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The contractors began the work early in the spring. The corner-stone of the improved Court House was laid June 21, 1888, with Masonic ceremonies. The Court House was enlarged by the addition of two wings, and was made a commodious, substantial structure with abundant light and excellent ventilation, convenient in every way for the business of the people. Both buildings were completed in the latter part of 1889, and accepted by the commissioners January 4, 1890.
Clanadonia, began as a close combat stunt crew, for film and TV, the band formed, during the breaks in filming, with the numerous productions, in which, they’ve been involved, most notably, Braveheart, Gladiator, King Arthur & The New World. Members of Clanadonia, have been entertaining, for over ten years, their high energy blend of tribal rhythms, bagpipes and tartan clad mayhem, has wowed audiences across the globe.
Bagan, Myanmar is well known for it's multitude of pagodas contrasting beneath the colorful hot air balloons. I was informed after arriving that the hot air balloons only run periodically from October.
Credit @ CJ Creation in Swank Wild Spring event
CJ Greenhouse Wild Flower with Bird Feeder
CJ Tuscany Fountain Wild Flower
CJ Angel Trompet Planter with Hydrangea
CJ Angel Trompet Planter with red clover
Credit @ Pink Magic in Swank Wild Spring event
Pink Magic : Garden Piano
Credit @ Little Branch in FaMESHed
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pathway : [P6F.2 Mid Half Bend] Pathway Wood w/ Ferns @Tm Creation
Gnome : wildflower Gnome - large @ Simply Shelby
Bird bath : TLC GROUP GIFT_bird bath by TLC GroupGift
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A year ago in Potosi, Bolivia...
We are on our way to visit one of the most famous silver mines in South America - disguised as miners...
Potosí lies between 3,976 m and 4,070 m above sea level on the plateau of the Altiplano, in a barren, steppe-like area. The city is one of the highest cities in the world.
The Inca had already had silver mined at Cerro Rico. Founded on April 10, 1545 as a mining settlement, Potosí soon blossomed. Already in 1553 it became the Villa Imperial, the imperial city. It was the main source of Spanish silver with significant coinage. Construction of the Casa Real de la Moneda, the royal coin, began in 1572. The Spanish colonizers extracted huge amounts of precious metals from the mine, which they shipped all over the world.
Vor einem Jahr in Potosi, Bolivien...
Wir sind auf dem Wege zur Besichtigung einer der berühmtesten Silberminen von Südamerika in Potosi - verkleidet als Bergleute...
Potosí liegt zwischen 3.976 m und 4.070 m Seehöhe auf der Hochebene des Altiplano, in einer kargen, steppenhaften Gegend. Die Stadt gehört zu den höchstgelegenen Großstädten der Welt.
Schon die Inka hatten am Cerro Rico Silber fördern lassen. Am 10. April 1545 als Bergbausiedlung gegründet, erreichte Potosí bald eine sagenhafte Blüte. Schon 1553 wurde es deshalb zur Villa Imperial, zur Reichsstadt. Es war die Hauptquelle des spanischen Silbers mit bedeutender Münzprägung. Mit dem Bau der Casa Real de la Moneda, der königlichen Münze, wurde 1572 begonnen. Die spanischen Kolonisatoren holten riesige Edelmetallmengen aus der Mine, die sie in die ganze Welt verschifften.
In April 1865 The Eastbourne Pier Company was formed with a working capital of £15,000. Work began in April 1866; Four years later Lord Edward Cavendish opened the pier although it wasn’t completed until 1872.
The pier is 300 meters long and built on stilts, which rest in cups on the seabed allowing the whole structure to move during rough weather.
The piers entrance was originally built on the lower promenade but due to the rough storms in 1877 it was swept away; it was then rebuilt at a higher level. In 1888 a 400-seater domed pavilion was built and just two years later a 1000-seater theatre, Bar, Camera Obscura and Office Suite replaced it, that same year two saloons were built in the midway.
During the Second World War decking was removed to host machine guns to provide a useful advantage point to repel enemy landings. In December 1942, an exploding mine caused considerable damage to the pier and nearby hotels; it had been tied to the stanchions by the local police, who were under the mistaken impression that it was fitted with a safety device
Information by Eastbourne.com
Texture's & Effect's by William Walton & Topaz.
