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Royal Botanical Garden, Peradeniya is about 5.5 km to the west from the city of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It attracts 2 million visitors annually. It is near the Mahaweli River (the longest in Sri Lanka). It is renowned for its collection of orchids. The garden includes more than 4000 species of plants, including orchids, spices, medicinal plants and palm trees Attached to it is the National Herbarium of Sri Lanka. The total area of the botanical garden is 147 acres (0.59 km2), at 460 meters above sea level, and with a 200-day annual rainfall. It is managed by the Division of National Botanic Gardens of the Department of Agriculture.
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Active: Ceylon
Medium: albumen print
Size: 10 in x 8 in
Location: Ceylon
Object No. 2011.308
Shelf: A-52
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Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest.
Ceylon Stamps and Ceylon Postal History - For some 2,000 years the island was ruled by a local kingdom. In 1517 the Portuguese founded a fort at the port city of Colombo and gradually extended their control over the coastal areas. In 1638 the Dutch made a treaty with Rajasinghe II, the king of Kandy, to get rid of the Portuguese. By 1660 the Dutch controlled the whole island except the kingdom of Kandy and it was not until 1656 that Colombo fell. In 1796 Great Britain occupied the coastal areas of the island (which they called Ceylon). In 1802 the Netherlands ceded the parts of the island they still occupied to Great Britain. The remainder of the island, the Kingdom of Kandy, was occupied by Great Britain in 1815 and the native king of Kandy was deposed and exiled. Ceylon became an independent country on 4 February 1948. On 22 May 1972 the name Ceylon was changed to Sri Lanka. LINK to the complete article - www.stampdomain.com/country/ceylon/
TPOs of Ceylon / Sri Lanka - LINK - www.tpo-seapost.org.uk/tpo2/downloads/Ceylon_TPOs_2023.pdf
Forged stamps of Ceylon / Sri Lanka - LINK - stampforgeries.com/forged-stamps-of-ceylon/
The kit and its assembly:
A simple and rather subtle what-if build – or that was what I thought it to be. When I read the Hawker Hurricane book from the “Planes and Pilots” series, I came across several aircraft in early SEAC markings and wondered about a Buffalo with blue 18” roundels – the RAF machines could have carried these markings in early 1942, and that became the model’s simple concept.
The kit is the Matchbox Buffalo. It is rather simple but has the benefit of being a de-navalized export version with a different cowling and tail. On the other side it also features some (IMHO wrong) details from the USN version like the cuffed Curtiss Electric propeller, which should rather be slightly smaller uncuffed Hamilton Standard propeller, the life raft behind the pilot and the open sight. However, I did not want to invest a fortune into a Hasegawa kit (which has the different tail as an optional part). The Hobby Boss F2A is another cheap alternative, but it is an American carrier aircraft, just like the Airfix kit that even comes with rivets galore as an unwelcome bonus. The vintage Aoshima kit is also there, but no option anymore. Special Hobby also does an F2A – but it’s again the American Navy aircraft, and quite expensive.
The Matchbox Buffalo was basically built OOB, I just drilled up the gun ports and tried to make the engine louvres edges a little crisper, so that they rather look like outlets and not like un-PSRed seams. The flaps were lowered for a lively look. A British reflector sight was added to the cockpit as well as a retrofitted rear-view mirror to the canopy, and struts for the roll bar were mounted behind the pilot seat instead of the OOB life raft from the US Navy F2A. The propeller was replaced, too, because the Matchbox kit’s cuffed version also belongs onto an USN aircraft and not an export B-239/339. A scratched pitot was added to the port wing.
Real trouble struck the project when the plastic turned out to be brittle of age – and this showed in inconvenient places. A major issue became the landing gear: the delicate struts broke off just as I tried to carefully release the parts from the sprues. And the rather massive canopy suddenly “silvered” from many vertical micro-cracks after I had glued it into place – before that it just had a slightly milky tint, so that I still used it but left the cockpit closed. However, once in place the front section almost went blind (at first, I thought this was humidity from ink washings!), and I considered a vacu canopy replacement – but this turned out to be prohibitively expensive, and I retained the flaw. The landing gear had to be modified to work. The struts were glued back together with plastic and super glue, while the covers were replaced with thinner styrene sheet and the supporting struts were replaced with thinner material, too.
Painting and markings:
Straightforward choice, even though with detail twists. The Buffalo received the contemporary RAF Temperate Land Scheme, with upper camouflage in Dark Green and Dark Earth. Since the aircraft was supposed to be relatively freshly re-painted, I used stronger shades for the green and the brown, namely IJA Green from Modelmaster and Humbrol 26 (khaki matt, which is less reddish than Dark Earth but slightly darker). The underside was painted in a non-regular Sky Blue, a color that was used instead of Sky or Medium Sea Grey on some SEAC fighter aircraft. I used Humbrol 47 (Sea Blue).
