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Well I've managed to do a 52 week project. Somewhere though it seems that I might have put two images in for one week. I think next year I will have to make sure I shoot my 52 on a certain day so there shouldn't be any mistakes.
The city lights of Melbourne glimmer in the background as Metro Trains ECOM consist 633M-634M-EV120-586M-585M slowly rolls out of the Western Portal of the Metro Tunnel near South Kensington as test train 7641 to Sunshine, marking the completion of their first trip through the tunnel in a 5-car configuration.
The train had previously travelled through the Tunnel as a 7-car consist with EV120 at the rear (flic.kr/p/2qEJwbZ) prior to the Comeng sets being modified to allow operation with EV120 in the centre of the train, including removal of trailer cars 1167T & 1143T (I think making them the first two carriages that have travelled through the Metro Tunnel and since been scrapped). 12/7/25
Another Nevada Northern night shoot in the bag. This weekend starred NNRY 81 and her work crew with NNRY 93 steamed up and playing a supporting role.
Locomotive 81 is nearing completion of an extensive overhaul after 69 years of inactivity.
This also marks the first time the NNRY night shoot was run entirely on my lighting equipment.
Special thanks to Con, Lennox, and Charish for modeling in the cold.
WATERDOG.
Originally named ‘Flyboat 81’ it is believed that it was built by the Baltic Engine Works Company in 1876 at East Yorkshire.
Made from iron her hull is riveted and not welded and when she slid of the dry docks on completion she boasted a steam engine and plied her trade as a trader between Hull, Goole, York and Rotherham and carried a variety of freight.
In the early 1900’s the steam engine was removed and in 1950 a newer and more modern marine Gardner 4LW engine was installed.
In 1963 WATERDOG’s new owners British Waterways renamed ‘Flyboat 81’ to its current name WATERDOG which coincided with the names of her sister craft named ‘WATEREEL’ ‘WATERDEER’ and ‘WATERBIRD’.
In 1962 the British Transport Commission was separated into several newly established organisations which saw the management of the inland waterways becoming under control of the newly formed British Waterways Board.
All British Waterways assets and responsibilities in England and Wales were transferred to the Canal and River Trust on 2 July 2012.
In 1979 ‘WATERDOG’ which by this time had been taken out of service was reinstated back into service and was converted to a houseboat.
‘WATERDOG’ which is today moored in Woodbridge, Suffolk boasts a beam of 14.60 feet (4.45m) with a depth of 7.19 feet (2.29m) with an overall length of 88.98 feet (27.12 m) and has a tonnage gross of 74.00.
From 1876 – 1958 she was named ‘Flyboat 81’ and in 1958 she was renamed ‘WATERDOG’.
Her current owners acquired ‘WATERDOG’ in the 1990’s and during that time the vessel has undergone a total refurbishment which includes an engine replacement which has seem the installation of a Ford 6 cylinder Dovertech engine with a PRM gearbox which works in unison with the 29 inch propeller.
Woodbridge, Suffolk, England.
We're on the movie set of, "Fury" where it is nearing completion and on it's way to Woodfield Mall in Schaumberg, IL (Chicago). If you want to check out the completed layout, you'll have to see it in person! Rumor has it, Brickmania is opening up it's second retail store there this May!
The completion of another 52 weeks photo project. The sub-task was the four seasons, a picture taken in each of the four seasons.
I like using crops to illustrate this as seasonal differences are more profound. I didn't mange to precisely re-create the exact pose and people as 2020, but started off well! Have a Happy New Year
Na afronding van de restauratie van het historische mat' 36 stel 252, werd er door het Spoorwegmuseum de tentoonstelling ' Onder Hoogspanning' georganiseerd. Hierin stond de elektrificatie van de spoorwegen in Nederland centraal. Stel 252 was opengesteld voor het publiek. Doordat we er al direct na opening waren, kon ik uitgebreid het stel en de andere treinen fotograferen. Ondertussen vermaakten mijn dochter en haar vrienden zich prima in het museum.
