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Photos of the Seattle Leather Contingent at the 2015 Seattle Pride Parade. Courtesy of Ryan Dixon (The American Lens) and gifted on behalf of Seattle girls of Leather.
Groups photographed include: Seattle Men in Leather, Seattle Women in Leather, Seattle boys of Leather, Seattle girls of Leather, Seattle Pups and Handlers, Washington State Mr and Ms Leather Organization, Ponies of Washington, South Sound Leather Alliance, 2015 International Ms. Leather, and more!
Photos of the Seattle Leather Contingent at the 2015 Seattle Pride Parade. Courtesy of Ryan Dixon (The American Lens) and gifted on behalf of Seattle girls of Leather.
Groups photographed include: Seattle Men in Leather, Seattle Women in Leather, Seattle boys of Leather, Seattle girls of Leather, Seattle Pups and Handlers, Washington State Mr and Ms Leather Organization, Ponies of Washington, South Sound Leather Alliance, 2015 International Ms. Leather, and more!
Troops serving with the Djiboutian contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) sit on the back of an armoured fighting vehicle 18 November 2012, during an early morning foot patrol on the western outskirts of the central Somali town of Belet Weyne in the Hiraan region, approx. 300km north west of the capital Mogadishu. AMSIOM troops have been this week begun increasing their forces in Belet Weyne since first deploying there in September after the town liberated from Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab in December 2011 by a combined force of the Ethiopian Army and Somali government forces. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
Acrópolis de Atenas
Vista de la fachada del Partenón.
La Acrópolis de Atenas (Η Ακρόπολη των Αθηνών en griego) puede considerarse la más representativa de las acrópolis griegas. La acrópolis era, literalmente, la ciudad alta.1 (ἄκρο- 'cima, extremo, punta', πόλις 'ciudad) y estaba presente en la mayoría de las ciudades griegas, con una doble función: defensiva y como sede de los principales lugares de culto.2 La de Atenas está situada sobre una cima, que se alza 156 metros sobre el nivel de mar. También es conocida como Cecropia en honor del legendario hombre-serpiente, Cécrope, el primer rey ateniense.3
La entrada a la Acrópolis se realiza por una gran puerta llamada los Propileos. A su lado derecho y frontal se encuentra el Templo de Atenea Niké. Una gran estatua de bronce de Atenea, realizada por Fidias, se encontraba originariamente en el centro. A la derecha de donde se erigía esta escultura se encuentra el Partenón o Templo de Atenea Partenos (la Virgen). A la izquierda y al final de la Acrópolis está el Erecteión, con su célebre stoa o tribuna sostenida por seis cariátides. En la ladera sur de la Acrópolis se encuentran los restos de otros edificios, entre los que destaca un teatro al aire libre llamado Teatro de Dioniso, donde estrenaron sus obras Sófocles, Aristófanes y Esquilo.4
La mayoría de los grandes templos fueron reconstruidos bajo el liderazgo de Pericles durante la Edad Dorada de Atenas (460 a. C.-430 a. C.). Durante el siglo V a. C., la Acrópolis adoptó su forma definitiva.
Historia
: Historia de la Acrópolis de Atenas
La plataforma de la Acrópolis estaba rodeada por una muralla construida por los pelasgos que sustituyó otra anterior más primitiva.6 En su interior, se han hallado evidencias de la presencia de un palacio perteneciente a la época micénica. Una gran parte de los edificios arquitectónicos que forman la Acrópolis se edificaron durante la época de Pericles (499 a. C.-429 a. C.), tras la destrucción de los edificios anteriores provocada por las tropas persas de Jerjes I. El antiguo templo de Atenea, que albergaba una estatua de Atenea Polias, fue sustituido por el Erecteión.7 El Partenón fue construido sobre los restos de otro templo anterior, denominado Hecatompedón o Prepartenón. Otros edificios religiosos y civiles estaban repartidos por toda la montaña. Todos se conservaron en bastante buen estado hasta el siglo XVII, cuando a causa de la dominación otomana el Partenón se convirtió en mezquita, el Erecteión en harén y los Propileos en polvorín. Durante el asedio de Atenas del año 1687, los venecianos, bajo el mandato del general Francesco Morosini, hicieron grandes destrozos con sus bombardeos. Un golpe de mortero destruyó en parte el Partenón, ya que los musulmanes lo utilizaban también como polvorín, siendo en aquella ocasión cuando se derrumbó el techo del templo.
Arte y arquitectura de la Acrópolis
Acrópolis micénica
De esta época, se han encontrado vestigios de un palacio que contaba con un mégaron o patio de audiencias y reuniones. No se sabe con certeza si existía ya en esta época un templo dedicado a Atenea.8El mégaron, nombre griego pero de probable derivación semítica, es el ‘gran salón’ que se encontraba en los palacios de la civilización micénica en Grecia y Anatolia. Acostumbraba a estar en un lado del patio central y delante del altar. Constaba de tres partes: el pórtico abierto con dos columnas in antis, un vestíbulo o antesala y la sala principal, también llamada naos.
Se discute si la entrada sobre el contingente ateniense del catálogo de naves de la Ilíada, en el que se describe un templo, refleja una situación de época micénica o posterior.
Y los que poseían Atenas, bien edificada fortaleza, el pueblo del magnánimo Erecteo, a quien en otro tiempo Atenea, hija de Zeus, había criado tras darle a luz la feraz tierra y había instalado en Atenas, en su opíparo templo. Allí se la propician con toros y carneros los muchachos de los atenienses a la vuelta de cada año.
Homero. Ilíada ii, 546.
Acrópolis arcaica
La Acrópolis tuvo una gran actividad constructora durante la segunda mitad del siglo VI a. C. El templo de Atenea Polias se amplió y se realizó una stoa con un frontón de mármol mostrando un relieve con figuras casi independientes de la lucha de los dioses contra los gigantes, o sea, la gigantomaquia.9
En el año 480 a. C., los persas saquearon y destruyeron los edificios existentes en aquel momento en la Acrópolis, como relata Heródoto.10
En las excavaciones arqueológicas del año 1886 se descubrieron en una fosa, realizada seguramente durante la invasión persa, catorce imágenes de korai y kuroí arcaicos, entre los que destacan el Moscóforo barbudo y la Cabeza Rampin. La primera representa un joven llevando sobre sus hombros un ternero recién nacido. Todas las esculturas de esta época presentan los ojos en forma de almendra y una sonrisa "arcaica", que trata de expresar una plácida beatitud; sus músculos están realizados con una gran elegancia. Su datación es de principios del siglo VI a. C., es de mármol y tiene una altura de 163 cm y se encuentra en el Museo de la Acrópolis de Atenas.11 En cuanto a la Cabeza Rampin o Jinete Rampin, muestra la cabeza ligeramente girada que a la vez hace un desplazamiento con los hombros como era habitual en las estatuas ecuestres para su mejor visibilidad, el caballo se asemeja a los ejemplares de ese mismo periodo guardados en el Museo de la Acrópolis. La guirnalda indica que se trataba de un jinete que había obtenido una victoria en alguno de los Juegos Panhelénicos (quizá de los juegos Píticos, en caso de que la corona fuera de roble pero como no se distingue bien también podría ser de los juegos Nemeos o los Ístmicos, que otorgaban a los vencedores coronas de apio.)12 Se cree que fue realizada hacia el 560 a. C.13
Acrópolis clásica[editar]
En el periodo comprendido entre el año 479 y el 447 a. C. es muy probable que solo hubiera ruinas en la Acrópolis. Según algunas fuentes antiguas, antes de la batalla de Platea los griegos habían jurado no reconstruir los edificios sagrados destruidos por los persas. Plutarco señala que en el año 450 a. C. Pericles convocó un congreso para proponer a los griegos la ruptura de este juramento. Sin embargo, algunos autores como Teopompo pusieron en duda la existencia del mencionado juramento.14
Partenón
Hecatompedón, Partenón y Friso del Partenón.
