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This photo is a part of my answer philosophically to Pioneer Courthouse Square banning tripods. While I think it is a pretty poorly executed rule, if I allow it to handicap the way I choose to photograph there, well ultimately the only person I have to blame is myself for allowing that to happen. So I was down in Pioneer Courthouse Square about a week ago taking photos. I had three basic options: grumble about the ban on tripods and walk away frustrated, try to use my tripod anyway and hoped I got away with it or spend time arguing with a security guard, or I could work my way around their silly little rule; I have an imagination afterall. I have long said that photographers who lament the unfavorable conditions they find themselves shooting in are themselves the biggest cause of those exact situations.
See, for me this photo isn't about a relatively meaningless rule banning tripods. It is about you being in control of your perspective, your vision. As a photographer, you see what you choose to see. Yes, other people can influence this. So can external events like weather, unwanted bystanders, time of day, etc, but only if you choose to allow them too. Make sense?
One of the underlying philosophies that I value the most in my own photography is flexibility. Which is the result of consciously trying to keep as open a mind as possible. Even when I purposely head out somewhere with the hope of a specific photo in mind, I almost always try to force myself to step back at some point and wonder just what else is there to be seen. Hmmm, I don't feel I am expressing this quite as eloquently as I would like.
I have worked with photographers who were extremely good at envisioning a specific image they wanted to make. Down to every last detail. They had great vision in this sense. I would watch them go out and enjoy mixed results. If conditions met their expectations, they were capable of doing great work. On the other hand, if conditions differed, they were often crippled creatively and many times they would come home extremely disappointed that there was "nothing to shoot". It would have been more accurate if they had said "I failed to see anything to shoot".
And that is where this image comes into play. I was recognizing the conditions I had to shoot in, and then basically disregarding them, because none of them hindered the making of this image.
Another important lesson I think this image embodies is the wisdom in practicing "seeing". I have also mentioned before how important I think it is for a photographer to constantly push his or her boundaries, to always attempt to explore new ways of making images or to practice different branches of photography. The street photographer should go out and shoot landscapes now and then. The landscape photographer should do still-lifes. The photographer who likes things sharp should shoot shallow. The photographer who likes color should shoot black and white. If you are used to shooting low ISO, shoot high ISOs, not despite the grain but because it is grainy. Shoot portraits instead of sunsets. Shoot sunsets instead of architecture. Blow out your highlights... on purpose. If you have never cross-processed, do so. If you have never shot pinhole, look into it. Leave the tripod at home and hand-hold all your shutter speeds, especially the slow ones.
Mistakes are mistakes only because you label them so, and nothing is a waste of time if you learn from it.
And in regards to what you learn, eventually you will find yourself standing under a Christmas Tree in downtown Portland unable to use a tripod but wanting to capture some aspect of the beauty and magic of the moment, and because of all of those "mistakes" you forced yourself through, you are going to be much better equipped to not only work around any restrictions that conditions place on you, but to disregard them utterly and completely.
Good luck.
1936 Packard Twelve Boattail Speedster by Fernandez & Darrin
This 1936 Packard Fernandez & Darrin Speedster is one of the most stunning Packards in existence; exquisitely designed, beautifully executed, and perfectly restored. It is a one-off, V-12 Packard sports car, and has recently completed a 3-year, 7,000 hour, restoration, at a cost in excess of $450,000. It is certainly one of the finest Classic Era motor cars, of any marque, ever built. Its jet-black finish is unblemished; its taupe ostrich-leather and Wilton wool interior is flawless; as is its interior and exterior brightwork; its instrumentation all works properly; it runs and drives as new.
According to America’s Packard Museum, this coachwork was designed and executed by the fabled Howard “Dutch” Darrin in Paris, in 1936, when he was in partnership with J. Fernandez, a wealthy banker and furniture manufacturer. It is one of a group of either five or six speedsters (history is a little vague on this point) which Darrin built on various chassis, including Packard, Duesenberg, Delage, and Buick (and perhaps another) in the 1936/1937 time frame, and shortly before Darrin shut down the Paris operation and returned to Hollywood, California in mid-1937. It is believed that the Buick example exists today and the Delage was spotted on national television with President Jimmy Carter riding in the car.
These particular speedsters were all produced by using a cache of Auburn Speedster “bodies-in-white” which Darrin had been able to acquire from the financially troubled Auburn Distributor in Paris, as a starting point.
This example is believed to have been originally commissioned by Parisian playboy Count Armand de La Rochefoucauld, Darrin’s polo-playing pal. Howard Darrin’s passion for polo was shared by La Rochefoucauld, who, though not having Darrin’s skill, was still an aficionado of the sport, and owned many of the ponies ridden by Darrin. It is reported that by early 1937 La Rochefoucauld owned not only a Fernandez & Darrin Town Car, executed on a Hispano-Suiza chassis, but the Packard Twelve Speedster as well.
This magnificent motor car, like many others, has acquired over the years a “Legend” in which it is claimed that a Mr. Dick Saunders, in upstate New York, built this piece of rolling art, “in his backyard” using a rope, a tree limb, a dis-used Auburn boattail body, and a Packard Twelve chassis and engine. Or maybe it was first on a Marmon chassis, either with or without a Marmon V-16 engine, depending on who is telling which version of the Legend. Or maybe the Packard Twelve was in the Marmon chassis. Or maybe the Marmon V-16 engine was in the Packard chassis.
Documentation reveals that Mr. Saunders owned 116 Packards throughout his lifetime. He was one of the forefathers of Packard hot rodding and had created many different custom Packard Speedsters over the years. Mr. Saunders was in inveterate tinkerer, whole loved to play “mix and match” with various engines, chassis and bodies. It is documented that Mr. Saunders owned two or more Packard Speedsters fitted with custom Auburn bodies.
After Saunders’ death, his boattail was acquired from his estate by a Mr. Harold Sliger, from Illinois. Sliger was smart enough to seek out and find Mr. Darrin, for advice in restoring his car to its original glory. Mr. Darrin agreed to help Sliger, and advise him on what had to be both done and/or undone, or both, to restore the car to its original configuration. Sliger spent many nights on the telephone with Darrin and his son Patrick, consulting on these matters. When his trucking would take him to California, he would personally visit with both of them for the same purposes. Patrick recalls these visits and calls as he participated in them. Patrick recalls that his father told both him and Mr. Sliger that the car was his creation, in Paris.
As anyone who has ever attempted to address vague assertions and innuendo once they are in circulation knows, it is more difficult to gain a hearing with facts to set the record straight than it is to create doubt and cast aspersions. Nevertheless, the Packard Museum offers the following facts for your consideration to show that the 1936 Packard Twelve could only have been created by a master designer and craftsman of Dutch Darrin’s caliber rather than by an avid customizer whose specialty was mixing and matching parts from various makes and models in an effort to revive the great classics of the 1930s.
So how do we reconcile the conflicting beliefs and documents held by two parties of good faith in this dispute? We list the undisputed statements of fact from both sides to fully disclose all known information.
Statements of Fact Provided by America’s Packard Museum
1 - The issue of authenticity was addressed and should have been laid to rest as a result of the research conducted by respected automotive historians Ed Blend and Robert Turnquist, with Dutch Darrin when he was still alive, and later published in the in the AACA magazine in Vol 52, No 4 (1988) article by Mr. Blend.
2 - In that article, and based upon extended interviews with Dutch Darrin himself, and others, Mr. Blend concludes, as follows: “With total restoration/reconstruction completed, it has been proved beyond doubt—Darrin’s number system, plus stamped and cast parts bearing his logo, and his personal attestment as well—that the car is authentic and of true heritage.”
3 - Dutch Darrin wrote a letter of authentication in 1978 that states: “I would like to authenticate the validity, and vicissitude, of Harold Sliger’s, 1936 Packard Twelve: Fernandez & Darrin Boattail Speedster as being one of my creations.”
4 - During one of their interviews, Mr. Darrin provided to Mr. Blend and Mr. Turnquist an extensive listing of particular Packard and Fernandez & Darrin parts and numbers which were among those used in the 1936 Speedster, and were still there.
5 - It is undisputed that Patrick was a part of these discussions and that he witnessed the personally, and that his father, on several occasions either with Sliger or himself, spoke at length about it being “his” car.
6 - If Mr. Darrin had not built this magnificent motor car, in Paris; if, indeed it had been cobbled together in somebody’s back yard in Upstate New York; if Darrin had no previous connection with it; how, then, would he have had such a document?
7 - It is undisputed that Dutch Darrin bought five or six Auburn boattail bodies-in-white from the Paris Auburn Distributor during the throes of the Great Depression. One became a Duesenberg speedster, another a Packard Eight, a Buick, and a Delage. No one seems to know with certainty if a sixth car was purchased by Darrin, or, if so, what became of it.
8 - It is undisputed that the 1936 Twelve Boattail contains features that are Darrin’s own styling cues such as: the stamped or cast “D” for Darrin on door hinges, bumper back bars and clamping devices; evidence of the European method of lead-filled body moldings with nail-heads soldered in place in the tailback; several body alternations that would require the use of special sheet metal tooling; reverse bent 90 degree sheet metal that would be impossible to perform by hand and require a coach builder’s genius and tooling to accomplish; and also significantly the Darrin-patented “jiffy top” across the back of the seat
9 - It is undisputed that according to Robert Turnquist, at the time the world’s greatest living Packard authority, and a personal friend of Howard Darrin, Darrin and Turnquist had a lengthy visit in the mid-to-late 1970’s, and covered a number of subjects, including the provenance of this car. Darrin related to Turnquist that when he first saw the LeBaron Twelve Boattail Packard in 1934, he thought it was “quite striking” although “a little bob-tailed in the rear end”. Turnquist remembered Darrin telling him that he hoped, at that time, that someone would commission him to do a Packard Twelve Boattail, “So that I could show LeBaron how it should have been done.” And, indeed, he did.
10 - One last statement the America’s Packard Museum believes to be certain: No one, not even Dutch Darrin himself, could create this magnificent Speedster in his backyard using a rope, a tree limb, and a dis-used Auburn boattail body!
Statements of Fact Provided by Friends of the Dick Saunders Estate
1 - It is undisputed that a family close to the Dick Saunders Estate holds voluminous automobile documentation from the estate that reveals this engine had been installed in more than one Packard chassis.
2 - It is undisputed that Mr. Saunders owned more than 100 Packards in his lifetime and was an avid customizer who experimented with custom bodies and had a taste for custom European-built coachwork.
3 - It is undisputed that Mr. Saunders was mentioned in the July 1951 issue of Hot Rod with a photo of a Packard with an Auburn Speedster body described as a hybrid classic built by Dick Saunders.
4 - It is undisputed that Mr. Saunders was mentioned in the October 1952 issue of The Automobilist with a photo of a hybrid special built from Packard, Auburn and Studebaker components.
5 - It is undisputed that Mr. Sliger worked with Dutch Darrin to accurately restore the car and in the process, the body was mounted on a restoration chassis.
6 - This vehicle was previously sold at auction and represented with “replica coachwork”
7 - The friends of the Dick Saunders Estate believe this automobile was a special speedster creation built by Dick Saunders in the late 1940s.
Source: MECUM Auctions
Afterword: You be the judge my friends. Is this an authentic Dutch Darrin creation or a Dick Saunders “back yard mix and match”? In my opinion only Dutch Darrin could have designed such a magnificent looking automobile.
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After executing a legit carrier break, an F/A-18F Super Hornet from VFA-122 Flying Eagles is seen on short final, Runway 18 at NAS JRB Fort Worth.
My Dark Times Application Build.
Name: CT 7142-277
Nickname: Jak
Rank: Sergeant
Company: 212th Airborne
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“Execute Order 66”
The order came in as Sev and myself patrolled the balcony of one of the many Jedi Temple Landing Pads.
“Is it true, Jak?” Sev looked at me. I just stared out of my helmet. Could it be, I thought to myself. General Vok was a very nice Jedi Knight, kind to his troops and caring. But the order came from the Chancellor himself. Could it really be so?
“Good soldiers follow orders,” Sev reminded me. And that is just what we were, I realized. Good soldiers. With that, I knew we had no choice. Luckily, by sheer luck or by fate, Master Vok was walking below us. He paused between us, perhaps sensing something. I took the opportunity. I jetted over the railing and hovered down in front of him, motioning for Sev to jump over and make sure he didn’t run.
“I’m sorry, General, it has to be this way.” With that, I fired two bolts into his torso. His lightsaber, albeit on, did little to stop two point-blank blasts. His body fell lifeless against the crates. I picked up the lightsaber by the hilt. I commed the Chancellor. “It is done.”
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C & C Welcome. Enjoy!
And if the picture doesn't show enough, I can take more.
Copie romaine en marbre, exécutée vers 130-140 après Jésus-Christ, de la statue en bronze créée par Léocharès entre 330 et 320 avant Jésus-Christ. L’attribution de l’original à Léocharès repose sur un passage de l’Histoire naturelle de Pline l’Ancien évoquant un « Apollon au diadème » (XXXIV, 79) et sur la mention par Pausanias d’une statue d’Apollon située devant le temple d’Apollon Alexikakos à Athènes (I, 3, 4). Elle est donc assez fragile, d’autant que les sandales d’Apollon renverraient plutôt au IIIe, voire au IIe s. av. JC : mais il s’agit là peut-être d’une simple retouche du copiste romain.
On ne sait pas exactement quand ni où cette statue a été découverte. Une première copie en aurait été faite en 1498 (Venise, Ca’ d’Oro). Elle est ensuite dessinée dans les jardins du cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, futur pape Jules II, dans un recueil de croquis antérieur à 1509.
3. Winckelmann évoque la statue dès 1755 et en propose une description enthousiaste dans son Histoire de l’Art chez les Anciens (1776).
"J. Atkins, Carpenter, Joiner, and Wheelwright
Repairs to House Property Neatly Executed"
Someplace in England?
