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Die Ruinenstadt Karaköy an der türkischen Riviera. Das Bild zeigt nur einen kleinen Teil von fast 3.500 Hausruinen, deren griechische Bewohner in den 20er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts von dort vertrieben wurden.
The ruined city of Karaköy on the Turkish Riviera. The picture shows only a small part of almost 3.500 ruined houses whose Greek residents were expelled from there in the 1920s.
The Green Kingfisher ('Chloroceryle americana') is small kingfisher with a very long bill. Both sexes have a green head, back and tail feathers with a white underbelly. Males have a red breast and females have a double collar of green feathers on their breast.
They are found over most of South America and their range extends as far as Mexico and the southner United States..
I managed to capture a series of images as this female was expelling a pellet. This is final frame and the one where the pellet is falling.
Image created on October 24, 2024 over the Pixaim River near the the Southwild Pantanal Lodge, Santa Tereza, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
Commandery of Alden Biesen
The history of the Commandery of Alden Biesen begins in 1220 with the donation by Count Arnold III van Loon and Mechtildis van Are, abbess of Munsterbilzen, of a chapel and its grounds to the Teutonic Order.
The Commandery of Alden Biesen was the headquarters of a bailiwick, or province, of the Teutonic Order in the land of Meuse and Rhine.
Construction of the castle in Maasland Renaissance style began in 1543. The castle was the largest moated castle between the Loire and Rhine rivers.
The castle estate had its heyday between the 16th and 18th centuries. The Commandery then grew into the luxury residence we know today.
At the end of the 18th century, the French Revolution put an end to this, as the Teutonic Order was expelled. The castle complex was sold publicly. When Guillaume Claes, former mayor of Hasselt, bought the estate, he and his family went to live there. This was the beginning of two centuries of private ownership. The last private occupant died in 1971. That same year, a heavy fire broke out, destroying the castle almost completely. Only the walls remained standing. The buildings were bought by the Belgian state, after which they were restored. Restoration started as early as 1972.
Currently, the castle is used as an international cultural meeting and training centre.
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De geschiedenis van de Landcommanderij Alden Biesen begint in 1220 met de schenking van graaf Arnold III van Loon en Mechtildis van Are, abdis van Munsterbilzen, van een kapel met bijbehorende gronden aan de Duitse Orde.
De landcommanderij Alden Biesen was de hoofdzetel van een balije, of provincie, van de Duitse Orde in het land van Maas en Rijn.
In 1543 begon de bouw van het kasteel in Maaslandse renaissancestijl. Het kasteel was de grootste waterburcht tussen de Loire en de Rijn.
Het kasteeldomein kende haar glorietijd tussen de 16de en de 18de eeuw. De Landcommanderij groeide toen uit tot de luxeresidentie zoals we ze vandaag kennen.
Op het einde van de 18de eeuw maakte de Franse Revolutie hier een einde aan, want de Duitse Orde werd verdreven. Het kasteelcomplex werd openbaar verkocht. Toen Guillaume Claes, oud-burgemeester van Hasselt, het domein kocht ging hij met zijn familie op het landgoed wonen. Dit was het begin van twee eeuwen privébezit. De laatste particuliere bewoner stierf in 1971. In datzelfde jaar brak een zware brand uit waardoor het kasteel vrijwel volledig werd verwoest. Enkel de muren bleven overeind. De gebouwen gekocht door de Belgische staat, waarna ze gerestaureerd werden. De restauratie startte al in 1972.
Momenteel wordt het kasteel gebruikt als internationaal cultureel ontmoetings- en vormingscentrum.
The fishing club Kreisfischereiverein Kelheim runs a breeding facility to grow brook trouts for their angling waters in Altessing. The keep off cormorants, strips and cords were clamped all over the pond.
Picture taken at Eulsukdo nature estuary in Busan, South Korea. Used in traditional Chinese medicine to clear and drain lung issues such as phlegm and dryness, resolve toxicity, and expel pus.
Another fun object with a really bright core with detail. My telescope and especially my seeing here can't really do it justice, and I only collected a few hours of data, but I'm happy with the results nonetheless.
"The Blinking Planetary Nebula is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Cygnus, approximately 2,200 light-years from Earth. It earned its nickname due to an unusual visual effect where the central nebula appears to "blink" on and off when observed through telescopes using averted vision techniques.
Physical Characteristics
NGC 6826 spans about 0.2 light-years across and features a bright central white dwarf star surrounded by an expanding shell of ionized gas. The nebula displays a complex structure with a bright inner ring and fainter outer halo, along with distinctive knots and jets extending from opposite sides of the central star.
Formation and Evolution
This planetary nebula formed when a dying star expelled its outer layers approximately 1,000 years ago. The central white dwarf, with a surface temperature of about 36,000 Kelvin, ionizes the surrounding gas through intense ultraviolet radiation, causing it to glow in characteristic colors.
Blinking Effect
The famous blinking phenomenon occurs due to the extreme brightness difference between the central star and surrounding nebula. When looking directly at it, the bright star overwhelms the fainter nebular emission, but with averted vision, the nebula becomes visible while the star appears dimmer.
Fast Low-Ionization Emission Regions (FLIERs)
NGC 6826 contains prominent knots of material moving at high velocities away from the central star, providing valuable insights into the mass-loss mechanisms of dying stars.
Bipolar Structure
The nebula exhibits a subtle bipolar morphology with material flowing in opposite directions, suggesting the presence of a dense equatorial disk around the central star.
Scientific Significance
The Blinking Planetary serves as an important study object for understanding stellar evolution, particularly the transition from red giant to white dwarf phases. Its relatively simple structure and proximity make it ideal for detailed spectroscopic analysis of planetary nebula physics.
Discovery and Designation
William Herschel discovered NGC 6826 in 1793, and it was later designated as Caldwell 15. The "blinking" nickname became popular among amateur astronomers in the 20th century as telescope technology improved and the visual effect became more widely observed."
