Walter Gilbert
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Nathan Hale taught in this one-room school house in 1773/74. He was executed by the British for being a spy during the Revolutionary War. Before being hanged, he said the words I put in this photo's title. He was just 21 at the time of his death. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Hale
I captured this double-crested cormorant during its takeoff roll. It takes a lot of energy for a bird to get into the air from the water and it shows! This bird is leaving a trail of splashes in the water behind as it gathers speed.
Taken 24 March 2016 at Conowingo Dam, Maryland.
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my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and
taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and
chipping with sharp fatal tools
in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of
chrome and execute strides of cobalt
nevertheless i
feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am
becoming something a little different, in fact
myself
hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet
bellowings
| e. e. cummings
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Baboom-Ariana-Pant
Landmark
SYNNERGY.TAVIS// Strange Domain Backdrop
Something Strange Collection - Strange Domain [360] Backdrop
Marketplace
[Chris Two Designs] Basketball - Fatpack
Basketball is an interactive game to play with your friends. Launching at the N21 Event
I was out photographing the sunrise around the pier. An hour after sunrise a lot of people began to arrive at the beach. Luckily I stayed to capture this photo.
See the two frames prior to this below to see how she executed this move.
Cocoa Beach Pro-Am Surfing Contest
Women's Pro Short Board Semi-Final Heat
Jan Hus was a Czech church reformer executed in 1415. His teachings had a profound influence on the history of the Czech nation.
Jan Hus’s contribution to the development of the Czech literary language was the introduction of diacritical marks, such as: č, š, ř, ž, á, í, é. The purpose of this innovation was representing each sound by only one symbol and eleminating digraphs (sounds represented by two letters).
The inscription on the monument reads “Milujte se, pravdy každému přejte”, which means more or less: “Love one another, wish the truth to everyone”. This is a shortened version of a quote from one of Hus’s letters from prison. The day of his execution, July 6th, is a public holiday in Czechia (Jan Hus Day).
Le vitrail de la coupole se trouve au-dessus de la salle des trophées du Hockey Hall of Fame, au 30 Yonge St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Ce Temple de la Renommée du Hockey est un musée fondé en 1943 qui présente un large éventail de souvenirs liés au hockey dont des équipements, des jeux interactifs et la coupe Stanley.
Richement ornée de figures mythologiques et d'emblèmes des provinces, cette coupole fut exécutée en 1885 par Robert McCausland, fils de Joseph McCausland, le fondateur de l'entreprise. Cette magnifique coupole est un exemple remarquable de l'abondante production de vitraux créés partout au Canada par la famille McCausland et ses employés. Établie depuis 1856 sous différentes raisons sociales, l'entreprise torontoise Robert McCausland Limited compte parmi celles qui furent le plus longtemps en activité en Amérique du Nord. On lui attribue aussi les plus anciennes et les plus nombreuses réalisations de vitraux canadiens. (tiré de www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_fra.aspx?id=1739&i=73741)
Executing a tight turn while calling loudly. A bird on passage at Lodmoor RSPB, Weymouth and one of my favourite waders!
September's full moon / harvest moon rising over the Empire State Building in Manhattan
The last photo I posted was of this year's Harvest full moon aligning with Edge NYC. I mentioned in the comment that I took that photo via timer while I was down the trail taking the alignment with the Empire State Building. Well... here's the shot I took live. Very cool to execute both moon alignments at the same time!
Executing my best Matrix move, here is a simultaneous view of the previous post, 90 degrees to the right, as the Sora moves through a cauldron of duckweed on Horsepen Bayou.
Great egret executing a graceful landing.
Thank you so much for the visit!
Saturday, April 21, 2018 6:21 PM
1/2000 sec. f/5.6 400mm ISO200
During the French Revolution the new revolutionary government erected the guillotine in the square, and it was here that King Louis XVI was executed on 21 January 1793. In 1795, under the Directory, the square was renamed from Place Louis XV to Place de la Concorde as a gesture of reconciliation after the turmoil of the French Revolution. After the Bourbon Restoration of 1814, the name was changed back to Place Louis XV, and in 1826 the square was renamed Place Louis XVI. After the July Revolution of 1830 the name was returned to Place de la Concorde and has remained since.
