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Former President George H. W. Bush, left, and his wife Barbara Bush step off Marine One as they land on the deck of the USS George H. W. Bush (CVN77) aircraft carrier, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Second planting of bush beans are growing. Birds got the first sprouts. I covered this batch with chicken wire.
This African Bush Elephant, Loxodonta africana, was photographed in Kenya, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.
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"Designed by Harvey Wiley Corbett, built 1925-35. "The building was designed with multi-occupancy in mind. The American architect Harvey Corbett undertook the commission in the early 1920s, creating a luxurious trade centre where companies could show off their products and services to potential clients. Finance came from an Anglo-American trading organisation headed by Irving T. Bush, hence the name. Later that decade Bush House was declared the 'most expensive building in the world', having cost around $10 million." BBC website
The figures that represent, "Great Britain and America hold a flaming torch and a shield decorated with the British lion and the American eagle. The statues are made of Indiana stone, as it was difficult to find large enough pieces of Portland stone. A Celtic altar stand between the two figures and below it is the inscription 'TO THE FRIENDSHIP OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES".
"The history of Bush House - King’s move into Bush House will unite the university’s international reputation and aspirations with a building that eloquently expresses Britain’s global history and connections, both with other English-speaking peoples and with other countries throughout the world.
"Built by American businessman Irving T Bush and designed by U.S. architect Harvey W Corbett in 1919, its original function was to be an international trade centre with exhibition galleries, shops, conference rooms, reference libraries, a small theatre, badminton court, cinema, swimming-pool, club and restaurant.
These grand designs are reflected in the size, scale and opulent architectural detailing of the complex, particularly in its central block, opened in 1925.
This has a 100-foot tall arch facing north, up Kingsway, crowned by a sculpture of figures of Britain and America united in friendship, and a famous inscription over the doorway, ‘To the friendship of the English Speaking Peoples’.
In 1929 Bush House was declared ‘the most expensive building in the world’, reflecting its construction cost of some $10 million (£2 million). The full complex of buildings in the centre of the Aldwych was completed in 1935.
In 1941 Bush House became the home of the BBC World Service, the world’s largest international broadcaster.
Communicating at one point in over 40 languages with over 200 million listeners all round the world, the World Service has been described as ‘a sort of United Nations of broadcasting’. It has represented the voice of Great Britain abroad and provided a sometimes crucial source of balanced information to people in countries under censorship of different kinds.
Although the BBC never owned the building, Bush House became heavily identified with the World Service, which operated from there for over 70 years until 2012." King's College, London
The Bush House complex consists of this central building and a number of wings (at least 5). Built in the 1920s by American businessman, Irving T. Bush, it was designed in 1919 by Harvey W. Corbett, and conceived as a centre for international trade but also for sports, leisure, entertainment and cultural events. The whole complex was not completed until 1935.
The building was opened by Lord Balfour (ex-Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary) on 4th July 1925, American Independence Day. It was the home of BBC World Service from 1940 - 2012, when they moved to New Broadcasting House in Portland Place. Kings College, London moved into Bush House in 2016.
"The figures standing on the entrance screen with the inscription 'Dedicated to the Friendship of English-speaking Peoples' were sculpted by Malvina Hoffman, a New Yorker who had moved to Paris to study with Rodin. Unfortunately Rodin was unaware of this, and she had to spend some time badgering him into it. On completion of her studies, he advised her to return to Manhattan and spend a year dissecting bodies at the School of Physicians and Surgeons, which gave her an unrivalled knowledge compared with most artists of what goes on under the skin. She also got involved with bronze founding and other skills that artists often leave to the craftsmen. Apparently, the sight of this little woman scuttling about with whacking great hammers and chisels six storeys above Aldwych attracted quite a lot of comment.
Her figures of Britain and American holding the Torch of Friendship over a Celtic-style altar thing are dramatic and evocative.
In one of the ironies that make wars so entertaining in retrospect, the Clasp of Friendship was blown apart by the blast from a German V1 in 1944, leaving the American waving a stump at the Brit for over 30 years. It was finally reinstated for the Silver Jubilee celebrations of Elizabeth II in 1977 by an American who worked for the Indiana Limestone Company and persuaded his employers to send a arm and a stonemason to attach it." Ornamental Passions, ornamentalpassions.blogspot.com/2010/10/bush-house-aldwyc...
African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) just before sunset at a pumped waterhole in the Chamabonda Vlei area of Zambezi National Park, Zimbabwe.
Bush dinner on our last night at Kirawira. Last picture in the set "2011-02 Tanzania", which you can find here:
This African Bush Elephant, Loxodonta africana, was photographed in Kenya, as part of a research project utilizing motion-activated camera-traps.
You are invited to go WILD on Smithsonian's interactive website, Smithsonian WILD, to learn more about the research and browse photos like this from around the world.
Smiths Bush is on the North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand. There is a loop track taking about 30 - 40 minutes to walk at a leisurely pace taking you back in time with the old puriri trees. I am surprised how many people I talk to haven't been there - it's very close to the motorway (in fact cuts through it) and also close to Takapuna, Milford, Northcote and Glenfield shops.
Smiths Bush is on the North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand. There is a loop track taking about 30 - 40 minutes to walk at a leisurely pace taking you back in time with the old puriri trees. I am surprised how many people I talk to haven't been there - it's very close to the motorway (in fact cuts through it) and also close to Takapuna, Milford, Northcote and Glenfield shops.
Granddad Bush was in his late seventies when this photo was taken in 1972.
He fought in World War I in France as a teenager for the British and having seen more then enough hell moved to New Zealand when the Great War ended and met my grandma in the late 1920's in Gisborne if I got my family history right.
I only got a chance to meet him twice when I was little (my family lived in Montreal), he passed on in the late 1970s'.
Back in February I posted a couple of photos of a male bush-tit fighting his reflection in our window. We knew they were nesting, but not where. We were trimming the ceanothus (California lilac) bush a week or two back, and found this abandoned nest. It is made of lichen and spider webs and feathers and all sorts of soft stuff. What a LOT of work they went to!!!