Askar 120APO: 840mm f/7
ZWO ASI533MM Mono Camera at -15C
14xHa, 12xOiii @5m
40xR, 40xG, 40xB @15s (for stars and inner nebula)
Captured with ASIair. processed with PixInsight, Ps
Tétouan is famed for its fine craftsmanship and musical delicacy and has been part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the area of Crafts and Folk Art since 2017. Its cultural heritage is the product of the interaction between different cultural influences throughout centuries. It is mainly characterized by its Andalusian style and way of living but both Berber, Jewish and Colonial Spanish influences are present too.
The streets are fairly wide and straight, and many of the houses belonging to aristocratic families, descendants of those expelled from Al-Andalus by the Spanish Reconquista, possess marble fountains and have groves planted with orange trees. Within the houses and riads the ceilings are often exquisitely carved and painted in Hispano-Moresque designs, such as are found in the Alhambra of Granada, and the tile-work for which Tetuan is known may be seen on floors, pillars and dados. The city has seven gates which were closed at night up until early 20th century. Many Sufi Zawiyas are scattered inside the walled old city.
San Ignacio was one of the missions founded by the Jesuits between the end of the 1500s and beginning of 1600s.
In the 18th century, the Mission reached a population of around 3000, wich produced rich cult and handicraft products.
After the banning of the 'Company of Jesus' and the Jesuits expelled from the New World, the missions were soon overrun by Portuguese and Spanish landlords, destroyed, and claimed by the jungle.
San Ignacio is possibly the best preserved and recovered sites.
It was declared World Heritage in 1984.
San Ignacio fue una de las misiones fundadas por los jesuitas entre el final de los años 1500s y principios de los 1600s .
En el siglo 18 , la Misión llegó a una población de alrededor de 3000 personas ; produciendo artesanías y objetos de gran riqueza para el culto católico.
Después de la prohibición de la " Compañía de Jesús " y expulsión de los jesuitas del Nuevo Mundo, las misiones pronto fueron invadidas por terratenientes portugueses y españoles, destruidas, y cubiertas por la jungla.
San Ignacio es uno de los sitios recuperados y posiblemente el mejor preservado.
Fue declarado patrimonio de la humanidad en 1984.
30/365
When I started this 365, I've had no one to encourage me, because underneath everything, I have no one, only me - as it has always been. Without social media, without people from across the world, distant friends and family, I wouldn't be so brave to take on such ridiculous project.
I owe a huge thanks to absolutely every single person who has commented, liked, followed, or said anything, positive or otherwise, to me about these pictures. I don't even think they're that great personally, and slowly this project is becoming more of a psychological exercise in expelling (or is it attracting?) all the joy, darkness, lust, beauty, and ugliness that I've harbored for so long.
Without any doubt, this is the first time in my life I feel like someone, somewhere, believes in me. And everyday, it keeps me going for one more shot, one more idea, one more exorcism and witchery with the camera.
Tumacácori, AZ
In 1753, Jesuit Eusebio Kino began work on this mission, replacing Mission San Cayetano de Tumacácori, which had been built on a nearby site in 1691, but abandoned after an Indian rebellion in 1751. In 1768, the King of Spain expelled the Jesuits and replaced them with Franciscans. The Franciscans began construction on the current church around 1800, which was in use until 1828 when the Mexican government forced all Spanish settlers to leave the country. The mission then fell into neglect and disrepair, and was finally closed and abandoned in 1848 at the end of the Mexican-American war. The United States acquired the region from Mexico through the Gadsden Purchase in 1853. In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt declared this site a National Monument.
Hypholoma fasciculare, commonly known as the sulphur tuft or clustered woodlover, is a common woodland mushroom, often in evidence when hardly any other mushrooms are to be found. This saprotrophic small gill fungus grows prolifically in large clumps on stumps, dead roots or rotting trunks of broadleaved trees.
The "sulphur tuft" is bitter and poisonous; consuming it can cause vomiting, diarrhea and convulsions. The principal toxin is a steroid known as fasciculol E.
Hypholoma fasciculare grows prolifically on the dead wood of both deciduous and coniferous trees. It is more commonly found on decaying deciduous wood due to the lower lignin content of this wood relative to coniferous wood. Hypholoma fasciculare is widespread and abundant in northern Europe and North America. It can appear anytime from spring to autumn.
Often used to illustrate fairy tales and folklore, fungi remind us of mythical creatures and childhood stories. From rock hard, black fungi named after the legend of King Alfred’s burnt cakes to tiny orange ones that look like pieces of orange peel, the sheer variety of British fungi is astonishing.
Not categorised as a plant, fungi are organisms that live under the ground or on their host. They form a colony of tiny branching threads called mycelium.
The parts of the fungi we see above ground are the fruiting bodies. This part contains spores, similar to seeds in as much as they are for reproduction, which are dispersed to produce future colonies. Some fungi shed their spores from below, some by expelling them with force and others in liquid form.
Fungi don’t photosynthesise as they don’t have any chlorophyll, so they get their energy from their growing medium, which might be leaf litter, rotting wood or decaying creatures. They come in many shapes, sizes and colours, and can be found by looking high and low, particularly in woodland, with most appearing in autumn.
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4/4 pelote de réjection
D'un violent coup de tête elle expulse la pelote . Quelle chance inouïe d'avoir pu suivre cette action de si près. Elle n'arrête pas de m'étonner cette chère petite !
4/4 disgorged pellet
With a violent head stroke, she expels the pellet. What an incredible chance to have been able to follow this action so closely. She keeps surprising me this dear little one!
