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سكاكا . الجوف . السعودية
حرك جسم الكاميرا واتبع هدفا متحركا
واستخدم سرعة غالق متوسطة
ستتفاجئ بجمال ماتراه من نتائج
أيضا جرب ثبت جسم الكاميرا وصور هدفا متحركا
أو حرك جسم الكاميرا وصور هدفا ثابتا
أو ثبت جسم الكاميرا وصور هدفا ثابتا ولكن اجعله خارج التركيز
هذه طريقة للخروج بعمل تجريدي تشكيلي مميز
Description: Barbados. 'Barbados Rediffusion Service: Continuity studio'. [Depicting radio engineer at his desk]. Photograph No K 20370 Official Barbados photograph compiled by the Central Office of Information.
Location: Barbados
Date: [1950]
Our Catalogue Reference: INF 10/42/9
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No. The photo was taken (not by me) in the summer of 1965 in West-Germany. Is this then a kind of re-enactment of a World War II scenario? Again, no. This is personal, and the man in uniform is me. This is the story: when I was drafted (conscripted to military service) - something I seriously disliked, I chose an alternative route open to me at the time, namely joining the police force for 18 months. The field uniform is that of the Federal Border Guard (Bundesgrenzschutz). I knew that it too was somewhat militarised, but I was shocked to find that parts of the equipment, the helmets for example, were still WWII material - some even with engraved swastikas. Worse, among the marching songs were some suspiciously close to Nazi hymnology. At that time, the Federal Border Guard had not yet arrived in the West, so to speak. There was too much continuity with the past. However, the fact that I did not fit in became a trigger for me, later on as a scholar, to explore that dark period of the European past.
The Keener-Johnson Farm on Boyd's Creek Road in Sevier County, Tennessee, is a listed Tennessee Bicentennial Farm and the oldest historic family farm yet identified in Sevier County. The farm landscape represents a rural historic district that demonstrates agricultural change and continuity for well over 150 years. The farm gains additional significance for the contribution its history makes to the understanding of the roles of farm women in the maintenance and perpetuation of historic family farms in Tennessee. The farm's history begins in 1785 when John McCroskey received a North Carolina land grant of 3,000 acres, most of which was centered along Boyd's Creek in present-day Sevier County. John McCroskey shared the grant with William & Samuel McGauhey, also of North Carolina. In 1806, John Sharp, Jr. received a land grant from the State of Tennessee for part of the original McCroskey grant. Conflicting titles such as this one were not uncommon; in the great majority of cases, the Tennessee title was recognized as legitimate. Certainly part of the controversy ended when Robert Scott McCroskey, the son of John McCroskey, married Mary McChesney Sharp, the daughter of John Sharp, Jr. Robert and Mary Sharp McCroskey began to farm at the present location of the property by circa 1830. Their child, Mary Narcissa McCroskey, inherited 168 acres of the farm and after her marriage to Adam Harvey Keener. They built the present historic dwelling seen in the photograph above, the Keener House, in 1853. The dwelling, although remodeled throughout the next century, remains largely intact and at its original location. As the farm's oldest surviving building, it is a landmark for travelers along the highway as well as for the subsequent history of the farm.
Adam Harvey Keener was a miller by trade and during the 1850's he constructed and operated a gristmill and sawmill along Boyd's Creek, east of the dwelling. Similar to other farmers in the county, the Keener's raised small grains, livestock for their own consumption, and corn. After Adam Harvey Keener's death in 1891, his wife Mary M. Keener assumed ownership of the property and managed the farm for the next 11-12 years, dependent on the help of her adult children. After Mary M. Keener's death in 1902, the farm passed to her son Joseph A. Keener and his wife Hannah Clark Keener. It was probably Joseph and Hannah Keener who made the first substantial additions to the family's historic dwelling by adding a Victorian-styled porch. Joseph A. Keener continued farming and operating the sawmill, but he also became a local postmaster and opened a small post office in the front of the house, by the Boyd's Creek Road. Income from the post office was an important source of cash for the family. (The post office was demolished circa 1960.) Joseph A. Keener died in 1914 and farm management passed to his wife Hannah Clark Keener who would also continue to manage the post office. She lived on the farm for the next thirty years and became an active participant in the property's conversion into a modem progressive farm.