Gunnilaberg's construction began in the 1660s. The yellow main-building is built in carolina-style timber with walnut ceilings and has wall paintings from the later part of the 18th century. Gunillaberg is since 2008 owned by flower artist Tage Andersen. The farm has since 2009 been open to the public summer time as a garden park and a cultural center.
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It began raining as I got here, finishing my tour around the Japanese garden section. It had rained the evening prior and the colors had that 'look.'
Happy Tree-mendous Tuesday.
From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
(Matthew 16:21)
Matera : Between1908 and 1930 the sanitation-urban planning of the Sassi began . The Gravinelle ( ravines ) of Sassi Caves and Barisano were covered .The carriage road that today connects.Buozzi Street with Fiorentini street was made .
Part 3: The city closes in its perimeter and cannot go further due to the strong social confrontation. While the emerging bourgeoisie appropriates the political-administrative power and takes in the great ecclesiastical properties, the agricultural-farmer class turns to brigandage and emigration. The lack of money from the Borghesi (after this race to hoarding the auction) he no longer has the money to invest on the land and make it productive. The population who derived their income from agricultural products saw their expectations depleted, the collapse of the old but efficient ecclesiastical machine
and the failure to allocate land, the causes.
The construction of the hospital in 1833, the connecting road to Altamura in 1840 and the construction of the cemetery outside the city in 1841.
In 1860 only some monastic complexes were demanialized to use them as offices or schools.
There was an overcrowding situation due to a population increase
and an uncontrolled urbanization that turned mainly on the Sassi district, where vegetable gardens disappeared, churches, stables, warehouses and cellars changed their intended use. This degraded the primitive, but functional network of services, which gave that final effect picturesque and suggestive Sassi from a landscape point of view, but tragic and painful in the social aspects.In the twentieth century, the population grew, amassing in the 2 Sassi and in the degraded city. The narrow gauge railway network is built with Bari. With 1927, Matera becomes provicia and something begins to move. The school building, the seat of the Province, the building of public employees, the Post Office are built.
The Court and the schools go to the Annunziata convent.
The Prefecture and the Police Headquarters in the Dominican convent.
The Fascist Federation in the ex-convent of S.Lucia.
Between 1908 and 1930 the sanitation and urban planning began, the ravines of the Caveoso and Barisano were covered. The carriage that made via Buozzi, via Madonna delle Virtù, via d'Addozio and via dei Fiorentini was built. And so Matera began to look like the city we admire today.
Parte 3 : La città si chiude nel proprio perimetro e non riesce ad andare oltre per il forte scontro fra le forze sociali ,mentre l'emergente borghesia si appropria del potere politico e amministrativo ,incamera le grandi proprietà ecclesiastiche ,la classe agricolo- bracciantile si dà al brigantaggio e all'emigrazione . La mancanza di denaro dei borghesi ( dopo questa corsa all'accaparramento all'asta ) non ha più denaro
per investire sulle terre e renderle produttive. La popolazione che dai prodotti agricoli traevano il loro reddito si videro impoverire le loro aspettative.
Il crollo della vecchia ma efficiente macchina ecclesiastica e la mancata assegnazione delle terre ,le cause .
La costruzione dell'ospedale nel 1833 , la strada di collegamento con Altamura nel 1840 ,la realizzazione del cimitero fuori della città nel 1841 .
Dal 1860 solo alcuni complessi monastici furono demanializzati per adibirli a uffici o scuole .
Ci fu una situazione di sovraffollamento per un aumento demografico ed un inurbamento incontrollato che si rivolse soprattutto sui rioni dei Sassi ,dove scomparvero orti ,cambiarono destinazione d'uso chiese ,stalle ,magazzini ,cantine . Questo degradò la primitiva ma funzionale rete dei servizi ,procurò quell'effetto finale dei Sassi ,molto pittoresco e suggestivo da un punto di vista paesaggistico ,ma tragico e doloroso nei risvolti sociali .
Nel novecento cresce ancora la popolazione che si ammassa nei 2 Sassi e nella Civita degradata . Si costruisce la rete ferroviaria a scartamento ridotto con Bari .
Con il 1927 Matera diventa provincia e qualcosa comincia a muoversi . Si costruisce l'edificio scolastico ,la sede della provincia ,il palazzo dei dipendenti pubblici ,le Poste .