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Anglesey Abbey is a country house, formerly a priory, in the village of Lode, 5 1⁄2 miles (8.9 km) northeast of Cambridge, England. The house and its grounds are owned by the National Trust and are open to the public as part of the Anglesey Abbey, Garden & Lode Mill property, although some parts remain the private home of the Fairhaven family. The 98 acres (400,000 m²) of landscaped grounds are divided into a number of walks and gardens, with classical statuary, topiary and flowerbeds. The grounds were laid out in an 18th-century style by the estate's last private owner, the 1st Baron Fairhaven, in the 1930s. A large pool, the Quarry Pool, is believed to be the site of a 19th-century coprolite mine. Lode Water Mill, dating from the 18th century was restored to working condition in 1982 and now sells flour to visitors. The 1st Lord Fairhaven also improved the house and decorated its interior with a valuable collection of furniture, pictures and objets d'art. A community of Augustinian canons built a priory here, known as Anglesea or Anglesey Priory, some time during the reign of Henry I (i.e., between 1100 and 1135), and acquired extra land from the nearby village of Bottisham in 1279. The canons were expelled in 1535 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The former priory was acquired around 1600 by Thomas Hobson, who converted it to a country house for his son-in-law, Thomas Parker, retaining a few arches from the original priory. At that time the building's name was changed to "Anglesey Abbey", which sounded grander than the original "Anglesey Priory".
In the late 18th century, the house was owned by Sir George Downing, the founder of Downing College, Cambridge.
Further alterations to the building were carried out in 1861.
Huttleston (1896–1966) and Henry (1900–1973) Broughton bought the site in 1926 and made improvements to the house. They were the sons of Urban Broughton (1857–1929), who had made a fortune in the mining and railway industries in America. Henry married, leaving the abbey to his brother, then 1st Lord Fairhaven, in 1930. Henry became the 2nd Lord Fairhaven. Huttleston used his wealth to indulge his interests in history, art, and garden design, and to lead an eighteenth-century lifestyle at the house. On his death, Huttleston left the abbey to the National Trust so that the house and gardens could "represent an age and way of life that was quickly passing". In 1926 Anglesey Abbey was bought by Huttleston Broughton, later Lord Fairhaven. He fully restored the house which had fallen into disrepair and began to collect beautiful furniture, artworks and statuary. All of these can be seen at the Abbey today. Broughton (full name Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton) was born in 1896 in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. His father, Urban Broughton, had amassed a considerable fortune. His mother was Cara Leland Rogers the daughter of multimillionaire American oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers. Rogers had died unexpectedly in 1909 and Urban Broughton had taken over the management of a large part of the Rogers empire. The Broughton family had moved to England in 1912 when Huttleston was sixteen. They lived in Park Lane, Mayfair. Huttleston was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. In 1916 he became a lieutenant in the 1st Life Guards. He served during the First World War, and retired from the military in 1924. He obtained the title Baron Fairhaven in 1929. One of Huttleston’s great achievements was the establishment of the garden at the house. In 1964, when Broughton was still living, Lanning Roper wrote a book entitled The Gardens of Anglesey Abbey, in which he described the careful planning of this remarkable garden with its many vistas, avenues, rare and common trees, pools, statues and river temples. He describes the way in which huge areas of sky and mown grass were, been used to balance symmetrical planting and how Broughton used the trees and shrubs to make groups of contrasting colour and foliage. To commemorate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1937, Broughton planted an extensive avenue of trees with a crossing avenue at the far end. The trees used were London plane alternating with horse chestnut in four rows copy that planted in Windsor Great Park.
Huttleston did not marry and had no heirs. He died in 1966 and left Anglesey Abbey to the National Trust.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones) project is an initiative of the German artist Gunter Demnig (Berlin, 1947). He places memorials in front of the homes of people who were expelled, deported, murdered or driven to suicide by the Nazis. "A man is not forgotten until his name is forgotten," he quotes the Talmud.
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Het project Stolpersteine (Struikelstenen) is een initiatief van de Duitse kunstenaar Gunter Demnig (Berlijn, 1947). Hij brengt gedenktekens aan vóór de huizen van mensen die door de nazi's werden verdreven, gedeporteerd, vermoord of tot zelfmoord gedreven . 'Een mens is pas vergeten, wanneer zijn naam is vergeten,' citeert hij de Talmud.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the remnants of a long-dead star. These rippling wisps of ionized gas, named DEM L316A, are located some 160,000 light-years away within one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors — the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
The explosion that formed DEM L316A was an example of an especially energetic and bright variety of supernova, known as a Type Ia. Such supernova events are thought to occur when a white dwarf star steals more material than it can handle from a nearby companion, and becomes unbalanced. The result is a spectacular release of energy in the form of a bright, violent explosion, which ejects the star’s outer layers into the surrounding space at immense speeds. As this expelled gas travels through the interstellar material, it heats up and ionizes it, producing the faint glow that Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 has captured here.
The LMC orbits the Milky Way as a satellite galaxy and is the fourth largest in our group of galaxies, the Local Group. DEM L316A is not the only supernova remnant in the LMC; Hubble came across another one in 2010 with SNR 0509, and in 2013 it snapped SNR 0519.
Image credit: ESA (European Space Agency)/Hubble & NASA, Y. Chu
Excerpt from vernazza.fandom.com/wiki/Convent_of_San_Francesco_(building):
The Convent of San Francesco is a place of Catholic worship in the municipality of Vernazza, in via San Francesco, the church is connected to the ancient convent of the Franciscan order, now the seat of the town hall.
Externally the church has a very simple aspect, typical of Franciscan architectural elements, with a gabled facade marked by a stained glass window and a marble portal carved with festoons. The interior is characterized by a single nave and houses, in the thickness of the side walls, four chapels decorated with stucco. The subsoil, just below the floor, served as a sepulchral area and fourteen tombs have been found, probably belonging to brother monks.
The convent characterized by the cloister, is the current seat of the Town Hall, while the remaining complex is used as an exhibition hall or for musical and theatrical performances. The adjacent bell tower, equipped with a clock, with a square base is surmounted by an octagonal spire and a small dome. In the western area of the complex, the Genoese walls that surround the village in a wedge shape are visible.
At the express request of the people of Vernazza, the convent belonging to the reformed minor Franciscan friars was built in 1618. In 1810 the friars were expelled by the Napoleonic decree. After the fall of Napoleon, Vernazza became part of the Kingdom of Sardinia and in 1820 the Franciscans asked to be able to return, through a petition sent by the Municipal Council, which thus solicited its approval. The friars returned in 1823, but according to some sources it seems that they were not liked by the notables of the town.