This modernization began in earnest after Hannah Clark Keener gave the farm to her daughter, Georgia Neva Bell Keener, in 1919. Georgia Keener married a returning World War I vet, Charles Wright Johnson, in 1919 and they settled on the farm, living in the historic Keener House with her mother. But, the Johnson's assumed the everyday management and operation of the property. Like other women across Tennessee interested in and active in Home Demonstration during the 1920's and 1930's, Georgia Keener Johnson became an active breeder and seller of chickens. Her first chicken coop in 1920, the design of which was standardized plans drawn by the University of Tennessee Extension Service, was small but turned enough profit that by 1930 the family had constructed a much larger rectangular-shaped chicken house. Four years later, when the family decided to build a garage along the road facing the house, they installed electricity and a hatchery in the basement so more chicks could be produced for market. Tenants played an important role in helping Georgia Kenner maintain her flocks and in 1935 the family demolished the old log tenant house that stood behind the dwelling and replaced it with a concrete block tenant house, with electricity. The family also branched out into fruit production and set up a fruit stand along the new state highway (now Tennessee 338) in front of the house. The fruit stand is no longer extant but the orchard, located behind the chicken coops, is still exists. The Johnson's sold apples, pears, cherries, watermelon, cantaloupes, and grapes, all grown on the farm. Another important product of the farm in the mid-20th century produced by Georgia Keener Johnson was flowers. She grew a variety of flowers that she sold at the roadside stand as well as at markets in Sevierville.
The transformation of the domestic complex of the farm from 1920 to 1935 was paralleled by changes in the farm's work complex, located to the northwest of the dwelling. The Johnson's built two large bams and a corn crib, along with a water tank and water system for their livestock. During these years, the Johnson's raised small grains, corn, tobacco, strawberries, peanuts, and a wide range of livestock, including dairy cows, beef cattle, sheep, hogs, and mules. They also raised a truck garden, some of which was sold at the fruit stand but also sold weekly at the historic Market Square in Knoxville. From 1940 to 1950, however, the family began to focus its production strategy on hay and beef cattle. As participants in the local chapter of the Soil Conservation Service, the Johnson's terraced their fields, fenced others with wire fence or permanent tree lines, and built ponds. The field patterns found today on the farm reflect both the family's reliance on new government land conservation programs but also its shift toward more agricultural specialization, in their case livestock production.
In 1967, Charles W. Johnson, Jr. and his sisters Mary Johnson Bolton, Barbara Johnson Cox, Christine Johnson Posey, and Louise Johnson Posey inherited the farm from their mother Georgia Johnson. Charles W. Johnson, Jr. and his family resided on and most recently worked the farm. Their agricultural commodities were beef cattle, hay, and corn. But the farm is now surrounded by recent development and threatened by demands for new houses, new schools, and new roads in Sevier County. As a result, the number of family farms in Sevier County continues to dwindle. The commendable efforts by the Johnson's to continue farming and to maintain their link with the county's agricultural past brought about an effort to document the farm's history. Compared to other known Tennessee Century Farms in Sevier County, the Keener-Johnson Farm has several areas of special significance in agricultural history. First, it is the oldest identified historic family farm in the county. Second, its many surviving buildings from 1920 to 1940 document the transformation of rural life and farm production brought on by the progressive agricultural movement and how that movement impacted the roles of both women and men. And, for these reasons and its significant history, the Kenner-Johnson Farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on March 18, 1999. All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/fdc8cb4e-7103-40df-b06...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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Park Tower (formerly known as the Lykes Building) is a skyscraper located in downtown Tampa, Florida. It is Tampa's first high-rise tower. At the time of its completion in November 1973, it was the tallest in Florida, and is currently sixth-tallest in Tampa, at 458 feet (36 stories). It was the tallest building in Tampa until One Tampa City Center was built in 1981.
Park Tower is located in the heart of downtown Tampa directly across from The Tampa Riverwalk & Hillsborough River; Curtis Hixon and Gaslight Parks; the Glazer Children's Museum and the Tampa Museum of Art. It is within walking distance of the Tampa Convention Center, University of Tampa, and the David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts.
In 2016 the tower was purchased by a joint venture consisting of affiliates of NYSE listed City Office REIT (NYSE: CIO), Feldman Equities LLC, and Tower Realty Partners for $79.75 million. The group completed a multi-million-dollar renovation in 2019. The most significant change at Park Tower is the modernization of the office building's façade by painting the exterior a lighter color and upgrading the main entrance. The building's amenities were upgraded with a modern lobby and the addition of Buddy Brew Coffee café. The office tower's updated design was created by internationally renowned architect Gensler.
