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We went to see the Valley of Fire State Park for an afternoon. The park is located one hour north-east of Las Vegas, Nevada, and is very unique with red rock, yellow rocks and black rocks. It feels like being on Mars.
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Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
USA
Red fox braving the weather searching for food under the snow. Most of the images were taken from the road which were cleared of snow by the machine in the first comment section. If you tried to get off the road to photograph the animals, you might be stepping into a couple feet of snow. Which I tried to do several times.
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) has been documented in Yellowstone since the 1880s. In relation to other canids in the park, red foxes are the smallest. Red foxes occur in several color phases, but they are usually distinguished from coyotes by their reddish yellow coat that is somewhat darker on the back and shoulders, with black “socks” on their lower legs. “Cross” phases of the red fox (a dark cross on their shoulders) have been reported a few times in recent years near Canyon and Lamar Valley. Also, a lighter-colored red fox has been seen at higher elevations.
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes), largest of the true foxes, has the greatest geographic range of all members of the Carnivora family, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to North Africa, North America and Eurasia. It is listed as least concern by the IUCN.
Red foxes are usually together in pairs or small groups consisting of families, such as a mated pair and their young, or a male with several females having kinship ties. The young of the mated pair remain with their parents to assist in caring for new kits. The species primarily feeds on small rodents, though it may also target rabbits, game birds, reptiles, invertebrates and young ungulates. Fruit and vegetable matter is also eaten sometimes. Although the red fox tends to kill smaller predators, including other fox species, it is vulnerable to attack from larger predators, such as wolves, coyotes, golden jackals and medium- and large-sized felines. Too small to pose a threat to humans, it has successfully colonized many suburban areas. Wikipedia
Kudos to the birders who figure out who these drifters are and then take the trouble to help other birders find them.
This guy was way off his patch.
"While today’s vagrant might be tomorrow’s model citizen, destined to become a colonizer and perhaps an established resident, as Grinnell (1922) asserted, most vagrants might be viewed as “failed colonization attempts”. Newton (2008: 267–299) summarized quite well the various explanations of the causes of vagrancy put forward over the past century or so. They include: normal dispersal over long distances, population growth or expansion, drift by winds, migration overshoots, deviant directional tendencies (right time but wrong direction), mirror-image migration, and reversed direction migration. While all explanations probably play a role and explain the occurrence of some vagrant individuals, we address the latter three explanations as they likely involve the vast majority of landbirds. The mirror-image misorientation theory, originally developed by DeSante (1973), and described by Diamond (1982), proposed that vagrants are misoriented by confusion of right and left in relating an inherited migration direction to a compass reference direction. Mirror-image misorientation theory accounts for observations made by DeSante (1983a) that in certain situations large-angle misorientations seem more frequent than small or intermediate deviations from the normal migration course (Alerstam, 1990). Misorientation by the wind has long been suggested as a cause of accidentals (Austin, 1971), but Thorup et al. (2012) found differently, as the authors used radio telemetry to track individual migratory flights of several species of songbirds from the Faroe Islands, approximately halfway between Norway and Iceland, far west of their normal migration route. Birds with expected easterly and south-easterly migration direction departed westward out over the Atlantic Ocean, indicating that these birds are actively flying in the “wrong” direction and that their occurrence is not caused by wind drift. However, on Attu Island, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, Hameed et al. (2009) found statistical evidence that the occurrence of spring Asian vagrants on this North Pacific island were correlated with storm winds from the west."
We were visiting Spello, a medieval walled town of pre-Roman origins preserving three Roman gates and many other remains from the Roman age. Stone upon stone, in such ancient towns every inch is colonized and civilized. Houses, churches, palaces and towers are huddled together like male Emperor penguins in a colony during incubation. As you are strolling around, breathing with the breath of history, you should expect some suprise at every bending - a flight of steps running up towards the bright colours of a walled garden, an enticing alley carved out of the crowded buildings, a small curiosity shop or a brewery where you can eat some local food while tasting their (usually quite good) handmade beer...
Yet there is even more than this to Umbria - more than simply this flavourful cocktail of nature, history, and art. One of the things I love of Umbria is the Umbrian people. The Umbrians are generally friendly, even congenial, and they enjoy taking (or rather tasting) life at an easy pace - which is particularly refreshing for people like us, coming from antipodean places where every day is, well... just a new damn hectic day.
Here I have captured a typical view of Spello: you are strolling along a long street and lo, suddenly the succession of houses breaks open and you can see the beautiful plain below, bathed in the sunlight - much like the surprise effect at the end of Eugenio Montale’s poem The lemon trees (you can read it in English translation here).
