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Brunelleschi's Dome
A masterpiece capable of resisting lightning, earthquakes, and the passing of the centuries, which today enchants anyone who observes it from afar, the dome has a diameter of 45.5 meters, the same as the entire Baptistery.
In 1418 the Opera of Santa Maria del Fiore announces the competition that Brunelleschi wins, but starts to build only after two years. The works lasted until 1434.
On 25 March 1436 the Florentine Cathedral was consecrated by Pope Eugene IV
Njord Viking
High Ice-classed AHTS vessel capable of operations in harsh environment offshore regions, as well as Arctic/Sub-Arctic operations.
General Information.
Length o.a.: 85,20 metres
Length b.p.: 76,20 metres
Beam, moulded: 22,00 metres
Depth to main deck: 9,00 metres
Draft, design: 6,00 metres
Deadweight at 7,60 m: 4.500 tons
Accommodation: 45 persons
Speed: 17 knots
Bollard pull: 210 tons
Endurance: 9.000 miles
Propulsion
Main engines: MAK 2x6M32 + 2x8M32
Output: 14.000 kW at 600 rpm
Main Propellers: 2 x CPP
Forward retractile thruster: 1 x 830 kW
Forward tunnel thruster: 2 x 830 kW
Aft tunnel thrusters: 2 x 830 kW
TANK CAPACITIES
Fuel oil: 1.000 m3
Fresh water: 1.247 m3
Ballast: 2.013 m3
Oil Recovery: 1.989 m3
Rig chain locker: 665 m3
Liquid mud: 965 m3
Brine: 628 m3
Special products: 187 m3
Dry bulk: 220 m3
Main Anchor/Towing winch: 400 Tons at 18,7 m/min
Brake holding: 525 Tons 1st layer
Secondary Winch: 138 Tons at 28 m/min
Brake holding: 62 Tons 1st layer
2 Deck Cranes (sliding): 6/12 Tons at 20/10 mts
2 Tugger winch: 24 Tons at 22 m/min
2 Towing pins: 300 Tons
2 Karm Forks: 600 Tons
2 Capstans: 14 Tons at 24 m/min
AUXILIARY GENERATING SETS
Diesel generating sets: 2 x 720 ekW. 440 V. 60 Hz
Shaft generators: 2 x 2.700 ekW. 440 V. 60 Hz
Emergency generator set: 1 x 400 ekW. 440 V. 60 Hzp
Camera: Nikon F100
Len: Nikon Nikkor Ai AF 50mm f/1.4D
Film: Fujifilm NEOPAN SS100 BW (Expired) @iso 200
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秋のドラマ - Autumn Drama
Tokyo
Japan
2022/11/13
Drifting through the dramatic autumnal colours of Kichijōji with talented actress and model Sayaka.
Also this was my first time using the Fotodiox Pro TLT ROKR Tilt/Shift adaptor to shoot portraits on my Sony with an old M645 Mamimya Sekor 80mm f1.9 lens. Focusing is a challenge but it's capable of some wonderfully unique and mesmerising images.
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Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft BR 58-311.
I've prepared a DRG black edition of the G12 renamed to Baureihe 58 for Bricks-On-Rails.de. This one is powered by a LEGO Power Functions L motor and a LEGO IR receiver plus battery box. It's also possible to use the Powered Up System.
The valve gear is slightly less complicated and instead of antennas I've used rigid hose for the boiler railing.
Let me know which colour you prefer: flickr.com/photos/185432629@N06/51522609021/in/album-7215...
Instructions for sale at: en.bricks-on-rails.de/lokomotiven
About the Locomotive:
The G12 (later Baureihe 58) was developed during the Great War. From a servicing and maintenance point of view, it was a great disadvantage for each German state railway to have its own locomotive classes with no standardization. Even spare parts for locos of the same class often did not fit their sister locos. This fuelled the desire for a standardized, fast and powerfull goods locomotive.
The result was the G12, a 1’E 2-10-0 goods train locomotive. Between 1917 and 1924 approximately 1490 copies were build. With 1.520 HP and a top speed of 65 km/h the G12 was capable of pulling big goods trains.
Gardner 6LW naturally aspirated 8.370-litre diesel inline-6, 102-hp
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Military Vehicles Day, Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey, England
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PB190024 Anx2 Q90 1400h f25
Budapest, Jewish Quarter
Erzsébetváros
Budapest is a living history, and few streets are capable of taking you back in time like Király utca, which divides District VI and District VII.
Before World War II, Király utca (King Street) was one of Pest’s grand boulevards and central shopping streets. Jewish and gentile shop owners sold haberdashery, cut hair, sold jewelry and foodstuffs. There was actually a trolley that ran up and down the cobblestone street, ferrying shoppers from one end to the other.
Strolling down Király these days, you will come across many unique small shops and unique spaces, including used book stores, pubs, and design stores. At Király 19, if the gate happens to be open, go to the back of the builiding, through the passageway, and you will find the last remaining portion of the ghetto wall that kept many of Budapest’s Jewish population contained during the Nazi occupation.
Despite the Nazis’ retreat, the dangers in the ghetto persisted, and this was a very dangerous street to be found on. Jews were hunted day and night by the blood-thirsty, virulently anti-Semitic Arrow Cross party, a Hungarian militia who took it upon themselves to finish the job the Nazis started. They killed an estimated 25,000 Jews in the brief period from 1944-1945, during and after the Nazi occupation.
Scanning the buildings, you can spot pock marks in the facades. These are bullet holes are from building-to-building urban warfare, most likely during the Siege of Budapest in WWII, when the city was taken from the Germans block by block. Though the street is not named for him, Imre Kertész was one of the Jews from Budapest who was rounded up and deported, sent to Auschwitz first, then eventually imprisoned in Buchenwald. His novel Fatelessness was a fictionalized version of that upheaval, and would contribute to his winning of the Nobel Prize in literature, Hungary’s first.
Much of the history of ‘King Street’ is tragic. But the street itself is still alive with activity and commerce – and is visually captivating as always.
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I have finally managed to grab some decent shots of an experimental electric-drive battery powered carbon fibre bus that lives local to me.
RX15HSU is a 'Bristol Superlight' built by the Frazer-Nash Research company based in Farnborough, Hants. The bus was first registered on 28/08/2015 and I've been after a decent shot of it ever since!
Their concept bus is kitted out to B27D layout and weighs in at just 3.5 tonnes, its revenue weight listed as 4840kg. It carries a 1.0L engine which is used to recharge the lithium batteries and as such the bus is marketed as ultra low emission / zero emission capable.
I grabbed some shots of the bus when it was out on a demonstration run on 02/03/2017.
A collection of cracking photos of this bus in St.Moritz is here: www.fotoswiss.com/-/galleries/reports-reportagen/ebus-by-...
A 6-minute video of the bus in St.Moritz is here: www.enjoystmoritz.ch/index.php/2016/03/23/frazer-nash-bri...
1365 mm
Canon Powershot SX70 HS
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Yes, Zoomer (bridge-cameras) need ample Light.
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Excellent IBIS - 5.0 stops
Super Bildstabilisierung (5 Stufen besser für die verwacklungsfreie Belichtung)
Enhanced basic functionality for quicker, easier Shooting
with Dual Sensing IS* aka DS.
Intelligent IS mit Dual Sensing IS und 5-achsigem Advanced Dynamic IS
up to five stops better
(SX70 5.0 stops)
(SX60 3.5 stops)
IBIS, In Body image stabilizer,
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With the addition of a new eye sensor,
the camera automatically switches to the EVF display simply by bringing the camera up to the eye.
The PowerShot SX70 HS is capable of continuous shooting at up to
10 fps with One Shot AF
and Servo AF up to 7,4 fps,
ensuring that you will not miss picture-perfect moments in sports, wildlife, or any other scenes with fast-moving subjects.
With improved Contrast AF, focus is established quickly even in dark scenes.
Zoom Framing Assist: Supports setting of angle-of-view during telephoto shooting
On the PowerShot SX70 HS, telephoto shooting is supported by three Zoom Framing Assist functions:
Zoom Framing Assist – Lock
Reduces camera shake at the telephoto end. On the PowerShot SX70 HS, this function has been enhanced with Support for subject tracking, allowing you to shoot at the intended angle-of-view.
Zoom Framing Assist – Seek
Helps you to reacquire lost subjects by temporary zooming out, finding the subject, and then zooming in onto it at the original angle-of-view.
Zoom Framing Assist – Auto
Detects an approaching face and automatically adjusts the zoom to keep the face at a constant size on the screen.
Hersteller:
Canon
Modell:
PowerShot SX70 HS
Die neue Premium-Bridge-Kamera von Canon
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Kameratyp:
Bridge
Markteinführung:
11 / 2018
Gewicht:
608g (betriebsbereit)
UVP:
549,00 Euro
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Serienbilder pro Sekunde:
10,0 Bilder pro Sekunde
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Sucher:
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Suchertyp:
elektronisch
Sucherauflösung:
2.360.000 Bildpunkte
Bildfeldabdeckung:
100%
Dioptrienausgleich möglich:
Ja
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ISO Empfindlichkeit:
100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200
Auto ISO: 100 - 800
Featuring DSLR-style looks and handling, a 7.5 Vari-Angle LCD screen, 20.3 Megapixel sensor and 4K Ultra High Definition video, the
Canon PowerShot SX70 HS is an ideal all-in-one camera,
capable of handling all types of shooting scenario, without the need to carry multiple lenses.