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From a glass negative found by John Mack
in storage at the Heritage Place Museum,
Lyn, Ontario
Location
and photographer unknown
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Steve (Visual Photons) described a similar shop:
A late old friend born 1910 worked in his father's workshop as a wheelwright and doing joinery. The work shop was eco friendly, it had no electricity all the tools were human powered, including a large circular saw turned by rotating a belt-connected flywheel. In those days a lot of the joinery was for windows and doors, connections with the local priest providing a trade making coffins.
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John Mack emailed:
I have been looking at your Flickr posting of "J.Atkins, Carpenter etc"
First thing that caught my eye as I was studying the photo was the condition of the shed attached to the house on the right. It looks like it might be ready to fall down, not a very good advertisement for his carpentry skills.
The other thing is the "garden" in the front yard. Is it possible that this photo is later than 1900's. Could it be after 1914 when WW1 started and they have planted a Victory Garden in their front yard ?
It's amazing just how clear these old glass plate negatives are, sometimes the focus is better than today's cameras.
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Ian (Fulvue) writes:
Looking at their clothes fashions I would guess this is even pre Great War. In those days folk grew their own vegetables for financial reasons, especially in rural areas like this. Manicured lawns and gardens were for a wealthier community.
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Bob (Bobec 47) writes:
I agree with Ian, this does look turn of the century with dress and hair style.
The original title of this monumental sculptural group by Janniot, which was executed by the sculptor in Rome during the last of the three years he spent training at the Académie de France, was A la gloire de Jean Goujon, or Hommage à Jean Goujon. The group, which immediately attracted attention, was to become famous at the International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts held in Paris in 1925, becoming the symbol of an era and an artistic movement: Art Deco. Jean Goujon, the great Renaissance sculptor, was evoked as the artist who most successfully managed to reconcile modernity and tradition in France. The group consists of three young women, Diana the hunter, two nymphs, a doe (a typical symbol of Art Deco), and various birds. Stylised flowers and fronds complete the composition. The decorative exuberance of the group is further accentuated by the introduction of colour to the faces and hair of the female figures.
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
A la gloire de Jean Goujon ou Hommage à Jean Goujon, assim foi intitulado o grupo escultórico monumental de Janniot, executado pelo escultor em Roma, durante o último ano do seu triénio de aprendizagem na Academia de França. O grupo, de imediato notado, viria a adquirir celebridade na Exposição Internacional das Artes Decorativas e Industriais Modernas, realizada em Paris em 1925, tornando-se símbolo de uma época e de uma corrente artística: a Art Déco. Jean Goujon, o grande escultor renascentista, foi evocado como o artista que melhor conseguira conciliar a modernidade com a tradição em França. O grupo é constituído por três mulheres jovens, a Diana caçadora e duas ninfas, uma corça, símbolo típico da Art Déco, e várias aves. Flores e fetos estilizados completam a composição. A exuberância decorativa do conjunto é ainda acentuada pela introdução de cor nos rostos e nas cabeleiras das personagens femininas.
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa.
shot executed by Pinhole Camera Auloma Panorama 6x12, film scanned by Canon EOS 1100D, Film lomography negative ISO100, film format 120
Taking-off to execute the last flight of an MD-11 with passengers. The only take-off it will make next is to go to the place where aircraft come to die....
Period: End of the Clone War / Great Jedi Purge
Year: 19 BBY
This scene represents some clone troopers about to execute Bultar Swan (Plo Koon apprentice) on Cato Neimoidia.
Bultar Swan will survive to the Order 66 but not for long... This Moc has been build for the @cdlstudios contest.
Capt. John Cummings executes a maneuver during a solo demonstration May 21, 2014, at Langley Air Force Base, Va. Local media outlets were invited to watch as the F-22 Raptor demonstration team prepares for the Virginia Beach Oceanfront Air Show and Patriotic Festival held May 30 through June 1. Cummings is a 1st Fighter Wing F-22 pilot. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kayla Newman/Released)
The cemetery has been much enlarged. Contains two listed monuments - memorial to Thomas Ramsay (d. 1873) and a war memorial. In the cemetery there is also a granite vault marking the resting place of the last of a long line of Claverings - "SIR HENRY AUGUSTUS CLAVERING, of Axwell Park, Tenth and last Baronet, Born 30th August 1824, died 9th November 1893; aged 69 years". STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Blaydon Cemetery was established in 1873 in response to the growing demand for burial space outside town centres, as there was great concern over the health risks involving proximity to areas of dense population. The site chosen was to the east of the town,at Shibdon, called The Close or Blunt’s Close, bought from Colonel Towneley, who owned a great deal of land in the area. It was an ideal site for a cemetery – on sloping land, from which good views could be gained across the river valley and which also enabled the sometimes elaborate memorials to be shown off to the best advantage. The committee minutes record that the land was surveyed, the cemetery laid out, and the buildings designed by Matthew Thompson, but as yet no plans have been found showing his original design concept. The executed design only covered a relatively small area, with a main entrance to the northwest corner, with the buildings (a lodge and chapel) placed along serpentine paths that were becoming a rare feature by this period. The consecrated section was to the east, and the unconsecrated to the west, with separate plots for Roman Catholics and other non-conformists (most likely to be Methodists). Visually striking, the grave markers in the upper part of the cemetery are set out in clear rows, which strangely mirror the streets in the area, ascending the hill on a north-south axis. To the lower, earlier section of the land, however, the monuments are more informally arranged, harmonising with the different path systems from each time period. The entrance was clearly designed to make an impression, with monumental gate piers topped by simple pyramid caps set on an arc, thus allowing for gathering space. The railings are simple in iron, with double rows of uprights at the base (adding to security) and arced decorative elements towards the top. This enclosure method of low plinth walls with ‘palisading’ was employed for part of the cemetery (to allow for views), but the remainder was enclosed by high stone boundary walls, mainly rubble in character, with chamfered copings. The lodge included office space for the management of the cemetery and the burial board meetings. The composite chapel with a central porte-cochere (covered carriage entrance) was a typical solution to the requirements for both Church of England and Non-Conformist worship space. This example is particularly fine, and offers an appropriately stately entrance point to the main cemetery (see Information Sheet X20/LL/228), and now forms a wonderful linear set piece with the war memorial to the north of it, and the monument to Thomas Ramsay situated along the winding path ascending the hill to the south. The war memorial can be seen through the arch from the opposite side as an attractive framed view. The layout of cemeteries was often strongly influenced by the views of J C Loudon, with weeping and fastigiate (erect and tapering) trees, as well as the traditional yews and dark foliaged evergreens planted along paths, providing a framework (although this was usually on a grid pattern not favoured here). In this cemetery, the tree cover within the cemetery is scattered fairy randomly. In general it is more densely covered to the south and east of the chapel, with the dominant mature species being sycamore. Other species present in les
Blaydon is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, and historically in County Durham. Blaydon, and neighbouring Winlaton, which Blaydon is now contiguous with, form the town of Blaydon-on-Tyne. The Blaydon/Winlaton ward had a population in 2011 of 13,896.
Between 1894 and 1974, Blaydon was an urban district which extended inland from the Tyne along the River Derwent for ten miles (16 km), and included the mining communities of Chopwell and High Spen, the villages of Rowlands Gill, Blackhall Mill, Barlow, Winlaton Mill and Stella, as well as Blaydon and Winlaton. During its existence, the Urban District's fourteen and a half square miles constituted the second largest administrative district by area, on Tyneside, after Newcastle upon Tyne.
History
The town of Blaydon is essentially an industrial area and is not more than two centuries old. Indeed, in the 1760s there was little here but a few farms and cottages. In the latter part of the same century a smelting works was set up from which sprang the industrial growth of the area.
Though the town itself has a relatively short history there has been activity in the area for many centuries.
Early history
The earliest recorded evidence of human activity at Blaydon is a Neolithic polished stone axe found in the early 20th century. Finds and structures from later prehistoric periods include a bronze spearhead and log-boat, both recovered from the River Tyne in the 19th century. A number of Bronze Age cists[citation needed] are recorded from Summerhill and several others from Bewes Hill.
Little is recorded of medieval Blaydon, which appears to have been based upon the modern farm sites of High and Low Shibdon. The Blaydon Burn Belts Corn Mill, part of a row of 5 or 6 water corn mills stretching from Brockwell Wood to the River Tyne is known to have been present by the early 17th century, suggesting a healthy population at that time. It is likely that, as well as farming, many industrial activities such as mining and quarrying had begun in the medieval and post-medieval periods, well before the industrial period of the 18th to 20th centuries when Blaydon became an important industrial centre.
Battle of Stella Ford
Also known as the Battle of Newburn or Newburn Ford, this relatively unknown battle has recently been elevated in importance by English Heritage. On 28 August 1640, 20,000 Scots defeated 5,500 English soldiers who were defending the ford over the Tyne four miles (6 km) west of Newcastle.[6] The Scots had been provoked by Charles I, who had imposed bishops and a foreign prayer book on their church. The Scots army, led by Alexander Leslie, fought its way to Newcastle and occupied the city for almost a year before Charles I paid it £200,000 to depart. The battle brought to an end the so-called 'Eleven Years of Tyranny' by forcing Charles to recall Parliament.
The 18th century and the Industrial Revolution
The stimulus for industry at Blaydon and Blaydon burn, as elsewhere in the region, was the growth in coal mining and the coal trade, particularly from the early 18th century, when the Hazard and Speculation pits were established at Low Shibdon linked to the Tyne by wagonways. The 18th century Blaydon Main Colliery was reopened in the mid-19th century and worked until 1921. Other pits and associated features included Blaydon Burn Colliery, Freehold pit and the Blaydonburn wagonway. Industries supported by the coal trade included chemical works, bottle works, sanitary pipe works, lampblack works, an ironworks, a smithy and brickworks - Cowen's Upper and Lower Brickworks were established in 1730 and were associated with a variety of features including a clay drift mine and coal/clay drops. The Lower works remains in operation. Blaydon Burn Coke Ovens, also of 19th-century origin, were replaced in the 1930s by Priestman Ottovale Coke and Tar Works which was the first in the world to produce petrol from coal[citation needed] known as Blaydon Benzole.
In addition to the workers' housing developments associated with industrialisation, a number of grand residences were constructed for industrialists in the area, such as Blaydon Burn House, home of Joseph Cowen, owner of the brickworks. Ironically, the remains of Old Dockendale Hall, an earlier grand residence (or perhaps a superior farmhouse) of 17th century or earlier construction, was destroyed when the coke and tar works was built at Blaydon Burn.
Blaydon School Press
In the 1930s, pupils at the now demolished Blaydon Intermediate School, under the leadership of English teacher Mr Elliott and art teacher Mr Boyce, gradually developed a technique for producing hardback books. Their productions were highly respected and favourably compared to other successful private printing presses of the time. In one volume produced by the school in 1935, entitled "Songs of Enchantment", the pupils were successful in convincing the famous poet Walter de la Mare to write a foreword in which he praised their enterprise and efforts.
Stella South Power Station
The post war era of the late 40s and 50s saw a rapid rise in demand for electricity and, in the North East, the extension of existing and construction of a number of new power stations was seen as a key part of the solution. For the Blaydon area, this meant the arrival of a new power station at Stella Haugh, known as the South Stella Power Station, which helped to meet the energy demands of the North East until its closure in 1991. It was demolished in 1992.
Governance
Blaydon ward elects three councillors to Gateshead Council. In the House of Commons, the Blaydon constituency has been held by Liz Twist for the Labour Party since 2017. The area has traditionally been a Labour stronghold and the seat has been held by them since 1935.
Geography
Modern Blaydon stands close to the Tyne with the A695, a key road from Gateshead to Hexham, passing through the town centre. Between this main road and the river is the railway and beyond it, on a bend of the Tyne, is the industrial district of Blaydon Haughs. The main part of the town lies south of the railway.
Despite being a largely urban and industrial area, there are various rural aspects to Blaydon and the surrounding area. The area has many acres of open countryside, mostly at 500 feet (150 m) or more above sea level, and numerous farms and similar holdings. Between High Spen and Chopwell are large Forestry Commission woods, and these and other forested areas extend westward down the hillside to the River Derwent, which forms most of the metropolitan district boundary.
Shibdon Pond, on the eastern edge of the town at the former site of Blaydon Main colliery, is a nature reserve with many species of waterfowl. English Nature has designated Shibdon Pond as one of Tyne and Wear's Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). The subject of a regeneration campaign, Shibdon Dene (sometimes inaccurately called 'Blaydon Dene') is another recreational area consisting of a pathway between a great number of fine trees.
There is also a nature reserve north-west of Blaydon at Blaydon Burn, on the route of a wagon-way which carried coal to the riverside. The track, roughly a mile-and-a-half long, is used by walkers and cyclists and ends near the Path Head Watermill.
Demography
Blaydon had a population of 15,155 in the 2011 census, which increased from 14,648 a decade earlier.
Economy
Once the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution in Gateshead, Blaydon's traditional industry was coal mining. However, since the decline of mining in the 1950s and 1960s, the economy has diversified. As well as a small number of commuting professionals, residents of Blaydon are often involved in engineering and manufacturing with many businesses operating from premises in Blaydon Haughs (or 'The Spike'), on the banks of the River Tyne.
Blaydon was for a time the head office of Associated Cooperative Creameries (later renamed ACC then ACC Milk). ACC Milk was sold to Dairy Farmers of Britain in 2004. On 3 June 2009, Dairy Farmers of Britain went into receivership and the dairy in Chainbridge Road closed shortly afterwards with the loss of 300 jobs. In 2010 the dairy was acquired by Medina Dairies and reopened, but closed again just a year later.