I am not fully satisfied with this picture for a variety of reasons - the main one being that the sky is dull and uninteresting (if you have visited my photostream you should have realised that I love the sky in my photos). Nothing to be done: the best upgrade I have been able to get has been from ugly to a bit less ugly ;.) However this issue (and those I do not mention here) has not made me change my mind, so I am uploading it. Hope that you enjoy the view and that it can uplift a bit your spirits...
I have obtained this picture by blending a "fake" (i.e. from a single RAW file) exposure bracketing [-1.3/0/+1.3 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot). A bit of further editing with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. The RAW file has been processed with Darktable.
In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities,
which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems,
we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required.
Ray Bradbury
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The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.[7] The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.[3] The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies.
The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
The steady mist settling on nearby rocks sets in motion a colonization of life which grows outward and upward.
Miyahara Ice Cream is the most famous ice cream shop in Taichung city, the waiting line could extend to two blocks of streets away, but it’s still worthwhile to wait and try these delicious ice creams. This store does more than ice creams, they sell local food and gifts, which are packed and displayed in an exquisite and attractive way, in addition to excellent service, this is a great place to visit.
The name Miyahara is a Japanese one, Taiwan had been colonized by Japan for quite a while, you can still find influence of Japanese culture easily.
Nestled among the stars lies a world where machines left by long-forgotten creators have pried the secrets of the cosmos from the grasp of mystery. Strange entities have taken up artificial bodies to colonize worlds through their mastery of technology and connection to spirituality; the likes of which were previously mere whispers of myth. Seven noble houses congregate on an artificial moon forged from technology so incomprehensible to mortal perception, that it can only be perceived as magic. Take a brave step onto an Aetherpunk artificial moon and explore a congregation of seven noble eclectic and extraordinary houses.
House of Progress
The house of science and research. The drive for discovery burns within their breast and leads them to advancement after advancement. Their passion for achievement enables them to deliver revelations of creation other houses hadn’t dared to imagine. To this house, knowledge is divinity, discovery is belief.
Taken at the wonderful Szystrum Synod build by Walton Wainwright and the Contraption crew at Fantasy Faire 2023.
A Mucor species has colonized the cap of a Mycena species.
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La Amistad was a 19th-century two-masted schooner, owned by a Spaniard colonizing Cuba. It became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives. They took control of the ship, killing the captain and the cook. In the melee, three Africans were also killed. A US ship, the revenue cutter Washington, seized Amistad off Montauk Point on Long Island, New York. La Amistad was towed to New London, Connecticut, and those remaining on the ship were arrested. Between 1998 and 2000, artisans at Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut, built a replica of La Amistad. Discovering Amistad Inc. purchased the ship from the receiver. Amistad has now been restored to educational and promotional activity in New Haven, Connecticut.
The village of Paraty was founded in 1597. It was established formally as a town by Portuguese colonizers in 1667, in a region populated by the Guaianás Indians.
The Guaianás people who lived where the city now stands called the entire area “Paraty”. In the Tupi language “Paraty” means “river of fish”. Even today the Brazilian Mullet (Mugil brasiliensis) still come back to spawn in the rivers that spill into the Bay of Paraty. When the region was colonized by the Portuguese, they adopted the Guaianás name for their new town.
Paraty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bronseplassen, Norway.The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.[7] The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.[3] The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies.
The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
An old procession chapel (Chapelle Saint-Joseph) erected around 1855 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Québec, Canada.
Such chapels were used during religious processions from a main church to such a chapel, as a spot to rest and pray.
In this village, one will find this chapel near its eastern boundary and another, not so well maintained, La Chappelle Sainte-Anne near its western boundary. They are identical in architecture. Religious processions would took place from l'Eglise St-Antoine de Tilley (built in 1702) one year to one chapel, and then the next year to the other chapel.
About Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, which is a tad west of the city of Québec but on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River:
As per Wikipedia: "A member of the Most Beautiful Villages of Quebec, Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly has been colonized since the early beginnings of New France. The seigneurie of Villieu was sold in 1700 to Pierre-Noël Le Gardeur de Tilly and became the seigneurie of Tilly, which is still part of the municipality's name. Saint-Antoine is named in honour of St. Anthony of Padua."