A snowboarder executed a nice jump but then crashed into the deep snow. The hill in the foreground blocks the view of the man's torso, giving the illusion that he is buried under the deep snow.
The official snowfall for the weekend was 54 inches!
La Seu Vella o catedral antiga és un monument arquitectònic de la ciutat de Lleida. S'alça sobre un turó que porta el seu nom, des del qual s'albira tota la ciutat, el riu Segre i gran part de l'horta de Lleida. La Seu Vella forma part d'un conjunt monumental integrat també pel Castell del Rei o La Suda i la fortificació militar que els envolta. Tots tres elements estan catalogats com Bé Cultural d'Interès Nacional.[1][2][3] El conjunt monumental ha estat triat dos cops Monument Favorit de Catalunya.[4]
La catedral s'ubica al centre històric de la població, i es considera una obra romànica, per bé que presenta elements propis de l'arquitectura gòtica i alguns afegits renaixentistes. Destaca especialment el treball escultòric de les portes de l'Anunciata, del Portal Major i de la Porta dels Fillols, considerades per part de la historiografia com una mostra paradigmàtica de l'anomenada Escola de Lleida.[5] Encarregada a Pere de Coma el 1193,[6] la primera pedra del temple fou posada el 22 de juliol de 1203,[6] i es consagrà el 1278,[7] per bé que l'obra no es va donar per acabada fins a la construcció del cimbori i el cobriment de les naus, el 1286.[8] El conjunt també està dotat d'un claustre, situat atípicament als peus del temple, que es va començar a bastir al darrer terç del segle xiii i no es va acabar fins al segle següent.[9] Fou llavors que es finalitzà el conjunt, amb la construcció del campanar i la porta dels Apòstols.
La Seu Vella sovint s'ha definit com una catedral romànica de monumentalitat gòtica[10] arran de la persistència de les formes de l'art romànic fins al segle xiii, tot i que, davant les dificultats de categorització del conjunt, darrerament s'opta per definir-lo com un dels exemples més representatius d'una arquitectura catalana del segle xiii.[11]
El Turó de la Seu Vella i els seus elements patrimonials els gestiona un consorci entre la Generalitat de Catalunya i la Paeria de Lleida.
Història
Primera catedral cristiana
Porta plateresca de l'antiga capella Santa Maria l'Antiga des del claustre realitzada per Jeroni Xanxo.
Lleida era seu episcopal abans de la invasió sarraïna de l'any 719. Hi ha documents de l'any 419 que mencionen Sagiti com a primer bisbe conegut.[12] Al mateix lloc on hi ha l'actual Seu Vella hi havia la catedral paleocristiana i visigòtica, i que va correspondre a la mesquita major en temps de l'ocupació per l'Emirat de Larida. Els comtes Ramon Berenguer IV de Barcelona i Ermengol VI d'Urgell van conquerir la ciutat de Larida als sarraïns l'any 1149, i va ser el bisbe Guillem Pere de Ravidats, traslladat de la diòcesi de Roda d'Isàvena, qui consagrà la mesquita com a catedral cristiana sota l'advocació de Santa Maria l'Antiga, la canònica quedava regida per la regla de Sant Agustí.[13]
El bisbe Gombau de Camporrells, després de nombroses compres de terrenys i cases a la ratlla del temple, va ser qui decidí d'emprendre l'obra d'una nova catedral, a causa del gran augment de població.[13]
History
The site was previously occupied by a Palaeo-Christian and Visigothic cathedral, which later, after the Islamic conquest of Spain, was rebuilt in 832 to be used as a mosque. In 1149, after the city's conquest by the Christian Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona and Ermengol VI of Urgell (1149), the structure was reconsecrated as "Santa Maria Antiqua", and entrusted to canons regular.
In 1193, however, the cathedral chapter ordered the construction of a new edifice, following the contemporary Romanesque architectural canons, to master Pere de Coma. The first stone was laid in 1203 by King Peter II of Aragon and count Ermengol VII of Urgell. Construction continued throughout the reign of James I of Aragon. It was consecrated to the Virgin Mary on 31 October 1278. The cloisters not were completed until the 14th century. The bell tower was begun in 14th century and finished in 1431.[2] The portal Porta dels Apòstols begun in the 14th and completed in 15th century.[3]
In 1707, the city was conquered by the troops of Philip V: the king ordered the destruction of the cathedral because it has taken a prominent part in the city's defense. Nevertheless, the order was never executed, and the cathedral was converted into barracks. The building was declared a national monument in 1918, and restoration works were started in 1950.
