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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.
Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
Driving in to Cochise Stronghold Campground, I stopped at the descriptive entrance sign. Yes that is snow on the ground in Arizona. The Dragoon Mountains are one of the Sky Islands in southern AZ.
"Cochise Stronghold is located to the west of Sunsites, Arizona in the Dragoon Mountains at an elevation of 5,000 ft. This beautiful woodland area lies in a protective rampart of granite domes and sheer cliffs which were once the refuge of the great Apache Chief, Cochise, and his people. Located within the Coronado National Forest, it is managed by the Douglas Ranger District.
This rugged natural fortress was, for some 15 years, the home and base of operations for the famed Chiricahua Apache Chief, Cochise. Cochise and about 1,000 of his followers, of whom some 250 were warriors, located here.
Born in present-day Arizona, Cochise led the Chiricahua band of the Apache tribe during a period of violent social upheaval. In 1850, the United States took control over the territory that today comprises Arizona and New Mexico. Not hostile to the whites at first, he kept peace with the Anglo-Americans until 1861, when he became their implacable foe because of the blunder of a young U.S. Army officer, Lt. George Bascom. In that year, Cochise and several of his relatives had gone to an encampment of soldiers in order to deny the accusation that they had abducted a child from a ranch. The boy was later proved to have been kidnapped by another band of Apaches.
During the parley, Cochise and his followers were ordered held as hostages by Bascom, but Cochise managed to escape almost immediately by cutting a hole in a tent. Bascom later ordered the other Apache hostages hanged, and the embittered Cochise joined forces with Mangas Coloradas, his father-in-law, in a guerrilla struggle against the American army and settlers. The capture and murder of Mangas Coloradas in 1863 left Cochise as the Apache war chief. The U.S. Army captured him in 1871 and prepared to transfer the Chiricahua to a reservation hundreds of miles away, but he escaped again and renewed the resistance campaign. The following year after negotiating a new treaty with the help of Thomas Jeffords, the band was allowed to stay in their homeland.
Cochise is reputed to have been a master strategist and leader who was never conquered in battle. He died peacefully on the newly formed Chiricahua reservation in 1874. His son, Taza succeeded him as chief. Upon his death, he was secretly buried somewhere in or near his impregnable fortress. The exact location has never been revealed or determined.
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A descriptive catalogue of choice vegetable, flower, and agricultural seeds /.
Boston, MA :Curtis & Cobb..
Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
descriptive pic : world.guns.ru/sniper/sniper-rifles/de/dsr-1-e.html
finally, after an hour and few minutes, this i made this :D:D:D
credits to Shockwave for the RIS and Grip
other than that i made evrything by myself
actually i want zack to Tachiamize it but i forgot to save the pastie x_x
specs:
Caliber(s): 7.62x51mm NATO (.308Win), .300 Winchester Magnum, .338 Lapua Magnum
Operation: bolt action
Barrel: 660 mm
Weight: 5.9 kg unloaded, without scope
Length: 990 mm
Feed Mechanism: 5 (.308) or 4 (.300WM and .338LM) rounds detachable box magazines
description
The DSR-1 rifle was designed by certain German former military ordnance engineers and bench-rest gunsmiths. This rifle is manufactured since 2000 by German company DSR-Precision GmbH. Before 2004 the same rifle was also sold by another German company, the AMP Technical Services, which was a non-exclusive dealer of DSR-Precision but is no longer so. At the present time DRS 1 rifle is being marketed by its only manufacturer, DSR-Precision GmbH. The DSR 1 is a specialized sniper rifle (not a conversion of the standard military or hunting gun). It is adopted by German GSG 9 counter-terror group, as well as by some other elite European law enforcement agencies and certain non-European military Special Operations forces.
The DSR-1 is configured into bull-pup design, with free-floating barrel. The folding bipod is mounted onto upper rails (above the barrel), and the adjustable horizontal front grip is mounted on the lower rails (under the barrel). The rifle features fully adjustable buttstock and cheekpiece. The holder for spare magazine is installed in the front of the triggerguard to decrease reloading time or to have different type of ammunition (i.e. armor piercing) handy. DSR-1 action features match-grade, fluted barrel that is quickly interchangeable and is fixed into receiver by three screws. The action is designed for .338 Lapua Magnum ammunition, with conversion kits available for smaller calibers such as .308 Winchester or .300 Winchester Magnum. The bolt features six radial lugs that lock directly into the barrel. The barrel is protected by ventilated aluminum handguard and is fitted with muzzle brake (very useful when firing full-power magnum loads). The integrally silenced version of the DSR-1, also known as DSR-1 Subsonic, is unusual in the fact that the silencer is attached to the receiver rather than the barrel. Thus, the barrel is still free-floated within the silencer, and this guarantees consistent shot-to-shot accuracy. The trigger is two-stage, adjustable. DSR-1 features manual, ambidextrous three position safety, located above the triggerguard.