Bessere haptische Bedienung: wie DSLR EOS Bedienung
Am leistungsfähigen Sucher orientiert +
Zoom-Wippe auf dem Objektiv
The PowerShot SX70 HS inherits the
design of EOS cameras and features a button layout optimised for EVF shooting.
Controls such as the shutter button, electronic dials and zoom button on the lens barrel have also been designed to ensure optimum ease-of-use during viewfinder shooting.
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In addition to sharp JPEGs, the Canon PowerShot SX70 HS can capture images in
RAW or compact RAW format,
opening a world of professional post-production techniques, providing limitless ways to impress with optimised photographs.
CMOS-Sensor 1/2,3" 6,2 x 4,6 mm (Cropfaktor 5,6)
Cinzia Scaffidi, Vice President of Slow Food Italy, indicates biodiversity as a value capable of becoming art, which Koen Vanmechelen – conceptual artist who in his works has always being dealing with the themes of diversity and bio- and cultural identity – has developed in the Life Bank Project.
In the setting that once hosted the Bank of Venice, in Palazzo Franchetti, today the seat of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, the artist Koen Vanmechelen positioned, as opening gate of an evocative gothic garden, two big black bronze hands, one male and one female, symbolic guardians of two extremely delicate sculptures made of Murano glass, representing a little chick and a heap of scattered seeds. Between the antique wooden furniture, a new bank has taken on a life of its own, substituting currency with the real patrimony of our civilization: the seed!
Over 500 seeds establishing the “Bank of Life” – ancient seeds that have been lost, forgotten, collected and conserved by “resilient” farmers and specialized research centers – have been selected for the project to represent the genetic heritage of our culture and our millenary history.
The selection was curated by Piergiorgio Defilippi, founder of the bio-social Farm “Il Rosmarino”, Marcon (Venice), starting from a cereal that is the symbol of the evolution of our civilization: the Einkorn Wheat, whose history dates back to the Neolithic and traces the transition from the nomadic hunting to the stancial and rural settlement. The seeds catalogue followed the development of the typically mediterranean diet, with the choice of varieties, even for the most common ones, that have not been artificially hybridized but which represent the natural path of evolution. For this precise reason, with respect of the spirit of Slow Food “Terra Madre”, the locating of the seeds has been exclusively conducted through the direct contact with farmers, associations of safeguard and research centres spread all over the world.
The interaction with the public and the multi-sensoriality express themselves through a symbolic seeding which tracks back to the thought of the Japanese botanist and philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) pioneer of the natural or “Do Nothing” agriculture and author of the now legendary essay “The One-Straw Revolution”.
04/09/1992 An afternoon MOD trip from Ludgershall to Didcot trundles through the station in the capable hands of 37045
Masai Mara National Reserve
Kenya
East Africa
The Masai giraffe, also spelled Maasai giraffe, or the Kilimanjaro giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi), is the largest subspecies of giraffe and the tallest land mammal. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania.
The Masai giraffe has jagged spots on its body. It also has a short tassel of hair on its tail. The bony outgrowths of the male's skull superficially provide the appearance of up to five ossicones. The dominant male's spots tend to be darker in colour than those of other members of its herd.
Adult males usually reach around 5.5 m in height—although they have been recorded at reaching heights of up to 6 m—and females tend to be a bit shorter at around 5–5.5 m (16–18 ft) tall. Their legs and necks are both about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long, and their heart has a mass of roughly 12 kg (26 lb).
No breeding season is noted for the Masai giraffe. Females typically can breed from the age of 4. They give birth standing up. Giraffes give birth after 2–6 hours of labor. About 50–75% of the calves die in their first few months due to predation. Though many calves die, the mothers stab predators such as hyenas or lions with their sharp hooves. This can critically injure or kill a predator quickly; the Masai giraffe's kick is strong and is capable of crushing a lion's skull or shattering its spine. - Wikipedia
Asian Palm-swift (Cypsiurus balasiensis) in Kattur, Near Chennai
If there is ever an impressive family of birds, Swifts it is! Extremely fast flying and super difficult to take a pic of.
They are of the family named Apodidae, an ancient group that probably separated from all other birds in the Tertiary period (65 million years ago) or even the Cretaceous (70 mya). For perspective, Archaeopteryx (a genus of bird-like dinosaurs that is transitional between non-avian feathered dinosaurs and modern birds) was 150 mya, and Tyrannosaurus died out about the same time as the Apodidae separated! All birds have fleas and feather lice or similar parasites. However the parasites in swifts are so different to those of other species that it supports the fact that they separated from other bird species a very long time ago. Their parasites have evolved with them.(Source:RSPB)
Swifts are the fastest birds in level flight, reaching speeds of up to 110 km/h (recorded.Believed to be capable of much more). Arguably the most aerial of birds, they spend their life almost entirely on the wing. These spend up to NINE MONTHS aloft outside the breeding season. The swift performs most activities on the wing, including feeding, preening, drinking, sleeping and mating (not always - sometimes observed mating in the nests). It lands only to roost.
The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is an all-weather, twin-engine, supersonic, carrier-capable, multirole combat aircraft, designed as both a fighter and attack aircraft (hence the F/A designation). Designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing) and Northrop (now part of Northrop Grumman), the F/A-18 was derived from the latter's YF-17 in the 1970s for use by the United States Navy and Marine Corps. The Hornet is also used by the air forces of several other nations, and formerly by the U.S. Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels.
The F/A-18 was designed to be a highly versatile aircraft due to its avionics, cockpit displays, and excellent aerodynamic characteristics, with the ability to carry a wide variety of weapons. The aircraft can perform fighter escort, fleet air defense, suppression of enemy air defenses, air interdiction, close air support, and aerial reconnaissance. Its versatility and reliability have proven it to be a valuable carrier asset, though it has been criticised for its lack of range and payload compared to its earlier contemporaries, such as the Grumman F-14 Tomcat in the fighter and strike fighter role, and the Grumman A-6 Intruder and LTV A-7 Corsair II in the attack role.
The Hornet first saw combat action during the 1986 United States bombing of Libya and subsequently participated in the 1991 Gulf War and 2003 Iraq War. The F/A-18 Hornet served as the baseline for the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, its larger, evolutionary redesign.
Like a snake sheds its skin, we are capable of getting rid of assembled habits, creating space to call matters into question. Instead of the Shakespearian " To be or not to be " we could favor " to become or not to become". By "becoming", we challenge the range of possibilities in our life and go beyond the merely "being". We can retreat, then, from the imprisonment of a deadly routine, acquire an identity and develop our personality." - Erik Pevernagie
Something super quick and with many obstacles to create! It was fun to go back to a place I love and create something fresh and new. Greatly inspired by my deep, deep DEEP slytherin self (natural hufflepuff! I have been called Draco in the past because of my hair so it seems fitting! <3
#7dayswithholly- Day 4: 'Green.'
Giant Hogweed is an invasive non-native plant species that grows abundantly along river corridors, steams and beyond. The species can reach a substantial height within in a single growing season, with individuals found on average to be two to five metres in height.
Seeds germinate from March onwards, with the plant quickly establishing a taproot. It takes three to four years to reach maturity, and in the final year produces the main stem and a large flower head. A typical flower head is capable of producing 20 000 seeds, however up to 50 000 have been recorded for a single plant. Giant Hogweed can be found flowering from June to August, with seeds being released from late August each year.
Enord is capable of incredible speed in the air, due his Far more bigger Energy source, than he does needs.
Enord has a Hearthstone as Power source, that was belonged to an Unkown Toa, who did offered his Body to science before his Death.
Because this Enord is Overflowing with Energy!
He truly enjoys even the smallest flights, because then he can be over everyone who he wants! :D
The Hoopoe is a medium sized bird, 25–32 cm (9.8-12.6 in) long, with a 44–48 cm (17.3-19 in) wingspan weighing 46-89 g (1.6-3.1 oz). The species is highly distinctive, with a long, thin tapering bill that is black with a fawn base. The strengthened musculature of the head allows the bill to be opened when probing inside the soil. The hoopoe has broad and rounded wings capable of strong flight; these are larger in the northern migratory subspecies. The Hoopoe has a characteristic undulating flight, which is like that of a giant butterfly, caused by the wings half closing at the end of each beat or short sequence of beats.[6]
The song is a trisyllabic "oop-oop-oop", which gives rise to its English and scientific names.