Blaydon has a shopping centre, known locally as the precinct. A brutalist 1970s creation, it contains the town's major shops including newsagents, Greggs, Costa, Iceland (supermarket), B & M, Blaydon Carpets and Furnishings, Ladbrokes, Superdrug, Boots (chemist), Boyes and, at the nearby car park, a McDonald's. There are also several food and grocery outlets. The precinct underwent redevelopment in 2012–2014, with the installation of a lift, and the demolition of the Geordie Ridley pub to make way for a new Morrison's supermarket, a new day-centre and doctors' surgery, and roof-top parking. There is also a Co-op Funeralcare just outside the precinct on Bridge street. Blaydon Car Boot Sale takes place every Wednesday between March and October at Blaydon RFC.
The area underwent a significant programme of housing regeneration between 2009 and 2014 with new developments in progress at High View on the Winlaton-Blaydon border, by the riverside on the site of the former Stella South power station and at Axwell Gardens, near to the existing Axwell Park estate.
Landmarks
On the west of the town and a mile inland from the Tyne is Axwell Park, once the home of the Clavering family. Axwell Hall (also Axwell House) is a Grade II* listed mansion, built for Sir Thomas Clavering by the noted architect James Paine and completed in 1761. The last (10th) baronet died in 1893 and Axwell Hall later found use as a prisoner-of-war camp during the second world war and later as an approved school. Much of the park has been developed for residential purposes and the hall itself was, after two decades of decay, restored. There are plans to convert it to residential apartments.
Stella Hall
Up-river from Blaydon and outside the town boundary, Stella Hall was a 17th-century mansion set in a park. The house was built by the Tempest family, and in the next century passed by marriage to Lord Widdrington and then into the Towneley family. From 1850 it was owned by Joseph Cowen, owner of the local brickworks and MP for Newcastle, who was followed by his son, also Joseph, again an MP and also the owner of the Newcastle Chronicle. The house was demolished in 1955 to make way for housing.
Education
Blaydon is part of the Gateshead Local Education Authority. It is home to a number of primary schools (both faith and secular schools) including Blaydon West primary and St Joseph's, a Roman Catholic primary school. It also has St Thomas More Catholic School, a high achieving Roman Catholic secondary school which serves the Roman Catholic population of the western part of Gateshead borough.
Religious sites
Blaydon has several churches. In the town centre, St Cuthbert's (Church of England, opened in 1845) and St Joseph's (Roman Catholic, opened in 1905 on the site of an earlier church) are opposite each other, on either side of Shibdon Road. Both are impressive structures, and the interiors still reflect the style of architecture used in their construction. Also on Shibdon Road, at the corner with Lucy Street and opposite the entrance to the roof-top car park above Morrisons, is Trinity Methodist Church.
There is also a Catholic church in Stella (St Mary and Thomas Aquinas, opened 1835) .
A brand new Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses was opened in 2013, near Cowen Road. This was built by voluntary labour as Witnesses from all over the North-East donned hard hats and work gear, working under the supervision of professional builders.
In Winlaton, the parish church of Winlaton opened in 1828, the Congregational church in 1829, and the Wesleyan Chapel in 1868. The latter two united to form Winlaton United Reformed-Methodist Church, but this closed in August 2015, with some members moving to join Trinity Methodist Church in Blaydon. The Primitive Methodists had opened a building in 1850, which was extended in 1895, and was later to become the Blaydon Corps of the Salvation Army; this corps closed in September 2012. St Anne's Catholic Church in Winlaton was opened in 1962.
Sports
The Blaydon area is the origin of the well-known traditional song "Blaydon Races", written by local musician and showman George 'Geordie' Ridley in 1862. The town's athletic club – the Blaydon Harriers – organise a road running race (called the Blaydon Race) every year on 9 June. The route of the race follows the route outlined by Ridley in his song. The traditional starting point lies outside Balmbra's pub in Newcastle's Bigg Market, and the race follows a course along Scotswood Road before crossing the River Tyne and ultimately finishing in Blaydon town centre. Local councillors, societies and notaries have in recent years organised an annual Blaydon Festival with music, sport and arts events that coincides with the week of race day.
As well as the Blaydon races, The Blaydon Harriers organise regular race meetings on the Shibdon Pond fields (and other venues) throughout the year. These are usually well-attended both by participants and spectators. The Harriers' colours are orange and black.
The rugby union club, Blaydon RFC play in the English National League 2 North, the fourth tier of the English rugby union system and a high level considering the size of the town. The Crow Trees rugby ground is situated to the east of the town, in neighbouring Swalwell. Blaydon RFC play in red shirts and white shorts. The former England international Mick Skinner played for Blaydon. Their smaller but no less illustrious neighbours, Winlaton Vulcans RFC play in Durham and Northumberland Division 2 and number Ken Goodall, the former Ireland and British Lion International, as one of their former players. They play in black shirts, shorts and socks with the club badge of an arm gripping a hammer over an anvil depicting their heritage being formed from the steelworking heritage of the area.
Since 2013 Blaydon has also been host to Blaydon Cycle Club, meeting weekly and throughout the week catering from novice cyclists right through to having a race team competing in local and national events.
Notable people
Alun Armstrong, former professional footballer with Ipswich Town F.C. and Middlesbrough FC
Peter Armstrong, the poet and psychotherapist, was born in Blaydon
Sir Thomas Clavering, 7th Baronet, owner of Axwell Hall
Joseph Cowen, 19th century politician and journalist
Graham Onions, Durham and England cricketer
Bert Tulloch, former professional footballer with Blackpool
Gavin Webster, stand-up comedian
William Widdrington, 4th Baron Widdrington, owner of Stella Hall
Culture
Live jazz and rock music is regularly performed at the Black Bull pub near Blaydon Bridge. Although many pubs were demolished during the refurbishment of the town in the 1970s, a number of pubs still exist in and around the precinct, along with the Staffs (formerly the Railway Staff Club). The Blaydon and District Social Club – a former working men's club – and the Blaydon House Sports and Social Club (formerly the Conservative Club), which occupied the house of the nineteenth-century Doctor Morrison, and was reputedly the oldest building in Blaydon, were both demolished in 2020–2021 to make way for housing. The façade of Blaydon House was incorporated into a new building. The Masonic Hall on Blaydon Bank was closed in 2015, with Lodge meetings transferring to Ryton Masonic Hall.
Viewed from the north side and the west of the altar cross on the high altar at Coventry Cathedral. It was executed by Geoffrey Clarke, who was also one of the trio of students at the Royal College of Art who executed the enormous stained glass panels in the nave. The altar cross contains the original Cross of Nails, made from nails found in the rubble of the original Cathedral after it was bombed.
Behind it are Spence’s plain glass windows for lighting the sanctuary, which to me are reminiscent of Le Corbusier’s at Notre-Dame du Haut, although Spence’s pattern is much more regular.
Just occasionally people tell me they don’t like Coventry Cathedral. I couldn’t disagree more; a powerful symbol of Resurrection, restored to a very different life barely twenty years after being destroyed in the Blitz on 14 November 1940. The Modernist Cathedral of St Michael of the 20th Century both surrounded by and incomprehensible without the ruins of 14th Century building that surrounds it.
Coventry Cathedral incarnates the twin and interconnected British revivals of the two decades after the end of the Second World War – a revival of high culture and a revival of Christian faith. Basil Spence’s cathedral housing Jacob Epstein’s sculptures, John Piper’s massive arrangements of stained glass into windows, and Graham Sutherland’s tapestry, still in 2021 the largest in the world, represent collectively a totemic achievement in modernist visual arts and architecture.
The brief for the competition to select the architect of the new Cathedral demanded that the design emphasise the celebration of the Eucharist; Spence himself had a further vision of the building as the repository of great modern works of art. He described his building as “a plain jewel casket”. Piper’s windows cast shafts of colour into the heart of the nave, while the plain glass West Screen, which faces to the geographical south, allows much natural light into the building, essential given that the east end is entirely filled with Graham Sutherland’s great tapestry, still the largest in the world at 22 metres tall by 12 metres wide.
Coventry Cathedral was built to a tight budget – “not more than £985,000” – and making much use of reinforced concrete, the new cathedral was constructed in just six years, between Queen Elizabeth II laying the foundation stone on 23 March 1956 and the dedication ceremony on 25 May 1962.
Could there have been a finer or more appropriate setting for the world première of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem on 30 May 1962? On that night, the Cathedral’s great post-War religious theme was also incarnated in the three soloists: Peter Pears (Britten’s partner) from the host nation, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau from Germany, Galina Vishnevskaya from the USSR, representing three belligerent nations. That tri-national partnership continues to be symbolised by the presence of a replica of the Stalingrad Madonna given by the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, where the original hangs, with a second copy being in Kazan Cathedral in Volgograd.
A building that breathes with the presence of the Holy Spirit, giving new life the Church in every generation.
The Sacré-Coeur Church is located in the western part of the old town of Chicoutimi, in the Bassin district. In 1903, the parish of Sacré-Coeur was erected against the backdrop of the growing population of the city, and more particularly that of the Basin. It is entrusted to the Eudists, a religious congregation founded in France in 1643 and in exile in Quebec to flee anticlericalism. The latter also obtained the charge of the apostolic prefecture of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which became apostolic vicariate in 1905, and would keep it until 1945. As soon as it arrived, the congregation received land from the Compagnie de pulpe de Chicoutimi, founded in 1896, for the construction of a church and a presbytery. The design of the religious ensemble was entrusted to the architect René-Pamphile Lemay (1870-1915). This one draws the plans of a church preceded by a high staircase under which there is a sacristy accessible from the front, on the model in particular of the basilica of the Sacré-Coeur in Paris (1876). As the ground was unstable, the Eudists opted instead for a location on the Cran Chaud, part of which belonged to the Pulp Company. The latter cedes its property rights to the congregation in exchange for the land of the former Sacré-Coeur chapel (1892 and 1893). Lemay reviews the project on the basis of the new site and reduces its importance in order to reduce construction costs. The work, entrusted to the Lévis contractor Joseph Gosselin, began in 1903. The stone was extracted from a quarry specially opened for the occasion, at the corner of Bossé and Taché streets, with the exception of the gray stone of the facade. The shell was completed in 1905. The sacristy was temporarily housed in the choir pending its installation in a section already excavated under the steps. This project was abandoned in 1915 when the church square was fitted out with its Sacré-Coeur monument. The sacristy was erected against the apse in 1919 and 1920, according to the plans of Alfred Lamontagne (1883-1967). Built by Thomas Blanchette and Alphonse Pedneault, it includes on the ground floor a winter chapel with elaborate architectural decor. A parish hall intended to house the works of youth occupies the floor. In 1924, the sacristy was equipped with a high altar from the School of Sculpture of Saint-Romuald. In 1926, the Eudists requested the services of Lamontagne for the renewal of the structure of the church and its fireproofing as well as for the completion of the interior decoration. The works were carried out in 1928 and 1929. Side galleries and a second rear gallery were installed, and the woodwork as well as certain pieces of oak furniture were executed. The marble baptismal font comes from the Delwaide and Goffin workshops, while the plaster ornaments are made from models sculpted by Louis Sorbonne. Under the care of Father Joseph Nio, from 1935 to 1945, the church was the subject of numerous works. In 1938 and 1939, the existing choir partitions were replaced by wrought iron gates and housed the side altars. The church also has a Casavant et Frères organ. In 1954, stained glass windows from the E. Rault house were installed. In 1992, the heritage site of the Place de l'Eglise Sacré-Coeur, which includes the church, was established by the municipality. In 1996, the old high altar was dismantled. This year also marks the departure of the Eudists from the parish of the Sacré-Coeur. The Sacré-Coeur church was listed in 2001. Its presbytery was listed at the same time. These two monuments are included in the heritage site of the Sacré-Coeur, also classified in 2001. The heritage site of the place of the Sacré-Coeur church became a heritage site cited on the entry into force of the Law on cultural heritage in 2012.
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Adelaide Gaol built in 1841 and home to Adelaides prisoners for over 100 years. It is said to be haunted by the ghosts of prisoners executed.
Greater Manchester Police have made 18 arrests, seized a substantial amount of Class A drugs and shut down a cannabis farm after executing a series of warrants in Salford.
This morning, Wednesday 14 October 2015, more than 200 officers executed warrants at 22 addresses across Eccles and Pendleton as part of a Project Gulf operation designed to tackle organised crime.
Gulf is part of Programme Challenger, the Greater Manchester approach to tackling organised criminality across the region.
The raids are the result of an intelligence-led operation conducted over a number of months into offences such as supplying Class A drugs and other criminality. Searches at a number of properties are still on-going.
Fifteen men and three women have so far been arrested on suspicion of supplying Class A drugs. They remain in custody for questioning.
Searches of the 22 properties also uncovered a cannabis farm, and have resulted in officers seizing a substantial amount of cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, cannabis, a stolen motorbike and some cash.
Superintendent Mark Kenny, of Salford Division, said: “These warrants are a result of a sustained and in-depth operation into the supply of Class A drugs not just in Salford, but Greater Manchester as a whole.
“They have utilised some excellent work by my officers in the gathering of intelligence and information, which has allowed us to seize a significant amount of drugs which would soon have been poisoning our streets.
“We have also been successful in confiscating a large amount of cash, hitting the dealers where it hurts.
“We would not have been able to carry out these warrants had it not been for members of the public coming to us with information and intelligence, and that is very pleasing.
“However, our investigations are continuing and if anyone has any information they think will assist I would encourage them to contact us.
“Our communities have already shown they are prepared to work with us in the fight against drugs and organised crime and I would like to express my thanks to those who came forward and helped us reduce the amount of dangerous narcotics in their areas.
“But there is still more to do and, as with any fight against organised crime groups embedded in our communities, we need residents to come to us with information so we can put a stop to this criminality.
“If you see drug dealing taking place in your area, come to us, we can help to put a stop to it and help to make Greater Manchester a safer place to live.”
Anyone with information is asked to call police on 101 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
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This beautifully executed sculpture was erected in 2001 close to Minehead harbour, marking the start (or end) of the South West Coastal Path. It was designed by Sarah Ward, a student at West Somerset College who was only 19 at the time, and made by established metal sculptor Owen Cunningham. It's simple and effective and although mentions on Google don't say what it's made of (one said bronze, which it isn't), I'm pretty sure it's galvanised steel. We set out to find it a year or so back but didn't walk close enough to the harbour, so coming across it at last was a bonus.