Fort Santiago is one of the oldest historical fortifications in Manila built by the Spaniards in 1571 from what was once a palisaded structure of logs and earth built by Rajah Soliman on the native settlement called Maynila. The colonizers recognized that the tongue of land where the Pasig River flowed into the Manila Bay was a very strategic location. The fort was destroyed in 1574 during the Chinese attack led by Limahong. The stone fort was built between 1589 and 1592 and was repaired and extended after being damaged by the 1645 earthquake. Spanish, British, American and Japanese occupation forces used the fort as their headquarters and a prison for men, women, children and soldiers. After its destruction during the Battle of Manila in 1945, the fort was used by the U.S. Transportation Corps as a depot until it was turned over to the Philippine government in 1946. In 1950, Fort Santiago was declared a Shrine of Freedom and restoration began the following year. Today, it stands as a memorial to the victims of World War II and the sacrifices of the Filipino people in pursuit of freedom.
The gate of Fort Santiago was destroyed during the Battle of Manila in 1945. The main gate is decorated by a relieve or wood relief carving of Santiago Matamoros (St. James, the “Moor-slayer”), the patron saint of Spain; together with the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Castile and Leon. What remains of the original gate are the embossed Spanish soldiers, now defaced. The image of St. James (Santiago), a symbol of Spanish sovereignty, decorates countries occupied by the Spaniards, such as Chile and Mexico.
The history info comes from: intramuros.gov.ph/fs/
A small horse, used to pull a kalesa full of tourists around Vigan, Philippines, waits under shade trees for some customers. This horse and most horses in the Philippines are direct descendants of the horses the Spanish brought with them when colonizing the islands.
Kerinci National Park, Jambi Province, Indonesia.
The tea plantations was established during the dutch colonization era.
At that time, lots of workers from Java were sent there as plantation labors. Our homestay owner told us that his grandparents were also part of the migrant workers. Later on, the camps transformed into villages as of nowadays.
Captured at FlashPoint Photography Studio.
Planet REACH
Reach was colonized by humans in the 23rd century and became a significant military and industrial hub for the United Nations Space Command (UNSC). Reach played a crucial role during the Human-Covenant War, acting as a frontline defense against the Covenant forces. In 2552, Reach was attacked by the Covenant, leading to its eventual fall and significant loss of life, including many Spartans. The events on Reach had a profound impact on the UNSC. The Fall of Reach influenced the shape and course of the war against the Covenant.
Source: Yahoo AI.
Eastern Coyote
The Eastern Coyote (Canis latrans var.) is a wild North American canine of both coyote and wolf parentage. The hybridization likely first occurred in the Great Lakes region, as western coyotes moved east. It was first noticed during the early 1930s to the late 1940s, and likely originated in the aftermath of the extirpation of the gray wolf in southeastern Ontario, Labrador and Quebec, thus allowing coyotesto colonize the former wolf ranges and mix with the remnant wolf populations. This hybrid is smaller than the eastern wolf and holds smaller territories but is larger and holds more extensive home ranges than the typical western coyote.
In the spring, females build dens in preparation for their young. Females have a gestation period of 63 days and give birth to groups of three to 12 young at once. The groups of babies are called litters and each coyote baby is called a pup. The size of the litter depends on where the coyotes live.
For more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_coyote
Several plants, including a red maple, have colonized this boulder surrounded by the water of a New Hampshire pond, perhaps 50 feet from the shore. I'm afraid their future is not rosy, but I will come back next year to see how they are doing.
Murphy Corners was an early pioneer settlement located on the failed Hastings Road. It was named after James and Pat Murphy, who settled on the southeast corner of the crossroads. The small settlement served a brief but important function as a mill town.
The Hastings Road was first opened in 1854 as part of the government's road colonization program. The program was designed to attract settlement in the under populated areas further north, and to encourage agriculture. The government was also under pressure from the lumbering industry, to provide roads and settlements where they could obtain food and provisions and set up sawmills for the newly harvested timber.
Once the lumbering companies began moving in, A. L. Purdy jumped on the opportunity and opened a sawmill. Situated a few kilometres north of Thanet, Murphy Corners was in an ideal location to serve the milling needs of the surrounding communities. By 1860, the tiny community had grown to include a school. A church was added in 1870. Prior to 1870, Roman Catholic services were held in Martin Murphy's home.
The Hasting Road was one of the most notable failures of the road colonization program. Plagued by poor construction and lack of maintenance, the road had fallen into a serious state of disrepair by the late 1860s. Once the woods were cleared, and the lumber barons gone, the settlers discovered that farming the rocky swamps of upper Hastings was a near impossibility. In the early 1870s, the government opened the rich farmlands of the Canadian prairies and many of the farmers headed out west. The arrival of the Central Ontario Railway in 1883 rendered the Hastings Road obsolete. One-by-one the small communities began to fail as settlers abandoned their lands in search of better opportunities. Murphy Corners faded along with them.
