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(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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Unfortunate crop due to unfortunate building in the bottom of the photo. But it's worth the sharing after all :)
One big roof has continuity from ground floor to top floor. So, indoor makes sense of space.
切妻屋根が1枚どどーんと支える造りがいいですね。
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Nezu Museum (根津美術館).
Architect : Kengo Kuma & Associates (設計：隈研吾建築都市設計事務所).
Contractor : Shimizu Corporation (施工：清水建設).
Completed : February 2009 (竣工：2009年2月).
Structured : (構造：).
Costs : $ million (総工費：約億円).
Use : Museum (用途：美術館).
Height : ft (高さ：m).
Floor : 2 (階数：地上2階、地下1階).
Floor area : sq.ft. (延床面積：4,014.08㎡).
Building area : sq.ft. (建築面積：1,947.49㎡).
Site area : sq.ft. (敷地面積：21,625㎡).
Owner : Nezu Museum Foundation (建主：公益財団法人根津美術館).
Location : 6-5-1 Minami-Aoyama, Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan (所在地：日本国東京都港区南青山6-5-1).
Referenced :
kkaa.co.jp/works/architecture/nezu-museum/
www.nezu-muse.or.jp/jp/about/outline.html
db1.kitera.ne.jp/building/data/kindaikenchiku/2010/A01002...
元々は1941年に開館。2009年に隈研吾氏がリニューアル
An artist's rendition of the next Landsat satellite, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) that will launch in Feb. 2013. Credit: NASA
The Landsat program is the longest continuous global record of Earth observations from space – ever. Since its first satellite went up in the summer of 1972, Landsat has been looking at our planet. The view of Earth that this 40-year satellite program has recorded allows scientists to see, in ways they never imagined, how the Earth's surface has transformed, over time.
In the 1970s Landsat captured the first views from space of the Amazonian rainforest and continued to track the area year after year after year, giving the world an unprecedented view of systemic and rapid deforestation. This view from space let us see an activity that was taking place in an exceptionally remote part of our world. These now iconic-images of tropical deforestation spurred the global environmental community to rally in an unprecedented way, and resulted in worldwide attention and action.
To read more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/landsat/news/landsat-history.html
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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).
Found photo from my personal collection.
Original Polaroid “continuity shot” of actress Demi Moore taken on-set on April 20, 1987 during the filming of scene 36 of the motion picture “The Seventh Sign (1988)”. Demi played the leading role of Abby Quinn in the film.
I am very fortunate and honored to have one of my pinhole photographs showing at the Hawai‘i State Art Museum.
I hope some of you will be able to visit this art exhibition here in Honolulu.
For more information, please go to the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts webpage [Click Here].
Love the kind of minimalist aspect on this one, truly amazing place the North West...
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Mazatlán malecón Monumento a La Continuidad de La Vida del Deno (Monument to the Continuity of Life).
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The monument built by Jiménez Corona in 1993 represents Adam and Eve mounted on a large conch shell signifying the continuity and prolongation of life.
Discover World Science and Technology Center in downtown Milwaukee prior to sunrise. Lake Michigan is in the background.
This video shows the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft successfully separating from the booster.
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission is now in orbit, after launching Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Calif. After about three months of testing, the U.S. Geological Survey will take control and the mission, renamed Landsat 8, will extend more than 40 years of global land observations critical to energy and water management, forest monitoring, human and environmental health, urban planning, disaster recovery and agriculture.
Credit: NASA
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One of seven 2008 Aston Martin DBS cars used to film the pre-credit chase scene in the James Bond movie Quantum Of Solace.
According to the information accompanying this display, identical "continuity damage" was applied on all seven cars, making them appear to be a single vehicle in the movie.
Bond In Motion exhibit
Petersen Automotive Museum
Los Angeles, California
Petersen Automotive Museum (museum web site):
List of James Bond Films (Wikipedia):
So, you thought there were only six Infinity Stones didn't you, well guess what, there are actually more (others that I don't think I'll be able to make for reasons, and I want to focus on this right now). I found out about this from Death Battle (Deadpool vs. Mask), and if you know about the stone and about me, and my favorite red mouthy mercenary that I might have just mentioned, you probably already knew why I had to make this. I basically painted the stone dark blue because, I think that's what color that is.
23 February 2020
The CARTWHEEL tower (center left) was built in the early 1960's as part of a hardened "continuity of government" microwave communications network spanning various presidential and other government emergency relocation facilities in parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Fort Reno, in the Tenleytown neighborhood of NW Washington, is at one of the highest elevations in the District.
The (approximately) 100 foot hardened windowless concrete tower contains eight floors with offices, equipment rooms, maintenance shops, and a secure communications vault, all served by an elevator as well as a system of emergency ladders. Two additional levels at the top contain various microwave and VHF/UHF communications antennas; the antenna platforms are contained within a visually opaque plexiglass radome. Below ground there is a two story bunker with additional offices and living facilities. (The building to the immediate right is a recent addition and was not part of the original structure.) The (originally unmarked) tower was deliberately designed to be relatively inconspicuous, hiding in plain sight and easily mistaken for a water tower or agricultural silo by the uninitiated.
In all, the network formed a semi-redundant ring of relays connecting the White House with the Mount Weather bunker (codename CRYSTAL), the Raven Rock Bunker (CREED), and Camp David (CACTUS), and was intended to be able to survive a limited nuclear strike (or so the theory went). CARTWHEEL, which was directly connected via microwave and underground cable to the White House (CROWN), served as the DC hub of the network.
There were a total of at least seven semi-disguised "silo" towers of similar design in the network, mostly located in remote rural areas outside of DC. In addition to CARTWHEEL, CRYSTAL, CREED, and CACTUS, there were CORKSCREW (in Maryland), CANNONBALL (in Pennsylvania), and COWPUNCHER (in West Virginia). The network also included several mostly unmanned relay stations on conventional unhardened open towers, including sites on Quirauk Mountain, MD, near Mount Airy, MD, and in Tysons Corner, VA (known simply as "Site C", "Site D", and "Site E", respectively).
The Presidential microwave network became redundant (supplanted by satellite links and other technologies) by the end of the cold war and was gradually deactivated in the 1980's. Most of the concrete towers were either demolished or fell into disrepair. CARTWHEEL (shown here) and CORKSCREW are now used by the FAA and remain well preserved. The Site C, Site D, and Site E towers are intact and remain in use by the military.
The basic design (a concrete tower topped with a plexiglas radome) is somewhat similar to the earlier Western Union Tenleytown Tower located nearby (and visible at lower right in the photo); see www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49576234678 . It seems plausible that the success of the Western Union tower influenced the design of CARTWHEEL and its siblings.
Addendum: This page has some great first-hand information on the Presidential Emergency Facilities network, curated by someone who worked on it while at the White House Communications Agency.
Rodenstock 23mm/5.6 Digaron-S lens (@ f/6,3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Phase One XT camera (1/25 sec exposure). Full resolution available.
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