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Description: This image was taken c. 1907-1930.
Creator/Photographer: Edward S. Curtis
Birth Date: 1868
Death Date: 1952
Medium: Photogravure
Culture: American Indian
Date: Prior to 1930
Persistent URL: www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imagegalaxy_imageDetail.cfm?id...
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: The North American Indian Photography of Edward Curtis - Edward S. Curtis, a professional photographer in Seattle, devoted his life to documenting what was perceived to be a vanishing race. His monumental publication The North American Indian presented to the public an extensive ethnographical study of numerous tribes, and his photographs remain memorable icons of the American Indian. The Smithsonian Libraries holds a complete set of this work, which includes photogravures on tissue, donated by Mrs. Edward H. Harriman, whose husband had conducted an expedition to Alaska with Curtis in 1899.
Accession number: SIL7-058-018
Photo Description: The Dryden Aerospike Rocket Test provided the first known data from a solid-fueled aerospike rocket in flight. The test took place March 30 and 31, 2004, at the King Ranch launch site at the Pecos County Aerospace Development Corporation Flight Test Range in Fort Stockton, Texas.
Project Description: NASA's Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center, the U.S. Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC), and Blacksky Corporation joined forces on the prairie lands of West Texas to fly scale versions of aerospike rocket motors. The effort, called the Dryden Aerospike Rocket Test, provided the first known data from a solid-fueled aerospike rocket in flight. Two 10-ft. long solid-fueled rockets with aerospike nozzles were flown successfully on two consecutive flights March 30 and 31, 2004. The flights took place at the King Ranch launch site at the Pecos County Aerospace Development Corporation Flight Test Range in Fort Stockton, Texas.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: EC04-0113 -171
Date: March 30, 2004
Description: Jeannine Smith Clark (b. 1928), appointed to the Board of Regents, August 1983, Smithsonian Volunteer (1968-1983), docent, National Museum of Natural History ( - 1978), Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee (1972-), Chair, Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee (1979, 1980). Featured in Smithsonian newsletter, TORCH.
Photographer: Richard K. Hofmeister
Date: October 1983
Image ID: SIA80-16186-19
Collection: Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Link to Original: siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_8825
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC PLACE
Union Point United Church, a small wooden country church built in 1940, is set on open space between the north- and southbound lanes of Highway 75, about six kilometres south of Ste. Agathe. The municipal designation applies to the church, an adjacent cemetery and the grounds they occupy.
HERITAGE VALUE
Union Point United Church and its cemetery are significant as the last built features that remain on the original site of the former Union Point settlement. The cemetery's earliest burial, from 1879, recalls the agricultural community's pioneer origins. The landmark building, an enduringly simple Gothic Revival-style structure that succeeded an 1887 Presbyterian facility, likewise serves as a prominent and poignant memorial to Union Point because of its dramatic location between the lanes of one of the busiest divided highways in southern Manitoba.
DESCRIPTION:
Once the greatest champion of Astra, Muriel Morningstar was tempted by treasure and corrupted by a ring of chaos. Now it is the warlord of Inferna; the angel of the Abyss, whose name is Abaddon, the Destroyer .”
From the Abyss of Inferna, the gigantic furnace, darkening the sun and sky with smoke, comes the dark angel, the warlord, Abaddon.
Its dragon head is adorned with antlers, where it wears the golden crowns of fallen royalty.
With breastplates of iron, Abaddon charges forward. The sound of its wings is the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. It has a saw tail with stingers, like scorpions, wielding it's Tri-glave and cosmic disruptor.
WEAPONS:
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Energized Tri-Glave
2 Midak (Zamor) Skyblasters
2 Inika Light-up Laser Axes
Waist mounted cosmic disruptor
Energy shield
Flame tank, atomic flame breath
Power saw stinger
BUILD SUMMARY:
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Dec 24, 2019 – Feb 29, 2020
~180 hours
Height: 35 in / 89 cm / 111 studs tall to the top of the antlers
Chest: 26 in / 66 cm circumference at the widest
NOTES:
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I wanted to try building with Bionicle. I found most of the elements at two different Bricks and Minifigs in the Denver area.
