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"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
The CIS Tower in Manchester. At the time of its completion in 1962 the modernist CIS Tower was, for a brief period, tallest building in the UK.
Mitt Romney inspects the 2019 Utah Copper Spike, created to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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The Stainforth and Keadby Canal is a navigable canal in South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, England. It connects the River Don Navigation at Bramwith to the River Trent at Keadby, by way of Stainforth, Thorne and Ealand, near Crowle. It opened in 1802, passed into the control of the River Don Navigation in 1849, and within a year was controlled by the first of several railway companies. It became part of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, an attempt to remove several canals from railway control, in 1895. There were plans to upgrade it to take larger barges and to improve the port facilities at Keadby, but the completion of the New Junction Canal in 1905 made this unnecessary, as Goole could easily be reached and was already a thriving port.
The canal was a centre for boatbuilding between 1858, when Richard Dunston moved his yard to Thorne from Torksey, and 1984 when the yard closed. Dunston's company were pioneers in the use of welded construction and innovative tug propulsion systems. The operation was always restricted by the size of Keadby Lock, although vessels longer than the lock could pass through when the river was level with the canal and both sets of gates could be opened. The largest ship to be built required Dunston's to build a dam across the canal, as the canal company feared that it might get stuck in the lock, resulting in flooding and draining of the canal.
The canal passes through a region which is largely rural, much of which is drained artificially. For most of its length, it is flanked by the North Soak Drain and the South Soak Drain, because it disrupted the established drainage scheme. Thorne Moors lie to the north and Hatfield Chase lies to the south. Until its demise in 1966, the canal was crossed by the Axholme Joint Railway at Ealand. The swing bridge was retained for several years after closure, so that stators from the nearby Keadby Power Station could be taken away for repairs, as there were no road bridges which could support the weight.
The River Don, which flows through Sheffield and Doncaster, had originally split into two channels below Stainforth, one of which emptied into the River Trent near Adlingfleet, close to its junction with the River Ouse, while the other headed north to join the River Aire near Rawcliffe. Following the work of the Dutch drainage engineer Cornelius Vermuyden to drain Hatfield Chase, the Adlingfleet outlet was closed off, and the channel to the River Aire, passing through Newbridge, was improved to take all of the flow. The scheme was not entirely successful, and after severe flooding near Sykehouse, Fishlake and Snaith, accompanied by riots, a new channel was cut between Newbridge and the River Ouse near what became Goole. The old course of the Don gradually silted up. Navigation on the Don was improved by the construction of cuts and locks, with the lowest lock situated at Stainforth. From there to the Ouse, boats used the Dutch River, Vermuyden's artificial drain, which was hazardous due to its fast flows, its tides and its shallowness at times.
The idea of reconnecting the Don to the Trent was first raised in 1763, when James Brindley assisted the manager of the River Don Navigation to survey a route for a canal to do this. In 1772 a second survey was made, this time by John Thompson, the Don Navigation's engineer, for a canal from Stainforth to Althorpe, some 1.5 miles (2.4 km) above Keadby on the River Trent. An agreement to build the canal, which would have had three locks and cost £14,614, was reached, but no further action occurred. The plan was revived in 1792, by which time the cost had risen to £24,200, and an Act of Parliament to authorise the work was obtained in 1793. This allowed the Stainforth and Keadby Canal Navigation Company to raise £24,200 by issuing shares, and a further £12,000 if necessary. Work began at the Keadby end in late 1793. A second Act, obtained in 1798, allowed the company to raise an additional £20,000 from shareholders, instead of the original £12,000, and to raise £10,000 by mortgage. The canal opened without ceremony in early 1802.
The canal had a lock at Thorne and another where it joined the River Trent at Keadby. This lock had four sets of gates, so that it could be used whether the level of the river was higher or lower than that of the canal. It could take keels up to 81 by 22.5 feet (24.7 by 6.9 m), which could carry up to 200 tons.
Moscú - Moscow - Москва
La catedral de la Intercesión de la Virgen junto al foso (en ruso Собор Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы, что на Рву, Sobor Pokrová Presvyatoy Bogoróditsy, chto na Rvu), más conocida como Catedral de San Basilio, es un templo ortodoxo localizado en la Plaza Roja de la ciudad de Moscú, Rusia. Es mundialmente famosa por sus cúpulas en forma de bulbo. A pesar de lo que se suele pensar popularmente, la Catedral de San Basilio no es ni la sede del Patriarca Ortodoxo de Moscú, ni la catedral principal de la capital rusa, pues en ambos casos es la Catedral de Cristo Salvador. Como parte de la Plaza Roja, la catedral de San Basilio fue incluida desde 1990, junto con el conjunto del Kremlin, en la lista de Patrimonio de la Humanidad de Unesco.
La construcción de la catedral fue ordenada por el zar Iván el Terrible para conmemorar la conquista del Kanato de Kazán, y se realizó entre 1555 y 1561. En 1588, el zar Teodoro I de Rusia mandó que se agregara una nueva capilla en el lado este de la construcción, sobre la tumba de San Basilio el Bendito, santo por el cual se empezó a llamar popularmente la catedral.
San Basilio se encuentra en el extremo sureste de la Plaza Roja, justo frente a la Torre Spásskaya (la Torre del Salvador) del Kremlin y la iglesia de San Juan Bautista en Dyákovo.
El concepto inicial era construir un grupo de capillas, dedicadas a cada uno de los santos en cuyo día el zar ganó una batalla, pero la construcción de una torre central unifica estos espacios en una sola catedral.
La leyenda dice que el zar Iván dejó ciego al arquitecto Póstnik Yákovlev para evitar que proyectara una construcción que pudiera superar a esta, aunque parece claro que no se trata más que de una fabulación, ya que Yákovlev participó, pasados unos años, en la construcción del Kremlin de Kazán.
La catedral de San Basilio no debe confundirse con el Kremlin de Moscú, que está situado a su lado en la Plaza Roja, y por tanto no forma parte de él. Aun así, muchos medios confunden ambas construcciones.
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The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed (Russian: Собор Василия Блаженного, Sobor Vasiliya Blazhennogo), commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a church in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. The building, now a museum, is officially known as the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat (Собор Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы, что на Рву, Sobor Pokrova Presvyatoy Bogoroditsy, chto na Rvu) or Pokrovsky Cathedral (Покровский собор). It was built from 1555–1561 on orders from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan. It was the city's tallest building until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600.
