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so they can stay together,
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La Plaza de España - Sevilla
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La Plaza de España es un conjunto arquitectónico enclavado en el parque de María Luisa de la ciudad de Sevilla (España). Fue proyectada por el arquitecto Aníbal González. Se levantó entre 1914 y 1929 como una de las construcciones principales de la Exposición Iberoamericana de 1929. Constituye el edificio más grande de todos los que se levantaron en la ciudad durante el siglo XX, comparable a las otras dos construcciones históricas destacadas de los extramuros de la ciudad, que son el hospital de las Cinco Llagas (siglo XVI) y la Real Fábrica de Tabacos (siglo XVIII).
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La plaza tiene grandes dimensiones (170 metros de diámetro) y forma semi-elíptica, que simboliza el abrazo de España a sus antiguos territorios americanos, y mira hacia el río Guadalquivir, como recorrido a seguir hacia América.
Su superficie total es de 50 000 m² cuadrados aproximadamente, de los que 19 000 están edificados y los 31 000 restantes son espacio libre. Está bordeada por un canal que recorre 515 m y es atravesado por cuatro puentes. Los edificios que envuelven la plaza se estructuran en un edificio central, alas con edificaciones intermedias que compensan una excesiva longitud y torres en los extremos. Esta planta responde de forma muy cercana al esquema formal del tipo de villa palladiana con alas curvas, como la Villa Badoer de Fratta Polesine o Villa Trissino en Meledo, mostradas por el arquitecto italiano Andrea Palladio en sus Cuatro libros de la arquitectura, que Aníbal González conocía.
La construcción está realizada con ladrillo visto y cuenta con una amplia decoración de cerámica. Los techos de la galería de la plaza cuentan artesonados de madera que se sostienen con columnas de mármol. Los respaldos de los bancos y algunas farolas están realizadas en hierro forjado.
Los medallones con efigies de españoles ilustres, las columnas marmóreas y los artesonados dan al conjunto un ambiente renacentista. Según los escritos de Aníbal González su inspiración para diseñar la plaza había sido el Renacimiento español, aportándole el arquitecto sevillano nuevos elementos modernos.13 Las dos torres que flanquean la plaza, que proporcionan un ambiente de estilo barroco, miden 74 metros de altura.
Torre Sur con la ría.
La fuente central, obra de Vicente Traver, ha sido muy cuestionada porque rompe la rotundidad de vacío de la plaza. El canal que contiene es cruzado por 4 puentes que representan los 4 antiguos reinos de España (León, Castilla, Aragón y Navarra).
En las paredes de la plaza se encuentra una serie de 48 bancos que representan, por orden alfabético, cuarenta y seis provincias españolas peninsulares (todas excepto Sevilla) y los dos archipiélagos (Canarias y Baleares), con su escudo, un mapa y un paño de azulejo pisano con hechos históricos destacados de ese territorio. Los bancos se encuentran divididos en cuatro tramos, y al principio y final de cada uno, se encuentra un paño de azulejo relativo a la provincia de Sevilla. Los bancos tienen, también, a los lados, dos pequeñas torres con anaqueles que han sido usados en alguna ocasión para colocar libros.14
Otros detalles destacables son sus múltiples relieves realizados por el escultor Pedro Navia:
Seis ventanas renacentistas.
El escudo de Sevilla que adorna las puertas de Navarra y Aragón.
Las 24 águilas imperiales con el escudo de Carlos I.
Los 48 medallones con la efigie de personajes ilustres sobre cada arco que comprende cada provincia.
Los cuatro heraldos de tres metros de altura, que representan a los antiguos reinos y flanquean las dos torres.
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The Plaza de España - Seville
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The Plaza de España ("Spain Square", in English) is a plaza in the Parque de María Luisa (Maria Luisa Park), in Seville, Spain. It was built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Baroque Revival, Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival (Neo-Mudéjar) styles of Spanish architectureMaria Luisa Park
Main article: Maria Luisa Park
In 1929, Seville hosted the Ibero-American Exposition World's Fair, located in the celebrated Maria Luisa Park (Parque de María Luisa). The park gardens were designed by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier.The entire southern end of the city was redeveloped into an expanse of gardens and grand boulevards.
The centre of it is Parque de María Luisa, designed in a "Moorish paradisical style", with a half mile of tiled fountains, pavilions, walls, ponds, benches, and exhedras; lush plantings of palms, orange trees, Mediterranean pines, and stylized flower beds. Numerous buildings were constructed in the park to provide spaces for the exhibition.
