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Ink and ecoline ink on paper. A 'South pointing fish' or 'South-governor' was an early (200 BCE-100 CE) Chinese Compass.
Where are you headed? If you don’t know, what a wonderful surprise could lie ahead. Being lost can lead you on the most amazing adventures :)
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119 Photos in 2019 - 27. Compass
Why not a chicken compass?? #icad2016 Day9 Compass (phMartenLiquidWatercolors, oil pastels, brush pen)
Essential if one wants to fly in the right direction.
Whenever a significant change is made to an airframe it is necessary to Swing the compass to determine the small errors that residual magnetic fields in the structure have on the compass.
Those errors are recorded on the Compass Card. As can be seen from this card, the errors in this compass are only one or two degrees.
#76 Magnetic for 118 pictures in 2018
Transport for Macro Mondays
WEMBLEY 26/02/2023 Newcastle United vs Manchester United. Around 160 coaches turned up for the Carabao Cup Final and as usual a good selection of makes and models of varying ages came to have their photos taken by the assembled bus photting community. Highlights for this visit were a pair of McGill's Tourismos, a 1994 Jonckheere Monaco that has recently been on a couple of aid trips to Ukraine, 3x new Volvo 9700s for Sky Coaches, a mysterious Van Hool Astromega, and a suitably decorated minibus in NUFC colours!
"no direction, I am a compass
constantly spinning
constantly searching for the end
never reaching our destination
but the goal was never when
or where
or who;
it was only you"
In September, 2020, Compass Bus received fourteen Enviro 200s on hire from Mistral Bus and Coach for use on additional school services introduced to allow social distancing on service buses. A further three had been added by the year end. YY66 PCX had been new to Crosville in Weston-super-mare and was making itself useful on rail replacement between Chichester and Portsmouth today, 20th February 2021.
One of a pair of Volvo B10M-61 Duple 340s supplied new to Compass Royston in 1988, both of which remained on fleet until 1999. E274 NVN, now NIW 7125, passes through Dover Docks on 23rd August, 1997.
La plaza de Bib-Rambla, o de Bibarrambla, es un espacio público situado en la ciudad
española de Granada, en Andalucía.
Su origen se remonta al periodo nazarí, debiendo desempeñar un papel importante debido a su proximidad al núcleo comercial y mercantil de la ciudad sito en la Alcaicería y en el Zacatín, en cuyo conjunto de pequeñas y entramadas calles se fraguaba la vida comercial de la ciudad.
Si bien en la época musulmana fue escenario de los intercambios comerciales, en otros periodos fue en esta plaza donde se desarrollaban justas, corridas de toros y fiesta en general, aunque poco a poco cambió su importancia y al igual que numerosas plazas y calles de la ciudad de Granada fue objeto de profundas transformaciones urbanísticas.
En su configuración actual es una plaza de corte rectangular presidida por la fuente de los Gigantes de motivos paganos y detalles bucólicos propios de una plaza comercial. En los extremos de la plaza se halla decorada por farolas fernandinas de hierro de finales del siglo XIX provenientes de una fundición hispalense.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_Bib-Rambla
www.granada.info/plaza-bib-rambla
rinconesdegranada.com/plaza-bib-rambla
The Plaza de Bib-Rambla, or Bibarrambla Square, is a public space located in the Spanish city of Granada, in Andalusia, Spain.
Spanish city of Granada, in Andalusia.
Its origins date back to the Nasrid period, and it must have played an important role due to its proximity to the commercial and mercantile centre of the city, located in the Alcaicería and the Zacatín, where the commercial life of the city was forged in a series of small, interwoven streets.
Although in the Muslim period it was the scene of commercial exchanges, in other periods it was in this square where jousting, bullfighting and festivities in general took place, although its importance gradually changed and, like many other squares and streets in the city of Granada, it underwent profound urban transformations.
In its current configuration it is a rectangular square presided over by the fountain of the Giants with pagan motifs and bucolic details typical of a commercial square. At the ends of the square it is decorated with late 19th century iron lampposts from a foundry in Seville.
La Fuente de Los Gigantones se ha convertido en uno de los puntos de encuentro más concurridos de Granada. Se sitúa en la Plaza de Bib-Rambla, en el lugar que ocupó la fuente del leoncillo, que existió desde poco después de la conquista hasta mediados del siglo XIX.