The expected accuracy of the DSR-1 is almost extreme: some sources state sub-.2 MOA accuracy (0.20 inch / 5 mm groups measured center-to-center at 100 yards) when shot by experienced operator, with correct ammunition and in good environment conditions.
Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees, &c., &c., &c. /.
Yokohama, Japan :Yokohama Nursery Co..
Descriptive Title: Surgical instruments for amputation.
Actual Title: Tome 6. Pl. 55
Artist: Jacob, Nicolas Henri, 1781-1871
Technique: lithography, with hand-colouring
Dimensions: 39 x 27 cm.
Digital ID: RBAI077-0524
Scope and Content: Surgical instruments for amputation, shown in isolation, in 27 numbered illustrations. Various scalpels, saws, hammers, scissors shown.
General: Plate drawn by N.H. Jacob; printed by Lemercier, Benard et Cie.
Artist: Lemercier, Benard
Subject: Amputation
Subject: Surgical Instruments
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
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)
A Descriptive catalogue of the lepidopterous insects contained in the Museum of the honourable East-India company,
London,Published by Parbury, Allen, & Co.,1828-29.
Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees, &c., &c., &c. /.
Yokohama, Japan :Yokohama Nursery Co..
Agent sort name: Kubel, Otto (German, 1868-1951)
Item caption front: Aschenbrödel / O. Kubel, pinx.
Item caption descriptive text back: 6. Als er das Gesicht sah, erkannte er seine Tänzerin wieder, sagte, das sei die rechte Braut und nahm sie auf sein Pferd. Als die Hochzeit gehalten wurde, gingen die Schwestern zur Rechten und Linken der Braut, da kamen die Täubchen und pickten den boshaften Schwestern zur strafe die Augen aus. = As soon as he beheld her face, he recognized his partner from the ball, and declaring that this was the true bride, took her upon his horse. When the wedding took place, her wicked sisters walking to the left and right of the bride, doves descended and pecked out their eyes as punishment.
Item uniform title: Grimm: Aschenputtel (“Cinderella”)
Dates display
Dimensions: 141 x 91 mm.
Nationality: German
Publisher information: Uvachrom Gesellschaft für Farbenphotographie m.b.H., München [Munich]-Stuttgart, [Germany]
Series: Serie 154 Nr. 3829
Technical description: Uvachrom color print
Physical description:
Interpretive notes:Cinderella is shown mounted before the Prince on his horse; friendly doves welcome her as a sign of her innocence.
LC subject headings: Doves; Horses; Princes
Rights display: Work in the public domain
Rights notes: Publisher began operating in 1911.
Record number:23031901
Collection: The Jack Zipes Historic Fairy Tale Postcard Collection/Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Dhanyakuria is a non descriptive village, near Barasat, about 40 km from Kolkata.
The non descriptive village houses some magnificent palaces belonging to the Gayen, Ballav, Sahoo and Mondal families.
Out of these the Gayen Bagan Bari of the Gayen Castle stands out.
The Cinderella styled castle is complete with towers and turrents, flanked by battlements and projected oriole windows.
Presently it is in sorry state with and have lost most of its ornamentation. The landscaped garden, with decorative fountains, which surrounded the castle is overgrown with grasses and weeds.
A detailed blog post on the Palaces of Dhanyakuria will be comming up soon in my blog.
A special thanks to my friend and fellow heritage enthusiast for arranging the necessary permission.
For more details refer to my blog post on Dhanyakuria
Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
This descriptive plaque is located near the entrance to the carousel, with the river in the background.
I suppose it was just an accident of the way the sun was shining on it, but I thought the reflection was pretty cool ...
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Because I work and live in Manhattan, I don’t often visit the four other boroughs of New York City … but there’s a magical place in Brooklyn that I want to tell you about, located in Brooklyn Bridge Park at the edge of the East River. It’s right on the water, framed by the Manhattan Bridge on the north and the Brooklyn Bridge on the south. A few NYC residents and perhaps even a few visitors are already nodding their heads as they read this, but I suspect that most readers of these Flickr notes are as oblivious as I was, and have never heard of Jane’s Carousel.
“Jane” is, as I’ve now learned, Jane Walentas, an artist who spent 20 years overseeing the restoration of a magnificent 48-horse carousel, created by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company, and first installed in a park in Youngstown, Ohio in 1922. Ms. Walentas and her husband, David, bought the carousel and the wooden horses at an auction in 1984 for $385,000; I have no idea what inspired them to do so, or what could possibly have inspired Jane to spend the next 20 years scraping off layers of paint and restoring the original design and colors, the pin-striping and the gold leaf as the carousel sat in a studio in Dumbo (for the non-New Yorkers who might have stumbled onto this page of notes, “DUMBO” is an acronym that means “Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass).
