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Saturday Self Challenge 12/05/2018 -- Nature in Black & White .
Been at this plant - aquilegia - all week trying to get angle and light right by which time some more flower heads have opened up .
This plant is the second in a challenge of my own to find and photo plants growing naturally in places where you would not normally find a plant growing .
See below another view in colour to see the plant growing where it did get a bit battered last year but still persists in coming up year on year .
Seeing as how this weeks challenge goes back to black and white
Back in Black for Sight and Sound
The Historical Diving Society held a "pirate" themed weekend at the diving museum in Gosport. One of the added "attractions" was this troupe of "Egyptian" belly dancers.
So where can you see the Elven GigaHorse? The collection of Mad Max vehicles will be shown at BrickFest Live Milwaukee and at MakerFaire Milwaukee.
My friend Alyssa spotted this thread rack for sale at Joann's a few months back and thought it'd be perfect for displaying finger puppets. I think I may have to take her out to dinner.
ChatGPT:
Was symbolisiert eine Sonne mit Gesicht und einem Strahlenkranz? Welche Organisationen und Geheimgesellschaften verwenden dieses Symbol?
Antwort:
Die Sonne mit einem Gesicht und einem Strahlenkranz symbolisiert häufig die Sonnengottheit oder die Sonne als Ursprung des Lebens und der Energie. Es kann auch für Licht, Wärme, Vitalität und Erleuchtung stehen.
Dieses Symbol wird von verschiedenen Organisationen und Geheimgesellschaften verwendet, darunter:
1. Freimaurer: Die Sonne mit einem Gesicht und einem Strahlenkranz ist ein häufiges Symbol in der Freimaurerei und wird oft in Logenräumen und auf deren Emblem verwendet.
2. Rosenkreuzer: Die Sonne mit einem Gesicht und einem Strahlenkranz ist ein wichtiges Symbol in der Rosenkreuzer-Tradition und steht für spirituelle Erleuchtung und Wissen.
3. Theosophische Gesellschaft: Die Sonne mit einem Gesicht und einem Strahlenkranz wird auch von der Theosophischen Gesellschaft verwendet, um die höchste spirituelle Wirklichkeit oder das Göttliche zu repräsentieren.
4. Neopaganismus: In einigen neopaganen Traditionen wird die Sonne mit einem Gesicht und einem Strahlenkranz als Symbol für den Sonnengott oder die Sonnengöttin verehrt.
Es ist wichtig anzumerken, dass die Verwendung dieses Symbols je nach Kontext unterschiedliche Bedeutungen haben kann und nicht unbedingt immer mit Geheimnissen oder Verschwörungen in Verbindung steht.
ChatGPT:
What does a sun with a face and a halo symbolize? Which organizations and secret societies use this symbol?
Answer:
The sun with a face and a halo of rays often symbolizes the sun deity or the sun as the source of life and energy. It can also stand for light, warmth, vitality and enlightenment.
This symbol is used by various organizations and secret societies, including
1. freemasons: the sun with a face and a halo of rays is a common symbol in freemasonry and is often used in lodge rooms and on their emblem.
2nd Rosicrucian: The sun with a face and a halo is an important symbol in the Rosicrucian tradition and stands for spiritual enlightenment and knowledge.
3 Theosophical Society: The sun with a face and a halo is also used by the Theosophical Society to represent the highest spiritual reality or the divine.
4. neopaganism: In some neopagan traditions, the sun with a face and a halo is worshipped as a symbol of the sun god or sun goddess.
It is important to note that the use of this symbol can have different meanings depending on the context and is not necessarily always associated with secrets or conspiracies.
Frankfurt, Goethestr.
RCAF CF-18 Hornet 188774 taxis at Fairford having arrived to take part in the 2024 Royal International Air Tattoo. One of the themes of the show was the RCAF's centenary, with the air arm contributing significantly to the flying and static displays.
Aircraft: Royal Canadian Air Force McDonnell Douglas CF-188A Hornet 188774.
Location: RAF Fairford (FFD/EGVA), Gloucestershire.
A rare and beautiful halo display.9.2.01. Halos are formed by sunlight refracting and reflecting through tiny ice crystals in the upper atmosphere.Each different shape of crystal forming a different arc or halo.In this instance the whole of the sky was webbed with intricate arcs,a sight never to be forgotten.photo shows,from the bottom,the parhelic circle,which stretched nearly all the way round the sky.two bright sun dogs ether side of the 22 degree halo, then the very bright upper tangent arc in contact with the 22 degree halo, and on top of this the dim parry arc forming an eye shape,then the very rare rainbow colored 40 degree superlateral arc.many more halos were seen in the display,including the circumzenithal arc ,two superlateral arcs ,a 120 degree parhelion and the very rare and almost never photographed wegener arc,see next photo.Photographs and article published in the journal of the royal meteorological society vol 57 no 5. photos taken with a nikon fm2 and 24mm lens.Location ,Hurley ,nr Atherstone, Warwickshire.
