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The hardware store of Joseph Collis Ltd closed and waiting its fate at Strood ,this was ultimatly demolition.This was one of those old stores you could virtually buy anything you required.5th August 1990.
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The United Nations Secretariat Building is a 154 m (505 ft) tall skyscraper and the centerpiece of the United Nations Headquarters, located in the Turtle Bay area of Manhattan, in New York City. The lot where the building stands is considered United Nations territory, although remains part of the United States.
It has 39 stories and was completed in 1952. The building was designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and the Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier. This building is connected to the Conference Building to the north that houses the General Assembly, the Security Council, among others, and a library building to the south.
The building houses the administerial functions of the UN, including day-to-day duties such as finance and translation, and the offices of ambassadors and delegates.
As part of the UN complex, the building is subject to an agreement between the United Nations and its host country, the United States.
The UN Secretariat Building was recently renovated, starting in May of 2010, and reopened via phased reoccupancy with the first occupants moving in July of 2012.
The building style has inspired some notable copies, including the Headquarters of South Lanarkshire Council in Hamilton, Scotland - known locally as the "County Buildings".
On October 29th, 2012 the basement of the UN complex was flooded due to the hurricane/super-storm Sandy, leading to a three day closure and the relocation of several offices.
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, known as the Tower of London, is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as Tower Hill. It was founded towards the end of 1066 as part of the Norman Conquest of England. The White Tower, which gives the entire castle its name, was built by William the Conqueror in 1078, and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new ruling elite. The castle was used as a prison from 1100 (Ranulf Flambard) until 1952 (Kray twins), although that was not its primary purpose. A grand palace early in its history, it served as a royal residence. As a whole, the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat. There were several phases of expansion, mainly under Kings Richard the Lionheart, Henry III, and Edward I in the 12th and 13th centuries. The general layout established by the late 13th century remains despite later activity on the site.
Due to redevelopment in the Bootle area it is most likely that 31 Stanley Road, Liverpool 20, will be demolished to make way for a modern 3-storey block of small self-contained offices.
The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private, not-for-profit, and nonsectarian research university founded in 1880 with its main campus in the city area of Los Angeles, California. As California's oldest private research university, USC has historically educated a large number of the region's business leaders and professionals. In recent decades, the university has also leveraged its location in Los Angeles to establish relationships with research and cultural institutions throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim. An engine for economic activity, USC contributes approximately $5 billion annually to the economy of the Los Angeles county area. As of 2014, the university has produced the fourth largest number of billionaire alumni out of all undergraduate institutions in the world.
For the 2015-2016 academic year, there were 18,740 students enrolled in four-year undergraduate programs. USC is also home to 23,729 graduate and professional students in a number of different programs, including business, law, engineering, social work, and medicine. The university has a "very high" level of research activity and received $687 million in sponsored research from 2014 to 2015.
USC counts five Nobel Laureates, eight Rhodes Scholars, three MacArthur Fellows, 181 Fulbright Scholars, one Turing Award winner, 78 Academy Award winners, 119 Emmy Award winners, three winners of the National Medal of Arts, one winner of the National Humanities Medal, three winners of the National Medal of Science, and two winners of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation among its alumni and faculty. Additionally, of its current faculty, 15 are members of the National Academy of Sciences, 17 are members of the Institute of Medicine, 34 are members of the National Academy of Engineering, 92 are members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and 32 are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1969, it joined the Association of American Universities.
USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as a member of the Pacific-12 Conference. Members of the sports teams, the Trojans, have won 100 NCAA team championships, ranking them third in the nation, and 378 NCAA individual championships, ranking them second in the nation. Trojan athletes have won 287 medals at the Olympic games (135 golds, 87 silvers and 65 bronzes), more than any other university in the United States. If USC were a country, its athletes would have collectively received the 12th-most Olympic gold medals in history.
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New York New York hotel in Las Vegas around sunset as a thunder storm was starting to brew
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Red Lodge was the name given to a red brick building on Hill 63, near Ploegsteert, Belgium, that was also the site of a medical dressing station.
The building is depicted in an oil on canvas board painting by Charles Bryant, held in the collections of the Australian War Memorial, titled 'Red Lodge, Hyde Park Corner, Ploegsteert, November 1917' [ART00168] and a further two works by George Edmund Butler held as part of the National Collection of War Art (NCWA) by the New Zealand National Archives - a watercolour painting titled 'Red Lodge, Hill 63' (c.1918) [Ref: AAAC 898 NCWA 481], and an oil, 'Red Lodge' (c.1918) [Ref: AAAC 898 NCWA 509].
One of a pair of images that I took outside the Tower of London. Trying to capture the atmosphere of foreboding and fear that the tower holds for every Englishman, and the incredible 1000 yr history before your eyes. The focus of the shot was to isolate the skyline and see the silhouette. Cant make my mind up whether the colour or monochrome works best.