La Fuente de Los Gigantones, data de la segunda mitad del siglo XVII y se construyó para el compás del Convento de los Agustinos Calzados. El convento, que estuvo situado en el solar que hoy ocupa el Mercado de San Agustín, tuvo que ser abandonado por los monjes con la desamortización en el siglo XVIII. Las autoridades republicanas lo derribaron, salvando esta fuente monumental que trasladaron al paseo del Salón, donde hoy se encuentra la Fuente de Las Granadas. Allí estuvo hasta que se trasladó en 1892 al final del Paseo de la Bomba, dejando paso al Monumento de Isabel la Católica y Colón, con motivo del cuarto centenario del descubrimiento de América. En 1940 la Fuente de Los Gigantones se trasladó a la Plaza de Bib-Rambla, terminando (por ahora) su largo recorrido por Granada.
rinconesdegranada.com/fuente-de-los-gigantones
Consta de una base con una gran pila en forma trebolada, sobre la cual en el centro hay un fuste con bajorrelieves que representan el Sol, la Luna, la Iglesia y el Corazón, en el cual se apoya la primera taza, sobre cuatro Gigantones con caras grotescas.
Esas caras vienen a significar el pecado, pues debemos pensar que el fin original de la fuente era la de presidir el claustro de un convento.
Los Gigantones tienen entre sus pies peces y de sus bocas salen caños con agua. Tienen todos uno de sus brazos sobre la cabeza aguantando la primera taza de la fuente.
Quizás estos Gigantones sean la parte más significativa de la fuente y al mismo tiempo la más enigmática en cuanto a su significado.
La primera taza es completamente lisa, y tiene mascarones de los que salen otros caños de agua que se intercalan con los de los Gigantes.
El fuste de columna entre la primera y la segunda taza, está decorada con relieves de mujeres semidesnudas que representan la fecundidad y la prosperidad.
En un segundo nivel, tenemos una taza algo más pequeña, y con decoración gallonada, también con mascarones de los que sale agua.
Coronando el conjunto la figura de Neptuno con un tridente en una de las manos y la otra señalando al cielo, sobre un bulbo de flores, y una pieza cuadrada con relieves de angelotes.
www.granadaporelmundo.com/fuente-de-los-gigantones/
The Fuente de Los Gigantones has become one of the busiest meeting points in Granada. It is located in the Plaza de Bib-Rambla, on the site of the former lion fountain, which existed from shortly after the conquest until the middle of the 19th century.
The Fountain of Los Gigantones, dating from the second half of the 17th century, was built for the compass of the Convent of the Agustinos Calzados. The convent, which was located on the site now occupied by the Mercado de San Agustín, had to be abandoned by the monks with the disentailment of the monks in the 18th century. The Republican authorities demolished it, saving this monumental fountain which they moved to the Paseo del Salón, where the Fuente de Las Granadas stands today. It remained there until it was moved in 1892 to the end of the Paseo de la Bomba, making way for the Monument of Isabel the Catholic and Columbus, on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the discovery of America. In 1940 the Fuente de Los Gigantones was moved to the Plaza de Bib-Rambla, ending (for now) its long journey through Granada.
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It consists of a base with a large trefoil-shaped basin, on the centre of which there is a shaft with bas-reliefs representing the Sun, the Moon, the Church and the Heart, on which the first cup rests on four giants with grotesque faces.
These faces come to signify sin, as we must think that the original purpose of the fountain was to preside over the cloister of a convent.
The giants have fish between their feet and water spouts coming out of their mouths. They all have one of their arms above their heads holding the first cup of the fountain.
Perhaps these giants are the most significant part of the fountain and at the same time the most enigmatic in terms of its meaning.
The first bowl is completely smooth, and has masks from which other water spouts emerge and are interspersed with those of the giants.
The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam.
The glass roofing:
Its self-supporting construction is made up of thousands of pieces of glass in a metal frame.
Roof Facts:
- Self-sustaining construction of 34 x 34 metres.
-Inspired by the compass lines on old nautical charts.
-160.000 kg steel and 40.000 kg glass.
City: Amsterdam.
Country: Netherlands.
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Seen in Brighton Seafront on route 47
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Early morning reflection.
Poznan, Poland
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