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The Gray Eagle UAS incorporates elements of WIN-T Increment 3, such as a Highband Radio Frequency Unit - Extended Range Multi-Purpose Ku-band line-of-sight transmission system, shown here during testing in late 2012. FaC assessments have shown how an industrial base issue with one key capability can affect another. (U.S. Army photo)
**West Virginia Capitol Complex** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 74002009, date listed 19741231
Along Kanawha Blvd.
Charleston, WV (Kanawha County)
Built in 1924-1925 under the supervision of architect Walter F. Martens, the West Virginia Executive Mansion is of red Harvard colonial brick laid in Flemish bond with black headers. The Georgian Colonial building is fronted by a central, two-story portico with a bracketed pediment supported by four free standing and two engaged fluted Corinthian columns. The capitals of these columns are ornate with acanthus leaves, and this lends an impressive grace and dignity.to the front of the mansion. The arched entranceway, painted white to complement the brickwork as is all trim, frames a delicate fanlight above the door. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/74002009.pdf
The entire complex is built on a hilly one-hectare land. At the base of a nearby hill stands the Church that holds regular masses. The Via Dolorosa (Way of the Cross) is spread out along the 292-step path leading up the hill. Midway up is nestled the Grotto of Healing and Purification from which water springs. At the summit, a 50-foot concrete image of the resurrected Christ marks the site. With arms outstretched as if in welcome, it consecrates the devotees and structures located below
"The Sacred Family Chapel" on the grounds of a Seniors Complex north west of Cali on the road to Dapa.
This seniors complex was funded by the renown Colombian artist Fernando Botero, on land donated by Garces Giraldo. During my trip to Colombia in 2012 I could not believe the uniqueness of the chapel on the grounds of this complex. Upon returning this time I walked around the grounds taking photos of its peaceful environment and had the pleasure of meeting Father Ray Schaambach who runs it.
My dear friends in Caspian brought their monstrous sound to biggest stage I've had the privilege to watch them play.
I hope I did them justice in whatever small way I could.
The Watergate Complex. Washington, DC. The american Barbican is a massive curvilinear structure designed by Luigi Moretti in 1962 and completed by 1971. The Watergate Hotel itself is currently under heavy renovations.
boggles my mind to think of the number of uniquely sized and shaped beams required for this structure, and the complexity of the plans to put them together.
Beijing, 22 April 2009
Sarah Brown catches a lift in one of the many electric cars inside the G8 complex, 9 July 2009; Crown copyright
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
The first chronicle references to the word "Voronezh" are dated 1177, when the Ryazan prince Yaropolk, having lost the battle, fled "to Voronozh" and there was moving "from town to town". Modern data of archeology and history interpret Voronezh as a geographical region, which included the Voronezh river (tributary of the Don) and a number of settlements. In the lower reaches of the river, a unique Slavic town-planning complex of the 8th – early 11th century was discovered, which covered the territory of the present city of Voronezh and its environs (about 42 km long, about 13 forts and many unfortified villages). By the 12th – 13th centuries, most of the old towns were desolate, but new settlements appeared upstream, closer to Ryazan.
For many years, the hypothesis of the Soviet historian Vladimir Zagorovsky dominated: he produced the toponym "Voronezh" from the hypothetical Slavic personal name Voroneg. This man allegedly gave the name of a small town in the Chernigov Principality (now the village of Voronizh in Ukraine). Later, in the 11th or 12th century, the settlers were able to "transfer" this name to the Don region, where they named the second city Voronezh, and the river got its name from the city. However, now many researchers criticize the hypothesis, since in reality neither the name of Voroneg nor the second city was revealed, and usually the names of Russian cities repeated the names of the rivers, but not vice versa.
The linguistic comparative analysis of the name "Voronezh" was carried out by the Khovansky Foundation in 2009. There is an indication of the place names of many countries in Eurasia, which may partly be not only similar in sound, but also united by common Indo-European languages: Varanasi, Varna, Verona, Brno, etc.