Unlike most of the failed communities along the Hastings Road, Murphy Corners still has a few relics left to show. The original Murphy home still stands along with an old gas station, that was closed at least 30 years ago. A log cabin, once owned by H. Dittman, stood until 2007. All that remains of Murphy Corners' sister community Thanet, five kilometres north, is the cemetery.
www.ghosttownpix.com/ontario/towns/murphy.html
Knarr Gallery
Daryl Knarr
Knarr Photography
Intramuros is the walled City of Manila during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines. Intramuros is made up of two Latin words: "intra" meaning within and "muros" meaning walls. It is claimed that the name Manila was derived from the word "Nilad" which is a type of Mangrove that bore white waxy flowers. The walled city was built by the Spanish to protect itself from attacks during its regime in the Philippines.
The building shown in the photo is Illustrado, a very popular restaurant situated in a preserved edifice with the walls.
For more information on the history of Intramuros, please go here
Despite the legend assigning its foundation to the famous Greek wrestler Milo of Croton (whence the name), Miglionico was most likely founded by the Oenotrians, a local Italic tribe. After the Greek colonization, it was held by the Lucani, followed by the Samnites until 458 BC, when it was conquered by the Romans.
In the Middle Ages the story of Miglionico was strongly connected to that of its large castle, which was held by the Hauteville Normans and then by the Sanseverino. After the latter where slaughtered by order of Frederick II (1245), Miglionico was assigned to his son Manfred. After the latter's fall, however, the Sanseverino were re-instated, holding the town until the abolition of feudalism.
This is a part of a larger build that will be coming soon. In the meantime, enjoy some micro fun that I've been having over the last few weeks.
SN/NC: Cecropia Pachystachya, Urticaceae Family
The Embauba, or Trumpet Tree (genus Cecropia), is a fast-growing pioneer tree of the Neotropics. Its most common is Cecropia Pachystachya of the Urticaceae Family. It is easily identified by its large, fast growing, umbrella-shaped leaves with silvery undersides. It has a famous mutualistic relationship with Azteca ants, which live in its hollow stems and defend it from herbivores. The tree colonizes disturbed areas and produces clusters of fruit that are a key food source for rainforest animals. It has its name from Tupi origin. It is very important to recover deteriorated areas. The fruit is delicious, one favorite of the monkeys and birds.
A Embauba, ou Árvore-da-Trombeta (gênero Cecropia), é uma árvore pioneira de crescimento rápido neotropical. A espécie mais comum é a Cecropia pachystachya da família Urticaceae. É facilmente identificada por suas folhas grandes, de crescimento rápido, em forma de guarda-chuva com a parte inferior prateada. Ela tem uma famosa relação mutualística com as formigas Azteca, que vivem em seus caules ocos e a defendem de herbívoros. A árvore coloniza áreas perturbadas e produz cachos de frutos que são uma fonte de alimento fundamental para os animais da floresta tropical. Seu nome é de origem tupi. É muito importante para a recuperação de áreas degradadas. O fruto é delicioso, um favorito de macacos e pássaros.
La Embauba, o Árbol de la Trompeta (género Cecropia), es un árbol pionero de rápido crecimiento neotropical. La especie más común es Cecropia pachystachya de la familia Urticaceae. Se identifica fácilmente por sus hojas grandes, de rápido crecimiento, en forma de paraguas con el envés plateado. Tiene una famosa relación mutualista con las hormigas Azteca, que viven en sus tallos huecos y la defienden de los herbívoros. El árbol coloniza áreas perturbadas y produce racimos de frutos que son un alimento clave para los animales del bosque tropical. Su nombre es de origen tupí. Es muy importante para recuperar áreas deterioradas. La fruta es deliciosa, una de las favoritas de monos y pássaros.
L'Embauba, ou Arbre à Trompette (genre Cecropia), est un arbre pionnier à croissance rapide des néotropiques. L'espèce la plus commune est Cecropia pachystachya de la famille des Urticacées. Il est facilement identifiable par ses grandes feuilles en forme de parapluie, à croissance rapide, au dessous argenté. Il a une relation mutualiste célèbre avec les fourmis Azteca, qui vivent dans ses tiges creuses et le défendent contre les herbivores. L'arbre colonise les zones perturbées et produit des grappes de fruits qui sont une source alimentaire clé pour les animaux de la forêt tropicale. Son nom est d'origine tupi. Il est très important pour la récupération des zones dégradées. Le fruit est délicieux, un favori des singes et des oiseaux.