Included is the Blacktron Dragon Obscurtronum , which was the inspiration for this build.
Description des plantes rares cultivees a Malmaison et a Navarre
Paris :De l'Impr. de P. Didot l'aîné,1813 [i.e., 1812-1817]
Shine Sprite
Description: Eulepidotis persimilis is a moth in the order Lepidoptera, subdivision Bombycina, superfamily Noctuoidea, family Erebidae, subfamily Eulepidotinae and tribe Eulepidotini.
The moth's patterning gives the impression that the head is at the rear end. The moth is mostly white with a downcurved head. The thorax is also white. The forewings' dorsal view contain two brownish-golden bands; one about halfway through them and another one below the first. Below the second band, a brownish-golden patch can be seen with a black irregular stripe near the outer margin at the tip of the forewings and another just below it at the submarginal area. The hindwings are mostly white and slowly changes into a light golden hue, culminating in a brownish-golden spot at the tip of them. This spot contains a black spot that is reminiscent of an eye. Two small filaments can be seen that resemble antennae. These two traits along with the gradual yellow above the brownish-golden spot that resembles a pronotum may fool predators into thinking that those spots are compound eyes and that the filaments are antennae, indicating erroneously where the head is located and attacking it instead of the true head, possibly resulting in minimum damage to the moth. The downcurved head may also be part of this mechanism by hiding more vital parts. The bold brownish-golden bands may function as "disruptive patterning", breaking up natural lines and cause the various parts of an organism to more or less blend with a background's random clutter, depending where the moth is.
www.backyardnature.net/n/10/100124.htm
A synonym includes: Palindia persimilis (Guenée, 1852)
It measured approximately 1,7cm in length and 2,1cm in width as if seen in the picture.
In nature, they are mostly seen in forests, shrublands and weedy places; this one was found on the 16th floor of a flat in an urban habitat.
Eulepidotis once belonged to the Calpinae but were transferred into Eulepitodinae. "DNA results by Zahiri et al., 2010, suggest that the Eulepidotini and Panopodini are not clades within Erebidae, so the Eulepidotini was raised to subfamily status and includes the tribes Eulepidotini and Panopodini. The female genitalia have the ostial opening in the membrane between the seventh and eighth abdominal sternite, not displaced anteriorly into the seventh sternite as it is in many tribes of the Erebidae, such as Euclidiini, Phaphilini and Ophiusini. We place it on the list after these tribes because males of Eulepidotini and Panopodini have the same form of long mid-tibial hair pencils arising from a groove covered with flat translucent white scales"; differently structured, Eulepidotis have hair pencil on the hind tibia.
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.886.360...
These are some of the host plants of three different species within Eulepidotis: direct.biostor.org/reference/56976
The plants are, for E. merricki, Melicoccus bijugatus (Jacq.) (Sapindaceae) ("Spanish lime"); for E. juncida, Inga fagifolia ((L.) Wildd.) (Leguminosae (Mimosoideae); some place them into Fabaceae) ("ingá-mirim" - PTBR); for E. superior, Quararibea asterolepis (Pitt.) (Malvaceae: Bombacoideae) ("cinco-dedos"... - PTBR).
More informations on the species above with larval morphological details can also be found in the same link.
Apparently, they can be found in Brazil, Costa Rica and Honduras.
I do not know any further info on the species persimilis as it is currently undergoing revision according to this study, in which they mention that a full report of the occurence of these two species, Eulepidotis dominicata and Eulepidotis persimilis, are being prepared by Ed Knudson and associates: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3234417/
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.886.360...
www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/dit...
www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulepidotis_persimilis
www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/b800d65c27...
PROJECT NOAH (Português): www.projectnoah.org/spottings/548336094
Description:
Ecology: Mycorrhizal with hardwoods or conifers; growing alone gregariously; summer and fall; widely distributed in Europa and North America
Cap: 2-17 cm wide; broadly convex, becoming flat with a central depression; the margin inrolled at first, eventually wavy and reminiscent of Cantharellus cibarius; dry; fairly smooth; dull orange-tan or paler.
Undersurface: Running down the stem; covered with spines or "teeth" that are 2-7 mm long; pale or dull orange; bruising dark orange or yellowish brown.