A comprehensive scientific analysis was conducted in 2015–2016 by the historian Pavel Popov. His conclusion: "Voronezh" is a probable Slavic macrotoponym associated with outstanding signs of nature, has a root voron- (from the proto-Slavic vorn) in the meaning of "black, dark" and the suffix -ezh (-azh, -ozh). It was not “transferred” and in the 8th - 9th centuries it marked a vast territory covered with black forests (oak forests) - from the mouth of the Voronezh river to the Voronozhsky annalistic forests in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and in the west to the Don (many forests were cut down). The historian believes that the main "city" of the early town-planning complex could repeat the name of the region – Voronezh. Now the hillfort is located in the administrative part of the modern city, in the Voronezh upland oak forest. This is one of Europe's largest ancient Slavic hillforts, the area of which – more than 9 hectares – 13 times the area of the main settlement in Kyiv before the baptism of Rus.
In it is assumed that the word "Voronezh" means bluing - a technique to increase the corrosion resistance of iron products. This explanation fits well with the proximity to the ancient city of Voronezh of a large iron deposit and the city of Stary Oskol. As well as the name of Voroneț Monastery known for its blue shade.
Folk etymology claims the name comes from combining the Russian words for raven (ворон) and hedgehog (еж) into Воронеж. According to this explanation two Slavic tribes named after the animals used this combination to name the river which later in turn provided the name for a settlement. There is not believed to be any scientific support for this explanation.
In the 16th century, the Middle Don basin, including the Voronezh river, was gradually conquered by Muscovy from the Nogai Horde (a successor state of the Golden Horde), and the current city of Voronezh was established in 1585 by Feodor I as a fort protecting the Muravsky Trail trade route against the slave raids of the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. The city was named after the river.
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town. Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later proclaimed the town's patron saint.
Owing to the Voronezh Admiralty Wharf, for a short time, Voronezh became the largest city of South Russia and the economic center of a large and fertile region. In 1711, it was made the seat of the Azov Governorate, which eventually morphed into the Voronezh Governorate.
In the 19th century, Voronezh was a center of the Central Black Earth Region. Manufacturing industry (mills, tallow-melting, butter-making, soap, leather, and other works) as well as bread, cattle, suet, and the hair trade developed in the town. A railway connected Voronezh with Moscow in 1868 and Rostov-on-Don in 1871.
20th century
During World War II, Voronezh was the scene of fierce fighting between Soviet and combined Axis troops. The Germans used it as a staging area for their attack on Stalingrad, and made it a key crossing point on the Don River. In June 1941, two BM-13 (Fighting machine #13 Katyusha) artillery installations were built at the Voronezh excavator factory. In July, the construction of Katyushas was rationalized so that their manufacture became easier and the time of volley repetition was shortened from five minutes to fifteen seconds. More than 300 BM-13 units manufactured in Voronezh were used in a counterattack near Moscow in December 1941. In October 22, 1941, the advance of the German troops prompted the establishment of a defense committee in the city. On November 7, 1941, there was a troop parade, devoted to the anniversary of the October Revolution. Only three such parades were organized that year: in Moscow, Kuybyshev, and Voronezh. In late June 1942, the city was attacked by German and Hungarian forces. In response, Soviet forces formed the Voronezh Front. By July 6, the German army occupied the western river-bank suburbs before being subjected to a fierce Soviet counter-attack. By July 24 the frontline had stabilised along the Voronezh River as the German forces continued southeast into the Great Bend of the Don. The attack on Voronezh represented the first phase of the German Army's 1942 campaign in the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
Until January 25, 1943, parts of the Second German Army and the Second Hungarian Army occupied the western part of Voronezh. During Operation Little Saturn, the Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh Offensive, and the Voronezhsko-Kastornenskoy Offensive, the Voronezh Front exacted heavy casualties on Axis forces. On January 25, 1943, Voronezh was liberated after ten days of combat. During the war the city was almost completely ruined, with 92% of all buildings destroyed.
Post-war
By 1950, Voronezh had been rebuilt. Most buildings and historical monuments were repaired. It was also the location of a prestigious Suvorov Military School, a boarding school for young boys who were considered to be prospective military officers, many of whom had been orphaned by war.