In 1847 the Franciscans asked the City Council to reimburse the damage suffered for the destruction of the irrigation aqueduct of their garden, which was destroyed during the works on the Reggio road, but their request was rejected and in 1861 for the suppression of religious orders, as decided by the Government, the Convent was then ceded to the Municipality. Subsequently, a new use of this system was found by integrating the Town Hall which until then did not exist. Later in the Convent the Elementary Schools and the Infantile Kindergarten were arranged.
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All Hallows' Eve
The moon is full,
The trees are bare,
Dead leaves glide through
The cool, dry air.
The night is silent as a grave,
Or some deep, dark, unfathomed cave
Beneath the stars’ cold stare.
The silence breaks
With hollow moans
And beastly snarls
And clacking bones:
The God-forsaken, restless dead
Awaken from their earthen bed
Beneath cold, carven stones.
Their din grows loud
And twice more dread
Than piercing screams
Or blood fresh-shed.
Out from the very depths of Hell
They slink, too terrible to tell:
The cursed and restless dead.
Their summoners
Shriek shrill with joy
As they behold
That grim convoy.
By potions, charms, and arcane verse
They placed this night beneath a curse
And bade the dead deploy.
Assembled now,
That fiendish crowd
Swarms dizzily
And hails aloud
The thousand execrable names
Of him who reigns in acrid flames,
In doom’s eternal shroud.
The chaos of
The hellish throng
Soon dies away,
But not for long:
More fearsome than the din before,
Their voices join as one and roar
A wild, infernal song:
“Praise the one
Once bright as sun,
Who dared defy
The Three-in-One.
“And so he fell
Too far to tell,
To reign as king,
Our king, in Hell.
“He dared to bring
Death’s dreadful sting
To Earth, to gain
His following.
“He first laid eye
On man, and by
His sweetened tongue
He made man die!
“Alas! Our wrong
Prevailed not long,
Soon overcome
By One more strong.
“Still, bubbling from
Hell’s fires, we come
Up to this sphere
In massive sum.
“Behold our sheer,
Brute strength and hear
Our battle-cry
And quake with fear!
“We venture out
To thrash about
This world of men
And win our rout,
“For thus we can
Complete the plan
Our master spun
When time began.
“Now, to our feet –
To prowl the street
And visit doom
On all we greet!”
Then off they fly
With roars and shrieks,
A putrid mass
Of loathsome freaks.
In frenzied swarms, they pierce and tear
Throughout the land; they fill the air
And choke it with their reeks.
No soul is safe,
No home secure,
No heart so strong
It could endure
That mob, accursed from Above,
Bereft of life, devoid of love,
Whose doom is swift and sure!
With sharpened claws
And bloodstained sneer,
They plunge the world
In abject fear,
Let loose for what they most enjoy:
To slay, burn, terrorize, destroy,
And raise Hell’s horrors here.
Their rampage, though,
Must cease at last,
For in the east
The day comes fast.
Though theirs was cold and shadowed night,
They now must yield to breaking light
That fells them with a blast.
With that first ray,
A piercing cry
From all the ghouls
Cuts through the sky.
Dawn breaks! At last the Day of Saints,
Expels them back to their restraints
In flames that never die.
Great Michael leads
A countless host
For Father, Son,
And Holy Ghost.
With eagle wings and flaming swords
They charge and rout the demon hordes
And squelch their one night’s boast.
Then through the clouds
Pure music flies.
A radiant choir
Circles the skies:
The saints who fasted, prayed, and bled,
Whose faith has conquered death and dread,
Have come, all come to grace the earth
As testament to second birth
In Light that never dies.
......by Adam Sedia
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Short-beaked Echidna
Scientific Name: Tachyglossus aculeatus
The Short-beaked Echidna is the only species of echidna in Australia.
Identification: The Short-beaked Echidna is easily recognised by its sharp spines, short legs and long snout.
Size range: 40-55 cm
Similar Species: Long-beaked Echidna (Zaglossus bruijni), is from New Guinea
Distribution: The Short-beaked Echidna is found throughout Australia, including Tasmania. Although it is found all over Australia, it is not as common in Sydney as it once was.
Habitat: The Short-beaked Echidna lives in forests and woodlands, heath, grasslands and arid environments.
Seasonality: Winter isn't a good time to see an echidna as many enter torpor during the colder months. Dropping their body temperatures below 10 degrees celsius and breathing just once every three minutes, they greatly reduce their metabolic rate. Every few weeks their temperature slowly rises to normal as they stir to eliminate waste, and perhaps have a drink, before returning to torpor. As the warmer weather returns, so does the echidna's food supply and the sleepy monotremes fully awaken to set about replenishing their fat stores.
Feeding and Diet: Using its pointed snout and sharp claws, the Short-beaked Echidna breaks into ant and termite nests and catches its prey by flicking its long sticky tongue in and out. It also catches a lot of dirt in the process and this is expelled in the droppings.
Life cycle: Like the Platypus, the Short-beaked Echidna is an egg-laying mammal or monotreme and lays one egg at a time. The eggs hatch after about 10 days and the young, emerge blind and hairless. Clinging to hairs inside the mother's pouch, the young echidna suckles for two or three months. Once it develops spines and becomes too prickly, the mother removes it from her pouch and builds a burrow for it. It continues to suckle for the next six months.
Predators, Parasites and Diseases: The Short-beaked Echidna has few natural enemies, but it may be killed by cars, dogs, foxes and occasionally goannas, and cats may take the young.
(Source: australianmuseum.net.au/short-beaked-echidna)
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Obelisk of Minin and Pozharsky. In 1612, the so-called national militia, gathered by a local merchant, Kuzma Minin, and commanded by Knyaz Dmitry Pozharsky expelled the Polish troops from Moscow, thus putting an end to the "Time of Troubles" and establishing the rule of the Romanov dynasty.
