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Commemorating Minerva and her half-brother: our much loved, still missed Mr Pip.
Tattoo, as ever, by the superlative Gillian Turner Ink.
(Glasgow, 2018)
To commemorate 25 years of its service in Indian Railways, EMD's home shed, UBL DLS selected this locomotive, WDP-4B 40057 and gave it a special and stunning looking 'Namma Karunadu' livery, which basks in the early morning sunshine sprinting towards Yesvantapur at around 105kmph pulling the 5 hours late running Chandigarh Yesvantapur Karnataka Sampark Kranti express.
Commemorating the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air. In June 1928 the seaplane "Friendship", flown from Newfoundland, touched down in the Burry Inlet. It was towed into Burry Port harbour, where the two male pilots and Ms Earhart came ashore to much celebration. Amelia Earhart (born Kansas 1897) went on to achieve great success as an aviator, sadly being lost over the Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world in 1937.
London buses go purple to commemorate Queen, Borismaster seen passing through Parliament Square, London
Taken with a Nikon D7000
This wooden sculpture commemorates the finding at Uig on the Isle of Lewis of the Lewis Chessmen.
The Lewis chessmen or Uig chessmen, named after the island or the bay where they were found, are a group of distinctive 12th-century chess pieces, along with other game pieces, most of which are carved from walrus ivory. Discovered in 1831 on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, they may constitute some of the few complete, surviving medieval chess sets, although it is not clear if a set as originally made can be assembled from the pieces. When found, the hoard contained 93 artifacts: 78 chess pieces, 14 tablemen and one belt buckle. Today, 82 pieces are owned and usually exhibited by the British Museum in London, and the remaining 11 are at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
To celebrate our inaugural event, The Arcade invites you to
commemorate a month of shopping, fun and exploration with our
photography contest, presented by Adorkable Poses. Fun, nostalgic,
quirky or dramatic; alone or in couples and groups – Submit any sort
of photo you want, so long as it includes at least five pieces from your
gacha loot. Details below:
1st Place:
• You and a friend get to bypass the lines and lag for early access
into The Arcade for our next gacha event (December, 2012)
• L$2,500 store credit at Adorkable Poses
• Your photo featured on The Arcade’s website
2nd Place:
• L$1,000 store credit to Adorkable Poses
• Your photo featured on The Arcade’s website
3rd Place:
• L$500 store credit to Adorkable Poses
• Your photo featured on The Arcade’s website
Contest opens: Saturday, September 15, 2012
Contest closes: Monday, October 15, 2012
Winners announced: Saturday, October 20, 2012
• Your photo must showcase a minimum of five items purchased from The
Arcade. The creators and/or brands behind these items should be
credited in your photo’s description.
• Models must use poses from Adorkable Poses
.
• There’s no limit to the number of photos you may submit, but each
photo must be submitted by one resident only. Duplicate entries for
the same photo are not allowed.
• Photos should be tasteful. No nudity.
• Each photo must be submitted via Flickr and added to The Arcade’s
photo pool. Only members of the group can add to the pool,
so if you haven’t yet joined The Arcade’s Flickr group, you can do so
here.
• Your photo must be titled, “The Arcade Photography Contest” and needs to include your first and last (SL) name.
• By entering the contest, you acknowledge that The Arcade may use
your submitted image(s) for promotional purposes and in marketing
materials.
Submitted images will be judged on originality, technical excellence,
composition, overall impact and artistic merit. All decisions made by
the judges are final. The Arcade team and employees of event sponsors
are not eligible to win prizes.
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Commemorating the toilet roll fights of a couple of years ago much enjoyed in Little England during the Zombie Apocalypse of Doom, Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe is exploring yet another business opportunity. Bets can be placed on who manages to end the bout with the most toilet paper. We’re currently in round 3, as poxy monkeys Sharon & Tracy, champion toilet roll hoarders of 2020 do their best.
Many of our favourite little people are here including Liz and Margo who never miss out on a good flutter. Nasal Nigel is enjoying an elevated position from the top of a beer cask, and already has ideas for a similar competition involving cling film. Maybe we won’t go there.
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Eastman Kodak Company every child in the U.S.A. and Canada whose 12th birthday fell in 1930 received this camera for free. During May 1930 every child, accompanied by a parent or guardian, could go to a Kodak dealer and receive the camera and a roll of film. No cameras would be given before May 1 or after May 31 and none after the supply of 500,000 (in the U.S.A.) was exhausted. It seems that within two or three days all were gone.
The Fiftieth Anniversary Kodak is a special version of the No. 2 Hawkeye Camera Model C (1926-1934), featuring tan leatherette, gold colored metal parts and a gold colored seal. It takes 6 pictures of 2.25 x 3.25 inch on a 120 size spool of film.