Plaza de España
The Plaza de España, designed by Aníbal González, was a principal building built on the Maria Luisa Park's edge to showcase Spain's industry and technology exhibits. González combined a mix of 1920s Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance Revival, Spanish Baroque Revival and Neo-Mudéjar styles. The Plaza de España complex is a huge half-circle; the buildings are accessible by four bridges over the moat, which represent the ancient kingdoms of Spain. In the centre is the Vicente Traver fountain.
Many tiled alcoves were built around the plaza, each representing a different province of Spain. The Plaza's tiled Alcoves of the Provinces are frequent backdrops for visitors' portrait photographs, taken in their own home province. Each alcove is flanked by a pair of covered bookshelves, now used by visitors in the manner of a "Little Free Library". Each bookshelf often contains works with information about their province. Visitors have also donated favorite novels and other books for others to read.
Today the buildings of the Plaza de España have been renovated and adapted for use as offices for government agencies. The central government departments, with sensitive adaptive redesign, are located within it. Toward the end of the park, the grandest mansions from the fair have been adapted as museums. The most distant museum contains the city's archaeology collections. The main exhibits are Roman mosaics and artefacts from nearby Italica.
The Plaza de España has been used as a filming location, including scenes for Lawrence of Arabia (1962). The building was used as a location in the Star Wars movie series Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) — in which it featured in exterior shots of the City of Theed on the Planet Naboo. It also featured in the 2012 film The Dictator.
The plaza was used as a set for the video of Simply Red's song "Something Got Me Started".
Place d'Espagne – Séville (Espagne)
Elle sert de décor à une scène du film Star Wars, épisode II : L'Attaque des clones (2002), ainsi que comme quartier général de l'armée anglaise en Égypte dans le film Lawrence d'Arabie (1962). En 2012, elle sert également de palais au dictateur incarné par Sacha Baron Cohen dans le film The Dictator.
Exposition ibéro-américaine de 1929 : elle doit permettre au pays de renouer avec le Nouveau Monde, d'améliorer les relations avec les différents pays latino-américains et de réunir la majorité de ces nations, mettant en scène la mémoire du passé impérial espagnol et rendant ainsi hommage à la race hispanique.
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Will someone please say the unsayable?
Will someone please tell me I'm wrong?
I live every day like a sad beast of prey
For I have to appear to be strong
And that's wrong
I'm too weak to be strong
Today I met with the generals
And the head of my secret police
Discussing conspiracies and prison facilities
For opponents I can never release
And there'll be no peace
Until they're released
Of course I'm in league with the army
It's not like I've got any choice
They officially adore me and my father before me
But gunpoint has a firm voice
The joke is I'm not even a demagogue
Have you heard me giving a speech?
My facts are invented
I sound quite demented
So deluded it beggars belief
It would be such a relief
Not to give another speech
Can someone please say the impossible?
Crowds should be out on the street
I've lost any will to threaten or kill
I'll be easy for you to defeat
And any resistance I meet
I'll beat a retreat
I'd rather that you didn't shoot me
But I'd quite understand if you did
Watch out for the army
The generals will go barmy
At the thought of a takeover bid
Oh please will somebody put me
Out of my misery?
This sad old dictator must sooner or later
Flee so that you can be free
If you get rid of me
We can all be free
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For no less than 35 years, Marshal Tito was the face of Yugoslavia. He moved on the stage of world politics with bravado: he opposed the almighty Soviet Union, his Tito-ism formed the ideal buffer against Stalinsm for the West. In short, Tito put Yugoslavia on the world map. More importantly, Tito has managed to maintain stability in Yugoslavia all these years. How did he manage to keep those very strong nationalistic feelings in check all these years? Tito just said: Don't whine, shut up. Most importantly, Tito, with a sophisticated strategy, made sure that no people felt like a minority. No one is better or more valuable than another. As the leader of his partisan army, which consisted of different population groups, he was the only one who really stood above the parties. Especially in the early years of his reign unsavory things happened. Indeed. People who opposed him during the war or shortly afterwards have been disabled. Thousands of people have been murdered and beaten to death. The problem with dictators, and Tito was of course a dictator, is that they don't have suitable successors. No one can and should stand in their shadow, so when such a ruler dies, power falls into the hands of all kinds of incapable figures. After Tito's death in 1980, Yugoslavia is rapidly declining. The increasingly poor relations between the different population groups eventually culminate in a civil war. You can still find slogans of Tito at the most southern point of Croatia, at the abandoned Prevlaka Fortress: Tito - leads our way - to je naš put.. On the road to Prevlaka Fortress we pass beautiful Italian cypress trees.
