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OIA GIRLS VOLLEYBALL RED EASTERN DIVISION
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Kaiser High School Gymnasium
Blue Varsity
Kaiser Cougars vs Castle Knights
Ludgershall Castle was built in the late eleventh century by Earl of Salisbury re-using the earthworks of an Iron Age fortification. The location was strategically important as it was on a major route between Marlborough and Winchester.To the south of the castle was a Saxon settlement dating back to 1015 when it was the property of Godwine the Driveller. In 1100, following the death of the Earl of Salisbury, Ludgershall reverted to the Crown. Henry I appointed John the Marshal as constable and he converted the castle into a ringwork-and-bailey fortification. During the civil war between Stephen and Matilda over the English throne, Ludgershall was occupied by John FitzGilbert. He originally supported Stephen but in 1139 switched his allegiance to Matilda. She was defeated at the Battle of Winchester in 1141. Following the battle Matilda stayed at Ludgershall as she escaped from Stephen's forces. Ludgershall Castle was upgraded in 1210 by King John and used as a Hunting Lodge. Henry III added a Great Hall in the 1240s. The castle continued to be regarded as a Royal manor but by the end of the fifteenth century it had ceased to have any real importance. In the 1540s the castle buildings were largely demolished and the grounds were landscaped into a garden with castle's tower retained as an ornamental feature.The foundations of the domestic buildings as well as the substantial earthworks can still be seen
Kantara Castle is the lowest of the three great Crusader castles of the Kyrenia mountains in North Cyprus.
Like the other two castles in the Kyrenia Mountains (St Hilarion Castle and Buffavento Castle), the Venetians took over Kantara Castle, but abandoned it in 1525 because the castle was so remote.
From the top of the watch tower, messages could be sent to Buffavento castle using a system of flares.
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The chateau was established as a French style Gothic castle in 1300 with a ring composition broken up by many towers. Later it underwent some architectonic reconstructions. At the first third of the 18th century it was converted into Baroque chateau and at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries restyled in neo-Gothic. Significant changes were carried out, when it belonged to the successor of the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand d'Este, assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914. Archduke was a passionate collector of hunting trophies, historical weapons, paintings, furniture, china and St. George statues. The major part of his collections is on display in the representative halls of the chateau. The chateau is set amidst a magnificent park with a rose garden and with greenhouse founded by Archduke himself. Under the Chateau, partly integrated in the park, there is a big lake there. Inside the Chateau, you can expect richly decorated rooms, with original furniture and many valuable pictures and other artifacts. Walking through the interiors will turn you back to the times of the former owners of the Chateau. And as you will see, they lived well here, in the best comfort, even with very modern bathroom for that time of the 19th century. On the walls of the Konopiště chateau, there are also over 3000 trophies from the original collection of the last owner Franz Ferdinand d'Este. The Chateau is located in a virgin nature, surrounded by deep forests, which used to be an ideal place for hunting. In the main courtyard of the chateau, there is an original shooting range of the passionate hunter, still functioning.
OIA GIRLS VOLLEYBALL RED EASTERN DIVISION
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Kaiser High School Gymnasium
Junior Varsity
Kaiser Cougars vs Castle Knights
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanazawa_Castle
We visited Nagoya Castle, Kanazawa Castle and Nijo Castle while we were in Japan - out of sheer interest in the feudal history of Japan, the defense mechanisms of different types of castles and more.
Kanazawa Castle was easily one of the more beautiful and spacious castle of the 3 that we were at, although at it's current state, the insides of the buildings seems smaller than that of the Nagoya castle.
What is important about this castle is that most of this castle was rebuilt faithfully according to tradition. Cypress beams had no nails in them but kind of built with "Jenga" sort of set up.
Walls were built with layers of mud, ropes, more mud and rocks. Some of the bases, particularly with carvings on them, came from temples.
It was also, basically, a dangerously beautiful place. If in a siege, the castle has a large number of slotted windows (which I tried to take pictures through) for archers to attack outsiders.
Under those windows, there are also slots for them to drop stones on to enemies.
Should they enter past the first gate, it's also a death trap whereby they are stuck in a small area surrounded by windows for archers.
Surrounding the Castle are roads that used to be a part of the moat outside of the castle. There's more moats inside (obviously) that has been kept as they were.
Kanazawa Castle was used as the headquarters of the 9th Division of the imperial army prior to WWII, which then saw a couple of additions to the castle walls.
Thereafter, it was used by the local university till 1989. It's now a local tourist spot and they have english speaking volunteers to take you around the place.
There's even sections for you to climb to the top of the defense towers, although the steps are dangerously steep and slippery.
Wills's Cigarettes "British Castles" (series of 25 large cards issued in 1925)
#15 Hawarden Castle. Flintshire, Wales
They were working on the castle (installing an elevator and the new luxury hotel suite), so there was a crane behind the castle during the day (though they retracted it at night). I Photoshopped it out of the picture.
My, the castle looks better without all that 50th Anniversary Celebration junk on it!
In the northern part of Lower Austria sits this beautiful, well-preserved castle in a picturesque scenery.
Originally built in the 11th century,Edlingham castle was a fortified manor house and solar tower and was used to protect the route to Alnwick from invaders from the Borders. It fell into disrepair in the 16th century and stone it was built from was used to erect farm buildings in the surrounding area. It is now owned by English Heritage.