After the first World War the Hawkeye cameras were often used as premium or give away cameras by non-photographic manufacturers. Examples are Cadbury's Chocolades, Wright's Coal Tar Soap or the makers of Black Cat cigarettes.
commemorating the start of WW1, Wave was part or an installation in London in autumn last year, 2014. Now on exhibit at Cascade Bridge at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, West Yorks, UK. November 2015.
French medal commemorating the birth of Napoleon II to Napoleon and his second wife, Marie Louise Andrieu on March 20, 1811.
"The birth of this Prince, designated by the title of king of Rome, was announced to the city of Paris by the firing of cannon immediately on the accouchement of the Empress. All Paris was in anxious suspense, it being usual on the birth of a princess to fire a round of 21 guns, and on that of a prince 101 discharges, the anxiety of the populace waiting in silence, and counting the 21 discharges cannot be described: on the report being heard of the twenty-second gun, their rapture knew no bounds, and exclamations of Vive l'Empereur! filled the air in all directions; the promenades, the streets, houses, and public assemblies were all full of people; in fact, the whole population of Paris were at the moment silent, and absorbed in counting the number of the discharges. The powers of Europe on this occasion also sent the most distinguished persons of their courts to compliment the Emperor and Empress. The Emperor of Russia sent his minister of the interior, the Emperor of Austria, the Count Clary, one of the highest officers of the state, who was charged with a present for the young Prince of a diamond collar of all the orders of the Austrian monarchy." Laskey p. 194-195
More information on the life of Napoleon II:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_II
15mm Bronze
Yearly event commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem in the aftermath of the Six Day War of 1967, in which Israel regained control over their holiest sites. Main part of the day is the Dance and Flag Parade, concentrated in and around Jaffa Road. Some 70.000 people from all over Israel and the world joined in the celebrations.
Commemorating not only the Polish Soldiers during World War II but also the Brown Bear known as Wojtek, who along with some of the soldiers, found refuge after the war in Scotland. It also celebrates the ties that have been established between Edinburgh and Poland.
Wojtek was rescued as a cub in the Middle East in 1943, by a group of Polish soldiers from the Free Polish Army. Wojtek was a 500lb Brown Bear, who served alongside Polish soldiers during World War II. The bear became the mascot of the platoon, and before he could be transported to Europe, he had to be enlisted prior to being transported by a British ship (regulations). This was the only way that the bear could travel, so he was given the rank of Private and a number.
Wojtek (meaning Joyful Warrior) was trained to salute, drink beer, carry supplies and crates of ammunition and he was used at the Battle of Monte Cassino.
After the war ended the unit along with Wojtek were transferred to Scotland.
Once the Polish unit was demobilized during 1947, many of the troops remained in Scotland rather that returning to Poland after the Iron Curtain fell.
Wojtek was then moved to Edinburgh Zoo, where he remained until he died aged 22 in 1963.
Roseberry Topping is a distinctive hill in northern Yorkshire, England. It is situated near Great Ayton and Newton under Roseberry. Its summit has a distinctive half-cone shape with a jagged cliff, which has led to many comparisons with the much higher Matterhorn in Switzerland. It forms a symbolic image of the area and featured as the logo for the now defunct county of Cleveland.
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At 1,049 feet (320 m), Roseberry Topping was traditionally thought to be the highest hill on the North York Moors;however, the nearby Urra Moor is higher, at 1,490 feet (450 m). It offers views of Captain Cook's Monument at Easby Moor and the monument at Eston Nab.
Geology
The hill is an outlier of the North York Moors uplands. It is formed from sandstone laid down in the Middle and Lower Jurassic periods, between 208 and 165 million years ago, which constitutes the youngest sandstone to be found in any of the National Parks in England and Wales. Its distinctive conical shape is the result of the hill's hard sandstone cap protecting the underlying shales and clays from erosion by the effects of ice, wind and rain.
Until 1912, the summit resembled a sugarloaf until a geological fault and possibly nearby alum and ironstone mining caused its collapse. The area immediately below the summit is still extensively pitted and scarred from the former mineworks. The summit has magnificent views across the Cleveland plain as far as the Pennines on a clear day, some 40 to 50 miles (60 to 80 km) away.
History
The Bronze Age Roseberry Topping hoard
The Roseberry area has been inhabited for thousands of years and the hill has long attracted attention for its distinctive shape. A Bronze Age hoard was discovered on the slopes of the hill and is now in the Sheffield City Museum. It was occupied during the Iron Age; walled enclosures and the remains of huts dating from the period are still visible in the hill's vicinity.