The building is shaped like the flame of a bonfire rising into the sky, a design that has no parallel in Russian architecture. Dmitry Shvidkovsky, in his book Russian Architecture and the West, states that "it is like no other Russian building. Nothing similar can be found in the entire millennium of Byzantine tradition from the fifth to the fifteenth century ... a strangeness that astonishes by its unexpectedness, complexity and dazzling interleaving of the manifold details of its design." The cathedral foreshadowed the climax of Russian national architecture in the 17th century. The Guardian compared building with "garish chunk of Disneyland architecture" and "a clown's nose on the face of the evil empire".
The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat , popularly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral,
is a Russian Orthodox church erected on the Red Square in Moscow in 1555–1561.
Built on the order of Ivan IV of Russia to commemorate the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan, it marks the geometric center of the city and the hub of its growth since the 14th century.
It was the tallest building in Moscow until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower in 1600.
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Tokyo Sky Tree was illuminated for 3 hrs!
Iki, the spirit held by the urbane commoners of Edo
The Tokyo Sky Tree tower, the tallest building in Japan which is under construction in central Tokyo, was illuminated for about three hours last Oct. 13, the first and the only light-up event before its scheduled completion in the spring of 2012.
The event was designed to test the performance of 50 light-emitting diode bulbs to be installed at the ground, 160-meter and 335-meter levels of the tower. The bulbs are made by Panasonic Electric Works Co.
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The tower will be lit up in two colors -- light blue to depict the Edo spirit or "IKI" (stylish spirit) and purple to symbolize "MIYABI" (aesthetic elegance) one of the traditional Japanese aesthetic ideals. After the tower is completed, it will be illuminated in each color every other day using 2,000 LED bulbs.
The Tokyo Sky Tree, set to be the world's tallest stand-alone communications tower at 634 meters when completed, will be used mainly for terrestrial digital broadcasting. It surpassed Tokyo Tower, a 333- meter communications tower in Minato Ward, as Japan's tallest building in March.
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The Sunrise over Blackhead sequence to completion..
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Seven Mile Beach, Gerroa, NSW
Standing at the Derwent Mouth having completed our journey from Ladybower Reservoir, 55 miles later. Now to find a new adventure that will keep us going!
This image from April of 2007. Car is in basement of Calderwood building, and almost ready to be installed in "hidden" chamber.
South Flagler House is an ultra-luxury waterfront condominium development located at 1355 South Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach, Florida. Developed by Related Ross and designed by the globally renowned Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), the project features two 28-story limestone-clad towers rising from a shared garden podium. The development topped out in late 2025 and is scheduled for completion in Fall 2027.
Residences & Pricing
The project features 105 to 121 private residences, including townhomes, multi-bedroom condos, and expansive penthouses. Interiors are custom-designed by Pembrooke & Ives, combining classic Palm Beach elegance with floor-to-ceiling glass and expansive terraces overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway and Atlantic Ocean.
According to current Zillow property listings, available units broadly range from $7.5 million to over $28 million.
Large-scale penthouses within the complex have reportedly commanded contracts upwards of $40 million.
World-Class Amenities
The complex boasts approximately 50,000 square feet of resort-style amenities and hospitality-driven services.
Wellness & Pools: A 25-meter lap pool, lakefront cabanas, hot tub, and private men’s and women’s spas featuring ice plunges, steam rooms, and saunas.
Athletics & Recreation: A private pickleball court, sports simulator lounge, golf simulator, and state-of-the-art fitness center.
Leisure & Conveniences: On-site elevated dining, a coffee shop, private gardens, a children's playroom, co-working spaces, and a fenced outdoor dog run with a sculpture garden.
Service Layer: 24-hour onsite staff, concierge, 24-hour valet parking, private keyed elevators, and two deeded parking spaces per residence.
Situated along the Gold Coast at the southern edge of West Palm Beach’s arts district, South Flagler House sits right across the bridge from Palm Beach Island. It offers immediate access to the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Harbor Marina, and the luxury shopping of Worth Avenue.
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Team USA and Team Australia players compare notes after the completion of the game. The USA National Men's Water Polo Team plays an exhibition game against the Australian National Team. The game was played on June 10, 2008 in Thousand Oaks, California in preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics in China
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Just a few more things to do, skirting boards, pictures on the walls. Also waiting on a chair and rug that I ordered from Etsy
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Love nest is nearing completion!
The black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is a slim and agile passerine bird belonging to the family of monarch flycatchers. They are sexually dimorphic with males having a distinctive black patch on the back of the head and a narrow black half collar ("necklace") while the female is duller and lacks the black markings. They have a call that is similar to that of the Asian paradise flycatcher and in tropical forest habitats pairs may join mixed-species foraging flocks. Populations differ slightly in plumage colour and sizes.
The adult male black-naped monarch is about 16 cm long, and is mainly pale azure blue apart from a whitish lower belly. It has a black nape and a narrow black gorget. The female is duller and lacks the black markings. Her wings and back are grey-brown. There are however several geographically separated breeding populations that differ in the extent and shade of markings.
The Indian peninsula (includes sykesi of Stuart Baker) has subspecies styani which has the black markings very distinct. Males of the Sri Lankan race H. a. ceylonensis lack the black nape and gorget and the shade is more purplish. The subspecies of the Andaman Islands, tytleri, has the underparts blue grey. The form on Car Nicobar Island idiochroa has a greyish white belly while nicobarica from the southern Nicobars has a smaller and finer bill. The colour of the gape is yellowish to green.
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Ceiling of Monreale Cathedral
Duomo di Monreale (Cattedrale di Santa Maria Nuova)
Stile architettonico: Architettura arabo-normanna, bizantino, normanno, rinascimentale, barocco
Inizio costruzione: 1172
Completamento: 1267 (con aggiunte successive)
UNESCO World Heritage Site 2015 (Palermo arabo-normanna e le cattedrali di Cefalù e Monreale)
Costruita a partire dal 1174 per volere di Guglielmo II d'Altavilla, (Guglielmo il buono) re di Sicilia dal 1166 al 1189, è famosa per i ricchi mosaici bizantini che ne decorano l'interno, coprendo una superficie di 6.430 mq, la più ampia di tutto il bacino del Mediterraneo, utilizzando più di 1800 kg di oro zecchino per raccontare la storia del Cristianesimo
Cathedral of Monreale (Cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova)
Architectural style: Arabic-Norman, Byzantine, Norman, Renaissance, Baroque
Start of construction: 1172
Completion: 1267 (with subsequent additions)
UNESCO World Heritage Site 2015 (Palermo-Norman Palermo and Cathedrals of Cefalù and Monreale)
Built from 1174 by William II of Altavilla (William the Good) king of Sicily from 1166 to 1189, it is famous for the rich Byzantine mosaics that decorate the interior, covering an area of 6,430 square meters, the largest of the entire Mediterranean basin, using more than 1800 kg of pure gold to tell the story of Christianity
On the way from Speke's Mill Mouth to Hartland Quay.