Prevlaka is a peninsula at the entrance to the Bay of Kotor - Montenegro. It is the southernmost point in Croatia. There is a neglected fortress from 1870. It was bombed in 1943 and this is still clearly visible. There are plans for restoration. The reserve is totally overgrown, but nature is breathtaking. There is a beautiful view from the terrace. Prevlaka's strategic location and proximity to a naval base have led Prevlaka to several quarrels between Croatia and Yugoslavia. In the early 1990s, during the Croatian War of Independence, Yugoslavia occupied the peninsula. In 1996, the two countries agreed to demilitarize it, and UN observers came to monitor it. Recognized as a territory of Croatia in 2006. Worth a visit if you like abandoned ancient ruins. On the road past beautiful Italian cypress trees to the most southern point of Croatia.
Maar liefst 35 jaar lang was maarschalk Tito hét gezicht van Joegoslavië. Met bravoure bewoog hij zich op het toneel van de wereldpolitiek: hij joeg de almachtige Sovjet-Unie tegen zich in het harnas, zijn titoïsme vormde voor het Westen de ideale buffer tegen het stalinisme. Hoe slaagde hij erin die zeer heftige nationalistische gevoelens al die jaren in toom te houden? ‘Tito zei gewoon: “Niet zeuren, bek houden.”‘ Het belangrijkste was dat Tito er met een uitgekiende strategie voor zorgde dat geen enkel volk zich een minderheid voelde. Niemand is beter of meer waard dan een ander. Als leider van zijn ,b>partizanenleger, dat uit verschillende bevolkingsgroepen bestond, was hij de enige die werkelijk boven de partijen stond. Vooral in de eerste jaren van zijn bewind zijn er onverkwikkelijke zaken gebeurd. Inderdaad. Mensen die hem tijdens de oorlog of vlak daarna tegenwerkten zijn uitgeschakeld. Duizenden mensen zijn vermoord en doodgeslagen. Na Tito’s dood in 1980 gaat het snel bergafwaarts met Joegoslavië. De steeds slechtere verhoudingen tussen de verschillende bevolkingsgroepen culmineren uiteindelijk in een burgeroorlog. Er zijn vandaag de dag nog steeds slogan's te vinden van Tito, zo ook bij het verlaten Prevlaka Fortress Tito lijdt ons de weg - Tito - to je naš put.. Prevlaka is een schiereiland bij de ingang van de baai van Kotor - Montenegro. Het is het meest zuidelijke punt van Kroatië. Er is een verwaarloosd fort uit 1870. Er zijn plannen voor restauratie. Het reservaat is totaal overwoekerd, maar de natuur is adembenemend. Vanaf het terras is er een prachtig uitzicht. In het begin van de jaren negentig, tijdens de Kroatische Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog, bezette Joegoslavië het schiereiland. In 1996 kwamen de twee landen overeen om het te demilitariseren, en VN-waarnemers kwamen het volgen. Erkend als een grondgebied van Kroatië in 2006. Een bezoek waard als je van verlaten oude ruïnes houdt. Op weg langs prachtige Italiaanse cipressen naar het meest zuidelijke punt van Kroatië.
If there's one thing that dictators do a lot of, it's over-sized buildings, and the one that tops the list is the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest. Originally called the People's Palace, the people of Romania certainly didn't ask for it. The colossal structure was built simply to show off the power of one man, Nicolai Ceausescu.
Si hay algo que los dictadores hacen mucho, son edificios de gran tamaño, y el que encabeza la lista es el Palacio del Parlamento en Bucarest. Originalmente llamado Palacio del Pueblo, la gente de Rumania ciertamente no lo solicitó. La colosal estructura fue construida simplemente para mostrar el poder de un hombre, Nicolai Ceausescu.
