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Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
From a descriptive text on Germany's 1950s industrial reconstruction a rather fine view of the post-war reconstruction of the Germania Colliery in Dortmund-Marten, that belonged to the post-war grouping of the G.B.A.G. that had been spun out of the pre-war giant Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG. The company was one of the true giants of the deep coal mining business and operated some large collieries in the Ruhr district around Essen and Gelsenkirchen, shafts being organised so as to best utilise reserves that were both relatively easy to 'win' along with ones that were of more meager output.
I probably need some one with local knowledge but I'm wondering of one of the structures we see here is the headframes now relocated to the German Mining Museum at Bochum when the Germania complex closed in 1971?
The Museum's headframes. that stood over the main shaft of the Germania mine complex in Dortmund-Marten. Designed by renowned industrial architects, Fritz Schupp and Martin Kremmer, this solid-walled double headframe was constructed in 1943-44.
Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
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Title: A manual of human anatomy [electronic resource] : descriptive, practical, and general
Creator: Knox, Robert, 1791-1862
Creator: Westmacott, Richard, 1775-1859
Creator: Phillips, John, Sir, 1855-1928, former owner
Creator: Blandford, G. Fielding, (George Fielding) 1829-1911 former owner
Creator: King's College London
Publisher: London : Renshaw
Sponsor: Jisc and Wellcome Library
Contributor: King's College London, Foyle Special Collections Library
Date: 1853
Language: eng
Description: "Illustrated by 250 highly finished wood engravings, from drawings by Dr. Westmacott." -- title page
Includes index
This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London
King’s College London
If you have questions concerning reproductions, please contact the Contributing Library.
Note: The colors, contrast and appearance of these illustrations are unlikely to be true to life. They are derived from scanned images that have been enhanced for machine interpretation and have been altered from their originals.
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Descriptive catalogue of the lepidopterous insects contained in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Company :.
London :Parbury, Allen,1828-1829..
Descriptive Title: Dissection of the head and neck, cranial, spinal and sympathetic nerves.
Actual Title: Tome 3. Pl. 93
Artist: Jacob, Nicolas Henri, 1781-1871
Technique: lithography, with hand-colouring
Dimensions: 36 x 23 cm.
Digital ID: RBAI077-0268
Scope and Content: Dissection of the head and neck, cranial and sympathetic nerves, shown in situ. Neck muscles, salivary glands, carotid artery also shown. Lateral view.
General: Plate drawn by N.H. Jacob; transferred to the stone by Léveillé. Printed by Lemercier.
Artist: Léveillé
This plate is taken from the book:
Title: Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme
Author: Bourgery, Marc Jean, 1797-1849
Published: Paris : C. Delaunay, 1831-1854
Part of the digital collection Anatomia 1522-1867 located at link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm
Descriptive Title: Muscles.
Technique: engraving/etching
Dimensions: 10 x 22 cm.
Digital ID: RBAI040-0003
Scope and Content: Muscles, superioficial view. Male figure, lateral view.
General: Figure shown in a landscape.
General: Illustration serves as head-piece. Repeated at p. 1, 11, 60, 91, 103.
This plate is taken from the book:
Title: Myotomia reformata
Author: Cowper, William, 1666-1709
Published: London : Printed for Robert Knaplock, and William and John Innys ...; and Jacob Tonson ..., 1724
Part of the digital collection Anatomia 1522-1867 located at link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm
A descriptive catalogue of choice vegetable, flower, and agricultural seeds /.
Boston, MA :Curtis & Cobb..
Possible/probable descriptive text associated with 107P-KSC-66P-300:
"Lift off of Saturn Mission SA-203, the second in the up-rated Saturn I development mission series, was accomplished from the Cape's Launch Complex 37 at 10:53 a.m., July 5, 1966.
The up-rated Saturn I - consisting of an S-IB stage, S-IVB stage, and an instrument unit - boosted an unmanned payload into an original orbit of 185 by 189 kilometres. The inboard engine cut-off of the first stage occurred after 2 minutes 18 seconds of flight and the outboard engine cut-off was 4 seconds later. The S-IVB engine burned 4 minutes 50 seconds. No recovery was planned and the payload was expected to enter the earth's atmosphere after about four days."
An absolutely stunning photograph.
Please be cautious: This is a gruesome, descriptive story.
Okay, enjoy.
My eyes widen and flit to the door as the knob turns and opens, letting in a slit of light. I squint against the gleam shining from the metal carelessly tossed about the small, low-ceilinged room. My heartbeat quickens and pounds; feels like it’s about to burst out of my chest. I wriggle and try to scream as he walks toward the table, but silver duck tape stops the yell at my my throat; metal chains restrain my legs and arms. Still, I fight against the rusted iron and tears slip from my eyes in frustration.