The hill was perhaps held in special regard by the Vikings who settled in Cleveland during the early medieval period and gave the area many of its place names. They gave Roseberry Topping its present name: first attested in 1119 as Othenesberg, its second element is accepted to derive from Old Norse bjarg ('rock'); the first element must be an Old Norse personal name, Auðunn or Óðinn, giving 'Auðunn's/Óðinn's rock'. If the latter, Roseberry Topping is one of only a handful of known pagan names in England, being named after the Norse god Odin and paralleled by the Old English name Wodnesberg, found for example in Woodnesborough.The name changed successively to Othensberg, Ohenseberg, Ounsberry and Ouesberry before finally settling on Roseberry. "Topping" is a Yorkshire dialect derivation of Old English topp, 'top (of a hill)'.The naming of the hill may thus fit a well-established pattern in Continental Europe of hills and mountains being named after Odin or the Germanic equivalent, Wodan. Ælfric of Eynsham, writing in the 10th century, recorded how "the heathens made him into a celebrated god and made offerings to him at crossroads and brought oblations to high hills for him. This god was honoured among all heathens and he is called ... Oðon in Danish."[
In 1736, the explorer James Cook's family moved to Airey Holme Farm at nearby Great Ayton. When he had time off from working on the farm with his father, young James would take himself off up Roseberry Topping, which gave him his first taste for adventure and exploration, which was to stay with him for life.
Roseberry Topping can be seen from many miles away and was long used by sailors and farmers as an indicator of impending bad weather. An old rhyme commemorates this usage:
When Roseberry Topping wears a cap, let Cleveland then beware of a clap!
The hill was private property for many years, formerly being part of a game estate owned by the Cressy family. In the early 18th century, Dorothea Cressy married Archibald Primrose, who was later made Earl of Rosebery in recognition of the hill. Roseberry Topping is now managed by the National Trust and is open to the public. It is just within the North York Moors National Park whose border runs along the A173 road below it.
A spur of the Cleveland Way National Trail runs up to the summit. The path has been a popular sight-seeing excursion for centuries due to the spectacular views of the Cleveland area from the summit; as early as 1700, travellers were recommended to visit the peak to see "the most delightful prospect upon the valleys below to the hills above."
The site was notified as a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1954, with a boundary extension in 1986 bringing the designated area to 10.86 hectares. The site is listed as being of national importance in the Geological Conservation Review.
During the Napoleonic Wars, the Wensleydale volunteers responded to a false alarm when the beacon on Penhill in North Yorkshire was lit in response to a supposed lit beacon on Roseberry Topping, 40 miles distant. This turned out to be burning heather.
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Rochester Bridge Trust illuminates the 'old' bridge regularly, to commemorate different events.
Today, apparently, is the UN International Day of Education.
A big part of RBT's work is educational, to encourage children to go into engineering careers. They also administer educational grants to assist where the young person qualifies.
Each June, WWII is recreated in Dixon, IL at Elks Page Park to commemorate the Second World War.
This spectator event gives a glimpse of life on the front lines in France, 1944 through Living History by members of the World War Two Historical Reenactment Society. You will be able to see firsthand the typical life of "Willie and Joe," the American dogface soldier, along with battle-hardened German troops. Experience the sights and sounds of a WWII battle.
Original American armored vehicles and rare examples of German equipment will be on display and operational during the weekend. Do not miss this opportunity to bring history off the pages of a book.
www.visitnorthwestillinois.com/event/292-wwii-reenactment...
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the battle of the Somme, an offensive which took place in France at the Somme River, against the German armies beginning 1st July 1916, this display is the brainchild of artist Rob Heard from Somerset. On the 1st July 1916, the British Army saw 19,240 deaths of a total of 57,000 casualties. Casualties of the Somme on the Allied side were 480,000 in total, a disaster but they were higher on the German side, 630,000.
This display in Northernhay Gardens, Exeter, has 19,240 shrouds to remember the men who fell.
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This collage commemorates the launch of a new group called the
The purpose of the group is to celibate the use of NASA imagery in art.
NASA has one of the coolest public domain collection that freely avalbe for use.
We at the NASA remix project invite you to grab some photos from the NASA image gallery or the GRIN archive and grab some photos and Remix them into your own work.
We currently hosting a Remix Challenge, to get people thinking about creative ways to manipulate and recreate these historical images.
Images by NASA!
Pilot Image HERE
texture by Skeletal Mess
To commemorate 11th November, here’s a photograph I took in Melbourne, Australia, of ‘The Man with the Donkey’ – a statue of a stretcher bearer with his donkey carrying a wounded comrade, to epitomise the courage and compassion of the Australian soldier.
