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Civil War Monument located in the North Cemetery, Weymouth MA. The monument was constructed from Quincy granite, stands 25 feet in height and was dedicated July 4, 1868. At its based are engraved all the names of Massachusetts soldiers who died in the war.
I actually took this picture last May, 2014 in color on an overcast day and it came out pretty awful. So, I converted it to B&W along with additional digital editing so it might appear pseudo aged using NIK Silver Efex Pro.
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"SAO LUIS DO MARANHAO - 400 ANOS"
Portuguese
São Luís é um município brasileiro, capital do estado do Maranhão localizado ao norte do estado, fundada por franceses no dia 8 de setembro de 1612 posteriormente, foi invadida por holandeses mas terminou por ser colonizada por portugueses. Localiza-se em uma ilha Upaon-Açu, no Atlântico Sul, entre as baías de São Marcos e São José de Ribamar. Quando em 1621 o Brasil foi dividido em duas unidades administrativas - Estado do Maranhão e Estado do Brasil - São Luís foi a capital da primeira unidade administrativa.
A capital maranhense tem um desenvolvido setor industrial por conta de grandes corporações e empresas de diversos áreas que se instalaram na cidade pela sua privilegiada posição geográfica entre as regiões Norte e Nordeste do país, seu litoral estrategicamente localizado bem mais próximo de grandes centros importadores de produtos brasileiras como Europa e EUA que permite economia de combustíveis e redução no prazo de entrega de mercadorias provenientes do Brasil pelo Porto de Itaqui que é o 2º mais profundo do mundo e um dos mais movimentados, sofisticados e bem estruturados para o comércio exterior no Brasil. Tudo isso aliado a ligação por linha férrea da capital São Luís ao interior do estado, e aos estados vizinhos do Pará, Tocantins e Piauí o que facilita e barateia a escoação agrícola vinda do interior do país para o porto de Itaqui, sendo que com a conclusão de Ferrovia Norte-Sul a cidade vai estar interligada a todas as regiões brasileiras (NO, NE, CO, SE e S) por ferrovias, por rodovia a ilha já é servida pela BR-135 que a liga ao continente, e por ar conta com o Aeroporto Internacional Marechal Cunha Machado com capacidade de atender mais de um milhão de passageiros por ano, e que já opera com demanda quase saturada pelo movimento intenso de passageiros não somente da cidade de São Luís mais também por servir como porta de entrada por ser o maior e mais movimentado aeroporto próximo ao Parque Nacional dos Lençóis Maranhenses.
O clima em São Luís é geralmente quente e abafado, tropical e semi-úmido. Isso se deve ao fato da cidade esta localizada proxima a Zona de Convergência Intertropical (ZCIT). A cidade apresenta grande quantidade de coqueiros e muita vegetação litorânea. A também pedaços da Floresta Amazônica na cidade protegidas por Parques Ambientais. Pequenos rios nascem na cidade, o Rio Bacanga é um dos mais importantes pois é muito util para a pesca.
Em 2010 o Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) contou a população em 1,027,098 o que a torna o décimo-quinto município mais populoso do Brasil entre os 5 565 municípios brasileiros, 13° entre as capitais, 4º da região Nordeste e 1° do Maranhão. Sua área é de 831,7 Km², e desse total 157,5656 Km² estão em perímetro urbano. O município faz parte da Mesorregião do Norte Maranhense e Microrregião da Aglomeração Urbana de São Luís localizada a norte do estado do Maranhão. O Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano do municipio é de 0.778, alto comparado ao IDH do Maranhão.
English
São Luís (Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃w luˈis], Saint Louis) is the capital of the Brazilian state of Maranhão. The city is located on São Luís island in the Baía de São Marcos (St Marcus Bay), an extension of the Atlantic Ocean which forms the estuary of Pindaré, Mearim, Itapecuru and other rivers. Its coordinates are 2.53° south, 44.30° west. The city proper has a population of some 986,826 people (2008 IBGE estimate). The metropolitan area totals 1,227,659 (ranked as the 16th largest in Brazil).
São Luís is the only Brazilian state capital founded by France (see France Équinoxiale) and it is one of the three Brazilian state capitals located on islands (the others are Vitória and Florianópolis).