Since acquiring the property, new leases have been signed including the headquarters relocation of CAPTRUST Advisors, LLC, Buddy Brew Coffee and Continuity Logic, LLC. Anchor tenants include BB&T, United States Department of Justice – US Attorney's Office, Level 3 Communications and Lykes Insurance.
Park Tower is LEED EB Gold Certified and EPA Energy Star certified.
The tower's amenities include FedEx Office, U.S. Post Office, BB&T Bank, Grow Financial Credit Union, Pearl Salon, Nature's Table Café, a fitness center, conference room and a 6th-floor tenant lounge, lobby concierge and Buddy Brew Coffee.
Park Tower is the "Telco-Hotel" for the region, with a major telephony and internet presence.
Tenants with a major Point of Presence (POP's) and Central Offices (CO's, AKA Telephone Exchanges)
AT&T
Verizon Communications (formerly XO Communications, Frontier Communications, Verizon Business (MCI, UUNET, World Comm))
CenturyLink (formerly Level 3 Communications and Global Crossing)
Charter Spectrum (formerly Bright House Networks)
Crown Castle (formerly FPL FiberNet)
TW Telecom (formerly Time Warner Communications)
Windstream Communications (formerly Earthlink, ITC Deltacom, PAETEC, USLEC, NUVOX, and Florida Digital Networks)
Cogent Communications
FiberLight www.fiberlight.com/
Online Technology Exchange www.otxi.com/
Summit Broadband (formerly US Metropolitan Telecom) summit-broadband.com/
Tampa Internet Exchange tampix.com/ (located within the WOW Business Data Center)
WOW Business Services (Wide Open West, a carrier-neutral colocation data center formerly known as E Solutions Corporation).
The building has two underground 13.2kV electrical feeds from the utility power company, one of which is from the high-priority medical grid and multiple diverse entry points for fiber optic and other data cabling. Park Tower is home to a large underground Federal Reserve Vault. The building also features video-enhanced 24x7x365 on-site security.
When it was originally built, the tower was the home of The First National Bank of Tampa, later First National Bank of Florida (First Florida Corporation). Park Tower was also the headquarters of the Lykes Brothers Corporation. The tower was purchased by Sterling American Property of New York City for $27.4 million in 2006 and underwent its first restoration including newly renovated elevators, air conditioning, and replacement of much of the electrical distribution system. The building later became the downtown Tampa headquarters of Colonial Bank, now BB&T. BB&T's sign is still featured on the top of the building.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
www.emporis.com/buildings/128610/park-tower-tampa-fl-usa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Tower_(Tampa)
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In the interest of continuity, though I'd do a few more Counce TN Fred's photos, starting with this exterior view of the right side of the building. We been by the place a couple of times since it's closing, and I can all but confirm the pharmacy is no longer in operation in the closed store, despite what it may look like on Google Maps. (If it is still operating, it's a very low-profile affair for sure)!
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Fred's, early 2000's built, Hwy 57 near Holiday Hills Ln., Counce TN
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This was a real photo, but I worked it in a program for the "manner of Klimt"
For Continuity Two group ***Horns***
Beginning in the late 1950’s, real estate developers began to purchase numerous properties in the Yorkville section of New York’s Upper East Side. Older multi- family residences built in the late 19th or early 20th century were torn down and replaced with block after block of large high-rise apartment buildings, completely transforming the neighborhood both visually and demographically. The buildings at the center of this image look back to the older Yorkville, when it was home to a large working class community with heavy concentrations of German, Irish and Central European immigrants. The glass tower in the background contains multi-million dollar condominium residences for the upper middle class and the wealthy who today make Yorkville their home. The buildings on the left with the boarded up windows will be demolished this spring and will be replaced with yet another high end residence. In its small way, my photograph testifies to both the change and the continuity that is characteristic not only of Yorkville but of many urban neighborhoods that are perpetually in transition, never standing still for very long
An urban district facade of MUSE hit by clouds reflected on the building's Windows, giving a sens of continuity of the sky.