L'Embauba, o Albero della Tromba (genere Cecropia), è un albero pioniere a crescita rapida delle regioni neotropicali. La specie più comune è la Cecropia pachystachya della famiglia delle Urticaceae. È facilmente identificabile per le sue grandi foglie a crescita rapida, a forma di ombrello con la pagina inferiore argentata. Ha una famosa relazione mutualistica con le formiche Azteca, che vivono nei suoi fusti cavi e la difendono dagli erbivori. L'albero colonizza aree disturbate e produce grappoli di frutti che sono un alimento chiave per gli animali della foresta pluviale. Il suo nome è di origine tupi. È molto importante per il recupero di aree deteriorate. Il frutto è delizioso, un favorito di scimmie e uccelli.
De Embauba, of Trompetboom (geslacht Cecropia), is een snelgroeiende pioniersboom uit de Neotropen. De meest voorkomende soort is Cecropia pachystachya van de Urticaceae-familie. Hij is gemakkelijk te herkennen aan zijn grote, snelgroeiende, parapluvormige bladeren met een zilverwitte onderkant. Hij heeft een beroemde mutualistische relatie met Azteca-mieren, die in zijn holle stengels leven en hem verdedigen tegen herbivoren. De boom koloniseert verstoorde gebieden en produceert trossen vruchten die een belangrijke voedselbron zijn voor regenwouddieren. Zijn naam is van Tupi-oorsprong. Hij is erg belangrijk voor het herstel van aangetaste gebieden. De vrucht is heerlijk, een favoriet van apen en vogels.
Die Embauba, oder Trompetenbaum (Gattung Cecropia), ist ein schnell wachsender Pionierbaum der Neotropis. Die häufigste Art ist Cecropia pachystachya aus der Familie der Urticaceae. Sie ist leicht an ihren großen, schnell wachsenden, schirmförmigen Blättern mit silbriger Unterseite zu erkennen. Sie hat eine berühmte mutualistische Beziehung mit Azteca-Ameisen, die in ihren hohlen Stängeln leben und sie vor Pflanzenfressern verteidigen. Der Baum besiedelt gestörte Flächen und produziert Fruchtbüschel, die eine wichtige Nahrungsquelle für Regenwaldtiere sind. Sein Name stammt aus der Tupi-Sprache. Er ist sehr wichtig für die Wiederherstellung geschädigter Gebiete. Die Frucht ist köstlich, ein Favorit von Affen und Vögeln.
Embauba，或称喇叭树（Cecropia 属），是一种新热带地区的速生先锋树种。最常见的物种是荨麻科的 Cecropia pachystachya。它很容易识别，其叶片大、生长快、呈伞形，且叶背为银白色。它与 Azteca 蚂蚁有着著名的互利共生关系，这些蚂蚁居住在其中空的茎干中，并保护它免受食草动物的侵害。这种树能定殖于受干扰的区域，其产生的簇生果实是雨林动物的关键食物来源。它的名字起源于图皮语。它对恢复退化地区非常重要。果实很美味，是猴子和鸟类的最爱之一。
エンボウバ（トランペットツリー、Cecropia属）は、新熱帯区に生息する成長の早い先駆樹です。最も一般的な種はイラクサ科のCecropia pachystachyaです。大きく、成長が早く、傘のような形状で裏側が銀白色の葉で簡単に見分けられます。アズテカアリと有名な相利共生関係にあり、アリは木の中空の茎に住み、草食動物から守ります。この木は撹乱された地域に群生し、熱帯雨林の動物にとって重要な食物源となる房状の果実を実らせます。その名前はトゥピ語に由来します。劣化した地域の回復に非常に重要です。果実は美味しく、サルや鳥のお気に入りです。
شجرة إيمبوبا، أو شجرة البوق (جنس Cecropia)، هي شجرة رائدة سريعة النمو في المنطقة الاستوائية الحديثة. أكثر أنواعها شيوعًا هو Cecropia pachystachya من فصيلة القراصيات. يمكن تمييزها easily من خلال أوراقها الكبيرة سريعة النمو والتي تشبه المظلة وذات لون فضي على الجانب السفلي. تربطها علاقة تبادلية شهيرة مع نمل Azteca، الذي يعيش في سيقانها المجوفة ويدافع عنها ضد آكلات الأعشاب. تستوطن الشجرة المناطق المضطربة وتنتج عناقيد من الثمار تعد مصدرًا غذائيًا رئيسيًا لحيوانات الغابات المطيرة. اسم الشجرة أصله من لغة التوبي. وهي مهمة جدًا لاستعادة المناطق المتدهورة. الثمرة لذيذة ومفضلة لدى القردة والطيور.
The Invaders is an American science fiction television series in 43 episodes of 48 minutes, created by Larry Cohen and aired between January 10, 1967 and March 26, 1968 on the ABC network.
