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Last Saturday, the children traditionally visited Facts, a fair in Ghent comparable to ComiCon. After working on great cosplay costumes for a few months, we drove to Ghent. Finally, after an hour and a half of standing in traffic jams, they moved into the exhibition halls.
Heidi and I had decided in advance to explore the surroundings of Ghent this time. After another half hour in traffic jams, we were able to leave the site and drove towards the harbor.
The "Captain Zeppos Park" (look for our album "Kapitein Zeppospark")was our first stop. This is a former inner dock that has now been turned into a park. A small playground, a beach on the water where swimming is not allowed, an old harbor crane that functions as a landmark and some old quay walls. A nice place.
Autumn has now fully erupted here. This makes it rain, strong winds, ... . In short, no weather to chase a dog through. As a result, we searched for some nice places to visit via Google Maps. Places with a roof over our heads. Yet our attention was drawn to a special place.
A former execution site of the Nazis. We couldn't resist visiting this place. With a large umbrella in one hand and my mobile phone in the other, I managed to take some pictures. The inclement weather contributed greatly to the experience of the place.
Quote from Wikipedia:
The Execution Centre Rieme-Oostakker is the place in the Ghent borough of Oostakker where 66 resistance fighters were executed by the German occupiers between 8 February 1943 and 24 August 1944.
Here the memory of the 20 resistance fighters who died at rieme's execution site is also kept alive. That site had to disappear in 1998 because of the construction of the Kluizendok of the port of Ghent. The whole has been transferred to the border area between Oostakker and Lochristi.
The executions were carried out in secret and the victims were buried anonymously. A number of the resistance fighters killed in Rieme were found in a mass grave in Hechtel-Eksel. In addition, German soldiers and Belgian criminals were also executed. Due to these circumstances, it is still unclear how many people died. After the Liberation, the mass grave in Oostakker was uncovered. The victims were identified and buried in their residences. The crosses on the site therefore have a symbolic meaning. Yet the execution site is also a cemetery: in 1952 the remains of 15 West Flemish political prisoners beheaded in Munich were interred.
Activists around the world including Amnesty International gathered on Wednesday May 6th 2009 for a worldwide day of action protesting against the illegal execution of Delara Darabi in Iran on Friday. May 1st.
A two-month stay of execution had been issued by the Head of the Judiciary only two weeks before Delara's sudden and secretive execution.
Take action against Delara's and all child executions here:
www.amnesty.ca/blog_post2.php?id=836
© Louise Imbeault
Location where people were execute inside the Tower Walls. Victims include Anne Boleyn and Lady Jane Grey.
None of the animals on the farm are killed for their meat etc., but live to ripe old ages - which is nice.
Sept. 22, 2011---The day after the state of Georgia murdered Troy Davis, an innocent man--Boston,Mass. protest against the death penalty.
Last Saturday, the children traditionally visited Facts, a fair in Ghent comparable to ComiCon. After working on great cosplay costumes for a few months, we drove to Ghent. Finally, after an hour and a half of standing in traffic jams, they moved into the exhibition halls.
Heidi and I had decided in advance to explore the surroundings of Ghent this time. After another half hour in traffic jams, we were able to leave the site and drove towards the harbor.
The "Captain Zeppos Park" (look for our album "Kapitein Zeppospark")was our first stop. This is a former inner dock that has now been turned into a park. A small playground, a beach on the water where swimming is not allowed, an old harbor crane that functions as a landmark and some old quay walls. A nice place.
Autumn has now fully erupted here. This makes it rain, strong winds, ... . In short, no weather to chase a dog through. As a result, we searched for some nice places to visit via Google Maps. Places with a roof over our heads. Yet our attention was drawn to a special place.
A former execution site of the Nazis. We couldn't resist visiting this place. With a large umbrella in one hand and my mobile phone in the other, I managed to take some pictures. The inclement weather contributed greatly to the experience of the place.
Quote from Wikipedia:
The Execution Centre Rieme-Oostakker is the place in the Ghent borough of Oostakker where 66 resistance fighters were executed by the German occupiers between 8 February 1943 and 24 August 1944.
Here the memory of the 20 resistance fighters who died at rieme's execution site is also kept alive. That site had to disappear in 1998 because of the construction of the Kluizendok of the port of Ghent. The whole has been transferred to the border area between Oostakker and Lochristi.
The executions were carried out in secret and the victims were buried anonymously. A number of the resistance fighters killed in Rieme were found in a mass grave in Hechtel-Eksel. In addition, German soldiers and Belgian criminals were also executed. Due to these circumstances, it is still unclear how many people died. After the Liberation, the mass grave in Oostakker was uncovered. The victims were identified and buried in their residences. The crosses on the site therefore have a symbolic meaning. Yet the execution site is also a cemetery: in 1952 the remains of 15 West Flemish political prisoners beheaded in Munich were interred.
Otherwise known as Kilmainham Jail! This was the yard which they had executions. T'was a bit gloomy.
Pretty much all the surviving generics in the Matchbox line up are believable in style and execution, the overtly fantasy stuff are once again, and quite rightly, now left to Hot Wheels.
Their MBX Field Car is a modern day interpretation of the original Lesney era casting though theres pretty much no commonality between either, the older one being based on an International Harvester design.
Seen here in its latest Matchbox 70th anniversary colour scheme which means lots of metallic silver and a smattering of orange accents.
Part of 2023 Case K found at The Entertainer recently.
Mint and boxed.
January 2015.
The King's Army of the English Civil War Society traces the route of the King's last walk from St James' Palace in the Mall to his place of execution at the Banqueting House in Whitehall on the last Sunday of every January.
Not quite sure what the tourists make of it!
EXECUTION OF SUMMERS AND KOONTZ
On 22 May 1865, after the Civil War ended, Capt. George W. Summers, Sgt. I Newton Koontz, and two other armed veterans of Co. D. 7th Virginia Cavalry, en route to obtain their paroles, robbed six Federal cavalrymen of their horses near Woodstock. The horses were returned the next day to the 192d Ohio Volunteer Infantry at Rude's Hill in Shenandoah County. Despite assurances that all was forgiven, Lt. Col. Cyrus Hussy, temporarily commanding the 192d, later ordered the men arrested at their homes in Page County. The other two escaped, but Summers and Koontz were shot without trial on Rude's Hill on 27 June. They were buried at different locations near here.
Department of Historic Resources, 1999
Abe Bonowitz talks with Bigler "Bud" Jobe Stouffer II on a phone and into a loud speaker so the group can hear what he has to say and ask questions. Protesters from Death Penalty Action, the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and other allies gathered at 5pm for a visibility action and protest in the park across the street from the Governor's Mansion at 820 NE 23rd Street in Oklahoma City, December 8, 2021.
Sept. 22, 2011---The day after the state of Georgia murdered Troy Davis, an innocent man--Boston,Mass. protest against the death penalty.