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The Studebaker Dictator was an automobile produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana from 1927-1937. The name was intended to connote that the model "dictated the standard" that other automobile makes would be obliged to follow. At the time, the only dictator that would have immediately come to an American mind was Benito Mussolini, whose popular image was one of audacity and strength, in spite of well-publicized fascist violence. However, the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany tainted the word 'dictator'. Studebaker abruptly discontinued the name 'Dictator' in 1937.
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The Studebaker Dictator is an automobile produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana, United States from 1927-1937. Model year 1928 was the first full year of Dictator production.. Studebaker Cruise-In at Winks, August 26, 2006.
(From my own archived photos, 2024)
On January 24, 1940, dictator Adolf Hitler gave dictator Francisco Franco a Mercedes Benz 540 G4 W31 car for his birthday, which was delivered by the then ambassador of the Third Reich in Spain, Eberhard von Stohrer, at the Royal Palace in Madrid.
The Führer had two of these models, and a fourth model was given to dictator Benito Mussolini.
With an eight-cylinder in-line engine, 5.4 liters and 115 horsepower, it was capable of moving its 3,840 kg. at a top speed of 67 km/h. With a consumption of 38 litres per 100 km in the city and ten litres less on the highway, with a 98 litre tank, two electric fuel pumps and one mechanical one
However, this Mercedes was not a pure off-roader.
Its four rear wheels propelled the car, but its front axle was not driven.
Even so, equipped with a gearbox with a reduction gear, two rigid rear axles, off-road tyres and a good height, it was really capable of going well off the asphalt.
Its braking system was hydraulic, with servo-assistance on the three axles of the vehicle.
The vehicle was equipped with a set of custom-made chains and six suitcases signed by Karl Baisch.
Franco was not completely convinced by this model, since due to a breakdown, the dictator, who had returned from a hunting trip, had to return to the palace in a Willys Jeep belonging to his personal guard.
However, the change in the Second World War and the defeat of the Third Reich led the Spanish Government to not use this and other vehicles due to the political connotations they entailed.
Mercedes, for its Stuttgart museum, offered the then enormous sum of 1,000 million pesetas for Franco's Mercedes, which at current exchange rates and inflation, we could be talking about more than seven million euros (or US dollars).
DISMANTLED PIECE BY PIECE: A few years later, already in the 21st century, Patrimonio Nacional accepted Mercedes' offer to overhaul the G4, despite the mechanics of the Royal Guard, who take care of it, as well as the rest of the fleet of official vehicles, manufacturing themselves parts for which there were no spare parts.
In the Mercedes workshops, the jewel was dismantled piece by piece in Stuttgart and for three years the German technicians drew the blueprint of the car and, took advantage of the opportunity to faithfully repair the only one of the lower series cars that is exhibited in their museum. (Source: Wikipedia and other websites).
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El 24 de enero de 1940 el dictador Adolf Hitler le regaló al dictador Francisco Franco por su cumpleaños un coche Mercedes Benz 540 G4 W31, que lo entregó el entonces embajador del III Reich en España, Eberhard von Stohrer, en el Palacio de Oriente de Madrid.
El Führer tenía dos de estos modelos, y un cuarto modelo le fue regalado al dictador Benito Mussolini.
Con un motor de ocho cilindros en línea, 5,4 litros y 115 caballos de potencia, era capaz de mover sus 3.840 kg. a una velocidad punta de 67 km/h. con un consumo de 38 litros a los 100 km en ciudad y diez litros menos por carretera, contando con un depósito de 98 litros, con dos bombas eléctricas de combustible y una mecánica
Sin embargo este Mercedes no era un todoterreno puro.
Sus cuatro ruedas traseras impulsaban al coche, pero su eje delantero no era motriz.
Aún así, dotado de una caja de cambios con reductora, dos ejes rígidos traseros, neumáticos todoterreno y una buena altura, era realmente capaz de marchar bien por fuera del asfalto.
Su equipo de frenado era hidráulico, con servo-asistencia en los tres ejes del vehículo.
El vehículo iba equipado con un juego de cadenas hechas a medida y seis maletas firmadas por Karl Baisch.
A Franco no le acabó de convencer este modelo, ya que debido a una avería, el dictador, que venía de una jornada de caza, tuvo que volver al palacio en un Jeep Willys de su guardia personal.
Sin embargo el cambio de signo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la derrota del Tercer Reich llevaron al Gobierno español a no utilizar este y otros vehículos por los connotaciones políticas que conllevaban.