In the First World War, many Anzac soldiers wounded at Gallipoli owed their life to the stretcher bearers, who braved enemy fire to rescue men from the front line and carry them to dressing stations on the beach.
The best known of the bearers was John Simpson Kirkpatrick, featured here, who commandeered a donkey to aid him as casualties grew and manpower was stretched to its limits. Simpson, as he was known, landed at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and was killed less than a month later.
The statue, designed by Wallace Anderson, is near the Shrine of Remembrance in the King’s Domain in Melbourne. Lest we forget.
The Miner & Child Sculpture:
This sculpture commemorates the hard work of the dedicated early pioneers who contributed to laying the early foundations of Mount Isa. The sculpture was commisioned by the Mount Isa City Council and has been built using material salvaged from the old Isa Street Bridge. The old Isa Street Bridge was demolished in May 2019 to make way for the new bridge. With the city's rich mining history, the sculpture depicts a child and miner from the 1930s looking over the mine, reminiscing about the signifigance of the discovery of minerals and how Mount Isa came into existence.
The Isa Street Bridge:
With the discovery of the Mount Isa field in 1923 miners working on the leases set up camps on the western side of the Leichhardt River. The new settlement grew quickly and by 1924 the town, with a population of 350, comprised two stores, a bakery, three boarding houses, a hall, an ambulance, a provisional school, and two picture theatres.
People were either living in tents or bough sheds. When Mount Isa was surveyed later that year it was decided to move the township to the other side of the river to allow for expansion of the mining activities and the construction of the railway. Businesses were established in the surveyed town, but residents were reluctant to move their homes. With the arrival of the railway in 1929 the population increased to 3000 and camps were set up on either side of the river, forming a distinct ‘Townside’ and ‘Mineside’. When the Leichhardt River flooded, people were left stranded on either side.
In 1931, the Cloncurry Shire Council announced plans for a bridge linking the town and the mines. The local Chamber of Commerce provided a census of motor vehicles travelling between town and mine.
The Isa Street Bridge was officially opened on the 25th of November 1932. Until the opening of the Sir James Foots Bridge in 1967 Isa Street Bridge was the only bridge in town providing a link between the Mines and the town. It appears that the bridge has been duplicated more recently to provide a seperated pedestrian crossing, however the date of this undertaking is unknown.
Source: Mount Isa City Council, Mount Isa City Council Heritage Register.
Commemorating the deaths of school children during WW1. We tend to forget that there was also aerial bombing in WW1, albeit on the same scale as WW2.
The monument was erected in 1859 and commemorates the entrance to Brigham Young's property at the mouth of City Creek Canyon.[3] It was originally topped by a wooden eagle, refurbished several times and eventually replaced by the current 4,000-pound, bronze eagle, with a wingspan of 20 feet (6.1 m). Carved by Ralph Ramsay,[4] the original wooden eagle is on display at the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum located at 300 North Main Street.
The first Eagle Gate was remodeled and enlarged with new stone piers and wider inverted arches in the early 1890s (with Ralph Ramsay's eagle rebuilt and fortified); designed by Don Carlos Young, an architect son of Brigham Young. Due to the widening of State Street in the early 1960s, the prior monument including Ramsay's eagle was removed and replaced with a much wider and larger third generation Eagle Gate, designed by Salt Lake City architect George Cannon Young. Young was the son of Don Carlos Young and the grandson of Brigham Young. The monument is one of Salt Lake City's most well known pioneer landmarks, and its current design is one of Salt Lake City's best standing examples of Mid-Century Modern desig
Commemorating the Council of Constance that took place there between 1414 and 1418, the concrete statue is 9 metres high, weighs 18 tonnes, and stands on a pedestal that rotates around its axis once every four minutes.
When the dignitaries of Victorian Stratford-upon-Avon decided to commemorate the town's most famous former resident, they admirably chose to build a memorial theatre rather than 'merely' a statue – but were persuaded to include a sculpted monument anyway: the 'Shakespeare Memorial' (1888), by Lord Ronald Gower.
Though sometimes dismissed as a 'gentleman amateur', Lord Ronald (Charles Sutherland-Leveson-)Gower (1845-1916) was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, where he became an authority on Shakespeare portraiture, and an accomplished sculptor also experienced in the practicalities of bronze casting.
A plaque on the plinth records that Gower's (self-funded?) project took twelve years, from initial sculpting in clay (a plaster cast of the proposed monument was displayed in Paris in 1881), via casting in bronze by three specialist Parisian foundries, to installation (under French supervision) in Stratford on a Bath- and York stone plinth also designed in Paris.