Pericles confió la dirección de las obras de la Acrópolis al escultor Fidias. Ictino y Calícrates fueron los arquitectos del Partenón, sobre los cimientos de otro antiguo templo de grandes proporciones, denominado Prepartenón o Hecatompedón, del que existen pocos datos seguros y que había sido destruido por los persas. La construcción se alargó durante quince años, del 447 a. C. al 432 a. C.15
El interior estaba dividido en dos salas independientes, con la entrada por cada fachada opuesta del edificio. La sala oriental era la más grande, dividida por columnas dóricas en tres naves y era donde se encontraba la escultura de Atenea de Fidias. En la sala occidental, con cuatro columnas en el centro de estilo jónico, se guardaba el tesoro de la diosa, y recibía el nombre de Partenón, es decir, la sala de las vírgenes.16 La fachada principal está orientada hacia oriente, el punto por donde sale el Sol, como es habitual en todas las construcciones religiosas de la antigüedad. Constaba de ocho columnas en sus dos fachadas principales y diecisiete en los laterales que rodeaban todo el templo, dejando un pasillo o deambulatorio que permitía a la población bordear completamente el templo durante sus celebraciones religiosas.17
En el exterior, en una superficie de 69,54 metros por 30,87 metros, y columnas de una altura de 10,43 metros, presenta como todos los templos griegos una escalinata compuesta por tres escalones que rodea completamente la base: los dos primeros escalones inferiores se denominan estereóbatos y el escalón superior, estilóbato.
Es un templo de orden dórico, que fue proyectado con ligeras correcciones con la finalidad de contrarrestar los efectos ópticos de la perspectiva, es decir, todas las líneas aparentemente rectas en realidad se esculpieron ligeramente curvas, para obtener más armonía, efecto que fue descubierto por el arquitecto inglés Penrose, en el año 1847.18 Este edificio permaneció casi intacto hasta el año 1687, cuando quedó medio destruido por una explosión durante la guerra venetoturca.19 Se cree que las esculturas de Fidias estaban realizadas en arcilla o yeso, para que después sus alumnos las pasaran a mármol. El frontón de la fachada occidental representa la lucha de Atenea y de Poseidónpara conseguir el patronazgo de la ciudad. Pausanias cuenta que las esculturas del frontón oriental representaban el nacimiento de Atenea de la cabeza de Zeus. De hecho, los frontones son conocidos por dibujos del siglo XVII y por copias antiguas.20
La novedad arquitectónica del Partenón es el friso interior que recorre el muro de la nave, un lugar que ningún edificio dórico había empleado para decoración. Tiene una longitud de 160 metros, 105 cm de altura y 5,6 cm en los lugares de máxima profundidad del relieve. Estaba realizado en mármol del monte Pentélico, a 19 km de la Acrópolis. El friso lo formaban 378 figuras humanas y 245 de animales representando la procesión de las fiestas de las Panateneas.
Estaba policromado: el color de las metopas era rojo como el de los frisos, el frontón era azul y a las figuras se les pintaba los ojos y los cabellos. De las 92 metopas originarias sólo se conservan 19, algunas en el mismo templo y otras en el Museo Británico, ya que la mayoría fueron destrozadas en las numerosas ocasiones en que el edificio fue saqueado. Las metopas del lado norte representaban la toma de Troya; las del este, la lucha de los dioses con los gigantes; las del sur, la centauromaquia y las del oeste, una batalla entre griegos y Amazonas.21
El Partenón alojaba la gran estatua de la diosa Atenea Partenos, que realizó Fidias. Esta escultura era de oro y marfil (criselefantina) y de quince metros de altura con pedestal. Estaba vestida con el peplo y encima la égida. Sobre la cabeza tenía un casco cubierto con figuras simbólicas y estaba armada con lanza y escudo en actitud de reposo. En una mano sostenía la imagen de la Victoria alada de tamaño natural.22 El antiguo historiador Pausanias realizó una descripción precisa de la estatua:
... La imagen está hecha de marfil y oro. En medio del casco hay una figura de la Esfinge... y a uno y otro lado del yelmo hay grifos esculpidos.... La estatua de Atenea es de pie con manto hasta los pies, y en su pecho tiene insertada la cabeza de Medusa de marfil. Tiene una Victoria de aproximadamente cuatro codos y en la mano una lanza; hay un escudo junto a sus pies y cerca de la lanza una serpiente. Esta serpiente podría ser Erictonio. En la base de la estatua está esculpido el nacimiento de Pandora.23
Existen algunas copias antiguas de la época romana de la escultura original de Atenea Partenos:
Atenea Varvakeion, copia romana en mármol del siglo II, considerada una de las más próximas a la real, que se encuentra en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional de Atenas.
Atenea Lenormant, sin finalizar, en el Museo Nacional Arqueológico de Atenas, también considerada de las mejores copias.
Otra copia romana en mármol realizada entre los años 130-150 se encuentra en el Museo del Prado de Madrid.
Otra copia romana de entre los siglos I y II en el Museo del Louvre de París.
Otra copia romana firmada por Antíoco (siglo I a. C.) en el Museo Nacional Romano de Roma.
Copia de Atenea Partenos en el Museo Nacional Romano (Palazzo Altemps), Roma.
Erecteión[editar]
Artículo principal: Erecteión
Fachada del Erecteión conocida como Las Cariátides.
Su construcción se inició en el año 421 a. C., durante la tregua de la Paz de Nicias en la guerra del Peloponeso, reemplazando el antiguo templo arcaico de Atenea que había sido destruido por los persas durante las Guerras Médicas.