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At Iqaluit Airport, the freighter stands as a symbol of connection and necessity, bridging the vast distances that define Arctic life. Each load of cargo carries more than goods — it carries resilience, memory, and the promise of continuity in a landscape where survival depends on arrival. Here, industry becomes metaphor: a vessel of endurance at the threshold of the North, reminding us that every shipment is also a story of belonging and return.
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Pre-Romanesque Asturian architecture (848)
Asturian: Ilesia de Santa María'l Narancu
English: Church of St Mary at Mount Naranco
Monte Naranco, Avenida de los Monumentos,
Calle Marqués de Sta. Cruz, 7, 33007
Oviedo, Asturias, España
A lone tree standing in the wide landscape... This is a merger of two photos of the same scene to clear the road of the vehicles. The pictures were taken in Gettysburg Pennsylvania at the battlefield.
Textures:
T37 in my free texture set (Free Textures by TCP) and
SkeletalMess' / V25b
St Peter, Walpole St Peter, Norfolk
St Peter is one of the dozen most famous parish churches in England. Alec Clifton-Taylor thought it was the best. Of course, claims can made for many big churches; but St Peter is not just special for its size. It is indeed magnificent, but also infinitely subtle, the fruit of circumstance and the ebb and flow of centuries. There is a sense of community and continuity as well; this is no mere museum, and it is not simply St Peter's historic survivals that attract its champions. This is a building to visit again and again, to delight in, and always see something new.
Be in no doubt that St Peter is a big church. At 160 feet long it dwarfs other East Anglian giants like Southwold, Blythburgh, Cley and Cawston. Only Salle gives it a run for its money. It is also a welcoming church, as all great churches should be. But even if it were kept locked, there would still be so much to see here that it would be worth the journey.
This part of the county has a character more commonly associated with Cambridgeshire, and of course we are only a couple of miles from the Nene which forms the border between the two counties. Walpole St Peter is closer to Peterborough and Cambridge than it is to Norwich. Indeed, it is closer to Leicester than it is to Great Yarmouth at the other end of Norfolk, a reminder that this is a BIG county. Today, the Norfolk marshland villages tend to be rather mundane, apart from their churches of course. In this curiously remote area around the Wash delineated by Lynn, Wisbech and Boston, there is an agri-industrial shabbiness accentuated by the flat of the land. But you need to imagine the enormous wealth of this area in the late medieval period. The silt washed by the great rivers out of the Fens was superb for growing crops. East Anglia, with the densest population in England, provided a ready market, and the proximity of the great ports gave easy access for exports. And then there was the Midlands and the North which could be accessed by the east coast ports.
The landowners and merchants became seriously wealthy, and according to custom bequeathed enhancements to their parish churches to encourage their fellow parishioners to pray for their souls after they were dead. This was nothing to do with the size of the local population; in England's Catholic days, these buildings were not intended merely for congregational worship. The fixtures and fittings of the parish churches reflected the volume of devotion, not just the volume of people. In areas where there was serious wealth, the entire church might be rebuilt.
But here at Walpole St Peter there was another imperative for rebuilding the church. In the terrible floods of the 1330s, the church here was destroyed, apart from its tower. Before it could be rebuilt in the fashionable Decorated style, the Black Death came along and took away fully half of the local population. However, the economic effects of the pestilence would turn out to be rather good for East Anglia in the long term, and by the early-15th century churches were being rebuilt on a grand scale all over Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. Walpole has two late medieval churches - St Andrew on the other side of the village is very fine, but St Peter is the one that puts it in the shade.
The nave came first, the chancel following a few decades after. Eventually, the tower would also have been rebuilt, in a similar scale to the rest of the church. How amazing it might have been! We only need to look a few miles over the border to Boston to see what could have been possible. But the English Reformation of the 16th century brought an end to the need for bequests, and so the late 13th century tower remains in place to this day.
The vast church sits hemmed in to the north and east by its wide churchyard. The battlemented nave and chancel are a magnificent sight, most commonly first seen from the village street to the north. Rendering accentuates the reddishness of the stone, and the finest moment is probably the conjunction between nave and chancel; spired roodstair turrets rise to the gable, and at the apex is a glorious sanctus bell turret. The stairway on the north side is supported by a small figure who has been variously interpreted as the Greek god Atlas, the Fenland giant Hickathrift, or as anyone else I suppose.