An amused glint shines in his eyes as he slowly cranks a lever that tightens my arms against the cool surface. He grabs a sharp, silver object I can’t name from a small shelf that lies against the wall. I try to shake my legs free to no avail. He takes his time walking around the table until he comes to a stop above my right my arm. More tears fall from my eyes as I stare into his cold, silver irises. I know I need to calm down, but another scream that feels like it rises from my feet, tries to tear through my closed lips.
My hands hang limp at the edge of the table from lack of blood, and he presses the sharp object against my arm, sliding it down the slick skin until he reaches the edge of my palm. He stays there for a few minutes, letting me take in my surroundings. My eyes flit from his face, the sharp object, around the darkness, and back. I can see the outline of an old lamp by a glazed window from the corner of my eye. I start to turn my head to the left, but stop in a sudden shock of pain that radiates from my wrist and scream a muffled scream.
He carves a deformed F into the thick skin, sending waves of pain that makes me thrash around with silenced screams. My thoughts scatter as my mind focuses on that one point of reality.
His lips form a smirk while he continues to tear apart my skin, shoving the infected metal deep with brute force. I try to sit still; moving is just making myself get worse wounds. Tears pool around the unyielding tape covering my mouth. Seconds, minutes of unbearable pain passes, feeling like a century. Why am I not passing out? Please. Let me pass out, I think.
But before my prayer can be granted, he stops and laughs. My screams turn into whimpers, and I look from his disgust-filled eyes to my arm. My eyes widen as I take in the word, the scars that will always be with me; FREAK. He throws the blood-stained metal piece onto my chest and walks to the door with heavy thumps. He turns and looks at me with those silver eyes I once thought were kind, caring, beautiful.
“Freak.”
And with that, he shuts the door and leaves me alone in the damp room. I lay there, resisting the dark that threatens to over take me. But as the seconds pass, I get weaker and weaker from loss of blood. So I let the burning pain and cold silence drag me into the uncaring darkness. I let my mind go numb and the tears spill over with a wretched sob..
I stay there, laying in a world of black pain.
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Don't worry, I don't think I'm a freak and I don't usually write things like this.
But, this was a dream I had a few nights ago. I guess you can call it a nightmare lol
It felt real though, and even though I usually forget everything, I remembered this with perfect clarity. So I decided to write it up as a story and share it with the Flickr community.
Hope I didn't creep you out too much ;) ♥
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In the Prague ZOO there are descriptive labels of the birds living in nature in Czech republic. While I was waiting to take a picture of another bird, this small tit arrived close to me and sat exactly on its own descriptive label. Just a case or maybe they are smarter than we can imagine? :)
Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees, &c., &c., &c. /.
Yokohama, Japan :Yokohama Nursery Co..
Title: Union Pacific Locomotive X-20
Descriptive Information: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/20988316
Date: Ca. 1961
Creator: Switchmen's Union of North America (SUNA)
Image ID: 5003pb62f091
Collection: U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs (#5003 P)
Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood Library unit that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections documenting the history of the workplace and labor relations. catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel
Collection Information: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html
Copyright: The content in the "U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs Collection" (Kheel Center collection: #5003 P) is believed to be in the public domain, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [www.library.cornell.edu/about/inside/policies/public-domain]. These images have been digitized from items in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives at Cornell University Library. More information about the physical collection can be found here: rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
Descriptive Title: Brain cyst.
Actual Title: Plate XIII.
Artist: Kirtland, G.
Technique: stipple engraving, colour-printed
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm.
Digital ID: RBAI071-0014
Scope and Content: Brain cyst, shown in isolation. Brain shown with large cyst on the inferior surface of the temporal lobe. Cyst has been dissected to removed liquid contents. Some cranial nerves and carotid arteries also shown. Inferior view.
General: Plate signed by the artist, G. Kirtland; and the engraver J. Wedgewood. Dated Jany. 1826.
Artist: Wedgewood, J.
Subject: Brain
Subject: Cysts
This plate is taken from the book:
Title: Morbid anatomy of the human brain
Author: Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835
Published: London : Printed for the author; and sold by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828
Part of the digital collection Anatomia 1522-1867 located at link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm
Descriptive catalogue of the lepidopterous insects contained in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Company :.
London :Parbury, Allen,1828-1829..
Free download under CC Attribution (CC BY 4.0). Please credit the artist and rawpixel.com.
