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Still in existence are two platform mounds ca AD 1500. Between 1799-1814, a fort existed here named after George Washington's secretary of state, James Pickering. When the city fell to the Union army during the Civil War, another Fort Pickering was constructed in this area. At this time, one of the platform mounds was hollowed out, and served as a munitions bunker. At one section of the area, a marine hospital was constructed and opened in 1884. Originally, the hospital consisted of six buildings: a stable, a surgeon's house, an executive building, two wards, and a nurses' building. During the 1930s, several new WPA buildings were added to the site. In order to make room for the new buildings, several building were torn down and the executive and nurses' building were saved and moved three hundred feet from their original site.
Pima Air and Space Museum
FLEET MODEL 2 BIPLANE TRAINER
The Fleet biplane trainers came into existence in 1928 as the Consolidated Model 14, a civilian trainer loosely based on the military PT-3 and NY-1 trainers. In 1929, Consolidated turned production over to a subsidiary company named after Consolidated's president Ruben Fleet. All the Fleet models are basically identical with the only difference being the engine installed on each model. The Fleets proved to be very popular trainers throughout the 1930s and into the early 1940s. Approximately 1,250 of all versions were built.
The aircraft on display was built on September 19, 1929. This is the oldest aircraft currently in the collection of the Pima Air & Space Museum. The aircraft had four different owners before being acquired by Gilpen and Greenway Air Lines Co., Tucson, AZ. It was used by Gilpen for military pilot training beginning in 1940 as a part of the Civilian Pilot Training Program. The aircraft was donated to the Pima Air and Space Museum by Walter Douglas III in April of 1992.
Technical Specifications
Wingspan: 28 ft
Length: 20 ft 9 in
Height: 7 ft 10 in
Weight: 1575 lbs (loaded)
Maximum speed: 105 mph
Service Ceiling: under 12,200 ft
Range: 352 miles
Engine: 1 Kinner K-5 radial, 110 hp
Crew: 2
Hollyhocks - 1876
Eastman Johnson (American, 1824 - 1906)
“Hollyhocks” depicts nine young women enjoying a summer afternoon in a garden. They quietly tend the blooming hollyhock plants or casually converse beneath a vine-laden arbor. Their elegant attire and their pretty unlined faces attest to an existence free from the trials of hard work. Refined outdoor activities became an accepted form of leisure after the Civil War, and with the increased industrialization of the late nineteenth century such paintings of pastoral bliss became popular among the newly urbanized elite.
Johnson executed “Hollyhocks” following extensive training in Europe, and the influence of his teacher Thomas Couture is especially evident in the fluid application of color and in the academic method of building up the composition from a series of individual studies. Johnson exhibited one of these studies, “Catching the Bee” (1872; Newark Museum, N.J.) at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1872. This highly finished work shows young woman plucking a single blossom from the tall stem of a hollyhock plant. Four years later Johnson incorporated this figure into the left side of “Hollyhocks”. “Catching the Bee” and “Hollyhocks” display a brighter palette and stronger contrasts of light and shadow than Johnson’s paintings of the previous decade, revealing the artist’s exploration of natural light in the 1870s.
The subject of women in an enclosed garden has a long tradition in art history. The enclosed garden, or hortus conclusus, was traditionally associated with the Garden of Eden, a theme with potent implications for artists of the New World. It was also identified with the purity of the Virgin Mary, and many late-nineteenth-century artists extended this analogy to women in general. An evocative floral language developed to suggest the fertility and beauty of the female sex. In “Hollyhocks” the flowers stand as tall as the women, their lyrical swaying attitudes mirroring the grace of their human counterparts.(1) The women, like the hollyhocks, are arranged decoratively along the periphery of the compound, and the red, pink, and white of their gowns are the colors of hollyhock blooms. Enclosing the hollyhocks--and, by extension, the nineteenth-century women--within the confines of a walled garden allowed them the benefits of air and light without exposing them to the dangers of the rapidly modernizing world. From this sheltered position, both the women and the flowers in “Hollyhocks” become beautiful, but passive, objects of contemplation.
Eastman Johnson was born in Lovell, Maine, and began his career in Boston in 1840 as an apprentice in Bufford’s Lithographic Shop, designing title pages for books and sheet music. He became an itinerant portrait painter in 1842, and for the next seven years he worked in Newport; Portland, Maine; Washington, D.C.; and Boston. In 1849 Johnson traveled to Germany, where he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy, and joined the studio of Emanuel Leutze, who was then working on the second version of his “Washington Crossing the Delaware” (1851; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). Johnson continued his studies in The Hague, where he spent three and a half years studying the painterly brushwork of the seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish masters, and in 1855 he enrolled in the Paris studio of Thomas Couture.