One evening, while dozing off at the wheel of his car, David Vincent, architect, witnesses the landing of a flying saucer. Since that night, he has not stopped convincing his fellows to fight these extraterrestrials who, under a human appearance, insidiously infiltrate the Earth in order to colonize it.
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Les Envahisseurs est une série télévisée de science-fiction américaine en 43 épisodes de 48 minutes, créée par Larry Cohen et diffusée entre le 10 janvier 1967 et le 26 mars 1968 sur le réseau ABC.
Un soir, alors qu'il s'assoupit au volant de sa voiture, David Vincent, architecte, est témoin de l'atterrissage d'une soucoupe volante. Depuis cette nuit-là, il n'a de cesse de convaincre ses semblables de combattre ces extraterrestres qui, sous une apparence humaine, infiltrent insidieusement la Terre afin de la coloniser.
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In 1904 the people of Nambia rebelled against the German colonizers, who retaliated with genocidal ferocity by killing over 60,000 of the Herero people.
In 1908 a Namibian railroad worker named Zacherias Lewala was shoveling railroad tracks clear of creeping sand dunes when he saw some stones shining in the low light. Lewala's German employer identified them for what they were: diamonds. Lewala was not paid or rewarded for his find.
Soon hordes of prospectors descended on the area. By 1912 a town had sprung up Kolmanskop producing a million carats of diamonds a year. Tribespeople displaced from their land by the zone's construction were often employed as laborers in diamond mines, forced to live on cramped, barracks-like compounds for months at a time.
But it wasn't to last. Intensive mining depleted the area by the 1930s and the town's fate was sealed when the richest diamond fields ever known were found on the beach terraces to the south. Once again greed drove the townspeople in droves, abandoning homes and possessions.
And why are the houses painted in these vivid colors you ask? It was to keep the German women happy far from their homeland in a place where the men folk worked in the mines all day and were hardly ever home. And if you are wondering why no one lives there anymore...cause its just bad karma :)
didn't read line by line but enough to get picture of how Turkey, Arab & middles east countries were "created" during the period & glimpse into the many unnecessary deaths of solders from the colonized countries in the war
La famille des pics à colonisé mon jardin pour le plus grand bonheur de pouvoir les observer.
The woodpecker family colonized my garden to the delight of being able to observe them.
By these waters, in 1500, the first Portuguese caravels docked in Brazilian territory, on the beaches of Porto Seguro, Bahia to discover Brazil and begin the colonization of the Indians.
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A dead tree is biologically highly active:
Fungi, mosses, and lichens colonize it.
Insect larvae feed on the wood.
Woodpeckers, beetles, and microorganisms follow.
Nutrients are returned to the forest floor.
Such standing dead trees are called deadwood or habitat trees – they are extremely valuable for the forest.
Lebensraum statt „toter Baum“
Ein abgestorbener Baum ist biologisch hochaktiv:
Pilze, Moose und Flechten besiedeln ihn.
Insektenlarven fressen das Holz.
Spechte, Käfer und Mikroorganismen folgen.
Nährstoffe werden wieder dem Waldboden zugeführt.
Solche stehenden toten Bäume nennt man Totholz oder Biotopbäume – sie sind extrem wertvoll für den Wald.
The ancient settlement presumably dates from the passage and colonization of the Phoenicians. The region's first foral (charter) dates to 1229, when it was issued by friar D. Fernão Rodrigues Monteiro, Master of the Cavalry and the Military Order of São Bento de Avis, which was later reformed by King Manuel, in 1513. Ericeira was an area much frequented for its climatic and seaside comforts.
Enciera, Portugal - a town with treasures in architecture, restaurants, hotels and seaside everywhere...
This planet seems good. One species seem to be so populous they have infiltrated every continent. They do have some rudimentary language skills but their mathematic ability is so basic they would never be considered an intelligent species. Atmosphere is very similar to ours with minimal terra and bioforming needed making it cheap to colonize.
The fingers quickly tapped the device sending a communication to corporate headquarters that they could apply to the commission to colonize earth with a high degree of probability of being approved.
Within a decade the ships started arriving. Humans objected to being colonized and threw every nuclear weapon they could scrap up. The colonizers retreated back to orbit, baffled by a species intelligent enough to create a bomb that could destroy the atmosphere and stupid enough to deploy it. The colonizers requested equipment to cleanse the atmosphere which was an extra expense. By the time they received approval and the equipment, all life forms on earth were dead except for cockroaches.
The colony shipped in fauna and flora from their original planet. It was much better really. Normally it was very difficult to get permission to make a planet exactly like home. There were groups that fought for planetary diversity but really it wasn't the colonizers' fault the original species killed themselves and almost everything else.