[edit] Behaviour
In what was long thought to be a defensive posture, Hoopoes sunbathe by spreading out their wings and tail low against the ground and tilting their head up; they often fold their wings and preen halfway through.[13] The Hoopoe also enjoys taking dust and sand baths.[14]
[edit] Diet and feeding
The diet of the Hoopoe is mostly composed of insects, although small reptiles as well as some plant matter such as seeds and berries are sometimes taken as well. It is a solitary forager which typically feeds on the ground. More rarely they will feed in the air, in pursuit of numerous swarming insects, where their strong and rounded wings make them fast and manoeuvrable. More commonly their foraging style is to stride on relatively open ground and periodically pause to probe the ground with the full length of their bill. Insect larvae, pupae and mole crickets are detected by the bill and either extracted or dug out with the strong feet. In addition to feeding in soil Hoopoes will feed on insects on the surface, as well as probing into piles of leaves and even using the bill to lever large stones and flake off bark. Common diet items include crickets, locusts, beetles, earwigs, cicadas, ant lions, bugs and ants. These can range from 10 to 150 mm in length, with the preferred size of prey being around 20-30 mm. Larger prey items are beaten against the ground or a preferred stone in order to kill them and remove indigestible body parts such as wings and legs.[6]
[edit] Breeding
The Hoopoe is monogamous, although the pair bond apparently only lasts for a single season. They are also territorial, with the male calling frequently to advertise his ownership of the territory. Chases and fights between rival males (and sometimes females) are common and can be brutal.[6] Birds will try to stab rivals with their bills, and individuals are occasionally blinded in fights.[15] The nest is in a hole in a tree or wall, with a narrow entrance;[14] it may be unlined or various scraps may be collected.[11] The female alone is responsible for incubating the eggs. Clutch size varies with location, with northern hemisphere birds laying more eggs than those in the southern hemisphere and birds in higher latitudes having larger clutches than those closer to the equator. In central and northern Europe and Asia the clutch size is around 12, whereas it is between four in the tropics and seven in the subtropics. The eggs are round and milky blue on laying but quickly discolour in the increasingly dirty nest.[6] They weigh 4.5 grams.[13] A replacement clutch is possible.[11]
The Hoopes have well developed anti-predators defences in the nest. The uropygial gland of the incubating and brooding female is quickly modified to produce a foul-smelling liquid, and the glands of nestlings do so was well. These secretions are rubbed into the plumage. The secretion, which smells like rotting meat, is thought to help deter predators, as well as deter parasites and possibly act as an antibacterial agent.[16] The secretions stop soon before the young leave the nest.[13] In addition to this secretion nestlings are able to direct streams of faeces at nest intruders from the age of six days, and will also hiss at intruders in a snake like fashion.[6] The young also strike with their bill or with one wing.[13]
The incubation period for the species is between 15 and 18 days. During incubation the female is fed by the male. The incubation period begins as soon as the first egg is laid, so the chicks are born asynchronously. The chicks hatch with a covering of downy feathers, by around day days feather quills emerge which become adult feathers. The chicks are brooded by the female for between 9 to 14 days.[6] The female later joins the male in the task of bringing food.[14] The young leave the nest after approximately three and a half weeks; the parent still leads them for a week.[11]
At sea of Great Yarmouth, Atlantis Dweller is capable of carrying out ROV inspection, survey, light construction and air diving projects. On board the vessel, one FCV3000 work class ROV is permanently installed in the ROV hangers. A second WROV or Seaeye Lynx inspection ROV optional.
Name: Atlantis Dweller
Vessel type: Multi purpose vessel (MPV)
Home port: Nassau
Flag: Bahamas
IMO: 9429742
MMSI: 311000810
Call sign: C6DX6
Max persons onboard: 70
Cabins: 16 x single, 27 x double
Length overall: 69.2 m
Beam: 16.2 m
Draught: 4.74 m
Gross tonnage: 3,346 ton
Net tonnage: 1,004 ton
Max deadweight: 1,750 ton
Fuel capacity: 622.8 m3
Propulsion: Diesel-electric
Engines: 4 x Caterpillar 3512B
Engine output: 4 x 1,909 hp (1,424 kW)
Speed: 11 knots
Builder: Westcon Contractors A/S, Ølen, Norway
Yard number: 32
Year built: 2009
Owner: Fugro Subsea A/S, Haugesund, Norway
Operator: Fugro Subsea Services Ltd, Aberdeen
Airframe: former Royal Navy (RN) Fleet Air Arm (FAA) Hawker Nimrod I carrier-capable single-seat biplane fighter, 1931
P4190952 - Copy Aov3 EV=-1 Anx2 Q90 1600h
A Royal Australian Air Force AP3-C Orion taxiing at RAAF Williamtown Base during joint Operation Diamond Shield.
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
From the RAAF Website;
- "The AP-3C Orion is an extremely versatile aircraft capable of land and maritime surveillance, anti-submarine and anti-ship warfare, naval fleet support, and search and rescue operations.
The Orion aircraft first entered military service in 1968 as the P-3B model, with the P-3C variant first introduced in 1978. Following several modification projects the significantly upgraded AP-3C Orion (current) were introduced into service in 2002. The AP-3C is a significantly enhanced capability from the first P-3B model; now fitted with a variety of sensors, including digital multi-mode radar, electronic support measures, electro-optics detectors (infra-red and visual), magnetic anomaly detectors, friend or foe identification systems and acoustic detectors. Based at RAAF Base Edinburgh, in 2012 the AP-3C Orion ceased 10 years of operational service in the Middle East, completing 2,400 missions with more than 3,500 personnel deployed throughout the period.
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Adora-tions - Alien Babe Thigh Tattoo
This will be available as a new, discounted release at our mainstore for Adora-tions Weekly Sale starting 9/8/23.
Placement → Thigh
↓Included↓
♥100%, 75% and 50% intensity/opacity options
♥Tintable option
♥Ad
♡Alien Babe is compatible with all BOM capable bodies
Adora-tions Mainstore ☆ Adora-tions Marketplace ☆ Adora-tions Flickr
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wraith - Bionic Arm
This will be available as a new release at Cyber Fair starting 9/6/23. Taxi to Cyber Fair!
⭐56 Arm Texture Options
⭐7 Elbow & Wrist options
⭐6 faces for graphic stamps + 7 included graphics!
⭐Includes link to devkit to create your own graphics!
⭐Includes neon & tint options for graphics!
UNISEX *
Rigged for :
⭐ Reborn
⭐ Legacy Female
⭐ Maitreya
⭐ Anatomy
⭐ Legacy Male
⭐ Jake
Wraith Mainstore ☆ Wraith Marketplace ☆ Wraith Flickr
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Head: lel EvoX Avalon
Body: [LEGACY] Meshbody
Face Skin: { Pity Party } Bloom Lel Evo X { Rose kiss } No Brows // metaHumano - ANGEL - MOLES FULL FACE
Body Skin: Picasso Babe Skin for Legacy (MODELESQUE/ROSE KISS) // Picasso Babe x Moles
Ears: lel EvoX Avalon Elf Ears // { Pity Party } HD Ears Lelutka Evo X { RoseKiss }
Eyes: AG. Prism Eyes - Pack 2
Lashes: lel EvoX Avalon
Brows: lel EvoX Avalon HD Brows
Eyeshadow: identity faces - lelutka 90s babe 3
Blush: Ladybird. // Dorothy Blush - Full (EvoX)
Lipstick: [TEAR] Tsune Gloss - Lel Evo/EvoX - CUTE
Face Tattoos: HERA - E-GIRL Marks VOL 2 - Hearts Black Lelutka EVO X
Face Piercings: . Nar Mattaru . Ultimate Piercing Set {Lel Avalon}
Body Tattoos: Adora-tions - Alien Babe Thigh Tattoo
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Hair: DOUX - Pixie Hairstyle // FOXCITY. Party Strands
Glasses: It's NOT Mine! Glasses
Top: .STOIC. SCION TOP
Panties: .STOIC. SCION PANTY
Bottoms: .STOIC. SCION SKIRT
Shoes: : CULT : Vega
Earrings: e.marie // Amalia Earrings - Silvers
Additional Items: - wraith - Bionic Arm -
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Background: TROPIX // Sci-fi Tunnel 01 - Open door
Decor: FOXCITY. Bang Bang-7 Prop - Cyber Gun
Pose: FOXCITY. Bang Bang-7
The Mayahuel Gunship, also nicknamed 'Sky Dominator' is a tactical and weapons-packed helicopter capable of traveling long distances due to it's tiltrotor system. Inspired by the V22 Osprey and the Apache helicopter, this hybrid was developed to support and coordinate the Tequilatron war effort from above. Its name is derived from the Aztec female goddess of booze. Nuff said.
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Fulfilling category 8 in Decisive Action 2 over on Mocpages.
If you like this, please consider 5 smiles on Mocpages. Your support contributes directly to this unit's efficiency on the battlefield!
Tequila. Have you hugged your toilet today?
Oceanic is a premier oceanfront restaurant in Pompano Beach, offering stunning waterfront dining experiences with lunch, dinner, happy hour, and weekend brunch options. Perfect for any occasion, it also features private event spaces.
The Oceanic restaurant in Pompano Beach is an "architectural marvel". While specific individual architects aren't typically named in public sources for such projects, the architectural vision behind Oceanic was conceived by Lou and Joy Moshakos, the owners of LM Restaurants, and their daughter Amber.
The design of the 20,000 square foot restaurant (with over 9,000 square feet of open-air space) took five years to finalize and involved three different architects and design teams. The final design, inspired by the hull of a grand ocean liner, aims to evoke a sense of "awe and wonder" similar to that of a transatlantic voyage, according to Amber Moshakos.
The design features include:
Exterior: An all-white exterior reminiscent of Greek architecture.