After completion of the restoration of the historic mat' 36 set 252, the Railway Museum organised the exhibition 'Under High Voltage'. This focused on the electrification of the railways in the Netherlands. Set 252 was open to the public. Because we were there right after the opening, I was able to extensively photograph the set and the other trains. In the meantime, my daughter and her friends enjoyed themselves in the museum.
Nach Abschluss der Restaurierung der historischen Triebwagen 252 organisierte das Eisenbahnmuseum die Ausstellung „Unter Hochspannung“. Im Mittelpunkt stand dabei die Elektrifizierung der Eisenbahnen in den Niederlanden. Triebwagen 252 war für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich. Da wir direkt nach der Eröffnung dort waren, konnte ich das Paar und die anderen Züge ausgiebig fotografieren. In der Zwischenzeit hatten meine Tochter und ihre Freunde eine tolle Zeit im Museum.
Upon completion in autumn 2021, the new three storey, state of the art, locality healthcare facility will bring together six local GP practices to serve 40,000 members of the local population. In addition to GP services the new centre will accommodate district nurses, health visitors and social work, dental and podiatry departments to provide a full range of enhanced healthcare on the site. Quoted from the Queens Quay website
Hāpuawhenua Viaduct - Built 1908.
The completion of the new Hāpuawhenua Viaduct in 1987 saw the old viaduct fall temporarily into disuse until it was repurposed as the site of the world’s first commercial bungy jumping operation. It then stood redundant for some 20 years until it was restored and re-opened as an extension of the Ohakune Old Coach Road walking and cycling track in 2009.
Geocache - Hapuawhenua Viaduct (Ohakune) Traditional Cache GC23XB1
Artist: Edouard Manet
Completion Date: 1882
Place of Creation: Paris, France
Style: Impressionism
Genre: portrait
Technique: aquatint, etching
Dimensions: 15.5 x 10.7 cm
"Spring" somehow manages to be the evocation of youth itself and all its hopes. The subject is 16-year-old actress Jeanne Demarsy, just then seeing her stage career ascend at the same time Manet neared the end of his own career. (He died at age 51 in 1883, soon after the painting went on display.)
Getty Assistant Curator Scott Allan said that the Getty worked hard to acquire "Spring" and was lucky to get her. According to news reports, the Christie's auction price paid was an eyebrow-lifting $65 million — about double the top previous sale price for a Manet.
Gull Wing Bridge is a road bridge being built to span Lake Lothing in the town of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, which is claimed to be (once completed) the largest rolling bascule bridge in the world lifted using hydraulic cylinders. The bridge is planned to be completed and open to traffic mid 2024.
With only 37 days remaining until the big grand opening on April 26th, contractors rush to complete Utah Transit Authority's Salt Lake Central commuter rail station at 3rd South and 6th West on March 20, 2008.
OUR HEART ARE WITH PEOPLE OF PARIS.
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The Eiffel Tower, one of Paris's most visited attractions, welcoming almost seven million visitors per year.
Tower was completed 126 years ago. The tower was the main exhibit at the 1889 Exposition Universal (World’s Fair),
Completed on March 31, 1889, the tower was the world’s tallest man-made structure for 41 years until the completion of the Chrysler Building in New York in 1930.
It is 324 meters tall (including antennas) and weighs 10,100 tonnes.
It is possible to climb to the top, but there are 1,665 steps. Most people take the lift.
Its construction took two years, two months and five days - 180 years fewer than Paris's other great attraction, Notre Dame.
Repainting the tower, which happens every seven years, requires 60 tonnes of paint.
It costs €15 to take the lift to the top.
- after; Telegraph. UK
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty-six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
The Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute sits on a narrow strip of land between the Grand Canal and the St. Marks Basin. The church was proposed in 1630 by the Venetian Senate in response to a particularly bad wave of the plague which had killed about a third of the population. It was designed by Baldassare Longhena and sits upon a platform of 100,000 wooden piles. Longhena didn't live to see his masterpiece completed having died five years before its completion in 1687.