Cactus illustrations from Iconographie Descriptive des Cactées by Charles Antoine Lemaire (1800–1871), French botanist and botanical author. Lemaire developed his botanical interest and published numerous papers on cacti and succulents. We have digitally enhanced illustrations from his notable cactus book into high resolution quality. They are free to download and use for either personal or commercial purpose under the CC0 license.
Higher resolutions with no attribution required can be downloaded: https://www.rawpixel.com/board/1269930/cactus-illustrations-charles-antoine-lemaire-free-public-domain-artworks?sort=curated&mode=shop&page=1
Here I turned east and the heavy skies are pretty much covering us. This shot on "Bunker Hill" is another in the set. This view is much more descriptive. The high tension lines show in this viewpoint. Reinforced concrete with strange holes and garage openings. These cement structures are curious and curiouser. I was maneuvering to capture the best of the sky. Still wide, I zoomed to try to capture the installation. The two story "garage" in the middle was where the Atlas rockets were stood up in the slot originally covered by an opening roof. A gantry stood the missiles vertically. A cement-lined blast trough exited on this side of the big opening. It is difficult to spot from this angle. The two curious holes in the wall accounted for two prone fuel tanks that allowed connections and transfers to be made on the inside. Phil and I spent some study time on this site and learned a lot. They hauled the Atlas rockets in sideways and then tipped them up using a crane/gantry. It was empty at that time. One tank was kerosene and the other LOX. They would get a warning and load the kerosene and then the LOX, if the fire command was given, they had 7 minutes to launch but they could not leave fuel in the rocket. Their stainless tanks were thin but needed to be full for structural integrity during launch and flight. No telling how many simulation cycles occurred. The mechanical gyros were flaky and were prone to going way off. The Atlas was the only rocket that could boost John Glenn into orbit but Phil said the odds of disaster was about 25%. God speed, John!
eDDie and I proceeded to capture strange Wyoming under the building sky. I'm all about skies. Skies are the pretty much soup again today while we creep up on rainfall records in our area. I am ready to bail in a minute.This second of a Wyoming series is near the end of the road in Nowhere, Wyoming. This road did not lead to somewhere but rather to something. These premium cloud would soon to bite us where I stand. I have no idea why we had to travel a dirt road to get to a derelict paved road. It was a toss up which one might have been worse or worser, the road or the structures. This is near the high tension power line I originally spotted down the road?
We traveled a dirt road to arrive at this peculiar place and found rotting asphalt and concrete. Heaven's Gate or Hell's Gate? Take your pick. We certainly turned up something interesting. I guess the current concept is to bring the ecosystem down slowly instead of in a day with nukes. The ecosystem will take long eons of recovery here. It would be better to plant soil here than bunkers.
Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
From a descriptive text on Germany's 1950s industrial reconstruction a rather fine view of the post-war reconstruction of the Nordstern Colliery in Gelsenkirchen-Horst, that belonged to the post-war grouping of the G.B.A.G. that had been spun out of the pre-war giant Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG. The company was one of the true giants of the deep coal mining business and operated some large collieries in the Ruhr district around Essen and Gelsenkirchen, shafts being organised so as to best utilise reserves that were both relatively easy to 'win' along with ones that were of more meager output. Nordstern had a long history running roughly from 1868 to 1982 and in its it later years with was connected with the Zollverein colliery in Essen. The complex seen here was later preserved, the buildings designed by architect Fritz Schupp, now forming the wonderful Nordstern Complex.
Descriptive Title: Skeleton.
Actual Title: T. 87 [octuagesimaseptima tabula]
Artist: Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711
Technique: engraving/etching
Dimensions: 44 x 27 cm.
Digital ID: RBAI023-0090
Scope and Content: Skeleton, anterior view.
Part of the digital collection Anatomia 1522-1867 located at link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/application/index.cfm
General: Figure shown in a landscape. Memento mori: Skeleton shown with a sarcophagus, holding an hourglass.
This plate is taken from the book:
Title: Anatomia humani corporis
Author: Bidloo, Govard, 1649-1713
Published: Amstelodami [Amsterdam] : Sumptibus viduæ J. a Someren , 1685
The 1959 catalogue from the New Towns exhibition includes descriptive text on all fifteen UK New Towns that were under development at that date and the 1960s would see a second wave of ones designated. Amongst the earliest to be formed, amongst the "London Ring" was Harlow that grew from an existing Essex small town and surrounding hamlets of 4,500 people to a new town of 48,000 by 1959, on the way to the target of 80,000. Harlow was famous for several things including the description of it as "Pram Town" given the number of infants and children that helped fuel the population boom amongst the families who had moved out from congested London boroughs. In fact the number of children was to give the Development Corporation and local authorities several problems, notably around the number of school places and the provision of health services. The latter was based on a pioneering scheme, int he town's neighbourhoods, of health centres and the involvement of the charitable Nuffield Foundation. Here a GP checks 'a new resident' at the Keats House heath centre in the Bush Fair neighbourhood. As Doctor does his job Mother looks on along with the baby's sister!