The model received a light black ink washing and some dry-brushed post-panel shading – even though it was not supposed to look too weathered or worn, since it would be a freshly revamped Singapore survivor in a new unit.
The small all-blue SEAC roundels and the fin flash came from an Academy P-47D, and they look odd on the Buffalo, making it look bigger as it actually is – but they could have been used on them, had the type “survived” some more months into 1942. White ID markings, e. g. bands on wings and tail surfaces, were not common at the model’s intended time frame yet, so I just gave it a propeller tip in Sky (Tamiya XF-21) and a fuselage band in the same color – the latter taken from the Matchbox OOB decal sheet and the color on the spinner adapted to the decal (with Humbrol 23).
The tactical code was created from single white 6 mm letters (from TL Modellbau). AFAIK, some SEAC units rather used such smaller letters in a non-regular font for their machines, you frequently find Spitfires and Hurricanes with similar codes, and it works well on the short Buffalo. The aircraft’s serial number is fictional (but close to the RAF Buffalos’ range) and was created with single black 2mm “W”s and numbers from a re-boxed Matchbox Gloster Gladiator (Revell).
After some soot stains around the guns and the exhausts with graphite, the model was sealed with matt acrylic varnish and a wire antenna made from heated black sprue material was added between the mast and the fin.
Ceylon Blue Oakleaf
(Captured at Sinharaja world heritage site)
The Ceylon Blue Oakleaf (Kallima philarchus) is a nymphalid butterfly found in Sri Lanka. With wings closed, it closely resembles a dry leaf with dark veins and is a spectacular example of camouflage.
National butterfly of sri lanka
(Troides darsius)
ශ්රී ලංකා පරිසර සහ ස්වාභාවික සම්පත් අමාත්යංශය විසින් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජාතික සමනළයා ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකා මහකුරුළු පිය පැපිලියා නම් සමනළ විශේෂය ප්රකාශයට පත්කලා.
මහකුරුළු පිය පැපිලියා – Sri Lanka Birdwing – Troides Darsius ශ්රී ලංකාවේ විශාලතම සමනළ විශේෂය වන අතර, මෙරට බහුලව දක්නට ලැබෙන ශ්රී ලංකාවට ආවේණික සමනළ විශේෂයක්.
දර්ශනීය බාහිර රූපකායක් සහිත මෙම සමනළයාගේ ඉදිරි තටු කළු පැහැතිය. කළු පැහැති දාර වලින් යුතු පසුපස තටු රන්වන් කහ පැහැතිය.
කිසියම් රටක් විසින් ජීවී විශේෂ තම ජාතික අනන්යතාවය ලෙස ප්රකාශයට පත් කිරීමේ අරමුණ වන්නේ එම සත්ව විශේෂ සංරක්ෂණය සඳහා වැඩි අවධානයක් ලබා ගැනීමයි.
මෙම සමනළ කාණ්ඩය තර්ජනයට ලක්වූ ගණයට අයත් නොවූවත් සමස්තයක් වශයෙන් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ආවේණික සමනළ විශේෂ මිනිස් ක්රියාකාරකම් නිසා සිදුවන පරිසර වෙනස්කම් හේතුවෙන් තර්ජනයට ලක්වී තිබෙනවා.
A mural in the house at "Brief", the bungalow and garden built by the eccentric former soldier and landscape artist, Bevis Bawa, inland from Bentota in southern Sri Lanka.
Ceylon Small Barbet (Megalaima rubricapillus) is an endemic resident of Sri Lanka. An adult male. Belongs to Capitonidae family. Clicked at Kandawala Lake Ratmalana, Sri Lanka.
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Royal Botanical Garden, Peradeniya is about 5.5 km to the west from the city of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It attracts 2 million visitors annually. It is near the Mahaweli River (the longest in Sri Lanka). It is renowned for its collection of orchids. The garden includes more than 4000 species of plants, including orchids, spices, medicinal plants and palm trees Attached to it is the National Herbarium of Sri Lanka. The total area of the botanical garden is 147 acres (0.59 km2), at 460 meters above sea level, and with a 200-day annual rainfall. It is managed by the Division of National Botanic Gardens of the Department of Agriculture.