Graben (en alemán, zanja, foso) es una de las calles más importantes del Innere Stadt, el centro de la ciudad de Viena, Austria. Empieza en Stock-im-Eisen-Platz, junto al Palais Equitable, y termina en la intersección de Kohlmarkt y Tuchlauben. En el centro de Viena hay otra calle llamada Tiefer Graben («zanja profunda»), que es cruzada por Wipplinger Straße mediante el célebre Hohe Brücke, un puente a unos diez metros por encima del nivel de la calle.
El origen de Graben se remonta al antiguo campamento romano de Vindobona. La muralla suroeste del asentamiento se extendía a lo largo de los actuales Graben y Naglergasse; antes de la muralla se dispuso un foso (Graben). Este foso siguió existiendo frente a las murallas medievales. A finales del siglo XII, la ciudad fue ampliada por los Duques de Babenberg. En esta época, el foso fue rellenado y nivelado. Graben se convirtió así en una de las primeras calles residenciales de la ampliación de la ciudad. En esta zona de la ciudad aún había disponibles grandes zonas sin urbanizar, lo que probablemente contribuyó a que se haya conservado el nombre Graben hasta la actualidad.
Aunque la forma de Graben siguió siendo prácticamente la misma, su carácter empezó a cambiar. Esto fue marcado sobre todo por la construcción del Arkadenhof, un llamativo edificio renacentista, que en 1873 fue sustituido por el actual Grabenhof. Graben se convirtió en el lugar de celebración de varias festividades, incluidas demostraciones públicas de homenaje a la dinastía reinante. Esto impulsó a los residentes a reconstruir sus casas y engalanar sus fachadas. En 1701 se demolió la antigua Iglesia de San Pedro para ser reconstruida, y la nueva estructura se completó en 1708.
Con el aumento del tráfico rodado, Graben también se convirtió en una calle con mucho tráfico. Sin embargo, el tráfico fue limitado a la mitad sur de la calle. El 4 de diciembre de 1950, se instalaron aquí las primeras luces de neón de Viena.
En el siglo XX se han propuesto numerosos proyectos para la remodelación de Graben. El 22 de noviembre de 1974 Graben se convirtió, de manera provisional, en la primera zona peatonal de Viena. Durante la construcción del metro, Graben fue remodelado en fases sucesivas, y la zona peatonal fue expandida gradualmente. Para esta remodelación, se encargaron propuestas a cinco arquitectos y estudios de arquitectura. La propuesta de Gruppe M para la cubrición de Graben fue debatida acaloradamente.
En la actualidad, Graben sigue siendo una de las calles y zonas de tiendas más importantes de Viena.
En Graben hay dos fuentes. Ya en 1455, se encuentran gastos para una fuente en los libros de contabilidad de la ciudad. Esta fuente se situaba en el extremo noroeste de Graben y servía principalmente para apagar incendios. Debido a que estaba decorada con cuatro cabezas de león, era conocida como Löwenbrunnen («fuente de los leones»).
La segunda fuente, en el suroeste, fue construida probablemente en 1561. Cuando en 1638 se decidió establecer nuevas regulaciones contra incendios, se consideraron necesarias del mismo modo nuevas fuentes en Freyung y Graben. Las dos fuentes fueron por tanto reconstruidas. A instancias de Leopoldo I, las fuentes estaban adornadas con esculturas de los santos José y Leopoldo, que fueron realizadas por el escultor Johann Frühwirth. Estas fueron sustituidas posteriormente con figuras de plomo de Johann Martin Fischer. Las estatuas de Frühwirth se han perdido.
A partir del 1 de marzo de 1912, la primera línea de autobús de la ciudad discurría desde Stephansplatz hasta la Volksoper pasando por Graben. Posteriormente, numerosas líneas de autobús atravesarían Graben. En conexión con la construcción del metro, Graben se convirtió en una zona peatonal. En el desfile de Navidad del 27 de noviembre de 1971 se inauguró una prueba de la zona peatonal. El proyecto final para el establecimiento de la zona peatonal fue obra de Hermann Stiegholzer, y fue inaugurado en 1978. El proyecto fue completado en 1988 con la incorporación del tramo entre la Iglesia de San Pedro y el Kohlmarkt. Sin embargo, la línea de autobús A1 todavía atraviesa este tramo.
La línea U3 del Metro discurre bajo la sección entre Stock-im-Eisen-Platz y Jungferngasse desde 1991. La estación de Stephansplatz ya se había construido durante la construcción original de la línea U1, haciendo necesaria su extensión bajo Graben. Una salida de esta estación conduce a Graben. Esta salida no tiene techo, en un intento de hacerla lo menos invasiva visualmente posible. La incorporación de la salida en los edificios vecinos no fue posible debido a los altos pagos compensatorios que hubieran sido necesarios.
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The Graben is one of the most famous streets in Vienna's first district, the city centre. It begins at Stock-im-Eisen-Platz next to the Palais Equitable and ends at the junction of Kohlmarkt and Tuchlauben. Another street in the first district is called Tiefer Graben (deep ditch). It is crossed by Wipplinger Straße by means of the Hohe Brücke, a bridge about ten metres above street level.
The Graben traces its origin back to the old Roman encampment of Vindobona. The south-western wall of the settlement extended along the length of the present-day Graben and Naglergasse; before the wall lay a trench (Graben). This trench still stood in front of the medieval city walls. At the end of the 12th century, the city was enlarged by the Babenberg Dukes, using the ransom money for Richard the Lionheart. At this time the trench was filled in and levelled. The Graben thereby became one of the first residential streets in the new section of the city. In this area of the city large unbuilt areas were still available, which probably contributed to the maintenance of the name "Graben" up until the present day.
Although the form of the Graben remained more or less the same, its character began to change. It was marked above all by the construction of the Arkadenhof, a striking Renaissance building, which in 1873 was replaced by the present-day Grabenhof. The Graben became the site of various festivities, including public displays of homage to the ruling house. This prompted the residents to rebuild their houses and to deck out their facades. In 1701 the old Peterskirche was torn down, and the new structure was completed in 1708.
In the course of the 18th century the use of the Graben as a market was suppressed. In 1753 the produce-sellers were removed, and in 1772 the Christmas market was relocated. The Graben became the most fashionable promenade, the chief arena for the self-display of the urban elite. This was not limited to the nobility, but included the entrepreneurial class as well, who were most visibly represented by the construction of the Trattnerhof by the printer Thomas von Trattner. Prostitutes were also in evidence — the famous Grabennymphen.
With the increase in car traffic, the Graben also became a heavily traveled street. However, traffic was limited, as previously, to the southern half of the street. On December 4, 1950, the first neon lights in Vienna were installed here.
Numerous plans for the development of the Graben were proposed, including two for its surveillance. On November 22, 1974, the Graben became, on a provisional basis, Vienna's first pedestrian zone. In the course of the construction of the U-Bahn, the Graben was rebuilt in successive phases, and the pedestrian zone was gradually expanded. In this connection, development proposals from five architects and architectural firms were commissioned. The proposal of Gruppe M for the roofing of the Graben was hotly debated.
Today the Graben is again one of the most important promenades and shopping streets in Vienna.
Two fountains are found on the Graben. Already in 1455, expenditures for a fountain are found in the city account books. This fountain stood on the northwestern end of the Graben and served primarily to put out fires. As it was decorated with four lion's heads, it was known as the Löwenbrunnen (lion fountain). The second, southwestern, fountain was presumably built in 1561. When in 1638 it was decided to establish new fire regulations, new fountains on the Freyung and the Graben were likewise deemed necessary. The two fountains were therefore rebuilt. At the behest of Leopold I, the fountains were adorned with sculptures of Saints Joseph and Leopold, which were executed by the sculptor Johann Frühwirth. These were later replaced with lead figures by Johann Martin Fischer. Frühwirth's statues have since been lost.
Divided reverse. No correspondence.
Austro-Hungarian military execute civilians in their preferred method, death by slow strangulation. This scene is made all that more horrific when you realise that three more condemned are being forced to watch on as they await their turn on the gallows.
The military justification for the massacre of civilians was that many were “partisans” engaged in a guerrilla war against the invading forces. As early as 17 August, the Austro-Hungarian general, Lothar von Hortstein, complained that it was impossible to send reconnaissance patrols into Serb territory because “all were killed by the rural people”. But it is also certain that popular anti-Serb sentiment gave the military the impression it had been given carte blanche to commit atrocities. A popular song in Vienna in August of that year was entitled “Alle Serben müssen sterben” (“All Serbs must die”).
This beautifully executed sculpture was erected in 2001 close to Minehead harbour, marking the start (or end) of the South West Coastal Path. It was designed by Sarah Ward, a student at West Somerset College who was only 19 at the time, and made by established metal sculptor Owen Cunningham. It's simple and effective and although mentions on Google don't say what it's made of (one said bronze, which it isn't), I'm pretty sure it's galvanised steel. We set out to find it a year or so back but didn't walk close enough to the harbour, so coming across it at last was a bonus.
The Blue Angels executing the famous "Fortus Maneuver" - Solos flying in carrier landing configuration (landing gears and tail hooks down) with No.5 inverted, establishing a "mirror image" effect.
You can see how close they fly in this formation.
While flying in extremely close formation the danger is compounded, if any tiny thing goes wrong, the poilt might not stand a chance to survive.
藍天使操演著名的「Fortus Maneuver / 鏡像編隊」飛行。
兩架戰機按照航母著艦飛行機型 (放下機輪與尾勾) 編隊，
5號機用上下顛倒的飛行方式，
呈現兩架戰機如鏡面倒影般飛行。
你能清楚看到兩架戰機飛得相當近。在這種飛行編隊下，
危險程度也相對地增加。只要有任何差池，就是戰機撞毀、
飛行員殞命的下場。
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was printed in Switzerland by Engadin Press on behalf of Swissair.
On the divided back of the card is printed:
'Swissair Boeing 747-357.
Wing Span 59.6 m
Length 70.6 m
Height 19.3 m
Max. Cruising Speed 976 km/h
Passenger Seats 375 (Passenger Version)
252 (Combi Version)'.
The aircraft in the photograph (Registration Number H8-IGD) entered service with Swissair on the 19th. March 1983, and stopped being used by them on the 30th. June 1999. The aircraft was originally delivered to Swissair as a Combi Passenger/Freight Version.
After Service with Swissair it went to Northwest Airlines. A conversion to full freighter is planned, although the aircraft is currently (2019) sitting in storage in the Mojave Desert.
The Boeing 747 and its Safety Record
As of 2025, the Boeing 747 was first flown commercially 55 years previously in 1970.
As of August 2020, 62 Boeing 747 aircraft, or just under 4% of the total number of 747's ever built, have been involved in serious accidents and incidents resulting in a hull loss.
Hull loss means that the aircraft has either been destroyed, or has been damaged beyond economic repair.
Of the 62 Boeing 747 aircraft losses, 29 resulted in loss of life. In three separate hijackings, a total of 23 passengers were executed, and in a fourth hijacking, a terrorist was killed.
Some of the aircraft that were declared damaged beyond economic repair were older 747's that had sustained relatively minor damage. Had these planes been newer, it might have been financially viable to repair them, although with the 747's increasing obsolescence, this is becoming less common.
747's have been involved in accidents resulting in:
(a) The highest death toll of any aviation accident.
(b) The highest death toll of any single aeroplane
accident.
(c) The highest death toll resulting from a mid-air collision.
However, as with most aircraft accidents, the causes of these incidents involved multiple factors which rarely could be attributed to flaws in the 747's design, manufacture, or its flying characteristics.
Specific 747 Incidents
Specific 747 events are as follows:
-- 1970's
(1) On the 6th. September 1970, a new Pan American World Airways aircraft flying from Amsterdam to New York was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
It was flown first to Beirut, then on to Cairo. Shortly after the occupants were evacuated from the aircraft after arriving at Cairo, it was blown up. Pan Am Flight 93 became the first hull loss of a Boeing 747.
(2) Japan Airlines Flight 404, the second 747 hull loss, was very similar to the first. The aircraft was hijacked on a flight from Amsterdam to Anchorage, Alaska, on the 20th. July 1973, again by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine working together with the Japanese Red Army.
The aircraft flew to Dubai, then Damascus, before ending its journey at Benghazi. The occupants were released, and the aircraft was blown up. One of the hijackers died.
(3) Lufthansa Flight 540 was the first fatal crash of a 747. On the 20th. November 1974, it stalled and smashed into the ground moments after taking off from Nairobi, with 59 deaths and 98 survivors. The cause was an error by the flight engineer, in combination with the lack of an adequate warning system.
(4) Air France Flight 193, a Boeing 747 operating the sector between Mumbai and Tel Aviv to Paris CDG, was destroyed by fire on the 12th. June 1975 at Mumbai's Santa Cruz Airport, following an aborted take-off.
(5) Imperial Iranian Air Force flight ULF48, a 747 freighter, crashed near Madrid on the 9th. May 1976, due to the structural failure of its left wing in flight, killing the 17 people on board.
The accident investigation determined that a lightning strike caused an explosion in a fuel tank in the wing, leading to flutter and separation of the wing.
(6) This is The Big One. On the 27th. March 1977, the highest death toll of any aviation accident in history occurred when KLM Flight 4805 collided on the runway with Pan Am 1736 in heavy fog at Tenerife Airport, resulting in 583 fatalities.
There were 61 survivors, all from the Pan Am 747. The Pan Am aircraft was coincidentally the first 747 to have entered commercial service.
Joani Feathers was one of the 61 who survived. She recalled how she saw a fellow passenger sliced in half by her seatbelt, and another woman set alight.
After the smash, her then-boyfriend Jack Ridout tried to help a stewardess trying to deploy an escape raft – only for an explosion to decapitate the Pan Am worker.