Two photos were taken just over one min. apart. It was a small octopus, with the round divot it inhabited being about 2" (5cm) in dia. Note in photo at right the water distortion above eye is due to the siphon expelling water at that moment.
Montana de Oro State Park,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
This is the same octopus my friend Loretta found shown here: www.flickr.com/photos/marlinharms/50833047523/
Originally an Augustinian Priory, built sometime between 1100 and 1135. The Augustine canons were expelled in 1535 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the priory was then converted into a country house.
The house was brought in 1926 by Huttleston Broughton (later Lord Fairhaven) and fully restored as it had fallen into disrepair.
Lord Fairhaven left Anglesey Abbey to the National Trust upon his death in 1966.
Europe, France, PACA, Bouches du Rhône, Marseille, Panier, Vieille Charité, Museum of Mediterranean Archeology (cut from B&T)
The Museum of Mediterranean Archeology (and the other cultural institutions in the old building) used to be an Almshouse - the Vieille Charité
Its 'full' story is here: "La Vieille Charité, a former almshouse and now functioning as a museum and cultural centre, is situated in the heart of the old Panier quarter of Marseille in the south of France. Constructed between 1671 and 1749 in the Baroque style to the designs of the architect Pierre Puget, it comprises four ranges of arcaded galleries in three storeys surrounding a space with a central chapel surmounted by an ovoid dome.
The idea of an almshouse for the poor, dedicated to Notre-Dame, mère de Charité (Our Lady, Mother of Charity), was originally conceived in 1622; but it was not until 1640 that a suitable plot of land was acquired, with the first pensioners admitted in the following year. Although the foundation stone was laid in that year, construction commenced only in 1671, following a grand plan of the architect Pierre Puget. It was not completed until 1749, construction being prolonged as the result of reductions to the project imposed by the aldermen of Marseille. The central chapel was erected between 1679 and 1704. Although Puget died in 1694, that part of the project was completed under the direction of his son François
The main body of the structure is a rectangle, 112 m by 96 m, composed of four walls in pink and yellow-tinted molasse stone from the ancient quarries at Cap Couronne, with no outward facing windows. On the inside are three arcaded galleries superposed on each other, opening onto an interior courtyard measuring 82 m by 45 m. In the centre of the courtyard is a harmonious chapel, a round church, crowned by an ellipsoidal dome and fronted by a portico in the classical style with Corinthian columns. This Baroque chapel ranks as one of Puget's most original designs.
In the seventeenth century the repression of beggars was conducted with great brutality in France. Guards called Chasse-gueux ("beggar-hunters") had the task of rounding up beggars: non-residents among them were expelled from Marseille, and natives of Marseille were shut up in prison. Often the crowd would take the side of the beggars during such arrests.
The almshouses served as workhouses for the beggars. Children were found jobs as domestic servants, cabin boys or apprentices with seamstresses or bakers. As time passed the work of la Vielle Charité grew, the number of inmates increasing from 850 in 1736 to 1059 in 1760. As the imprisonment of the poor became less acceptable, the numbers decreased to 250 in 1781.
Spared during the French Revolution, the building was used as an asylum for "les vagabonds et les gens sans aveu" (vagrants and the dispossessed) in the nineteenth century. It was transformed into a barracks for the French Foreign Legion until 1922, when it was used to lodge those displaced by the demolition of the district behind the Bourse and later those made homeless by the dynamiting of the Old Port during the Second World War. Plagued by squatters, pillagers and vandals, it eventually housed 146 families living in squalid and unsafe conditions, a group of around 30 Little Sisters of Jesus living in equally abject conditions to their charges, and various small concerns, devoted amongst other things to transport, packing of anchovies and ripening of bananas.
In 1962 all the residents were rehoused and the building shut down. It was only in 1968, thanks to the intervention of the Minister of Culture André Malraux, that funds became available to rescue the buildings, by then in a state of total dereliction.
La Vieille Charité was painstakingly restored to its former glory between 1970 and 1986, the restoration of the chapel being completed in 1981."
(Wiki)
This is number 85 of Southern France and 13 of Marseille.
The Basilica di San Francesco is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located on the Piazza del Popolo in the town of Ascoli Piceno in the region of Marche, Italy.
Construction of the structure began in 1258, and the church was consecrated in 1371. The church has a Latin cross layout with three naves, divided by hexagonal pilasters. The tall hexagonal bell-tower near the apse was completed in the 15th century, and the copper-sheathed cupola (1548) and ribbed ceilings were not completed until the 16th century. The main facade is in a narrow alley, and has three portals, each with a peaked tympanum and thin elaborate pilasters. The central portal is decorated with highly sculpted travertine marble with a detached column with lions atop capitals, showing persisting Romanesque influences. The top of the tympanum has a sculpture of a lamb, a symbol of the guild of wool merchants, who patronized construction.
The east flank of the church encompasses the five arches of the Loggia dei Mercanti (1513), designed by Bernardino da Carona. The west flank of the church abuts the Chiostro Maggiore.
Along the right flank of the church, facing the Piazza del Popolo, is a lateral entrance surmounted by a monument to Pope Julius II (1506–10). The entrance has a rounded arch flanked by receding sets of corded pilasters. The lunette above the door has a fresco. The monument above the pedestal has a statue of the seated pope in the act of blessing, inside a rounded niche, flanked by statues of holy figures each in their niche. The plaque below translates to: Julius II Pontifex Maximus, restored liberty and expelled the Tyrants. The people of Ascoli erected statues in the year of our savior 1510 This monument honors the pope for imprisoning the Ghibelline tyrant, Astolto Guiderocchi, who had taken control of the city in 1504.
A few meters to the north of the portal of Julius, on the outer wall of the right transept, is an aedicule built against the church. It consists of a portal like structure with an iron grill protecting a venerated image of the Madonna adoring her Son. A protruding rounded tympanum with an angel and a garland are sustained by two Corinthian columns. The aedicule has three rounded steps in front. Tradition attributes the design (1639) to Lazzaro Morelli, a pupil of Bernini, but others attribute it to Silvio Giosafatti.
