain massifs such as the Cairngorms and the Cuillin of Skye. A significant exception to the above are the fossil-bearing beds of Old Red Sandstone found principally along the Moray Firth coast and partially down the Highland Boundary Fault. The Jurassic beds found in isolated locations on Skye and Applecross reflect the complex underlying geology. They are the original source of much North Sea oil. The Great Glen is formed along a transform fault which divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands.
The entire region was covered by ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages, save perhaps for a few nunataks. The complex geomorphology includes incised valleys and lochs carved by the action of mountain streams and ice, and a topography of irregularly distributed mountains whose summits have similar heights above sea-level, but whose bases depend upon the amount of denudation to which the plateau has been subjected in various places.
Climate
The region is much warmer than other areas at similar latitudes (such as Kamchatka in Russia, or Labrador in Canada) because of the Gulf Stream making it cool, damp and temperate. The Köppen climate classification is "Cfb" at low altitudes, then becoming "Cfc", "Dfc" and "ET" at higher altitudes.
Places of interest
An Teallach
Aonach Mòr (Nevis Range ski centre)
Arrochar Alps
Balmoral Castle
Balquhidder
Battlefield of Culloden
Beinn Alligin
Beinn Eighe
Ben Cruachan hydro-electric power station
Ben Lomond
Ben Macdui (second highest mountain in Scotland and UK)
Ben Nevis (highest mountain in Scotland and UK)
Cairngorms National Park
Cairngorm Ski centre near Aviemore
Cairngorm Mountains
Caledonian Canal
Cape Wrath
Carrick Castle
Castle Stalker
Castle Tioram
Chanonry Point
Conic Hill
Culloden Moor
Dunadd
Duart Castle
Durness
Eilean Donan
Fingal's Cave (Staffa)
Fort George
Glen Coe
Glen Etive
Glen Kinglas
Glen Lyon
Glen Orchy
Glenshee Ski Centre
Glen Shiel
Glen Spean
Glenfinnan (and its railway station and viaduct)
Grampian Mountains
Hebrides
Highland Folk Museum – The first open-air museum in the UK.
Highland Wildlife Park
Inveraray Castle
Inveraray Jail
Inverness Castle
Inverewe Garden
Iona Abbey
Isle of Staffa
Kilchurn Castle
Kilmartin Glen
Liathach
Lecht Ski Centre
Loch Alsh
Loch Ard
Loch Awe
Loch Assynt
Loch Earn
Loch Etive
Loch Fyne
Loch Goil
Loch Katrine
Loch Leven
Loch Linnhe
Loch Lochy
Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
Loch Lubnaig
Loch Maree
Loch Morar
Loch Morlich
Loch Ness
Loch Nevis
Loch Rannoch
Loch Tay
Lochranza
Luss
Meall a' Bhuiridh (Glencoe Ski Centre)
Scottish Sea Life Sanctuary at Loch Creran
Rannoch Moor
Red Cuillin
Rest and Be Thankful stretch of A83
River Carron, Wester Ross
River Spey
River Tay
Ross and Cromarty
Smoo Cave
Stob Coire a' Chàirn
Stac Polly
Strathspey Railway
Sutherland
Tor Castle
Torridon Hills
Urquhart Castle
West Highland Line (scenic railway)
West Highland Way (Long-distance footpath)
Wester Ross
Publications
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Southeast/Arvonne Fraser Library
Minneapolis, MN
Ralph Rapson & Associates
Renovation: MacDonald & Mack Architects
CELTIC SPIRIT (IMO: 9365491) from 01/2023
Previous Names
MIRAMAR (2013)
GEESTBORG (1996)
VIATOR (1996)
Vessel Register for DNV45572
CELTIC SPIRIT
IMO 9365491
MMSI: 304242000
Identification
Vessel Name: CELTIC SPIRIT
DNV id: 45572
IMO: 9365491
Other DNV services: MRV,DCS,MLC,ISPS,ISM-VE
Class relation: In DNV Class
Operational status: In Operation
Signal letters: V2HC4
Flag: Antigua and Barbuda (AG)
Port: Saint John's
Type: 301 - General cargo (single deck)
Yard
Marine Projects Ltd. Sp. z o.o.
Sienna 45
80-605 Gdansk Poland.
