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It's freezing outside and they forecast more cold to come.
At least I can look at my photos and feel warm with my memories.
By the way.....can you spot the birds in my picture?
Happy New Year, my friends.
Whitmore also commissioned the gardener and landscape designer William Emes to produce a scheme for the grounds. Emes came up with a formal plan but it was never executed. Instead, Whitmore left his wife, Frances Lister, and his own gardener, Walter Wood, to develop the grounds. Wood had previously worked on a Picturesque-style garden for the poet William Shenstone at The Leasowes, near Halesowen, then also part of the county of Shropshire. Carefully controlling the Quatt Brook, a small tributary of the Severn to the south of the hall, he now reshaped its course through the Dingle, a small, wooded valley, which was itself artfully quarried and sculpted. His small cliffs, waterfalls and rustic bridges created a framework for the winding paths and seating areas, laid out by Frances. It is unclear which Dingle came first, but it is likely there were cross-influences with that at Badger, Shropshire, where Emes certainly was involved in the design, and where the squire, Isaac Hawkins Browne was an associate of Whitmore
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If you can create a carefully executed image so that your understanding of the subject comes together with the ephemeral qualities of the moment, it can create something that has more resonance, and can be more enduring, than all those thousands of fleeting impressions :-)
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prunus, weeping fuji cherry, 'Shikizaki', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Angelo k executed a double Barspin Bmx trick on the Agiou Nikolaou dock.
Natural water reflection and original colors. Location :Patras city coast (Agiou Nikolaou dock /Achaia prefecture /West Peloponese /Greece
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Basketball is an interactive game to play with your friends. Launching at the N21 Event
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Tomb from the church of Näshult, which predates the current church (the church is from 1735 - the burial from 1572). And the photo lies a bit - the stone is placed in the floor, not standing up, but I liked the effect from this angle.
The man buried here is Nils Persson from Holma, of the noble Silfversparre family (Silfversparre is a description of the coat of arms which later was used as a family name, so if you look at the stone you can see that coat of arms, but the name Silfversparre isn't actually mentioned). Nils Persson was first mentioned in 1529 and had several important functions in the higher echelons of society - though they are hard to translate to English so I won't try. He died October 19 1572, at six in the afternoon (according to the stone). Nils Persson had acquired a lot of land in his life-time and he seems to have been rather ruthless - and he had actually killed a man in 1551. He had at least three children, including a daughter - who was also accused of murder. She was later executed, but not for that, but for treachery towards the king. You can't help but get the feeling that if you were important enough, back in the day, you really could get away with murder...
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).
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.
Stone bridge, constructed in 1674, at Corbridge, Northumberland.
The (original) bridge at Corbridge was built in 1235. Described in 1306 as the only bridge between Newcastle and Carlisle, it was maintained also as a link between England and Scotland. In 1674 it was replaced by the seven-arched bridge we see today. So well did the builder of this bridge execute his contract that his was the only one on the Tyne to withstand the famous flood of 1771. [Wikipedia]
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The High Altar of St Michael's Church in Vienna
Designed in 1781 by Jean Baptiste Avrange and executed by Carl Melville and others
In the background the monumental stucco alabaster Rococo sculpture "Fall of the Angels". In the foreground, the icon of Maria Candia from 1540, which was integrated into the high altar during the redesign. It is held by two cherubim. The four seated figures are, from left to right, the four evangelists John, Luke, Mark and Matthew, the figures on the outside are the two plague saints St. Sebastian (left) and St. Roch.
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Great egret executing a graceful landing.