My entry into Swebrick's annual AFOL vs AFOL completion.
This years theme was "Adventure" and I managed to reach a second place with this build.
The Riverplace Tower is a 28-floor office building on the south bank of the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida. At the time of its construction, it was the tallest building in the state of Florida and was the defining landmark in Jacksonville's skyline. On April 18, 2012, the American Institute of Architects's Florida Chapter placed the building on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places as the Riverplace Tower / Formerly Gulf Life Tower.
The Auchter Company, Jacksonville's oldest general construction contractor, built the 542,000 square foot Gulf Life Tower for the Gulf Life Insurance Company in 1966. It was designed by the notable architect, Welton Becket and KBJ Architects. When completed in 1967, it was the tallest precast, post-tensioned concrete structure in the world.
It remained Florida's tallest for five years until Miami's One Biscayne Tower was constructed in 1972. It was Jacksonville's tallest for eight years until the Independent Life Building (now the Wells Fargo Center) was built in 1974. In 2007, 40 years after its construction, Riverplace Tower was still the fifth tallest building in Jacksonville.
Gulf Life Insurance Company was merged into American General Life of Houston in 1991 and the Jacksonville Gulf Life Tower was unneeded and destined to be sold. American General wanted $30 million, but the building was 24 years old and no longer a class "A" property. Several prospective buyers looked at the building, but the property stayed on the market for more than two years. For tax reasons, American General was desperate to sell during 1993 and accepted a cash offer from Gate Petroleum for substantially less than their asking price. Shortly thereafter, Gate began a multimillion-dollar renovation of the entire building and renamed it Riverplace Tower.
Building occupancy was 40% when the sale closed; within two years from the completion of the renovation, it had soared to nearly 95% and the building was restored to its former prominence.
The banner sign at the top of the building originally displayed "Gulf Life" in 1967. After Gulf Life was acquired by American General in 1991, it was changed to "SouthTrust", and the structure was known as the SouthTrust Building. When SouthTrust and Wachovia merged in 2005, "Wachovia" signage was installed, but it was removed January 22, 2011.
Since 1968 until its closure in 2016, the University Club of Jacksonville occupied the building's top floor. There were approximately 1,300 members: business executives of both genders; older, long-term associates; and young professionals. The private club was available to members and their guests, or ClubCorp affiliates. The facility was a hub for networking and entertaining clients, as well as providing conference rooms and offices for conducting business in private. The club also offered two full service athletic facilities; one co-ed and one for men only.
The structural system consists of precast concrete floorplates and a poured concrete core. The concrete grid on the outside of the building is the only support needed to hold up the structure, leaving the interior completely available for use. Each of the exposed beams consist of fourteen precast units held together with high strength post-tensioned steel cables. The beams cantilever 42 feet from the columns as they taper upward and inward. The color of the concrete façade comes from White quartz sand and white cement bonded to the surface.
The Gate River Run Hall of Fame was established in 2002 and is permanently located on the concourse level. Memorabilia from the event, which began in 1978, is on display, and a five-minute video gives visitors an overview of the race. Plaques for each of the 12 persons inducted into the HOF are on display.
The Village Bread Cafe is a public restaurant located on the second floor of the tower, and it offers an excellent view of the river and northbank through its glass, north-facing wall.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverplace_Tower
www.emporis.com/buildings/118934/riverplace-tower-jackson...
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Then it was over. In fact, it was truly done in a manner of completion far beyond what the crowd understood.
"After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, “I am thirsty.” A jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. Therefore when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And He bowed His head and gave up His spirit." John 19:28-30
God continued to provide physical types so that we could understand the spiritual activity. That cup of most bitter drink that Jesus had prayed three times in the Garden of Gethsemane might pass from Him if possible, was the Father's wrath at the sins of those Jesus would save. Having now completed that, having now paid in full every sin of every person He would save, Jesus now demonstrated this by drinking of the bitter wine He had refused before.