Palpatine has executed the Order Red to prepare his Last Order army !
However, I think the First Order is gonna lack of red paint...
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The gallows was erected in 1597 instead of a wooden gallows. The number of people executed is unclear, but there are some indications that relatively few people died there, which is also due to the relatively liberal jurisprudence of the Count House of Erbach. Only one execution in 1746 is documented in the church records, which is considered certain. Johann Adam Beisel from Unter-Sensbach was hanged for theft and adultery. [2] According to the inscription on a memorial stone next to the gallows, the "last execution in 1804, a gypsy woman for stealing a chicken and two loaves of bread" should have taken placeThree red sandstone columns about five meters high were set up so that they form the corners of an equilateral triangle. They carry three crossbars arranged in a triangle, which is why the place of execution is also known as the so-called "three-sleeper gallows". The gallows served the high court of the Oberzent under the rule of the Counts of Erbach; In 1806 they were deprived of their jurisdiction by Napoleonic law, which also ended the right to impose the death penalty. The gallows was erected in 1597 instead of a wooden gallows. The number of people executed is unclear, but there are some indications that relatively few people died there, which is also due to the relatively liberal jurisprudence of the Count House of Erbach. Only one execution in 1746 is documented in the church records, which is considered certain. Johann Adam Beisel from Unter-Sensbach was hanged for theft and adultery. [2] According to the inscription on a memorial stone next to the gallows, the "last execution in 1804, a gypsy woman for stealing a chicken and two loaves of bread" should have taken place
American wigeon are such fun birds to photograph ... they're quite beautiful and generally pretty active as they dabble for food, which is generally lots of plant matter. They possess a short bill which allows them to efficiently pluck the vegetation in search of the good stuff, while also allowing them to discard easily what they don't want. This female mama wigeon was taking a break from her babies and thus had a great flappy going on as it arose from the water surface with a strong and purposeful flap and stretch forward of its wings, followed by a back flap ... forward and backward flaps repeated for quite some time before she settled back into position. I just love seeing those feathers like that. After some time her young joined her in the lake. Such is the life. :-)
Hope that you enjoy.
© Debbie Tubridy Photography
Cette imposante fontaine se dresse sur la Rådhuspladsen de København (Copenhague), la capitale du Danemark.
Cette grande place de l’hôtel de ville est le point km 0 du Danemark et de la ville. Il s’agit d’un autre rond-point important où convergent bus et grandes artères.
Sur cette place se trouvent un grand nombre de statues et d’éléments décoratifs dont la Dragespringvand (fontaine des Dragons), exécutée en 1923 par des artistes danois, Skovgaard et Bindesboll. La fontaine représente un taureau terrassant une étrange créature marine. Sur le pourtour, on aperçoit plusieurs petits dragons.
La place est aussi encadrée de très beaux bâtiments dont évidemment le Rådhuset (Hôtel de Ville) édifié en brique de 1892 à 1905 dans le goût du "Romantisme national", le Palace Hotel de style Art nouveau (1907) et des édifices commerciaux dont celui dont l’originalité consiste en une tour-baromètre surmontée des "Golden girls", une jeune fille à vélo annonçant le beau temps et une jeune fille au parapluie annonçant le mauvais temps.
Nid wrth ei big mae prynu cyffylog▪️Things are not always what they seem
▪️ Blackpool, Swydd Caerhirfryn/ Lancashire
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27/Xi/2025 --- "Israeli soldiers have shot and killed two Palestinian men during a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin as the pair attempted to surrender to the military, according to video footage and witness accounts from the scene.
▪️Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh said journalists in Jenin reported on Thursday that the two men had “pulled their shirts up, showing that they were unarmed” before the military ordered them to go back into a building that they had been holed up in. 'And then they were shot dead. They were executed,' Odeh said, reporting from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank."
Wonderfully executed by her mother.
This picture was taken at Hampton Court Palace in England, while she was exploring all possible angles.
