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Croatian Lt. Sinisa Troha, Intelligence Officer, explains his plan to clear a building to Ukranian soldiers replicating Afghan National Police during an Operational Mentor Liaison Team (OMLT) training exercise at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany, May 7, 2012. OMLT XXIII and Police Operational Mentor Liaison Team (POMLT) VII training are designed to prepare teams for deployment to Afghanistan with the ability to train, advise, and enable the Afghan National Security Force in areas such as counter-insurgency, combat advisory and force-enabling support operations.
an Episode of David's Pointless Minute
Mr. Talley engages students in explaining their work. This girl is sharing her software project on the computer.
STUTTGART, Germany - Mr. Jorge Rosa, Facility Manager, explains the many features of the new state-of-the-art multi-purpose facility to members of the U.S. Africa Command staff. The new facility is located on Kelley Barracks, building 3322. (U.S. AFRICOM photo by Diane Cano)
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Abebech Desalegn, Health Extension Worker, explains her role in the community to Jan Eliasson, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations, at Haro Jila Folaso Health Post in Sebeta District in Oromia Region of Ethiopia, 1 February, 2014. © UNICEF Ethiopia/2014/Ose
Corps Fish Biologist Matthew Shanks explains the environmental DNA (eDNA) process at U.S. Environemntal Protection Agency labs, Chicago, July 19 2011. USACE works with other agencies to aggressively monitor the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (CSSC) to determine the location and abundance of Asian carp in the area, using traditional and non-traditional methods, including eDNA analysis. (U.S. Army Photo by Jessica Vandrick/ Released)
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LEAFLETS INFORM FILIPINOS OF INVASION
Leaflets explaining the American invasion of the Philippines shower down on Leyte as civilians reach up to catch them. Written in English and local dialects, the Army said, they proved valuable in restoring order after the fury of offshore shelling.
Associated Press photo from Signal Corps.
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Volunteer nurse Sinnah Conteh explains feeding times and good hygiene practices for Plumpynut that is prescribed to Isatu Sisay, 9 months old, suffering from moderate acute malnutrition held by her mother Kadiatu Koroma, 26 years old at the Binkolo health facility, Safroko Limba chiefdom, Bombali district, Sierra Leone on March 31, 2017. Community health worker Osman S Koroma, 23 years old met with Kadiatu the day before during a mother's group that meets weekly and measured the forearm of Isatu, observing that she is on the spectrum for moderate acute malnutrition. He refers Kadiatu to take her baby to the closest health facilities. Kadiatu has given birth three times, two of which she did at home because she was not aware of the dangers of home delivery and the benefits of giving birth at a health center. That changed when a CHW was recruited in their village. “I decided to give birth to the twins at a health center because of the sensitization I got from Osman. He monitored me to the last moments of my pregnancy. I practiced exclusive breastfeeding because he took his time to really explain to me how my child will benefit from it,” she said. During one of Osman’s routine visits, he found out that one of the twins was moderately malnourished and he referred her to the Binkolo Community Health Center, where she is receiving treatment.
Vysehrad Cemetery is the graveyard attached to the Basilica of Saint Peter & Saint Paul in Vysehrad (notes at the end about the Vysehrad complex).
The complex is over a thousand years old, but the cemetery was only established in 1869, which explains the newness of the headstones. It's an active cemetery, though it seems pretty packed walking around. As noted below, this could basically be seen as the Czech pantheon, given the number of notable Czechs interred here from the arts, letters, and medicine.
Among those you'll find here (that non-Czechs may recognize, by name or contribution) are: Jan Neruda (a poet, and the man from whom Pablo Neruda took his pen name), Antonin Dvorak (composer of the New World Symphony), Josef & Karel Capek (brothers, Josef created the word "robot" and Karel used it in his play R.U.R., which introduced the word to the world), Karel Ancerl (conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra), Hana Maskova (1968 bronze medalist in Olympic figure skating), and Jan Evangelista Purkyne (who, in 1839, coined the term "protoplasm"). There are many others of note, and very ornate headstones -- hence this large set. I don't intend to slight anyone, so feel free to do some research on your own if you wish.
Vysehrad is a pretty neat place to visit in Prague, in my opinion -- especially if you want to relax away from tourists.