At the centre is the seated bronze figure of Shakespeare on a stone plinth decorated with bronze wreaths, vines and masks of comedy and tragedy. Surrounding this central element are four of Shakespeare's characters in bronze, chosen to reflect the playwright's versatility: Hamlet, Prince Hal, Falstaff and Lady Macbeth respectively represent 'Philosophy', 'History', 'Comedy' and 'Tragedy'. Shakespeare himself is placed rather too high to be examined properly, which also encourages birds to perch on the statue (with all that ensues...), but I rather like the depictions of Hamlet, Hal and Lady Macbeth.
Unveiled in October 1888, the monument was initially located outside the Memorial Theatre, facing Holy Trinity Church, where Shakespeare is buried. The character statues occupied alcoves in the faces of the plinth, as parts of a clearly unified composition.
However, the Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1926 and rebuilt facing the opposite way; rather than leave the (undamaged) Memorial hidden behind the new building, in 1933 it was moved ~250 m to beside the main road near Clopton Bridge, a more spacious site which allowed the display of the character statues some 10 m from each corner (rather than each face) of the plinth, almost giving them the status of standalone pieces – not something for which Gower had planned, and the statues don't entirely work in isolation.
This one depicts the moment when Prince Hal, the future Henry V, visits his ill father and, thinking Henry IV dead, hesitantly puts on the crown – and his sleeping father wakes. The resulting anger and shame spurs the dissolute young prince to adopt the responsibility of his status.
A cherry blossom is a flower of several trees of genus Prunus, particularly the Japanese cherry, Prunus serrulata, which is called sakura after the Japanese.
Currently they are widely distributed, especially in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere including Japan, Nepal, India, Taiwan, Korea, Mainland China, West Siberia, Iran and Afghanistan. Along with the chrysanthemum, the cherry blossom is considered the national flower of Japan.
All varieties of cherry blossom trees produce small, unpalatable fruit or edible cherries. Edible cherries generally come from cultivars of the related species Prunus avium and Prunus cerasus.
"Hanami" is the centuries-old practice of picnicking under a blooming sakura or ume tree. The custom is said to have started during the Nara period (710–794), when it was ume blossoms that people admired in the beginning, but by the Heian period (794–1185) cherry blossoms came to attract more attention, and hanami was synonymous with sakura. From then on, in both waka and haiku, "flowers" (hana) meant "cherry blossoms". The custom was originally limited to the elite of the Imperial Court, but soon spread to samurai society and, by the Edo period, to the common people as well. Tokugawa Yoshimune planted areas of cherry blossom trees to encourage this. Under the sakura trees, people had lunch and drank sake in cheerful feasts.
Woodblock print of Mount Fuji and cherry blossom from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji by Hiroshige
Every year the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the public track the sakura zensen (cherry blossom front) as it moves northward up the archipelago with the approach of warmer weather via nightly forecasts following the weather segment of news programs. The blossoming begins in Okinawa in January, and typically reaches Kyoto and Tokyo at the end of March or the beginning of April. It proceeds into areas at the higher altitudes and northward, arriving in Hokkaido a few weeks later. Japanese pay close attention to these forecasts and turn out in large numbers at parks, shrines and temples with family and friends to hold flower-viewing parties. Hanami festivals celebrate the beauty of the cherry blossom and for many are a chance to relax and enjoy the beautiful view. The custom of hanami dates back many centuries in Japan. The eighth-century chronicle Nihon Shoki records hanami festivals being held as early as the third century AD.
Most Japanese schools and public buildings have cherry blossom trees outside of them. Since the fiscal and school year both begin in April, in many parts of Honshu, the first day of work or school coincides with the cherry blossom season.
The Japan Cherry Blossom Association developed a list of Japan's Top 100 Cherry Blossom Spots with at least one location in every prefecture.
The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington. Mayor Ozaki donated the trees in an effort to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also celebrate the continued close relationship between the two nations. Large and colorful helium balloons, floats, marching bands from across the country, music and showmanship are parts of the Festival's parade and other events.
The effort to bring cherry blossom trees to Washington, D.C., preceded the official planting by several decades. In 1885, Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore returned from her first trip to Japan and approached the U.S. Army Superintendent of the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds with the idea of planting cherry trees along the reclaimed waterfront of the Potomac River. Scidmore, who would go on to become the first female board member of the National Geographic Society, was rebuffed, though she would continue proposing the idea to every Superintendent for the next 24 years.