Auf dem Weg von Speke's Mill Mouth nach Hartland Quay.
The South West Coast Path is England's longest waymarked long-distance footpath and a National Trail. It stretches for 630 miles (1,014 km), running from Minehead in Somerset, along the coasts of Devon and Cornwall, to Poole Harbour in Dorset. Since it rises and falls with every river mouth, it is also one of the more challenging trails. The total height climbed has been calculated to be 114,931 ft (35,031 m), almost four times the height of Mount Everest. It has been voted 'Britain's Best Walking route' twice in a row by readers of the Ramblers Walk magazine, and regularly features in lists of the world's best walks.
The final section of the path was designated as a National Trail in 1978. Many of the landscapes which the South West Coast Path crosses have special status, either as a national park or one of the heritage coasts. The path passes through two World Heritage Sites: the Dorset and East Devon Coast, known as the Jurassic Coast, was designated in 2001, and the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape in 2007.
In the 1990s it was thought that the path brought £150 million into the area each year, but new research in 2003 indicated that it generated around £300 million a year in total, which could support more than 7,500 jobs. This research also recorded that 27.6% of visitors to the region came because of the Path, and they spent £136 million in a year. Local people took 23 million walks on the Path and spent a further £116 million, and other visitors contributed the remainder. A further study in 2005 estimated this figure to have risen to around £300 million. Following investment through the Rural Development Programme for England, more detailed research was undertaken in 2012, and this found the annual spend by walkers to have risen to £439 million which sustains 9771 full-time equivalent jobs.
The path originated as a route for the Coastguard to walk from lighthouse to lighthouse patrolling for smugglers. They needed to be able to look down into every bay and cove: as a result, the path closely hugs the coast providing excellent views but rarely the most direct path between two points. The South West Coast Path is no longer used by the Coastguard but it has been transformed from a practical defence system into a resource for recreational walkers. The path is covered by England's right-of-way laws, as amended by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, which keep historic footpaths open to the public even when they pass through private property. Sections of the path are maintained by the National Trust, which owns parts of the coast.
The path is a designated National Trail, largely funded by Natural England. It was created in stages, with its final section, Somerset and North Devon, opening in 1978. It is maintained by a dedicated South West Coast Path Team.
The South West Coast Path Association, a registered charity, exists to support the interests of users of the path. The Association was formed in 1973 and since then it has campaigned for improvements to the path and undertakes considerable fundraising to help care for and improve the path. Its services include accommodation guides and completion certificates.
The route is described here anticlockwise, from Minehead to Poole. The distance and total ascent between any two points, in either direction, can be obtained from The South West Coast Path Association Distance Reckoner. A survey carried out in 1999 and 2000 found that at that time the path had 2,473 signposts or waymarks, and included 302 bridges, 921 stiles, and 26,719 steps. In practice, any such calculation is soon out of date because of path diversions due to landslips or access changes.
Many walkers take about eight weeks to complete the path, often dividing this into sections walked over several years. In contrast, a team of six Royal Marines, taking turns in pairs to run two-hour sections, completed the path in six days in 2004 and in 2012 a runner ran the entire path in 16 days, 9 hours and 57 minutes. New records for completing the path were set on 11 May 2013, when two runners completed the trail in 14 days, 14 hours and 45 minutes and 23 April 2015, when a runner completed the trail in 14 days, 8 hours and 2 minutes. This record was however quickly broken by Mark Berry, who ran it in 11 days, 8 hours and 15 minutes. On 24 May 2016 outdoor journalist and GB ultra runner Damian Hall set a new fastest known time of 10 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes.
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Der South West Coast Path ist Großbritanniens längster ausgeschilderter Fernwanderweg und ein National Trail. Er verläuft über 1.014 km (630 Meilen) von Minehead in Somerset entlang der Küsten von Devon und Cornwall nach Poole Harbour in Dorset.
Da er bei jeder Flussmündung steigt und fällt, gilt er als eine vergleichsweise anstrengende Langstreckenwanderung. Die zu erklimmende Gesamthöhe wurde mit 35.031 m (114.931 ft) berechnet, fast das Vierfache der Höhe des Mount Everest.
Der letzte Abschnitt des Weges wurde 1978 als National Trail anerkannt. Viele der Landschaften, die der South West Coast Path durchquert, haben einen Sonderstatus, entweder als Nationalpark oder als Heritage Coast. Der Weg führt durch zwei UNESCO-Welterbe-Stätten: Die Küste von Dorset und East Devon, die als Jurassic Coast bekannt ist, bekam im Jahr 2001 den UNESCO-Welterbe-Status, und die Bergbaulandschaft von Cornwall und West Devon im Jahr 2007.
In den 1990er Jahren hat man berechnet, dass der Weg jährlich jeweils 15.000.000 £ für die Region eingebracht hat, aber neuere Untersuchungen haben im Jahr 2003 darauf hingewiesen, dass insgesamt rund 300.000.000 £ pro Jahr erzeugt werden, was mehr als 7.500 Arbeitsplätze unterstützt. Diese Arbeit dokumentiert auch, dass 27,6 % der Besucher wegen dieses Weges in die Region kamen und 136.000.000 £ pro Jahr dort ausgaben. Die örtliche Bevölkerung hat 23 Millionen Spaziergänge auf dem Weg gemacht und gab weitere 116.000.000 £ aus, und andere Besucher trugen den Rest bei. Eine weitere Studie im Jahr 2005 schätzte, dass diese Zahl inzwischen auf rund 300.000.000 £ angestiegen sei.
Der Weg wurde für die Coast Guard angelegt, um im Kampf gegen Schmuggler zu Fuß von Leuchtturm zu Leuchtturm zu patrouillieren. Die Küstenwächer mussten in der Lage sein, einen Blick nach unten in jede Bucht zu werfen. Als Ergebnis schmiegt sich der Weg eng an die Küste an und bietet eine hervorragende Aussicht, aber nur selten einen direkten Weg zwischen zwei Punkten. Der South West Coast Path wird von der Küstenwache nicht mehr zur Schmugglerabwehr verwendet, sondern hat sich in ein Angebot für Freizeit-Wanderer verwandelt.
