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A huge thanks to Sami for helping me out with the flashes!
For a long I've wanted a second car which only function is to be fun. NA MX-5 is not the most original choice, but it's affordable price and good platform to learn RWD made won me over.
At the moment car is totally stock, but I hope I can add mandatory rollbar, some wheels and new suspension soon enough. After all, the Nordschleife is less than 400km away...
I have certainly had a lot of new beginnings in the past few years... not just on January 1st. 2014 was bad. 2015 was... meh, confusing. 2016 will be great -I can feel it. I have grown so much and have a better understanding of who I am and what I want. And the best part... just when I figured myself out, along came a girl. To be continued.
Hong Kong Cemetery (Chinese: 香港墳場; pinyin: Xiānggǎng Fénchǎng), formerly Hong Kong (Happy Valley) Cemetery and before that Hong Kong Colonial Cemetery, is one of the early Christian cemeteries in Hong Kong dating to its colonial era beginning in 1845. It is located beside the racecourse at Happy Valley, along with the Jewish Cemetery, Hindu Cemetery, Parsee Cemetery, St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery and the Muslim Cemetery. Hong Kong Cemetery contains 79 scattered Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 62 from the Second World War, which are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
The Protestant Cemetery is built as a series of terraces ascending a hillside. The older graves tend to be at the bottom of the hill; those from the 1930s and 1940s are generally at the top.
On a number of occasions, remains in the Protestant Cemetery have been disinterred to make way for road developments, and have been placed in niches in an ossuary, which continues to be used for contemporary cremations. The niches provide basic information on each individual.
The cemetery is a popular place for filming movies and TV shows. The UK folk artist Johnny Flynn released a song in 2008 about the cemetery, found on the album A Larum.
Captain Ferdinand Gravert, born at Glueckstadt, Germany in 1847, became a shareholder in the cemetery in 1887.
TYPES OF GRAVES
Some sections of the Protestant Cemetery tended to be reserved for particular groups of deceased, e.g., army, navy, Hong Kong Police. There are two main categories of graves that can be found in Hong Kong Cemetery:
MILITARY GRAVES
As the name states, this category of graves for British military dead, spanned from the late 19th century until the early 1960s (when the Government of Hong Kong established another cemetery near Sai Wan for military dead in 1965). At the beginning of the colonial era, the British garrison force had the same problem as those in India: weather. Some of the members of the force could not adapt to the tropical weather of Hong Kong and died owing to tropical disease, while others fell during the Boxer Rebellion – mainly in 1900. At the time being, it is the major cemetery for military dead along with Stanley Military Cemetery
There are about 100 military graves of World War I – 79 of them are in Hong Kong Cemetery, mainly the soldiers who died in Hong Kong and Kowloon Military Hospital, which received the sick and wounded from the German-leased territory of Tsingtao, on the Shandong peninsula in north-east China. Evidence shows that most of them are naval personnel.
Before the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in 1941, Britain had sent two battalions from the Royal Scots and Middlesex Regiments to Hong Kong for garrison duty. This cemetery provides evidence of the presence of these two battalions. There are in all 62 military graves of World War II Commonwealth service personnel – mainly from the year 1941 – maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
The British force in Hong Kong used the cemetery as their burial ground until 1965. One notable military burial is Driver Joseph Hughes, a recipient of the George Cross.
There are also two monuments erected by the Royal Artillery in memory of their fallen comrades, which were later moved to the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence.
CIVILIAN GRAVES
The civilian burials in the cemetery are diverse and exemplify the social structure at the early stage of the colonial era. It is widely understood that the cemetery is for the burial of the privileged group of the society, mostly British. Notable people of that era buried in the cemetery include Sir Robert Ho Tung and his first wife, Sir Paul Chater and Sir Kai Ho. Most Christian missionaries to Hong Kong are also buried here, a notable example being Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff, a German Missionary who helped to establish Lutheran churches in Hong Kong, who is considered the first Lutheran missionary to China. Another notable missionary interred here is Henrietta Hall Shuck, the first American female missionary to China.
There are also a number of Chinese burials, all of them Christians, some of them were involved in the 1912 Xinhai Revolution, including Quai Wan Yeung, who was assassinated by the Qing Government in Hong Kong.
A number of Japanese were buried in the cemetery, mostly those who resided in Hong Kong during the early colonial era. Some of them were Christian, but most were followers of Shinto. The Japanese custom of burning incense during memorial rites led to complaints from some Westerners. As a result, a special Japanese section of the graveyard was designated.
BURIALS
Notable burials at Hong Kong Cemetery include:
Henry Fletcher Hance (1827-1886)
Wong Tape (1875–1967), merchant in Dunedin, New Zealand and member of the Urban Council, Hong Kong[3]
Samuel Cornell Plant (1866 - 1921), first to command a merchant steamer plying on the Upper Yangtze River, First Senior River Inspector for Upper Yangtze
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"He followed the sun & she followed the stars & in dreams they listened closely for the beginning of all things, for that was where they knew they'd find each other"
~ Storypeople ~
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a wonderful celebration last night.