TEL. + 48 58 520-31-50
FAX + 48 58 520-31-51
VAT No. PL 583-000-86-48
marineprojects@marpro.pl
(Hull number: (682)
Contract date: 2004-11-30
Keel laid: 2004-12-30
Launch: 2006-10-31
Date of build: 2007-01-25
Hull material: Steel
Dimensions
Loa: 87.9 m
Lbp: 84.94 m
Lload: 84.97 m
Bext: 12.6 m
B: 12.5 m
D: 8 m
Draught: 5.3 m
GT (ITC 69): 2658
NT (ITC 69): 1195
DWT: 3740
Machinery
Main propulsion principle: Conventional propulsion - combustion engine
Propeller shaft: Shaft
Manoeuvring waterjet, variable: 4K 1000
Main generator engine 1: 634AGCO Sisu Power, GenPowex
Main generator engine 2: 634AGCO Sisu Power, GenPowex
Steering gear: Steering gear
Propeller, controllable pitch: Propeller, controllable pitch
Manoeuvring thruster: Electric power unit
Main generator power take off (Shaft Generator)Power take off
Emergency generator engine: Reciprocating internal combustion engineNOT SET
Propulsion engine: MaK ENGINES 6M25 Caterpillar Motoren GmbH & Co. KG
Owner
Owner: Charles M Willie & Co. (Shipping) Ltd. (10103210) (IMO number: 10103210)
Manager: Charles M Willie & Co. (Shipping) Ltd. (10103210) (IMO number: 0640621)
Design by M Moser Associates
When workspace designer M Moser redesigned its Hong Kong office, it was determined to visibly demonstrate the benefits of migrating to a more technologically sophisticated, collaborative and Sustainable style of working. The doubling of existing meeting spaces and integration of shared areas such as team hubs, plus ‘heads down’ rooms for more private working and meetings ensured enhanced knowledge sharing. Collaboration was further improved by the seamless integration of new technologies. Incorporating optimised natural daylight, plus energy-efficient individually-lit, island style personal workstations and extensively recycling existing fittings and furnishings, the new office shortly expects to receive LEED certification.
Lead Designer: Karen Wong
Photography: Vitus Lau, Stefan Ripperger
Text: W. Frederic Nitschke
Several sales "associates" are having a chat about something or other around a fundraising table for some kind of prostate cancer charity. (Good for Wal-Mart; prostate cancer is just as deadly as breast cancer but gets short shrift in mainstream public awareness.)
There's also the entrance to the in-store McDonald's.
ROMA ARCHEOLOGIA e RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA: New exhibition reveals hidden history of Colosseum after the fall of Rome, from medieval fortresses to Mussolini's 1920s Inscription. The Telegraph - London & Askanews | video - Roma (06/03/2017).
1). ROME - Exhibition reveals hidden history of Colosseum after the fall of Rome, from medieval fortresses to slaughterhouses. The Telegraph (06/03/2017).
Archaeologists in Rome have discovered the remains of a timber walkway used by soldiers guarding a fortress built into the remains of the Colosseum during the Middle Ages.
Gladiatorial contests and other spectacles held in the massive amphitheatre ground to a halt by the sixth century AD with the collapse of the Roman Empire and the arena was gradually appropriated for other uses in succeeding centuries.
By the 12th century a powerful baronial family, the Frangipane, had commandeered the Colosseum and built a formidable fortress into its southern flank. The walkway was built on the top tier of the amphitheatre, enabling the clan’s soldiers to watch out for enemy forces. The Frangipane were at war with another family of Roman nobles, the Annibaldi.
During the two-year cleaning and restoration of the Colosseum, experts found holes carved into the travertine stone of the monument which supported beams on which the wooden walkway was built.
The discovery was revealed on Monday as archaeologists unveiled a new exhibition which sheds light on the hidden history of the Colosseum in the centuries after the fall of the Roman Empire.
“Millions of tourists come here each year to learn about the Roman period but they have little idea of how the Colosseum was used during the medieval era,” said Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani, one of the curators of the new exhibition, The Colosseum – An Icon.
The fortress was built from stone blocks that were “indiscriminately” looted from the Roman amphitheatre by the Frangipane family, said Rossella Rea, the Colosseum’s director.
“The fortress did not have a very long life because it largely collapsed in an earthquake that struck Rome in 1349,” she said.
While the Colosseum is most commonly associated with the bloody gladiatorial battles and wild animal hunts of the Roman era, it continued to be inhabited long after the death of the last emperor.
The exhibition, which opens on Wednesday and runs until next January, “goes beyond recounting its history under the Caesars to retrace the site’s long and intense life over the centuries,” the curators said.
Although badly-damaged by earthquakes and pillaging for its stone, the Colosseum was densely inhabited in the Middle Ages, with workshops, dwellings, storehouses and stables built into its crumbling remains. There were butchers’ stalls and slaughterhouses, as shown by the animal remains found by archaeologists at the site, including a ram’s skull and an ox rib.
“It was a microcosm of Rome in the medieval period,” said Mr Santangeli Valenzani. “For the first time we are shining light on this little-known part of its history.”
Spinners spun wool and animal bone was fashioned into ornaments and jewellery, including a bear’s tooth worn as a pendant that is on display in the exhibition.
Churches were built in and around the giant arena in the early medieval period, while the exterior of the monument was colonised by 400 species of plants, shrubs, mosses and vines.
The picturesquely overgrown arena enchanted generations of Grand Tour travelers from Britain and northern Europe. The exhibition is located on the first of the Colosseum’s three levels.
FONTE | SOURCE:
-- The Telegraph (06/03/2017).
2). ROMA - Dal Medioevo al Duce, ecco la mostra "Colosseo, Un'icona", Askanews | video - Roma (06/03/2017).