Der Pfad wird durch ein öffentliches Wegerecht abgedeckt, aktuell durch den Countryside and Rights of Way Act, das historische Wanderwege für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich hält, auch wenn sie über Privateigentum führen. Abschnitte des Weges werden durch den National Trust gepflegt, der Teile der Küstengrundstücke besitzt.
Der Pfad ist ein ausgewiesener National Trail, der weitgehend von Natural England finanziert wird. Er wurde in Etappen erstellt, mit der Eröffnung des letzten Abschnitts in Somerset und North Devon im Jahr 1978. Er wird von einem engagierten South West Coast Path Team betreut.
Die South West Coast Path Association existiert, um die Interessen der Nutzer des Weges zu unterstützen. Der eingetragene Verein wurde 1973 gegründet und ist seither um Verbesserungen des Weges bemüht. Die Dienstleistungen umfassen unter anderem Unterkunftsvermittlung, Führer und Abschluss-Zertifikate.
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Nearing completion of its moult from juvenile to 1st winter. The juv covert feathers are always retained but the gingery marks on the sides of its nape will soon disappear.
Piata Mare (Big Market) is the central square of Sibiu, existing from 1366, with the completion of the third belt of fortifications of the city. It is the largest public square in the old town and witnessed the economic activities of traders in Sibiu. In it were organized assemblies of citizens, fairs and even executions. In this market it was beheaded in 1703 Johann von Sachs Harteneck, committing the Saxons during 1691-1703.
Following completion of requested works on former North Western Road Car Reliance RDB 846, it was taken on an outing with Simon Gill from Bus & Coach Preservation magazine for a feature. The magazine is now out, so here's a photo which I took on the day with the bus pictured up in the hills between Biddulph Moor, Rudyard and Bosley.
The Alexander bodied 'Dp' Reliance was owned in the past by two former customers of ours, but it then fell into the hands of a well known acquirer of buses in whose ownership it steadily degenerated to being practically scrap. In fact, the bus had a few near death experiences before being acquired by its present owner who put up a substantial sum of money for us to re-commission it.
Its first trip out in new ownership was to the well known May Bank Holiday transport event at Llandudno (2025).
37 students cross the stage in the Celebration of Completion as they receive their degrees' from Baldwin Wallace University in the John Patrick Theatre at the Kleist Center for Art & Drama. Winter graduation ceremony.
High Kingsdown is a post-war inner-suburban housing development that lies less than a kilometre north of Bristol's city centre, and to the east of St Michael's Hill. The estate occupies an area of approximately 3.25 hectares containing (mainly) low-rise houses arranged in a herringbone layout that can only be fully appreciated from an aerial viewpoint. Walled gardens, alleyways (like the one visible in the photograph) and courtyards combine to create a degree of privacy for residents that is unusual for high-density housing of this era. The scheme was constructed between 1971 and 1975, based on an overall development plan produced by Anthony Mackay of Whicheloe, Macfarlane and Towning Hill, with later re-planning by JT Group to increase the level of pedestrianisation even further. Following completion High Kingsdown won several national and international awards for the quality of its design.
The site had previously been developed in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Those predominantly Georgian buildings first suffered bomb damage in the Second World War, were then neglected in the years that followed and finally succumbed to demolition by Bristol City Council after it acquired the site in the late nineteen-fifties. However, the housing renewal here could have turned out quite differently; initial plans covered the site with three slab blocks each of sixteen storeys. Concerned pressure groups protested against those plans with such vigour that they were never pursued, and ultimately the successful outcome we see today was realised.
The period of High Kingsdown's construction fell neatly within the time of my secondary school career, endured enjoyed just a few streets away from here. If I'd been interested in such things back then I could have easily made a detour from my normal route to the bus station and observed the work in progress.
Photograph made Thursday 2nd July 2020.
Sources:
Foyle, A. (2004). Pevsner Architectural Guides - Bristol. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 255-6.
www.highkingsdown.co.uk/history
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The Reichstag building (German: Reichstagsgebäude; officially: Plenarbereich Reichstagsgebäude) is a historical edifice in Berlin, Germany, constructed to house the Imperial Diet (German: Reichstag), of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Diet until 1933, when it was severely damaged in a fire. After World War II, the building fell into disuse; the parliament of the German Democratic Republic (the Volkskammer) met in the Palast der Republik in East Berlin, while the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany (the Bundestag) met in the Bundeshaus in Bonn.
The ruined building was made safe against the elements and partially refurbished in the 1960s, but no attempt at full restoration was made until after German reunification on 3 October 1990, when it underwent a reconstruction led by architect Norman Foster. After its completion in 1999, it once again became the meeting place of the German parliament: the modern Bundestag.
The term Reichstag, when used to connote a diet, dates back to the Holy Roman Empire. The building was built for the Diet of the German Empire, which was succeeded by the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. The latter would become the Reichstag of Nazi Germany, which left the building (and ceased to act as a parliament) after the 1933 fire and never returned; the term Reichstag has not been used by German parliaments since World War II. In today's usage, the German word Reichstag (Imperial Diet Building) refers mainly to the building, while Bundestag (Federal Diet) refers to the institution.
History of the building
Construction of the building began well after the unification of Germany in 1871. Previously, the parliament had assembled in several other buildings in Leipziger Straße in Berlin but these were generally considered too small, so in 1872 an architectural contest with 103 participating architects was carried out to erect a new building. After a short survey of possible sites, a parliamentary committee recommended the east side of the Königsplatz (today, Platz der Republik), which however was occupied by the palace of a Polish-Prussian aristocrat, Athanasius Raczyński.
Work did not start until ten years later though, owing to various problems with purchasing the property and arguments between Wilhelm I, Otto von Bismarck, and the members of the Reichstag about how the construction should be performed. After lengthy negotiations, the Raczyński Palace was purchased and demolished, making way for the new building.
In 1882, another architectural contest was held, with 200 architects participating. This time the winner, the Frankfurt architect Paul Wallot, would actually see his Neo-Baroque project executed. The direct model for Wallot's design was Philadelphia's Memorial Hall, the main building of the 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition.[1] The Reichstag's decorative sculptures, reliefs, and inscriptions were by sculptor Otto Lessing. On 29 June 1884, the foundation stone was finally laid by Wilhelm I, at the east side of the Königsplatz. Before construction was completed by Philipp Holzmann A.G. in 1894,[2] Wilhelm I died (in 1888, the Year of Three Emperors). His eventual successor, Wilhelm II, took a more jaundiced view of parliamentary democracy than his grandfather. The original building was acclaimed for the construction of an original cupola of steel and glass, considered an engineering feat at the time. But its mixture of architectural styles drew widespread criticism.[3]
In 1916 the iconic words Dem Deutschen Volke ("[To] the German people") were carved above the main façade of the building, much to the displeasure of Wilhelm II who had tried to block the adding of the inscription for its democratic significance. After World War I had ended and Wilhelm had abdicated, during the revolutionary days of 1918, Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the institution of a republic from one of the balconies of the Reichstag building on 9 November. The building continued to be the seat of the parliament of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933), which was still called the Reichstag.