Interior: Arched wooden beams in the ceiling, expansive floor-to-ceiling glass doors, and a color scheme of blues and greens.
Unique Elements: A grand, circular dining room with a 25-foot-high ceiling, skylights, and dangling colored glass pieces that resemble fish swimming underwater. The design also incorporates frayed boat ropes and modern art made of ocean driftwood.
The restaurant also features an artistic mobile of 200 fish swimming across a 25-foot ceiling.
Views: All seating areas, whether indoors or on the patio decks, offer spectacular views of the ocean and the adjacent Pompano Beach Fishing Pier.
Event Space: The second floor is dedicated to private events, with its own kitchen, bar, and open-air, floor-to-ceiling glass sliding doors, capable of hosting up to 400 guests.
Bar Area: A 5,000 square foot indoor-outdoor bar with a progressive tap wine system that is eco-friendly and ensures wine quality and temperature control.
The architectural and design choices for Oceanic at Pompano Beach were intentional to create a "landmark destination" that honors the ocean and provides guests with a unique dining experience.
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The final form of my completed weapon for my buildoff against Jake.
The Oracle is some sort of huge rail gun mean to be used by super soldiers of the WH40K ilk.
Capable of hitting a ground target from an orbital shipyard dock.
Please, be kind, click all sizes.
(actually, the truth really is that this is a spoon. Yep. Real Eyes Realize Real Lies)
This one goes out to anyone who ever thought that 0.6 had limited potential.
Suck on this.
The Oracle was built on the concept of the Apple. That if one could look at a roughly spherical object, like an apple, and somehow bend your vision around the object, you would come back around and see yourself on the other side, but at a later moment in time.
The Oracle's magnetic field doesn't only propel the projectiles it fires, but also warps the path "seen" by the scope.
The result is this, that when one looks through the scope of the Oracle, they do not see whatever is straight ahead of them, but rather they see the exact place the bullet will hit... at the exact moment the bullet would hit. This means the targets can be engaged at distances that may take minutes, hours even for the extremely powerful round to hit, and yet be aimed accurately with pinpoint precision. In essence, the operator is not aiming in the now, but rather is looking into the future and taking out targets there. This is useful in that while the target will not die the instant the trigger is pulled, to the user it will appear so because they see things at the moment the bullet arrives.
However, this loses its use in the case of reconnaissance simply because of the confusion and disorientation of viewing the future.
It was recorded that when Imperial Champion Marcus Leon recognized the betrayal of Commander Thennon against the Imperium, he overrode the safety mechanisms of the Oracle and, chambering a special anti-cruiser round which was far denser then normal rounds, he charged the generator to a critical level and then fired. The gun exploded killing the great champion and sending the round flying at a speed which would carry it many revolutions around the planet. Nothing more was known until twelve years later, when a now victorious Thennon stepped forward to take the crown from the now slain Emperor's head he was suddenly hit between the eyes by a low velocity projectile which tore his head clean off his shoulders, later identified to be an antiquated anti-cruiser round.
This little girl is capable of murder, cause you hurt her
Cady Groves - This Little Girl
Credits
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_CandyDoll_Deandra Skirt & Top
Violent Seduction - Rose Jail Heels
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Sway's [Tied up] Knife
[Fetch] Bow Cuffs
Kibitz - Rosie rings
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Doe: Mango
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House of Avro - Body under blood stained rug
Sway's [Tied up] Chair
PILOT and JIM - Key to my Nope Wall Art
uK - Autumn Vanity Table w/Mirror
floorplan. pallet wall
DRD chesterfield couch
At the Cedar Creek Grist Mill Woodland WA. Oct-8-2014. Had to get out and see the fall colors. I have not posted a landscape in a long time. hope some of you will enjoy it.
The iPhone is now capable of shooting RAW using iOS 10 and Adobe Lightroom mobile.
The results are astounding. This is an edited RAW file from the iPhone and you can see the detail that can be brought out of the highlights.
Watch the tutorial on my YouTube channel - www.firstmanphotography.com/tutorials/shoot-raw-files-on-...
The washing machine had conked out so Lisa, being the capable gal she is, took it apart and fixed it! :)
"Humans, may I aid your struggle by making you capable of knowledge?"
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I dunno, very random. I got a good use out of the ODG BM combat rig and an old insectoids head. Had to post the combos :P
So guys, serious talk here ;)
I'm going to college soon, which will significantly slow my posting and activity. That said... most of the projects I've been working on all summer won't be finished or be posted anytime soon... or so I predict. I'll have minimal time to work on a lot of my custom creations/painting, so that stuff isn't gonna get finished right away. I will work on it when I can though, so cheer up! ;)
So yeah. Good stuff. I love lego. I will miss it alot when I'm busy and won't have as much time for it this year :'(
S'all good though. I might take my photo setup and parts with me, so you never know ;)
--Jesse
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About
It was a nice morning, and I had it all to myself, well there was a fisherman over to my left....
Enjoy.
- Canon 50D.
- ISO 400, f9, 1/250, 50mm
- Canon 24-70 f/2.8 L Lens.
- Tripod.
Processing
- Off camera.
- WB adjustments.
About Waves
A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space and time, usually with transference of energy. A mechanical wave is a wave that propagates or travels through a medium due to the restoring forces it produces upon deformation. There also exist waves capable of traveling through a vacuum, including electromagnetic radiation and probably gravitational radiation. Waves travel and transfer energy from one point to another, often with no permanent displacement of the particles of the medium (that is, with little or no associated mass transport); they consist instead of oscillations or vibrations around almost fixed locations.
OK.
Well I'll be damned, this is too good
Designed in the beginning of 1930s, the Fatih is a simple but impressive rifle, capable of consistent accurate shots. Originally designed for civilian usage, it was meant to use the newly-developed Ka.28 Semi-Rimless, Spitzer, a variant of the 7.62x54mmR, and feeding from 10-rounder detachable magazines. In a lightning speed it replaced the Attila rifle, which ''wasn't fit for modern combat''. It was a simple construction, and much more compact when compared to the Mosin Nagant, it was perhaps one of the best bolt-action infantry rifles ever made.
To operate the bolt, one must rotate the bolt by 45-degrees to the left and then pull it back. Most infantry rifles needed a 90-degree rotation, so this was a plus. It was surprisingly light, and surprisingly comfortable. As said by an Altayi general, ''It's hard to find a negative thing about this thing - It can do anything you want with total brilliance.'' Thanks to the recoil springs on the stock, the recoil wasn't harsh in the slightest. This rifle would be used in the hands on many for more than 15 years, and still is used mostly by civilian shooters.
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It was fun for me to build this. Hope you like it!
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With bayonet: puu.sh/7oTpR.png
With scope: puu.sh/7oTxt.png
The forest that lies at the edge of the South Eastern border of Tarakia is unlike any other terrain in the entire county, it's soft, well watered, and more than capable of engulfing any vehicle well past the half way line in certain areas. The vast expanse of the Tarakian desert is capable of supporting heavy armour, and the mountainous regions that guard the North and South are solid enough to support any amount of weight, meaning that these areas can be filled with large formations of armour from many different classes. The forest region doesn't have the capability to support anything larger than a medium tank in most areas, and this has been a blessing, because it means that the enemy can't use heavy armour either. Given the very few realistic avenues of attack against Tarakia, an enemy would be forced to take one of four choices, and for some time now, many have seen the forest region as the weakest of the four, due to the inability to field heavy armour. The forest borders Tarakia, and on the other side, two other nations, who both field very few heavy tanks, instead preferring medium tanks, but any unified force intent on attacking Tarakia would have to go through one, or both of these two nations, meaning that just because the adjacent nations don't have many heavy tanks, heavy tanks passing through the forest isn't entirely impossible.
All previous attempts to use heavy armour in this region have resulted in hushed up failure, due to the building style of the Tarakian armoured forces, which favours heavily armoured tanks with powerful weaponry, at the cost of agility, this ended up with an alarmingly high number of tanks getting stuck, which meant that tanks could only operate in a limited number of locations in the forest. With the general feeling that if an attack were to happen, it would happen in this region, calls for a heavy tank that could be used in all areas of the forest were laid down. However, some thing's don't change, and the die hard established few in the Tarakian military dictated that any new heavy tank design must still meet the required protection and firepower standards of any Tarakian heavy tank, which gave the designers quite a headache. Having to design a tank with enough armour that caused previous tanks to sink, but some how light enough not to sink, with the same level of protection. Quickly realising that they wouldn't be able to get away with a conventional Tarakian tank design, and that the only way to achieve the level of protection needed, was to use thinner armour, but to slope it so heavily that it's effectively the same level of protection. After a great deal of testing, it was found that even with as much sloping as physically possible, the new tank came in at a fully loaded weight of almost 70 tonnes, which is still much lighter than units such as the Marauder or the Dragoon. To counter the weight of the unit, the designers gave it a longer hull, and wider tracks to dissipate the weight over a greater area.