The chancel is beautiful, but its most striking feature is the tunnel that goes beneath its eastern end. One of the features of the late medieval English Catholic church was liturgical processions, but when this chancel was extended in the 15th century it took the building right up to the boundary of consecrated ground. To enable processions still to circumnavigate this building, the tunnel was placed beneath the high altar. Such passageways are more common under towers, and there are several examples of this in Norfolk, but that option was obviously not possible here.
There are lots of interesting bosses in the vaulting. It isn't just the medieval past that has left its mark here. The floor of the tunnel is flagged, and there are horse-rings in the wall from the 18th and 19th century when it served the more mundane purpose of stabling during services.
Views of the south side of the church are hindered by a vast and beautiful copper beech, but there is no hiding the vastness of the south porch, one of the biggest and finest in Norfolk. The parvise window is as big as nave windows elsewhere; the keys of St Peter decorate the footstool of one of the niches.
And here are some of the finest medieval bosses in Norfolk. The two main ones are the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, and the Last Judgement. There are characterful animals in the other bosses. Figures in niches include a Pieta, a Madonna and child, and a pilgrim with a staff, pack, and shell on his hat. Also in the porch is a sign reminding you to remove your patens, the hardy wooden clogs common to 19th century farm workers.
So much to see, then, even before you come to push open the original medieval door! And then you do, and the birdsong and leaf-thresh of the summer morning outside falls away, and you enter the cool of a serious stone space. The first impression is of height, because the vista to the east is cut off by an elegant 17th century screen, as at nearby Terrington St Clement. The unifying of nave and tower, almost a century apart, is accomplished by sprung buttresses high up on the west wall, each carved with a figure. Here are the Elizabethan communion table, a hudd ( the sentry box-like device intended to keep 18th century Rectors dry at the graveside) and the perpendicular light through the west windows.
And then you step through the pedimented entrance through the screen into the body of the church, and the building begins to unfold before you. Your journey through it begins.
Some huge churches impose themselves on you. St Peter doesn't. It isn't Salle or Long Melford. But neither is it jaunty and immediately accessible like Terrington St Clement or Southwold, nor full of light and air like Blythburgh. St Peter is a complex space, the sum of its parts, like Cley, and yet more than them, with a sense of being an act of worship in itself.
One of the delights of Walpole St Peter is that many of the furnishings reveal the hands of local craftsmen; the roodscreen dado Saints, for example. There are twelve of them, their naive character reminiscent of Westhall. The six outer saints are women, the inner ones apostles. The two sets are clearly by different hands, and the late Tom Muckley wondered if they were, in fact, from two different screens.
On the north side are St Catherine, the rare subject of the Blessed Virgin and Christchild, St Margaret (the processional cross with which she dispatches the dragon is unfinished), St John, St James and St Thomas. On the south side are St Peter, St Paul, St Andrew, St Mary of Magdala, St Dorothy and St Barbara. I was pleased to be asked recently for the use of my photographs for the information board which explains it.
The nave has a feel that is at once ancient and vital, not so much of age as of timelessness, of continuity. It's the sheer mixture of woodwork that impresses - silvery oak broods in the white light from the high windows. The best of the medieval work is in the south aisle, where the benches are tiered and face inwards. A massive dark wood pulpit and tester broods over the north side. Above all this rises the pale cream of the arcades, topped by the gold of the hanging candelabras, and the towering, serious early 17th century font cover. The font is clearly one of the Seven Sacraments series; but, as at the great churches of Blythburgh and Southwold in Suffolk, the panels have been completely erased. A dedicatory inscription is dated 1537.
As well as wood, metal. The candelabras provide a focus, but there is also one of the latten medieval lecterns familiar from elsewhere in Norfolk, the little lions perky at its feet. The south aisle chapel has a lovely parclose screen with a spiked iron gate. In the north aisle, the chapel has been neatly furnished for smaller scale worship.
And then you step through into the chancel, and this is something else again. Here is true grandeur. This immense spaces rises fully twenty-one steps from nave floor to high altar. Here is the late medieval imagination writ large, compromised in the years since, but largely restored by the late Victorians. You step from subtlety to richness. Niches and arcading flank the walls leading the eye east, their blankness becoming sedilia. In the high niches where once were images, 17th and 18th century worthies have their memorials. Everything leads the eye to the great east window, where excellent 19th century glass completes your journey through the Queen of the Marshlands.