Class……………………………Fiji-class Cruiser
Builder……………………….. Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan
Yard number……………….569
Laid down..………………….27 Apr 1939
Launched….…………………30 Jul 1942
Completed.………………….13 Jul 1943
Propulsion.…………………..4 shafts : 4 sets of Parsons SR geared steam turbines manufactured by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan : Steam supplied by 4 Admiralty 3-drun oil fired boilers
Speed..…………………………33 knots
Range…………………………..5850 / 2180 nm at 16 / 30 knots
History
1943-45: Home and Eastern Fleets.
1946-54: Far East and East Indies Fleets. Took part in Korean War Operations. Refitted in mid-1950s.
1954-59:Mediterranean and Home Fleets.
1959: Decommissioning
1960: Transferred to the Peruvian Navy in 1960 and renamed CORONEL BOLOGNESI
1982: Decommissioned
1985: Towed to Kaohsiung in Aug 1985 to be broken up.
HMS CEYLON was allocated the following pennant numbers.
30……………………….1943 – 1948
C165……………………1945 – 1946 (British Pacific Fleet)
C30………………………1948 - 1959
I like to buy mixed batches of old slides. Unexceptional photos, but with the mystery of where and when they were taken. Anyone recognise these places?
Royal Botanical Garden, Peradeniya is about 5.5 km to the west from the city of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It attracts 2 million visitors annually. It is near the Mahaweli River (the longest in Sri Lanka). It is renowned for its collection of orchids. The garden includes more than 4000 species of plants, including orchids, spices, medicinal plants and palm trees Attached to it is the National Herbarium of Sri Lanka. The total area of the botanical garden is 147 acres (0.59 km2), at 460 meters above sea level, and with a 200-day annual rainfall. It is managed by the Division of National Botanic Gardens of the Department of Agriculture.
Class……………………………Fiji-class Cruiser
Builder……………………….. Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan
Yard number……………….569
Laid down..………………….27 Apr 1939
Launched….…………………30 Jul 1942
Completed.………………….13 Jul 1943
Propulsion.…………………..4 shafts : 4 sets of Parsons SR geared steam turbines manufactured by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd., Govan : Steam supplied by 4 Admiralty 3-drun oil fired boilers
Speed..…………………………33 knots
Range…………………………..5850 / 2180 nm at 16 / 30 knots
History
1943-45: Home and Eastern Fleets.
1946-54: Far East and East Indies Fleets. Took part in Korean War Operations. Refitted in mid-1950s.
1954-59:Mediterranean and Home Fleets.
1959: Decommissioning
1960: Transferred to the Peruvian Navy in 1960 and renamed CORONEL BOLOGNESI
1982: Decommissioned
1985: Towed to Kaohsiung in Aug 1985 to be broken up.
HMS CEYLON was allocated the following pennant numbers.
30……………………….1943 – 1948
C165……………………1945 – 1946 (British Pacific Fleet)
C30………………………1948 - 1959
Coral Gardens Halt, Sri Lanka Railways, Sri Lanka, 12/80. This line saw the worst rail disaster ever on Boxing Day 2004 when the Indian Ocean Earthquake saw a series of Tsunamis hit this coastal railway line and, whilst most trains were stopped before they got to the worst the most vulnerable section, railway officials could not contact the Matara Express despite frantic efforts and several gigantic waves hit the train and threw it inland, with a loss of life of 1,700-2,000, but nobody knows the true total as many bodies were washed out to sea. As the local emergency services were themselves destroyed, it was a long time before help arrived and many died in the wreckage over the coming days. Miraculously, the guard survived and he crews a commemorative train every anniversary of the disaster. Scanned slide taken with a Canon AE-1 Program.
Royal Botanical Garden, Peradeniya is about 5.5 km to the west from the city of Kandy in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It attracts 2 million visitors annually. It is near the Mahaweli River (the longest in Sri Lanka). It is renowned for its collection of orchids. The garden includes more than 4000 species of plants, including orchids, spices, medicinal plants and palm trees Attached to it is the National Herbarium of Sri Lanka. The total area of the botanical garden is 147 acres (0.59 km2), at 460 meters above sea level, and with a 200-day annual rainfall. It is managed by the Division of National Botanic Gardens of the Department of Agriculture.
©Sekitar --- All rights reserved. Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.
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Recipe & story (en español)
150 g soft butter
120 g sugar
5 g black ceylon tea
2 cardamom pods
1/2 lemon cest
3 eggs
150 g flour
10 g baking powder
Mix butter with the sugar, lemon cest & the processed tea and cardamom.
Add eggs, one by one.
Finally, mix in the flour, sifted with the baking poder.
Pour into cupcake liners and bake for 25 minutes at 160ºC.