Third Reich
The building caught fire on 27 February 1933, under circumstances still not entirely known (see Reichstag fire). This gave a pretext for the Nazis to suspend most rights provided for by the 1919 Weimar Constitution in the Reichstag Fire Decree in an effort to weed out communists and increase state security throughout Germany.
During the 12 years of National Socialist rule, the Reichstag building was not used for parliamentary sessions. Instead, the few times that the Reichstag convened at all, it did so in the Krolloper building, a former opera house opposite the Reichstag building. This applies particularly to the session of 23 March 1933, in which the Reichstag disposed of its powers in favour of the Nazi government in the Enabling Act, another step in the so-called Gleichschaltung ("coordination"). The main meeting hall of the building (which was unusable after the fire) was instead used for propaganda presentations and, during World War II, for military purposes. It was also considered for conversion to a flak tower but was found to be structurally unsuitable.
The building, having never been fully repaired since the fire, was further damaged by air raids. During the Battle of Berlin in 1945, it became one of the central targets for the Red Army to capture due to its perceived symbolic significance. Today, visitors to the building can still see Soviet graffiti on smoky walls inside as well as on part of the roof, which was preserved during the reconstructions after reunification.
Yevgeny Khaldei took the famous picture, Raising a flag over the Reichstag, on 2 May 1945. The picture symbolizes the victory of USSR over nazism.
Cold War
When the Cold War emerged, the building was physically within West Berlin, but only a few metres from the border of East Berlin, which ran around the back of the building and in 1961 was closed by the Berlin Wall. During the Berlin blockade, an enormous number of West Berliners assembled before the building on 9 September 1948, and Mayor Ernst Reuter held a famous speech that ended with "Ihr Völker der Welt, schaut auf diese Stadt!" ("You peoples of the world, look upon this city!")
After the war, the building was essentially a ruin. In addition, there was no real use for it, since the seat of government of West Germany had been established in Bonn in 1949. Still, in 1956, after some debate, it was decided that the Reichstag should not be torn down, but be restored instead. However, the cupola of the original building, which had also been heavily damaged in the war, was demolished. Another architectural contest was held, and the winner, Paul Baumgarten, reconstructed the building from 1961–1964, but utterly removing all sumptuous heraldic statues, monuments, decorations and the like that harked back to the mythology of the German past from the inside, but also the largest ones on the outside of the building. In effect, he created a plain building inside the historic Reichstag, retaining only the outer walls stripped of most of their statues and decoration.
The artistic and practical value of his work was the subject of much debate after German reunification. Under the provisions set forth for Berlin by the Allies in the 1971 Four Power Agreement on Berlin, the Bundestag, the parliament of West Germany of that time, was not allowed to assemble formally in West Berlin (even though East Germany was in violation of this provision since it had declared East Berlin its capital). Until 1990, the building was thus used only for occasional representative meetings, and one-off events. It was also used for a widely lauded permanent exhibition about German history called Fragen an die deutsche Geschichte (Questions about German history).
Reunification
The official German reunification ceremony on 3 October 1990, was held at the Reichstag building, including Chancellor Helmut Kohl, President Richard von Weizsäcker, former Chancellor Willy Brandt and many others. The event included huge firework displays[citation needed]. One day later, the parliament of the united Germany would assemble in an act of symbolism in the Reichstag building.
However, at that time, the role of Berlin had not yet been decided upon. Only after a fierce debate, considered by many as one of the most memorable sessions of parliament, did the Bundestag conclude, on 20 June 1991, with quite a slim majority in favour of both government and parliament returning to Berlin from Bonn.
In 1992, Norman Foster won yet another architectural contest for the reconstruction of the building. His winning concept looked very different from what was later executed. Notably, the original design did not include a cupola.
Before reconstruction began, the Reichstag was wrapped by the Bulgarian-American artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude in 1995, attracting millions of visitors.[4] The project was financed by the artists through the sale of preparatory drawings and collages, as well as early works of the 1950s and 1960s.
During the reconstruction, the building was first almost completely gutted, taking out everything except the outer walls, including all changes made by Baumgarten in the 1960s. Respect for the historic aspects of the building was one of the conditions stipulated to the architects, so traces of historical events were to be retained in a visible state. Among them were graffiti left by Soviet soldiers after the final battle for Berlin in April–May 1945. Written in Cyrillic script, they include such slogans as "Hitler kaputt" and names of individual soldiers. However, graffiti with racist or sexist themes were removed, in agreement with Russian diplomats at the time.
The reconstruction was completed in 1999, with the Bundestag convening there officially for the first time on 19 April of that year.[5] The Reichstag is now the second most visited attraction in Germany, not least because of the huge glass dome that was erected on the roof as a gesture to the original 1894 cupola, giving an impressive view over the city, especially at night.
Dome
The large glass dome at the very top of the Reichstag has a 360-degree view of the surrounding Berlin cityscape. The main hall of the parliament below can also be seen from inside the dome, and natural light from above radiates down to the parliament floor. A large sun shield tracks the movement of the sun electronically and blocks direct sunlight which would not only cause large solar gain, but dazzle those below. Construction work was finished in 1999 and the seat of parliament was transferred to the Bundestag in April of that year. The dome is open to visitors by prior registration.[
I figured after showing you two ends, I would share a middle.
Funny thing is, I have wanted to do a photo series like this using the human body and have just never gotten around to it. Instead, it took a snowshoe trip up to Mirror Lake to find it.