The city has two major sea ports: Ponta da Madeira and Porto do Itaqui, through which a substantial part of Brazil's iron ore, originating from the (pre)-Amazon region, is exported. The city's main industries are metallurgical with Alumar, and Vale do Rio Doce. São Luís is home of the Federal University of Maranhão.
São Luís was the home town of famous Brazilian samba singer Alcione, Brazilian writers Aluísio Azevedo, Ferreira Gullar and Josué Montello, Belgian-naturalised soccer player Luís Oliveira, the musician João do Vale and Zeca Baleiro, a Música Popular Brasileira (MPB) singer.
Originally the town was a large village of the Tupinambá tribe. The first Europeans to see it were the French, in 1612, who intended to make it the centre of a French colony named Equinoctial France. They built a fort named Saint Louis after St Louis, King of France, as a compliment to his successor King Louis XIII. The settlement was conquered for Portugal by Jerônimo de Albuquerque in 1615, when it was renamed São Luís. There had been little time for the French to build a city. This has led to some controversy as to the actual date of the founding of the city, whether by the French or the Portuguese. In 1641, the city was invaded by the Dutch. They stayed until 1645 and did not manage to influence the city's architecture or to leave any sign of their invasion, mainly because they were kept too busy with the challenges to their occupation. In 1677, the city was made the seat of the new Roman Catholic Diocese of São Luís do Maranhão.
Only when those invasions ceased permanently did the colonial government decide to create the state of Grão-Pará e Maranhão, independent from the rest of the country. By that time, the economy was based on agriculture, particularly the exportation of sugar cane, cacao and tobacco. Conflicts amongst the local elites would lead to the Beckman's Revolt.
Soon after the outbreak of the American Civil War, the region started to provide cotton to Great Britain. The wealth generated by this activity was used to modernize the city; to bring religious men to come and teach in its schools; and supplement the water supply. The city came to be the third most populous city in the country. By the end of the 19th century, agriculture was in decay and since then the city's population has been searching for other ways to make a living.
Nowadays, São Luís has the largest and best preserved heritage of colonial Portuguese architecture of all Latin America. The island is known as the "Island of Love" and as "the Brazilian Athens", due to its many poets and writers, such as Sotero dos Reis, Aluísio Azevedo, Graça Aranha, Gonçalves Dias (the most famous), Ferreira Gullar, among others.
The ancestral composition of São Luís, according to an autosomal DNA study, is 42% European, 39% Native American and 19% African.
Portuguese is the official national language, and thus the primary language taught in schools. But English and Spanish are part of the official high school curriculum.
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Great little 1/9th plate ambrotype of a civil war period beauty. Just found her in an old box I had stored. I love the matting and her gloves. The image has a convex glass cover and is housed in a full case. A Northern civil war soldier may have carried this into battle.
Civil War BOW Quilt - Well here it is finally finished. I have machined quilted it on my Bernina 440 using a quilt as you go method. Firstly I put the 25 centre blocks together and added the flying geese border then quilted that square. Then I joined the outer rows of blocks and quilted each one then added them to the centre square, then I added the striped border and then quilted it. The finished quilt measures 85" x85". This has been an amazing journey, which I have throughly enjoyed, and am sad that it is over but am also relieved to have it finished so I can get a start on my ever growing UFO's
Union Light Cavalry saber made by Ames Mfg Co. in 1864.
Metal saber with leather handle and metal grip guard; blade is slightly arched.
This sword, called a "Chicopee Sabre", was in use by US Army from the Mexican War thru the Spanish American War. It was replaced in 1912 by a straight sabre, copied from the British Army.
Donated by Col. Thomas F. Lancer
L: 40 3/4" W: 4 3/8" D: 3 7/8"
ACC# 97.39
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(Photo credit - Bob Gundersen www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
Foto Pròpia. 8es. Jornades de Protecció Civil a Sant Fost de Campsentelles.
Foto Propia. 8as. Jornadas de Protección Civil en Sant Fost de Campsentelles.
Civil Air Patrol aircraft sit on the ramp in the early morning hours while flight crews prepare to take part in the first annual Texas Wing Flight Competition in San Marcos, Texas.