La casa Mercedes, para su museo de Stuttgart, ofreció la entonces enorme cantidad de 1.000 millones de pesetas por el Mercedes de Franco, que al cambio e inflacción actuales, podríamos estar hablando de más de siete millones de euros (o dólares USA).
DESMONTADO PIEZA A PIEZA: Unos años más tarde, ya en el siglo XXI, Patrimonio Nacional aceptó el ofrecimiento de Mercedes de revisar el G4, a pesar de los mecánicos de la Guardia Real, que cuidan de él, así como del resto de la flota de vehículos oficiales, fabricando ellos mismos piezas de las que no había repuesto.
En los talleres de Mercedes, la joya fue desmontada pieza a pieza en Stuttgart y durante tres años los técnicos alemanes dibujaron el plano del coche y, aprovecharon para reparar con fidelidad el único de los automóviles de la serie inferior que se exhibe en su museo. (Fuente: Wikipedia y otras webs).
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This reminded me so much of the Barber Chair scene from Chaplin's "The Great Dictator"
The Honeyeaters scrambled up the stems until one took the wrong leaf, and the other was able to continue up higher,
Sadly by then the other bird had flown.
Polls show that about 80 percent of Japanese find the bills hard to swallow.
A Lower House special committee on July 15 approved security legislation amid shouting, heckling and signs raised by opposition lawmakers that criticized Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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The Studebaker Dictator was an automobile produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana (USA) from 1927-1937. Model year 1928 was the first full year of Dictator production.
The Dictator was Studebaker's lowest-price model, followed (in ascending order) by the Studebaker Commander and Studebaker President series. There was a Chancellor in 1927, too, but that year only
In June 1929, Studebaker began offering an 8-cylinder engine for the Dictator series (221 cubic inches, 70 bhp at 3,200 rpm), designed by Barney Roos
The Studebaker Dictator was an automobile produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana from 1927-1937. The name was intended to connote that the model "dictated the standard" that other automobile makes would be obliged to follow. At the time, the only dictator that would have immediately come to an American mind was Benito Mussolini, whose popular image was one of audacity and strength, in spite of well-publicized fascist violence. However, the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany tainted the word 'dictator'. Studebaker abruptly discontinued the name 'Dictator' in 1937.
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This is the bathroom of the former dictator of Romania , Nicolae Ceausescu . Just a wee bit OTT, I feel, but then dictators are not known for their exquisite taste. All this extravagant use of gold while his subjects were starving. Taken at the Spring palace , Bucharest .
Click on image(2x) to see the incredible detail.
www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-06-15/abe-passes...
"The Swamp" is a metaphor for fascism, from the point of view of Meilo Minotaur's actual experience of fascism in Portugal, the Carnation Revolution, and the actual lived experience of CapCat Ragu from post-revolutionary Portugal.
At a time when the crisis is trying to push us back into obscurantism is the moment to resist, to fight against the totalitarianism of capital, but never to return to fascism!
By the artists- Meilo Minotaur & Cap Cat Ragu
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The All Saints monastery was built in early XVIII century by St. Antim the Iverian, the Metropolitan bishop of Wallachia at the time. Nicolae Ciausescu, the Communist dictator of Romania, ordered to have the monastery demolished to make space for his Palace of the Parliament, but a group of engineers were able to save the historic church by convincing Ciausescu that they could move it on rails away from the construction site and "hide" it from his sight behind an apartment building.
St. Antim himself was a truly remarkable man with a truly tragic life story. He was born in Georgia (hence the Iverian moniker, as Georgia was known as Iveria at the time), captured by the Ottomans and sold as a slave in Constantinople. At the slave market he caught an eye of the Orthodox Patriarch who rescued him from slavery and taught him. St. Antim proved to be truly brilliant, learned fluently many languages and sciences, and set up the first printing press in the principality of Wallachia, pre-cursor of modern Romania, and even traveled to Tbilisi to set up the first printing press in his native Georgia. St. Antim rose to head the Orthodox church in Romania, supported and inspired efforts to free the country from the Ottoman yoke. This arose resentment by an Ottoman-appointed princeling who ruled in Bucharest, who banished him to another part of the Turkish domain. On the way to be exiled somewhere in modern-day Bulgaria, he was murdered. St. Antim was canonized in 1990's.