No one was happy about the cockroaches tho. Not even the groups for planetary diversity as cockroaches spread quickly across the galaxies once a few managed to get aboard ships. Major funding was approved to eradicate them. Nothing worked. The cockroaches kept surviving and coming back. Very irritating.
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Since SL is a community effort with lots of people making things, like a movie, here is the credit roll of everyone who helped make this picture possible
Windlight Sky:
Naturally Dreamy Summer from ColeMarie's Windlight Set (Series #1) by ColeMari Soleil
Backdrop:
Data Spaceship Backdrop by Synnergy.Tavis
Handheld object with pose:
Data Reader Bento Pose by Synnergy.Tavis
Myself:
Catsuit ZX-3 Maitreya White by CyberFactory
Hair: River Hair by Raven Bell
13. Bangs / Swept Right Narrow by TRUTH
Simrugh Horns Winter Special Edition by AERTH
Wrist/hands tattoo: Winter Touch, hands by +Fallen Gods Inc.
Lipstick: Evo X - 01 Silver Glitter Lipstick 75% by Izzie's
Eyelashes tinted turquoise through Lel Evox hud for Noel 3.1 by LeLUTKA
Face: Frozen (LeL Evo X) - Porcelain by Bold & Beauty
Skin: Icy by Velour
Head lel Evox Noel 3.1 by LeLUTKA
Body: Lara v.5.3 by Maitreya
Shape: Tessa Shape Vv by WoW Skins with modifications by myself
Note: I added texture and the aqua lighting on the right through Photoshop. For the texture, I used NightCafe to create an image with two planets on one layer and then used the SoftLight filter in PS at 40% opacity. The aqua lighting I brushed two circles of aqua, then Guassian Filter to spread them out, then Vivid Light filters at differing opacity for each circle.
This is my original raw picture from SL
C’est l’arrivée de Mathieu Van Roggen, venu de Hollande, qui a dynamisé vers 1880 les CARRIÈRES DE SPRIMONT. Il les a rendues pleinement performantes par la rationalisation de l’exploitation et la modernisation de l’outil. La grande centrale électrique de 1904, devenue “Musée de la pierre”, en est le remarquable témoin. Par la suite, le groupe Merbes-Sprimont gère les propriétés jusqu’à la reprise en 1984 par la famille Brancaleoni.
Plusieurs sites sont actuellement en exploitation. La réputation de qualité de ces gisements est depuis longtemps établie et
les références de prestige en sont fort nombreuses, depuis la Grand’ Poste de Liège et le pont de Fragnée vers 1900, jusqu’au
nouveau pont haubané du Val-Benoît en 2000.
Importante capacité de production et souplesse de gestion sont les atouts premiers de l’entreprise sprimontoise.
Cette carrière de petit granit consiste en une excavation allongée, partiellement occupée par la 'décharge de classe III du Fond de Correux'. L'activité extractive a encore lieu dans la partie médiane et un grand atelier de taille est installé vers la route. Le secteur occidental, actuellement désaffecté, et les abords supérieurs de la fosse présentent toutefois un intérêt biologique: reproduction du crapaud accoucheur et du lézard des murailles; flanc nord incliné colonisé par une végétation des substrats calcaires (e.a. Catapodium rigidum, Crepis foetida, Teucrium botrys); présence de la fougère Gymnocarpium robertianum.
It was the arrival of Mathieu Van Roggen, from Holland, who revitalised the CARRIÈRES DE SPRIMONT around 1880. He made them fully efficient by rationalising the operation and modernising the tool. The large power station of 1904, which became the “Stone Museum”, is a remarkable example of this. Subsequently, the Merbes-Sprimont group managed the properties until the Brancaleoni family took them over in 1984.
Several sites are currently in operation. The reputation for quality of these deposits has long been established and
their prestigious references are numerous, from the Grand’ Poste in Liège and the Fragnée bridge around 1900, to the
new cable-stayed bridge at Val-Benoît in 2000.
Significant production capacity and management flexibility are the primary assets of the Sprimont company.
This small granite quarry consists of an elongated excavation, partially occupied by the 'class III dump of Fond de Correux'. Extractive activity still takes place in the middle part and a large cutting workshop is installed towards the road. The western sector, currently disused, and the upper edges of the pit are nevertheless of biological interest: reproduction of the midwife toad and the wall lizard; inclined northern flank colonized by vegetation of calcareous substrates (e.g. Catapodium rigidum, Crepis foetida, Teucrium botrys); presence of the fern Gymnocarpium robertianum.