Meeting aérien "Air Legend" 2019 (Melun-Villaroche)
Dassault Rafale C - Solo Display 2019 - Escadron de Transformation 03.004 "Aquitaine" basé à St Dizier BA 113 - pilote capitaine Sébastien NATIVEL "Babouc"
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Ancient Hieropolis.....There are only a few historical facts known about the origin of the city. No traces of the presence of Hittites or Persians have been found. The Phrygians built a temple, probably in the first half of the 3rd century BC. This temple, originally used by the citizens of the nearby town of Laodicea, would later form the centre of Hierapolis. Hierapolis was founded as a thermal spa early in the 2nd century BC within the sphere of the Seleucid Empire. Antiochus the Great sent 2,000 Jewish families to Lydia and Phrygia from Babylon and Mesopotamia, later joined by more from Judea. The Jewish congregation grew in Hierapolis and has been estimated as high as 50,000 in 62 BC.[1] The city was expanded with the booty from the 190 BC Battle of Magnesia where Antiochus the Great was defeated by the Roman ally Eumenes II. Following the Treaty of Apamea ending the Syrian War, Eumenes annexed much of Asia Minor, including Hierapolis. Hierapolis became a healing centre where doctors used the thermal springs as a treatment for their patients. The city began minting bronze coins in the 2nd century BC. These coins give the name Hieropolis. It remains unclear whether this name referred to the original temple (ἱερόν, hieron) or honoured Hiera, the wife of Telephus, son of Heracles and the Mysian princess Auge, the supposed founder of Pergamon's Attalid dynasty.[citation needed] This name eventually changed into Hierapolis ("holy city"),[2] according to the Byzantine geographer Stephanus on account of its large number of temples.[citation needed] In 133 BC, when Attalus III died, he bequeathed his kingdom to Rome. Hierapolis thus became part of the Roman province of Asia. In AD 17, during the rule of the emperor Tiberius, a major earthquake destroyed the city. Through the influence of the Christian apostle Paul, a church was founded here while he was at Ephesus.[3] The Christian apostle Philip spent the last years of his life here.[4] The town's Martyrium was alleged to have been built upon the spot where Philip was crucified in AD 80. His daughters were also said to have acted as prophetesses in the region.[5][6] In the year 60, during the rule of Nero, an even more severe earthquake left the city completely in ruins. Afterwards, the city was rebuilt in the Roman style with imperial financial support. It was during this period that the city attained its present form. The theatre was built in 129 for a visit by the emperor Hadrian. It was renovated under Septimius Severus (193–211). When Caracalla visited the town in 215, he bestowed the much-coveted title of neocoros upon it, according the city certain privileges and the right of sanctuary. This was the golden age of Hierapolis. Thousands of people came to benefit from the medicinal properties of the hot springs. New building projects were started: two Roman baths, a gymnasium, several temples, a main street with a colonnade, and a fountain at the hot spring. Hierapolis became one of the most prominent cities in the Roman Empire in the fields of the arts, philosophy, and trade. The town grew to 100,000 inhabitants and became wealthy. During his campaign against the Sassanid Shapur II in 370, the emperor Valens made the last-ever imperial visit to the city. During the 4th century, the Christians filled Pluto's Gate (a ploutonion) with stones, suggesting that Christianity had become the dominant religion and begun suppressing other faiths in the area. Originally a see of Phrygia Pacatiana,[7] the Byzantine emperor Justinian raised the bishop of Hierapolis to the rank of metropolitan in 531. The Roman baths were transformed to a Christian basilica. During the Byzantine period, the city continued to flourish and also remained an important centre for Christianity. In the early 7th century, the town was devastated first by Persian armies and then by another destructive earthquake, from which it took a long time to recover. In the 12th century, the area came under the control of the Seljuk sultanate of Konya before falling to crusaders under Frederick Barbarossa and their Byzantine allies in 1190. About thirty years later, the town was abandoned before the Seljuks built a castle in the 13th century. The new settlement was abandoned in the late 14th century. In 1354, the great Thracian Earthquake toppled the remains of the ancient city. The ruins were slowly covered with a thick layer of limestone.
"Glass is a thing in disguise, an actor, is not solid at all, but a liquidan old sheet of glass will not only take on a royal and purplish tinge but will reveal its true liquid nature by having grown fatter at the bottom and thinner at the top, and It is invisible, solid, in short a joyous and paradoxical thing, as good a material as any to build a life from. "
— Peter Carey
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