In 1950–1960, new factories were established: a tire factory, a machine-tool factory, a factory of heavy mechanical pressing, and others. In 1968, Serial production of the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic plane was established at the Voronezh Aviation factory. In October 1977, the first Soviet domestic wide-body plane, Ilyushin Il-86, was built there.
In 1989, TASS published details of an alleged UFO landing in the city's park and purported encounters with extraterrestrial beings reported by a number of children. A Russian scientist that was cited in initial TASS reports later told the Associated Press that he was misquoted, cautioning, "Don't believe all you hear from TASS," and "We never gave them part of what they published", and a TASS correspondent admitted the possibility that some "make-believe" had been added to the TASS story, saying, "I think there is a certain portion of truth, but it is not excluded that there is also fantasizing".
21st century
From 10 to 17 September 2011, Voronezh celebrated its 425th anniversary. The anniversary of the city was given the status of a federal scale celebration that helped attract large investments from the federal and regional budgets for development.
On December 17, 2012, Voronezh became the fifteenth city in Russia with a population of over one million people.
Today Voronezh is the economic, industrial, cultural, and scientific center of the Central Black Earth Region. As part of the annual tradition in the Russian city of Voronezh, every winter the main city square is thematically drawn around a classic literature. In 2020, the city was decorated using the motifs from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. In the year of 2021, the architects drew inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen as well as the animation classic The Snow Queen from the Soviet Union. The fairy tale replica city will feature the houses of Kai and Gerda, the palace of the snow queen, an ice rink, and illumination.
Taken with Canon 5D MarkII and 300 f/2.8 lens riding on Losmandy G11 autoguided. Stack of 6 2 min subs at ISO800.
Day 4 of the Sixth Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in St. Petersburg
Photo credit: UNIS Vienna
10ª Reunião de Trabalho do Observatório Nacional sobre Questões Ambientais, Econômicas e Sociais de Alta Complexidade, Grande Impacto e Repercussão.
FOTO: Gil Ferreira/Agência CNJ
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1/1600 sec at f / 6.3, ISO-400, 134mm (18-200)
On the territory of the shipyard «Star» and adjacent areas in the Bay of Big Stone is building a modern shipyard SC «Star».
Complex «Star» will be the best shipyard in the Far East of Russia and also in the Russian market as a whole.
A primeira semana de Abril de 2015 foi marcada por mais atrocidades cometidas pela Policia Militar do Rio de Janeiro.
Em apenas 3 dias, quatro vítimas foram alvejadas no Complexo do Alemão, entre as vítimas, um menino de 10 anos que brincava na porta de casa.
No dia 04 de Abril moradores, amigos, ativistas e moto-taxistas saíram pelas ruas pedindo Paz no Complexo do Alemão e Paz nas Favelas!
Graphic I made showing collapse of one of the port complexes in Haiti - illustrating some of the destruction that is hindering search, rescue as well as humanitarian efforts.
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Captured from GeoEye marked up Google Earth
Qutb Complex. Delhi, India
The Qutb complex is an array of monuments and buildings at Mehrauli in Delhi, India, the most famous of which is the Qutab Minar. This complex was first constructed by Qutb-ud-din Aybak, the first ruler of the Slave Dynasty, and his successor Iltutmish (aka Altmash) in his new city called the Qila-Rai-Pithora near Prithivraj Chauhan's older city. The complex was added to by many subsequent rulers, including Iltutmish and Ala ud din Khilji as well as the British.
The most famous monument situated in the complex is the Qutab Minar; other important constructions in the complex are the Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque, the Ala-I-Darwaza, the Alai Minar and the iron pillar. Twenty-seven previous Hindu and Jain (Kafir) temples were destroyed and their materials reused to construct the minar and other monuments of the complex.
This photograph is showing Warrington Bank Quay Railway Station with the backdrop of the Crown Paints complex which is one of the major manufacturers of paint in Great Britain. I like this picture as it is a good example of how industry used to pollute our atmosphere. unfortunately some companies still think it is acceptable.