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- NORTHERN DEFENCES GEOLOGICAL FAULT AND JOINTS -
After the capture of Gibraltar in 1704, the British exploited the natural platforms flanking the northern approaches to the Rock using much of the geographical landscape to their military advantage. Thomas James, a Royal Artillery officer stationed on Gibraltar from 1749 to 1755, was the first member of the British garrison to publish geological observations on the Rock.
James describes ''six pieces of cannon mounted in (King’s Lines) and two mortars, with the advantage of a natural cave that is capable of securing one hundred men from shot and shells, with a smaller one for stores, and a covered communication, which you ascend through a chasm in the rock, by a broad wooden ladder of twenty-six steps to the prince’s line, and forty-four stone ones. This work was finished in one thousand seven hundred and fifteen''.
It is clear that the British were using caves and natural rock faults as part of the Northern Defences from a very early stage, but it was not until after the Great Siege building on the success of the Great Siege Galleries that the soldier artificers turned their attention to excavate new galleries and tunnels in this area. Most of these works were carried out between 1787-1790.
One of the areas excavated and which revealed a number of natural caves was the rocky outcrop around a natural fault named the Orillon which divided the 18th Century King’s and Queen’s Lines. The base of the natural fault was covered by the Inundation, an artificial lake created to obstruct landward access to Gibraltar. The Orillon batteries were part of a three-storey gun position within a natural fault in the Rock.
G. M. Goodwin gives the best account of this complex - ''This gallery leads into a fairly large chamber which, according to the 1819 report, was a second Orillon Battery. Into the walls of this emplacement, a few feet up, have been cut two wide ledges. These supported large wooden planks, which formed a platform for a gun and was called the Third Orillon Battery. A fourth Orillon Battery existed on the roof above the third, and a wooden staircase, in the recess of the rock behind, established communication between the second, third and fourth batteries. From what was the third Orillon Battery, a small gallery in the rock behind communicates with Queen's Gallery East, near the loopholed wall. In later years, the second Orillion was used as a bake house but the ovens have now been removed. Steps from the second Orillon lead down to a cave where three guns were mounted, forming the first Orillon Battery. At the back of the cave is a small shelter or magazine''.
The Queen’s Gallery, cut in 1789, was further divided into three parts; Queen's Gallery East, Queen's Gallery South West and Queen's Lines Gallery. A natural cave was found in Queen’s Gallery East next to Forbe’s Shaft. The Star Chamber was formerly a natural cave, extended in 1790. It is reached from Prince's Lines by an overhead staircase but the bottom steps are now 70 feet above the floor level. This cave was literally and organisationally at the centre of the tunnelling operations of the late 18th century by the Soldier Artificer Company (later the Royal Engineers).
During World War Two the tunnels were still being used and brick buildings were constructed within the cave and galleries. A sign on the wall of the cave records that in 1941 this cave was the King's Regiment Battalion Headquarters. Immediately to the North of the Star Chamber is another smaller cave formation called St. Patricks Chamber which in turn leads to a number of other natural caves which were named as Common’s Hall, Raleigh Gallery and 2nd and 3rd Orillon Batteries. North of St. Patrick’s Chamber further tunnelling revealed a deep fissure which was found to part of the natural fault line leading to the Orillon. Water along this fault line exited at the Orillon as a natural spring. This natural cave was named Smart’s Well Reserve.
Information sourced from www.ministryforheritage.gi/heritage-and-antiquities/north...
В эту пятницу легендарные шотландские панки The Exploited выступили в московском клубе Yotaspace. Непрерывный угар, слэм, серкл-пит, пьяный дебош, ад, мош на танцполе вот так отметили старые панки 35-летие альбома «Punks Not Dead». Название дебютного альбома "Punk’s Not Dead" стало чуть ли не девизом всех панков мира.