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Le 40 Victoria Street était autrefois un magasin de brosses. On y trouvait toute la gamme des brosses, des balais, des nettoyeurs de cornemuses aux brosses à cheminée. La famille aurait d’abord vécu au dernier étage, fabriquant des brosses et des balais dans l’atelier et les vendant dans le magasin du rez-de-chaussée. Le Robert Cresser’s Brush Shop est resté ouvert de 1873 à 2004. C’est la raison pour laquelle la boutique occupe une place particulière dans le cœur des habitants d’Édimbourg. Bien que les films d’Harry Potter n’aient pas été tournés dans cette ville, Édimbourg a longtemps été associée au monde des sorciers. Les immenses façades de Victoria Street nous rappellent l’époque où le « magicien de l’arc ouest » habitait une maison dans les environs avant d’être exécuté en 1670 pour sorcellerie. Si l’on rajoute que J. K. Rowling a écrit le tout premier chapitre d‘Harry Potter dans des cafés de la ville, à quelques centaines de mètres de Victoria Street, on peut penser que nous sommes à l’endroit où tout a commencé. Situé dans cette rue historique qui présente d’étranges similitudes avec Diagon Alley, Museum Context est un aimant pour les Potterheads qui veulent voyager dans le monde des sorciers à Édimbourg. Ce magasin de renommée mondiale a trois niveaux de marchandises magiques. Le bâtiment lui-même est assez petit, de sorte que seuls quelques moldus et sorciers peuvent entrer à la fois. Débordant de produits officiels Harry Potter et d’articles fabriqués par des artisans locaux, l’établissement offre une expérience immersive à ses visiteurs. Les curiosités vont des Hedwigs en peluche et des badges d’épingles Potter, aux grenouilles en chocolat. En remontant deux étages d’escaliers, les étagères, les murs et les plafonds sont remplis de baguettes, d’enseignes, de t-shirts et même de répliques de balais Nimbus. Ajoutant à l’authentique Diagon Alley-esque, le comptoir du magasin avec la caisse enregistreuse nationale séculaire, datant des années 1800. C’est avec regret que l’on quitte cette boutique pour se retrouver heureusement l'instant d'après dans la Diagon Alley …
40 Victoria Street was once a brush shop. It featured the full range of brushes, brooms, bagpipe cleaners to chimney brushes. The family is said to have first lived on the top floor, making brushes and brooms in the workshop and selling them in the shop downstairs. Robert Cresser's Brush Shop remained open from 1873 to 2004. This is why the shop holds a special place in the hearts of Edinburgh locals. Although the Harry Potter films were not filmed in this city, Edinburgh has long been associated with the wizarding world. The towering Victoria Street facades remind us of when the 'Wizard of the West Arc' lived in a house nearby before he was executed in 1670 for witchcraft. If we add that J. K. Rowling wrote the very first chapter of Harry Potter in cafes around the city, a few hundred meters from Victoria Street, we can think that we are at the place where it all began. Located on this historic street that bears eerie similarities to Diagon Alley, Museum Context is a magnet for Potterheads who want to journey into the wizarding world of Edinburgh. This world famous store has three levels of magic goods. The building itself is quite small, so only a few muggles and wizards can enter at a time. Brimming with official Harry Potter merchandise and items made by local artisans, the facility offers an immersive experience for its visitors. Curiosities range from plush Hedwigs and Potter pin badges, to chocolate frogs. As you ascend two flights of stairs, the shelves, walls, and ceilings are filled with wands, signs, t-shirts, and even replica Nimbus broomsticks. Adding to the authentic Diagon Alley-esque is the store counter with the age-old national cash register, dating back to the 1800s. It is with regret that we leave this shop to find ourselves fortunately the next moment in Diagon Alley...
"connection power" ...
Die obere Rundung ist die Empore, die im unteren Foto, im oberen Halbkreis, umgekehrt zu sehen ist, die zarten Strahlenlinien sind das Sheddach ...
Wenn ein guter Architekt seine komplizierten Gebäude baut, reicht es den ausführenden Handwerkern nicht, wenn sie den Grundriss und die Schnitte sehen. Sie brauchen bei Hollein immer auch "Deckenpläne".
Wie ich schon mit Fotos in seinem frankfurter Museum zeigte, tut sich dort auch ganz viel Interessantes ...
The upper curve is the gallery, which can be seen inverted in the upper semicircle in the photo below, the delicate ray lines are the shed roof ...
When a good architect builds his complicated buildings, it is not enough for the executing craftsmen to see the floor plan and the sections. With Hollein, they always need "ceiling plans" as well.
As I already showed with photos in his Frankfurt museum, a lot of interesting things are happening there ...
und noch etwas ... heute ist der Weltüberlastungstag ...
today is the Earth Overshoot Day !!!
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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!
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The lobby, which initially housed the touring bureau, is two stories tall, flanked on each narrow end with large windows rising from balconies at the mezzanine level. Both balconies are decorated with the Chicago Motor Club shield front and center, surrounded by geometric and floral motifs which are also employed on the trim, elevators and grilles. The original lighting fixtures were simple circular designs of frosted glass. Some of the chandeliers were removed in a 1982 renovation and placed in storage, however most of these as well as the original sconces remain in place. Another major alteration to the original design involves the floor, which was likely re-done when after the Chicago Motor Club sold the building in 1986. The original floor is a design of contrasting rectilinear forms most likely executed in terrazzo, while the current floor is a rigid diamond tile pattern.
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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 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.
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The Moret Church series of some dozen oil paintings was executed in 1893/94 by Alfred Sisley. The church building depicted in each of the paintings is the Church of Notre-Dame in Moret-sur-Loing, Seine-et-Marne where Sisley had elected to see out his days until his death in 1899.