Está formado por un edificio central con planta irregular, adecuado al desnivel del terreno, que comprende dos partes sin comunicación entre ellas: al este es un santuario dedicado a Atenea de tipo hexástilo, con unas columnas de orden jónico; al oeste está formado por dos capillas con doble culto: una a Erecteo y Poseidón y la otra a Hefesto y Butes.24 En el acceso a estas salas se encontraba la fuente de agua salada que supuestamente Poseidón hizo brotar con un golpe de su tridente durante la disputa con Atenea. Tiene una stoa en la parte norte, con columnas y en la parte sur es donde se encuentra la Tribuna de las Cariátides, con seis columnas con figura de mujer de 230 cm de altura, realizadas por Calímaco, un ayudante de Fidias. Las que se pueden ver in situ son copias de las cinco que se encuentran en el Museo de la Acrópolis y de una sexta que hay en el Museo Británico.25
El Erecteión mostraba un friso que recorría los lados del edificio, formado por figuras de mármol montadas sobre lápidas de piedra calcárea negra de la ciudad de Eleusis. Se ha conservado una lápida de la segunda etapa de su construcción, donde se pueden leer los 130 nombres de los trabajadores y su paga, una dracma diario, que era la misma que la que recibía el arquitecto.26
Propileos
Propileos de Atenas
Los propileos eran la gran entrada a la Acrópolis de Atenas. Fueron construidos a partir del año 437 a. C. por el arquitecto Mnesicles en un terreno accidentado y sobre las ruinas de los propileos arcaicos que fueron destruidos en el año 480 a. C. en el incendio ocasionado por los persas.28 Las seis columnas de la entrada son dóricas, igual las de la fachada delantera como las seis de la parte posterior. Está construido con mármol pentélico, consta de un vestíbulo de 24 x 18 metros. En el interior, un muro con cinco puertas lo divide en dos partes; la occidental, más grande, tiene dos hileras de tres columnas jónicas que forman tres naves.29
Es interesante la techumbre que se construyó con vigas de mármol de más de siete metros y armando los arquitrabes que sostenían estas vigas con una barra metálica.
En el ala norte estuvo situada la primera pinacoteca del mundo; entre las pinturas que se exponían destacaba la obra del pintor griego Polignoto (siglo V a. C.), conocido por las descripciones de su obras hechas por Pausanias y por Plinio.30
Templo de Atenea Niké
Templo de Atenea Niké
Al lado sur de los propileos se encuentra el templo de Atenea Niké (‘Atenea victoriosa’) o Niké Aptera (‘Victoria sin alas’). La construcción encargada al arquitecto Calícrates data del año 421 a. C. y el 410 a. C. Este monumento emplazado en la entrada de la Acrópolis quería simbolizar que, una vez sin alas, la diosa no se movería de Atenas.31
El naos consta de una planta casi cuadrada de 418 cm x 3178 cm, con el pronaos de cuatro columnas y cuatro más en el opistodomos, todas de orden jónico.
El friso que recorre todo el templo tuvo una decoración alusiva a las Guerras Médicas, con los frontones dedicados a la diosa Atenea. En el parapeto del bastión se añadió en el año 410 a. C. una decoración con grandes relieves, donde se aprecia la escuela de Fidias, por ejemplo en los pliegues de la ropa, que se adapta al cuerpo de las representaciones de las «victorias», las cuales están representando con gestos cotidianos como desatándose una sandalia o subiendo a un carruaje.32
El templo actual es una reconstrucción realizada en los años 1936 a 1940 por Nikolaos Balanos y Anastasios Orlandos, con el propósito de solucionar algunos problemas estructurales.33
Pandroseión
: Pandroseión
Construido en tiempos de Pericles hacia el año 421 a. C. cerca del Erecteión en el lado noroeste, en honor de Pándroso hija de Cécrope I, fue el lugar donde Atenea, durante su lucha con Poseidón para conseguir el patronazgo de la ciudad de Atenas, hizo crecer un olivo cuando resultó vencedora. El año 1917 se plantó el árbol actual, en recuerdo del mítico olivo.
Santuario de Artemisa Brauronia
: Santuario de Artemisa Brauronia
Cerca de los propileos se encontraba el santuario de Artemisa Brauronia, construido el año 430 a. C. El origen del santuario es una leyenda según la cual los habitantes de Braurón habían matado a una osa, que era el animal sagrado de Artemisa,34 por lo que la diosa exigió que se le consagraran a su culto niñas de siete a once años que vivirían en el santuario a su servicio; estas niñas recibían el nombre de osas.35 El edificio tenía una planta trapezoidal con dos alas laterales y una stoa de unos 38 metros de longitud por 7 de anchura.
Pausanias describe la presencia de varias estatuas que se encontraban en este santuario entre las que destacaban una imagen de Artemisa obra de Praxíteles y un caballo de bronce que representaba al caballo de Troya, en el que se representaban algunos de los guerreros escondidos asomándose desde dentro.36
Arreforión
: Arreforión
Se trataba de un edificio situado en la parte norte de la Acrópolis que era donde vivían las arréforas, unas muchachas que tejían el peplo que recibía Atenea en las Panateneas y además realizaban un ritual en el que llevaban en una procesión nocturna misteriosos objetos sagrados hasta un santuario de Afrodita y Eros que estaba situado en la ladera norte de la Acrópolis.37
Eleusinión
: Eleusinión
Fue Pericles el que mandó construir este santuario cerca de la Acrópolis para poder rendir culto a los misterios eleusinos. Se encargó de su edificación el arquitecto Corebos. La planta del santuario era cuadrada con diversas hileras de columnas y el techo se elevaba en forma de linterna. Han sido las excavaciones efectuadas las que han dado las pautas para reconocer los cimientos y la planta de todo el edificio.27
Teatro de Dioniso
: Teatro de Dioniso y Témenos de Dioniso.
Desde la segunda mitad del siglo V a. C., una de las más importantes creaciones arquitectónicas es el teatro y uno de los ejemplos más importantes de este tipo de edificios es el Teatro de Dioniso, construido durante el siglo IV a. C.38
El teatro constaba de una parte trasera donde los actores se cambiaban de indumentaria. Los espectadores se colocaban cerca de un lugar descampado, lugar donde se acostumbraban a construir los teatros. A finales del siglo V a. C. fueron sustituidas las primitivas plataformas de mármol por graderías de piedra. En la parte central de las primeras gradas había 67 asientos que fueron realizados posteriormente, en mármol decorado y estaban reservados para los sacerdotes y reyes.39
Asclepeion
En la ladera sur de la Acrópolis, por encima de la Stoa de Eumenes y el Teatro de Dioniso, se localiza un asclepeion, que data del 420 a. C. aproximadamente. A él acudían los médicos en busca de respuesta para saber curar enfermedades, además de clérigos, que iban a rezar, y enfermos.40
Odeón de Pericles
: Odeón de Pericles y Pericles.
Se construyó también bajo el mandato de Pericles y cerca del teatro de Dioniso.