And He yielded to the physical death. Had evil prevailed over Christ? Hardly.
"For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”" John 10:17-18
It has been well said that what death did to Jesus is nothing compared to what Jesus did to death.
"When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away." Matthew 27:57-60
Continuing to fulfill prophecy in the most exact details, Christ's redemptive work marched on with the appropriation of His tomb.
The work was not yet complete. Justification had been achieved through His substitutionary atoning death on the cross but there was more to be done before His people would be secured for Himself forever, But the hard part was over.
Now, Jesus could rest from His labor of justification. He was active even now spiritually while His physical body lay silent. The religious leaders who had pushed for His death, who had aroused the mob against Him were still afraid.
"Now on the next day, the day after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered together with Pilate, and said, “Sir, we remember that when He was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I am to rise again.’ Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.” Pilate said to them, “You have a guard; go, make it as secure as you know how.” And they went and made the grave secure, and along with the guard they set a seal on the stone." Matthew 27:62-66
After all, had Jesus not already said,
"Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?” But He was speaking of the temple of His body. So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken." John 2:19-21
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Paprihaven celebrates the foreordained plan of God in His work of redemption for lost sinners culminating in the victorious resurrection of Christ Jesus from the dead.
"“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know— this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power." Acts 2:22-24
Previous Resurrection Day celebrations at Paprihaven:
2016:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/25962038802/
2017:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/34054141545/
2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/41096879842/
2019:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/32688654147/
2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/49797426658/
2021:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51092700833/
2022:
View of tug boats towing the Southampton Dock on the River Tyne, c1924 (TWAM ref. DS.VA/9/PH/11/990). She was launched at the Walker Naval Yard on 2 May 1923 and when completed in the following year was the largest floating dock in the world.
This set of images celebrates the achievements of the Naval Yard at High Walker. The Yard was established by Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd as a replacement for the firm’s Elswick Shipyard. The size of the Elswick yard and its location above Newcastle Swing Bridge meant that by the early twentieth century it had become unsuitable for building large warships. Shipbuilding operations started at the Naval Yard in 1913 and by the end of the First World War all shipbuilding at Elswick had ceased.
Between 1913 and 1928 the yard completed 37 warships, 29 merchant ships and 30 tankers. In April 1928, though, it was placed on a care and maintenance basis. The yard re-opened in 1930 to build the liner ‘Monarch of Bermuda’ but after her completion in November 1931 had to close again from lack or orders. In May 1934, however, the yard re-opened and went on to play an important role in the Second World War. During the War the yard delivered 72 ships including a battleship, a monitor, 4 aircraft-carriers, 3 cruisers, 22 destroyers, 15 submarines and numerous landing craft.
After the War the Naval Yard was busy with merchant shipping. Giant tankers and famous passenger liners, such as the ‘Empress of England’, were built at Walker. From 1953 onwards the Yard also started building warships again, including the County-class destroyer HMS Glamorgan, launched in 1964. Difficult times lay ahead, though, and in 1968 the shipyards on the Tyne were merged to form Swan Hunter and Tyne Shipbuilders. On 15 February 1980 the containership ‘Dunedin’ was the last vessel to be launched at the Naval Yard bringing to an end a proud shipbuilding history.
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This is the 3rd and last photo of the series that I took last summer at the Edro III shipwreck in Pegeia (or Peyia), Cyprus. In case you are interested, the two previous photos are Rusty Calmness and Monochrome
I was lucky enough to get a beautiful sunset with some interesting clouds in the sky. I was waiting for the sun to hide behind the clouds, but there were a lot of people at the site while I was taking the shot. Therefore I decided to lower both the highlights and shadows in post-processing, to create silhouettes of the ship and the remaining foreground features on the right.
To celebrate the completion of the Death Star, the Empire gave away to the Emperor and Darth Vader a Death Star cake.
More shots STAR WARS (secret life) available here
Thank you very much for faves and comments.