(2025)
Having executed a perfect 'rolling meet' at Bealville the Mojave Sub Dispatcher has kept an eastbound BNSF Z moving up the mountain, while Union Pacific's ZLCLT and its colorful headend consist continues on its quest for Northern California.
UP 1988 ~ ZLCLT ~ Bealville (Allard), California
Union Pacific's Mojave Subdivision
05.12.2015
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
This is one photograph on which I would be happy to stake my reputation as a photographer. As far as I'm aware, it is the only photograph of this historic building taken from directly in front as you see here. The reason why all the other photographs are taken from an angle is that the distance across the street is usually too short to give a complete view of the frontage. And an extremely wide angle lens will tend to distort the image too much.
In this case my plan was to photograph it at night, to take advantage of the lighting (limited though that is - especially at the very top of the building). The early Art Deco styling is truly outstanding and typical of its time of construction in 1915. This marks the architectural shift from Art Nouveau to Art Deco and this building is almost unique in Australia in that regard.
My earlier photographs of the historic Palais Theatre and Luna Park in St Kilda (Melbourne) were a model for this shot, although of course they both needed to be in colour.* The grey and white tones of The National Theatre's original paintwork meant that black and white was the obvious choice here.
*[I will do a re-edit on both those photographs tonight and post them tomorrow - as I am not happy with the original postings, given they were processed before I started using Capture One.]
Speaking of processing, there is plenty here, but no AI. Everything you see is on the original RAW file, but obviously certain parts of the photograph needed to be enhanced by using adjustment layers. Another reason for choosing this angle of shot was to incorporate the building with arched windows on the far right under the glow of the street lamp. It will surprise no art buff to see here the influence of the great Italian Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978).
The National Theatre was opened as a live theatre, but in 1934 became the first in Launceston to show "Talkie" films. It remained a successful cinema until 1969. At present it is the home of one of Tasmania's finest printing firms, Foot and Playsted.
The Midland Camera club planned and executed a wonderful trip to the Jordan Valley and Leelanau peninsula in pursuit of Fall colors, landscapes, farms, sand dunes, Lake Michigan. lighthouses, and a vast assortment of interesting subjects to photograph. All the members came home with a nice collection of photographs and much joy in the adventure spent together. Visit our viewing site to see the work of the members.
www.flickr.com/groups/3021281@N20/
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Autumn colour has been prematurely executed this year by Storm Ashley tearing the foliage from the trees. It really has been a short period of colour here in the NW of England, with most of that wonderful autumnal colour now being on the ground, sadly.
It was very much the same story up in the Lakes last week with those remaining leaves being rather dull in colour.
I shot this in Roddlesworth Woods near home when we had a bit low low cloud and mist this week. You can see all the lovely Beech leaves lying on the ground. The mist at least gave the scene a bit of atmosphere!
one of the things that impress a lot in the Louvre, besides the works of art arranged in the halls of the museum are the not so much observed works arranged in the ceilings of each room and halls. It is impressive the amount of details from the smallest to the grandiose works of the sculptors and painters of this monumental palace which by itself is already a huge work of art executed perhaps by extraordinarily skillful craftsmen.
[lith print executed January 27 2021 on very old Agfa Brovira paper using Moersch Easylith A45+B35/2000. Photo taken with Boumsell Longchamp on 127 Agfa Isopan Ultra exp. 1973]
The Treasure hunt is executed in sick now.
Cyber suits that I wear now can be gotten by collecting 10 mystery man's masks.
to 6th Sep.
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En raison des attaques BRUTALES et SANGLANTES exécutés à Paris dans les dernières heures, je décide de supprimer le TITRE, la MUSIQUE, et le TEXT précédent de cette image.
Mon PLUS FORTE et ABSOLUE condamnation de ce nouvel acte de l'HORREUR et de la BARBARIE. Et mon profonde et plus sincère ESTIME et RESPECT pour toutes les victimes, leurs familles et amis, et pour tous le Peuple Français.
Alors que je suis écrivant ces lignes, Paris est encore sous le feu et la méchanceté de ceux qui ne connaissent pas la langue plus que la VIOLENCE et la TERREUR.
Nous sommes tous Paris, nous sommes tous La France.
