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1890's
Known as the Hole Of Horcum, this Sandstone quarry in Whitby's East cliff seems to have finished operating by the 1920's, the quarry face is out of shot on the left side of the workshop.
The land the workshop was sited on has now eroded but the quarry face is still visible in the cliff as of 2012.
Cliff Palace is the largest and most famous of all of Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings, and is in fact the largest cliff dwelling in North America. It's what winds up on all the Mesa Verde promotional materials. According to tree ring data from beams used in the village, the structure was built in a continuous process from around 1190 to 1260 AD. By the end of it, Cliff Palace contained 100 rooms, including 23 kivas, and housed about a hundred people. And then around the year 1300, Cliff Palace was abandoned, and the whole of Mesa Verde emptied out almost all at once.
It's interesting to consider what else was going on in the world around the time the Ancestral Puebloans were finishing up the Cliff Palace. In 1260:
* Chaco Canyon, the once thriving center of Ancestral Puebloan culture 80 miles south of here, had been abandoned for about a century.
* Several large city-states were flourishing much farther south in the highland plateau that would someday be called the Valley of Mexico. The Mexica, a tribe of wanderers, were just this minute arriving in that valley. Over the next few decades, the Mexica people would found the city of Tenochtitlan and extend their rule across the valley. In about a century, the resulting empire would become what we know as the Aztecs.
* Cahokia, the large city of the Mound Builders along the Mississippi River near present-day St. Louis, was at its peak population of about 40,000 people. The Mound Building culture was thriving all across the Mississippi Valley, about a thousand miles from here. I have to wonder if the two cultures knew about each other.
* In Asia, Kublai Khan was getting ready to be named supreme leader of the Mongol Empire, and he'd soon start losing a lot of battles.
* Marco Polo was about a decade from taking his trip. Children still had nothing to shout in their swimming pools.
* The Cathedral of Chartres was dedicated in 1260 by King Louis IX of France. Notre Dame Cathedral was about halfway through its nearly two-century building process.
* In England, King Henry III was getting ready to fight a little civil war. Before long, the very first Parliament would meet.
* The rest of Europe was wracked in political strife in warfare. Which is to say, same song, different decade.
Dassievoêl
(Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris)
The mocking cliff chat, mocking chat or cliff chat, is a species of chat in the family Muscicapidae which occurs in rocky habitats in much of eastern Sub-Saharan Africa.
The mocking cliff chat is a large chat with distinctive colouration. The male has a glossy black with a chestnut belly, vent, and rump and white shoulder patches. The shoulder patches vary in size geographically. The female is dark grey with a chestnut lower breast, belly, and vent. The mocking cliff chat has a length of 19–21 cm and weigh 41–51g.
A loud fluty melodious warbling song which often contains many rapid fire phrases mimicking other species, with some harsher phrases interspersed.
The mocking cliff chat occurs in a neat band from central Ethiopia in the north through east Africa into Zimbabwe, south-eastern Botswana, southern Mozambique and eastern South Africa as far as the far east of Western Cape province. Mostly resident but in the south of its range tends to move to lower altitudes in the winter months.
The mocking cliff chat inhabits rocky and boulder strewn areas, well-wooded rocky ravines, cliffs, gullies, boulder-strewn hillsides and watercourses in valley bottoms with scattered rocks.
There are six currently recognised subspecies
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris kordofanensis Wettstein, 1916: Nuba Mountains, in central Sudan.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris albiscapulata (Rüppell, 1837): northern Eritrea and northern, central and eastern Ethiopia.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris. subrufipennis Reichenow, 1887: eastern South Sudan and south-western Ethiopia south through the Rift Valley and Tanzania to eastern Zambia and Malawi.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris odica Clancey, 1962: Eastern Zimbabwe.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris cinnamomeiventris (Lafresnaye, 1836): Eastern Botswana, eastern South Africa, western Swaziland and Lesotho.
Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris autochthones Clancey, 1952; Southern Mozambique south to north-eastern South Africa and eastern Swaziland.
The white-crowned cliff chat (Thamnolaea coronata) of West Africa is sometimes included in this species.
Wikipedia
In July 1944 during the Battle of Tinian many Japanese soldiers and civilians jumped from the cliff rather than face capture by US forces.
Took this at very last light, near Pretoriuskop, Krugerpark
It is a cliif being used by baboons to hide during night time - There are holes in the face of the cliff, which the baboons can get to from the top only !! With their nimble footwork they take the decent right over one of the holes , and dash into it when they reach it !
Come morning , they take the plunge to the bottom , for even they cannot climb the steep face to the top !!
A predator like a leopard would never be able to reach them there !!!
Who said they are not clever animals ...???
Whilst on my Virtual Road trip, I’m staying on the east coast for a bit. Doesn’t matter what the weather, nothing will stop me (well, perhaps the small matter of a pandemic!!..) from a trip to Bempton Cliffs for a spot of bird watching.
Mirando desde un angulo claramente se veía una cara en la roca, fue casi sin querer que la vi porque nadie me había dicho de eso.
En estos días subiré mas fotos del mismo lugar para que se vea que solo desde donde se lo mire aparecía esta figura.
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Looking from an angle clearly saw a face in the rock, it was almost by chance I saw because nobody had told me that.
In these days I'll upload more pictures from the same place so you can see that just where you look at this figure appeared.
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One of the most popular attractions in Ireland: Cliffs of Moher. It is really a scenic place, where you can feel the power of the nature.
from the whale watching platform at the head of the bight, south australia, you can see the eastern end of the legendary bunda cliffs, a 60m high wall formed where the nullarbor plain terminates abruptly at the great australian bight
these dramatic cliffs form the coastline unbroken for nearly 200km before swinging inland near the western australian border to become the wylie scarp (for 100s of kms more)
great australian bight marine park, south australia
The view on the excursion through the Lesser Three Gorges near Wushan. A small temple/chapel is accessible by a foot path at the bottom of a foggy/misty cliff.
View of Three Cliffs Bay on the south coast of the Gower Peninsula taken from Pennard Cliffs near the village of Southgate.