The 17th-century travertine pulpit was completed by Antonio Giosafatti. The presbytery has three apses. The ogival windows frame stained glass windows. The sacristy contains and altarpiece depicting the Jesus and the Apostles by Cola dell'Amatrice. It also contains paintings by Biagio Miniera, and Nicola Monti (depicting the Blessed Beato Corrado). The adjacent building, the former Franciscan monastery has two cloisters. The larger cloister, Chiostro Maggiore also called the Piazza della Verdura houses a daily food market.
Tijdens de laatste uitbarsting in december 2015 stootte de hoofdkrater vooral asse uit. De flank ervan is daardoor bedekt met een mengeling van sneeuw en asse.
During the last eruption in December 2015 the main crater expelled mainly ashes . The slopes were covered with a mixture of snow and ashes.
Malá Strana (Czech for "Little Side (of the River)" is a district of the city of Prague, Czech Republic, and one of its most historic neighbourhoods.
In the Middle Ages, it was a dominant center of the ethnic German (and since 16th century also Italian) citizens of Prague. It also housed many noble palaces while the right-bank towns were comparatively more bourgeois and more Bohemian Czech.
Malá Strana was founded by the King Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1257.As a royal town (a town founded by the king) it got many privileges. It was created by amalgamating a number of settlements beneath the Prague Castle into a single administrative unit. The original residents were expelled and mostly German craftsmen and merchants were invited by the king. Even though the city was royal, the king did not master the city as a whole.
In 1419-1420 the Lesser Town was burnt down by Hussites. In 1541 the town was strongly damaged again by a fire which killed fifty people. After this fire the town was rebuilt in the Renaissance style and many palaces of nobility were built there.
Baroque architecture predominates in Malá Strana, but the history of the district dates back to far before the Baroque era. Baroque architecture eventually dominated when the style was implanted on Malá Strana after the destructive fires in 1541.
Murano is a series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It lies about 1.5 km north of Venice and measures about 1.5 km across with a population of just over 5,000. It is famous for its glass making. It was once an independent comune, but is now a frazione of the comune of Venice.
Murano was initially settled by the Romans and from the sixth century by people from Altinum and Oderzo. At first, the island prospered as a fishing port and through its production of salt. It was also a centre for trade through the port it controlled on Sant'Erasmo. From the eleventh century, it began to decline as islanders moved to Dorsoduro. It had a Grand Council, like that of Venice, but from the thirteenth century, Murano was ultimately governed by a podestà from Venice. Unlike the other islands in the Lagoon, Murano minted its own coins.
Early in the second millennium hermits of the Camaldolese Order occupied one of the islands, seeking a place of solitude for their way of life. There they founded the Monastery of St. Michael (Italian: S. Michele di Murano). This monastery became a great center of learning and printing. The famous cartographer, Fra Mauro, whose maps were crucial to the European exploration of the world, was a monk of this community. The monastery was suppressed in 1810 by French forces under Napoleon, in the course of their conquest of the Italian peninsula, and the monks were expelled in 1814. The grounds then became Venice's major cemetery.
In 1291, all the glassmakers in Venice were required to move to Murano. In the following century, exports began, and the island became famous, initially for glass beads and mirrors. Aventurine glass was invented on the island, and for a while Murano was the main producer of glass in Europe. The island later became known for chandeliers. Although decline set in during the eighteenth century, glassmaking is still the island's main industry.
In the fifteenth century, the island became popular as a resort for Venetians, and palaces were built, but this later declined. The countryside of the island was known for its orchards and vegetable gardens until the nineteenth century, when more housing was built.
Attractions on the island include the Church of Santa Maria e San Donato (known for its twelfth-century Byzantine mosaic pavement and said to house the bones of the dragon slain by Saint Donatus in the 4th century), the church of San Pietro Martire with the chapel of the Ballarin family built in 1506 and artworks by Giovanni Bellini, and the Palazzo da Mula. Glass-related attractions include the many glassworks, some Mediaeval and most open to the public, and the Murano Glass Museum, housed in the large Palazzo Giustinian.
"This nebula formed when a dying Sun-like star ran out of hydrogen fuel, collapsed from a red giant to a white dwarf, and ejected its outer envelope. The expelled material is now heated by the radiation of the central white dwarf, producing the nebula’s glow. Its outer halo was not detected until 1991. The nebula has been gradually expanding and will completely disperse into space over the next several thousand years, while the white dwarf will cool and fade away over the next several billion years."
Askar 120APO: 840mm f/7
ZWO ASI533MC Cooled Color Camera at -20C
Guided on ZWO AM5
55x600s exposures with a dual narrowband Ha/Oiii filter
Processed with PixInsight, Ps
Classic view of the Wallstreet section of the Zion Narrows. The spring-fed North Fork of the Virgin River cascades its way through the slot canyon, with towering sandstone walls on either side. The 'weeping' effect is prominently seen on the walls of the canyon here, at places where water permeating through the porous rock is slowly expelled. Such locations create green lushness on the canyon walls (more so in other spots, because here flash floods wash away any soil and new trees). I had to patiently wait for the steady stream of hikers through the canyon to disappear for just a second before getting this shot. Afternoon seems to be the time to be here, when the sun overhead creates the wonderful glowing phenomena on the canyon walls.
A leaf mimic, this large butterfly (4 inches or 11cm) never strays far from its host tree, Cecropia peltata, where it spends its entire life-cycle. Females lay their eggs on the undersides of the cecropia leaves and males perch head-down on the trunk and tree branches where they look out for intruders and defend their territory. When they fly out, they flash their bright orange upper side startling predators as well as butterfly watchers.
Its larva has an ingenious way of defending itself against predators, mostly resident Azteca ants, by building a silk resting platform with a dangling frass chain that discourages predators from approaching it. If a predator still tries to venture out on this repulsive structure, the larva expels an odiferous chemical. Such complex defensive method is perhaps the reason this species earns its scientific epitaph "odius".