The works in the series are now distributed around the world and are on display in France, the United States, Switzerland, Scotland and Hungary
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. :-)
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The end of all law
4 shots fired another body falls
I execute the guilty violently
Undercover killing spree, no warning shot
Die motherfucker, die, die
Die motherfucker, die, die
Die motherfucker, die, die
I'll put a bullet between your fucking eyes
Pull the trigger - cock the hammer back
5th shot to the back of your neck
You're not a threat, you're a fucking disease
Eradicate the enemy
Dead body, another crime scene
Blood-stained pavement, chalk outline
Bullet holes you're dead and cold
The end of all law, no warning shot
Die motherfucker, die, die
Die motherfucker, die, die
Die motherfucker, die, die
Die, I put the gun to the side of your head
Squeezing the trigger
Powder burnt skin, breaking through cranial bone
Decayed brain tissue implodes
Just another life that you thought you could control
Just another pig, dead, with some extra holes
You better think again, before I kill again
You won't survive, when the bullets start to fly
Protect and serve yourself
Dug your own grave, now rot
In that hole decay
The murder will never stop, no warning shot
Die motherfucker, die, die
Die motherfucker, die, die
Die motherfucker, die, die
I'll put a bullet between your fucking eyes
Die
I guess castles always have a touch of Romance about them certainly Dunstanburgh Castle on the edge of the North Sea seems particularly magical. Taken a very warm July day back in 2013
Dunstanburgh Castle is a 14th-century fortification on the coast of Northumberland in northern England, located between the villages of Craster and Embleton. The castle was built by Earl Thomas of Lancaster between 1313 and 1322, taking advantage of the site's natural defences and the existing earthworks of a former Iron Age fort. Thomas was a leader of a baronial faction opposed to King Edward II, and probably intended Dunstanburgh to act as a secure refuge, should the political situation in southern England deteriorate. The castle also served as a statement of the earl's wealth and influence, and would have invited comparisons with the neighbouring royal castle of Bamburgh. Thomas probably only visited his new castle once, before being captured at Battle of Boroughbridge as he attempted to flee royal forces for the safety of Dunstanburgh. Thomas was executed, and the castle became the property of the Crown, before passing into the Duchy of Lancaster.
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Wat Thepnimit Phuket is a monastic residence with a fantastic panoramic view over Patong beach. The Chedi (a Buddhist stupa) is ornate with colourful seven-heads Naga (a mythical serpent-like creature) and many other mythological characters. All the sculptures and carvings are exceptionally well-executed, and it is a pleasure to admire the craftsmanship. Note that the pagoda area is not always open, but you can still walk around it. The shape of the chedi is Pra Tat Pra Nom style, from the northeast part of Thailand
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Next to Liverpool’s art school on the famous Hope Street are these concrete suitcases, executed by John King in 1998. The bronze luggage tags carry the names of the notable individuals and institutions associated with the Merseyside: social reformers, musicians, writers, and conductors. Behind is the distinctive modernist form of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.
After executing a well timed meet with a westbound track geometry car, Montana Rail Link’s Bozeman Local scales the remainder of the west slope of Bozeman Pass and is about to duck into the tunnel at the summit which lies just a few hundred yards ahead. From there it will be smooth sailing down the other side of the mountain into Livingston, where the crew will have work at the yard and R-Y Timber before heading back to Bozeman. The two 1969 built GP35’s leading the short freight are a common sight on this job, and have undoubtedly traversed the steep grades of the Rocky Mountains many times further to the south under the ownership of the Rio Grande.
Fotheringhay is remembered most of all for being the place where Mary Queen of Scots was executed. This took place in the castle in 1587 after she had been found guilty of treason against Queen Elizabeth I. Mary was a Catholic and had been plotting with others to attempt to remove Elizabeth from the throne and reintroduce Catholicism to England. Mary's son James became King James I of England after Elizabeth's death. He was, of course, a Protestant.
There is virtually nothing left of the castle other than a large mound (out of shot to the left) and a large clump of stone surrounded by railings on the bank of the river. This can be seen on the left of the picture.
The first castle at Dryslwyn was constructed by the sons of the Lord Rhys in the early part of the 13th century and was further fortified by Rhys ap Maredudd later in the century. By 1287 Dryslwyn was possibly the largest stone castle built by a Welsh prince. In June 1287 Rhys attacked and captured the castles of Dynefor, Carreg Cennen and Llandovery causing the King to raise an army under Edmund Earl of Cornwall and invade Deheubarth. Dryslwyn was besieged and fell after three weeks in August and September. Rhys escaped but was captured and executed in 1292. During the siege part of a wall collapsed and a number of the attackers were buried alive.
The castle now in the hands of the English was repaired but after its surrender to Owain Glyndwr in 1403 and subsequent recapture it was effectively destroyed.
Sa construction commença vers la fin de l'année 1066 dans le cadre de la conquête normande de l’Angleterre. La tour Blanche (White Tower) qui donna son nom à l'ensemble du château, fut construite sur l'ordre de Guillaume le Conquérant en 1078 et fut considérée comme un symbole de l'oppression infligée à Londres par la classe dirigeante. Le château fut utilisé comme prison dès 1100. Il servait également de grand palais et de résidence royale.