The end result of a great deal of work and even more testing, is the Ares MkII heavy tank, which is much smaller, and has a much lower profile than all previous Tarakian heavy tank designs. The low profile will allow the tank to remain concealed in pre-built, armoured firing positions, which allow the hull to be completely hidden, while only the turret is exposed. Almost every aspect of the Ares is completely new, including the shape and design of the hull, the entire running gear, the suspension, the engine and transmission, the entire turret and turret basket design, and the ammunition storage. A new feature unique to the Ares is a 130mm cannon, which can fire a myriad of shell types, but as of now, it carries a high explosive, and an armour piercing round, which can penetrate any known enemy tank. With a completely new hull design, which is smaller than previous heavy tanks, the room inside was limited, so a new engine had to be designed that could provide enough power for a tank of 70 tonnes, but small enough to fit into a redesigned and much smaller than normal hull. As usual, the clever folks at the Tarakian R&D department delivered an engine capable of delivering 1420bhp, with above average fuel consumption. However, all this goodness does come at a cost, because this engine produces a lot of heat, which requires the rear portion of the tank to be fitted out with multiple cooling vents, and two large cooling fans. Due to the limited space inside the tank, the internal fuel tank is smaller than the designers would have liked, so six auxiliary fuel tanks were added to the exterior of the tank. Each tank has it's own full pump and cut off valve, meaning that even if they're damaged, or sabotaged, they can never harm the internals of the tank. Making up almost 50% of the tanks fuel supply, it was deemed these to be quite important, so each tank is rolled from 30mm steel plates, to stop them from being easily holed by small arms fire, excluding things like 50. cal weapons. 20 shells can be removed from the middle of the tank, and a second internal tank can be added.
The Ares MkII is crewed by five men, including a commander, gunner, loader, driver, and a navigator who doubles as a radioman. Carrying 63 rounds, which are located in several places around the tank, the rate of fire can be as high as ten rounds a minute.
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I might at some point cut this tank in half, and render a picture of the internal layout.
Best viewed Original size.
1L44 16:05 King's Cross to York after arriving at its destination in the capable hands off Deltic 55015 "Tulyar" - 26/07/1979.
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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Textures thanks to Kim Klassen for sweettreat, sweettart and light paper :)
Explored March 20th :)
Katherine Johnson's life is a testament to what our world is capable of if we open our eyes to possibilities.
Mrs. Johnson was a NASA mathematician whose work was critical to the success of many of the major space achievements we normally think of. As one of the first African-American women to work there, Mrs. Johnson calculated orbital mechanic trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for many landmark events. When Alan Shepard became the first American in space, Katherine Johnson, amongst other significant contributions, projected where his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule would land in the ocean, so that he could be retrieved quickly. When John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth, he refused to fly until Mrs. Johnson manually verified the projections calculated by the new IBM digital computers. She mastered complex manual calculations for rendezvous paths for the Apollo Lunar Module, and command module on flights to the Moon, like 1969's Apollo 11 flight. When the Apollo 13 Moon mission was aborted, her work on backup procedures and charts helped set a safe path for the crew's return to Earth. In a 2010 interview, Mrs. Johnson recalled, "Everybody was concerned about them getting there. We were concerned about them getting back." She was essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, contributed to the Earth Resources Satellite, and she worked on plans for a mission to Mars.
Katherine Johnson finished high school at 14, then degrees, summa cum laude, in mathematics and French at 18, in West Virginia. She was an African-American mother of three girls, in the still-segregated south, where women's work was less valued. She faced state racial segregation laws, and federal workplace segregation rules. Engineers were white males only, at the time. Up against gender and racial barriers, Katherine Johnson was assertive, asking to be included in all-male editorial meetings. She simply said she had done the work and that she belonged. Her co-workers at NASA were wise to allow her to lend her brilliant contributions to the team.
The much acclaimed 2016 film, Hidden Figures, follows Mrs. Johnson and her fellow female African-American mathematicians, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, through their challenges and achievements, working at NASA. If you have not seen this film, I highly recommend it.
By reaching beyond the expectations and norms of the time, Katherine Johnson showed us what is possible when we cast aside our biases, and allow potential to thrive. She was a true pioneer, with numerous honours and accolades, who is a hero and a role model to us all.
Mrs. Katherine Johnson passed away on February 24, 2020, at the beautiful and admirable age of 101. A life well lived!
10:52 From the headlines
Dragonflies are powerful and agile fliers, capable of migrating across oceans, moving in any direction, and changing direction suddenly. In flight, the adult dragonfly can propel itself in six directions: upward, downward, forward, back, to left and to right.
They have four different styles of flight: A number of flying modes are used that include counter-stroking, with forewings beating 180° out of phase with the hindwings, is used for hovering and slow flight. This style is efficient and generates a large amount of lift; phased-stroking, with the hindwings beating 90° ahead of the forewings, is used for fast flight.
This style creates more thrust, but less lift than counter-stroking; synchronised-stroking, with forewings and hindwings beating together, is used when changing direction rapidly, as it maximises thrust; and gliding, with the wings held out, is used in three situations: free gliding, for a few seconds in between bursts of powered flight; gliding in the updraft at the crest of a hill, effectively hovering by falling at the same speed as the updraft; and in certain dragonflies such as darters, when "in cop" with a male, the female sometimes simply glides while the male pulls the pair along by beating his wings.
This image was taken at La Ferme, near Franschhoek in the Western Cape of South Africa.
Colosseum
Following, a text, in english, from the Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia:
The Colosseum, or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman Empire. It is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and Roman engineering.
Occupying a site just east of the Roman Forum, its construction started between 70 and 72 AD[1] under the emperor Vespasian and was completed in 80 AD under Titus,[2] with further modifications being made during Domitian's reign (81–96).[3] The name "Amphitheatrum Flavium" derives from both Vespasian's and Titus's family name (Flavius, from the gens Flavia).
Capable of seating 50,000 spectators,[1][4][5] the Colosseum was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles such as mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, and dramas based on Classical mythology. The building ceased to be used for entertainment in the early medieval era. It was later reused for such purposes as housing, workshops, quarters for a religious order, a fortress, a quarry, and a Christian shrine.
Although in the 21st century it stays partially ruined because of damage caused by devastating earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum is an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome. It is one of Rome's most popular tourist attractions and still has close connections with the Roman Catholic Church, as each Good Friday the Pope leads a torchlit "Way of the Cross" procession that starts in the area around the Colosseum.[6]
The Colosseum is also depicted on the Italian version of the five-cent euro coin.
The Colosseum's original Latin name was Amphitheatrum Flavium, often anglicized as Flavian Amphitheater. The building was constructed by emperors of the Flavian dynasty, hence its original name, after the reign of Emperor Nero.[7] This name is still used in modern English, but generally the structure is better known as the Colosseum. In antiquity, Romans may have referred to the Colosseum by the unofficial name Amphitheatrum Caesareum; this name could have been strictly poetic.[8][9] This name was not exclusive to the Colosseum; Vespasian and Titus, builders of the Colosseum, also constructed an amphitheater of the same name in Puteoli (modern Pozzuoli).[10]
The name Colosseum has long been believed to be derived from a colossal statue of Nero nearby.[3] (the statue of Nero itself being named after one of the original ancient wonders, the Colossus of Rhodes[citation needed]. This statue was later remodeled by Nero's successors into the likeness of Helios (Sol) or Apollo, the sun god, by adding the appropriate solar crown. Nero's head was also replaced several times with the heads of succeeding emperors. Despite its pagan links, the statue remained standing well into the medieval era and was credited with magical powers. It came to be seen as an iconic symbol of the permanence of Rome.
In the 8th century, a famous epigram attributed to the Venerable Bede celebrated the symbolic significance of the statue in a prophecy that is variously quoted: Quamdiu stat Colisæus, stat et Roma; quando cadet colisæus, cadet et Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et mundus ("as long as the Colossus stands, so shall Rome; when the Colossus falls, Rome shall fall; when Rome falls, so falls the world").[11] This is often mistranslated to refer to the Colosseum rather than the Colossus (as in, for instance, Byron's poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage). However, at the time that the Pseudo-Bede wrote, the masculine noun coliseus was applied to the statue rather than to what was still known as the Flavian amphitheatre.
The Colossus did eventually fall, possibly being pulled down to reuse its bronze. By the year 1000 the name "Colosseum" had been coined to refer to the amphitheatre. The statue itself was largely forgotten and only its base survives, situated between the Colosseum and the nearby Temple of Venus and Roma.[12]
The name further evolved to Coliseum during the Middle Ages. In Italy, the amphitheatre is still known as il Colosseo, and other Romance languages have come to use similar forms such as le Colisée (French), el Coliseo (Spanish) and o Coliseu (Portuguese).
Construction of the Colosseum began under the rule of the Emperor Vespasian[3] in around 70–72AD. The site chosen was a flat area on the floor of a low valley between the Caelian, Esquiline and Palatine Hills, through which a canalised stream ran. By the 2nd century BC the area was densely inhabited. It was devastated by the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, following which Nero seized much of the area to add to his personal domain. He built the grandiose Domus Aurea on the site, in front of which he created an artificial lake surrounded by pavilions, gardens and porticoes. The existing Aqua Claudia aqueduct was extended to supply water to the area and the gigantic bronze Colossus of Nero was set up nearby at the entrance to the Domus Aurea.[12]
Although the Colossus was preserved, much of the Domus Aurea was torn down. The lake was filled in and the land reused as the location for the new Flavian Amphitheatre. Gladiatorial schools and other support buildings were constructed nearby within the former grounds of the Domus Aurea. According to a reconstructed inscription found on the site, "the emperor Vespasian ordered this new amphitheatre to be erected from his general's share of the booty." This is thought to refer to the vast quantity of treasure seized by the Romans following their victory in the Great Jewish Revolt in 70AD. The Colosseum can be thus interpreted as a great triumphal monument built in the Roman tradition of celebrating great victories[12], placating the Roman people instead of returning soldiers. Vespasian's decision to build the Colosseum on the site of Nero's lake can also be seen as a populist gesture of returning to the people an area of the city which Nero had appropriated for his own use. In contrast to many other amphitheatres, which were located on the outskirts of a city, the Colosseum was constructed in the city centre; in effect, placing it both literally and symbolically at the heart of Rome.