The first "Cherry Blossom Festival" was held in 1935 under joint sponsorship by numerous civic groups, becoming an annual event. The cherry trees had by this point become an established part of the nation's capital. In 1938, plans to cut down trees to clear ground for the Jefferson Memorial prompted a group of women to chain themselves together at the site in protest. A compromise was reached where more trees would be planted along the south side of the Basin to frame the Memorial. A Cherry Blossom Pageant was begun in 1940.
On December 11, 1941, four trees were cut down. It is suspected that this was retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan four days earlier, though this was never confirmed. In hopes of dissuading people from further attacks upon the trees during the war, they were referred to as "Oriental" flowering cherry trees for the war's duration. Suspended during World War II, the festival resumed in 1947 with the support of the Washington, D.C., Board of Trade and the D.C. Commissioners.
In 1948, the Cherry Blossom Princess and U.S. Cherry Blossom Queen program were started by the National Conference of State Societies. A Princess was selected from each state and federal territory, with a queen chosen to reign over the festival. In 1952, Japan requested help restoring the cherry tree grove at Adachi, Tokyo along the Arakawa River, which was the parent stock of the D.C. trees but had diminished during the war. In response, the National Park Service sent budwood back to Tokyo.
The Japanese ambassador gave a 300-year-old stone lantern to the city of Washington to commemorate the signing of the 1854 Japan-US Treaty of Amity and Friendship by Commodore Matthew C. Perry. For a number of years, the lighting of this lantern formally opened the Festival. Three years later, the president of the pearl company started by Mikimoto Kōkichi donated the Mikimoto Pearl Crown. Containing more than five pounds of gold and 1,585 pearls, the crown is used at the coronation of the Festival Queen at the Grand Ball. The next year, the Mayor of Yokohama gifted a stone pagoda to the City to "symbolize the spirit of friendship between the United States of America manifested in the Treaty of Peace, Amity and Commerce signed at Yokohama on March 31, 1854."
The Japanese gave 3,800 more Yoshino trees in 1965, which were accepted by First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. These trees were grown in the United States and many were planted on the grounds of the Washington Monument. For the occasion, the First Lady and Ryuji Takeuchi, wife of the Japanese ambassador, reenacted the 1912 planting. In 1982, Japanese horticulturalists took cuttings from Yoshino trees in Washington, D.C., to replace cherry trees that had been destroyed in a flood in Japan. From 1986 to 1988, 676 cherry trees were planted using US$101,000 in private funds donated to the National Park Service to restore the trees to the number at the time of the original gift.
In 1994, the Festival was expanded to two weeks to accommodate the many activities that happen during the trees' blooming. Two years later, the Potomac and Arakawa became sister rivers. Cuttings were taken from the documented 1912 trees in 1997 to be used in replacement plantings and thus preserve the genetic heritage of the grove. In 1999, fifty trees of the Usuzumi variety from Motosu, Gifu, were planted in West Potomac Park. According to legend, these trees were first planted by Emperor Keitai in the 6th century and were designated a National Treasure of Japan in 1922. From 2002 to 2006, 400 trees propagated from the surviving 1912 trees were planted to ensure the genetic heritage of the original donation is maintained.
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War memorial commemorating 165 of the Soviet prisoners of war who lost their lives in Norway during WWII.
140 of the 165 were exhumed from their graves in five other locations after the war and laid to rest again here.
About 500 prison camps were established in Norway by the German occupying power (1940-45). 150,000 prisoners of war, captured as they sought to fight Hitler's Third Reich elsewhere in Europe, were brought to Norway. They were used as slave labourers and generally subjected to inhuman conditions.
Some 13,700 of the 20,000 POWs who died in Norway were Soviet citizens.
Vinjeøra, Norway, 5th May 2016, © Lise Utne
This impressive monument commemorates the Fallen of the old counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. The insignia on the front are those of the Royal Navy, the Army, the Royal Air Force, and the medical services. The insignia on the back are those of the Cumberland Artillery, the Border Regiment, and the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry. Its panels now refer to the fallen of both the First and Second World Wars.
It was dedicated on 25th May 1922, and unveiled by the Earl of Lonsdale. Schools and workplaces released pupils and employees to enable them to attend. It is believed the dedication ceremony was attended by 25,000 people.
The structure is of local Pink Shap Granite and was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer. It is 40 feet high and was constructed at a cost £5,000.
The parkland in which it stands was the initiative of the Carlisle Citizen’s League, a charitable organisation founded in 1914 by the then acting Mayor of Carlisle, Sir Benjamin Scott. The League (which provided considerable aid to ex-service personnel) raised, through public subscription, the sum of £11,500, sufficient to purchase the area now known as Rickerby Park.