Tribunale e scuole nel convento dell'Annunziata .
Prefettura e Questura nel convento Domenicano .
La Federazione Fascista nell'ex convento di S.Lucia .
Tra il 1908 e il 1930 parte un risanamento igienico-urbanistico .Furono coperte le Gravinelle del Caveoso e del Barisano .
Si fece la carrozzabile che interessò via Buozzi ,via Madonna delle Virtù ,via d'Addozio e via dei Fiorentini .
Così Matera cominciò a sembrare la città che noi oggi ammiriamo .
I don't usually upload more than one photo of the same subject on consecutive days but I thought this Bittern was sufficiently different from yesterday's. This one suddenly exploded out of one reedbed, flew a short distance, then landed in a nearby reedbed. It took me by surprise but I locked onto it just as it came into land. I was really pleased that I managed to freeze the action in its legs and wings. I remember as kids we used to shout Geronimo as we jumped but I never knew why. Apparently U.S. Army paratroopers testing the practice of parachuting from planes began a tradition of shouting "Geronimo!" to show they had no fear of jumping out of an airplane, and was apparently inspired by the 1939 film "Geronimo".
Pharaoh Khufu began the first Giza pyramid project, circa 2550 B.C. His Great Pyramid is the largest in Giza and towers some 481 feet (147 meters) above the plateau. Its estimated 2.3 million stone blocks each weigh an average of 2.5 to 15 tons. I photographed the pyramids from different angles and perspectives, but this long shot is one of my favorites.
I began my drive around the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge just after sunrise. Cliff Swallows were everywhere. They build mud structures under bridges and culverts and live in large colonies; socializing, competing, scaping and just hanging out together. Here's one on his way back to the nest under a bridge, one carrying nesting material and one in a severe bank.
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Yes, San Angelo, Texas is where my journey began, and it's taken me all over, and the ride isn't done yet. :)
113,476 on the odometer in Florida alone.
Indiana Jones na Bolivia :)
Train Cemetery - Uyuni
In 1872 began the construction of the railway from Antofagasta to Bolivia, the first railway line in the country. It was used to transport raw materials such as sodium nitrate and other salts, but also metals such as copper, silver, and gold, from inland mines to port cities on the Pacific Ocean. When the railway reached Uyuni at the end of the 19th century, a railway depot was built in the town. Uyuni then became an important railway junction. Around the 1940s, the local industry collapsed and most of the precious metal mines were abandoned. As a result, the locomotives and railcars were no longer needed, were shut down and left abandoned.
There is a total of around 100 locomotives and carriages in the railway graveyard, the oldest of which date from the late 19th century.
Cementerio de Trenes - Uyuni
En 1872 se inició la construcción del Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia, la primera línea férrea de Bolivia. Se utilizaba para transportar materias primas como el nitrato de sodio y otras sales, pero también metales como el cobre, la plata y el oro, desde las minas del interior hasta las ciudades portuarias del Océano Pacífico. Cuando la vía férrea llegó a Uyuni a finales del siglo XIX se construyó un depósito ferroviario en el pueblo. Uyuni se convirtió en ese entonces en un importante nudo ferroviario. Alrededor de la década de 1940, la industria local colapsó y la mayoría de las minas de metales preciosos fueron abandonadas. Como resultado, la mayoría de las locomotoras y vagones ya no fueron necesarios, se apagaron y se dejaron en abandono.
Hay un total de alrededor de 100 locomotoras y vagones en el cementerio ferroviario, los más antiguos de los cuales datan de finales del siglo XIX.
Bolivia
Construction began in 447 BC when the Athenian Empire was at the peak of its power. It was completed in 438 BC, although decoration of the building continued until 432 BC. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered the zenith of the Doric order.
Like most Greek temples, the Parthenon served a practical purpose as the city treasury. For a time, it served as the treasury of the Delian League, which later became the Athenian Empire. In the final decade of the 6th century AD, the Parthenon was converted into a Christian church dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
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In 1698 a monastery began to be built on the Bugada terrace. In 1709 the convent was finished, and in 1733 the church was finished.
Life in the Old Convent lasts almost a century, in 1783 the torrential rains from September to December open chasms in the earth and cracks in the walls of the convent, right between two ravines and in a poorly settled land.