Roma, (askanews) - "Colosseo. Un'icona": è il titolo della mostra che (dall'8 marzo al 7 gennaio 2018) racconta la storia millenaria e le rappresentazioni nelle varie epoche del monumento simbolo di Roma e dell'Italia. Allestita nell'ambulacro del secondo ordine, la rassegna ripercorre la lunga e intensa vita dell'Anfiteatro Flavio, riservando molte sorprese ai più, come racconta il soprintendente Francesco Prosperetti:
"Il visitatore forse non sa che il Colosseo ad un certo punto diventò una fortezza e poi fu squassato da un terremoto che ne portò via la metà dell'anello esterno e che il papa ad un certo punto consentì ad una confraternita di farne calcara, cioè di vendere le pietre per cuocerle e farne calce. Nel Colosseo si stabilì un ospizio, una filanda".
Non solo gladiatori al tempo degli imperatori, quindi, ma luogo di attività commerciali nel Medioevo, di attrazione per architetti e pittori fin dal Rinascimento, tappa obbligata delle elite nord-europee dal Settecento e poi il progetto mai realizzato, per la costruzione di una chiesa dentro l'arena:
"Riportiamo in mostra un sorprendente progetto di Carlo Fontana che prevedeva di realizzare nell'arena del Colosseo un grande santuario per la memoria dei martiri cristiani. Ecco una vita insospettata, credo, ai più, a quelli che pensano che entrare nel Colosseo significa soltanto vivere il ricordo del momento dei gladiatori".
E poi il ritorno come luogo ideologico del potere con l'avvento del fascismo:
"Credo che il senso di questa mostra stia proprio nel dimostrare che questo riuso del Colosseo a partire dal Medioevo è stato un continuum, un continuum che forse si è interrotto solo nell'epoca più recente perché basti pensare e la mostra lo racconta, che ancora durante il ventennio fascista si usava il Colosseo come sede di grandi assemblee e quindi in qualche modo continuava la vita di questo monumento".
La rassegna - suddivisa in 12 sezioni cronologiche - si apre con lo spettacolare plastico ligneo dell'architetto ed ebanista Carlo Lucangeli fino ad arrivare alle tele di Renato Guttuso e alle immagini di Olivo Barbieri.
"L'icona del colosseo è proprio nella sua presenza, nella sua forza ricorrente in tante manifestazioni dell'arte".
FONTE | SOURCE:
-- Askanews | video - Roma (06/03/2017).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsX0h-FMi2s&t=38s
Note: "L'epigrafe di Mussolini | Mussolini Epigraph - In the twenty-sixth year of the principality of King Victor Emmanuel III, in the fourth year of the restoration and the renewal of Benito Mussolini." So ran the inscription reduced to fragments after the fall of fascism, like many others containing the name of the Duce which had adorned public monuments condemned to damnatio memoriae.
Jerzy Bogdanowićz z Bohdanem Rodyuk Chekan | wujek i siostrzeniec
• Jerzy Bogdanowićz jest Michał Bogdanowićz synem, [Warszawa i Zakopane]
Pan Michał Bogdanowićz był inżynierem i twórcą wyposażenia turbin dla elektrowni wodnych w Polsce,
a przed II wojną światową przekazał cały swój pakiet akcji i oszczędności na rozwój polskiej obronności - pociągi pancerne -
do rządu II Rzeczpospolita i Marshal Józef Piłsudski osobiście, z którym był przyjacielem
• na zdjęciu Jerzy Bogdanowićz jest ze swoim siostrzeńcem - artysta Bohdan Rodyuk Chekan \ Czekan
The historical documents of The Chekan Family
Czekan (broń)
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czekan_(broń)
Pierwsza część drzewa genealogicznego rodziny Сzekan
Чекан | Chekan | Ciocan | Tchekan | Чеканъ
Polska Krew - Polskie Korzenie
#Poland
Warszawa
• Fr. Fianciszek Czekan OFMConv The Provincial superior of The Franciscans Ordo Fratrum Minorum Conventualium | The Order of Friars Minor Conventual (OFM Conv) 1829 year, (in Polish) and (in French) o. Fianciszek Czekan OFMConv, Prowincjał Franciszkanów Ordo Fratrum Minorum Conventualium (the Provincial Minister of the Franciscans Custos (Franciscans)), Klasztory i Zgromadzenia z Kościołami Męskie. Couvents avec des Eglises, ARCHIDIECEZYA WARSZAWSKA. ARCHEVECHÉ DE VARSOVIE | 1829 Warsaw Directory (Title: Przewodnik Warszawski. R. 3, 1829 / Optional Title: Le Guide de Varsovie) Resource Identifier: oai:ebuw.uw.edu.pl:181628 / Source: 026686 | image 26 {d1141} - Location of Original: Warsaw University Library ebuw.uw.edu.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=181628, Warsaw University Digital Library e-bUW
crispa.uw.edu.pl/api/object/241641/data/download?s3Key=90...
ul. Dobra 56/66, 00-312 Warsaw, POLAND | © 2018 Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie. Wszystkie prawa zastrzeżone. Federacja Bibliotek Cyfrowych © 2018 University of Warsaw Library - Image source: © Genealogy Indexer data base genealogyindexer.org/frame/d1141/26
Warszawa
• Franciszek Józef Czekan Baptism Date Requested 1886 year (in Polish) Franciszek Józef Czekan | Baptism Date Requested year - 1886; act number - 292; father's name Józef Czekan, mother's name Maria Adam | The parish St. Barbara Warszawa Poland | Baptism Registration Form 72/1214/0/-/22: Akta urodzeń, małżeństw i zgonów (scan: 74.jpg) - The location of the book : Archiwum Państwowe w Warszawie ul. Krzywe Koło, 7 00-270 Warszawa Rzeczpospolita Polska The State Archive in Warsaw Poland - Source: © 2010-2017 Polskie Towarzystwo Genealogiczne data base szukajwarchiwach.pl/72/1214/0/-/22/skan/full/Y4rnnRpCeQME...