Constaba de planta rectangular con doble hilera de columnas para la sustentación del techo y un propileo. Se utilizaba para las representaciones musicales, que empezaron en el año 446 a. C.41
Acrópolis helenística
: Stoa de Eumenes
En la ladera sur de la Acrópolis, en 320-319 a. C., se construyó, por orden de Nikias, un gran monumento en forma de templo dórico. Pero en el siglo III fue desmantelado para utilizar sus materiales en la puerta Beulé y solo queda la base.42
Al lado de este monumento se encuentra el pórtico o stoa de Eumenes, de 163 metros de longitud, que fue mandado construir por el rey Eumenes II de Pérgamo en el siglo II a. C. Se realizó para que los espectadores que asistían a las representaciones del teatro de Dioniso pudieran resguardarse de las inclemencias del tiempo.43
Acrópolis romana
En la época romana diversos emperadores y personajes destacados reformaron o realizaron nuevas construcciones en la Acrópolis de Atenas.
A la izquierda de la escalinata, antes de los propileos, se encuentra la Torre de Agripa, de casi 14 m de altura y construida en mármol gris. En el año 178 a. C. se había colocado en ella una estatua de Eumenes II sobre una cuadrigade bronce. Posteriormente se colocó otra de Agripa, yerno del emperador Augusto.
También en época de Augusto, en el año 27 a. C., se edificó el Templo de Roma y Augusto cerca del Partenón. De planta circular, se encontraba rodeado de nueve columnas de mármol.44
Durante el mandato de Claudio, en el año 52, se hizo una reforma de la rampa de acceso a la Acrópolis.
En la ladera meridional de la Acrópolis, el ciudadano Herodes Ático erigió un odeón en el siglo II, en memoria de su esposa Aspasia Annia Regilla.
En el siglo III, por orden de Flavio Septimio, se construyó la actualmente llamada Puerta Beulé como primera entrada de la Acrópolis antes de los propileos. Consta de dos torres de 9 m de altura, una a cada lado de la puerta. Esta puerta fue descubierta por el arqueólogo francés Charles Ernest Beulé en el año 1852.
Algunos edificios cambiaron su función original, como el teatro de Dioniso, que pasó a ser escenario de competiciones de gladiadores.45
December 12, at the base camp in Bunia Aviation Group 18th separate helicopter unit that performs the task of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the commander Colonel of Colonel Vitaly TSAPKO held a "parade of medals."
More than 80 Ukrainian servicemen 18th separate helicopter detachment of the UN Stabilization Mission in DR Congo received the medal "For Service to Peace".
To congratulate the Ukrainian military on holiday visiting commanders of national contingents, located near the base camp of Ukrainian helicopter pilots.
On behalf of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in DR Congo was made by General Saif -Ur-Rahman who, on behalf of the mission conveyed greetings Ukrainian peacekeepers.
By Nazar Voloshyn. 12/12/2015
Photos of the Seattle Leather Contingent at the 2015 Seattle Pride Parade. Courtesy of Ryan Dixon (The American Lens) and gifted on behalf of Seattle girls of Leather.
Groups photographed include: Seattle Men in Leather, Seattle Women in Leather, Seattle boys of Leather, Seattle girls of Leather, Seattle Pups and Handlers, Washington State Mr and Ms Leather Organization, Ponies of Washington, South Sound Leather Alliance, 2015 International Ms. Leather, and more!
Contingent : Police Control | Contingent [45T] (Contingent Records, 1980)
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December 12, at the base camp in Bunia Aviation Group 18th separate helicopter unit that performs the task of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the commander Colonel of Colonel Vitaly TSAPKO held a "parade of medals."
More than 80 Ukrainian servicemen 18th separate helicopter detachment of the UN Stabilization Mission in DR Congo received the medal "For Service to Peace".
To congratulate the Ukrainian military on holiday visiting commanders of national contingents, located near the base camp of Ukrainian helicopter pilots.
On behalf of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in DR Congo was made by General Saif -Ur-Rahman who, on behalf of the mission conveyed greetings Ukrainian peacekeepers.
By Nazar Voloshyn. 12/12/2015
28 September 2011. Um Kadada: UNAMID Egyptian troops, posted in Um Kadada (North Darfur), training at the team site.
860 troops from Egypt are posted in Um Kadada where they assume the responsibility of the security. However, since 2010, this area is free of clashes and there is no camps for displaced people. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID
26 September 2011. Um Kadada: Egyptian Warren officer Ali Alsayed Ali, responsabile of the kitchen at the UNAMID team site in Um Kadada (North Darfur) working with his staff. 12 people work every day at the kitchen to feed the troops.
860 troops from Egypt are posted in Um Kadada where they assume the responsibility of the security. However, since 2010, this area is free of clashes and there is no camps for displaced people. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID
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Photos of the Seattle Leather Contingent at the 2015 Seattle Pride Parade. Courtesy of Ryan Dixon (The American Lens) and gifted on behalf of Seattle girls of Leather.
Groups photographed include: Seattle Men in Leather, Seattle Women in Leather, Seattle boys of Leather, Seattle girls of Leather, Seattle Pups and Handlers, Washington State Mr and Ms Leather Organization, Ponies of Washington, South Sound Leather Alliance, 2015 International Ms. Leather, and more!
Jonathon Raymond Wright 1713 : 36th Battalion age 49 , Pictured here front row , holding a white hat Blue mark :Kurrajongs 2nd contingent at Inverell Nsw 29th Feb 1916.
1916 Kurrajong Recruiting March
Early on the morning of 12 January 1916, Inverell witnessed a great day in its young history. A huge crowd assembled in the streets to farewell Inverell first contingent of The Kurrajongs. This group of 114 men was one of ten snowball recruiting marches held in NSW to encourage enlistment. At the time, these men were the largest group to leave a country town together for War Service.
Wearing white hats, the men marched from near the corner of Rivers and Otho Streets, to the Town Hall for the official farewell by the Mayor. The huge procession then proceeded down to Byron Street and on to the railway station, passing shops closed for the occasion. Banners were held high by the volunteers. Thousands of people, including women and children in white dresses with shady hats, stood in the streets as bands led the way.
At the railway station the train had been decorated with Kurrajong leaves and flags for the occasion. A special train had been arranged to take them to the Narrabri camp. Along the way the train stopped overnight at Warialda and Moree where further rallies were held and more recruits joined the Kurrajongs.
Further contingents followed during the next two months. Many of these men became part of the 33rd Battalion. Their story has been told in the book A fine body of men: Inverell Remembers the Kurrajongs 1916.
It is likely that at this time the intensive recruiting campaign and departure of the First Contingent of The Kurrajongs would have influenced enlistment throughout the district.
The Kurrajongs
SIX weeks after the First Kurrajongs left Inverell an enthusiastic farewell was given to the Second Kurrajongs who departed town on February 29, 1916.
The day before departure, this group of volunteers marched down Otho and Byron streets to Vivian Street and assembled at the Imperial Picture Palace for their formal farewell.
The men, placed on a platform, were highly visible to the large cheering crowd.
A lengthy and passionate speech made by Sergeant Gallie implored more men to enlist. Sgt Gallie said, “that the hangers-back who sought a girl’s hand should be told, ‘when you come back from the war, and show me some honorable scars, I will marry you.”