It has a combination of things that make it wonderful for me. Its history, its current use, its location (and views it affords), and what's left on site -- taken individually, warrant a visit in my world. Collectively? Winner.
We'll start with what Vysehrad was, which involves local beliefs and legends. The (unproven) thought is that this is the original site of Prague, founded by Duke Krok in...who knows what year? Duke Krok is a myth, though may have been real. And since he's a myth, his daughters, too, are mythical. One of them is Libuse, who has a "bath" here, and she can be found in some architecture around town. I recall seeing her on a building on Karlova.
Duke Kroc was the first duke of the Czech people. Princess Libuse, the youngest (and wisest) of his three daughters later became queen and married a ploughman named Premysl, founding the Premyslid dynasty (interesting...she's royalty, he's a commoner, yet the dynasty is named for him because he's a man...yea for sexism?). The three sisters had special powers (one a healer, one a magician, and Libuse could predict the future). She prophesied the founding of Prague in the 8th century. So believe the Czechs.
What does history tell us? Well, this fortress-castle has been here for a thousand years give or take. Precise origin dates are unknown (or I can't seem to find them). One of the buildings here -- St. Martin's Chapel -- is known to have been built sometime between 1060-1090, so we can say it's conservatively a thousand years old.
Part of the fun of the legend that could support its continuing existence is its location high on a bluff directly overlooking the Vltava River. It was a perfect place to build a defensive fortress, that eventually became a royal castle. As the city grew, and Prague Castle was built, Vysehrad's importance waned.
The two castles competed (kind of) for two centuries to be the most important in Prague. The heyday for Vysehrad was in the late 11th century (when St. Martin's Chapel was built). Vratislaus II, the first king of Bohemia (until him, all were dukes or duchesses) moved his seat of power here from Prague Castle, at which point the original Vysehrad fortress received a major upgrade: a new palatial home, a church, a chapter house.
Growth continued, but only for a short time. Vratislaus's son, Duke Sobeslav (I'm not sure why he was duke, if his dad was king) moved the royal seat right on back to Prague Castle.
The death knell for Vysehrad (as a royal residence) came when Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV (yeah, the same one for whom Charles Bridge is named) renovated Prague Castle to its current dimensions. Vysehrad was abandoned. However, Charles did renew the fortifications with new gates, a royal palace (though never official seat of government), and started repairing the basilica. This was early 14th century. About a hundred years later in 1420 at the start of the Hussite War, Vysehrad was rancasked. And again, a few decades later. Finally, Vysehrad was left to ruin...
...Until the Austrians came along. Austria-Hungary gained Czech lands as a prize of the Thirty Years' War, remodeling it as a baroque fortress, to use as a training center for their troops.
The main building that dominated Vysehrad (to this day) is the Basilica of St. Peter & St. Paul. It's pretty big. Hard to miss, for sure. Like St. Martin's Chapel, it was also (originally) built in the 11th century. Unlike little St. Martin's, though, the big fella was remodeled in the late 1300s and, again, by the Austrians in 1885 & 1887. It's now a neo-Gothic church. Also dating to this baroque renovation are the Tabor and Leopold gates.
So...what do you get when come to Vysehrad now? A city park, really. It's free to come and go (though I think going inside the church may cost a little money).
The bastion walls are fantastic to take a walk around and enjoy panoramic views of every part of the city, the river, the bridges, just to reflect on the here and now, and the past. The bastions are big enough, and long enough, that you can take some time to just do that alone. There are also benches if you want to relax and enjoy the view.
Inside the fortress walls, you'll find mostly wooded land (thanks to its having been abandoned) with the aforementioned church and chapel, plus some other historic recreations, a few trails, and...well, all around, pleasant places to be. There are a handful of statues around the grounds, including Good King Wenceslaus, and Princess Libuse.
Being as that it's a church -- and a large one -- there's also a church cemetery attached directly to the side and back of it. Creatively, it's called "Vysehrad Cemetery."