Recalling the near-death experience to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Feathers told of how she was nervous about the presence of the KLM 747 that crashed into her plane moments before it happened. After voicing her fears to Ridout, he jokingly replied:
"Don’t worry. If he hits us,
you won’t feel a thing."
She felt the plane she was on veer sharply to the left as it tried to avoid the other airliner, then looked up to see the roof of the 747 sliced open like a tin can. Feathers, who had been flying from Los Angeles to the Canaries to begin a Mediterranean cruise, added:
"All my rings had come off
my fingers. My shoes came
off. I just didn’t want to burn
up.’
The ex-cop credits her law enforcement training for making her one of the few survivors, as she knew not to wait to help, and to keep a constant check on her surroundings.
She and Ridout freed themselves from their seats, before jumping two storeys from a door of the wrecked jet. The couple then sprinted away from the plane, shortly before it exploded in a huge fireball.
Feathers, who now lives in Daytona Beach, said she kept repeating "No. No. I can’t believe this is happening" as she ran from the plane. She added:
"The plane went up
like an atom bomb."
Afterwards, Feathers and Ridout were flown back to California where they lived, but split up soon afterwards.
(7) On the 3rd. November 1977, one passenger died after a decompression event on an El Al 747 over Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
(8) Air India Flight 855 crashed into the sea off the coast of Mumbai on the 1st. January 1978. All 213 passengers and crew died.
The cause was lack of situation awareness on the captain's part after executing a banked turn due to the failure of an attitude detector. The false reading led to pilot confusion and spatial disorientation.
-- 1980's
(9) Korean Air Lines 747-200 Flight 015, operating a flight from Los Angeles to Seoul was damaged beyond repair on the 19th. November 1980. The aircraft undershot its landing, and impacted just short of the runway.
The landing gear collapsed, and the aircraft caught fire after it slid to a stop. Of the 226 occupants, 8 passengers and 6 crew members died, along with one person on the ground.
(10) On the 11th. August 1982, Pan Am 747-100, Flight 830, was en route from Tokyo to Honolulu with 285 aboard when a bomb exploded under a seat, killing 16-year-old Toru Ozawa, and injuring 16 others. The damaged airliner was able to land safely in Honolulu.
Mohammed Rashed, linked to the 15th. May Organisation, was convicted of murder in 1988.
(11) On the 16th. August 1982, China Airlines 747 encountered severe turbulence near Hong Kong; two of the 292 passengers were killed.
(12) On the 4th. August 1983, Pan Am Flight 73, a 747-100, struck a VASI light installation and its concrete base while taking off at Karachi International Airport, causing the nose gear to collapse backwards to the left.
This resulted in the total destruction of the VASI light installation, and damage to the forward cargo hold, the floor of the first class section, and the stairway leading to the upper deck.
(13) On the 1st. September 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a 747-200B from New York City to Seoul, strayed into Soviet air space as a result of a navigation error.
The aircraft was shot down just west of Sakhalin Island by the Soviet Air Force, killing all 269 passengers and crew on board.
(14) On the 27th. November 1983, Avianca Flight 011, a 747-200 flying from Paris to Bogotá via Madrid, crashed into a mountainside due to a navigational error while manoeuvring to land at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 181 out of the 192 on board.
(15) On the 19th. February 1985, China Airlines 747SP was flying from Taipei to LA. About 350 miles from San Francisco, incorrect crew responses to an engine failure led to an uncontrolled descent.
The aircraft lost 30,000 feet, and high air speeds and g-forces led to damage to the horizontal stabilisers, wings and landing gear doors. The crew diverted to San Francisco, and all 22 crew members and 374 passengers survived.
(16) On the 16th. March 1985, a UTA Boeing 747-300 was destroyed on the ground at Paris CDG when a fire was accidentally started while the aircraft's cabin was being cleaned. (.... How can you start a major fire when cleaning a plane???)
(17) On the 23rd. June 1985, a bomb exploded on Air India Flight 182, a 747-200B en route from Montreal to New Delhi, causing the aircraft to explode and crash off the Southwest coast of Ireland, killing all 329 on board.
Until the September 11 attacks of 2001, the Air India bombing was the deadliest terrorist attack involving aircraft. It remains the worst mass murder in Canadian history.
(18) On the 12th. August 1985, Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed when the rear pressure bulkhead of a 747 flying from Tokyo to Osaka failed at cruising altitude, destroying most of the aircraft's vertical stabiliser.
The pilots kept it in the air for 32 minutes - time for passengers to write notes to their loved ones - but the aircraft eventually crashed on Mount Takamagahara. Out of the 524 people on board, only four survived, making it the deadliest-ever single-aircraft accident.
Among those who had caught the flight was one of Japan 's most popular singers, Kyu Sajamoto. He had become known to Western audiences in the 1960's with his hit record Sukiyaki.
(19) On the 5th. December 1985, Air France Flight 91 overshot the runway during a landing at Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport, Brazil. There were no fatalities, but the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.
(20) On the 5th. September 1986, Pan Am Flight 747-100 Flight 73 was about to depart Karachi for a flight to Frankfurt when four hijackers boarded the aircraft and attempted to take control of it.
However, the flight crew left the aircraft via the cockpit escape hatch (I'm all right, Jack). The hijackers killed 20 of the passengers before the hijacking ended.
(21) On the 28th. November 1987, South African Airways Flight 295, a 747-200 Combi en route from Taipei to Johannesburg, crashed into the ocean off Mauritius.
A fire had broken out in the rear cargo hold, leading to separation of the tail and damage to vital control systems. All 160 people on board died.
(22) On the 5th. April 1988, Kuwait Airways 747-200 Combi Flight 422 was hijacked during a flight from Bangkok to Kuwait. The aircraft was first diverted to Iran and later to Cyprus.
During the 16-day event, two hostages were killed in Cyprus before the hijackers surrendered at their final stop in Algeria.
(23) On the 21st. December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, a 747-100, disintegrated in mid-air after a bomb in the luggage hold exploded; the wings, with their tanks full of fuel, landed on Lockerbie, Scotland.
All 259 people on board and 11 people in Lockerbie died. A Libyan national was eventually convicted at a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands of murder in connection with the bombing.
(24) On the 19th. February 1989, Flying Tiger Line Flight 66, a 747-100F, was flying using a non-directional beacon (NDB) approach to Runway 33 at Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, Kuala Lumpur, when the cargo aircraft hit a hillside 600 ft (180 m) above sea level.
The crash resulted in the deaths of all four people on board. The crew had descended below the glide path after receiving ambiguous instructions from air traffic control.
(25) On the 24th. February 1989, United Air Lines 747-100, Flight 811 was flying from Honolulu to Auckland when it experienced sudden decompression.
The crew was able to return to Honolulu and land 14 minutes after the decompression. All 18 crew members survived, but 9 of the 337 passengers were killed. (...What did the 18 crew members do to ensure that they all survived???)
-- 1990's
(26) British Airways Flight 149 was a 747-100 flying from London Heathrow to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, Kuala Lumpur with stopovers in Kuwait International Airport and Madras International Airport (now Chennai).
The aircraft landed in Kuwait City on the 1st. August 1990, four hours after the Gulf War had broken out. (Bad Move!!!)
All 385 passengers and crew were taken hostage by Iraqi forces; one was executed but the others were released. The aircraft was subsequently blown up. (....Why didn't someone radio the captain during the initial four hours of the war and mention that they were about to land in a war zone???? Who knows ....)
(27) On the 29th. December 1991, China Airlines Flight 358, a 747-200, crashed shortly after take-off from Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, killing all 5 crew members.
The crash occurred when the number-three and number-four engines (both on the right wing) detached from the aircraft. (... One engine falling off could perhaps have a valid explanation, but both????)
(28) On the 20th. February 1992, a passenger on Aerolineas Argentinas 747 en route to LA from Argentina died from food poisoning.
(29) On the 4th. October 1992, an El Al 747-200 cargo flight crashed shortly after take-off from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport after the right-side engines both fell off due to metal fatigue and damaged the right wing.
The aircraft crashed into an apartment building, killing all three crew members and the single passenger on board, as well as 43 people in the building and on the ground.
(30) On the 4th. November 1993, China Airlines Flight 605, a brand-new 747-400 flying from Taipei to Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport, landed 2000 feet past the threshold of runway 13, with insufficient braking power.
Unable to stop before the end of the runway, the captain steered the aircraft into Victoria Harbour. All passengers were evacuated via inflatable life rafts.
The vertical fin was blown off with explosives, as it disrupted airport operations. The aircraft was recovered from the harbour days later, and was written off.
(31) On the 11th. December 1994, a small liquid-explosive bomb detonated under a seat of a Philippine Airlines 747-200 flying from Cebu to Tokyo. The bomb, which exploded over the Pacific, killed one of the 287 passengers and injured 10 others.
The aircraft itself was seriously damaged by the blast, and although vital control systems were damaged, the pilots were able to safely land the airliner at Okinawa an hour later.
The bomb was assembled and planted for al-Qaeda by Ramzi Yousef, as a test for the planned bombings of the Bojinka plot. This was a January 1995 al-Qaeda plot to destroy several airliners over the Pacific Ocean using liquid explosives. The conspirators were discovered before they could carry out the terrorist attacks.
(32) On the 17th. July 1996, TWA Flight 800, a 747-100 bound for CDG Airport in Paris, exploded during its climb from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, killing all 230 people aboard.
A spark from a wire in the centre fuel tank caused the explosion near Long Island. Changes in fuel tank management were adopted after the crash.
For more information on the TWA 800 crash and the virtuoso guitarist who was one of the passengers, please search for the tag 74GND75
(33) On the 5th. September 1996, Air France 747-400 experienced severe turbulence near Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
The turbulence injured 3 of the 206 passengers. One of the 3 later died of injuries caused by an in-flight entertainment screen. (.... How can an in-flight entertainment system kill you??? Perhaps it was terminal boredom. Alternative explanations on a postcard please).
(34) On the 12th. November 1996, Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight 763, a 747-100B, collided with Kazakhstan Airlines Flight 1907, an Ilyushin Il-76, in mid-air over Charkri Dadri in Haryana, India.
The collision resulted in the deaths of all 349 occupants of both aircraft, more than any other mid-air collision in history. The Ilyushin had apparently descended below its assigned altitude.
(35) On the 6th. August 1997, Korean Air Flight 801, a Boeing 747-300, crashed into a hillside while on a night-time approach in heavy rain to Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport on the island of Guam.
The crash resulted from a controlled flight into terrain due to insufficient training and pilot fatigue. Of the 254 people on board, only 26 survived.
(36) On the 28th. December 1997, United Air Lines 747-100, Flight 826 encountered severe turbulence when flying from Tokyo to Honolulu. All 19 crew members survived, but one of the 374 passengers was killed.
(37) On the 4th. January 1998, Olympic Airways 747 was scheduled to fly from Athens to New York. Prior to the flight, an asthmatic passenger with a history of sensitivity to second-hand smoke asked for a seat in the non-smoking area of the aircraft.
However, once on board, it was clear that the assigned seat was only 3 rows ahead of the smoking section, with no partition.
Three requests were made to the cabin crew to switch seats, but the cabin crew would not move the passenger to one of the eleven available unoccupied seats. Several hours into the flight, the passenger suffered a reaction to the ambient smoke and died.
(.... Why didn't the flight crew just let the passenger move seats??? Who knows ...)
(38) On the 5th. August 1998, Korean Air Flight 8702, a Boeing 747-400, overshot a runway at Incheon International Airport while landing. The fuselage split and 25 people were injured.
(39) On the 5th. March 1999, Air France flight 6745, a 747-2B3F carrying 66 tons of cargo from Paris CDG to Madras International Airport via Karachi and Bangalore HAL Airport, was destroyed by fire after landing with gear up. There were no fatalities.
(40) On the 23rd. September 1999 Qantas Flight 1, a passenger flight between Sydney and London was involved in a runway overrun at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok as it was landing for a stopover.
Visibility was very poor due to heavy rain, and the previous aircraft had executed a go-round, although the Quantas crew were not made aware of this.
Flight 1 landed over 3,000 feet beyond the runway threshold, and the undercarriage wheels aquaplaned on the wet ungrooved runway.
The Pilot and First Officer took conflicting corrective action, leading to the aircraft running off the end of the runway over a long stretch of boggy grassland, colliding with a ground radio antenna as it did so, and coming to rest with its nose resting on the perimeter road.
38 passengers sustained minor injuries, but there were no fatalities. The extensive damage to the aircraft was such that it was initially declared a write-off, but to preserve the company's reputation, Qantas had it repaired at a cost of $100 million. By returning the aircraft to service, Qantas was able to retain its record of having had no hull-loss accidents since the advent of the Jet Age.
(41) On the 22nd. December 1999, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a 747-200F from London Stansted Airport, crashed shortly after take-off, killing all four crew. The captain of the aircraft had mishandled it due to erroneous indications on his attitude indicator.
-- 2000's
(42) On the 31st. October 2000, Singapore Airlines Flight 006, a 747-400 flying from Singapore to LA via Taipei, collided with construction equipment while attempting to take off in heavy rain from a closed runway at Taiwan's Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport.
The aircraft caught fire, killing 79 passengers and four crew members on board. There were 96 survivors.
(43) On the 31st. January 2001, Japan Airlines Flight 907, a Boeing 747-400 en route to Naha Airport, Okinawa, narrowly avoided a mid-air collision with Japan Airlines Flight 958, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10.
The incident was attributed to errors made by air traffic controller trainee Hideki Hachitani and trainee supervisor Yasuko Momii. Had the collision occurred, given the combined total of 677 people on board both aircraft, this could have potentially been the deadliest aviation accident ever, surpassing the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster.
Once they had seen each other, the two aircraft avoided collision by using extreme evasive manoeuvres, and passed within about 135 metres (443 ft) of each other.