The monks settle in a hostel, and look for a new location to start the definitive Monastery in 1784. The Carmelites can live in the new building in 1793. The church is inaugurated in 1796.
En 1698 se comenzó a construir un Monasterio en el Bancal de la Bugada. En 1709 está acabado el convento, y en 1733 se termina la iglesia.
La vida en el Convento Viejo dura casi un siglo, en 1783 las lluvias torrenciales desde septiembre a diciembre abren simas en la tierra y grietas en los muros del convento, justo entre dos barrancos y en una tierra mal asentada.
Los monjes se instalan en una hospedería, y buscan un nuevo emplazamiento para comenzar en 1784 el Monasterio definitivo. Los carmelitas pueden vivir en el nuevo edificio en 1793. La iglesia es inaugurada en 1796.
Desert de les Palmes (Carmelite monks)
Benicàssim. Castelló de La Plana (Spain).
The park began as a private 20.7-acre (8.4 ha) farm owned by Joseph Williams in the 1850s. As more visitors from the city began to visit the lake front he transformed his holdings into a tourist destination.[1] He set up a large park and built several recreation facilities on the site beginning in 1879, naming it after Kew Gardens in London.[2]
It all began with two pelicans on a log. One was asleep, the other one was preening. Then a darter female landed on the log and woke up the pelican, which in turn chased the darter away. So she went fishing, Soon after a couple of dives she emerged with a fish skilfully speared with her beak. I thought that this was it. But what followed was a careful breakfast preparation, which included killing the fish, dropping it in water, diving again, bringing it back on the log and after it was properly positioned for swallowing, the breakfast was eaten.
Here the fish is taken out of water for the second time.
(Anhinga novaehollandiae)
The completed Prince of Wales began sea trials in September 2019 and first arrived at her new home base of HMNB Portsmouth in November 2019. The ship was formally commissioned into the Royal Navy at a ceremony in Portsmouth on 10 December 2019.
The ship's commissioning date marked the 78th anniversary of the sinking of her predecessor, a World War II era battleship which was lost in action along with HMS Repulse in 1941. She is the eighth Royal Navy ship to have the name HMS Prince of Wales.
Info from the NT website.
“New Worke“ began life as a hunting lodge in the mid 1500s. It was built by the courtier, Sir Nicholas Poyntz, using medieval stones from a nearby dissolved abbey. This was never his family home but he used it as an impressive place for lavish entertaining.
Over the next 400 years, the house was expanded and remodelled a number of times. A succession of families made their home in what is now Newark Park. The most significant building phase was undertaken in the 1790s by the Reverend Lewis Clutterbuck using the architect, James Wyatt.
The Clutterbuck family continued to own Newark Park – although for 50 years it was leased to the King Family. Three generations later, Catherine Annie Power-Clutterbuck left the estate to the National Trust in 1949.
By 1970, the estate was in need of some restoration. An American architect, Bob Parsons, leased it from the National Trust and spent almost 30 years taming the grounds and returning the house to a home. Once again, it became a place known for its hospitality.
The estate has some lovely walks through the woodlands, well worth a visit. As yet we have not been inside the house, keeping that for a rainy day!
This began as a photo of a field of beautiful lupines blooming in the spring and was digitally altered with painterly type effects to create a colorfully glowing impressionist floral piece with movement and texture.
The Russian campaign began in what is now Lituania. Napoleon established his main forward resuply base in Vilnius, including hospitals for the wounded. The French dead are buried in the main cemetery, not far from this Soviet-era memorial.
La campagne de Russie débuta dans ce qui est maintenant la Lituanie. Napoléon établit sa principale base de soutien à Vilnius, dont les hopitaux. Les morts Français sont enterrés dans le cimettiere princiapal, non loin de ce monument Soviétique.
"Napoléon, l'Esprit des Lieux"
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Disponible sur Amazon dans toute l'Europe
In France/en France:
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The Siege of Yorktown began on September 28, 1781 and ended on October 19, 1781 at the Battle of Yorktown in Virginia. It was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army led by General George Washington and Gilbert du Motier, the Marquise de Lafayette, and French troops led by Comte de Rochambeau over British forces led by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. The battle was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War, and the surrender of and capture of Cornwallis and his army prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict, resulting in the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
Five days after the British surrendered, Congress passed a resolution agreeing to erect a structure dedicated to commemorating those who participated in the battle. Construction of the monument was delayed, however, because the government had other, more urgent, financial obligations.