Монастырь Всех Святых был построен в начале XVIII века Св. Антимом Иверийцем, митрополитом Валахии. В 1980-е гг. при Чаушеску монастырь собирались снести чтобы освободить место для строительства Дворца Парламента, но группа инженеров смогла спасти историческую церковь, убедив диктатора, что они смогут её сдвинуть на рельсах в сторону от стройки и "спрятать" в одном из дворов.
Св. Антим Ивериец, основатель монастыря, был выдающимся человеком с очень трагичной судьбой. Он родился и вырос в Грузии, был схвачен во время набега турков, обращён в рабство, и продавался на невольничьем рынке в Констанополе. По счастливой случайности, он приглянулся Патриарху, который его выкупил и обучил. Св. Антим стал одним из самых просвещённых иерархов Православной церкви, свободно владевшим несколькими языкаи. Он основал первый печатный станок в Румынии, а также вернувшись на время в родную Грузию основал первый печатный станок в Тбилиси. Приняв сан митрополита он поддерживал и вдохновлял попытки свергнуть турецкое иго в Румынии, чем вызвал гнев князька, назначенного в Бухарест Портой. Он приказал сослать Св. Антима из Румынии; по пути в ссылку, где-то в Болгарии, он был убит. Св. Антим был канонизирован в 1990-е гг.
Photo taken in 'the 1920s Berlin Project', part of the virtual online world called 'Second Life'.
You can visit this city by following this link;
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/1920s%20Berlin%20Project/2...
I was a bit concerned about the flag flying from the building on the right and after a little research, found that it's the flag of the fictional nation of Tomania, setting of the Charlie Chaplin satire The Great Dictator. Those wishing more information may follow the link below.
A highly slid version of the iconic Norwegian lady statue on Virginia Beach,VA. The statue is a tribute to the lives lost in the 1891 wreck of the Norwegian barque Dictator. The ship ran aground during a storm off the sometimes treacherous waters off the beach. The pregnant wife and son of the ship's captain were tragically lost. The wooden masthead washed ashore and was displayed for many years until it was destroyed and lost during a hurricane. Later,a Norwegian sculpture created twin statues that are displayed on opposite sides of the Atlantic. The Norwegian lady watches over sailors guiding them to safe passage.
In this snapseed edit,it would seem the lady has some help from above in her quest...Have a great sliders Sunday all!
If we had been running a lemonade stand on the day we shot this series, we would not have had as many visitors as we did.
York Street is getting major drainage work and widening. We set up by the side of the road with road construction going on.
Our first visitors were part of the construction team who were worried we were trying to sell something by the side of the road. We showed them our business card and let them look through the camera, they were happy. They may still have thought the two old guys were nuts.
Our next visitor was a guy in a large pickup. He was hoping we were selling models by the side of the road. In fact, he stopped the truck in the middle of the street while he tried to talk us into selling our set and models. "I pay top dollar"! We gave him a business postcard as well. There was a message from the guy on the answering machine later. He was still offering top dollar for train stuff.
Next, a fellow working in the new, warehouse offices built behind the old house approached. He too seemed to be hoping we were setting up a roadside model store. He too, received a card and an invitation to peek through the camera. Minutes later, one of his co-workers had to see what the excitement was all about. Another card and invitation to see what the camera was seeing.
The one24thscale team had made six new friends before we shot the first frame. Who knows if any of them went to the web site to see more?
Taking time to talk with anyone who approaches us as we work has been part of our Social Networking from the beginning. Whether it is just a passerby or some authority figure, we can usually convince them, we are pretty harmless.
This is a forced perspective photograph of 1/24 scale die-cast model cars and buildings in front of a real background.
Danbury Mint 1937 Studebaker Dictator Coupe
Motor Max American Classics 1939 Chevrolet Coupe
Danbury Mint 1930 International Wrecker/Tow Truck
Danbury Mint 1940 Ford Tudor Sedan
Danbury Mint 1948 Chevrolet Fleetline - AeroSedan
Well, I don't think I have ever observed one of our native magpies with such a tyrannical, intimidating, subjugating personality as this character.
I'm assuming a dominant male, given his size. Strutting and puffing up and letting any other bird who gets within several feet of him know who is boss.
So I've nick-named him Mussolini after the charismatic, but highly controversial Italian dictator.
Here I photographed him from underneath when he was on a high lookout, surveying his territory beneath him. True dictator style.
These native Australian birds are commonly called magpies but are not within Corvidae like true magpies, crows etc. They are in family Artamidae.
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