Bielsko
• Adolf Czekan cordwainer 1926/1927 years See, (in Polish) Czekan Adolf, szewc, Bielsko, Sobieskiego 33 | 1926/1927 Silesia Address Directory (Księga adresowa Województwa Śląskiego : rok 1926/1927) | image 434 {d100} - The location of the book : The Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa (English: Silesian Digital Library) (SDL) ŚBC Organisational Executive Silesian Digital Library in Katowice, Poland | Biblioteka Śląska jest instytucją kultury Samorządu Województwa Śląskiego, Plac Rady Europy 1 40-021 Katowice, Rzeczpospolita Polska | Copyright © 2014–2017 Biblioteka Śląska www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/3065?id=3065 www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/2120/edition/3065/conte... - Image source: © Genealogy Indexer data base www.genealogyindexer.org/frame/d100/434
Bielsko
• Andrzej Czekan mechanic 1926/1927 years (in Polish) Czekan Andrzej, mechanik, Bielsko, Rzeżnicza 14 | 1926/1927 Silesia Address Directory (Księga adresowa Województwa Śląskiego : rok 1926/1927) | image 434 {d100} - The location of the book : The Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa (English: Silesian Digital Library) (SDL) ŚBC Organisational Executive Silesian Digital Library in Katowice, Poland | Biblioteka Śląska jest instytucją kultury Samorządu Województwa Śląskiego, Plac Rady Europy 1 40-021 Katowice, Rzeczpospolita Polska | Copyright © 2014–2017 Biblioteka Śląska www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/3065?id=3065 www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/2120/edition/3065/conte... - Image source: © Genealogy Indexer data base www.genealogyindexer.org/frame/d100/434
Grudziądz
• J. Czekan merchant 1927/1928 years (in Polish) Czekan J., Kolonjalki : sprzedaż towarów kolonialnych (The Seller Of The Colonial Goods), Grudziądz, Kalinkowa 13. | 1927/1928 Grudziadz Directory (Grudziądz: księga adresowa 1927-28 r.) | image 39 {d164} - The location of the book : Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library University Library in Torun ul. Gagarina 13, 87-100 Torun, POLAND 40-021 Katowice, Poland © 2017 Page maintained by libraries associated in the Konsorcjum Bibliotek Naukowych Regionu Kujawsko-Pomorskiego kpbc.umk.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=10308 - Image source: © Genealogy Indexer data base [www.genealogyindexer.org/frame/d164/39
Pruchna
• Karol Czekan merchant 1929/1930 years See, (in Polish) Czekan Karol, Pruchna nr. d. 148. Handl. tow. mieszanych i napoi wyskok. (Сommercial brand : mixed drinks and beverages) Gmina Strumień, Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship | Skorowidz branż przemysłu, handlu, finansów, rzemiosła i zawodów wyzwolonych. Województwo Śląskie. 1929/30 (1929/1930 Silesia Industry, Trade, Finance, and Craft Directory) | image 526 {d81} - The location of the book : The Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa (English: Silesian Digital Library) (SDL) ŚBC Organisational Executive Silesian Digital Library in Katowice, Poland | Biblioteka Śląska jest instytucją kultury Samorządu Województwa Śląskiego, Plac Rady Europy 1 40-021 Katowice, Rzeczpospolita Polska | Copyright © 2014–2017 Biblioteka Śląska www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/9575?id=9575 www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/10306/edition/9575/cont... - Image source: © Genealogy Indexer data base www.genealogyindexer.org/frame/d81/526
Cieszyn
• Marja Czekan widow 1931 year (in Polish) Czekan Marja, wdowa, Cieszyn, Bielska 33 | 1931 Cieszyn Address and Business Directory (Ogólna księga adresowa i przewodnik miasta Cieszyna 1931)| image 96 {d280} - The location of the book : The Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa (English: Silesian Digital Library) (SDL) ŚBC Organisational Executive Silesian Digital Library in Katowice, Poland | Biblioteka Śląska jest instytucją kultury Samorządu Województwa Śląskiego, Plac Rady Europy 1 40-021 Katowice, Rzeczpospolita Polska | Copyright © 2014–2017 Biblioteka Śląska www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/11349?id=11349 www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/12677/edition/11349/con... - Image source: © Genealogy Indexer data base www.genealogyindexer.org/frame/d280/96
Toruń