Photo taken on February 27t, 2016 by Maj. Matthew Congrove.
This digitally composed image is a haunting, dystopian reinterpretation of Eddie Adams’ iconic 1968 Vietnam War photograph, "Saigon Execution." In the original, South Vietnamese General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executes a Viet Cong suspect on a Saigon street during the Tet Offensive, an image that shocked the world and shifted public perception of the war.
In my adaptation, the gunman is replaced by President Donald Trump, and the victim by a distressed, bound figure styled as the Statue of Liberty. Set against the backdrop of a ruined American city, the imagery draws a chilling parallel between historical authoritarian violence and contemporary threats to democracy, freedom of speech, and civil liberties.
This Civil War Era Cannon sits near the entrance to the Liendo Plantation House near Hempstead, Texas. The cannons memorialize the role that the plantation played in the in Texas' Civil War history. With the out break of the Civil War and the decision of Texas to join the Confederacy Mr.Leonard Groce, the plantation's owner, allowed some of his land to be used by the Army of the Confederacy. Camp Groce was established at Liendo, where cavalry, artillery, and infantry were recruited and trained in the early war years.
The Camp was converted to a prisoner of war camp in June of 1863 to house Union troops captured at the battle in the battles of Galveston (January 1,1863) and Sabine Pass (January 21,1863) and moved there from the State Prison in Huntsville. After the second battle of Sabine Pass (September 8,1863), the prisoner population swelled to more than 400 officers, soldiers, and sailors. At first most prisoners lived in an open clearing, but in October 1863 a stockade was built to enclose them.
In November 1863 Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith issued an order that all Union enlisted men held prisoner in Texas be sent to Shreveport, Louisiana, for exchange. Accordingly, most of the prisoners at Camp Groce left for Camp Ford at Tyler, and the stockade was virtually empty for five months. The prison’s population increased again in May 1864, when about 150 Union officers, soldiers, and sailors arrived as captives from the battle of Calcasieu Pass in southwest Louisiana. In August 1864 about 500 additional Union prisoners were transferred from Camp Ford to Camp Groce, the largest number to arrive at one time during the camp’s existence.
In September 1864 a serious yellow fever epidemic broke out near the stockade, and the entire prison population was evacuated into the surrounding area. For approximately a month, many of the prisoners were held at Camp Felder, which was located about seven miles north of Chappell Hill, Texas, in Washington County. At Camp Felder the prisoners were kept out in the open in a valley between two hills in unusually wet weather and suffered far greater hardship than had been the rule at Camp Groce. At the end of October the prisoners were returned to Camp Groce where they remained until December 1864 when they were evacuated by rail to Galveston and released to the Union fleet. By war’s end Camp Groce held approximately 1,100 Union soldiers and sailors as prisoners of war. For a short time it served as a Confederate Army separation center at the end of the war.
The last Chapter in Liendo’s Civil war history came after the war ended when Camp Groce and The Liendo Plantation was home to Union Troops. From September 1 to December 1, 1865, the plantation was the camping place of Gen. George A. Custer and his command. At the end of the war Custer was assigned to duty in Texas as part of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's effort to prevent Confederate retrenchment in Mexico under the emperor Maximilian. During an uneventful five-month stay in Hempstead Custer alienated many in his command by strict enforcement of regulations prohibiting foraging, lawlessness, and destruction of private property; by the same enforcement he won the gratitude of many Texans, who found him a generous and courtly soldier. One of the beneficiaries of Custer’s policies was The Liendo Plantation. It is said that both Mr. Custer and his wife were so impressed with the plantation and the gracious hospitality shown to them during their stay, that they made sure Liendo was not harmed in way in appreciation.
The Civil War History is told each year during The Civil War Weekend help in November at the Plantation.
Civil War amputee with artificial foot probably designed by Dr. E. D. Hudson of New York City. Photo by S. Friedlaender, 388 Bowery, NY
Foto pròpia.
Eurocopter EC-135 del Servei Aeri de la Guardia Civil, a l'espigó de la platja de la Nova Icària.
Eurocopter EC-135 del Servicio Aéreo de la Guardia Civil, en el espigón de la playa de la Nova Icaria.