Seven passengers and two crew members in the 747 sustained serious injuries; one 54-year old woman broke her leg. Additionally, 81 passengers and 10 crew members reported minor injuries.
Some unbelted passengers, flight attendants, and drink carts hit the ceiling, dislodging ceiling tiles. The manoeuvre threw one boy across four rows of seats. In addition, a drink cart spilled, scalding some passengers.
After a criminal investigation, on the 11th. April 2008, the two air traffic controllers were found guilty of giving incorrect instructions, and received suspended prison sentences.
(44) On the 23rd. August 2001, Saudia Flight 3830, 747-368, rolled into a drainage ditch at Kuala Lumpur Airport and toppled forward, causing severe damage to the nose section. The aircraft was being taxied by a ground engineer.
When trying to make a turn, the brakes and steering had no effect, and the aircraft continued into the ditch. It emerged that the auxiliary hydraulic pumps, which actuated the brakes and steering, were switched off.
(45) On the 21st. November 2001, MK Airlines 747-200F was on an international cargo flight from Luxembourg to Port Harcourt, Nigeria when it crashed about 700 metres short of the runway. Of the 13 individuals on board, 1 died.
(46) On the 25th. May 2002, China Airlines Flight 611, a 747-200B en route to Hong Kong International Airport from Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport, broke up in mid-air 20 minutes after take off, and crashed into the Taiwan Strait, killing all 225 people on board.
Subsequent investigation determined the cause to be metal fatigue cracking due to an improperly-performed repair after a tail strike.
The aircraft was about to be sold to another carrier the following month. According to Boeing, it had been delivered to China Airlines in July 1979, and had accumulated approximately 21,180 landings and 64,394 flight hours. (.... That's a total of over 7 years in the air!!!)
This 22-year old aircraft was nevertheless younger than similar models in the fleets of US airlines. According to the FAA, the average age of Boeing 747-200 and 300 models in US fleets at the time of the event was 24 years.
(47) On the 14th. October 2004, MK Airlines Flight 1602, a 747-200F, crashed while attempting to take off from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven on board.
The aircraft's take-off weight had been incorrectly calculated, and it was only airborne briefly before stalling at the end of the runway.
(48) On the 8th. September 2005, while Saudi Arabian Airlines 747-300 was taxiing for takeoff on a flight from Colombo to Jeddah, air traffic controllers had an anonymous call concerning a possible bomb on the aircraft. The crew performed an emergency evacuation.
This resulted in 62 injuries amongst the 430 passengers and crew members. One passenger died as a result of his injuries, and 19 were hospitalised. A subsequent search revealed that there was no bomb on board.
(49) On the 7th. June 2006, Tradewinds International Airlines Flight 444, a 747-200F, aborted a take-off from Rionegro/Medellín-José María Córdova Airport and overran the runway. The aircraft was damaged beyond economic repair, and was withdrawn from service.
(50) On the 25th. May 2008, a Kalitta Air 747-200F broke up when it overran Runway 20 at Brussels Airport, Belgium, while en route to Bahrain International Airport, with no injuries.
(51) 44 days later, on the 7th. July 2008, another Kalitta Air 747-200F crashed into a farm field near the village of Madrid, Colombia shortly after take-off from El Dorado International Airport.
This time, the crew had reported an engine fire, and were attempting to return to the airport. One of the aircraft's engines hit a farmhouse and killed three people inside it.
-- 2010's
(52) On the 3rd. September 2010, UPS Airlines Flight 6, a 747-400F, crashed near Dubai International Airport, killing two crew members. The crash was blamed on a major fire that had been triggered by the auto-ignition of 81,000 lithium-ion batteries in a cargo pallet in the hold.
(53) On the 28th. July 2011, Asiana Airlines Flight 991, a 747-400F, caught fire and crashed in the sea near Jeju island, killing both crew members.
(54) On the 29th. April 2013, National Airlines Flight 102, a 747-400BCF, stalled and crashed shortly after taking off from Bagram Airfield, killing all 7 crew members.
At one point, the aircraft had rolled to the right past 45 degrees. Although the crew managed to get the wings more or less level, by then the aircraft was too low, and it impacted the ground at high vertical speed, causing an explosion and fire.
(55) On the 22nd. December 2013, the right wing on British Airways Flight 34, a Boeing 747–436, struck a building at O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg after missing a turning on a taxiway.
The wing was severely damaged, but there were no injuries amongst the crew or 189 passengers, although four on the ground were injured. The aircraft was officially written off in February 2014.
(56) On the 19th. March 2015, a 747-SP used by the president of Yemen was damaged by gunfire from troops loyal to deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh. Photos released a few months later showed the remains of the aircraft after it had been set on fire.
(57) On the 16th. January 2017, Turkish Airlines Flight 6491, a 747-400F operated by ACT Airlines en route from Hong Kong to Istanbul via Bishkek, overshot the runway on landing in thick freezing fog at Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
The aircraft caught fire, and 39 people died, including all four crew members, as well as 35 residents of a village at the crash site.
(58) On the 7th. November 2018, SkyLease Cargo Flight 4854, a 747-400F, overran the runway while landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. Although the aircraft sustained substantial damage, all four crew members survived with minor injuries.
-- 2020's
(59) On the 27th. August 2020, a Boeing 747-SP belonging to Las Vegas Sands Corporation was damaged beyond economic repair by Hurricane Laura while being stored at Chennault International Airport in Louisiana.
The tip of the right wing struck a steel beam, causing the tip to separate. The nose section of the aircraft was also damaged by the wing of another aircraft stored at the airport.
(60) On the 20th. February 2021, Longtail Aviation Flight 5504 littered the Dutch town of Meerssen with metal parts that fell from the sky onto property and people, shortly after departing Maastricht Airport for New York.
According to witness reports, there was a fire visible in one of the Boeing 747-400 cargo plane’s engines. The plane was able to land safely at Liège airport in Belgium, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of where it took off.
Soon after the incident Maastricht Airport spokesperson Hella Hendriks stated that several cars and houses had been damaged, and that pieces were found across the residential neighbourhood on roofs, gardens and streets.
Ms Hendriks confirmed that dozens of pieces fell. The metal parts apparently measured 5cm wide and 25cm long. She noted:
"The initial photos indicate they were parts
of engine blades, but that’s being investigated.”
Two people were injured by the debris, including an elderly woman who had to be taken to hospital.
The plane was powered by Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines, a smaller version of those on the United Airlines Boeing 777 that caught fire and dropped engine parts over Denver on the same day.
(61) On the 8th. September 2022, part of a Boeing 747’s engine plunged through a couple's garage roof. Louis and Adela Demaret, from Waremme in the Liège region of Belgium, heard a low-flying aircraft, followed by a deafening noise.
The flight was being operated by Air Atlanta Icelandic, and was travelling to Malta-Luqa airport when it lost the aft cowl of one of the engines.
Their garage window was also damaged, and another section of the plane’s engine landed next to the couple’s driveway. Fortunately no one was injured.
Summary
The 61 incidents listed above resulted in a total of 3,930 fatalities.
3,930 people standing in a line with a one metre gap between each would form a queue over 5.23 km (3.25 miles) long.
Le jardin botanique de Thoutmôsis III est une représentation, exécutée avec un remarquable souci du détail, de la faune et surtout de la flore de l'empire égyptien à son apogée. Celle-ci se trouve sur les murs de la pièce contiguë à la salle des fêtes de Thoutmôsis III. Ce dernier, grand pharaon guerrier, repousse les frontières de l'Égypte dans le nord comme dans le sud et crée le plus grand empire que l'Égypte ait jamais connu, avec outre un butin considérable des essences rares, des animaux et des plantes luxuriantes.
Sur les terrains situés à l'arrière du naos, jugé trop exigu, il fait bâtir un nouvel ensemble appelé Akhmenou : temple de la régénération du souverain, représentation magnifiée et sublimée du jardin sacré du temple d'Amon, où animaux et oiseaux avaient l'habitude de se côtoyer, protégés par un enclos. Un autre enclos identique se situait à côté du lac sacré, à proximité des magasins. De cet endroit partait une galerie couverte permettant aux oies sacrées d'aller s'ébattre dans le lac et de rentrer au bercail à l'abri des regards (cf. wikipédia, merci Meretseger Books pour la photo).
"Execute Order 66."
A shot-
Then the Jedi tumbled over the habours walls, and where he touched the ground, his cold blood colored the water dark red.
This is my entry for the Dark Times Group, hope you all like it:)
The style is inspired by the cancelled game Star Wars 1313 and maybe some Cyber Punk...:D
Benji
A half length portrait of one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising who was executed in Kilmainham Gaol.
From Wikipedia:
Seán Mac Diarmada (English: John MacDermott; 27 January 1883 – 12 May 1916), also known as Seán MacDermott, was an Irish political activist and revolutionary leader. He was one of the seven leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, which he helped to organise as a member of the Military Committee of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and was a signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. He was executed for his part in the Rising at the age of thirty-three.
Raised in rural County Leitrim, he was a member of many associations which promoted the cause of the Irish language, Gaelic revival and Irish nationalism in general, including the Gaelic League and (early in his career) the Irish Catholic fraternity the Ancient Order of Hibernians. He was national organiser for Sinn Féin, and later manager of the newspaper Irish Freedom, started in 1910 by Bulmer Hobson and others. Within the Irish Republican Brotherhood, he was a close colleague and friend of veteran republican Tom Clarke.
Photographer: Brendan Keogh
Collection: Keogh Photographic Collection
Date: between 1914-1923
NLI Ref: KE 54
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Executed by mistake. My order was for a synthetic thread but Nena Bernales' bordadera heard her wrong and executed the cape in Italian (thrice expensive) gold thread instead.
The fair Nena did not charge me extra, saying it must be the Penafrancia's wish to be draped in an expensive cape.
Being a Bicolana herself, Aling Nena is a devotee of Ina, and keeps an ivory version of the image in her Oroquieta shop.
Un huevo de Fabergé es una de las sesenta y nueve joyas creadas por Carl Fabergé y sus artesanos de la empresa Fabergé para los zares de Rusia, así como para algunos miembros de la nobleza y la burguesía industrial y financiera, entre los años 1885 y 1917. Los huevos se consideran obras maestras de la joyería.
La fiesta más importante del calendario de la Iglesia ortodoxa rusa es la Pascua. Se celebra con tres besos y el intercambio de huevos de Pascua. Por lo que respecta a los huevos imperiales de Fabergé, estos comenzaron a fabricarse en 1885 cuando el zar Alejandro III encargó un huevo de Pascua para su esposa, la emperatriz María Fiódorovna. El huevo recordaba a la patria de la emperatriz, Dinamarca, ya que el joyero se había inspirado en un huevo de pascua que se encontraba en las colecciones reales danesas y tanto agradó a la zarina que el zar ordenó que Peter Carl Gustávovich Fabergé fabricara un huevo de Pascua cada año para la zarina, estipulando solamente que el huevo fuese único y que encerrase una sorpresa.
También en 1885 Fabergé fue nombrado proveedor oficial de la corte imperial rusa. El joyero y su equipo de orfebres y artesanos, entre ellos maestros joyeros como el ruso Michael Perkhin y los finlandeses Henrik Wigström y Erik August Kollin, diseñaron y confeccionaron huevos de Pascua durante once años más para Alejandro III de Rusia hasta que este falleció, continuando su hijo y sucesor Nicolás II con la tradición. Estos proyectos se convirtieron en prioridad absoluta de la compañía y fueron planeados y trabajados con un año o más de antelación: la sorpresa que contenía el huevo se mantenía siempre en secreto.
Para el diseño de los huevos imperiales Fabergé se inspiró en distintos estilos artísticos europeos, como el Barroco, el Rococó, el Neoclásico o el Modernista, así como en obras de arte que contempló durante sus estancias y viajes por Europa. Había huevos creados para conmemorar acontecimientos tales como la coronación del zar Nicolás II, la terminación del ferrocarril Transiberiano, así como para celebrar aniversarios importantes. Otros huevos guardaban en su interior el yate imperial Standart, la catedral de Uspensky, el palacio de Gátchina o el palacio Alejandro, por citar unos ejemplos.
De los 69 huevos que hizo en total la Casa Fabergé para los zares, la aristocracia y la élite industrial y financiera, se conservan 61. Se conocen cincuenta y dos huevos imperiales, cuarenta y cuatro de los cuales se han localizado hoy, entre ellos los dos últimos de 1917 que nunca fueron entregados ni terminados a causa de la Revolución rusa, destacando el huevo de la constelación del Zarévich. Los restantes 8 huevos imperiales se consideran perdidos o desaparecidos (Stalin ordenó venderlos para recaudar fondos1); dos se conocen solamente por haber sido fotografiados en primer plano, otros tres se han descubierto en 2007, dos de ellos en una foto tomada a una vitrina de la zarina María Fiódorovna, donde aparece el tercer huevo imperial (este huevo fue recientemente descubierto y será rematado)2 y el huevo con querubín y carruaje, este último quedó reflejado en el cristal de la misma, en cuanto al huevo del neceser figura en una fotografía de la joyería Wartski, Londres, en la parte inferior de una vitrina. No se tiene ningún documento visual de los otros tres.
Otros siete huevos de Pascua fueron encargados por Alejandro Ferdinándovich Kelch, dueño de minas de oro en Siberia, para su esposa Bárbara. Asimismo personajes de la época como Alfred Nobel, el Príncipe Yusúpov, los duques de Marlborough entre otras personas de categoría no imperial encargaron los suyos, sumando un total de ocho huevos. Sin embargo, la colección imperial de huevos de Pascua encargada por los dos últimos zares rusos es la más famosa.
Entre los materiales usados por Fabergé figuran metales como el oro, platino, plata, cobre, níquel, paladio y acero, los cuales fueron combinados en distintas proporciones con el fin de conseguir diferentes colores para la "cáscara" del huevo.