Puerto Varas es la capital turistica del sur de Chile. Ubicada en la Provincia de Llanquihue en la Región de Los Lagos, a orillas del Lago Llanquihue a 1016 kms al sur de Santiago y a 20 kms al norte de Puerto Montt.
La ciudad fue fundada en 1853 a partir de la colonizacion principalmente de emigrantes provenientes de Alemania y Suiza hoy cuenta con 32.000 habitantes. Destaca por su belleza escenica, orden y limpieza asi tambien denominada la "Cuidad de las Rosas"
Es el punto de inicio para una serie de actividades principalmente del tipo "Turismo Aventura" entre los que destacan caminatas y ski en las laderas del Volcan Osorno, visitas al Lago Todos los Santos y Parque Nacional Vicente Perez Rosales con los Saltos del Río Petrohue, el Cruce Andino de los las Lagos Patagonicos, Pesca Deportiva (Flyfishing), kayaking, velerismo, y una infinidad de otras activividades derivadas de su entorno agricola y natural siempre verde.
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Puerto Varas is the tourist capital of southern Chile. Located in the Province of Llanquihue in the Lakes Region on the shores of Lake Llanquihue to 1016 kms south of Santiago and 20 km north of Puerto Montt.
The city was founded in 1853 after the colonization mainly immigrants from Germany and Switzerland today has 32,000 inhabitants. Noted for its scenic beauty, order and cleanliness so also called the "City of Roses"
It is the starting point for a series of activities mainly of type "Adventure Tourism" among them hiking and ski on the slopes of Volcan Osorno, visits to Lake Todos los Santos and Vicente Perez Rosales National Park with the falls of Petrohue, the crossing of the Patagonian lakes, fishing (Flyfishing), kayaking, sailing, and a host of other activividades derived from the surrounding agricultural and natural evergreen.
Córdoba - Spain.
Córdoba (/ˈkɔːrdəbə/, Spanish: [ˈkoɾðoβa]), also called Cordova (/ˈkɔːrdəvə/) in English, is a city in Andalusia, southern Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. It was a Roman settlement, then colonized by Muslim armies in the eighth century. It became the capital of the Islamic Emirate, and then of the Caliphate of Córdoba, including most of the Iberian Peninsula. Córdoba consisted of hundreds of workshops that created goods such as silk.
Caliph Al Hakam II opened many libraries in addition to the many medical schools and universities which existed at the time, making Córdoba a centre for education. During these centuries it became the center of a society ruled by Muslims, in which all other groups had a second-class status. It was recaptured by Christian forces in 1236, during the Reconquista. The historic centre was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Córdoba has the highest summer temperatures in Spain and Europe, with average high temperatures around 37 °C (99 °F) in July and August.
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Gadwall - Anas Strepera
Norfolk
The gadwall breeds in the northern areas of Europe and Asia, and central North America. In North America, its breeding range lies along the Saint Lawrence River, through the Great Lakes, Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Dakotas, south to Kansas, west to California, and along coastal Pacific Canada and southern coastal Alaska. The range of this bird appears to be expanding into eastern North America. This dabbling duck is strongly migratory, and winters farther south than its breeding range, from coastal Alaska, south into Central America, and east into Idaho, Kansas, Ohio, Virginia, and then south all the way into Central America.
In Great Britain, the gadwall is a scarce-breeding bird and winter visitor, though its population has increased in recent years. It is likely that its expansion was partly through introduction, mainly to England, and partly through colonization to Great Britain, with continental birds staying to breed in Scotland. It has been reported in the River Avon in Hampshire and Wiltshire. In Ireland a small breeding population has recently become established, centred on Wexford in the south and Lough Neagh in the north.
Population:
UK breeding:
1,200 summer nesting pairs
UK wintering:
25,000 birds
The small sleepy village of Tai Po is like a step back in time to how Hong Kong may well have looked before colonization.
Not always a fan of this Filipino version of crème caramel as I find it either too rich or too sweet. Likely introduced to the Philippines during Spanish colonization, this one isn't too bad though.
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Londrina is 88 years old and was mostly colonized by europeans and Japanese. The photo shows a typical pioneer house (1930-40) made with "peroba rosa" (pink peroba, a tree that is now protected) reassembled at the State University of Londrina. Canon EOS Rebel T3, polarizing filter.
Beautiful, crystal clear river in unspoiled surroundings.
Near Cisnes, Aysen region, Patagonia Chile
It is very much untouched by civilization. This is the youngest area of the Chilean nation. Not until the early 20th century did Chile actively promote colonization of the region, and many of the towns are barely 50 years old.
Read more: www.lonelyplanet.com/chile/northern-patagonia/history#ixz...