Stem: 3-10 cm long; 1-3 cm thick; sometimes somewhat off-center; dry; smooth; whitish or colored like the cap; bruising brownish.
Flesh: Whitish; often discoloring yellowish when exposed or bruised; sometimes with zones of color; brittle.
Taste: Mild or peppery; odor mild.
Spore Print: White.
Descriptiones et icones amphibiorum..
Monachii,Stuttgartiae et Tubingae, Sumtibus J.G. Cottae,[1828-]1833..
Description 📄:
The two Re 421s owned by International Rolling Stock Investment GmbH (IRSI) in historic TEE livery are crossing the railway bridge in Eglisau. The Re 421s differed from the Re 420s in that they were type-approved and therefore equipped with the necessary safety systems to operate in Germany. The world-famous Eglisau railway bridge was built from 1895 until 1897 and cost 980,000 Swiss francs. It consists of 20 stone arches and a central iron section 9 metres high and 90 metres long. The overall length of the bridge reaches 457 metres, at a maximum height of 50 metres above the ground.
Information ℹ️:
Date 📅: 15.08.2024, 09:09
Place 📍: Eglisau, Switzerland
Train 🚄: Re 421 393 + Re 421 387
Train Company 🏢: IRSI
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Destination 🏁: —
©️The photo was taken and edited by Nathan Urriani. Use of the image by others is only allowed with my permission.
For the past time I've posted photos on Flickr and have gotten a good amount of followers but I realized that since I don't post pictures that often I decided to change that so starting next week I will post 1 picture every week
Description: View of Gallipoli from the sea
Location: Gallipoli Peninsula, Ottoman Empire
Date: 1915
Our catalogue reference: WO 317/12a
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Description story in English, German and Dutch
English
In Germany there has been extreme chaos on the rail network in recent years. There are usually a lot of delays or train cancellations. This time there were once again major rail problems in the Düsseldorf area. Travelers had to wait for hours at Wuppertal's main station to continue their journey. This also applied to our Mr. Monster, the adventurous explorer from the Netherlands with Indian roots. You may have heard of him. It was 20 years ago when Mr. Monster first read about the Schwebebahn. The Schwebebahn is a suspension railway in the beautiful German city Wuppertal. He was intrigued and obsessed with the idea of a train suspended in the air and he made some trips to Wuppertal to take a ride in the Schwebebahn. But every time he arrived, the railway was in maintenance or it was in repair. Now he was standing outside enjoying the sun with a group of stranded fellow travelers when a Japanese tourist next to him suddenly pointed upwards. Marco couldn't believe his eyes. A Schwebebahn train floated under the rails. Together they rushed towards the track above the Wupper River and started taking pictures of it. The friendly Japanese man wanted to know everything about the Schwebebahn and Mr. Monster started to tell him enthusiastically about the suspension railway. First he told him something about the construction. He indicated that at the top, four motors, each with two steel wheels, run on this monorail and that the train set hangs below these railmotors. Mr. Monster also mentioned that the track became world news on July 21, 1950. The then famous Circus Franz Althoff was in town and the director thought it would be a good idea to give the four-year-old Indian elephant Tuffi a ride on the suspension track. However, the animal panicked and jumped through a window of the wagon. Miraculously, Tuffi was only slightly injured when he fell from twelve meters into the Wupper river. Nowadays the circus boss wouldn't be able to get away with this. Animal organizations would now come down hard on him, but at that time such a stunt was unfortunately still seen as pure entertainment by the elite. Finally, Mr. Monster talked about the tragic incident that took place in 1999. A train carriage then fell into the River Wupper and was subsequently pierced by a broken suspension piece. Five people were killed. After investigation, it turned out that an error by a mechanic during the previous maintenance had caused the fatal accident. The tourist was visibly affected by this and did not dare to take a ride on the Schwebebahn anymore. Mr. Monster told the Japanese that after the incident, far-reaching safety measures were taken and the old wagons were replaced, but the man still trembled as he said goodbye. Mr. Monster also said goodbye to the other stranded travelers and cancelled his apointment by phone. Then he quickly walked to the suspended train station across the street. Fifteen minutes later, the Dutch adventurer floated for the first time in his life in a suspended train over the river of the breathtakingly beautiful German city and thought for a moment about Tuffi the elephant who, like him, had been born in India.