Only one sighting of this species. Regrettably, this individual is worn missing the beautiful violet frosting and parts of its leaf-mimicking wings.
Family Nymphalidae; sub-family Nymphalinae (related to Admirals and Crescents, not Leafwings -Charaxinae- with only two species in the genus Historis)
カラスが次々と桜の木の上を飛び越え近くの池へ向かってゆきます。
彼らはそこで行水をしているようです。
代々木公園のカラスの多さは異常です。
カラスの多さが生態系に影響してヒヨドリを駆逐しているのでしょうか？
Crows jump over the cherry trees one after another and head towards the nearby pond.
They seem to be bathing there.
The number of crows in Yoyogi Park is unusual.
I wondered if the abundance of crows affected the ecosystem and expelled bulbuls.
🇫🇷 Atatürk ayant expulsé les chrétiens grecs orthodoxes vers la Grèce en 1923, ces abris ont été abandonnés, oubliés par les habitants musulmans sunnites de la région qui ne connaissaient pas leur entrée
Re-découverte en 1963,ouverte aux visiteurs en 1969, mais 10 % seulement de la cité sontaccessibles. Les huit étages dégagés à ce jour atteignent une profondeur d'environ 85 mètres.
🇬🇧 When Atatürk expelled the Greek Orthodox Christians to Greece in 1923, these shelters were abandoned, forgotten by the Sunni Muslim inhabitants of the region, who were unaware of their entrance.
Re-discovered in 1963 and opened to visitors in 1969, only 10% of the city is accessible. The eight storeys excavated to date reach a depth of around 85 metres.
🇩🇪 Da Atatürk 1923 die griechisch-orthodoxen Christen nach Griechenland vertrieb, wurden diese Unterkünfte verlassen und von den sunnitisch-muslimischen Einwohnern der Region vergessen, die ihren Eingang nicht kannten.
Die Siedlung wurde 1963 wiederentdeckt und 1969 für Besucher geöffnet, aber nur 10 % der Siedlung sind zugänglich. Die bislang freigelegten acht Stockwerke reichen bis in eine Tiefe von etwa 85 Metern.
🇪🇸 Da Atatürk 1923 die griechisch-orthodoxen Christen nach Griechenland vertrieb, wurden diese Unterkünfte verlassen und von den sunnitisch-muslimischen Einwohnern der Region vergessen, die ihren Eingang nicht kannten.
Die Siedlung wurde 1963 wiederentdeckt und 1969 für Besucher geöffnet, aber nur 10 % der Siedlung sind zugänglich. Die bislang freigelegten acht Stockwerke reichen bis in eine Tiefe von etwa 85 Metern.
🇮🇹 Quando Atatürk espulse i cristiani greco-ortodossi in Grecia nel 1923, questi rifugi furono abbandonati, dimenticati dagli abitanti musulmani sunniti della regione, che ignoravano il loro ingresso.
Riscoperto nel 1963 e aperto ai visitatori nel 1969, solo il 10% della città è accessibile. Gli otto piani scavati finora raggiungono una profondità di circa 85 metri.
In the crushing mist and grey light this beacon of a tree appeared, next to a rickety fence standing in scrub and bracken.
It's easy to get lost in a subject when the contrast is so great. Drawn in to find a view that represents the glorious explosion of colour amidst the dark oppressive conifers.
Oaker Coppice, Bircher Common, Herefordshire UK.
Female Bald Eagle calling for her mate. Her powerful warm breath expelling into the cool crisp morning air of the San Gabriel Mountains.
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This is war! The most adorable war ever. Take down your friends and family with the Moon Rabbit Chubby Panzer Ridable. What is the ammo you ask? Well of course it is pizza, donuts, hearts, peaches and eggplants. You can ride these tanks anywhere you want because you add it to yourself. No rezzing needed. Even comes with crosshairs that light up when your target is exactly in your sights. Plus, colorful particle exhaust expels from the thrusters when in motion. Should you win a rare, you not only get to select your “ammo”. You also have an on/off option for driving music. 😄
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....Or the Eye of Space ... ou l’œil de l'Espace...
The star U Antliae is located in the Pneumatic Machine, a constellation named by the French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille. Scientists noticed as early as 1980 that the star's brightness changed over time.
U Antliae entered the last phase of a star’s life cycle and became a red giant. At this stage, the stars grow and expel matter from their outer layers. This is what explains the unusual appearance of the star which recalls a human eye.
>>> Basic photography: wedding dress exhibited at the Musée des Confluences in LYON FRANCE
L’étoile U Antliae est située dans la Machine pneumatique, constellation nommée ainsi par l’astronome français Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille. Les scientifiques ont remarqué dès 1980 que l’éclat de l’étoile changeait avec le temps.
U Antliae est entrée dans la dernière phase du cycle de vie d’une étoile et est devenue une géante rouge. À cette étape, les étoiles grossissent et expulsent de la matière de leurs couches extérieures. C’est ce qui explique l’apparence inhabituelle de l’étoile qui rappelle un œil humain.
>>> Photographie de base : robe de mariée exposée au musée des Confluences à LYON FRANCE
Legend has it that at the inception of the Vietnam era, the Vietnamese people faced a fierce invasion from another country in the north via the sea. In response, the people prayed for a miracle. In response, Emperor Jade dispatched a mother dragon and her offspring to assist the people in repelling the invaders. As the ships advanced into Vietnam's ocean, the dragons spat fire at them. Concurrently, they expelled jewels and jade, which transformed into islands and islets in the emerald waters, linking together to form a substantial barrier preventing external incursions. Following the defeat of the invaders, the dragon fell in love with the peaceful seascape and decided to make their home in the bay. Thus, the site where the mother dragon descended is now known as Halong Bay. The name 'Halong' is derived from the idea that the dragon descended into the bay.
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During the time period of 711-1492 the Iberian Peninsula was occupied by Muslim rulers after the Umayyad Caliphate destroyed the Visigoth Kingdom. Only a few christian hold outs remained in the north and slowly took back occupied lands. Over time the power struggle of the Muslim Moors, Berbers and Arabs in the Iberian peninsula helped the Spanish take back more parts of the Iberian peninsula.