Thank you very much to Pilar for this wonderful present. The Cake was awesome, an excellent work, as all the cakes that you create. If you want to admire more sweet creations, I recommend that you visit her personal page:
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Para celebrar la finalización de la Estrella de la Muerte, el Imperio regaló al Emperador y a Darth Vader una tarta de la Estrella de la Muerte.
Más fotografías STAR WARS (secret life) disponibles aquí
Muchas gracias por los favoritos y los comentarios.
Muchas gracias a Pilar por este maravilloso regalo. La tarta era impresionante, un trabajo excelente, como todas las tartas que haces. Si quieren admirar más creaciones dulces, les recomiendo que visiten su página personal:
On our camping trip to Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon National Park, we made several stops along the way.
This is the bridge over the Colorado River just west of the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. Page is in the distance. The green area is the Page golf course. The picture is taken through the glass of the Carl Hayden Visitor Center. When I took the photo I did not notice the smudge on the glass. Oh well, maybe I'll get a better photo next time.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon_Dam
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Canyon_Dam_Bridge
The Glen Canyon Bridge or Glen Canyon Dam Bridge is a steel arch bridge in Coconino County, Arizona, carrying U.S. Route 89 across the Colorado River. The bridge was originally built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to facilitate transportation of materials for the Glen Canyon Dam, which lies adjacent to the bridge just 865 feet (264 m) upstream. Carrying two lanes, the bridge rises over 700 feet (210 m) above the river and was the highest arch bridge in the world at the time of its completion in 1959.[1]
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Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961 African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962 a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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The construction of Bath Abbey spans several centuries from 1156 to its final completion in 1611. Bath Abbey is famous for its gothic architecture and intricate carvings including the 'heavenly ladder' carving.
The Derby RTC sidings always had a large variety of vehicles either awaiting test or awaiting departure following completion for testing. The sidings also provided stabling for locomotives awaiting investigations and those arriving for test train haulage duties. Class 20 locomotive 20029 spent a few days at the RTC in Derby including a visit inside the EDU (Engineering Development Unit) workshop. It is seen stabled in front of the BREL International Coaches on the 6th July 1987. The locomotive was built on 1959 as D8029 fitted with tablet catcher recess below each cabside window for operation on single line routes. With the development in signalling systems, the tablet catcher equipment was removed and bodyside recesses plated over. The locomotive was renumbered as 20029 in 1973 and remained in service until 1991, being scrapped during 1993 at MC Metals.
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Taken 8 days before the first day of public services on the Manchester Metrolink, the paving of the Metrolink track nears completion between Aytoun Street and London Road (A6) where the Metrolink enters the Piccadilly Station undercroft.
28th March 1992
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Chatsworth House, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England : Foot wearing a sandal- Marble object- BC 150 - BC 50
In 1839 the 6th Duke of Devonshire acquired this colossal marble foot, and he recorded its provenance: "The great ancient Greek foot was sold to me by Carlo Finelli, the sculptor in Rome: it belonged to the Quirigi family at Lucca and was long in their palace."
The foot is wearing an ancient form of a flip-flop and research has shown that this sandal is indicative of fashion in the 5th Century BC and was almost certainly worn by women. It is assumed therefore, that the feet were part of a colossal statue of a Greek goddess which may have stood approximately 11m high. It is thought that that the feet were sculpted separately to the figure and inserted upon completion.
In 1992 a chiropodist undertook further research and wrote to Chatsworth with an interesting insight. He considered the original owner of the foot was a wearer of slip-on shoes as all toes show signs of fixed clawing and being held together in a cramped space. The fourth and fifth toes also show signs of substantial corns.
There is a right foot at the Staatliche Museum in Berlin which is thought to match the left foot at Chatsworth. The right foot is not weight bearing as the heel is slightly raised off the ground which is typical of a relaxed stance. The weight of the body would have rested on the left foot.
nrhp # 100003497- Coshocton Main Street Historic District-
The Carnegie Library in Coshocton, Ohio was completed in 1904 and is historically significant as the 1,000th library funded by Andrew Carnegie. Located at the corner of 4th Street and Chestnut Street, it stands as a classical-style civic landmark in the community.