William II dedicates the Cathedral of Monreale to the Virgin Mary
Duomo di Monreale (Cattedrale di Santa Maria Nuova)
Stile architettonico: Architettura arabo-normanna, bizantino, normanno, rinascimentale, barocco
Inizio costruzione: 1172
Completamento: 1267 (con aggiunte successive)
UNESCO World Heritage Site 2015 (Palermo arabo-normanna e le cattedrali di Cefalù e Monreale)
Costruita a partire dal 1174 per volere di Guglielmo II d'Altavilla, (Guglielmo il buono) re di Sicilia dal 1166 al 1189, è famosa per i ricchi mosaici bizantini che ne decorano l'interno, coprendo una superficie di 6.430 mq, la più ampia di tutto il bacino del Mediterraneo
Cathedral of Monreale (Cathedral of Santa Maria Nuova)
Architectural style: Arabic-Norman, Byzantine, Norman, Renaissance, Baroque
Start of construction: 1172
Completion: 1267 (with subsequent additions)
UNESCO World Heritage Site 2015 (Palermo-Norman Palermo and Cathedrals of Cefalù and Monreale)
Built from 1174 by William II of Altavilla (William the Good) king of Sicily from 1166 to 1189, it is famous for the rich Byzantine mosaics that decorate the interior, covering an area of 6,430 square meters, the most wide throughout the Mediterranean basin.
South Flagler House is an ultra-luxury waterfront condominium development located at 1355 South Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach, Florida. Developed by Related Ross and designed by the globally renowned Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), the project features two 28-story limestone-clad towers rising from a shared garden podium. The development topped out in late 2025 and is scheduled for completion in Fall 2027.
Residences & Pricing
The project features 105 to 121 private residences, including townhomes, multi-bedroom condos, and expansive penthouses. Interiors are custom-designed by Pembrooke & Ives, combining classic Palm Beach elegance with floor-to-ceiling glass and expansive terraces overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway and Atlantic Ocean.
According to current Zillow property listings, available units broadly range from $7.5 million to over $28 million.
Large-scale penthouses within the complex have reportedly commanded contracts upwards of $40 million.
World-Class Amenities
The complex boasts approximately 50,000 square feet of resort-style amenities and hospitality-driven services.
Wellness & Pools: A 25-meter lap pool, lakefront cabanas, hot tub, and private men’s and women’s spas featuring ice plunges, steam rooms, and saunas.
Athletics & Recreation: A private pickleball court, sports simulator lounge, golf simulator, and state-of-the-art fitness center.
Leisure & Conveniences: On-site elevated dining, a coffee shop, private gardens, a children's playroom, co-working spaces, and a fenced outdoor dog run with a sculpture garden.
Service Layer: 24-hour onsite staff, concierge, 24-hour valet parking, private keyed elevators, and two deeded parking spaces per residence.
Situated along the Gold Coast at the southern edge of West Palm Beach’s arts district, South Flagler House sits right across the bridge from Palm Beach Island. It offers immediate access to the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Harbor Marina, and the luxury shopping of Worth Avenue.
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With a book project nearing completion (late August deadline for photos), I am pressed for time these days. Lots of recent work as yet unprocessed... so I'll dip into the archives this week and see what I can find...
From the end of the film era, a shot of a favourite wet place in Grasslands. This one is all texture and gradations of colour. I made the shot in 2002, on Fujichrome Velvia, with a Nikon F100, Tamron 28-200 mm, tripod mounted, exposure data unrecorded. I've returned to this spot countless times and photographed it digitally, but I've never seen a configuration of line, texture, and colour quite like this.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2002 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
The inspired hill of Vézelay
The Burgundy hill of Vézelay, which French writer Paul Claudel named “eternal”, has been drawing hundreds of thousands of pilgrims (nowadays more likely tourists) since time immemorial. It has also drawn strife, battles and pillage: the big monastery was no less than six times destroyed by fire, and always rebuilt. Here, the Second Crusade was preached on Easter Day of 1146 by Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux, whom King Louis VII of France had summoned to be lectured on the sort of penance his royal person should submit to to atone for his many sins: Bernard chose the Crusade. Crusaders congregated here as well for the Third one, in 1190.
The history of Vézelay began around 850, when Count Girard de Roussillon founded a nunnery at the foot of the hill, in the locale now occupied by the village of Saint-Père-sous-Vézelay. Fifteen years later, the nuns had been replaced by monks for reasons that never reached us. What we know is that further to a Viking raid on Burgundy in 887, the monks took refuge at the top of the hill, in the remnants of a Roman oppidum, and never went down again.
Originally dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the monastery they built on the hilltop was placed in 1050 under the patronage of Mary Magdalene, further to the claimed transport of her bones from the Holy Land by a monk named Badillon. This so-called “transposition” was validated by the Pope, but the people of Provence rebelled fiercely against that ruling: it had indeed always been well known that the saint, who had been the very first, even before the apostles, to see Christ resuscitated, had left the Holy Land and come to France where she finished her life in the mountains of the Sainte- Baume, which were named after her. Her bones had been kept in the basilica of Saint-Maximin, the largest church in the whole of Provence.
Thus sanctioned by the Pope, and confirmed yet again by Pascal II in 1103, the claim of the Vézelay monks drew immense crowds (and brought enormous riches). The fact that they also claimed to have the bones of Martha and Lazarus were not for nothing in the considerable attraction the abbey had on a pilgrimage-hungry Christendom. However, the Provençal people were victorious in the end, when they revealed that the bones of the Magdalene, which had been hidden during the 900s as the Saracens drew nearer, were opportunely re-discovered in 1279. This time, Pope Boniface VIII found in their favor and that ruling was never overturned: the pilgrimage to Vézelay was dead, even though the big church kept its dedication.
The rest of the history of Vézelay is a long downhill walk. In 1537, the Benedictine monks are replaced by canons. In 1568, the Protestants seize the church and burn it again. Finally, in 1819, lightning strikes and sets the church aflame for the last time. When architect Viollet-le-Duc, mandated by Minister Prosper Mérimée, arrives on-site in 1840, the abbey church of Vézelay is but a gutted carcass, ready to collapse. That same year, the church was put on the first list of French Historic Landmarks (“Monuments historiques”) and restoration works were undertaken urgently; they were to last until 1861, and many other such works have been undertaken since.
The church was granted basilica status in 1920, and in 1979 it was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, as it is the starting point of one of the major Paths to Compostela, the Via Lemovicensis, so-named because it runs through the large city of Limoges.
On that day of June 2024 I went to Vézelay as a side trip during a photographic expedition for the Fondation pour la Sauvegarde de l’Art Français, one of the non-profit heritage organizations I work for as a pro bono photographer, it was raining. Therefore, I took no photo of the outside, but instead concentrated on the inside. Furthermore, a lot of what can be seen on the outside, including the façade and the tympanum, are re-creations of the 19th century by Viollet-le-Duc, and thus much less interesting for our purpose.
The narthex features one main nave and two aisles, just like the rest of the church, and each of these gives access to the corresponding nave aisle through a delicately historied portal. The narthex was built shortly after the completion of the nave.