Otra técnica usada por Fabergé fue la conocida como guilloché, un tratamiento de grabado superficial sobre metal que consiste en hacer ondas, estrías o cualquier otro dibujo, de un modo repetitivo y simétrico, que se podía realizar a máquina o a mano. Fabergé se mostraba orgulloso de que todas las materias primas que se empleaban en su taller provenían de distintas partes de Rusia. Muchos huevos incluían minerales como el jaspe, la malaquita, la rodonita, el cristal de roca, el ágata, la aventurina, el lapislázuli y el jade (nefrita sobre todo, aunque usaba a veces la jadeíta). El huevo de 1917, destinado a la zarina María Fyodorevna, estaba realizado en madera de abedul de Karelia.
Las piedras preciosas, incluyendo los zafiros, los rubíes y las esmeraldas, fueron utilizadas para la decoración de los huevos y/o la sorpresa que contenían. Cuando se usaban era en la talla conocida como cabujón (corte redondo). En cuanto al tipo de talla empleada para los diamantes, era la típica talla rosa. Por otra parte también se emplearon piedras semipreciosas como las piedras de luna, los granates, los olivinos y las piedras de Mecca, usadas más a menudo en la talla cabujón.
La fuente primaria de inspiración de Fabergé venía de los trabajos de siglos anteriores. El esmalte translúcido era una técnica muy valorada en el siglo XIX, que requería de varias capas de esmalte que se secaban en un horno después de aplicar cada capa. Sin embargo, durante el siglo XIX se disponía solamente de una limitada gama de colores, de modo que Fabergé experimentó y pronto aumentó su paleta de colores hasta lograr más de 140 tonalidades diferentes. El más apreciado fue el esmalte de ostra, el cual variaba de color dependiendo de la luz.
La Casa Fabergé fabricó, entre otros tantos objetos decorativos, accesorios para escritorio y joyas y muchos más huevos de Pascua, pero los más célebres son los que a continuación se detallan.
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www.san-petersburgo.net/museo-faberge/
A Fabergé egg (Russian: Яйца Фаберже́, yaytsa faberzhe) is a jewelled egg (possibly numbering as many as 69, of which 57 survive today) created by the House of Fabergé, in St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia. Virtually all were manufactured under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé between 1885 and 1917, the most famous being the 52 "Imperial" eggs, 44 of which survive, made for the Russian Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II as Easter gifts for their wives and mothers.
The first Fabergé egg was crafted for Tsar Alexander III, who had decided to give his wife, the Empress Maria Feodorovna, an Easter egg in 1885, possibly to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their betrothal. Although there is no official record of the Tsar's inspiration for it, many believe that he was moved by an egg owned by the Empress's aunt, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, which had captivated Maria's imagination in her childhood and of which the Tsar was well aware. Known as the Hen Egg, the very first Fabergé egg is crafted from a foundation of gold. Its opaque white enameled "shell" opens to reveal a matte yellow-gold yolk. This in turn opens to reveal a multicolored gold hen that also opens. The hen contained a minute diamond replica of the imperial crown from which a small ruby pendant was suspended, but these last two elements have been lost.
Maria was so delighted by the gift that Alexander appointed Fabergé a "goldsmith by special appointment to the Imperial Crown" and commissioned another egg the next year. After that, Peter Carl Fabergé was apparently given complete freedom for the design of future imperial Easter eggs, and their designs became more elaborate. According to Fabergé family lore, not even the Tsar knew what form they would take—the only requirements were that each contain a surprise, and that each be unique. Once Fabergé had approved an initial design, the work was carried out by a team of craftsmen, among them Michael Perkhin, Henrik Wigström and Erik August Kollin.
After Alexander III's death on 1 November 1894, his son, Nicholas II, presented a Fabergé egg to both his wife, Alexandra Fedorovna, and his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna. Records have shown that of the 50 imperial Easter eggs, 20 were given to the former and 30 to the latter. Eggs were made each year except 1904 and 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War.
The imperial eggs enjoyed great fame, and Fabergé was commissioned to make similar eggs for a few private clients, including the Duchess of Marlborough, the Rothschild family and the Yusupovs. Fabergé was also commissioned to make twelve eggs for the industrialist Alexander Kelch, though only seven appear to have been completed.
Following the revolution and the nationalization of the Fabergé workshop in St. Petersburg by the bolsheviks in 1918, the Fabergé family left Russia. The Fabergé trademark has since been sold several times and several companies have retailed egg-related merchandise using the Fabergé name. The Victor Mayer jewelry company produced limited edition heirloom quality Fabergé eggs authorized under Unilever's license from 1998 to 2009. The trademark is now owned by Fabergé Limited, which makes egg-themed jewellery.
In 2015 the owners of this trademark announced the creation of a new "Fabergé" egg, one styled by them as belonging to the "Imperial Class" of eggs and therefore the first Imperial-Class egg in 100 years: the Fabergé Pearl egg is to be sold in Qatar following a five-day exhibition some time in 2017. A spokesperson for the brand said it expected the egg to fetch at least two million US dollars, possibly much more. Despite its designation as "Imperial", it has no connection to Imperial Russia and instead has become closely tied to wealthy Arab ruling families of various Gulf Nations.[4] Its motif has been described as "scalloped", but the patterns of its curves and lines are also clearly derived from the girih and arabesque of Islamic interlace patterns, and each of its six vertical segments includes a stylized pointed dome and associated pendentives reminiscent of the onion dome and ceiling of an Arabic mosque.
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Peter Carl Fabergé, conocido también como Karl Gustavovich Fabergé (en ruso, Карл Густавович Фаберже) (30 de mayo de 1846, San Petersburgo, Rusia – 24 de septiembre de 1920, Lausana, Suiza), fue un joyero ruso. Es considerado uno de los orfebres más destacados del mundo, que realizó 69 huevos de Pascua entre los años 1885 a 1917, 61 de ellos se conservan.
En 1870 pasa a ser el responsable de la empresa familiar de joyería en San Petersburgo. Con una excelente reputación como diseñador, trabaja con piedras preciosas y metales, y realiza diseños de diferentes estilos como ruso antiguo, griego, renacentista, barroco, Art Nouveau, naturalista y caricaturesco.
Sus obras fueron expuestas en la Exposición Panrusa de Moscú de 1882 y recibieron la medalla de oro. Recibió el nombramiento de orfebre y joyero de la Corte Imperial Rusa y de otras muchas monarquías europeas. Fabricó joyas con forma de huevos de Pascua de oro y esmalte, animales en miniatura, cálices, bomboneras y otros objetos
Para la Pascua de 1885, el zar Alejandro III le encargó al orfebre Peter Carl Fabergé la construcción de un huevo para regalarle a su mujer, la zarina María. El regalo consistió en un huevo con cáscara de platino que contenía dentro uno más pequeño de oro. Al abrirse este último, se encontraba una gallina de oro en miniatura que tenía sobre su cabeza una réplica de la corona imperial rusa. Este particular Huevo de Pascua le gustó tanto a la emperatriz que el zar le ordenó a Fabergé que realizara uno nuevo para cada Pascua.
Once fueron en total los huevos que Alejandro III le regaló a su mujer. Luego, su hijo Nicolás II continuó con esta tradición y mandó realizar otros para regalarle a su mujer y a su madre. Los 57 huevos que confeccionó la casa Fabergé tenían en su interior algún obsequio, réplica en miniatura de una de las pertenencias de los zares.
La Revolución rusa acabó con la firma.
Desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial han salido a subasta seis de estas obras de arte. En noviembre de 1994 el Winter Egg (creado en 1913, y que se creía perdido hasta 1984) alcanzó los 5.600.000 dólares.
Recientemente (28 de noviembre de 2007) un huevo fabricado por Fabergé para la familia de banqueros Rothschild, alcanzó en subasta el precio récord de 18 millones de dólares.
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www.san-petersburgo.net/museo-faberge/
Peter Carl Fabergé, also known as Karl Gustavovich Fabergé (Russian: Карл Гу́ставович Фаберже́, Karl Gustavovich Faberzhe; 30 May 1846 – 24 September 1920), was a Russian jeweller best known for the famous Fabergé eggs made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and gemstones rather than more mundane materials. He was the founder of the famous jewelry legacy House of Fabergé.
Peter Carl Faberge was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to the Baltic German jeweller Gustav Fabergé and his Danish wife Charlotte Jungstedt. Gustav Fabergé's paternal ancestors were Huguenots, originally from La Bouteille, Picardy, who fled from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, first to Germany near Berlin, then in 1800 to the Pernau (today Pärnu)[2] Baltic province of Livonia, then part of Russia, now Estonia.
Until he was 14 years old he went to the German St Anne School in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[citation needed] In 1860 his father retired from his jewelry business and moved with his family to Germany. He left the House of Fabergé in Saint Petersburg in the hands of his business partner. Carl Fabergé undertook a course at the Dresden Arts and Crafts School. In 1862 Agathon Fabergé, the Fabergés' second son, was born in Dresden, Germany, where he went to school as well.
In 1864, Peter Carl Fabergé embarked upon a Grand Tour of Europe. He received tuition from respected goldsmiths in Germany, France and England, attended a course at Schloss's Commercial College in Paris, and viewed the objects in the galleries of Europe's leading museums.
His travel and study continued until 1872, when at the age of 26 he returned to St. Petersburg and married Augusta Julia Jacobs. 1874 saw the arrival of his first child, Eugene Fabergé and two years later, Agathon Fabergé was born; Alexander Fabergé and Nicholas Fabergé followed in 1877 and 1884 respectively. For the following 10 years, his father's trusted workmaster Hiskias Pendin acted as his mentor and tutor. The company was also involved with cataloguing, repairing, and restoring objects in the Hermitage during the 1870s. In 1881 the business moved to larger street-level premises at 16/18 Bolshaya Morskaya.
Upon the death of Hiskias Pendin in 1882, Carl Fabergé took sole responsibility for running the company. Carl was awarded the title Master Goldsmith, which permitted him to use his own hallmark in addition to that of the firm. In 1885 his brother Agathon Fabergé joined the firm and became Carl Faberge's main assistant in the designing of jewelry.[3]
Carl and Agathon Fabergé Sr. were a sensation at the Pan-Russian Exhibition held in Moscow in 1882. Carl was awarded a gold medal and the St. Stanisias Medal. One of the Fabergé pieces displayed was a replica of a 4th-century BC gold bangle from the Scythian Treasure in the Hermitage. The Tsar, Alexander III, "Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russians", declared that he could not distinguish the Fabergé's work from the original and ordered that objects by the House of Fabergé should be displayed in the Hermitage as examples of superb contemporary Russian craftsmanship. The House of Fabergé with its range of jewels was now within the focus of Russia's Imperial Court.
When Peter Carl took over the House, there was a move from producing jewellery in the then-fashionable French 18th century style to becoming artist-jewellers. Fabergé's production of the very first so-called Fabergé egg, the Hen Egg, given as a gift from the Tsar to his wife Maria Fyodorovna on Orthodox Easter (24 March) of 1885 so delighted her that on 1 May the Emperor assigned Fabergé the title Goldsmith by special appointment to the Imperial Crown of that year. This meant that Fabergé now had full personal access to the important Hermitage Collection, where he was able to study and find inspiration for developing his unique personal style. Influenced by the jewelled bouquets created by the eighteenth century goldsmiths Jean-Jacques Duval and Jérémie Pauzié, Fabergé re-worked their ideas combining them with his accurate observations and his fascination for Japanese art. This resulted in a revival of the lost art of enameling and a focus on the setting of every single gemstone in a piece to its best visual advantage. Indeed, it was not unusual for Agathon to make ten or more wax models so that all possibilities could be exhausted before deciding on a final design. Shortly after Agathon joined the firm, the House introduced objects deluxe: gold bejewelled items embellished with enamel ranging from electric bell pushes to cigarette cases and including objects de fantaisie.
In light of the Empress' response to receiving one of Fabergé's eggs on Easter, the Tsar soon commissioned the company to make an Easter egg as a gift for her every year thereafter. The Tsar placed an order for another egg the following year. Beginning in 1887, the Tsar apparently gave Carl Fabergé complete freedom with regard to egg designs, which then became more and more elaborate. According to Fabergé Family tradition, not even the Tsar knew what form they would take— the only stipulation was that each one should be unique and each should contain a surprise. Upon the death of Alexander III, his son, the next Tsar, Nicholas II, followed this tradition and expanded it by requesting that there be two eggs each year, one for his mother (who was eventually given a total of 30 such eggs) and one for his wife, Alexandra (who received another 20). These Easter gift eggs are today distinguished from the other jeweled eggs Fabergé ended up producing by their designation as "Imperial Easter eggs" or "Tsar Imperial Easter eggs". The tradition continued until the October Revolution when the entire Romanov dynasty was executed and the eggs and many other treasures were confiscated by the interim government. The two final eggs were never delivered nor paid for.
Although today the House of Fabergé is famed for its Imperial Easter eggs, it made many more objects ranging from silver tableware to fine jewelry which were also of exceptional quality and beauty, and until its departure from Russia during the revolution, Fabergé's company became the largest jewelry business in the country. In addition to its Saint Petersburg headquarters, it had branches in Moscow, Odessa, Kiev and London. It produced some 150,000 to 200,000 objects from 1882 until 1917.
In 1900, Fabergé's work represented Russia at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. As Carl Fabergé was a member of the jury, the House of Fabergé exhibited hors concours (without competing). Nevertheless, the House was awarded a gold medal and the city's jewelers recognized Carl Fabergé as a maître. Additionally, France recognized Carl Fabergé with one of the most prestigious of French awards, appointing him a knight of the Legion of Honour. Two of Carl's sons and his head workmaster were also honored. Commercially, the exposition was a great success and the firm acquired a great many orders and clients.
In 1916, the House of Fabergé became a joint-stock company with a capital of 3-million rubles.
The following year upon the outbreak of the October Revolution, the business was taken over by a 'Committee of the Employees of the Company K Fabergé. In 1918 The House of Fabergé was nationalised by the Bolsheviks. In early October the stock was confiscated. The House of Fabergé was no more.]