Settling in New York in 1858, Johnson opened a studio in the University Building and began work on “Negro Life at the South” (1859; New-York Historical Society), which he exhibited at the National Academy of Design to the acclaim of abolitionists and slaveholders alike. The following years were devoted to Civil War subjects and to the traditional American genre scenes for which he became best known. During the 1860s he began a series of maple-sugaring scenes in Maine and bought his first property on Nantucket in 1871. He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1859 and became a full member in 1860. Johnson became prominent in New York art circles, joining the Century Association and the Union League Club and becoming a founding trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the 1880s Johnson began to refocus his attention on portraiture, dedicating the last two decades of his career to the depiction of the nineteenth century’s wealthy industrialist class.
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"Acknowledged as the first museum in the world dedicated solely to collecting American art, the NBMAA is renowned for its preeminent collection spanning three centuries of American history. The award-winning Chase Family Building, which opened in 2006 to critical and public acclaim, features 15 spacious galleries which showcase the permanent collection and upwards of 25 special exhibitions a year featuring American masters, emerging artists and private collections. Education and community outreach programs for all ages include docent-led school and adult tours, teacher services, studio classes and vacation programs, Art Happy Hour gallery talks, lectures, symposia, concerts, film, monthly First Friday jazz evenings, quarterly Museum After Dark parties for young professionals, and the annual Juneteenth celebration. Enjoy Café on the Park for a light lunch prepared by “Best Caterer in Connecticut” Jordan Caterers. Visit the Museum Shop for unique gifts. Drop by the “ArtLab” learning gallery with your little ones. Gems not to be missed include Thomas Hart Benton’s murals “The Arts of Life in America,” “The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy, September 11, 2001” by Graydon Parrish,” and Dale Chihuly’s “Blue and Beyond Blue” spectacular chandelier. Called “a destination for art lovers everywhere,” “first-class,” “a full-size, transparent temple of art, mixing New York ambience with Yankee ingenuity and all-American beauty,” the NBMAA is not to be missed."
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The NBMAA collection represents the major artists and movements of American art. Today it numbers about 8,274 paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photographs, including the Sanford B.D. Low Illustration Collection, which features important works by illustrators such as Norman Rockwell, Howard Pyle, and Maxfield Parrish.
Among collection highlights are colonial and federal portraits, with examples by John Smibert, John Trumbull, John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and the Peale family. The Hudson River School features landscapes by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Martin Johnson Heade, John Kensett, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Church. Still life painters range from Raphaelle Peale, Severin Roesen, William Harnett, John Peto, John Haberle, and John La Farge. American genre painting is represented by John Quidor, William Sidney Mount, and Lilly Martin Spencer. Post-Civil War examples include works by Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, George de Forest Brush, and William Paxton, and 19 plasters and bronzes by Solon Borglum. American Impressionists include Mary Cassatt, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, Willard Metcalf, and Childe Hassam, the last represented by eleven oils. Later Impressionist paintings include those by Ernest Lawson, Frederck Frieseke, Louis Ritman, Robert Miller, and Maurice Prendergast.
Other strengths of the twentieth-century collection include: sixty works by members of the Ash Can School; significant representation by early modernists such as Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Max Weber; important examples by the Precisionists Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Preston Dickinson, and Ralston Crawford; a broad spectrum of work by the Social Realists Ben Shahn, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Jack Levine; and ambitious examples of Regionalist painting by Grant Wood, John Steuart Curry, and Thomas Hart Benton, notably the latter’s celebrated five-panel mural, The Arts of Life in America (1932).
Works by the American Abstract Artist group (Stuart Davis, Ilya Bolotowsky, Esphyr Slobodkina, Balcomb Greene, and Milton Avery) give twentieth-century abstraction its place in the collection, as do later examples of Surrealism by artists Kay Sage and George Tooker; Abstract Expressionism (Lee Krasner, Giorgio Cavallon, Morris Graves, Robert Motherwell, Sam Francis, Cleve Gray), Pop and Op art (Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Robert Indiana, Tom Wesselman, Jim Dine), Conceptual (Christo, Sol LeWitt), and Photo-Realism (Robert Cottingham). Examples of twentieth-century sculpture include Harriet Frishmuth, Paul Manship, Isamu Noguchi, George Segal, and Stephen DeStaebler. We continue to acquire contemporary works by notable artists, in order to best represent the dynamic and evolving narrative of American art.
"The existence of an upper class is not injurious, as long as it is dependent on merit. For so long it is provocation to the bold and generous. These distinctions exist, and they are deep, not to be talked or voted away." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
dome of a MahaVishnu temple and clocktower of a jewish synagogue. Jew town, Cochin, Kerala.[August-9,2009]
Each grain of sand that falls is each second of my life that passes me by. I feel like I am wasting my valuable time obsessing and being compulsive about the stupidest things. Why does this matter so much to me? Body image, weight, BMI, muscle vs fat. Why is this important? It seems so small and insignificant compared to other things to focus on. I love photography and I want to travel the world and capture it from my perspective. Why can't I focus my mind on my goals and dreams instead of letting time slip away while my mind is stuck like a rock in a stream as the water passes and it stays in the same place.