Debido a los BRUTALES y SANGRIENTOS atentados llevados a cabo en París en las últimas horas, he decidido eliminar el TITULO, la MÚSICA y el TEXTO anterior de esta imagen.
Mi más ENÉRGICA y ABSOLUTA condena ante esta nueva muestra de HORROR y BARBARIE. Y mi más profundo y sincero RESPECTO para todas las víctimas, sus familias y amigos, y para todo el Pueblo Francés.
Mientras escribo estas líneas, París sigue bajo el fuego y la maldad de aquellos que no conocen más lenguaje que la VIOLENCIA y el TERROR.
Todos somos París, todos somos Francia.
Due to the BRUTAL and BLOODY attacks carried out in Paris in the last few hours, I decided to delete the TITLE, MUSIC and previous TEXT of this image.
My most STRONGEST and ABSOLUTE condemnation of this new act of HORROR and BARBARISM. And my deepest and most sincere RESPECT to the victims, their families and friends, and for all the French People.
As I write these lines, Paris is yet under the fire and the wickedness of those who do not know more language than the VIOLENCE and TERROR.
We are all Paris, we are all France.
Des peintures ont été exécutées sur le mur entourant le chœur entre les années 1316 et 1324. Elles ont été badigeonnées à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Elles représentaient la lapidation et ensevelissement de saint Étienne, le baptême du préfet Dioscorus par saint Genoulph, l'Adoration des Mages, le Couronnement de la Vierge, la consécration de l'autel de la Vierge de Rocamadour par saint Martial et le martyre de sainte Valérie. Elles ont été redécouvertes en 1872 par le peintre et sculpteur de Cahors, Cyprien Calmon. Il en a commencé la restauration en 1873. Si cette restauration reste modérée sur le panneau du couronnement de la Vierge, les panneaux représentant la lapidation de saint Étienne sur le piédroit de l'arc-doubleau du côté nord et l'Adoration des Mages sont entièrement repeints. Les autres panneaux sont des compositions de Cyprien Calmon (1837-1901) qui les a signés.
The Global Super Tanker returned to Pinal Air Park today from Sacramento, CA where it had been fighting the wildfires.. She made 3 low passes prior to landing and executed a water drop on the third low pass.
Marana, AZ.
12-8-18.
Photo by: Ned Harris
Thanks to Paul Larson for the heads up.
Kilmainham Gaol (Irish: Príosún Chill Mhaighneann) is a former prison in Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland. It is now a museum run by the Office of Public Works, an agency of the Government of Ireland. Many Irish revolutionaries, including the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising, were imprisoned and executed in the prison by the orders of the UK Government.When it was first built in 1796, Kilmainham Gaol was called the "New Gaol" to distinguish it from the old prison it was intended to replace – a noisome dungeon, just a few hundred metres from the present site. It was officially called the County of Dublin Gaol, and was originally run by the Grand Jury for County Dublin.
Originally, public hangings took place at the front of the prison. However, from the 1820s onward very few hangings, public or private, took place at Kilmainham. A small hanging cell was built in the prison in 1891. It is located on the first floor, between the west wing and the east wing.
There was no segregation of prisoners; men, women and children were incarcerated up to 5 in each cell, with only a single candle for light and heat. Most of their time was spent in the cold and the dark, and each candle had to last for two weeks. Its cells were roughly 28 square metres in area.
Children were sometimes arrested for petty theft, the youngest said to be a seven-year-old child, while many of the adult prisoners were transported to Australia.
At Kilmainham, the poor conditions in which women prisoners were kept provided the spur for the next stage of development. As early as 1809, in his report, the Inspector had observed that male prisoners were supplied with iron bedsteads while females "lay on straw on the flags in the cells and common halls". Half a century later there was little improvement. The women's section, located in the west wing, remained overcrowded. In an attempt to relieve the overcrowding, 30 female cells were added to the Gaol in 1840. These improvements had not been made long before the Great Famine occurred, and Kilmainham was overwhelmed with the increase of prisoners.
Kilmainham Gaol was decommissioned as a prison by the Irish Free State government in 1924. Seen principally as a site of oppression and suffering, there was at this time no declared interest in its preservation as a monument to the struggle for national independence. The jail's potential function as a location of national memory was also undercut and complicated by the fact that the first four Republican prisoners executed by the Free State government during the Irish Civil War were shot in the prison yard.