The Colosseum had been completed up to the third story by the time of Vespasian's death in 79. The top level was finished and the building inaugurated by his son, Titus, in 80.[3] Dio Cassius recounts that over 9,000 wild animals were killed during the inaugural games of the amphitheatre. The building was remodelled further under Vespasian's younger son, the newly designated Emperor Domitian, who constructed the hypogeum, a series of underground tunnels used to house animals and slaves. He also added a gallery to the top of the Colosseum to increase its seating capacity.
In 217, the Colosseum was badly damaged by a major fire (caused by lightning, according to Dio Cassius[13]) which destroyed the wooden upper levels of the amphitheatre's interior. It was not fully repaired until about 240 and underwent further repairs in 250 or 252 and again in 320. An inscription records the restoration of various parts of the Colosseum under Theodosius II and Valentinian III (reigned 425–455), possibly to repair damage caused by a major earthquake in 443; more work followed in 484[14] and 508. The arena continued to be used for contests well into the 6th century, with gladiatorial fights last mentioned around 435. Animal hunts continued until at least 523, when Anicius Maximus celebrated his consulship with some venationes, criticised by King Theodoric the Great for their high cost.
The Colosseum underwent several radical changes of use during the medieval period. By the late 6th century a small church had been built into the structure of the amphitheatre, though this apparently did not confer any particular religious significance on the building as a whole. The arena was converted into a cemetery. The numerous vaulted spaces in the arcades under the seating were converted into housing and workshops, and are recorded as still being rented out as late as the 12th century. Around 1200 the Frangipani family took over the Colosseum and fortified it, apparently using it as a castle.
Severe damage was inflicted on the Colosseum by the great earthquake in 1349, causing the outer south side, lying on a less stable alluvional terrain, to collapse. Much of the tumbled stone was reused to build palaces, churches, hospitals and other buildings elsewhere in Rome. A religious order moved into the northern third of the Colosseum in the mid-14th century and continued to inhabit it until as late as the early 19th century. The interior of the amphitheatre was extensively stripped of stone, which was reused elsewhere, or (in the case of the marble façade) was burned to make quicklime.[12] The bronze clamps which held the stonework together were pried or hacked out of the walls, leaving numerous pockmarks which still scar the building today.
During the 16th and 17th century, Church officials sought a productive role for the vast derelict hulk of the Colosseum. Pope Sixtus V (1585–1590) planned to turn the building into a wool factory to provide employment for Rome's prostitutes, though this proposal fell through with his premature death.[15] In 1671 Cardinal Altieri authorized its use for bullfights; a public outcry caused the idea to be hastily abandoned.
In 1749, Pope Benedict XIV endorsed as official Church policy the view that the Colosseum was a sacred site where early Christians had been martyred. He forbade the use of the Colosseum as a quarry and consecrated the building to the Passion of Christ and installed Stations of the Cross, declaring it sanctified by the blood of the Christian martyrs who perished there (see Christians and the Colosseum). However there is no historical evidence to support Benedict's claim, nor is there even any evidence that anyone prior to the 16th century suggested this might be the case; the Catholic Encyclopedia concludes that there are no historical grounds for the supposition. Later popes initiated various stabilization and restoration projects, removing the extensive vegetation which had overgrown the structure and threatened to damage it further. The façade was reinforced with triangular brick wedges in 1807 and 1827, and the interior was repaired in 1831, 1846 and in the 1930s. The arena substructure was partly excavated in 1810–1814 and 1874 and was fully exposed under Benito Mussolini in the 1930s.
The Colosseum is today one of Rome's most popular tourist attractions, receiving millions of visitors annually. The effects of pollution and general deterioration over time prompted a major restoration programme carried out between 1993 and 2000, at a cost of 40 billion Italian lire ($19.3m / €20.6m at 2000 prices). In recent years it has become a symbol of the international campaign against capital punishment, which was abolished in Italy in 1948. Several anti–death penalty demonstrations took place in front of the Colosseum in 2000. Since that time, as a gesture against the death penalty, the local authorities of Rome change the color of the Colosseum's night time illumination from white to gold whenever a person condemned to the death penalty anywhere in the world gets their sentence commuted or is released,[16] or if a jurisdiction abolishes the death penalty. Most recently, the Colosseum was illuminated in gold when capital punishment was abolished in the American state of New Mexico in April 2009.
Because of the ruined state of the interior, it is impractical to use the Colosseum to host large events; only a few hundred spectators can be accommodated in temporary seating. However, much larger concerts have been held just outside, using the Colosseum as a backdrop. Performers who have played at the Colosseum in recent years have included Ray Charles (May 2002),[18] Paul McCartney (May 2003),[19] Elton John (September 2005),[20] and Billy Joel (July 2006).
Exterior
Unlike earlier Greek theatres that were built into hillsides, the Colosseum is an entirely free-standing structure. It derives its basic exterior and interior architecture from that of two Roman theatres back to back. It is elliptical in plan and is 189 meters (615 ft / 640 Roman feet) long, and 156 meters (510 ft / 528 Roman feet) wide, with a base area of 6 acres (24,000 m2). The height of the outer wall is 48 meters (157 ft / 165 Roman feet). The perimeter originally measured 545 meters (1,788 ft / 1,835 Roman feet). The central arena is an oval 87 m (287 ft) long and 55 m (180 ft) wide, surrounded by a wall 5 m (15 ft) high, above which rose tiers of seating.
The outer wall is estimated to have required over 100,000 cubic meters (131,000 cu yd) of travertine stone which were set without mortar held together by 300 tons of iron clamps.[12] However, it has suffered extensive damage over the centuries, with large segments having collapsed following earthquakes. The north side of the perimeter wall is still standing; the distinctive triangular brick wedges at each end are modern additions, having been constructed in the early 19th century to shore up the wall. The remainder of the present-day exterior of the Colosseum is in fact the original interior wall.
The surviving part of the outer wall's monumental façade comprises three stories of superimposed arcades surmounted by a podium on which stands a tall attic, both of which are pierced by windows interspersed at regular intervals. The arcades are framed by half-columns of the Tuscan, Ionic, and Corinthian orders, while the attic is decorated with Corinthian pilasters.[21] Each of the arches in the second- and third-floor arcades framed statues, probably honoring divinities and other figures from Classical mythology.
Two hundred and forty mast corbels were positioned around the top of the attic. They originally supported a retractable awning, known as the velarium, that kept the sun and rain off spectators. This consisted of a canvas-covered, net-like structure made of ropes, with a hole in the center.[3] It covered two-thirds of the arena, and sloped down towards the center to catch the wind and provide a breeze for the audience. Sailors, specially enlisted from the Roman naval headquarters at Misenum and housed in the nearby Castra Misenatium, were used to work the velarium.[22]
The Colosseum's huge crowd capacity made it essential that the venue could be filled or evacuated quickly. Its architects adopted solutions very similar to those used in modern stadiums to deal with the same problem. The amphitheatre was ringed by eighty entrances at ground level, 76 of which were used by ordinary spectators.[3] Each entrance and exit was numbered, as was each staircase. The northern main entrance was reserved for the Roman Emperor and his aides, whilst the other three axial entrances were most likely used by the elite. All four axial entrances were richly decorated with painted stucco reliefs, of which fragments survive. Many of the original outer entrances have disappeared with the collapse of the perimeter wall, but entrances XXIII (23) to LIV (54) still survive.[12]
Spectators were given tickets in the form of numbered pottery shards, which directed them to the appropriate section and row. They accessed their seats via vomitoria (singular vomitorium), passageways that opened into a tier of seats from below or behind. These quickly dispersed people into their seats and, upon conclusion of the event or in an emergency evacuation, could permit their exit within only a few minutes. The name vomitoria derived from the Latin word for a rapid discharge, from which English derives the word vomit.
Interior
According to the Codex-Calendar of 354, the Colosseum could accommodate 87,000 people, although modern estimates put the figure at around 50,000. They were seated in a tiered arrangement that reflected the rigidly stratified nature of Roman society. Special boxes were provided at the north and south ends respectively for the Emperor and the Vestal Virgins, providing the best views of the arena. Flanking them at the same level was a broad platform or podium for the senatorial class, who were allowed to bring their own chairs. The names of some 5th century senators can still be seen carved into the stonework, presumably reserving areas for their use.