After the nationalisation of the business, Carl Fabergé left St. Petersburg on the last diplomatic train for Riga. In mid-November, the Revolution having reached Latvia, he fled to Germany and first settled in Bad Homburg and then in Wiesbaden. Eugène, the Fabergés' eldest, travelled with his mother in darkness by sleigh and on foot through snow-covered woods and reached Finland in December 1918. During June 1920, Eugène reached Wiesbaden and accompanied his father to Switzerland where other members of the family had taken refuge at the Bellevue Hotel in Pully, near Lausanne.
Peter Carl Fabergé never recovered from the shock of the Russian Revolution. He died in Switzerland on September 24, 1920. His family believed he died of a broken heart. His wife, Augusta, died in 1925. The two were reunited in 1929 when Eugène Fabergé took his father's ashes from Lausanne and buried them in his mother's grave at the Cimetière du Grand Jas in Cannes, France.
Fabergé had four sons: Eugène (1874–1960), Agathon (1876–1951), Alexander (1877–1952) and Nicholas (1884–1939). Descendants of Peter Carl Fabergé live in mainland Europe, Scandinavia and South America.
Henry Bainbridge, a manager of the London branch of the House of Fabergé, recorded recollections of his meetings with his employer in both his autobiography and the book he wrote about Fabergé. We are also given an insight into the man from the recollections of François Birbaum, Fabergé's senior master craftsman from 1893 until the House's demise.
From Bainbridge we know that while punctilious with his dress, Fabergé "rarely if ever wore black but favoured well-cut tweeds". He added "There was an air of the country gentleman about him, at times he reminded one of an immaculate gamekeeper with large pockets." He was a very focused individual with no wasted actions or speech. He did not like small talk. On one occasion during dinner Bainbridge, feeling out of the conversation said, "I see Lord Swaythingly is dead". Fabergé asked who he was and upon being told responded cuttingly, "And what can I do with a dead banker?"
When taking orders from customers he was always in a hurry and would soon forget the fine detail. He would then interrogate the staff so as to find any who had been standing near him and may have overheard. His great-granddaughter Tatiana Fabergé notes that he usually had a knotted handkerchief in his breast pocket.
When Carl noticed an unsuccessfully wrought item, he would call for his senior master craftsman and make endless derisory and ironic remarks. On occasions when Birbaum realized Fabergé was the designer, he would show him his sketch. Fabergé would then smile guiltily and say, "Since there is nobody to scold me, I have had to do it myself".
From Birbaum we also know that Carl was famous for his wit and was quite merciless to fops, whom he hated. A certain prince who fell into this category boasted to Fabergé about his latest honour from the Tsar, adding that he had no idea as to why the award was made. The prince expected the jeweler to shower him with congratulations. Instead, Fabergé simply replied, "Indeed, your Highness, I too have no idea what for".
Carl never traveled with luggage—he bought all his requisites at his destination. On one occasion, when he arrived at the Negresco Hotel in Nice the doorman barred him from entering because of the amount of luggage he carried. Thankfully one of the grand dukes who was in residence called out a greeting and Carl Fabergé was promptly ushered apologetically into the establishment.
Bainbridge concludes, "Taking him all in all, Fabergé came as near to a complete understanding of human nature as it is possible for a man to come, with one word only inscribed on his banner, and that word – tolerance. There is no doubt whatsoever that this consideration for the worth of others was the foundation for his success."
The Grade II Listed Statue of Francis Aglionby, located outside the Carlisle Magistrates Court on Earl Street in Carlisle, Cumbria.
Major Francis Aglionby, who lived from 1777-1840 was the city MP and Chairman of Cumberland Quater Sessions. The statue was created in 1843 by Musgrave Lewthwaite Watson.
Francis Aglionby died in 1840 while entering court on his way to the bench in his capacity as Chairman of the Cumberland Quarter Sessions; at a subsequent inquest, the jury returned a verdict of Natural Death. Two years later it was determined to erect a life size statue to his memory to be executed by the sculptor Musgrave Watson. The completed statue was erected in 1843 in the large room originally intended as the grand entrance hall to the Criminal Court, within a few yards from his place of death. It remained in this location until urgent repairs in 1980 led to it being removed to an upper floor landing. When the new Crown Court was opened in 1992 the statue was moved to a new pedestal outside its main entrance, and at some point, in order to restrict deterioration of the statue, an impermeable paint was applied to the figure.
Francis Aglionby was an English Whig politician. He was elected as MP for Cumberland Eastern in 1837, and held this seat until his death in 1840. Aglionby also served in the Cumberland militia, where he rose to the rank of Major.
The Corvette C3 was patterned after the Mako Shark II designed by Larry Shinoda. Executed under Bill Mitchell's direction, the Mako II had been initiated in early 1964. Once the mid-engined format was abandoned, the Shinoda/Mitchell car was sent to Chevrolet Styling under David Holls, where Harry Haga's studio adapted it for production on the existing Stingray chassis. The resulting lower half of the car was much like the Mako II, except for the softer contours. The concept car's name was later changed to Manta Ray. The C3 also adopted the "sugar scoop" roof treatment with vertical back window from the mid-engined concept models designed by the Duntov group. It was intended from the beginning that the rear window and that portion of the roof above the seats to be removable.
For 1968, both the Corvette body and interior were completely redesigned. As before, the car was available in either coupe or convertible models, but coupe was now a notchback fitted with a near-vertical removable rear window and removable roof panels (T-tops). A soft folding top was included with convertibles, while an auxiliary hardtop with a glass rear window was offered at additional cost. Included with coupes were hold down straps and a pair of vinyl bags to store the roof panels, and above the luggage area was a rear window stowage tray.
The chassis was carried over from the second generation models, retaining the fully independent suspension (with minor revisions) and the four-wheel disc brake system. The engine line-up and horsepower ratings were also carried over from the previous year.
The engine line-up included the L79, a 350 hp (261 kW) high performance version of the 327 cu in (5.4 L) small-block. Also available were several variants of the big-block 427 cu in (7.0 L) V8 engine, that taken together made up nearly half the cars. There was the L36, a 390 hp (291 kW) version with a Rochester 4-barrel carburetor; The L68, a 400 hp (298 kW) motor with a Holley triple 2-barrel carb set up (3 X 2 tri-power); The L71, generating 435 bhp (441 PS; 324 kW) at 5,800 rpm and 460 lb⋅ft (624 N⋅m) at 4,000 rpm of torque also with a tri-power; The L89 option was the L71 engine but with much lighter aluminum cylinder heads rather than the standard cast iron. Then there was the L88 engine that Chevrolet designed strictly for off-road use (racing), with a published rating of 430 hp (321 kW), but featured a high-capacity 4-barrel carb, aluminum heads, a unique air induction system, and an ultra-high compression ratio (12.5:1). All small block cars had low-profile hoods. All big block cars had domed hoods for additional engine clearance with twin simulated vents and “427” emblems on either side of the dome.
For some time now, I have been thinking of origami tessellations as a kind of bas-relief, executed in a very particular way. This led me to the idea of combining tessellations with a medium more traditionally used for sculpture, namely plaster. In this experiment, I made an impression of a quick-and-dirty fold of Tumbling Square Rosette in a layer of fresh plaster.
The results are interesting, and I will possibly experiment some more, but there are also limitations to this technique. For one, even a tessellation with relatively deep relief leaves only shallow pits in the plaster. They are not very well visible, though it depends on lighting. Perhaps an even more voluminous model such as Braided Pinwheel Tessellation would be better. There might be some techniques for improving contrast such as filling in the pits with some kind of wax, or painting the cast in a way that highlights the edges.
The other issue is that in order to make the impression, the original folded model has to be destroyed (or at least heavily damaged). In the test I used a throw-away fold, made from plain copy paper, so this was not a problem. But for more complex designs, folding the model so that it later gets thrown away is a bit discouraging. I tried to make the impression through an intermediate layer of transparent wrapping foil or aluminium foil, but that did not work too well as the intermediate layer greatly decreases the amount of detail transferred to the plaster. It might be less of a problem for larger models since the thickness of the intermediate layer would be smaller relative to the model, but I have not tried that yet, and working with larger models comes with some other challenges.
Anyway, this is just a proof of concept, but I think it might be an interesting direction in combining origami with other media and is worth exploring in more detail.
Full post: origami.kosmulski.org/blog/2022-07-04-plaster-casts-of-or...
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الســـلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته :)
من العنوان ... الموضوع عن الأعدام !! آآآستر عليه
والسبب ان هذه النحله طغت و قرصتني وتستحق الأعدام شـــنقاً ههههههههـ
والله مادري وش سويت لهــا , قــاعد اشوفهم وهم ياخذون رحيق الأزهــار << متعوب عليه !
يوم رقيت غرفتي مادري الا رجلي خشبت ( خشبت بمعنى تشنجت ) خخخخخخخخخـ
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واشوف ذاك الشيء الي ناشب برجلي , واثرها نحله بنت النحله
تعلمت شيئين :
1-النحله تموت اول ما تقرصك يقولون تتجرثم مادري وش يجيها , احسن خخخخـ
2- الوجع يكون لكم دقيقه , كأنها مسحه طبيه على جرح بس الألم متواصل
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Portraits of military and civilian people who were members of the failed plot. Four of them were executed after an impromptu trial conducted by General Fromm on the following night after the failed coup d'état. General Beck tried to commit suicide, but he failed, and he was killed by soldiers.
More than 7,000 people were arrested and 4,980 were executed. The Trial were conducted at the People's Court, under the direction of court's president, Roland Freisler, a fanatical Nazi who was seen shouting furiously and insulting the accused in the trial, which was filmed for propaganda purposes.
The plotters were stripped of their uniforms and given old, shabby clothing to humiliate them for the cameras.
Freisler died after an Allied bombing on February 3, 1945. This judge sentenced to death thousands of people, including the young university students of Munich, Sophie and Hans Scholl, members of the clandestine association "The White Rose".
(Source: Wikipedia)
Picture taken in 2016 inside the Memorial to the German Resistance (Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand), Von Stauffenberg Strasse, Berlin, Germany.
FOTOGRAFIAS DE ALGUNOS DE LOS CONSPIRADORES DEL GOLPE DEL 20 DE JULIO DE 1944
Retratos de militares y civiles integrantes del complot fallido. Cuatro de ellos fueron ejecutados tras un juicio improvisado llevado a cabo por el general Fromm la noche siguiente al fallido golpe de Estado. El general Beck intentó suicidarse, pero fracasó y fue asesinado por soldados.
Más de 7.000 personas fueron detenidas y 4.980 ejecutadas. El Juicio se llevó a cabo en el Tribunal Popular, bajo la dirección del presidente del tribunal, Roland Freisler, un nazi fanático que fue visto gritando furiosamente e insultando a los acusados en el juicio, que fue filmado con fines propagandísticos.
Los conspiradores fueron despojados de sus uniformes y les dieron ropa vieja y gastada para humillarlos ante las cámaras.
Freisler murió tras un bombardeo aliado el 3 de febrero de 1945. Este juez condenó a muerte a miles de personas, entre ellas los jóvenes universitarios de Munich, Sophie y Hans Scholl, miembros de la asociación clandestina "La Rosa Blanca".
(Fuente: Wikipedia)
Fotografía tomada en 2016 dentro del Monumento a la Resistencia Alemana (Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand), Von Stauffenberg Strasse, Berlín, Alemania.
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Detail of the Romanesque-Gothic facade of the Ferrara Cathedral, built in 1135. Italy.
The loggia of the protiro contains a statue of the Virgin and Child, executed by Cristoforo da Firenze in 1427.
Work on this magnificent Cathedral was begun in the 12th century in purest Romanesque style. Subsequently, between the 13th and the 14th century, the facade was modified and enriched with Gothic details and assumed its present appearance.
It was consecrated to St. George, patron saint of Ferrara, in 1135.
Dettaglio della facciata romano-gotica della Cattedrale di Ferrara, costruita nel 1135. Italia.
La loggia del protiro contiene una statua della Vergine e del Bambino, eseguita da Cristoforo da Firenze nel 1427.
La costruzione di questa magnifica Cattedrale ebbe inizio nel XII secolo in puro stile Romanico. Successivamente, tra il XIII e il XIV secolo, la facciata fu modificata e arricchita con elementi Gotici assumendo il suo attuale aspetto.
Essa fu consacrata a S. Giorgio, santo patrono della città di Ferrara, nel 1135.
A very well executed US Specification Healy Fiesta rep with few giveaways of it being a replica other than the RHD set-up.
Modifications from GL include:
Federal bumpers
US spec rear lights (red turn signals!)
Escort MK2 Ghia front lamps
1.6 XR2 engine
US spec fuel filler cap and expansion tank
Custom steel front lower valance and arch extensions
This Mannerist triumphal arch is executed in a rustic style with real and fake rocks. Milanese architect Vermondo Resta renovated and designed this part of the wall between 1612 and 1621. The niches on the lower level were once filled with mythological paintings which have since been retouched and repainted
shot executed by pinhole Auloma Superpanorama 6x17, Filter auloma ND4, negative scanned by Canon EOS 1100D, 120 film Kodak ektar 100
Sgt. Daniel Kahn, a force reconnaissance Marine with 1st Platoon, 4th Force Reconnaissance Company, scouts out the beachfront during hydrographic reconnaissance training at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows in Waimanalo, Hawaii, Jan. 13, 2011. The training was part of a weeklong jump and dive training package that brought the unit, headquartered in Alameda, Calif., together with their Hawaii-based counterparts — 4th Force’s 4th Platoon. “We are the tool our generals use to determine the geographical makeup of the land,” said Petty Officer 2nd Class Mike Weissman, a hospital corpsman with 2nd Platoon, 4th Force. “Before he makes the decision to execute a mission, the beach’s gradient has to be surveyed. We come in clandestinely at night and make an underwater map of the beach for him.”