• Aniela Czekan maid 1936 year (in Polish) Czekan Aniela, służąca, Toruń, Prosta 17. | 1936 Toruń Address Directory (Książka adresowa miasta Torunia : według stanu z czerwca 1936)| image 131 {d108} - The location of the book : Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library University Library in Torun ul. Gagarina 13, 87-100 Torun, POLAND 40-021 Katowice, Poland © 2017 Page maintained by libraries associated in the Konsorcjum Bibliotek Naukowych Regionu Kujawsko-Pomorskiego kpbc.umk.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=17907 kpbc.umk.pl/dlibra/applet?mimetype=image/x.djvu&sec=f... - Image source: © Genealogy Indexer data base genealogyindexer.org/frame/d108/131
Łódź
• Stanisław Czekan cordwainer 1937–1939 years (in Polish) Czekan Stanisław, szewc, Łódź, Felsztyńskiego Sebastiana,12 | 1937-1939 Łódź Address and Business Directory, Part II (Księga Adresowa Miasta Łodzi i Województwa Łódzkiego rocznik 1937/1939. [Cz. 2] ) | image 82 {d1812} - The location of the book : Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego w Łódzi, ul. Gdańska 100/102 90-508 Łódź, Rzeczpospolita Polska (English: The Jozef Pilsudski Regional and Municipal Public Library in Łódź, Gdańska 100/102, 90-508, 90-508, Poland) | Copyright © 2017 WBP Łódź Biblioteka Cyfrowa Regionalia Ziemi Łódzkiej przy Wojewódzkiej Bibliotece Publicznej w Łodzi (The Digital Library of the Region of Lodz at The Jozef Pilsudski Regional and Municipal Public Library in Łódź) / Ksiega_Adresowa_m_Lodzi_1937_1939aCz2.pdf bc.wimbp.lodz.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=73543 - Image source: © Genealogy Indexer data base www.genealogyindexer.org/frame/d1812/82
Katowice
• Józef Czekan restaurateur 1939 year (in Polish) Czekan Józef, restaurator, Katowice, Osuchowskiego,2 tel. 1814 | 1939 Katowice, Zaglembia, and Upper Silesia Telephone Directory (Spis abonentów sieci telefonicznych Dyrekcji Okręgu Poczt i Telegrafów w Katowicach na 1939 r.) | image 338 {d139} - The location of the book : The Śląska Biblioteka Cyfrowa (English: Silesian Digital Library) (SDL) ŚBC Organisational Executive Silesian Digital Library in Katowice, Poland | Biblioteka Śląska jest instytucją kultury Samorządu Województwa Śląskiego, Plac Rady Europy 1 40-021 Katowice, Rzeczpospolita Polska | Copyright © 2014–2017 Biblioteka Śląska www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/1022?id=1022 www.sbc.org.pl/dlibra/publication/1040/edition/1022/conte... - Image source: © Genealogy Indexer data base www.genealogyindexer.org/frame/d139/338
#Czech Republic
Bílovec Wagstadt
• Franz Czekan merchant 1864 year (in German) Czekan Franz. H.N. Wagstadt. F.I. Franz Czekan, Gemischtwaarenhändler in Wagstadt (Grocery store owner in Wagstadt) | "Firmen-Register enthaltend sämmtliche auf Grund des neuen Handelsgesetzbuches in die Handelsregister der Gerichtshöfe in Mähren und Schlesien bis 15. October 1864 eingetragenen Einzeln - und Gesellschaftsfirmen in alphabetischer Ordnung sammt einem Orts-Verzeichnissee" Kožeschnik Josef Wilhelm, Brno: Rudolf M. Rohrer, 1864 (1864 Moravia and Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia Business Directory) | image 12 {d1429} - The location of the book : Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně Moravian Library Kounicova 65a, 601 87 Brno Česko - Image source: (CC) Creative Commons Moravská zemská knihovna v Brně data base (Signatura: 2-0004.650) www.digitalniknihovna.cz/mzk/view/uuid:d5e05103-7e40-11e1...
Bílovec Wagstadt
• Franz Czekan coachman 1865 year (in German) Wagstadt Brennerei: Wüdtisch. Gent W.: Czekan, F- — Kutscher (Alcoholic beverage plant: Wüdtisch. Gent W .: Chekan, F- — Coachman) | Adressbuch aller Länder der Erde der Kaufleute, Fabrikanten, Gewerbtreibenden, Gutsbesitzer etc : Zugleich Handelsgeographie, Produkten- u. Fabrikanten-Bezugs-Angabe Verlagsort: Nürnberg | Erscheinungsjahr: 1865 | Verlag: Leuchs Signatur: 7559129 Merc. 2 k-19 7559129 Merc. 2 k-19 Reihe: Adressbuch aller Länder der Erde der Kaufleute, Fabrikanten, Gewerbetreibenden, Gutsbesitzer etc : Zugleich Handelsgeographie, Produkten- u. Fabrikanten-Bezugs-Angabe Permalink: www.mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn🇩🇪b... (1865 Bohemia, Moravia, Austrian Silesia, Krakow Business directory (Leuchs vol. 19) | image 304 {d398} - The location of the book Source: © 2018 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Bavarian State Library Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Ludwigstr. 16 80539 München Germany Section: Austrian Silesia - Image source: © Genealogy Indexer via © 2018 Bayerische Staatsbibliothek data base reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/resolve/display/bsb10290321...