The tier above the senators, known as the maenianum primum, was occupied by the non-senatorial noble class or knights (equites). The next level up, the maenianum secundum, was originally reserved for ordinary Roman citizens (plebians) and was divided into two sections. The lower part (the immum) was for wealthy citizens, while the upper part (the summum) was for poor citizens. Specific sectors were provided for other social groups: for instance, boys with their tutors, soldiers on leave, foreign dignitaries, scribes, heralds, priests and so on. Stone (and later marble) seating was provided for the citizens and nobles, who presumably would have brought their own cushions with them. Inscriptions identified the areas reserved for specific groups.
Another level, the maenianum secundum in legneis, was added at the very top of the building during the reign of Domitian. This comprised a gallery for the common poor, slaves and women. It would have been either standing room only, or would have had very steep wooden benches. Some groups were banned altogether from the Colosseum, notably gravediggers, actors and former gladiators.
Each tier was divided into sections (maeniana) by curved passages and low walls (praecinctiones or baltei), and were subdivided into cunei, or wedges, by the steps and aisles from the vomitoria. Each row (gradus) of seats was numbered, permitting each individual seat to be exactly designated by its gradus, cuneus, and number.
The arena itself was 83 meters by 48 meters (272 ft by 157 ft / 280 by 163 Roman feet).[12] It comprised a wooden floor covered by sand (the Latin word for sand is harena or arena), covering an elaborate underground structure called the hypogeum (literally meaning "underground"). Little now remains of the original arena floor, but the hypogeum is still clearly visible. It consisted of a two-level subterranean network of tunnels and cages beneath the arena where gladiators and animals were held before contests began. Eighty vertical shafts provided instant access to the arena for caged animals and scenery pieces concealed underneath; larger hinged platforms, called hegmata, provided access for elephants and the like. It was restructured on numerous occasions; at least twelve different phases of construction can be seen.[12]
The hypogeum was connected by underground tunnels to a number of points outside the Colosseum. Animals and performers were brought through the tunnel from nearby stables, with the gladiators' barracks at the Ludus Magnus to the east also being connected by tunnels. Separate tunnels were provided for the Emperor and the Vestal Virgins to permit them to enter and exit the Colosseum without needing to pass through the crowds.[12]
Substantial quantities of machinery also existed in the hypogeum. Elevators and pulleys raised and lowered scenery and props, as well as lifting caged animals to the surface for release. There is evidence for the existence of major hydraulic mechanisms[12] and according to ancient accounts, it was possible to flood the arena rapidly, presumably via a connection to a nearby aqueduct.
The Colosseum and its activities supported a substantial industry in the area. In addition to the amphitheatre itself, many other buildings nearby were linked to the games. Immediately to the east is the remains of the Ludus Magnus, a training school for gladiators. This was connected to the Colosseum by an underground passage, to allow easy access for the gladiators. The Ludus Magnus had its own miniature training arena, which was itself a popular attraction for Roman spectators. Other training schools were in the same area, including the Ludus Matutinus (Morning School), where fighters of animals were trained, plus the Dacian and Gallic Schools.
Also nearby were the Armamentarium, comprising an armory to store weapons; the Summum Choragium, where machinery was stored; the Sanitarium, which had facilities to treat wounded gladiators; and the Spoliarium, where bodies of dead gladiators were stripped of their armor and disposed of.
Around the perimeter of the Colosseum, at a distance of 18 m (59 ft) from the perimeter, was a series of tall stone posts, with five remaining on the eastern side. Various explanations have been advanced for their presence; they may have been a religious boundary, or an outer boundary for ticket checks, or an anchor for the velarium or awning.
Right next to the Colosseum is also the Arch of Constantine.
he Colosseum was used to host gladiatorial shows as well as a variety of other events. The shows, called munera, were always given by private individuals rather than the state. They had a strong religious element but were also demonstrations of power and family prestige, and were immensely popular with the population. Another popular type of show was the animal hunt, or venatio. This utilized a great variety of wild beasts, mainly imported from Africa and the Middle East, and included creatures such as rhinoceros, hippopotamuses, elephants, giraffes, aurochs, wisents, barbary lions, panthers, leopards, bears, caspian tigers, crocodiles and ostriches. Battles and hunts were often staged amid elaborate sets with movable trees and buildings. Such events were occasionally on a huge scale; Trajan is said to have celebrated his victories in Dacia in 107 with contests involving 11,000 animals and 10,000 gladiators over the course of 123 days.
During the early days of the Colosseum, ancient writers recorded that the building was used for naumachiae (more properly known as navalia proelia) or simulated sea battles. Accounts of the inaugural games held by Titus in AD 80 describe it being filled with water for a display of specially trained swimming horses and bulls. There is also an account of a re-enactment of a famous sea battle between the Corcyrean (Corfiot) Greeks and the Corinthians. This has been the subject of some debate among historians; although providing the water would not have been a problem, it is unclear how the arena could have been waterproofed, nor would there have been enough space in the arena for the warships to move around. It has been suggested that the reports either have the location wrong, or that the Colosseum originally featured a wide floodable channel down its central axis (which would later have been replaced by the hypogeum).[12]
Sylvae or recreations of natural scenes were also held in the arena. Painters, technicians and architects would construct a simulation of a forest with real trees and bushes planted in the arena's floor. Animals would be introduced to populate the scene for the delight of the crowd. Such scenes might be used simply to display a natural environment for the urban population, or could otherwise be used as the backdrop for hunts or dramas depicting episodes from mythology. They were also occasionally used for executions in which the hero of the story — played by a condemned person — was killed in one of various gruesome but mythologically authentic ways, such as being mauled by beasts or burned to death.
The Colosseum today is now a major tourist attraction in Rome with thousands of tourists each year paying to view the interior arena, though entrance for EU citizens is partially subsidised, and under-18 and over-65 EU citizens' entrances are free.[24] There is now a museum dedicated to Eros located in the upper floor of the outer wall of the building. Part of the arena floor has been re-floored. Beneath the Colosseum, a network of subterranean passageways once used to transport wild animals and gladiators to the arena opened to the public in summer 2010.[25]
The Colosseum is also the site of Roman Catholic ceremonies in the 20th and 21st centuries. For instance, Pope Benedict XVI leads the Stations of the Cross called the Scriptural Way of the Cross (which calls for more meditation) at the Colosseum[26][27] on Good Fridays.
In the Middle Ages, the Colosseum was clearly not regarded as a sacred site. Its use as a fortress and then a quarry demonstrates how little spiritual importance was attached to it, at a time when sites associated with martyrs were highly venerated. It was not included in the itineraries compiled for the use of pilgrims nor in works such as the 12th century Mirabilia Urbis Romae ("Marvels of the City of Rome"), which claims the Circus Flaminius — but not the Colosseum — as the site of martyrdoms. Part of the structure was inhabited by a Christian order, but apparently not for any particular religious reason.
It appears to have been only in the 16th and 17th centuries that the Colosseum came to be regarded as a Christian site. Pope Pius V (1566–1572) is said to have recommended that pilgrims gather sand from the arena of the Colosseum to serve as a relic, on the grounds that it was impregnated with the blood of martyrs. This seems to have been a minority view until it was popularised nearly a century later by Fioravante Martinelli, who listed the Colosseum at the head of a list of places sacred to the martyrs in his 1653 book Roma ex ethnica sacra.
Martinelli's book evidently had an effect on public opinion; in response to Cardinal Altieri's proposal some years later to turn the Colosseum into a bullring, Carlo Tomassi published a pamphlet in protest against what he regarded as an act of desecration. The ensuing controversy persuaded Pope Clement X to close the Colosseum's external arcades and declare it a sanctuary, though quarrying continued for some time.
At the instance of St. Leonard of Port Maurice, Pope Benedict XIV (1740–1758) forbade the quarrying of the Colosseum and erected Stations of the Cross around the arena, which remained until February 1874. St. Benedict Joseph Labre spent the later years of his life within the walls of the Colosseum, living on alms, prior to his death in 1783. Several 19th century popes funded repair and restoration work on the Colosseum, and it still retains a Christian connection today. Crosses stand in several points around the arena and every Good Friday the Pope leads a Via Crucis procession to the amphitheatre.
Coliseu (Colosseo)
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O Coliseu, também conhecido como Anfiteatro Flaviano, deve seu nome à expressão latina Colosseum (ou Coliseus, no latim tardio), devido à estátua colossal de Nero, que ficava perto a edificação. Localizado no centro de Roma, é uma excepção de entre os anfiteatros pelo seu volume e relevo arquitectónico. Originalmente capaz de albergar perto de 50 000 pessoas, e com 48 metros de altura, era usado para variados espetáculos. Foi construído a leste do fórum romano e demorou entre 8 a 10 anos a ser construído.
O Coliseu foi utilizado durante aproximadamente 500 anos, tendo sido o último registro efetuado no século VI da nossa era, bastante depois da queda de Roma em 476. O edifício deixou de ser usado para entretenimento no começo da era medieval, mas foi mais tarde usado como habitação, oficina, forte, pedreira, sede de ordens religiosas e templo cristão.
Embora esteja agora em ruínas devido a terremotos e pilhagens, o Coliseu sempre foi visto como símbolo do Império Romano, sendo um dos melhores exemplos da sua arquitectura. Actualmente é uma das maiores atrações turísticas em Roma e em 7 de julho de 2007 foi eleita umas das "Sete maravilhas do mundo moderno". Além disso, o Coliseu ainda tem ligações à igreja, com o Papa a liderar a procissão da Via Sacra até ao Coliseu todas as Sextas-feiras Santas.