Simon Jenkins, in the often-maligned England's Thousand Best Churches, tends to cast a cold and even sardonic eye on most buildings as he passes by, but at Walpole St Peter even his breath was taken away: it is a place not of curiosity but of subtle proportion, of the play of light on stone and wood. If English churches were Dutch Old Masters, this would be St Pieter de Hooch.
All done and the binding will probably be in a gray - not sure yet. I think this may be my favorite strip size for these, 2.5, 1.5 and 2.5, although next time I make these blocks with different strip sizes, that will probably become my favorite. Pictures & comments in Piecing 2013 Set 1.
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
~Pauline R. Kezer
Book of Dove
A prairie location (see Art Historian) I've grow particularly fanciful of is just twenty-five minutes from city centre, the entire collection of weathered buildings and rusted farm memories is the perfect camera playground, so often I've felt like I discovered my own agricultural historical movie set.
I wanted to incorporate (see link) this particular image from ms.bailey's photo-stream into the continuity of my own wishful thinking, thanks Mary. I'm often fascinated by the amalgamation of realistic physical places that collide with random dissimilar images and memories.
www.flickr.com/photos/milesbeyondthemoon/6266653636/in/ph...
I have a soap box filled with ideas for this location, with some lathered luck the snow will remain silent for a couple more Sundays. Have an awesome weekend everyone.
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Archaeological excavations demonstrate a continuity of life in Calnic (judet Alba), starting with the Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements, the Dacian and Roman remains, or from the period of migration to the Middle Ages.
The name of the city, mentioned for the first time in 1269 (villa Kelnuk) is of Slavic-Romanian origin. The name of the place was taken over by the Saxons (Kelling) and the Hungarians (Kelnek).
The Romanesque fortress of Calnic is an old noble residence, which by its small size cannot compete with those of the big cities, but which is considered as very representative of a local civilization, transylvaine and a particular time.
The fortress consists of two rows of walls (enclosures) with an oval path, arranged concentric and reinforced with flanking elements: two towers and a bastion. The front door is defended by a fortified corridor. The belts protect the interior courtyard, at the heart of the fortress, where the chapel, the fountain and the dungeon are located. The latter dominates by its height (27m) and its massiveness (walls of 1m) the whole complex. During the romantic era, this impressive medieval vestige was nicknamed the Siegfried Tower.
The outer enclosure or zwinger has a maximum diameter of around 70 m with a height of 3 m. The inner enclosure is the most imposing with its 7m height. On the small diameter, it is fortified by two towers: the portal tower (NW) and a defense tower (SE). 24 m high, the portal tower is one of the vertical domes of the complex. There are four bells here, which is why the building is also called the bell tower.
Due to its preservation in good condition, in the middle of a locality bearing until now the imprint of the civilization of the German colonists established in Transylvania, the edifice was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List (1999).
Much like her main continuity counterpart, Megan Morse is a white martian who escape the Martian Holocaust. On Earth, she was raised by King Faraday, before being taken on as J'onn J'onzz's apprentice, Miss Martian!
Those epaulets actually keep her hair from staying on for very long, so if you intend to make her and keep her around, you might wanna look into an alternate hair piece!
Cassandra Cain is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman. Created by Kelley Puckett and Damion Scott, Cassandra Cain first appeared in Batman #567 (July 1999). The character is one of several who have assumed the role of Batgirl. Over the years, she has also assumed the names of Black Bat and Orphan.
Cassandra's origin story presents her as the daughter of assassins David Cain and Lady Shiva. She was deprived of speech and human contact during her childhood as conditioning to become the world's greatest assassin.
Consequently, Cassandra grew up to become an expert martial artist and developed an incredible ability to interpret body language to the point of reading complex thoughts, while simultaneously developing limited social skills and remaining mute and illiterate.
Cassandra was the first Batgirl to star in her own ongoing Batgirl comic book series. She was replaced as Batgirl by Stephanie Brown in a 2009 storyline. She returned in late 2010, where she was shown working as an anonymous agent of Batman in Hong Kong before adopting the new moniker of Black Bat.
The character was brought back to mainstream continuity after the company-wide reboot in Batman & Robin Eternal, using the code name Orphan, previously used by her father, David Cain. The character's full history was restored in DC's 2021 Infinite Frontier relaunch.