The Irish Prison Board contemplated reopening it as a prison during the 1920s but all such plans were finally abandoned in 1929. In 1936 the government considered the demolition of the prison but the price of this undertaking was seen as prohibitive. Republican interest in the site began to develop from the late 1930s, most notably with the proposal by the National Graves Association, a Republican organisation, to preserve the site as both a museum and memorial to the 1916 Easter Rising. This proposal received no objections from the Commissioners of Public Works, who costed it at £600, and negotiations were entered into with the Department of Education about the possibility of relocating artefacts relating to the 1916 Rising housed in the National Museum to a new museum at the Kilmainham Gaol site. The Department of Education rejected this proposal seeing the site as unsuitable for this purpose and suggested instead that paintings of nationalist leaders could be installed in appropriate prison cells. However, with the advent of the Emergency the proposal was shelved for the duration of the war.
An architectural survey commissioned by the Office of Public Works after World War II revealed that the prison was in a ruinous condition. With the Department of Education still intransigent to the site's conversion to a nationalist museum and with no other apparent function for the building, the Commissioners of Public Works proposed only the prison yard and those cell blocks deemed to be of national importance should be preserved and that the rest of the site should be demolished. This proposal was not acted upon.
In 1953 the Department of the Taoiseach, as part of a scheme to generate employment, re-considered the proposal of the National Graves Association to restore the prison and establish a museum at the site. However, no advance was made and the material condition of the prison continued to deteriorate.
From the late 1950s, a grassroots movement for the preservation of Kilmainham Gaol began to develop. Provoked by reports that the Office of Public Works was accepting tenders for the demolition of the building, Lorcan C.G. Leonard, a young engineer from the north side of Dublin, along with a small number of like-minded nationalists, formed the Kilmainham Gaol Restoration Society in 1958. In order to offset any potential division among its members, the society agreed that they should not address any of the events connected with the Civil War period in relation to the restoration project. Instead, a narrative of the unified national struggle was to be articulated. A scheme was then devised that the prison should be restored and a museum built using voluntary labour and donated materials.
With momentum for the project growing, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions informed the society that they would not oppose their plan and the Building Trades Council gave it their support. It is also likely that Dublin Corporation, which had shown an interest in the preservation of the prison, supported the proposal. At this time the Irish government was coming under increasing pressure from the National Graves Association and the Old IRA Literary and Debating Society to take action to preserve the site. Thus, when the society submitted their plan in late 1958 the government looked favourably on a proposal that would achieve this goal without occasioning any significant financial commitment from the state.
In February 1960 the society's detailed plan for the restoration project, which notably also envisioned the site's development as a tourist attraction, received the approval of the notoriously parsimonious Department of Finance. The formal handing over of prison keys to a board of trustees, composed of five members nominated by the society and two by the government, occurred in May 1960. The trustees were charged a nominal rent of one penny rent per annum to extend for a period of five years at which point it was envisaged that the restored prison would be permanently transferred to the trustees' custodial care.
Commencing with a workforce of sixty volunteers in May 1960, the society set about clearing the overgrown vegetation, trees, fallen masonry and bird droppings from the site. By 1962 the symbolically important prison yard where the leaders of the 1916 Rising were executed had been cleared of rubble and weeds and the restoration of the Victorian section of the prison was nearing completion. It opened to the public on 10 April 1966. The final restoration of the site was completed in 1971 when Kilmainham Gaol chapel was re-opened to the public having been reroofed and re-floored and with its altar reconstructed. The Magill family acted as residential caretakers, in particular, Joe Magill who worked on the restoration of the gaol from the start until the Gaol was handed over to the Office of Public works.
It now houses a museum on the history of Irish nationalism and offers guided tours of the building. An art gallery on the top floor exhibits paintings, sculptures and jewellery of prisoners incarcerated in prisons all over contemporary Ireland.
Kilmainham Gaol is one of the biggest unoccupied prisons in Europe. Now empty of prisoners, it is filled with history.
In 2013, Kilmainham courthouse located beside the prison, which had remained in operation as a seat of the Dublin District court until 2008 was handed over to the OPW for refurbishment as part of a broader redevelopment of the Gaol and the surrounding Kilmainham Plaza in advance of the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Rising. The courthouse opened in 2015 as the attached visitor's centre for the Gaol.