When no one came forward, Sgt Gallie walked through the hall eyeballing likely candidates until four men agreed to sign up.
The Inverell Times reported Alderman O’Connor’s address to the departing recruits as follows:
“Kurrajongs, evergreen Kurrajongs, I have a pleasant duty to perform, that of presenting to you the bronze medal and sox which are similar to the presents given to every soldier leaving Inverell.
“The medals are merely badges or souvenirs, the intrinsic value of which is nothing, but they are made of the same material as the Victoria Cross so much coveted by soldiers.
“You are now standing on the stage of this little hall, but ere long you will be on the stage of the great theatre of war.”
The next day the men were photographed by Mr. George Devine before marching to the Railway Station carrying their Kurrajong banner.
Inverell residents cheered the passing procession which included Police, Pipers, and the Fire Brigade with the Austral, Model and Salvation Army bands providing music.
As with the first contingent the train was well decorated in patriotic colours and flags.
At Kelly’s Gully near Warialda, eleven more men joined the Kurrajongs on their way to the Narrabri camp. Most of them served with the 33rd Battalion, known as ‘New England’s Own’.
Of these 61 men, 21 died, 26 were wounded and or gassed, and 5 were returned home because of ill health.< One being Jonathan Wright with Debility from his age 52 & deep vein thrombosis
December 12, at the base camp in Bunia Aviation Group 18th separate helicopter unit that performs the task of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the commander Colonel of Colonel Vitaly TSAPKO held a "parade of medals."
More than 80 Ukrainian peacekeepers 18th separate helicopter detachment of the UN Stabilization Mission in DR Congo received the medal "For Service to Peace".
To congratulate the Ukrainian military on holiday visiting commanders of national contingents, located near the base camp of Ukrainian helicopter pilots.
On behalf of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in DR Congo was made by General Saif -Ur-Rahman who, on behalf of the mission conveyed greetings Ukrainian peacekeepers.
By Nazar Voloshyn. 12/12/2015
AMISOM Ugandan Contingent medal parade ceremony. Ugandan Police officers awarded certificates and medals as they conclude their tour of duty in Somalia.PHOTO AMISOM PUBLIC INFORMATION/RAMADAN MOHAMED
4 August 2010. Kutum: South African contingent based in UNAMID Kutum camp site since May 2010. In the picture, women going to collect firewood under the protection of Unamid Protection Force. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / Unamid / www.albertgonzalez.net
Photos of the Seattle Leather Contingent at the 2015 Seattle Pride Parade. Courtesy of Ryan Dixon (The American Lens) and gifted on behalf of Seattle girls of Leather.
Groups photographed include: Seattle Men in Leather, Seattle Women in Leather, Seattle boys of Leather, Seattle girls of Leather, Seattle Pups and Handlers, Washington State Mr and Ms Leather Organization, Ponies of Washington, South Sound Leather Alliance, 2015 International Ms. Leather, and more!
African priest, Western Front. This photograph shows a black priest, wearing what seem to be Church of England vestments over army uniform. He is standing in a camp of wooden huts. This is likely to be one of the segregated Labour Camps, probably of the South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC). Some of these were near the ports such as Dieppe and Rouen, others were further inland such as those at Abbeville, Albert and Arras.
This may be one of a series, some of which have been attributed to the photographer John Warwick Brooke. They must all have been taken after February 1917, when the Labour Camps were established on the Western Front.
[Original reads: 'The native parson.']
Soldiers of the Djiboutian Contingent serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) stand to attention during the arrival of further troops to the central Somali town of Belet Weyne, 16 November 2012, approx. 300km north west of the Somali capital Mogadishu. The air lift is part of a deployment to begin boosting the just over 300 personnel already on the ground to approx. 1,000 troops serving under the UN-supported AU mission in Somalia. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
29 March 2011. Muhkjar: Peacekeepers from Thailandia on patrol at the the road and the bridge rebuilt by them in Muhkjar (West Darfur). Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID
"Klick Link For Read Online Or Download Contingent Causality and the Foundations of Duns Scotus' Metaphysics (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters) Book : bit.ly/2eHuTrD
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This study challenges the current view that the originality of Duns Scotus' notion of contingent causality lies in modal logic. It works as an ontological concept, and so provides a point of entry into the foundations of Duns Scotus' metaphysics. As one of two basic manifestations of the active causal power of being, it points to Scotus' underlying ontology, which can no longer be seen as a failure to attain Aquinas' clarity. We have a positive alternative, capable of generating the characteristic Scotist theses: univocity of being, formal distinction, haecceitas, proof of God's existence from possibility, the producibility of God's ideas. The exploration of the role contingent causality plays in Scotus' and Bradwardine's views on free will and predestination, and Bradwardin"
28 September 2011. Um Kadada: UNAMID Egyptian troops, posted in Um Kadada (North Darfur), training at the team site.
860 troops from Egypt are posted in Um Kadada where they assume the responsibility of the security. However, since 2010, this area is free of clashes and there is no camps for displaced people. Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNAMID
December 12, at the base camp in Bunia Aviation Group 18th separate helicopter unit that performs the task of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the commander Colonel of Colonel Vitaly TSAPKO held a "parade of medals."
More than 80 Ukrainian servicemen 18th separate helicopter detachment of the UN Stabilization Mission in DR Congo received the medal "For Service to Peace".
To congratulate the Ukrainian military on holiday visiting commanders of national contingents, located near the base camp of Ukrainian helicopter pilots.
On behalf of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in DR Congo was made by General Saif -Ur-Rahman who, on behalf of the mission conveyed greetings Ukrainian peacekeepers.
By Nazar Voloshyn. 12/12/2015
Ukrainian aviation unit. DR Congo. MONUSCO. Medal parade.
Ukrainian national contingent in DR Congo camp "Goma" awarded UN medals "For Service to Peace".
В рамках святкування 26-ї річниці Незалежності України в Демократичній Республіці Конго, на аеродромі міста Гома відбувся «Парад медалей» українського національного контингенту.
На церемонію нагородження прибули заступник Командуючого Місії ООН зі стабілізації в ДР Конго генерал-майор Бернард Комінс, начальник авіації Місії ООН Азам Айат, начальник Генерального штабу Збройних Сил Уругваю, командир бригади «Північне Ківу» бригадний генерал Харі Б Піллаі та інші посадовці.
– Сьогодні, військовослужбовці українського підрозділу є еталоном стандарту виконання обов’язків миротворця. Своїми діями ви постійно підтримуєте високий міжнародний авторитет Організації Об’єднаних Націй на усій території ДР Конго. Ось чому внесок українських миротворців до почесної місії підтримання миру в ДР Конго сьогодні нагороджується медалями ООН «За службу миру», – сказав генерал-майор Бернард Комінс
В свою чергу командир 18-го окремого вертолітного загону льотчик-снайпер полковник Юрій Вербельчук запевнив керівництво Місії ООН в ДР Конго, що український національний контингент й надалі гідно та професійно виконуватиме свій обов’язок заради підтримання миру в цій країні.