In the ever-expanding tapestry of the universe, the recent revelations in quantum mechanics and quantum science have ignited a fervor of imagination and inquiry. As we peer through the veil of reality, a gateway to Proxima Centauri b—a planet that mirrors Earth in so many ways—beckons us to explore its potential. This newfound knowledge has propelled humanity into a realm of possibilities, where the dream of a second home emerges not merely as fantasy but as a plausible future. With Earth facing unprecedented challenges, from climate crises to overpopulation, the concept of 'Planet B' transcends mere escape; it becomes a beacon of hope. As our thoughts race with the implications of life on Proxima, we envision a world where humanity can thrive once more, nurturing the essence of existence in a new celestial cradle.
Poem
In whispers of stars, the secrets unfold,
A dance of the atoms, a tale yet untold,
Through quantum realms where the shadows entwine,
We glimpse at a future where destinies align.
Proxima calls with its enigmatic light,
A sanctuary awaits in the velvet of night.
With dreams woven rich in the fabric of space,
We seek out a home, a new kind of grace.
Haikus
Stars twinkle above,
Proxima's shores beckon us,
Hope's new dawn arises.
Quantum dreams take flight,
Life blooms on a distant world,
A chance to restart.
In the void we reach,
Hearts yearning for a new dawn,
Planet B awaits.
Today a peaceful rally was held at Oswald Oval in Campbelltown, calling for more protection of the local Koala population. www.facebook.com/helpsavethewildlifeandbushlandsincampbel...
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Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy (WSPA) and Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) have a unique partnership that has been in existence since 2004-2005. As a result, WSPA and WSSU created a project to expose WSPA students to a challenging experience by offering a Summer Enrichment Program on the campus of Winston-Salem State University.
All rising 9th graders to WSPA were invited to attend a one-week Enrichment Program July 9-13 from 9:00 to 12:00 on the campus of Winston-Salem State University. The purpose of the program was designed to expose students to high school Mathematics and Science through an enriching and hands-on experience delving deeply into each subject matter. This year’s theme: “Planting the Seeds to Success” was taken from the lessons taught through the novel Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman. This novel provided the springboard from which each teacher created lessons concerning Math and Science and related those to real life situations as well as enforcing the theme of diversity and sense of community as depicted throughout the novel. These lessons afforded students the opportunity to become strong critical thinkers. As a result of students spending time on campus with veteran teachers in the Winston-Salem Forsyth County School System, the 14 participants will have a jumpstart on the requisite skills needed for a successful transition to high school.
Shaun Soho of Crash Midnight, live in NYC. 11.08.14
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* Implied Theme * Beautiful Existence: Existence is really a festival, a great celebration, which is only the moment we’re now experiencing. * Popular Elements * The sparkling necklace uses Swarovski’s Aurore Boreale crystals that reflect light of all of the colors from the rainbow. Using the silver chain directly with the very, constitutes a beautiful and straightforward look, which is ideal for a stylish lady. * Specs * Chain Length: 45cm+5cm/17.7in+2in Pendant Size: .8cm*.8cm/.31in*.31in Weight: 2.61g/.09oz * Audience * A flexible piece for ladies,ladies,women. Appropriate as Love Day Gifts, Moms day gifts, Christmas presents, wedding anniversary gifts, birthday gifts,
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It is a part of Jantar Mantar, an astronomy observatory built in year 1724 in Delhi. Now it has come within the central bussiness district of Delhi.
Two hours out of school with my photography class. We went to an old company ground from AEG. Due to the economy crisis it went bankrupt and this huge area is now abandoned. Many people lost their jobs and I felt really sad when I went over this deserted place...
Took this with Nikon D90 Kit AF-S DX 18-105 mm and altered it with a filter.
Dark Demons' Night II (Kavka Antwerpen)
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And who told the light manager hat it would be a good idea to use only red lights and cut all front lights?
A flower garden or floral garden is any garden where flowers are grown and displayed.
Because flowers bloom at varying times of the year, and some plants are annual, dying each winter, the design of flower gardens can take into consideration maintaining a sequence of bloom and consistent color combinations through varying seasons. Besides organizing the flowers in bedding-out schemes limited to annual and perennial flower beds, careful design also takes the labour time, and the color pattern of the flowers into account.
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, or enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one.
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אך הצמח שעל הגגון יבש למחצה
עלים קשים וחומים מצטברים על המדרגה.
הרוחות העוברות בכניסה הן
דקות ורכות.
הקירות מתנפלים בשמחה אל הערב
אחרי ציפיה ארוכה.
חדשות מגיעות באיחור אל הבית.
כל הלילה דולק האור מעל המפתן.
אנשים באים ויוצאים
תמיד בסתר.
בפתח, בחוץ, מתבקעות הרצפות לאיטן.
הכל שייך למאה אחרת
ועם זאת הכל ארעי.
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זה שלי.
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