The southern portal shown here features its own gorgeous tympanum, sculpted with scenes from the childhood of Jesus, beginning with an Annunciation at the bottom left.
Not an ideal livery they picked but at least something new with more POWER & Comfort this time! Welcome aboard everyone!
Citi Transport Tours 2188
Chaney's Corner, Christchurch Northern Motorway.
"Fanfare" is a large-scale work by Christchurch artist Neil Dawson (he who created "Chalice" in Cathedral Square).
It is 20m in diameter, 25 tonnes and is covered by 360 separate 1m-round wind-powered 'pinwheels' (all independently attached and lit up for special occasions on the calendar).
"Fanfare" was originally commissioned by Sydney, Australia, for its 2005 New Year celebrations. It was raised from a barge at midnight and suspended from its Harbour Bridge for three weeks. Then in 2007, Sydney gifted it to Christchurch...
Now this giant bauble is being installed beside the northern entrance to the city. Total asset cost: $3.3 million.
Celebrating the Transcontinental Railroad in the Wrong...but truly Right Place!
This truly was one of the most epic days of railfanning in a long time...if ever really. I just posted a few other photos in the Utah desert, but here is another from that day, but first a bit of history.
On the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad Frank Keller, John Tarble, and I spent it along the rails of the UP's upstart little narrow gauge competitor that finished its own "transcontinental" 3 ft line from Denver to Salt Lake City less than 14 years after the UP and CP met at Promontory. On March 30, 1883 the last spike was driven at a lonely place east of Green River, Utah aptly named Desert, and General Palmer's "baby road" from Denver to Salt Lake via Pueblo, the Royal Gorge, Salida, Gunnison, the Black Canyon and Montrose was complete. It would soon prove more successful than expected but also unable to truly compete against the standard gauge lines because any hope of acquiring substantial amounts of the much needed connecting traffic would require a change in gauge.
That finally was completed in 1890 and as excerpted from Robert G. Athearn's fine history "Rebel of the Rockies:
"The line from Salt Lake City to Ogden of the Rio Grande Western Railway, as the July 1889 successor to the D&RGW, was changed to standard gauge on March 6, 1890. On June 10, 1890, RGW completed conversion of tracks between Ogden and Grand Junction from narrow gauge to standard gauge. D&RG did not complete its standard gauge connection, via Tennessee Pass and Glenwood Springs, until mid November 1890, by-passing the original narrow gauge route to the south over Marshall Pass. On November 17, 1890 the first standard gauge through train from Denver entered Salt Lake City."
The D&RGW would weather many ups and downs and emerge as a prosperous, progressive and formidable competitor in the second half of the 20th century and ultimately end up buying the far larger Southern Pacific...successor to UP's original transcontinental partner the Central Pacific. For 8 years the primary outlet for all traffic moving over the one time CP would be vie the old Grande east from Ogden. But this would not last and the SP/D&RGW sold itself to the mighty UP in 1996 and the importance of this route quickly waned in favor of the Overland and the original UP.
But it isn't dead just yet....far from it in fact. While intermodal trains, auto racks, and even thru manifests are a thing of the past coal trains, oil trains, miscellaneous unit trains, manifests of tenant BNSF, and the daily California Zephyr still pass this way.
We were truly amazed to catch so many trains on this glorious Friday that began with our epic chase of the Potash turn and ended with us following this loaded train of export coal from the West Elk Mine on Colorado's North Fork branch west until the light was gone. You've seen some shots of this train and others on my feed before, but if you missed them just sort by date to May 10, 2020.
Anyway, this may not be the most inspiring location we shot this train on this day, but I share it because of where it is on UP's Green River Sub. We are at a lonely spot east of Green River called Desert Siding. Yes...if you've read all this...it is THAT desert siding. Where else to celebrate indeed! While most folks were up at Promontory where the Golden Spike was driven, Frank and I were here where the Denver and Rio Grande Western claimed its glory!
Emery County, Utah
Friday May 10, 2019
The Holy Grail of British Columbia Cancels - Mobile Post Office - following the movement and building of the CPR Railway. Only known usage from January til September 1885.
Although actual dates for the establishment of End of Track post office vary somewhat, postal records give - 1 October 1884, as an official opening. The closing date seems similarly obscure. However, - 31 December 1885—two months after completion of the railway at Craigellachie (on Nov 7, 1885)—is likely. Thus, while it may appear that the office existed for 14 months, a more realistic figure for actual activity would probably be about 11 months. LINK - (page 803) - bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/bcr/bcr-2014-07-v023n02-w090.pdf
Clipped from - Times Colonist newspaper - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - 14 February 1885 - A money order office has been established at Beaver Canyon (End of Track) Mr. Thomas Gordon, Postmaster. LINK to - Thomas Gordon and post office patronage - (pages 802 to 805) - bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/bcr/bcr-2014-07-v023n02-w090.pdf
- sent from - / END • OF • TRACK / SP 3 / 85 / B.C. / - split ring cancel.
- via - / WINNIPEG / SP 7 / 85 / CANADA / - cds transit backstamp
- via - / BIRDS • HILL - MAN. / SP 8 / 85 / CANADA / - split ring transit backstamp
- arrived at - / OAK • BANK / SP 12 / 85 / MAN. / - split ring arrival backstamp
- sent by George Mitchell In the Selkirk Mountains at END OF TRACK, B.C. to his wife Melissa in Oak Bank, Manitoba. He was the cook for one of the camps laying track in the Selkirk Mountains. He was cooking for 14 - 15 men.
Addressed to: Mrs. George Mitchell / Oak Bank P.O. Manitoba / via Winnipeg
George Mitchell
(b. 8 April 1849 in Hutton, Dumfriesshire, Scotland - d. 5 May 1904 at age 55 in Calgary, Alberta) - Son of Robert Mitchell and Margaret Harkness. LINK to his obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/92103784/george-mitchell/
Clipped from - Calgary Herald newspaper - Calgary, Alberta, Canada - 28 April 1902 - Mr. and Mrs. George Mitchell arrived from Manitoba to settle in Calgary, Alberta. Mrs. Mitchell is a sister of Albert John Smyth.
His wife - Melissa (nee Smyth) Mitchell
(b. 31 October 1845 in Perth, Ontario - d. 1931 in Calgary, Alberta) - they were married - 2 May 1870 in Perth, Lanark, Ontario, Canada. They had one son and two daughters. LINK to her obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/90044435/mrs-melissa-mitchell-obi...