#Lithuania
Vilnius
• Alexey Mikhailovich Chekan Captain (armed forces) Adjutant 1846 Vilna Governorate (Russia) (Guberniya) Commemorative Book of Russian Empire (in Russian) Duty officer Captain Aleksey M. Chekan, has The War Order of Virtuti Militari Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari Virtuti Militari V Class - Silver Cross (Krzyż Srebrny) | Order Wojskowy Polski. Polski Znak Honorowy (from Russian into Polish: Polska Odznaka Zaszczytna za Zasługi Wojenne) | The Senior adjutants on duty. | The second infantry corps. | The troops located in the Vilna province Vilnius (Wilno) Lithuania | 1846 Vilna Gubernia Commemorative Book : Printing house of the Alexander Palace, [1846]., image 226 {d1034} - Source: Copyright © 1863—2015 The State Public Historical Library, Starosadskiy per 9-1, Moscow 101000 Russia data base elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/576-pamyatnaya-knizhka-vilenskoy-gu...
Vilnius
• Boris Mikhailovich Chekan Active State Councillor 1915 Vilna Governorate (Russia) (Guberniya) Commemorative Book of Russian Empire (in Russian) Boris Mikhailovich Chekan | IV Rank Active State Councillor | Postal and telegraph officials | Vilnius (Wilno) Lithuania The first Town Postal and Telegraph Office | J. Jasinskio Street (Yaroslavskaya street), house N10 telef. N104 | 1915 Vilna Governorate (Russia) (Guberniya) Commemorative Book of Russian Empire, image 68 {d1117} - Source: © The National Library of Russia, 1998-2017 (National Library of Russia) data base vivaldi.nlr.ru/bx000002801/view#page=68 (in Lithuanian, in Polish, in Russian) The historical names of the streets of Vilnius | Vilniaus gatvių pavadinimai | Nazwy ulic Wilno | The page uses information from the book: "Gatvės, autobusai, troleibusai". Red. © R. Miliauskas / Pasaulis, 1991 - Source: © «О Вильнюсе», 2004-2017 (© «About Vilnius», 2004-2017) data base www.vilnius.skynet.lt/ulicy_vilniusa.html
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Back of incredibly expensive postcard reads:
"Modernistic architectural style is evident in this view of the New South Terminal at San Francisco International Airport." c. 1964 Dexter Press
It took me a while but I was finally able to ID the architects...
None other than Welton Becket & Associates!!!
Erik Schatzker, Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg Businessweek
Marc Rowan, Co-Founder and CEO, Apollo Global Management
Purchased by Cobham Bus Museum with two NS chassis', but none of the parts are the same, so it was sold on to new owners, whose first task involved destroying the body, so it could be passed off as a Green Line example. Fitted with a 6 cylinder sleeve valve engine.
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c1910 postcard view of Main Street in Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana. The photographer was looking northeast through the Market Street intersection. An electric light hung above the intersection and two boys were riding their bikes toward the camera. The public school was the building behind the trees on the left. The school stood on a small block bounded by Main Cross Street on the northeast, Main Street on the southeast, Market Street on the southwest and Short Street on the northwest. The 1911 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Charlestown shows the Carlton Hotel at the southwest end of that block (just outside this view).
The buildings in the background were along the northeast side of Main Cross Street. The building with the hip roof was on the north corner at the Main Cross Street intersection. The 1911 map set shows a dry goods and notions business on the first floor and a “Public Hall” on the second floor.
The only business signs were across Main Street from the school. The largest sign advertised _. O. HOSTETTLER. This may have been Edgar O. Hostettler who was a businessman in Charleston. The other two signs advertised BUTTERICK PATTERNS and McCALL PATTERNS. This was probably a millinery business and the 1911 map set shows a millinery business in a two-story brick building at that approximate location.
The two rolls of fence near the street corner would usually be associated with a hardware store, but neither the 1899 nor the 1911 Sanborn™ map set shows a hardware business in that vicinity.
From a private collection.
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This rare 1971 photo shows the very busy Lakehurst mall. A sight that became rare by 1991,
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Grand Cenote. Tulum, Mexico. Oct/2016
A cenote is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath. Especially associated with the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, cenotes were sometimes used by the ancient Maya for sacrificial offerings.
The term derives from a word used by the low-land Yucatec Maya — ts'onot — to refer to any location with accessible groundwater.[1][2] Cenotes are common geological forms in low latitude regions, particularly on islands, coastlines, and platforms with young post-Paleozoic limestones that have little soil development.
Cenotes are surface connections to subterranean water bodies.[3] While the best-known cenotes are large open water pools measuring tens of meters in diameter, such as those at Chichén Itzá in Mexico, the greatest number of cenotes are smaller sheltered sites and do not necessarily have any surface exposed water. The term cenote has also been used to describe similar karst features in other countries such as Cuba and Australia, in addition to the more generic term of sinkholes.