En balade avec Oro, on a traversé plusieurs exploitations sans soucis ! Merci 👌
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J4 Mercredi 13/11/19 : Ce soir on vous propose une série d'images de découvertes gustatives partagées au Costa Rica 🍲🌽 C'est fou tout ce que la nature peut nous offrir à déguster
▶️ bit.ly/Expo_Voyage_CostaRica2018_CMTS ▶️
🆙 Découvrez le Cacao et Café PUR exceptionnels que Silvio Bonomelli nous a fait découvrir naturellement :
💚 Cafe Verde / www.nutraceuticoscr.com/
💚 Moca Magic / rawcoffeecacao.com/
🔊 Je vous invite à visionner ça avec ce morceau de musique " Ayla Schafer - Unci Maka - Grandmother Earth " en remerciment à Gaïa pour toutes ses offrandes culinaires 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=egM0NAioH5c 🔊
J'étais plus focus sur la bouffe que mon appareil photo là mais de beaux instants capturés tout de même 😉
🔴 INFOS PRATIQUES :
- Vous pouvez changer le format de lecture en HAUT à DROITE de votre écran ou cliquer sur PLAY pour lancer le diapo ▶️
- Loption multi-taches sur phone c'est pratique pour utiliser 2 applis en même temps afin de lire images et sons par exemple : www.prodigemobile.com/tutoriel/afficher-deux-applis-meme-...
La suite à découvrir demain soir à partir de 20h30 ⏰
👀 Bon visionnage et écoute à tous 🙌
💚 PURA VIDA 💚
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STORY :
Le Costa Rica m'attirait beaucoup depuis plusieurs années par sa Biodiversité ou son Pacifisme plutôt exceptionnel, ce petit pays d'Amérique Centrale nous à émerveillé en Novembre 2018 ✌
Cette fois je n'ai pas voyagé en solo mais avec mon ami CrouCrou Sylvain Trabut, qui m'a accompagné dans cette belle aventure 😘
On est parti à sa découverte en Sac à dos + Van un peu en freestyle mais sans regret, notre voyage au gré de nos rencontres nous a bien gâté !
On vous partage un peu ça aujourd'hui pour vous faire voyager avec nous
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Bon visionnage à tous 🙌
WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC) 2023 Hope Gala, Sept. 14, 2023
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Hope Gala held on Sept. 14, 2023, at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The event is a celebration of the inspiring work being done globally to protect children. We recognized leaders in child safety, honor survivors, and remember the families and victims who are still seeking justice and safety. Every child deserves a safe childhood. Claire Edkins/NCMEC
i think it was the bass player in the back whom i caught making water balloon bombs in the ladies bathroom before the show. he smiled with all the warming charm of a 6-year-old boy.
Exploitation de l'or dans le nid du fleuve Niger à Kalaban Coro, derrière Moffou, au niveau des vendeurs de sable.
Selon nos sources, l'exploitation est effectuée par la société BMK. Nous n'avons pas pu savoir la signification des initiales.
As summer starts to heat things up, the local men around lowari get to work on the glaciers. This particular glacier had two parts between which the road passed. This photo was taken when i was going towards Chitral. On my way back, after about 5 days, the whole of the lower part of the glacier had been taken away and the upper part was almost half gone too.
Alexandria VA: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC), Germany’s Federal Minister of the Interior & Homeland visit to NCMEC, March 21, 2023.
Germany’s Federal Minister of the Interior & Homeland, Nancy Faeser and delegation visit the headquarters of The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in Alexandria, Virginia. Claire Edkins /NCMEC 2023
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) honors its 2022 “Heroes” who have gone above and beyond to help protect the nation’s most valuable resource – children. The event was hosted at the Arlington, VA headquarters of Lockheed Martin. Reginald Saunders /NCMEC
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) honors its 2023 “Heroes” who have gone above and beyond to help protect the nation’s most valuable resource – children. The event was hosted at the Spy Museum in Washington, DC. Claire Edkins/NCMEC
HMS Exploit is an Archer-class (or P2000) patrol and training vessel of the British Royal Navy, built in Woolston by Vosper Thornycroft and commissioned in 1988.
She is attached to Birmingham University Royal Naval Unit (URNU), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Exploit_(P167)
MMSI: 235009900
Call Sign: GABD
Flag: United Kingdom [GB]
AIS Vessel Type: Military Ops
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: N/a
Status: Active
www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:188578/...
This is a gorgeous little house, tucked away at the foot of the hill on which the schoolhouse is located. It has since been restored and used. New pictures to follow when I find them!
Exploitation de l'or dans le nid du fleuve Niger à Kalaban Coro, derrière Moffou, au niveau des vendeurs de sable.
Selon nos sources, l'exploitation est effectuée par la société BMK. Nous n'avons pas pu savoir la signification des initiales.
Lobby card for our exploitation faux trailer, Van Gore, for the Hobo With a Shotgun trailer contest.
Full trailer will be online March 31, 2011!
Thank the Lord in heaven for the Lumines Exploit. Now I can play my favorite RPG of all time on-the-go, or while I'm "going" :)