The final stage in the long struggle to take back the Iberian Peninsula was the Granada War. In 1469 The King of Aragon Ferdinand II and the Queen of Castile Isabella I married setting the foundation for modern Spain. In 1482 they sought to finally end the reconquista by taking over the last Muslim Kingdom of Granada. After 10 years of war the Reconquista was over. The Muslim king of Granada surrendered to Ferdinand and Isabella.
The final war of the Reconquista was a symbol of triumph for Christianity as they had lost Constantinople in 1453. People all over Spain celebrated this victory except for the Muslims who were to be expelled, beginning the Spanish Inquisition.
So since there's this new pre-1900 bandwagon going on. Might as well give it a shot :) .
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In 1054, Chinese astronomers took notice of a “guest star” that was, for nearly a month, visible in the daytime sky. The “guest star” they observed was actually a supernova explosion, which gave rise to the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide remnant of the violent event.
With an apparent magnitude of 8.4 and located 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus, the Crab Nebula can be spotted with a small telescope and is best observed in January. The nebula was discovered by English astronomer John Bevis in 1731, and later observed by Charles Messier who mistook it for Halley’s Comet. Messier’s observation of the nebula inspired him to create a catalog of celestial objects that might be mistaken for comets.
The colors in this image do not match exactly what we would see with our eyes but yield insight into the composition of this spectacular stellar corpse. The reddish filaments are the tattered remains of the star and consist mostly of hydrogen. The blue in the filaments in the outer part of the nebula represents neutral oxygen. These (and other) elements were expelled during the supernova explosion.
A rapidly spinning neutron star (the ultra-dense core of the exploded star) is embedded in the center of the Crab Nebula. The neutron star, like a lighthouse, ejects twin beams of radiation that make it appear to pulse 30 times per second as it rotates. Text from NASA\Goddard
Taken from Santa Rosa CA, December 2018
Mount: Paramount MYT
Scope: TEC 140 refractor Camera: QSI683
L:R:G:B:Ha:O3 3h: 1.5h: 1.5h: 1.5h: 4.5h: 4.5h
Reprocessed June 2024
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
The Rankine Generating Station is a former hydro-electric generating station along the Canadian side of the Niagara River in Niagara Falls, Ontario, slightly downstream from the older Toronto Power Generating Station. It was built for the Canadian Niagara Power Company and named for company's founder William Birch Rankine (b. 1858), a New York City (and later of Niagara Falls) lawyer originally from Geneva, New York who died three days after (in Grafton, New Hampshire) the station opened in 1905 and renamed in 1927. Acquired by Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation in 1950 and in 2002, the station became a wholly owned subsidiary of FortisOntario (and part of Canadian owned Fortis Inc.). It was decommissioned in 2006.
It reopened in July 2021 as a tourist site.
The facility, also known as The Canadian Niagara Power Generating Station, contained eleven vertical axle, 25 Hertz generators rated at 8320 kVA each for a total generating capacity of 100 MVA. When opening in 1905, the plant was equipped with only five turbines and generators. The generators were based on a design by Nikola Tesla. Peak capacity was achieved in 1924 when additional 25-cycle generator units were installed. The mechanism consisted of "11 vertical steel shafts, each running from a turbine in the deep pit to a generator 130 feet above". Power was transmitted to a transformer station in another Niagara Falls, Ontario location via underground cables.
A September 2019 report provided these additional specifics:
Housing 11 vertical penstocks, water from the Niagara River would enter through the forebay and drop 180 ft (54.8 metres) before being expelled into a 2,000 ft (609.6 metres) tunnel that emptied into the lower Niagara River, right at the base of the Horseshoe Falls.
The station was licensed to generate a maximum of 76.4MW of 25 Hz AC current using its eleven generators. By the 1950s, most other Ontario power plants were producing 60 Hz power but this station was allowed to continue at 25 Hz since there was adequate demand.
Most people associate Katmai with its famous grizzles. They are the star of the show, after all. However, there is an entirely different aspect to the National Park that very few people get out to explore.
In the summer of 1912, this park lay witness to one of the largest volcanic explosions of the century: the Novarupta explosion. It created an umbrella cloud 1000 miles wide, and expelled thirty times as much ash as Mt St Helens, lowering earth's temperature by more than a degree. The ash flow piled 700ft deep into the glaciated valley which now resembles a moonscape. This is the Valley of the 10000 smokes, so named for the innumerable fumeroles and vents that were observed in the aftermath of the explosion.
This valley is like no other: a vast ash-strewn landscape with nary a sign of vegetation stretching for miles into the horizon. The distant glacier-covered volcanoes are a reminder of the active nature of this region. In the late afternoon light, I snatched a few telephoto images of this mountainscape to capture the interplay of shadow and light.
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Ruth Glacier, Summit Flight, Denali, Alaska.
The lower reaches of Ruth Glacier are covered with soil and vegetation. Here, the outflow of the glacier is vigorously expelled at the surface and is heavily loaded with glacial powder generated by the grinding action of this huge glacier.
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Excerpt from the plaque:
Ota Residence and Ruins of Tomo Shichikyo-ochi
Important Cultural Property
Designated on May 31, 1991
In 1863, seven court nobles who claimed Son-no-jyoi (to revere the emperor and to expel foreigners) were driven away from the capital. The group stopped off here at the Ota Residence. At this time, Sanjo Sanetomi composed a waka (poem having 3 syllables) to praise Homei-shu (sake), which is expressed as “Take-no-ha” (bamboo leaf) in his poem. The Ota Residence’s main building and the Chosotei, the annex across the street, are designated National Important Cultural Properties.
Excerpt from www.fukuyama-kanko.com/inbound/common/pdf/tomonoura_Engli...:
This cluster of building structures, which once prospered as Homeishu breweries, consists of nine buildings, including the main house and serves as the center of the Tomo townscape.