Cenote water is often very clear, as the water comes from rain water filtering slowly through the ground, and therefore contains very little suspended particulate matter. The groundwater flow rate within a cenote may be very slow. In many cases, cenotes are areas where sections of cave roof have collapsed revealing an underlying cave system, and the water flow rates may be much faster: up to 10 kilometers (6 mi) per day. Cenotes around the world attract cave divers who have documented extensive flooded cave systems through them, some of which have been explored for lengths of 100 km (62 mi) or more.
Source: Wikipedia
Um cenote é uma cavidade natural (algar) ou dolina resultado do impacto de um grande meteoro há 65.5 milhões de anos, evento que extinguiu os dinossauros da terra, fenômeno que deu origem às águas subterrâneas. Especialmente associado com a Península de Iucatã do México, os cenotes eram usados em alguns rituais de sacrifício da civilização Maia. O termo deriva de uma palavra utilizada pelos maias iucatecas das terras baixas, "Ts'onot" refere-se a qualquer local com águas subterrâneas acessíveis. Cenotes são formações geológicas comuns em regiões de baixas latitudes, particularmente em ilhas, regiões costeiras e plataformas com recentes formações calcárias pós-paleozóicas que têm pouco desenvolvimento do solo.
Cenotes são conexões entre a superfície e áreas alagadas subterrâneas.Enquanto os cenotes mais conhecidos são grandes piscinas medindo cerca de 10 metros de diâmetro, como as existentes em Chichén Itzá, o maior número de cenotes são pequenos locais abrigados e não necessariamente tem qualquer água de superfície exposta. O termo cenote também é empregado para descrever formações parecidas conhecidas como carste presentes em outros países como Cuba ou Austrália.
As águas dos cenotes geralmente são límpidas, porque esta provem de filtragem de água de chuva lentamente através do solo e, portanto, contém poucas partículas suspensas. A taxa de fluxo das água subterrânea dentro de um cenote podem ser muito lentas. Em diversos casos, cenotes são áreas onde se(c)ções do teto das cavernas cederam, revelando um sistema de cavernas subjacente e as taxas de fluxo podem ser muito mais rápidas, cerca de 10 km (6,21 mi) por dia. Cenotes ao redor do mundo atraem exploradores de cavernas, que documentaram extensos sistemas de cavernas inundadas através deles, alguns dos quais com cerca de 100 km (62,1 mi) de extensão ou mais.
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The AEC Routemaster is a double-decker bus designed by London Transport and built by the Associated Equipment Company (AEC) and Park Royal Vehicles. The first prototype was completed in September 1954 and the last one was delivered in 1968. The layout of the vehicle was traditional for the time, with a half-cab, front-mounted engine and open rear platform, although the coach version was fitted with rear platform doors. Forward entrance vehicles with platform doors were also produced as was a unique front-entrance prototype with the engine mounted transversely at the rear. The first Routemasters entered service with London Transport in February 1956 and the last were withdrawn from regular service in December 2005, although one heritage route is still operated by Routemasters in central London.
Most Routemasters were built for London Transport, although small numbers were built for British European Airways and the Northern General Transport Company. A total of 2,876 Routemasters were built with 1,280 still in existence.
A pioneering design, the Routemaster outlasted several of its replacement types in London, survived the privatisation of the former London Transport bus operators and was used by other operators around the UK. In modern UK public transport bus operation, the old-fashioned features of the standard Routemaster were both praised and criticised. The open platform, while exposed to the elements, allowed boarding and alighting in places other than official stops; and the presence of a conductor allowed minimal boarding time and optimal security, but with greater labour costs.
Despite the retirement of the original version, the Routemaster has retained iconic status, and is considered a British cultural icon. In the late 2000s work began on a New Routemaster bus inspired by the Routemaster's traditional design, which entered service in February 2012.
Northern Rail Limited Associated Rail Technologies class 142 ‘Pacer’ two car diesel-hydraulic railbus unit number 142056 of Newton Heath Traction Maintenance Depot approaches New Hey railway station on the Up & Down Branch line forming the daily 14:31 Rochdale to Manchester Victoria (2J93) viewed through bridge 55 (Huddersfield Road). Thursday 2nd April 2009
Note, 142056 was built by Associated Rail Technologies (a consortium of Leyland Vehicles Limited who built the body and British Rail Engineering Limited who built the underframe) at British Rail Engineering Limited’s Litchurch Lane works Derby circa December 1986 for British Railways as number 142056, although it was initially expected to be numbered 142106. 142056 was deformed in January 1988 and was reformed as 142056 circa May 1988. The original diesel-mechanical transmission was replaced by diesel-hydraulic transmission in 1990 and it was scheduled to be renumbered 142556 but the renumbering never took place. It passed to Angel Train Contracts Limited on 1st April 1994 as part of the privatisation of British Railways Angel Train Contracts Limited was renamed as Angel Trains Limited on 16th May 2000 and 142056 was on lease to Northern Rail Limited
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Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen, announces the official name, Perseverance, for the rover formerly known as Mars 2020, Thursday, March 5, 2020, at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va. Zurbuchen made the final selection of the new name following a nationwide naming contest conducted in 2019 that drew more than 28,000 essays by K-12 students from every U.S. state and territory. Perseverance is currently at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida being prepared for launch this summer. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)
The associated video with this picture series is Our Trip to Crete on YouTube.