Anyway, the carousel was opened in mid-September 2011, and for reasons unknown, I was completely oblivious as to its existence for the next three years. It’s located in a $9 million transparent acrylic “jewel box” that was designed by the French architect Jean Novel, and it’s absolutely stunning to see. My wife coaxed me into taking the somewhat laborious subway ride from the Upper West Side (via the “C” and the “F” trains) over to Brooklyn a couple days ago, and we were lucky to have chosen a brilliantly sunny Saturday afternoon, arriving just at the beginning of the “golden hour” when the light was perfect for photography.
In the three years since it opened, Jane’s Carousel has apparently attracted a lot of attention: there were some New Yorkers like me wandering around, and some visitors from nearby New Jersey and Long Island … but I also heard and saw evidence of visitors from France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Korea, and a lot of other places which would normally have great difficulty distinguishing Brooklyn from the Bronx or Staten Island. You can arrange birthday parties at the carousel; and there were heavily-costumed bridal parties along with the dog-walkers, the photographers, and the tour boats (including the venerable Circle Line) cruising up and down the East River.
And speaking of the East River, one of the most dazzling aspects of this place is the view that you get, with the two mammoth bridges spanning the river, along with the Wall Street skyline, the South Street Seaport, and the massive Freedom Tower in the background. Even if you didn’t spend a minute looking at the brightly painted carousel horses, and listening to the hypnotic music of the carousel, you could easily spend the afternoon watching the tugboats and sailboats and barges and ferries, the cruise boats and the motorboats chugging up and down the river. One can only imagine what it must have been like a century ago, before the railroads and jet planes had eliminated the bulk of water travel.
I’m embarrassed that it took me so long to visit this place, and I hope that you’ll take the hint and go see it yourself, at your first opportunity. If you would like to see some more details about the place, you might want to start with the official website for Jane’s Carousel, located here:
A New York Times article, written shortly before the official opening of the carousel in mid-September 2011, can be found here
www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/arts/design/janes-carousel-at-...
and an October 2012 New Yorker article about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the carousel can be found here:
www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-carousel-survives
Descriptive catalogue of the nests & eggs of birds found breeding in Australia and Tasmania /
Sydney :F.W. White, general printer,1889.
Maker: F.W. Maynard
Born: UK
Active: UK
Medium: book
Size: 10 1/2 in x 14 1/2 in
Location:
Object No. 2022.683
Shelf: N-41
Publication: F.W. Maynard, Descriptive Notice of the Drawings and Publications of the Arundel Society, from 1869 to 1873 Inclusive; (Being a continuation of "Twenty Yaers of the Arundel Society") Illustrated by Photographs of All the Publications, Arranged in the Order of Their Issue, Arundel Society, Nichols and Sons London, 1873
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Notes: A 1873 catalog illustrated with photographs listing the books published by the Arundel Society between 1869 and 1873 years. The Arundel Society was founded at London in 1849 and named after the Earl of Arundel, the famous collector of the Arundel Marbles and one of the first great English patrons and lovers of the arts. The society's purpose was to promote knowledge of the art works of the old Italian, Flemish, and other European masters. Much of the work of the society consisted of publishing chromolithographs of Italian art works, especially fresco paintings, of earlier centuries and raising public awareness for the preservation of these works. The society was discontinued in 1897.
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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.
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.
This panel is dedicated to Paul Pavelka, a Madison adventurous resident who served in the Lafayette Escadrille.
The color painting insert is "Nieuports of Lafayette Escadrille", displayed here with permission of the artist Robert Karr (www.facebook.com/Robert.Karr.Artist/). It is
Number 7 of 79 limited edition prints by Artist Rober Karr, © 2010. Please do not copy it.
See other scenes from the Exhibit at flic.kr/s/aHskEaskZU
(Photo credit Bob Gundersen - www.flickr.com/photos/bobphoto51/albums)
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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: 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
#1595: As of 10/28/19, under Flickr's popularity rankings of my 2000+ pics, this is listed as #1595 in "interestingness."
I've been engaging in some short, private crossdressing opportunities at home recently, after acquiring and trying out some new clothes, shoes, and accessories. This is the 279th pic posted from this recent CD activity, and taken just in December.
As usual, I really enjoy color-coordinating attractive/sexy/cute outfits, and this one features: a pink patterned shirtdress (from Kohl's, since returned though); a blush patent skinny belt; blush ultra-high-heel patent pumps (from Nordstrom Rack, since returned though), pink fishnet stockings, rose gold earrings, and pink necklaces and bracelets.
More about this and other new 2017 pics was written up recently in a descriptive Update provided in my profile or "About" page here on Flickr. It details some choices made for these 2017 pics.
Let me know your thoughts... :-)
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.