L'utilisation carcérale de la tour atteignit son apogée aux xvie et xviie siècles lorsque de nombreuses personnes tombées en disgrâce, comme Élisabeth Ire avant qu'elle ne devienne reine, y furent enfermées.
Malgré sa réputation tenace de lieu de torture et de mort, popularisée par les propagandistes religieux du xvie siècle et les écrivains du xixe siècle, seules sept personnes furent exécutées dans la tour avant le xxe siècle. Les exécutions étaient généralement réalisées à la Tower Hill au nord de la tour où 112 personnes furent exécutées sur une période de 400 ans.
Lors des deux guerres mondiales, la tour fut à nouveau utilisée comme une prison et fut le lieu de douze exécutions pour espionnage. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les dégâts causés par le Blitz furent réparés et la tour fut rouverte au public. Aujourd'hui la tour est classée au patrimoine mondial par l'UNESCO et accueille plusieurs millions de visiteurs par an.
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.
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!
Patrick Dougherty conceived this project and it was executed over 3 weeks with 150 volunteers. There are 7 faces nestled in a grove of trees in Hillsboro Oregon.
His inspiration was the masks and totems of the Northwest First Nations people.
The masks reach a height of 18 feet. More of his artwork: www.stickwork.net
M. Yunnan Rd., Shanghai
This was originally a residential compound built in the 1920s or 1930s. Four or five years ago, it was requisitioned about and the residents and shops were all relocated. Then the street frontages were replaced with concrete blocks. However, until now, these empty buildings have not been demolished, so perhaps the urban renewal programme here is in trouble. Recently, poorly executed military recruitment murals have been painted on the concrete block walls, making comical sights along with the passers-by.
My favorite image.
A deliberate photo planned out and executed with meticulous intent towards an specific goal....
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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Le Schlossbrücke « Pont du Château» situé au Unter den Linden 1, Berlin, Allemagne.
Construit de 1821 à 1824, pour remplacer un vieux pont de bois, c'est une autre œuvre néo-classique de l'architecte Karl Friedrich Schinkel et un des ponts les plus connus de Berlin traversant la Spree.
Le pont est décoré de 8 statues de marbre de Carrare représentant des personnages de la mythologie grecque, Iris, Nike et Athéna. Les statues des guerriers guidés par les déesses de la Victoire furent dessinées par Karl Friedrich Schinkel, mais exécutées entre 1847 et 1857 par les élèves du sculpteur Christian Daniel Rauch. La balustrade en fonte est ornée de motifs marins représentant des dauphins, des chevaux de mer ou encore des tritons.
Le nom du pont fait référence à l’ancienne résidence royale de des Hohenzollern qui se dressait à l’est de la Spree (juste au sud de la Berliner Dom) jusqu'à la chute de l'Empire allemand en 1918. Après la réunification allemande, l'édifice communiste qui l’avait remplacé a été démoli et le Bundestag a reconstruit le château à l'identique. Les travaux commencés en 2013 se sont terminés en 2020. Le nouvel édifice abrite le musée du Forum Humboldt.
En arrière-plan, on remarque la façade rose du Deutsches Historisches Museum situé au Unter den Linden 2. Datant du début des années 1700, cet ancien arsenal est considéré comme le plus vieux bâtiment sur le boulevard. Il est certainement l'un des plus beaux, fait dans le style baroque dominé par Minerve, la déesse de la Sagesse. Depuis la réunification, il abrite le Deutches Historisches Museum ou Musée historique allemand.
Berlin est la capitale et la plus grande ville d'Allemagne et la ville la plus peuplée de l'Union européenne. Située dans le Nord-Est du pays, c'est également l'un des seize Länder de la République fédérale.
Fondée au 13e siècle, Berlin a été successivement capitale de l'électorat du Brandebourg (1247-1701), du royaume de Prusse (1701-1871), de l'Empire allemand (1871-1918), de la république de Weimar (1919-1933) et du Troisième Reich (1933-1945). Après 1945 et jusqu'à la chute du mur de Berlin en 1989, la ville est partagée en quatre secteurs d'occupation. Pendant la guerre froide, le secteur soviétique de la ville, nommé Berlin-Est, est devenu la capitale de la République démocratique allemande, alors que Berlin-Ouest était politiquement rattachée à la République fédérale d'Allemagne, devenant ainsi un bastion avancé du « Monde libre » à l'intérieur du Bloc communiste.
Après la chute du mur, Berlin redevint, en 1990, la capitale de l'Allemagne alors réunifiée, et les principales institutions fédérales y emménagèrent en 1999.
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.