Ibises are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, that inhabit wetlands, forests and plains. Ibises usually feed as a group, probing mud for food items, usually crustaceans. It is widespread across much of Australia. It has a predominantly white plumage with a bare, black head, long down curved bill and black legs. They are monogamous and highly territorial while nesting and feeding. Most nest in trees, often with spoonbills or herons. Due to its increasing presence in the urban environment and its habit of rummaging in garbage, the species has acquired a variety of colloquial names such as tip turkey; and bin chicken, and in recent years has become an icon of popular culture, being regarded with passion, wit, and, in equal measure, affection and disgust. 41601
Colonnade Arch glows from within (Gary Clendening conceived and executed the lighting) under the colder glow of the Milky Way.
The lights of Moab create the glow on the horizon. Colonnade Arch is near Keg Knoll and on the western rim of the Green River Canyon. The Andromeda Galaxy is very close to third, smallest window.
Colonnade Arch, also known as Five Hole Arch, is described by geologists as a buttressed alcove, and has three windows looking to the south and two windows looking up--it is a fascinating structure with just one approach. It sits on the edge of a precipitous drop into Two Mile Canyon to the south and a view of the Green River to the southeast.
Gary Clendening and I checked the route during the day, recording GPS waypoints, and then walked returned on a moonless night at 2 AM, walking across slickrock for more than a mile. Quite an adventure.
A crop duster hard at work, shown here executing a steep, banking turn in preparation for his next pass over the field.
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Little story:
I saw the funko of this guy in a target, and honestly he just looked so cool. I don't think he's going to be in any The Last Jedi sets, so I made him myself.
First Order Executioner-
The base is a regular first Order storm trooper with tons of additions.
The legs have a bunch of additional details. Arms are sculpted and have etape cause I wasn't painting a straight line.
The helmet is modded a bit, and yeah that's pretty much it.
The staff is made of a rod and chain parts.
And that's it!
Thanks!
-Boss
Besseggen is Norway’s most frequently executed mountain hike with over 30,000 visitors completing the hike annually.
Most hikers prefer to take the boat from Gjendesheim to Memurubu, and then do the return trip on foot. The hike normally takes 5 to 7 hours. There is a rather steep incline on the way up from Memurubu during the first hour, before the terrain gradually levels off and you descend towards the «strip» between the lakes of Bessvatn (1374 masl) and Gjende (984 masl).
Many visitors choose to take a little rest here and enjoy the view of the dark blue Bessvatn Lake and the emerald green Lake Gjende before proceeding along the actual ridge. There is a roughly 400 metre drop straight down to Lake Gjende in this area.
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Bagan formerly Pagan is an ancient city from the 9th to 13th centuries,. The city was the capital of Myanmar. Bagan is one of Myanmar’s main attractions. It was the capital of Bagan empire, where Theravada Buddhism was the main religion. The area also known as the Bagan Archaeological Zone, occupies an impressive 26-sq-mile area. Marco Polo described Bagan as one of the finest sights in the world. Despite centuries of neglect, looting, erosion, regular earthquakes, not to mention questionable restoration, this temple-studded plain remains a remarkably impressive and unforgettable vision. Bagan’s kings commissioned more than 4000 Buddhist temples. The Ananda temple we visisted is considered to be one of the most surviving masterpiece of the Mon architecture. This impressive temple has also been titled the Westminster Abbey of Burma. Also known as the finest, largest, best preserved and most revered of the Bagan temples. During the 1975 earthquake, Ananda suffered considerable damage but has been totally restored. It is said to have been built around 1105 by King Kyanzittha.
Located just east of the city walls of Old Bagan, Ananda Pahto was the first of the great temples at Bagan and is one of the most largest and most beautiful. This symmetrical masterpiece was built around 1105 AD by a king inspired by tales of visiting Indian monks. The legend saying that there were 8 monks who arrived one day to the palace begging for alms. They told the king that once, they had lived in the Nandamula Cave temple in the Himalayas. The King was fascinated by the tales and invited the monks to return to his palace. The monks with their meditative powers they showed the king the mythical landscape of the place they have been. King Kyanzittha was overwhelmed by the sight and had a desire for building a temple which would be cool inside in the middle of the Bagan plains. After the construction of the Ananda temple, the king executed the architects just to make the style of the temple so unique. The whole architectural ornamentation is implemented in stucco-carving. Beautiful interior Buddha Statues can be seen in the niches from birth to death depicted in the passage. A Buddhist temple with bright, white cream-colored walls. Photo of a meditating monk holding alm bowl for donation in the corridor of the Ananda temple.