Fictional character biography
Early history
Cassandra's birth and childhood are revealed in the Batgirl series. While seeking a perfect bodyguard for Ra's al Ghul, David Cain finds a potential mother when he sees Sandra Wu-San fighting her sister Carolyn in a martial arts tournament.
Believing that Sandra is holding back for Carolyn, Cain lures Sandra into a trap, sparing her life. David and Sandra have a child, and Sandra leaves the child for David to raise, setting out to become Lady Shiva.
Cain trains Cassandra from birth to be an assassin. She is not taught to read or write; instead, reading body language is her only language. She is able to read people's movements and predict what they are going to do.
When she is eight, Cain takes her to kill a businessman. As the man dies, Cassandra reads what he is feeling, realizes what she did, and runs away from her father.
After that, her activities are a mystery, until she first appears during the "No Man's Land" story arc.
No Man's Land
During the "No Man's Land" storyline, after Gotham is leveled by an earthquake and isolated, Cassandra Cain saves Commissioner Gordon's life and gains Bruce Wayne's approval, and, eventually, becomes the new Batgirl.
Her father, David Cain, sends a video of Cassandra's first murder to Bruce Wayne (Batman) attempting to disrupt her status. However, Wayne continues to accept Cassandra after she takes several bullets to save the life of a hired assassin, proving her devotion to protecting human life.
Batgirl
Bruce Wayne sends Cassandra to Barbara Gordon, currently functioning as Oracle. Barbara says she prefers to live alone but since Cassandra is never home and doesn't talk, it is just like living alone.
A telepath "rewires" Cassandra's brain so that she can think with words and use language, but these abilities come at some cost to her ability to read people's body language.
As she had relied completely on this ability to fight, she is unable to effectively fight crime. Worried, Bruce Wayne takes away her costume and begins training her in defensive skills.
Cassandra soon discovers that the assassin Lady Shiva can read people like she used to be able to and asks Shiva to reteach her.
Lady Shiva accepts on the condition that they would have a duel to the death a year later. As Cassandra would rather be "perfect for a year" instead of "mediocre for a lifetime", she accepts the offer.
When the women fight in a year's time, Cassandra dies within minutes. Realizing Cassandra had a death wish, Shiva then restarts her heart, so that they can have a real fight. In the subsequent fight, Cassandra beats Shiva but does not kill her.
Though not known for her private life, Cassandra does have a one-time romance with Conner Kent after meeting him on a cruise ship. He shares her first kiss, and she even visits him at his home in Smallville, though the relationship never becomes serious.
Cassandra then helps Batman control the violence of a gang war in Gotham City.
Later, Batgirl moves to Blüdhaven with Tim Drake (the third Robin) at Batman's suggestion and with his financial support.
There, Deathstroke takes on a contract from the Penguin to kill Batgirl and decides to let his daughter, Rose (the current Ravager), do the job instead. Cassandra beats Rose by playing on her emotions to leave her open for a critical strike, giving Deathstroke no choice but to get her medical attention.
During this time, Cassandra starts developing a friendship with Brenda, the woman who owns the local coffee shop, and even a very short-lived relationship with a boy named Zero. Unfortunately, her friends are all killed in the Blüdhaven disaster.
Cassandra also goes undercover for Batman, as Kasumi, in the Justice League Elite, working under Sister Superior to track and eliminate metahuman threats to the population.
She works with the Batman's old fellow Justice League members Green Arrow and the Flash, and forms a bond with Coldcast, who is the first Leaguer to whom she reveals her identity.
Although he is subsequently accused of murder, she and the rest of the team soon realize that he has been manipulated by renegade Elite member Menagerie, who was himself being manipulated by the spirit of Manchester Black as he tried to drive his sister to destroy London.
As the JLA falls, the Elite, united by the spirit of the deceased Manitou Raven, free Vera and vanquish Black, although the team disbands after this last mission.
Cassandra gathers evidence that indicates that Shiva could be her mother, and seeks her out to confirm this, rejoining the League of Assassins. After she is proclaimed by Nyssa al Ghul as the "One Who Is All", the students of the League are split, half following Shiva, and the others Cassandra.
In the following confrontation, Cassandra is mortally wounded by her "adoptive brother", the Mad Dog, while heroically saving one of the students under her leadership. Shiva revives Cassandra in a Lazarus Pit, then answers Cassandra's questions about her parentage.