– В цей час, коли наша Батьківщина бореться за свою незалежність і суверенітет, військовослужбовці українського контингенту, як ніхто інший знають ціну миру і спокою на землі. Ми віримо в незалежність кожної держави на планеті, яка хоче її та бореться за неї, – наголосив командир 18-го окремого вертолітного загону льотчик-снайпер полковник Юрій Вербельчук.
Наприкінці «параду медалей» відбулось спільне фотографування українських військовослужбовців з представниками командування Місії ООН зі стабілізації в ДР Конго.
Помічник командира 18 ОВЗ по зв’язкам зі ЗМІ Віктор Ануфрієв, ДР Конго
Photos of the Seattle Leather Contingent at the 2015 Seattle Pride Parade. Courtesy of Ryan Dixon (The American Lens) and gifted on behalf of Seattle girls of Leather.
Groups photographed include: Seattle Men in Leather, Seattle Women in Leather, Seattle boys of Leather, Seattle girls of Leather, Seattle Pups and Handlers, Washington State Mr and Ms Leather Organization, Ponies of Washington, South Sound Leather Alliance, 2015 International Ms. Leather, and more!
Santiago, 04 de junio de 2015.- El Ministro de Agricultura, Carlos Furche, y el Director Nacional del Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero (SAG), Ángel Sartori, entregaron antecedentes del plan de contingencia que se activará en todos los controles fronterizos y aeropuertos del país, dada la alta cantidad de extranjeros que ingresarán a Chile en el marco de la realización de la Copa América; y hacen llamado al cuidado del patrimonio fitozoosanitario chileno, entregando información sobre los productos que pueden constituir un riesgo de ingreso de plagas o enfermedades al país, y que se fiscalizarán en los pasos fronterizos.
Fotografía: Claudio Aguilera/MINAGRI
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
4064 BUGLER SGT
C[harles] WOOD **
7TH CONTINGENT
DIED 9 September 1949
[Aged 80 at death]
Also buried in same plot is his wife Constance Mary WOOD [sic]
Died 24 July 1957
Aged 79
[grave had obviously been reopened prompting a search of Dept Internal Affairs historical BDM indexes producing marriage of Charles WOOD to Constance Mary EARLEY marriage registration 1906/4900. This lead to cross referencing names against the Waikumete cemetery database to produce confirmed result against plot numbers].
ANGLICAN DIVISION K Row 8, Plot 72
**Note: Surname is WOOD on headstone and in Department Internal Affairs historic BDM indexes [death registration 1949/24649] but military records state WOODS as does a newspaper entry below.
Father: Richard WOODS
3 April 1900 signed up with 5th Contingent; drafted from the Ashburton Guards, a Private for two years; [Father] Address: Violinist – Timaru [sic]
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9105, 25 March 1901, Page 3
7th Contingent non commissioned appointment made… bugler sergeant, C. WOODS [sic] [1]
Imperial South African War Medal and clasp for Transvaal Orange Free State
Awarded Clasps for South Africa 1901
And South Africa 1902 for service
Discharge papers dated 15 September 1902 note of good character
5 ft 8 in; fair complexion; blue eyes; brown hair; Trade: musician; intended place of residence: Lower Hutt, Wellington
His Cenotaph database record:
muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/127414.detail?...
His South African embarkation database record:
www.nzhistory.net.nz/soldier/charles-woods
His military records are available to read online:
archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=20524396&am...
SOURCES:
[1]
Family planning and possibly reducing population growth is an important part of the future, if we are to have a future and I assume we will.
Parade starts in Bellingham High School parking lot.
AMISOM Ugandan Contingent medal parade ceremony. Ugandan Police officers awarded certificates and medals as they conclude their tour of duty in Somalia.PHOTO AMISOM PUBLIC INFORMATION/RAMADAN MOHAMED
December 12, at the base camp in Bunia Aviation Group 18th separate helicopter unit that performs the task of the UN Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the commander Colonel of Colonel Vitaly TSAPKO held a "parade of medals."
More than 80 Ukrainian servicemen 18th separate helicopter detachment of the UN Stabilization Mission in DR Congo received the medal "For Service to Peace".
To congratulate the Ukrainian military on holiday visiting commanders of national contingents, located near the base camp of Ukrainian helicopter pilots.
On behalf of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in DR Congo was made by General Saif -Ur-Rahman who, on behalf of the mission conveyed greetings Ukrainian peacekeepers.
By Nazar Voloshyn. 12/12/2015
Kos or Cos (Greek: Κως) is a Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos.
In Homer's Iliad, a contingent from Kos fought for the Greeks in the Trojan War.[12]
In the Roman mythology, the island was visited by Hercules.[13]
The island was originally colonised by the Carians. The Dorians invaded it in the 11th century BC, establishing a Dorian colony with a large contingent of settlers from Epidaurus, whose Asclepius cult made their new home famous for its sanatoria. The other chief sources of the island's wealth lay in its wines and, in later days, in its silk manufacture.[14]
Its early history–as part of the religious-political amphictyony that included Lindos, Kamiros, Ialysos, Cnidus and Halicarnassus, the Dorian Hexapolis (hexapolis means six cities in Greek),[15]–is obscure. At the end of the 6th century, Kos fell under Achaemenid domination but rebelled after the Greek victory at the Battle of Mycale in 479. During the Greco-Persian Wars, before it twice expelled the Persians, it was ruled by Persian-appointed tyrants, but as a rule it seems to have been under oligarchic government. In the 5th century, it joined the Delian League, and, after the revolt of Rhodes, it served as the chief Athenian station in the south-eastern Aegean (411–407). In 366 BC, a democracy was instituted. In 366 BC, the capital was transferred from Astypalaia to the newly built town of Kos, laid out in a Hippodamian grid. After helping to weaken Athenian power, in the Social War (357-355 BC), it fell for a few years to the king Mausolus of Caria.
Proximity to the east gave the island first access to imported silk thread. Aristotle mentions silk weaving conducted by the women of the island.[16] Silk production of garments was conducted in large factories by women slaves.[17]
In the Hellenistic age, Kos attained the zenith of its prosperity. Its alliance was valued by the kings of Egypt, who used it as a naval outpost to oversee the Aegean. As a seat of learning, it arose as a provincial branch of the museum of Alexandria, and became a favorite resort for the education of the princes of the Ptolemaic dynasty. During the hellenistic age, there was a medical school; however, the theory that this school was founded by Hippocrates (see below) during the classical age is an unwarranted extrapolation.[18] Among its most famous sons were the physician Hippocrates, the painter Apelles, the poets Philitas and, perhaps, Theocritus.
Diodorus Siculus (xv. 76) and Strabo (xiv. 657) describe it as a well-fortified port. Its position gave it a high importance in Aegean trade; while the island itself was rich in wines of considerable fame.[19] Under Alexander the Great and the Egyptian Ptolemies the town developed into one of the great centers in the Aegean; Josephus[20] quotes Strabo to the effect that Mithridates was sent to Kos to fetch the gold deposited there by the queen Cleopatra of Egypt. Herod is said to have provided an annual stipend for the benefit of prize-winners in the athletic games,[21] and a statue was erected there to his son Herod the Tetrarch ("C. I. G." 2502 ). Paul briefly visited here according to Acts 21:1.