️ Key Historical Facts
• Completion: 1904, marking Carnegie’s milestone 1,000th library grant.
• Architecture: Classical design with columns, triangular pediment, and stone façade.
• Role in Community: Served as Coshocton’s main public library until 1974, when operations moved to the former post office building at 7th and Main.
• Museum Connection: In 1924, the Coshocton City Council entrusted the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum collection to the library due to funding shortages, linking the building to broader cultural preservation.
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took this a few years ago showing st marys church built 1847, cockhill houses built 1969 where i live,lots of changes in the landscape since then. a new bridge is nearing completion just to the left of the houses. i will show it in a later photo when its completed
Located in the right transept, it is the mausoleum which was to be the tomb of Pope Julius II. Michelangelo was commissioned in 1505, the factory was interrupted several times and completion took place in 1545, thirty years after the death of Julius II.
The final version, after the project had the sixth amendment, was seven statues including the famous Moses by Michelangelo.
The sarcophagus, which was to contain the body of Julius II, is located above the Moses. On the lid, a large statue of the Pope lying on its side. Recent studies attribute it to Michelangelo's hand.
The Rachel (Contemplative Life), is positioned at the right hand of Moses while Lia (Active Living) to the left. Both by Michelangelo and completed by Raffaele Sinibaldi said Raffaello da Montelupo
The "Sibilla", at the right hand of the statue of Julius II, and the "Prophet" to the right, are the work of Raffaello da Montelupo.
"Madonna and Child" placed in the middle at the top, is the work of Domenico Fancelli said Scherano from Settignano
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Situato nel braccio del transetto destro, si trova il Mausoleo che doveva essere la tomba di Papa Giulio II. Fu commissionato a Michelangelo nel 1505, la fabbrica fu interrotta diverse volte e il completamento avvenne nel 1545, trentadue anni dopo la morte di Giulio II.
La versione definitiva, dopo che il progetto ebbe la sesta modifica, fu di sette statue tra cui il famoso Mosè di Michelangelo.
Il sarcofago che doveva contenere il corpo di Giulio II, è posto sopra al Mosè. Sopra il coperchio, una grande statua che rappresenta il Papa sdraiato su un fianco. Studi recenti attribuiscono l'opera alla mano di Michelangelo.
La Rachele ( Vita contemplativa), è posizionata alla destra del Mosè mentre la Lia (Vita attiva) alla sinistra. Entrambe eseguite da Michelangelo e completate da Raffaele Sinibaldi detto Raffaello da Montelupo
La "Sibilla", alla destra della statua di Giulio II, e Il "Profeta" alla destra, sono opera di Raffaello da Montelupo.
La "Madonna col Bambino" posizionata al centro in alto, è opera di Domenico Fancelli detto Scherano da Settignano
Harvest completion is a satisfing feeling, but only for a short while. There is next season planting to get the ground ready for, probably some equipment to be repaired and if you are raising livestock well, they get hungry just like kids. Harvest completion also means the holidays are approaching and that means time with family and friends.
An image may be purchased at fineartamerica.com/featured/harvest-completion-ed-peterso...
Having just completed shunting 9101 into 3 portions at Merbein, G527, X44 and XR555 run back to the front of the train to stable the engines while the new containers are loaded onto the wagons and form 9102.
G527 later will detach and run light engine to Mildura to pick up 6 cement hoppers for the run to Melbourne to unload at Gheringhap and onto Waurn Ponds.
During 2015, the Victorian State Government announced a plan to convert sections of the Yelta line into Standard Gauge along with building brand new lines connection regional areas to ports faster and effective. Trains like 9101/9102 Mildura goods could be a thing of the past come 2016.
Thursday 1st October 2015
I drew friend's Blythe by Photoshop.
She's site is www1.odn.ne.jp/momolita/