Sunny though it was on the day I was here, what these photos can not show is that there was a howling gale blowing. My usually imperturbable wife was flying up to Aberdeen to meet me later in the day, and after two attempts at landing in Aberdeen, during which she broke finger nails clutching her seat armrest in a valiant effort to help steady the aircraft, they gave up and went to Edinburgh instead! Here in the beech wood, the noise was terrific and my explorations not without hazard, as branches periodically came spinning down from above.
It is believed that this has been a royal site since the time of the Picts (a name given them by the Romans and taken to mean "painted or tattooed people", the same root word as “picture”.) A Roman army under Agricola defeated the Caledonian army under Calgacus at the Battle of Mons Graupius somewhere nearby in AD 83 or 4.
Former home of the Queen Mother, beautiful little castle, very cosy inside the rooms were small and decorated and furnished by the Queen Mother, nothing matched but that just made it all the more homely.
A view of Durham Castle (left) alongside Durham Cathedral *right) taken from Framwellgate Bridge, which crosses the River Wear in Durham city centre.
Wewelsburg Castle an imposing 17th century triangular edifice on a hilltop just south of Hannover in the Paderborn district of Germany.
Used by Himmler in the Second World War as a training school for elite SS officers. Himmler indended to transform the surrounding area into the centre of the new world!
It is now a museum.
As a kid, somewhere between Star Wars and Empire,
I remember reading that Darth Vader lived in a castle.
Also, he wore the black protective leather suit from being badly burned by lava.
So.. between his title "Lord of the Sith" and these little info nuggets gleamed...
In my mind at the time he lived on the planet Sith in a castle...
surrounded by active volcanoes and a moat of lava.
Sounds better now than what the real deal was.
After Empire I truly believed Vader was just trying to screw w/ Luke's head.
There was no way our fave castle living sith lord was telling the truth.
Plus, that would mean Luke was making out w/ his sister!
C'mon... Ewwww yuck-o!
Jedi didn't let me down because of Ewoks...it was that Vader really was Papa Skywalker.
Dolbadarn Castle stands above Llyn Padarn, between Caernarfon and Snowdonia. Built by the Welsh Princes it dates to the 13th century and built by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. Of simplistic design it remains in solid condition and predates the English fortresses of the Edwardian conquest and provides evidence of the extent of Llywelyn's influence and ingenuity.
Castle Moy is an oblong tower, with walls of roughly coursed glacial rubble, buttressed with a batter at all angles. The walls rise three main storeys to a flush parapet, deeply crenelated, with a parapet walk drained by water spouts. There is a gabled garret storey, one gable of which is visible here. Two of the angles have what were once open rounds, but which have been roofed over (and then ruined again) at some stage, to form turrets. One of the two western angles was surmounted by a caphouse for the stair in the castle's south-west corner, while the other corner had a watch-chamber over it, partially projecting on corbelling. The windows are small and sparse, adding to the tower's impression of grim strength. The entrance is to the north-east, approachable only by clambering over bare rock. Currently, it is obscured by scaffolding.
3 kilometers from the village Monolithos, you find the Venetian Castle of Monolithos, wich stands proudly on a jagged rock.
Although this castle (Dunskey Castle, Portpatrick, southwest Scotland) is a scheduled ancient monument whose oldest structure dates from the 13th Century, it is a genuine ruin with little or no restoration work, and no on-site information. It is not a formalised 'visitor attraction' though there is a good public footpath which passes it. Entry is prevented (but not impossible ..... ), probably for safety reasons, by fencing and, on one side, by a nearly sheer cliff-drop beneath the walls. For all practical purposes, it can be regarded as abandoned, and has been so since 1684.
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Medieval castle and church of Benabarre, Province of Huesca, Spain. The castle, an ancient fortress, reconquered from the Arabs in 1058, high on a ridge, overlooking the city.
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Das mittelalterliche Schloss und Kirche von Benabarre, Provinz Huesca, Spanien.
Das Schloss, eine uralte Festung, wurde in 1058 von den Christen zurückerobert. Die Festung liegt auf einem Bergrücken hoch über der Stadt,
The castle of Pardubice is a unique renaissance monument due to the extreme level of preservation and impressive disposition. Formerly a 13th water fortress, rebuilt around 1500 by William II of Pernstein into a well fortified four wing chateu. William was one of the most impressive lords of his time, an excellent warrior, commander, politician and a very wealthy economist, who literally brought central Europe from the medieval period into renaissance by his deeds. He always fortified his castles so that he himself would not be able to seize them. And so the castle of Pardubice got a massive earth wall with four large rondels for gun batteries, which was a response to the evolution of artillery. The wall is surrounded by a wall with fire posts all around the castle, and the area in front of the wall could be easily flooded by the nearby river. This defensive system has survived until today, and can be inspected by anyone. More was added to the castle in the folowing centuries, like the sgraffito design and the main tower. Today the castle is completely restored and serves as a museum. There is also a hidden cold war command bunker built into the defensive wall.
Arundel Castle, Castle church, castle gardens and Arundel town. A beautiful place to visit and I had a wonderful spring day visit there.
Arundel is in West Sussex England and the castle is home to the Duke of Norfolk. Castle originally built starting in 1067
Another shot of Caernarfon Castle, taken a bit later on after the Blue Hour shot, a point to remember during the winter months is that the swing bridge across the harbour is left open from 5pm till 7am the next morning, lucky I decided to park on this side of the harbour then.