Harlow's other great claim to fame is the number of commissioned artworks and sculptures that still adorn the town and that are a roll-call of mid-20th century British artists including this by Henry Moore. Commissioned by the Harlow Arts Trust it is very appropriately "Family Group" and is now on display in the Gibberd Gallery, named after Sir Frederick and Lady Gibberd whose conenctions with Harlow range from being the chief planner and architect, patrons of the Arts Trust and long-term residents.
Title: Industrial siding, Victor Gasket Co
Descriptive Information: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/20432897
Date: Ca. 1961
Photographer: Redmond, James B.
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
Image ID: 5003pb53f020
Collection: U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs (#5003 P)
Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood Library unit that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections documenting the history of the workplace and labor relations. catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel
Collection Information: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html
Copyright: The content in the "U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs Collection" (Kheel Center collection: #5003 P) is believed to be in the public domain, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [www.library.cornell.edu/about/inside/policies/public-domain]. These images have been digitized from items in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives at Cornell University Library. More information about the physical collection can be found here: rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
Scenes from Madison Historical Society's summer Exhibition, "Over Here Over There - Madison In World War I". Sponsored by the Madison Historical Society, the Charlotte L. Evarts Memorial Archives, Inc., and cthumanities, the exhibit opened July 30 at the Lee Academy (see madisonhistory.org/current-exhibitions/). It features many of the images and artifacts in the Albums shown at right, plus many many more along with informative research and commentary.
See other scenes from the Exhibit at flic.kr/s/aHskEaskZU
(Photo credit Bob Gundersen - www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
Descriptive catalogue of ornamental trees, shrubs, roses, flowering plants, &c..
Rochester, N.Y. :Ellwanger & Barry,1875..
Descriptive Title: Gangrene of the toes and foot, gangrene caused by heart disease. Actual Title: Plate II. Artist: Carswell, Robert, Sir, 1793-1857 Technique: lithography, with hand-colouring ift.tt/2g2N8cw
DISCLAIMER: This is a photoshop manipulated image used for descriptive purposes only, it is to scale though! If this was a real Ball of Light it would be very naughty!
I get asked many questions about the Ball of Light, but one of the questions I love the most is "how do you find them". I have an example from the weekend that should inspire.
When I was walking up the Wilpena Pound I look out for locations that I think might attract the Ball of Light when the sun retires for the night. I then try and remember where the spot was, mark on the ground or the like. I was thinking that a tramping GPS unit would be good. I then imagine in my minds eye how it would look there ( i have created an image above that is what my minds eye sees) then come back later when it is dark and wait, and wait.
When I return to the location, sometimes the Ball of Light just appears. This is often at simple locations. But sometimes I have to wait. Either for the moon light to be just right, or the clouds to move to the right location. Sometimes the waiting pays off, sometimes it does not.
The location you see here was particularly unusual though. Some of the locations I find are really only suitable for a very brave Ball of Light, some it doesnt really matter. I find that when the location is a bit dodgy (or downright deadly in this case) I end up waiting for ages, wondering if the Ball of Light is brave (or stupid) enough.
What I often have in mind is this, "if my wife was here, would she think the Ball of Light was just being dumb by turning up there", in this case after about half an hour of waiting I decided that she would indeed think I was a bit silly for waiting any longer.
But damn it would have made for a killer Ball of Light image! I am planning on going back with her some day, maybe then she can make that decision for herself!
I think I made the right decision.
Title: 18th Street Bridge, View to North West
Descriptive Information: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/20432816
Date: Ca. 1961
Photographer: Neupert, Raymond A.
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
Image ID: 5003pb53f003
Collection: U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs (#5003 P)
Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood Library unit that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections documenting the history of the workplace and labor relations. catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel
Collection Information: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html
Copyright: The content in the "U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs Collection" (Kheel Center collection: #5003 P) is believed to be in the public domain, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [www.library.cornell.edu/about/inside/policies/public-domain]. These images have been digitized from items in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives at Cornell University Library. More information about the physical collection can be found here: rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.