Deutsch
Das einst weltweit bekannte deutsche Schienennetz der Deutschen Bahn war für seine Pünktlichkeit bekannt. Aber heutzutage hat sich alles geändert. Von absoluter Pünktlichkeit bis zum völligen Chaos. Es kommt häufig zu Verspätungen, plötzlichem stillstand der Züge, überfüllten Zügen oder Zugausfällen. Diesmal kam es erneut zu großen Bahnproblemen im Raum Düsseldorf. Am Wuppertaler Hauptbahnhof mussten Reisende stundenlang auf die Weiterreise warten. Das galt auch für unseren herr Monster, den abenteuerlustigen Entdecker aus den Niederlanden mit indischen Wurzeln. Vielleicht haben Sie schon einmal von ihm gehört. Es ist zwanzig Jahre her, als herr Monster zum ersten Mal von der Schwebebahn las. Die Schwebebahn ist eine Schwebebahnstrecke in der deutschen Stadt Wuppertal. Er war fasziniert und besessen von der Idee eines am Himmel hängenden Zuges und unternahm einige Ausflüge nach Wuppertal, um mit der Schwebebahn zu fahren. Zu seinem Unglück wurde jedes Mal, wenn er in Wuppertal ankam, die Hängebahn repariert oder gewartet. Nun stand er draußen und genoss mit einer Gruppe gestrandeter Mitreisender die Sonne, als plötzlich ein japanischer Tourist neben ihm nach oben zeigte. Herr Monster konnte seinen Augen nicht trauen. Über den beiden Männern schwebte unter den Gleisen ein Schwebebahnzug. Gemeinsam rannten sie zum Gleis oberhalb der Wupper und begannen mit dem Fotografieren. Der freundliche Japaner wollte alles über die Schwebebahn wissen und herr Monster erzählte ihm begeistert von der Schwebebahn. Zuerst erzählte er ihm etwas über den Bau. Er wies darauf hin, dass auf dieser Einschienenbahn vier Motoren mit jeweils zwei Stahlrädern laufen und dass die Zuggarnitur unter diesen Schienenmotoren hängt. Herr Monster deutete auch an, dass der bahn am 21. Juli 1959 sogar Weltnachrichten machte. Der damals berühmte Zirkus Franz Althoff war in der Stadt und der Direktor hielt es für eine gute Idee, den vierjährigen Indischen Elefanten Tuffi zur Beförderung auf der Schwebebahn mitfahren zu lassen. Das Tier geriet jedoch in Panik und sprang durch ein Fenster des Wagens. Wie durch ein Wunder verletzte sich Tuffi nur leicht, als er aus zwölf Metern Höhe in die Wupper stürzte. Heutzutage würde der Zirkusdirektor damit nicht mehr durchkommen. Tierschutzorganisationen ließen dem Zirkusboss zwar nichts vorenthalten, doch damals galt ein solcher Stunt in der Elite leider noch als pure Unterhaltung. Abschließend sprach herr Monster über den tragischen Vorfall im Jahr 1999. Anschließend stürzte ein Eisenbahnwaggon in die Wupper und wurde anschließend von einem gebrochenen Aufhängungsstück durchbohrt. Fünf Menschen kamen ums Leben. Nach einer Untersuchung stellte sich heraus, dass ein Fehler eines Mechanikers bei der vorherigen Wartung den tödlichen Unfall verursacht hatte. Der Tourist war davon sichtlich betroffen und traute sich nicht mehr an eine Fahrt mit der Schwebebahn heran. Herr Monster erzählte den Japanern, dass nach dem Vorfall umfangreiche Sicherheitsmaßnahmen getroffen worden seien und dass die alten Waggons ausgetauscht würden, doch der Japaner zitterte immer noch, als er sich verabschiedete. Herr Monster verabschiedete sich auch von den anderen gestrandeten Reisenden und ging schnell zum schwebenden Bahnhof auf der anderen Straßenseite. Eine Viertelstunde später schwebte der kleine Abenteurer zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben in einem Schwebezug über den Fluss der atemberaubend schönen deutschen Stadt und dachte einen Moment an den kleinen Elefanten, der wie er in Indien geboren worden war.