O coliseu era um local onde seriam exibidos toda uma série de espectáculos, inseridos nos vários tipos de jogos realizados na urbe. Os combates entre gladiadores, chamados muneras, eram sempre pagos por pessoas individuais em busca de prestígio e poder em vez do estado. A arena (87,5 m por 55 m) possuía um piso de madeira, normalmente coberto de areia para absorver o sangue dos combates (certa vez foi colocada água na representação de uma batalha naval), sob o qual existia um nível subterrâneo com celas e jaulas que tinham acessos diretos para a arena; Alguns detalhes dessa construção, como a cobertura removível que poupava os espectadores do sol, são bastante interessantes, e mostram o refinamento atingido pelos construtores romanos. Formado por cinco anéis concêntricos de arcos e abóbadas, o Coliseu representa bem o avanço introduzido pelos romanos à engenharia de estruturas. Esses arcos são de concreto (de cimento natural) revestidos por alvenaria. Na verdade, a alvenaria era construída simultaneamente e já servia de forma para a concretagem. Outro tipo de espetáculos era a caça de animais, ou venatio, onde eram utilizados animais selvagens importados de África. Os animais mais utilizados eram os grandes felinos como leões, leopardos e panteras, mas animais como rinocerontes, hipopótamos, elefantes, girafas, crocodilos e avestruzes eram também utilizados. As caçadas, tal como as representações de batalhas famosas, eram efetuadas em elaborados cenários onde constavam árvores e edifícios amovíveis.
Estas últimas eram por vezes representadas numa escala gigante; Trajano celebrou a sua vitória em Dácia no ano 107 com concursos envolvendo 11 000 animais e 10 000 gladiadores no decorrer de 123 dias.
Segundo o documentário produzido pelo canal televisivo fechado, History Channel, o Coliseu também era utilizado para a realização de naumaquias, ou batalhas navais. O coliseu era inundado por dutos subterrâneos alimentados pelos aquedutos que traziam água de longe. Passada esta fase, foi construída uma estrutura, que é a que podemos ver hoje nas ruínas do Coliseu, com altura de um prédio de dois andares, onde no passado se concentravam os gladiadores, feras e todo o pessoal que organizava os duelos que ocorreriam na arena. A arena era como um grande palco, feito de madeira, e se chama arena, que em italiano significa areia, porque era jogada areia sob a estrutura de madeira para esconder as imperfeições. Os animais podiam ser inseridos nos duelos a qualquer momento por um esquema de elevadores que surgiam em alguns pontos da arena; o filme "Gladiador" retrata muito bem esta questão dos elevadores. Os estudiosos, há pouco tempo, descobriram uma rede de dutos inundados por baixo da arena do Coliseu. Acredita-se que o Coliseu foi construído onde, outrora, foi o lago do Palácio Dourado de Nero; O imperador Vespasiano escolheu o local da construção para que o mal causado por Nero fosse esquecido por uma construção gloriosa.
Sylvae, ou recreações de cenas naturais eram também realizadas no Coliseu. Pintores, técnicos e arquitectos construiriam simulações de florestas com árvores e arbustos reais plantados no chão da arena. Animais seriam então introduzidos para dar vida à simulação. Esses cenários podiam servir só para agrado do público ou como pano de fundo para caçadas ou dramas representando episódios da mitologia romana, tão autênticos quanto possível, ao ponto de pessoas condenadas fazerem o papel de heróis onde eram mortos de maneiras horríveis mas mitologicamente autênticas, como mutilados por animais ou queimados vivos.
Embora o Coliseu tenha funcionado até ao século VI da nossa Era, foram proibidos os jogos com mortes humanas desde 404, sendo apenas massacrados animais como elefantes, panteras ou leões.
O Coliseu era sobretudo um enorme instrumento de propaganda e difusão da filosofia de toda uma civilização, e tal como era já profetizado pelo monge e historiador inglês Beda na sua obra do século VII "De temporibus liber": "Enquanto o Coliseu se mantiver de pé, Roma permanecerá; quando o Coliseu ruir, Roma ruirá e quando Roma cair, o mundo cairá".
A construção do Coliseu foi iniciada por Vespasiano, nos anos 70 da nossa era. O edifício foi inaugurado por Tito, em 80, embora apenas tivesse sido finalizado poucos anos depois. Empresa colossal, este edifício, inicialmente, poderia sustentar no seu interior cerca de 50 000 espectadores, constando de três andares. Aquando do reinado de Alexandre Severo e Gordiano III, é ampliado com um quarto andar, podendo suster agora cerca de 90 000 espectadores. A grandiosidade deste monumento testemunha verdadeiramente o poder e esplendor de Roma na época dos Flávios.
Os jogos inaugurais do Coliseu tiveram lugar ano 80, sob o mandato de Tito, para celebrar a finalização da construção. Depois do curto reinado de Tito começar com vários meses de desastres, incluindo a erupção do Monte Vesúvio, um incêndio em Roma, e um surto de peste, o mesmo imperador inaugurou o edifício com uns jogos pródigos que duraram mais de cem dias, talvez para tentar apaziguar o público romano e os deuses. Nesses jogos de cem dias terão ocorrido combates de gladiadores, venationes (lutas de animais), execuções, batalhas navais, caçadas e outros divertimentos numa escala sem precedentes.
O Coliseu, como não se encontrava inserido numa zona de encosta, enterrado, tal como normalmente sucede com a generalidade dos teatros e anfiteatros romanos, possuía um “anel” artificial de rocha à sua volta, para garantir sustentação e, ao mesmo tempo, esta substrutura serve como ornamento ao edifício e como condicionador da entrada dos espectadores. Tal como foi referido anteriormente, possuía três pisos, sendo mais tarde adicionado um outro. É construído em mármore, pedra travertina, ladrilho e tufo (pedra calcária com grandes poros). A sua planta elíptica mede dois eixos que se estendem aproximadamente de 190 m por 155 m. A fachada compõe-se de arcadas decoradas com colunas dóricas, jónicas e coríntias, de acordo com o pavimento em que se encontravam. Esta subdivisão deve-se ao facto de ser uma construção essencialmente vertical, criando assim uma diversificação do espaço.
Os assentos eram em mármore e a cavea, escadaria ou arquibancada, dividia-se em três partes, correspondentes às diferentes classes sociais: o podium, para as classes altas; as maeniana, sector destinado à classe média; e os portici, ou pórticos, construídos em madeira, para a plebe e as mulheres. O pulvinar, a tribuna imperial, encontrava-se situada no podium e era balizada pelos assentos reservados aos senadores e magistrados. Rampas no interior do edifício facilitavam o acesso às várias zonas de onde podiam visualizar o espectáculo, sendo protegidos por uma barreira e por uma série de arqueiros posicionados numa passagem de madeira, para o caso de algum acidente. Por cima dos muros ainda são visíveis as mísulas, que sustentavam o velarium, enorme cobertura de lona destinada a proteger do sol os espectadores e, nos subterrâneos, ficavam as jaulas dos animais, bem como todas as celas e galerias necessárias aos serviços do anfiteatro.
O monumento permaneceu como sede principal dos espetáculos da urbe romana até ao período do imperador Honorius, no século V. Danificado por um terremoto no começo do mesmo século, foi alvo de uma extensiva restauração na época de Valentinianus III. Em meados do século XIII, a família Frangipani transformou-o em fortaleza e, ao longo dos séculos XV e XVI, foi por diversas vezes saqueado, perdendo grande parte dos materiais nobres com os quais tinha sido construído.
Os relatos romanos referem-se a cristãos sendo martirizados em locais de Roma descritos pouco pormenorizadamente (no anfiteatro, na arena...), quando Roma tinha numerosos anfiteatros e arenas. Apesar de muito provavelmente o Coliseu não ter sido utilizado para martírios, o Papa Bento XIV consagrou-o no século XVII à Paixão de Cristo e declarou-o lugar sagrado. Os trabalhos de consolidação e restauração parcial do monumento, já há muito em ruínas, foram feitos sobretudo pelos pontífices Gregório XVI e Pio IX, no século XIX.
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Bullshit. There's no such thing as a true constant. Some things just change faster than others. Some change slow enough so they appear as a constant when the only scope your capable of considering is that of a human lifetime. I've never done that. The first thing I ever learned about mountains, they once were a seafloor. That's why you can find fossilized mussles and fishbones up there in some places.
The idea that the speed at which these changes take place, is a variable in itself. Most scientists don't seem able to comprehend that idea. And if they do have an open mind to the idea, they demand evidence. Well first of, by this point in time there's plenty of that if you know where to look. But much more important than that, please stop going on my nerves with your evidence. I hold these truths self-evident. Or as the saying goes: Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
They are correct though about the fact that the time of slow, gentle changes that has lasted roughly the last 5000 years, and that we owe modern society to, is very rapidly coming to its end. From Earth's perspective, that's probably a return to a more normal state rather than the departure from it. Really, the mistake the academics make is just, they buy textbooks instead of popcorn. Gonna be one hell of a show!