As far as cemeteries go, I've been to many, and this one has some of the most interesting headstones I've seen. Not only that, as far as Czechs go, this could almost be their Pantheon. While royalty are buried elsewhere (Prague Castle, for starters), the literati all seem to be buried here -- except Kafka. He's in the New Jewish Cemetery. And, not every famous Czech is buried here, of course, but quite a few prominent ones from arts and letters are taking their dirt naps here. At the end of the day, this is a big, beautiful public park, well worth a visit, and the locals love it. This seems to be one of the places they come to celebrate New Year's Eve. I love that it's not overrun by tourists, though hope that anyone who has read this can make it there and see for yourself.
Dombra specialist explains the construction of Kazakhstan's national musical instrument. Read my blog and see a short clip from this episode of Steppe Tales at bit.ly/uiThQS
Bodylanguage to explain something is called Tarzanca - look at the concentration and the doubts on their faces!!!!
Explaining to bemused passer-by what it's all about .... (as the poster behind him indicates, it's all about Katie Price aka Jordan who was due to arrive any minute)
Photo citation: Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, 2021.
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Plaque explaining the heritage building, the main building of the former Marine Police headquarters. It reads The Main Building of the Former Marine Police Headquarters
"...Graceful... and even Palatial..." wrote the China Mail, 20th September 1884, of this building -- designed as the residence of the third-ranking government official as well as the base for the "Water" Police.
The Main Building, Victorian Colonial Neo-Classical in style, was built in the early 1880s. It was originally only two storeys with three-storeyed towers on the southeast and southwest corners. The existing top floor was added in the early 1920s.
The three-storeyed corner towers contained married living quarters. The southwest tower was the quarters for the Commander of the Marine Police and the southeast tower was designed to be the residence of the Captain Superintendent of Police, Walter Deane. It had an independent entrance on the eastern side of the building leading to the Superintendent's office and to his drawing room and dining room on the first floor. A tunnel passageway or service corridor led to a separate and self-contained kitchen and servants' quarters. For the building between these two towers, most of the rooms were barracks and duty rooms. The central portion of the ground level served as a control room. The one-storeyed outbuildings at the rear contained the bathhouses, stores and coolie quarters. Another storey was added on these outbuildings in the early 1920s.
No steel or steel reinforcing was used in the original main building. Loose granite blocks served as foundation for brick shear walls and timber joists floors and roofs. The entire ground floor (except for the cells) of the original main building of the Marine Police Headquarters was elevated approximately 3 to 4 feet above ground and airflow along these spaces was facilitated via small openings functioning as ventilation portals located on the exterior of all sides of the building. These ventilation portals kept the building suitably "aired" and prevented the decay of the timber floor joists. The airflow also cooled down the interior of the building in the hot and humid summers. High windows and ceilings designed in a time before modern power lighting and air conditioning also facilitated cool breezes in the summer months. Together, the raised floor, the tall windows and the high ceilings formed a precursor to a green design which is now emulated as supportive of a sustainable lifestyle.
Lichtenstein meets Boccioni
'Wham!' (1963)
Roy Lichtenstein (1923-97).
Magna on Canvas.
'Whaam!' is based on an image from 'All American Men of War' published by DC comics in 1962. Throughout the 1960s, Lichtenstein frequently drew on commercial art sources such as comic images or advertisements, attracted by the way highly emotional subject matter could be depicted using detached techniques. Transferring this to a painting context, Lichtenstein could present powerfully charged scenes in an impersonal manner, leaving the viewer to decipher meanings for themselves. Although he was careful to retain the character of his source, Lichtenstein also explored the formal qualities of commercial imagery and techniques. In these works as in 'Whaam!', he adapted and developed the original composition to produce an intensely stylised painting.
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913)
Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)
Bronze sculpture, cast 1972
Boccioni's work was in plaster, never cast into bronze in his lifetime. This cast was made in 1972.
In the early years of the twentieth century, industrialisation swept across Italy. The Futurist movement was founded by writers and artists such as Umberto Boccioni, who enthused about new inventions such as cars and electricity. In Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, the figure is aerodynamically deformed by speed. Boccioni exaggerated the body''s dynamism so that it embodied the urge towards progress. The sculpture may reflect ideas of the mechanised body that appeared in Futurist writings, as well as the ''superman'' envisaged by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
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You should visit the Mythbusters site about this episode
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and buy the episode because it's some of the most beautifully done physics there is
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It's the one called "Mythsion Control"
The square in kinetic energy helps explain the difference between the 50mph and 100mph crashes in the greatest Mythbusters episode ever.