Nederlands
In Duitsland is het de laatste jaren veelal een chaos op het spoornetwerk. Er is doorgaans veel vertraging of er vallen treinen uit. Dit keer waren er weer eens grote spoorproblemen in de omgeving van Düsseldorf. Reizigers moesten uren wachten op het hoofdstation van Wuppertal om hun reis voort te zetten. Dit gold ook voor onze Marco, de avontuurlijke ontdekkingsreiziger uit Nederland met Indiase roots. Wellicht heeft u weleens van hem gehoord. Het was twintig jaar geleden toen Marco voor het eerst over de Schwebebahn las. De Schwebebahn is een hangspoorlijn in de Duitse stad Wuppertal. Hij was geïntrigeerd en geobsedeerd door het idee van een trein die in de lucht hing en hij maakte enkele uitstapjes naar Wuppertal om een ritje te maken met de Schwebebahn. Helaas voor hem, was de zweefbaan telkens als hij in Wuppertal aankwam in reparatie of in onderhoud. Nu stond hij buiten van de zon te genieten met een groep gestrande medereizigers toen een Japanse toerist naast hem plotseling naar boven wees. Marco kon zijn ogen niet geloven. Een Schwebebahn-trein zweefde boven de twee mannen onder de rails. Samen renden ze naar het spoor boven de rivier de Wupper en begonnen foto's te maken. De vriendelijke Japanse man wilde alles weten over de Schwebebahn en Marco begon hem enthousiast te vertellen over de hangbaan. Eerst vertelde hij hem iets over de constructie. Hij gaf aan dat op deze monorail bovenaan vier motoren met elk twee stalen wielen rijden en dat het treinstel onder deze railmotoren hangt. Marco gaf ook aan dat de track op 21 juli 1959 zelfs wereldnieuws werd. Het destijds beroemde Circus Franz Althoff was in de stad en het leek de directeur een goed idee om ter promotie de vierjarige Indiase olifant Tuffi een rit met de zweefbaan te laten maken. Het dier raakte echter in paniek en sprong door een ruit van de wagon heen. Wonderbaarlijk genoeg raakte Tuffi alleen lichtgewond bij zijn val van twaalf meter in de Wupper. Tegenwoordig zou de circusdirecteur hier niet meer mee weg kunnen komen. Dierenrechtorganisaties zouden niets meer heel laten van de circusbaas, maar in die tijd werd zo'n stunt door de elite helaas nog als puur vermaak gezien. Als laatste vertelde Marco over het tragische incident dat in 1999 heeft plaatsgevonden. Een treinstel viel toen in de rivier de Wupper en werd vervolgens doorboord door een gebroken ophangstuk. Vijf mensen kwamen daarbij om het leven. Na onderzoek is destijds gebleken dat een fout van een monteur tijdens het voorafgaande onderhoud het fatale ongeval had veroorzaakt. De toerist was zichtbaar aangedaan hierdoor en durfde geen ritje in de Schwebebahn meer te maken. Marco vertelde de Japanner dat er na het incident verregaande veiligheidsmaatregelen waren genomen en dat de oude wagons werden vervangen, maar de Japanner beefde nog steeds toen hij afscheid nam. Marco nam ook afscheid van de overige gestrande reizigers en liep snel naar het zweeftreinstation aan de overkant. Een kwartiertje later zweefde de kleine avonturier voor het eerst in zijn leven in een hangende trein over de rivier van de adembenemend mooie Duitse stad en dacht nog even aan het olifantje dat net als hem in India geboren was.
Description from the back - F.W. Woolworth Store Santa Fe, New Mexico This is the only Woolworth Store in the chain which does not have red in its sign or on the background.
Color Photo by John Floodberg.
Published by Petley Studios, Phoenix, AZ
Postmarked July 9, 1958 Santa Fe, New Mexico - "Dear Grandmother, Here's where I am today. We went to see the ruins of some cliff dwelling and went horseback riding." - Allan