When Cassandra asked Shiva whether she was still killing, whether she would ever stop, Shiva says she was, and responds, "It's why I had you", so Cassandra agrees to fight her to the death once more.
After a closely matched battle, Cassandra manages to break Shiva's neck, paralyzing her. She appears ready to place Shiva in the Lazarus Pit, but Shiva pleads with her not to do so. Instead, Cassandra impales Shiva on a hook hanging over the pit, apparently killing her. Cassandra then abandons the identity of Batgirl and returns to her life as a wanderer.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Secret Identity: Cassandra Cain
Publisher: DC
First appearance: Batman #567 (July 1999)
Created by: Kelley Puckett (Writer)
Damion Scott (Artist)
(Continuity from Istanbul IV)
Various economic and military policies instituted by Andronikos II, such as the reduction of military forces, weakened the empire and left it more vulnerable to attack. In the mid-14th century, the Ottoman Turks began a strategy of taking smaller towns and cities over time, cutting off Constantinople's supply routes and strangling it slowly. Finally, on 29 May 1453, after an eight-week siege, Sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror" captured Constantinople and declared it the new capital of the Ottoman Empire. Hours later, the sultan rode to the Hagia Sophia and summoned an imam to proclaim the Islamic creed, converting the grand cathedral into an imperial mosque.
Following the fall of Constantinople, Mehmed II immediately set out to revitalize the city, by then also known as Istanbul. He urged the return of those who had fled the city during the siege, and forcibly resettled Muslims, Jews, and Christians from other parts of Anatolia. The sultan invited people from all over Europe to his capital, creating a cosmopolitan society that persisted through much of the Ottoman period. Meanwhile, Mehmed II repaired the city's damaged infrastructure, began to build the Grand Bazaar, and constructed Topkapı Palace, the sultan's official residence.
To be continued...
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(Continuity from Istanbul VI)
In the early years of the republic, Istanbul was overlooked in favor of Ankara, selected as Turkey's capital to distance the new, secular country from its Ottoman history. However, starting from the late 1940s and early 1950s, Istanbul underwent great structural change, as new public squares, boulevards, and avenues were constructed throughout the city, sometimes at the expense of historical buildings. The population of Istanbul began to rapidly increase in the 1970s, as people from Anatolia migrated to the city to find employment in the many new factories that were built on the outskirts of the sprawling metropolis. This sudden, sharp rise in the city's population caused a large demand for housing development, and many previously outlying villages and forests became engulfed into the metropolitan area of Istanbul.
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Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Blaise Pascal
A speculative minifigure set. I've had the idea of doing a whole film crew set of minifigs for ages (it seems like), so I've been slowly putting things aside as I come across them that might be useful for a set. And I've included a series of small builds and accessories, just like the LEGO Funk in the Park/Fun at the Beach, etc sets.
I'll use the notes to label each character. And if you can think of any additions or improvements let me know. Also, I'd love to make another "Fun at the ____" set but I cannot seem to think of anything. If you have an idea mention it, or better yet, go and build it yourself! :-)
(Continuity from the Part 1)
The church contained a large collection of holy relics and featured, among other things, a 15-metre silver iconostasis. The focal point of the Eastern Orthodox Church for nearly one thousand years, the building witnessed the Excommunication of Patriarch Michael I Cerularius on the part of Pope Leo IX in 1054, an act which is commonly considered the start of the Great Schism.
In 1453, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmed II, who subsequently ordered the building converted into a mosque. The bells and sacrificial vessels were removed and many of the mosaics were plastered over. Islamic features – such as the mihrab, minbar, and four minarets – were added while in the possession of the Ottomans. It remained a mosque until 1931 when it was closed to the public for four years. It was re-opened in 1935 as a museum by the Republic of Turkey.
For almost 500 years the principal mosque of Istanbul, Hagia Sophia served as a model for many other Ottoman mosques, such as the Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Blue Mosque of Istanbul), the Şehzade Mosque, the Süleymaniye Mosque, the Rüstem Pasha Mosque and the Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque.
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For continuity's sake, here's a few more photos from the Trinity Commons Kroger. Grand reopening day was still a month away when this photo was taken, but the baby aisle looked to be already set for it's big debut. Those splotches and scars in the concrete floor are, uh -- character marks. Yeah, that's what we'll call them!
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Kroger, 1988-built, Germantown Pkwy. at Trinity Rd., Memphis (Cordova)