This part of our adventures on our Grand Tour of Europe is in episode four of the Take Flight with Scott video series on YouTube. Please join us there for even more content from this trip. Part four is our time on Crete, Greece with our teen nieces Madeline and Emily, including a trip to the ruins in Ancient Aptera, and a visit to the freshwater flowing through Glyka Nera Beach.
Also, you can follow my personal ZiffedTraveler Instagram or the TakeFlight with Scott Instagram pages for more content and news. We are on Facebook, too.
ASSOCIATED PRESS, CAPE KENNEDY, FLA. April 16, 1972 « OFF TO THE MOON »
All systems go the Apollo 16 moonship carrying Astronauts. John Young, Charles M. Duke and Thomas K. Mattingly, blasts off from Cape Kennedy today on its journey to the moon. Foreground shows the digital countdown clock.
-Apollo 16 launch: Walter Cronkite and Walter Schirra LIVE on CBS, April 16, 1972 VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDqudSVuYKs
Now that's what I call breaking news!
"The Detroit Evening Journal. Three editions daily. 2¢. per copy, 10¢ per week by carrier. Associated Press dispatches. United Press dispatches. The Henderson-Achert Co. Litho. Cincinnati."
AEC Centenary event - 10th June 2012
Here is RT1702, which is a Park Royal bodied RT new to London Transport in May 1950. Originally run from Mortlake on routes 9, 33 and 73. It moved to Old Kent Road to operate tours of northern Europe for the 1951 Festival of Britain. Also worked from Victoria, Holloway, Hornchurch, Seven Kings and Catford garages before being withdrawn in July 1972 where it was bought for preservation.
RB: Within the Golden Hour/Medusa/Flight Pattern
The Royal Ballet presents a new triple bill, featuring a world premiere by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and revivals of works by Christopher Wheeldon and Crystal Pite at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 8-21 May 2019.
Within the Golden Hour
Choreography; Christopher Wheeldon
Music: Ezio Bosso and Antonio Vivaldi
Costume designer: Jasper Conran
Lighting designer: Peter Mumford
Dancers: Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Lauren Cuthbertson, Sarah Lamb, Vadim Muntagirov, Ryoichi Hirano, Alexander Campbell
Medusa
Choreography: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Music: Henry Purcell
Electronic music: Olga Wojciechowska
Costume director: Olivia Pomp
Lighting designer: Adam Silverman
Set concept and design: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and ROH Production
Associate choreographer: Jason Kittelberger
Dancers:
Medusa: Natalia Osipova
Athena: Olivia Cowley
Perseus: Matthew Ball
Poseidon: Ryoichi Hirano
Flight Pattern
Choreography: Crystal Pite
Music: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Set designer: Jay Gower Taylor
Costume designer: Nancy Bryant
Lighting designer: Tom Visser
Dancers: Kristen McNally, Marcelino Sambé & Artists of The Royal Ballet
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A fine use of photomontage and artwork here that captures the excitement of the steamer as it plyed its way across the narrow seas! A brochure issued by the 'Associated British & Irish Railways" that was the overseas marketing enterprise formed by the initially by the LMSR, LNER and SR with the GWR and Great Southern of Ireland joining a couple of years later.
The various railways appear to have taken turns to produce the annual editions of the literature and this carries the print code of the Southern Railway who, along with the LNER, had the lion's share of Continental steamer services in the day when railways also ran ships. Sadly this brochure would not see its dates out as on 3 September 1939 the Second World War effectively sealed off the UK from the Continent for six long years and post-war travel would never seem quite so exotic. The artwork is signed with "M", an initial that appears on numerous other items of railway publicity and that refer toReginald Mayes.
Design by M Moser Associates
When workspace designer M Moser redesigned its Hong Kong office, it was determined to visibly demonstrate the benefits of migrating to a more technologically sophisticated, collaborative and Sustainable style of working. The doubling of existing meeting spaces and integration of shared areas such as team hubs, plus ‘heads down’ rooms for more private working and meetings ensured enhanced knowledge sharing. Collaboration was further improved by the seamless integration of new technologies. Incorporating optimised natural daylight, plus energy-efficient individually-lit, island style personal workstations and extensively recycling existing fittings and furnishings, the new office shortly expects to receive LEED certification.
Lead Designer: Karen Wong
Photography: Vitus Lau, Stefan Ripperger
Text: W. Frederic Nitschke
Meredith Sercy is one of the best hairstylists found at Hair Associates. She is talking with one of her customers about the look the customer is wanting to achieve in the salon.
Sagittarius is the ninth astrological sign, which is associated with the constellation Sagittarius and spans 240–270th degrees of the zodiac. Under the tropical zodiac, the sun transits this sign between approximately November 22 and December 21. Wikipedia
Symbol: Archer
Element: Fire
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: purple
Fall: North Node, Ceres (questionable)
Birthstones: Topaz, Turquoise, Citrine, Tanzanite, Zircon