Except for occasional incursions by corsairs and some severe earthquakes, the island has rarely had its peace disturbed. Following the lead of its larger neighbour, Rhodes, Kos generally displayed a friendly attitude toward the Romans; in 53 AD it was made a free city. Lucian (125–180) mentions their manufacture of semi-transparent light dresses, a fashion success.[22] The island of Kos also featured a provincial library during the Roman period. The island first became a center for learning during the Ptolemaic dynasty, and Hippocrates, Apelles, Philitas and possibly Theocritus came from the area. An inscription lists people who made contributions to build the library in the 1st century AD.[23] One of the people responsible for the library's construction was the Kos doctor Gaiou Stertinou Xenofontos, who lived in Rome and was the personal physician of the Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero.[24]
The bishopric of Cos was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Rhodes.[25] Its bishop Meliphron attended the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Eddesius was one of the minority Eastern bishops who withdrew from the Council of Sardica in about 344 and set up a rival council at Philippopolis. Iulianus went to the synod held in Constantinople in 448 in preparation for the Council of Chalcedon of 451, in which he participated as a legate of Pope Leo I, and he was a signatory of the joint letter that the bishops of the Roman province of Insulae sent in 458 to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian with regard to the killing of Proterius of Alexandria. Dorotheus took part in a synod in 518. Georgius was a participant of the Third Council of Constantinople in 680–681. Constantinus went to the Photian Council of Constantinople (879).[26][27] Under Byzantine rule, apart from the participation of its bishops in councils, the island's history remains obscure. It was governed by a droungarios in the 8th/9th centuries, and seems to have acquired some importance in the 11th and 12th centuries: Nikephoros Melissenos began his uprising here, and in the middle of the 12th century, it was governed by a scion of the ruling Komnenos dynasty, Nikephoros Komnenos.[25]
Soldiers of the Djiboutian Contingent serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) disembark from a United Nations aircraft 16 November 2012, at the airport of the central Somali town of Belet Weyne, approx. 300km north west of the Somali capital Mogadishu during the arrival of further Djiboutian troops in AMISOM Sector 4. The air lift is part of a deployment to begin boosting the just over 300 personnel already on the ground to approx. 1,000 troops serving under the UN-supported AU mission in Somalia. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
A soldier of the Djiboutian Contingent serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) stands guard 18 November 2012, at the end of a side street in the centre of the central Somali town of Belet Weyne in the Hiraan region, approx. 300km north west of the Somali capital Mogadishu, during a foot patrol through the town.AMSIOM troops have been this week begun increasing their forces in Belet Weyne since first deploying there in September after the town liberated from Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremist group Al Shabaab in December 2011 by a combined force of the Ethiopian Army and Somali government forces. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.
The Canadian Contingent leaves Camp Heumensoord behind for a 40 kilometers march through the towns of Nijmegen, Wijchen and Beuningen in the Netherlands during the International Four Days Marches at 5:35 am on July 17, 2013..
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Image by Master Corporal Cynthia Wilkinson, CFJIC ACPRO.
RE2013-0045-042.
Kos or Cos (Greek: Κως) is a Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos.
In Homer's Iliad, a contingent from Kos fought for the Greeks in the Trojan War.[12]
In the Roman mythology, the island was visited by Hercules.[13]
The island was originally colonised by the Carians. The Dorians invaded it in the 11th century BC, establishing a Dorian colony with a large contingent of settlers from Epidaurus, whose Asclepius cult made their new home famous for its sanatoria. The other chief sources of the island's wealth lay in its wines and, in later days, in its silk manufacture.[14]
Its early history–as part of the religious-political amphictyony that included Lindos, Kamiros, Ialysos, Cnidus and Halicarnassus, the Dorian Hexapolis (hexapolis means six cities in Greek),[15]–is obscure. At the end of the 6th century, Kos fell under Achaemenid domination but rebelled after the Greek victory at the Battle of Mycale in 479. During the Greco-Persian Wars, before it twice expelled the Persians, it was ruled by Persian-appointed tyrants, but as a rule it seems to have been under oligarchic government. In the 5th century, it joined the Delian League, and, after the revolt of Rhodes, it served as the chief Athenian station in the south-eastern Aegean (411–407). In 366 BC, a democracy was instituted. In 366 BC, the capital was transferred from Astypalaia to the newly built town of Kos, laid out in a Hippodamian grid. After helping to weaken Athenian power, in the Social War (357-355 BC), it fell for a few years to the king Mausolus of Caria.
Proximity to the east gave the island first access to imported silk thread. Aristotle mentions silk weaving conducted by the women of the island.[16] Silk production of garments was conducted in large factories by women slaves.[17]
In the Hellenistic age, Kos attained the zenith of its prosperity. Its alliance was valued by the kings of Egypt, who used it as a naval outpost to oversee the Aegean. As a seat of learning, it arose as a provincial branch of the museum of Alexandria, and became a favorite resort for the education of the princes of the Ptolemaic dynasty. During the hellenistic age, there was a medical school; however, the theory that this school was founded by Hippocrates (see below) during the classical age is an unwarranted extrapolation.[18] Among its most famous sons were the physician Hippocrates, the painter Apelles, the poets Philitas and, perhaps, Theocritus.
Diodorus Siculus (xv. 76) and Strabo (xiv. 657) describe it as a well-fortified port. Its position gave it a high importance in Aegean trade; while the island itself was rich in wines of considerable fame.[19] Under Alexander the Great and the Egyptian Ptolemies the town developed into one of the great centers in the Aegean; Josephus[20] quotes Strabo to the effect that Mithridates was sent to Kos to fetch the gold deposited there by the queen Cleopatra of Egypt. Herod is said to have provided an annual stipend for the benefit of prize-winners in the athletic games,[21] and a statue was erected there to his son Herod the Tetrarch ("C. I. G." 2502 ). Paul briefly visited here according to Acts 21:1.