The project was postponed until the battle's centennial sparked renewed enthusiasm in the resolution and prompted the government to begin building the monument in 1881. The structure was officially completed on January 5, 1885. The artists commissioned by the Secretary of War for the monument project included Mr. R. M. Hunt (Chairman) and Mr. J. Q. A. Ward (Architect) of New York and Mr. Henry Van Brunt (Sculptor) of Boston.
The construction of the Monastery of La Cartuja began in the 16th century and lasted three centuries. The sacristy (where priests dress before saying mass) is considered a Baroque masterpiece and was completed in the 18th century. Religious clothing was kept in the drawers of the furniture that are seen on the sides. It is said to be the most beautiful sacristy in the world. Monastery of La Cartuja, Granada, Spain.
La construcción del Monasterio de La Cartuja comenzó en el siglo XVI y duró tres siglos. La sacristía (donde se visten los sacerdotes antes de decir la misa) se considera una obra maestra del barroco y acabó de construirse en el siglo XVIII. La ropa religiosa se guardaba en los cajones de los muebles que se ven en los laterales. Se dice que es la sacristía mas bella del mundo. Monasterio de La Cartuja, Granada, España.
Gunnilaberg's construction began in the 1660s. The yellow main-building is built in carolina-style timber with walnut ceilings and has wall paintings from the later part of the 18th century. Gunillaberg is since 2008 owned by flower artist Tage Andersen. The farm has since 2009 been open to the public summer time as a garden park and a cultural center.
Abandoned factory for sheet and plumb goods, founded in 1857 and out of operation since 1976. Demolition began 2022.
The construction of this castle began between the ending of the XIVth and the beginning of the XVth century, in the background of the One Hundred Years War against England. It was the first castle of France which could resist against artillery with its rounds towers and its special construction made of bricks and stones. Moreover, with 70 soldiers and 16 canons, it was a fortress almost impregnable...
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Les travaux de construction de ce château vont durer de 1450 à 1471, le tout sur fond de guerre de 100 ans durant laquelle le château joua un rôle important puisqu'il se trouvait au coeur d'une enclave française dans le territoire occupé par les Anglais.
Il s'agit du premier château français en brique et pierre, matériaux utilisés pour mieux résister à l'artillerie de son époque. Il fut à demi enterré pour laisser moins de prise à l'ennemi (trois niveaux de souterrains pouvaient abriter une garnison entière !); les murs présentent un tracé convexe pour dévier les boulets, et la brique résiste quant à elle à l'éclatement.
Au sein de l'un des volumes de la série de reportages photographiques aériens intitulé "Vol au Dessus de la France" paru en 2008, Rambures est considéré par ses auteurs comme "assurément l'un des plus beaux châteaux à découvrir du ciel." Extrait: "Que de couleurs ! Blotti dans un écrin de verdure aux chemins savamment dessinés, il offre au regard ses toits bleu violacé, le rouge orangé des briques et le blanc de la pierre calcaire. Les amoureux de fleurs se régaleront avec la roseraie créée en 2003 et offrant 350 variétés, ou avec le jardin des Simples aux senteurs variées et aux arbres fruitiers."
"L'atmosphère dramatique, presque dantesque, sied à merveille à la puissance massive de cet édifice imposant." / "The dramatic, almost dantesque atmosphere, marvelously fits to the massive power of this impressive building." (VINCENT / www.flickr.com/photos/58769600@N07/ )
"The processing and your use of available light is awesome." / "Le traitement et l'utilisation de la lumière disponible sont géniaux." (Lance ECKELS / www.flickr.com/photos/38521378@N00/ )
Own texture.
CSXT L004 (old B724) has been on duty more than four hours and is just now starting north. They are technically still inside the Framingham Yard limits as they trundle northbound on the Fitchburg Branch at about MP QBU35.6. The entirety of the branch is designated as Other Than Main Track with this local operating at Restricted Speed but not exceeding 10 MPH the whole way making for an agonizingly long round trip. The two GP40-2s are snaking through the weedy trackage on the causeway over the Foss Reservoir/Sudbury River with a big train of nearly 30 cars.