His son - Wellington William Mitchell
(b. 1874 in Ontario – d. 2 March 1894 at age 20 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) - LINK to his obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/92217041/free-press-prairie-farmer/
His daughter - Amy Ida Jane (nee Mitchell) Goodwin
(b. 24 December 1871 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada - d. 30 January 1950 at age 78 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) LINK to her find a Grave Site - www.findagrave.com/memorial/155963163/amy-ida_jane-goodwin
His daughter - Ada Flora Mitchell
(b. 20 June 1892 in Manitoba - d. before 1931)
His brother-in-Law (mentioned several times in his letters) - Albert John Smyth
(b. 10 April 1856 in Drummond, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada - d. 7 September 1922 at age 66 in West Point Grey, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada) - LINK to his obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/92219271/obituary-for-albert-john...
Interesting story about Albert John Smyth - The land was purchased by Albert J. Smyth, "bricklayer," in 1889, from the C.P.R., and it was believed the house was built between 1889 and 1893. LINKS to the articles - www.newspapers.com/clip/92228575/albert-john-smyth-history/ and - Albert J. Smyth was a partner in the Alert Realty Company in 1913 in Calgary, Alberta - www.newspapers.com/clip/92229208/albert-john-smyth-history/
LINK to a blog - Letters from the End of Track - written by Greg Nesteroff - gregnesteroff.wixsite.com/kutnereader/post/letters-from-t...
LINK to - Early Canadian Pacific Railway mail service in BC
Part 2: New observations on the End of Track post office
by Tracy Cooper (pages - 1077 to 1081) - bnaps.org/hhl/newsletters/bcr/bcr-2018-09-v027n03-w107.pdf
LINK to - Alex Price article - END OF TRACK AND THE C.P. MAIL CO. - (pages 12 to 17) - bnaps.org/hhl/Topics/BNA%20Topics,%20Vol.%2044,%20No.%205...
The headquarters of Sainsbury's at 33 Holborn, London UK - moments after completion of the painting by expressionist painter Stephen B. Whatley on Saturday July 6 2019.
Sainsbury's celebrates its 150th anniversary this year. The artist, whose work has been published in TIME, has a history of painting architectural landmarks on location, often in anniversary years.
Stephen B. Whatley has undertaken major commissions for the BBC, Buckingham Palace for the Royal Collection all painted on location ; and his series of 30 works commissioned in 2000 by the Tower of London are all permanently reproduced throughout Tower Hill Underpass, at Tower Hill Station, London.
In the previous photograph you can see the artist at work on location early in the day - and the next photograph to come will show the architectural painting close up ; inspired by Foster & Partner's building J. Sainsbury plc of 2001.
WILLOWFORD - a Post Office in the Cariboo District, served from the Fawn Post Office, it is 12 miles from the Lone Butte Station. Farming and Fishing.
The WILLOWFORD Post Office was established - 1 January 1923 and closed - 31 August 1927.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the WILLOWFORD Post Office - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/postal-heritage-philately/...;
James Brown served as Postmaster at WILLOWFORD, B.C. from - 1 January 1923 to - 18 August 1926. I searched for hours but could find nothing on Mr. and Mrs. James Brown.
Robert Davidson McMillan served as Postmaster at WILLOWFORD, B.C. from - 8 March 1927 until his resignation - 30 August 1927.
Robert Davidson McMillan
(b. 28 March 1883 in Chatham, Ontario - d. 1 June 1968 at age 85 in Kelowna, B.C. / Rutland District, B.C.) - his occupation was farming.
His wife - Omaha Augusta "Omi" (nee Ross) McMillan
(b. 1889 in Potawattamie, Iowa, Usa - d. 1977)
Clipped from - The Province newspaper - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 11 April 1944 - Cariboo Tourist Business Good - Cariboo tourist trade isn't suffering, despite gas rationing, says Miss Margaret Muskett, in Vancouver from Lone Butte for the annual convention of the B.C. Teachers' Federation. At least, small tourist places are already booked for May, and some of them for June, although larger ones have been forced to close because of lack of help. Miss Muskett, slight and quiet-voiced, lived in Vancouver before she went to Cape Mudge to teach. Then she went last year to WILLOWFORD, about nine miles from Lone Butte and some 100 miles north of Ashcroft. There she teaches all grades at a School which numbers six girls, two groups of three sisters. Horse and buggy is her means of transportation. Nearest Post Office is Fawn, near Lone Butte. Mail arrives there twice weekly, but is delivered only once a week.
Clipped from - 100 Mile House Free Press newspaper - 100 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada - 26 May 1982 - With the completion of the tracks through Lone Butte after the First World War the station grew into a small town. The first post office in the area had been at Fawn Creek near where it runs into Horse Lake. It had been established in 1916 with the mail coming out from 100 Mile House. Settlers would come from the Lone Butte area to get their mail, but when the mail was carried in by train the post office was moved up to Lone Butte in 1920, and retained the name Fawn Creek Post Office until about ten years ago.
Clipped from - 100 Mile House Free Press newspaper - 100 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada - 28 June 2000 - School Day! There are a few old log schools built at the turn of the century that are still standing and worth investigating. The old Horse Lake School, also known as WILLOWFORD School, was fixed up this spring. It first opened in 1939. Other schools to view include Bradley Creek School and Bridge Lake School. While visiting these old structures would be an interesting outing, it could also bring up a bit of nostalgia of earlier days when challenges were numerous, but the surroundings were peaceful and pristine.
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.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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Today I was trying to shoot some pictures, but it was a cloudy and dark afternoon, and there wasn't enough light to expose the 1/125s ISO50 scanner.
Maybe tomorrow I'll be more lucky.
BTW, I know, the painted body is not very good looking: I have to think about a good finish for the body and lens.
I had to take away the battery slot and open a big window on the back, to have access to the components while it's running, so now the body is set up for quick checks and easy adjusting. When the camera will be really completed, will be the time to think about the look of the body, so don't worry about the strange screws and bolts...
The third cable coming from the body is for the live view.
Artist’s concept depicting a space shuttle orbiter about to land after completion of its mission.
One of who knows how many near identical (as far as the scene/perspective is concerned) of evolving/proposed shuttle configurations, as developed & propagated by (I think) Rockwell International. As such, I’m guessing it’s gotta be by the once elusive Manuel E. Alvarez…I think.
The date range is a total SWAG.
And most importantly, it lives on as a "REPUBLIQUE ISLAMIQUE DE MAURITANIE" stamp:
www.dreamstime.com/editorial-photo-space-shuttle-postage-...
Credit: "dreamstime" website