De stad Bagan is één van de vroegere hoofdsteden van Myanmar, en is gesticht in het jaar 849. Het was de hoofdstad van het Bagan-rijk, waar het Theravada-boeddhisme het belangrijkste geloof was. Bagan is één van de absolute top bezienswaardigheden van Myanmar. Een reis naar Myanmar zonder tussenstop in Bagan is gewoonweg ondenkbaar. Bagan wordt niet voor niets vaak op één lijn geplaatst met Angkor. Bagan, dat is 42 km² bezaaid met tempels. Er zijn er meer dan 4400 in totaal. Dat is waanzinnig veel. Ondanks dat deze rijkdom al lang is verdwenen worden er tegenwoordig nog steeds nieuwe tempels bijgebouwd. In 1975 zijn er echter veel tempels afgebroken bij een grote aardbeving in Myanmar en vandaag de dag zijn nog steeds niet alle gebouwen hersteld. Tijdens ons bezoek aan Bagan huurden we fietsen. We fietsen langs alle bijzondere boeddhistische tempels in Bagan. De Ananda tempel is een prachtige tempel die wel eens de Westminster Abbey van Myanmar wordt genoemd. Behalve omwille van zijn sublieme architectuur, is de tempel ook gekend omwille van de 4 gigantische gouden staande boeddhabeelden, eentje voor elke windrichting. Hier moet je vooral komen bij volle maan tussen half december en half januari. Want dan wordt er een driedaags religieus festival gehouden waar duizenden boeddhistische pelgrims op afkomen. De grote boeddhistische tempel heeft heldere, crèmekleurige muren. De muren zijn versierd met gevels, kroonlijsten, halfzuilen en raamlijsten. Tijdens de aardbeving van 1975, leed Ananda tempel aanzienlijke schade, maar is volledig hersteld. Foto van een mediterende monnik met een kom voor aalmoezen in de passage van de tempel.
Normally I don't post many images of a bird or an animal without the face or eyes being present, but sometimes I make an exception, like in this case. This kestrel came flying in and prepared for touchdown in its landing, but first ... wings up, tail fanned, feathers spread, and talons out as it navigates the grab. I just love watching them.
Happy Friday everyone!
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Apollo and Daphne is a life-sized marble sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, which was executed between 1622 and 1625. It is regarded as one of the artistic marvels of the Baroque age. The statue is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, along with several other examples of the artist's most important early works. The sculpture depicts the climax of the story of Apollo and Daphne (Phoebus and Daphne), as written in Ovid's Metamorphoses, wherein the nymph Daphne escapes Apollo's advances by transforming into a laurel tree.
Apollo and Daphne was the last of a number of important works commissioned by Cardinal Scipione Borghese from Gian Lorenzo Bernini that helped to define Baroque sculpture. Thereafter, Bernini served a succession of popes. Apollo and Daphne was commissioned after Borghese had given an important work of his patronage, Bernini's The Rape of Proserpina (1621-22), to Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi. Through this generous gesture, Borghese hoped to ingratiate himself to the favored nephew of the new pope, Gregory XV.
Much of the early work on Apollo and Daphne was done in 1622–23, but Bernini's work on his sculpture of David (1623-24) interrupted its completion. Bernini finished Apollo and Daphne in 1625, and it was moved to the Cardinal's Villa Borghese in September of that year. Bernini did not execute the sculpture entirely by his own hand. As was the common practice at that time, he had help from his workshop. Giuliano Finelli, who was a very gifted sculptor, undertook the finer details that show Daphne's conversion from human to tree, such as the twigs and leafs springing from her hands, and her windswept hair. Some art historians, however, discount the importance of Finelli's contribution, since he was merely realizing Bernini's creative vision. Apollo and Daphne's enthusiastic reception began as soon as the work was unveiled.