This trackage dates from 1855 when the Agricultural Branch Railroad opened between Framingham and Northborough. In July 1866, the railroad opened a 14-mile extension to a connection with the Fitchburg and Worcester Railroad at Pratts Junction in Sterling. The next dozen years were rather convoluted as many small independent lines began to congeal into larger systems and by 1879 the route was part of the Old Colony Railroad, then ultimately the New York, New Haven, & Hartford in 1893.
This line, like its sister route to Lowell was one of only three incursions of the NH north of the defacto "Mason Dixon Line" of New England Railroading into Boston and Maine territory. For virtually a century, with few exceptions, the NH ruled CT and RI and everything in MA south of New York Central's Boston & Albany subsidiary that ran in a virtual straight line between its namesake cities bifurcating New England.
Today this 30 mile route meandering northwest is the last CSXT owned branchline in Massachusetts, with all the rest of any length that they still operate having been sold to MassDOT. The branch seems to have a solid future thanks to the addition of a busy new demolition debris customer near the end of the line in Leominster supplementing stalwarts like Ken's Foods, Nucor, and Bestway Lumber.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Friday December 9, 2022
I began this on March 1st. It is coming together beautifully. There are so many empty spaces full of shadows. Please let my EEP take over (shared) so you see the full spectrum of shadow and projection.
... maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SLEA1/208/26/25
Always in progress...stay tuned for events later. :)
Antwerp, Estación Central.
(...) Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Austerlitz began, in reply to my questions about the history of the building of Antwerp station, when Belgium, a little patch of yellowish gray barely visible on the map of the world, spread its sphere of influence to the African continent with its colonial enterprises, when deals of huge proportions were done on the capital markets and raw-materials exchanges of Brussels, and the citizens of Belgium, full of boundless optimism, believed that their country, which had been subject so long to foreign rule and was divided and disunited in itself, was about to become a great new economic power—at that time, now so long ago although it determines our lives to this day, it was the personal wish of King Leopold, under whose auspices such apparently inexorable progress was being made, that the money suddenly and abundantly available should be used to erect public buildings which would bring international renown to his aspiring state. One of the projects thus initiated by the highest authority in the land was the central station of the Flemish metropolis, where we were sitting now, said Austerlitz; designed by Louis Delacenserie, it was inaugurated in the summer of 1905, after ten years of planning and building, in the presence of the King himself.
Delacenserie's eclecticism, uniting past and future in the Centraal Station with its marble stairway in the foyer and the steel and glass roof spanning the platforms, was in fact a logical stylistic approach to the new epoch, said Austerlitz, and it was also appropriate, he continued, that in Antwerp Station the elevated level from which the gods looked down on visitors to the Roman Pantheon should display, in hierarchical order, the deities of the nineteenth century—mining, industry, transport, trade, and capital. For halfway up the walls of the entrance hall, as I must have noticed, there were stone escutcheons bearing symbolic sheaves of corn, crossed hammers, winged wheels, and so on, with the heraldic motif of the beehive standing not, as one might at first think, for nature made serviceable to mankind, or even industrious labor as a social good, but symbolizing the principle of capital accumulation.
And Time, said Austerlitz, represented by the hands and dial of the clock, reigns supreme among these emblems. The clock is placed above the only baroque element in the entire ensemble, the cruciform stairway which leads from the foyer to the platforms, just where the image of the emperor stood in the Pantheon in a line directly prolonged from the portal; as governor of a new omnipotence it was set even above the royal coat of arms and the motto Endracht maakt macht. The movements of all travelers could be surveyed from the central position occupied by the clock in Antwerp Station, and conversely all travelers had to look up at the clock and were obliged to adjust their (...)
W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz, 2001.
I began to lift these lights off this fence after placing them there briefly and decided to take a quick photo. So, there's my fence shot. H.F.F.!
Below is a new print I processed today. :) Hope everyone has an awesome weekend!
Fawke Photo Club Theme: Dance!