When a decision was made to erect a memorial to those of the two counties of Cumberland and Westmorland who had made the Supreme Sacrifice in The Great War this site, in Rickerby Park, was chosen.
The result was the imposing Cenotaph, the Empty Tomb you see here. This was the focus of the annual 11am Act of Remembrance until the City Centre Cenotaph in the Greenmarket was dedicated in 1990. For some years the commemoration at the more accessible City memorial drew attention away from this.
However in recent times the local branch of The Royal British Legion has, on each Remembrance Sunday, hosted an afternoon Act of Commemoration here, with greater and greater numbers attending each year.
The Park also has a Memorial Bridge and a Memorial Garden, both just a short walk from the Cenotaph. The bridge provides a pedestrian and cycle link to the east of the city. It has an impressive single span of 200 feet and was constructed in 1922 by local craftsmen from around 100 tons of steel. It crosses where the rivers Petteril and Eden converge. It was dedicated at the same time as the Cenotaph.
The Garden, Memorial 12 in this series, is laid out to a formal design and with a dedication to the Fallen. It is actually an entrance to the Park from the northern end of the Eden Bridge. The Garden was also provided through the efforts of the Carlisle Citizen’s League.
"Think well of us, oh land for which we fell. May all that's well with Britain still go well. Keep her bright banners free from spot or stain. Lest we should dream that we may die in vain"!
Rickerby Park is a public open space in Carlisle, Cumbria on the banks of the River Eden. The parkland is dotted with mature trees, beneath which cattle and sheep graze the sweet pasture grasses. A riverbank path follows the sweeping bends of the Eden and, by crossing the Memorial Bridge, you can complete a circular walk back to the city centre on the opposite bank. Nearby is Rickerby Hall and the village of Rickerby.
The manor of Rickerby has been owned by a number of families, specifically the Tilliols, Rickerbys, Pickerings, Westons, Musgraves, Studholmes, Gilpins, Richardsons, and Grahams.
In the 19th century it was owned by the banker George Head Head. In 1876, George Head Head died and Miles MacInnes, a justice of the Peace, succeeded to the 940 acres of Rickerby where he owned all the land. In 1914 the estate was broken up and sold off up by the trustees of the MacInnes estate.
In 1920 the Citizens League purchased the area known today as Rickerby Park for £11,500. In a joint scheme with the Corporation (now Carlisle City Council), Rickerby Park was dedicated as a memorial to the fallen of the Great War of 1914-1918. The Memorial Bridge, from St Aidans Road was erected along with the Memorial Cenotaph.
On 25 May 1922, Rickerby Park was formally opened and handed over to the City of Carlisle for the benefit of the public.
XA1405 and an Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS) tour commemorating the "Great Southern Railway Centenary" train to Albany at Mount Barker Railway Station on 4 March 1989. Photo: Phil Melling.
Commemorating the 200 year anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner. 7 frames converted to HDR in CS6. Shot using Manfrotto 190 tripod, with remote release.
Pennsylvania State Monument, Gettysburg National Military Park - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - USA
Info: The Pennsylvania State Memorial[2] is a monument in Gettysburg National Military Park that commemorates the 34,530 Pennsylvania soldiers who fought in the July 1 to 3, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. The memorial stands along Cemetery Ridge, the Union battle line on July 2, 1863.[5] Completed in 1914, it is the largest of the state monuments on the Gettysburg Battlefield.[4] > Pennsylvania State Memorial, Gettysburg - wiki
.... Commemorating the atomic bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki in 1945 and ensuring it never be forgotten & to work for the abolition of nuclear weapons ....
Commemorates the life of William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, the businessman who created the factory and model village of Port Sunlight. The base has four figures, three figures face away from the art gallery, on the left is Industry, represented by a man holding a tool, in the middle is Charity, a woman cradling a child, and on the right is Education, a male scholar holding a book and pointing at a page. On the back, facing the gallery, is Art, a woman with a palette. The figures are intended to represent Lever's qualities and interests.
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower, The Royal Mint has issued a brand new £2 coin.
2020 marks 400 years since the Mayflower set sail on its famous voyage from Plymouth, England to the ‘New World’ in 1620 – a key event in British history.
102 Pilgrims and around 30 crew aboard the ship spent two months at sea, battling against the North Atlantic wind on their ground-breaking journey to America.
The Design
US designer, Chris Costello, retells the epic story of the Mayflower’s voyage on the obverse of this new £2 coin. Sails billowing in the wind, this memorable design features the inscription ‘1620-2020’ above and ‘Mayflower’ below.
Commemorating this fascinating operator's then 25th anniversary.
Leeds, junction of Headrow and Vicar Lane, 28/05/1994.
Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück (Ravensbrück Memorial)
"In 1939, the SS had the largest women’s concentration camp in the German Reich built in the Prussian village of Ravensbrück, not far from Fürstenberg. [...]
In April 1941, a men’s camp was added, which was also under the command of the women’s camp’s commandant, and in June 1942, the immediately adjacent Uckermark “juvenile protective custody camp” was taken into operation. The women’s concentration camp was continually expanded until 1945. The SS had more and more huts erected to house prisoners, and in the autumn of 1944, a large tent was added. Within the camp’s perimeter wall, an industrial complex comprising several production facilities was established, where female prisoners were forced to carry out tasks traditionally considered women’s work such as sewing, weaving or knotting. [...]
Around 120,000 women and children, 20,000 men and 1,200 adolescent girls and young women (imprisoned in the Uckermark “juvenile protective custody camp”) were registered as Ravensbrück prisoners between 1939 and 1945. These prisoners came from over 30 nations and included Jewish, Sinti and Roma people. Tens of thousands of them were murdered, died of hunger and disease or were killed in medical experiments. [...]
From 1941 onward, Ravensbrück was used as a place of execution. Countless women — the exact number is not known — were shot to death. In early 1945, the SS set up a provisional gas chamber at Ravensbrück in a hut next to the crematorium, where between 5,000 and 6,000 prisoners were gassed between late January and April 1945. Among them were approximately 100 prisoners from the men’s camp. [...]
After the liberation, the Soviet Army took over much of the former concentration camp and used it as a barracks; the remaining buildings – including the crematorium – fell into ruin. From 1948, former prisoners and the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime attempted to preserve at least the area around the crematorium and turn it into a place of remembrance. [...]
The “Ravensbrück National Memorial” was opened on 12 September 1959 and was one of the GDR’s three national memorials. In their design, the architects, members of the so-called Buchenwald collective, included parts of the former concentration camp buildings such as the crematorium and the camp prison (cell building) located outside the four-metre high camp wall, as well as a section of the wall itself. In 1959, a mass grave was established outside the camp wall’s western section, where the remains of prisoners from various burial sites were reburied. [...] From May 1945 until late January 1994, the grounds of the former concentration camp except for the memorial area on the banks of Lake Schwedt were used for military purposes by the Soviet and later the CIS forces.
After the reunification of Germany, the Memorial became part of the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation (Stiftung Brandenburgische Gedenkstätten), an independent foundation under public law funded by the State of Brandenburg and the Federal Government. [...]
The “Museum of Anti-Fascist Resistance” at the former SS headquarters was replaced by two new permanent exhibitions in the course of the Memorial’s redesign in the early 1990s. Since April 2013, an area of 900 square metres here has been devoted to the exhibition “The Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp: History and Commemoration“. [...]"
Built to commemorate the release of Star Wars: Visions but kept in purgatory for the absolutely stunning renders by www.flickr.com/photos/exesandbox/; huge shoutouts to my man. Stud.io file ovah here: www.dropbox.com/s/6hb33ik00xnbaal/gundam%20x%20wing%20i%2...
Commemorating Canada Day with this water drop photograph refracting the Canadian Flag inside the drops.
Commemorating Hurricane Irma.
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Bunting from the 50s flying in the wind during the social distance street party to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE day. Lovely to see so many people taking part in a safe and respectful manner.
Anzac Day occurs on 25 April. It commemorates all New Zealanders killed in war and also honours returned servicemen and women.
The date itself marks the anniversary of the landing of New Zealand and Australian soldiers – the Anzacs – on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. The aim was to capture the Dardanelles, the gateway to the Bosphorus and the Black Sea. At the end of the campaign, Gallipoli was still held by its Turkish defenders.
Thousands lost their lives in the Gallipoli campaign: 87,000 Turks, 44,000 men from France and the British Empire, including 8500 Australians. To this day, Australia also marks the events of 25 April. Among the dead were 2779 New Zealanders, about a sixth of those who served on Gallipoli.
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the commencement of World War One, a Drum Head Ceremony took place amongst the WW1 training trenches on Otterburn Camp, Northumberland. More than 100 people made the trip to the wilds of Northumberland & although drenched by a severe downpour - We Did Remember Them...
Meeting to commemorate the 20th year since
the fall of the Berlin Wall in a central zone of Milan, Italy.
To commemorate 50 years since the end of crew operation at Edgware garage, RT 2177 operated on route 292 (the last crew route) on Saturday 15 July 2023. I'm a bit younger than the bus, but I have to say the RT was in better condition and running more smoothly than me!
They are original blinds, from the last bus in 1973.