Except for occasional incursions by corsairs and some severe earthquakes, the island has rarely had its peace disturbed. Following the lead of its larger neighbour, Rhodes, Kos generally displayed a friendly attitude toward the Romans; in 53 AD it was made a free city. Lucian (125–180) mentions their manufacture of semi-transparent light dresses, a fashion success.[22] The island of Kos also featured a provincial library during the Roman period. The island first became a center for learning during the Ptolemaic dynasty, and Hippocrates, Apelles, Philitas and possibly Theocritus came from the area. An inscription lists people who made contributions to build the library in the 1st century AD.[23] One of the people responsible for the library's construction was the Kos doctor Gaiou Stertinou Xenofontos, who lived in Rome and was the personal physician of the Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero.[24]
The bishopric of Cos was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Rhodes.[25] Its bishop Meliphron attended the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Eddesius was one of the minority Eastern bishops who withdrew from the Council of Sardica in about 344 and set up a rival council at Philippopolis. Iulianus went to the synod held in Constantinople in 448 in preparation for the Council of Chalcedon of 451, in which he participated as a legate of Pope Leo I, and he was a signatory of the joint letter that the bishops of the Roman province of Insulae sent in 458 to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian with regard to the killing of Proterius of Alexandria. Dorotheus took part in a synod in 518. Georgius was a participant of the Third Council of Constantinople in 680–681. Constantinus went to the Photian Council of Constantinople (879).[26][27] Under Byzantine rule, apart from the participation of its bishops in councils, the island's history remains obscure. It was governed by a droungarios in the 8th/9th centuries, and seems to have acquired some importance in the 11th and 12th centuries: Nikephoros Melissenos began his uprising here, and in the middle of the 12th century, it was governed by a scion of the ruling Komnenos dynasty, Nikephoros Komnenos.[25] Kos or Cos (Greek: Κως) is a Greek island, part of the Dodecanese island chain in the southeastern Aegean Sea, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos.
In Homer's Iliad, a contingent from Kos fought for the Greeks in the Trojan War.[12]
In the Roman mythology, the island was visited by Hercules.[13]
The island was originally colonised by the Carians. The Dorians invaded it in the 11th century BC, establishing a Dorian colony with a large contingent of settlers from Epidaurus, whose Asclepius cult made their new home famous for its sanatoria. The other chief sources of the island's wealth lay in its wines and, in later days, in its silk manufacture.[14]
Its early history–as part of the religious-political amphictyony that included Lindos, Kamiros, Ialysos, Cnidus and Halicarnassus, the Dorian Hexapolis (hexapolis means six cities in Greek),[15]–is obscure. At the end of the 6th century, Kos fell under Achaemenid domination but rebelled after the Greek victory at the Battle of Mycale in 479. During the Greco-Persian Wars, before it twice expelled the Persians, it was ruled by Persian-appointed tyrants, but as a rule it seems to have been under oligarchic government. In the 5th century, it joined the Delian League, and, after the revolt of Rhodes, it served as the chief Athenian station in the south-eastern Aegean (411–407). In 366 BC, a democracy was instituted. In 366 BC, the capital was transferred from Astypalaia to the newly built town of Kos, laid out in a Hippodamian grid. After helping to weaken Athenian power, in the Social War (357-355 BC), it fell for a few years to the king Mausolus of Caria.
Proximity to the east gave the island first access to imported silk thread. Aristotle mentions silk weaving conducted by the women of the island.[16] Silk production of garments was conducted in large factories by women slaves.[17]
In the Hellenistic age, Kos attained the zenith of its prosperity. Its alliance was valued by the kings of Egypt, who used it as a naval outpost to oversee the Aegean. As a seat of learning, it arose as a provincial branch of the museum of Alexandria, and became a favorite resort for the education of the princes of the Ptolemaic dynasty. During the hellenistic age, there was a medical school; however, the theory that this school was founded by Hippocrates (see below) during the classical age is an unwarranted extrapolation.[18] Among its most famous sons were the physician Hippocrates, the painter Apelles, the poets Philitas and, perhaps, Theocritus.
Diodorus Siculus (xv. 76) and Strabo (xiv. 657) describe it as a well-fortified port. Its position gave it a high importance in Aegean trade; while the island itself was rich in wines of considerable fame.[19] Under Alexander the Great and the Egyptian Ptolemies the town developed into one of the great centers in the Aegean; Josephus[20] quotes Strabo to the effect that Mithridates was sent to Kos to fetch the gold deposited there by the queen Cleopatra of Egypt. Herod is said to have provided an annual stipend for the benefit of prize-winners in the athletic games,[21] and a statue was erected there to his son Herod the Tetrarch ("C. I. G." 2502 ). Paul briefly visited here according to Acts 21:1.
Except for occasional incursions by corsairs and some severe earthquakes, the island has rarely had its peace disturbed. Following the lead of its larger neighbour, Rhodes, Kos generally displayed a friendly attitude toward the Romans; in 53 AD it was made a free city. Lucian (125–180) mentions their manufacture of semi-transparent light dresses, a fashion success.[22] The island of Kos also featured a provincial library during the Roman period. The island first became a center for learning during the Ptolemaic dynasty, and Hippocrates, Apelles, Philitas and possibly Theocritus came from the area. An inscription lists people who made contributions to build the library in the 1st century AD.[23] One of the people responsible for the library's construction was the Kos doctor Gaiou Stertinou Xenofontos, who lived in Rome and was the personal physician of the Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero.[24]
The bishopric of Cos was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Rhodes.[25] Its bishop Meliphron attended the First Council of Nicaea in 325. Eddesius was one of the minority Eastern bishops who withdrew from the Council of Sardica in about 344 and set up a rival council at Philippopolis. Iulianus went to the synod held in Constantinople in 448 in preparation for the Council of Chalcedon of 451, in which he participated as a legate of Pope Leo I, and he was a signatory of the joint letter that the bishops of the Roman province of Insulae sent in 458 to Byzantine Emperor Leo I the Thracian with regard to the killing of Proterius of Alexandria. Dorotheus took part in a synod in 518. Georgius was a participant of the Third Council of Constantinople in 680–681. Constantinus went to the Photian Council of Constantinople (879).[26][27] Under Byzantine rule, apart from the participation of its bishops in councils, the island's history remains obscure. It was governed by a droungarios in the 8th/9th centuries, and seems to have acquired some importance in the 11th and 12th centuries: Nikephoros Melissenos began his uprising here, and in the middle of the 12th century, it was governed by a scion of the ruling Komnenos dynasty, Nikephoros Komnenos.[25]
Title: HQ ARRC US contingent celebrate their Independence Day
INNSWORTH – The US contingent celebrated Independence Day at the Officer’s Mess July 3, 2014.
Independence Day is commonly known as the 4tth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemoration the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. It is also a reminder for those who have been deployed of just how important freedom is.
More than 190 guests came out to celebrate with Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (HQ ARRC) US contingent to enjoy games, food and fun. Everyone got a tutoring session on some US history and some enjoyed watching the 50 states appear across the screen and the things that represented them.
There was entertainment all around for everyone to enjoy, with two bouncy castles for the kids, and entertainment room for movies and even a mechanical bronco for anyone who wanted to give it a go. To add to the US flavor there was lots and lots of dancing.
In Brig. Gen. Richard G. Kaiser’s, DCOS OPS welcoming speech he made a comment referring to the “melting pot”
The “melting pot is a metaphor, used in the 1780’s for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements “melting together into a harmonious whole with a common culture.
During the 4th of July celebration you could understand how it was the perfect use of the word. The close working relationships between the nations tend to over flow into personal relationships and cultural differences, however that is what is so unique and interesting for nations to come out and see some of each other’s history and cultures.
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