It All Began With a Burst - Kishi Bashi
Kesa ka ni sasareta
And the source was your laughter
Threw me off the wall
Used your face as a mascot
And the medicine came after
Left in a sprawl
Many miles from Cessna
Kesa ka ni sasareta
One of many in the mess hall
Family there and all
Making money on the desktop
Was at war with fast cars
Many chemicals in the eyes of The Master
Burst!
(master in every way)
Kesa ka ni sasareta
For the love of the soft game
Made of models set in plaster
When in doubt of the last year
Gather all your fear and
Dip your hand in the blender
Burst!
In your wallet was your gender
Stolen when in Rome
In the shadow of your blender
Was a secret of the bedroom
Blemish in the chrome
In the eye of the bender
Kesa ka ni sasareta
It All Began With Burst now
Every several months
And the chemicals came after
It was a race to be faster
Quicker than the worst
In the style of The Master
San Galgano
Abbey Galgano at Sunset-. Tuscany.December 2016.
Beautiful dream-
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From Wikipedia,
Abbey of San Galgano
Location Chiusdino, Italy
Affiliation Catholic
Province Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino
Architectural description
Architectural styleItalian Gothic.
The Abbey of Saint Galgano was a Cistercian Monastery found in the valley of the river Merse between the towns of Chiusdino and Monticiano, in the province of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. Presently, the roofless walls of the Gothic style 13th-century Abbey church still stand. Nearby are the chapel or Eremo or Rotonda di Montesiepi (1185), the tomb of Saint Galgano and the purported site of his death in 1181, the sword said to have been planted in the ground by Galgano and a chapel with frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
History
The abbey formed around the site of the former hermitage of Galgano Guidotti (San Galgano), and construction of the church began around 1220, and was completed some six decades later. The abbey grew in wealth and became allied with the Republic of Siena. Monks from the abbey routinely served as Camarlinghi di Biccherna.
However within a century, the republic failed to protect it from roving condottieri, and John Hawkwood and his men despoiled the monastery beginning in 1363. By the end of the 14th-century, only the abbot remained in the monastery.
The impoverished and decaying abbey sputtered along for nearly four centuries. In 1786, the campanile fell, taking with it the roof of the church. The ruins were looted for building material. Some restorations occurred in the 19th and 20th; but the church remains only a magnificent shell among the wooded valley. The long tall nave with flechet windows and an apse rose window still stand. The abbey's chapter house and part of the scriptorium also remain.
The Rotonda chapel was restored in 1924 and retains its peculiar medieval shape, recalling imperfectly earlier Ancient Roman mausoleums.
Popular culture.
The abbey was the location where parts of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1983 film Nostalghia were shot
Construction began in the spring of 1907 in Rhyolite, NV and by 1910 the Cook Bank was closed. The bank was three stories tall and housed the local Post Office in the basement. The inside had marble staircases and all the modern conveniences, like electric lights and indoor plumbing. A financial crisis at the time caused banks across the country to go bankrupt.
Excerpt from the plaque:
David Thompson I began construction on his home in 1845. Despite how labour intensive the project was, the home was completed in only two short years. Today it remains a beautiful example of Greek Revival architecture, a style popular at the time of its design. One staple characteristic of this style is the porch entry with the large imposing columns, reminiscent of a Greek temple. While these Greek influences are incorporated throughout the outside and interior of the home, there are also a few nods to the family’s Scottish roots, such as these two hitching posts here at the bottom of the steps. At the top of each post is a small statue of Greyfriars Bobby, a beloved Scottish hero, who is said to have spent 14 years guarding the grave of his owner until his own death. The name of the site is also thanks to the family’s Scottish ancestry as it was named after the Ruthven barracks in Scotland.
Just began a tour of the Mighty 5 and Monument Valley. First day late arrival at Zion brought us this magnificent vista in Zion National Park, Utah
This began as a tug of war which went on for quite some time. Occasionally other pelicans would take a shot at getting the fish carcass away from this fellow, but he emerged victorious!
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I began making my way along the Giant's Causeway Coastline. I was keen to get as close to the sea as I could without getting my feet wet. I enjoyed the challenge and I got back dry.
Construction of the Cathedral began as early as 1170 by an original unknown master mason. Twenty years later another master mason restarted construction until 1215. Finally a third engineer, Jean Cotereel, completed the majority of the existing cathedral including a porch, and two towers, one of which is the current day belfry. The other tower was never completed.
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