(looks nice in big view)
It's interesting how things come about. I'm excited to be starting a butterfly project at the Barberville Pioneer Settlement. I'm going to take all the "stuff" out there the 1st Saturday of Sept. to their open house and invite folks to fill in the blanks to make mosaics. We'll then install on the Pottery Shed. I'm excited about it! :)
So.. I put the outline on this today.. but since I just got a cast off of my right arm Tuesday and can't nip for the corners.. I thought I'd just get a friend to nip the tiles for me. And I liked the glass butterflies for inside the wings. But... don't they fit nicely in the blank spots! Things have a way of working out. :)
I'm excited about the project.. but still have a lot of figuring out to do. The building has siding... so I think after the butterflies are done on mesh.. I'll ask hubby to cut out boards for them. I know about Wedi board and could order some... but recently read about Kerdi board which is what the Colorado Mosaic Artists group on Facebook used for their butterfly wall. So far haven't found Kerdi here. So much to learn! :)
Looking forward to seeing the rest of this amazing painting by Pittsburgh artist Amber Lambert of Blood Eagle Tattoo. IG:bloodeagleamber
The Kandy Esala Perahera Pageant Procession of Sri Lanka, the most spectacular religious procession in Asia is held annually at the medieval royal city of Kandy beginning with the full moon poya day on the Buddhist month of Esala falling in July or August. The big event lasts for 10 days and has become a unique symbol of Sri Lanka. It is a Buddhist festival consisting of numerous dancers and up to 100 richly-decorated Elephants. There are fire-dancers, whip-dancers, Kandyan dancers, drummers, torch bearers, flag bearers and acrobats. The elephants are adorned with lavish garments which are renewed every year.
The significance of the processions is to invoke blessings of the gods to give the farmers rain to cultivate their crops. This ritual is performed by carrying the sacred tooth relic of the Buddha through the city streets which is done with great ceremony. The tooth relic was brought to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the year 310 AD and the first Perehera was performed in Anuradhapura, the first capital where the sacred relic was housed. Now it lies in the "Dalada Maligawa" (Palace of the Tooth Relic) in Kandy, the most visited and important temple of Sri Lanka.
Het Kandy Perahera Festival in Kandy is de meest spectaculaire religieuze processie van Azië en wordt elk jaar in juli/augustus gehouden. Het boeddhistische festival is een uniek symbool van Sri lanka geworden en duurt 10 dagen waarbij elke avond steeds langer wordende processies door de straten van Kandy trekken. In een magisch schouwspel komende duizenden dansers, drummers, acrobaten, toortsdragers en vele rijk versierde olifanten voorbij. De eerste vijf avonden vormen het Kumbal Festival, daarna volgt het Randoli Festival. Elke avond wordt de processiestoet langer en komen er meer olifanten bij. Op de laatste avond lopen ca. 100 olifanten mee. Het doel van de processies is om de goden een zegen te vragen voor voldoende regen en een goede oogst. Het hoogtepunt komt wanneer de heilige tand van Boeddha met groot ceremonieel in een gouden kooi op de rug van een olifant langs komt.
...the poppies are. One of my favorite flowers...like delicate paper sculptures. They are blooming all up and down the Gorge on HWY 14 in S. Washington
You are invited...
1st February - 29th March 2014
Beginning Middle End illustration collective was established by ten friends whilst at Falmouth University in 2012. During that year, they illustrated and hand-bound a weekly publication following a wordless narrative format consisting of three panels, aptly called Beginning Middle End.
Since graduating in 2013, five members of the collective have moved to Bristol and are working as freelance illustrators and designers: Lara Hawthorne, Harriet Lee-Merrion, Sophie Bass, Beatrice Forshall and Hugh Cowling. This exhibition will feature recent work from these illustrators as well as the books produced by the collective whilst at Falmouth.
and this is where it began and almost ended as you drove off my heart jumped from my chest in a fast pursuit after your car and got caught somewhere in the woods and lost itself. I cannot find it so we are still here, but my heart is not in it, you caused it to go. I was so attached that it followed you everywhere you went, so much that when you shut your eyes at night they were my eyes too, shutting with yours, so much that when you awoke in the morning, I awoke also. But now I am a shell and when I awake, I barely even notice it. I am awake but not able. But I am loving you, as much as ever, heart or no heart, you were everything, you had taken home in my heart, then in my lungs, and soon you swept through every vein, so much so now that I am you.
This is the start of a series that I shot with some amazing people that I met for the first time and went with me in a photo walk from Rizal Park to Intramuros to Binondo Chinatown and finally to Quiapo. I found myself surrounded with amazing photographers who embrace the philosophy and artistry of photography in their lives. Kudos to Lomomanila!
I haven't uploaded anything in a long time, mainly due to school work; the school year is done for me now and it's finally summer. Lately there's been some really strange weather, it should be hot and dry but it's cloudy, warm and humid. That oddly shaped object on the ground is a leaf with a flash light as well as a street light shining down on it.
This is my entry for the "New Beginnings" contest on DeviantArt found here: news.deviantart.com/article/104307/ Hosted by: dsoden dsoden.deviantart.com/
This is something I hope for in the new year to complete our family....it would make my son a big brother!
For prints please go to my etsy shop: www.solocosmo.etsy.com
Tie your warp thread around the breast beam of your loom (where the ratchet is), and start spinning the loom around on it's stand to wind the warp on.
Beginning April 1, 2023, people will benefit from improved access to contraceptives as the Province implements a universal coverage plan making them free for residents of B.C.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/28339
Photo session №2 after the Photo session for the contest "PhotoCity 2013". The theme was BEGINNING, so I was inspired to show a new beginning for a girl, leaving the old teenage style behind to become a young lady. After I got my photos for the contest I made myself some photos to show off my new dress in combination with one of my favorite pairs of shoes.