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A single Nuclear flask heading for the re-processing plant at Sellafield forms the trainload for DRS's 68001 "Evolution" and 68007 "Valiant". The backdrop is made up of Birmingham's skyline and, appropriately, a fairly nuclear-looking sky. The train is the Fridays-only 6M63, 12:00 Bridgwater - Crewe on 27th January 2023.
Direct Rail Services Class 37's no 37612 and 37425 "Sir Robert Mc Alpine/Concrete Bob" swing on the triangle at Valley,Anglesey near Holyhead on the late running 13.21 flask service.
Photo taken December 2014.
The water in this flask is very salty, i added much salt because i wanted to see the way of the water in the flask, but it wasnt enough, and at some point the additional salt wouldnt dissolve in the water any more. Maybe i can get my hands on some professional contrast agent.
edit: (sept 22, 2006)
by now i have made my own contrast agent with barium sulfate, and redone the image of that spray flask www.received21.de/cgi-bin/received21de/image.cgi?iid=2006...
A cat-a-mountain engravers digital file for Norman G. McPherson Esq KHT, OLJ, OMLJ, CSt.N, FSA Scot. This is a proof of concept sample prior to engraving his Sterling Silver hip flask.
A lovely pub with plenty of smaller rooms and good selection of beer. (It has as of Jan 2009 been purchased by Fuller's.) (More recent photos of it from 2025 and from the side.)
Address: 77 Highgate West Hill (formerly listed at South Grove).
Former Name(s): The Flask Tavern.
Owner: Mitchells and Butlers (former); Ind Coope [Taylor Walker] (former).
Links:
Twin Six "Flask" ￥3570 shop.circles-jp.com/?pid=53494811
「Circles Blog」 blogblog.circles-jp.com/?eid=859369
This is the "birdie flask" I carry in my golf bag. Whenever anyone in our group gets a birdie, we celebrate....I golf with some darn good ladies...last week we had 11 birdies between the 4 of us on our Saturday morning round.....too much fun!
17th Century, India.
Made from Ivory, Steel & Glass. Were used in conjuction with Musket by the Army.
Was glad i took this, because i really didn't appreciate the artwork, until i saw the details in the picture. Spectacular would be one of the words that can describe it.
The transducers produced spherical, collapsing sound waves. These trapped a tiny bubble in the middle of the flask, and then started causing it to rapidly collapse, or cavitate. This cavitation is so violent that it produces rapid, picosecond-duration light pulses as the air inside is smashed into a plasma. See Wikipedia for more info.
Did I say something that made them all look at me? :D
57010 & 37409 "Lord Hinton" at Carlisle working the flasks from Sellafield - Carlisle Kingmoor.
Aluminium flask, extra large ceramic mug, sticker from the messenger bag (see other photo), pencil with Kitty eraser on end & A4 spiral bound exercise book (616/617)
The buffer stop at the end of the disused short Flask Siding at Trawsfynydd, in Gwynnedd, North Wales.
The Blaenau Ffestiniog-Bala line closed as a through route on the 4th January 1960 and lifted, apart from a 5 mile stretch at the northern end Blaenau Ffestiniog-Trawsfynydd, to serve the then new Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station (since closed) and take away spent nuclear rods.
The last flask train to leave this siding was on the 8th August 1995, behind class 31 locomotives 31255 and 31199.
The last train here before the line closed on the 31st October 1998 was, Hertfordshire Railtours 'The Trawsfynydd Lament' top and tailed by 56108 (buffer end) and 47785, running as the 1T70 15.04 Trawsfynydd-London Euston.
30th October 2018
Italian (possibly Florence) about 1585 (with Medici family crest on one face). Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK.
2010-04-14
A new batch of babies... I am really excited about the Vanda coerulea alba! :)
From back left: Rhynchostylis gigantea x coerulea (bleu), Ascocentrum ampulleaceum alba, Vanda tessellata alba, Aeries fuchsia charm x multiflora, Gastrochilus sp., Schoenorchis fragrans, Phalaenopsis plucheria coerulea, Vanda denisioniana, Rhynchostylis green, Vanda coerulea alba, Rhynchostylis gigantea alba, Vanda Happy Smile.
Visit my orchid blog for more: www.orchidkarma.com
Bit of a lazy effort this week. i'm finding it hard to find time to tak epictures lately.
I held the vivitar 285hv on 1/4 power slightly behind and to the right of the flask and bouncd it against a white board so that the front of the flask is reflecting the board. Does this count as a specular highlight though? I'm not sure.
Indian 'bidri' ware flask with flower motifs. Bidriware is since the 19th century an important export metal handicraft of India, due to its striking inlay artwork. The metal used is an alloy of zinc and copper, blackened by a sal ammoniac containing paste, however leaving the striking inlaid silver decoration unaffected.
India, Deccan, 18th century AD.
October 4, 2012, Canon 7D.
Perfume flask shaped like a fish, 500–330 BC
found at Takht-i Kuwad, Tajikistan
Gold
This gold flask shaped like a fish contained perfumed oil. A ring on its side was probably for a chain that may have been used to hang it from the owner’s belt or to attach a stopper. Aromatic oils were used to style a nobleman’s beard and ringlets, keeping them shiny and fragrant.
The fish has been identified as a barbel, a freshwater species endemic to the Oxus river and Caspian Sea.*
From the exhibition
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece
(May 2023 – Aug 2023)
Between 490 and 479 BC, the Persian empire tried, and failed, to conquer mainland Greece. Many Greeks explained their victory as a triumph of plain living over a ‘barbarian’ enemy weakened by luxury. Ancient objects reveal a different story. The Persian court used luxury as an expression of prestige and power, with a distinctive style that was imitated and adapted across cultural borders, even influencing democratic Athens and, later, the world of Alexander the Great.
'Treasure there was in plenty – tents full of gold and silver furniture… bowls, goblets, and cups, all made of gold'
When Greek soldiers captured the royal command tent of the Persian king during the Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC), they were confronted suddenly and spectacularly by luxury on an unimaginable scale. To many ancient Greek writers, the victories of the small Greek forces against the mighty Persians were a triumph of discipline and restraint over an empire weakened by decadence and excess.
Drawing on dazzling objects from Afghanistan to Greece, this exhibition moved beyond the ancient Greek spin to explore a more complex story about luxury as a political tool in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550–30 BC. It explored how the royal Achaemenid court of Persia used precious objects as markers of authority, defining a style of luxury that resonated across the empire from Egypt to India. It considered how eastern luxuries were received in early democratic Athens, self-styled as Persia's arch-enemy, and how they were adapted in innovative ways to make them socially and politically acceptable. Finally, it explored how Alexander the Great swept aside the Persian empire to usher in a new Hellenistic age in which eastern and western styles of luxury were fused as part of an increasingly interconnected world.
The exhibition brought together exquisitely crafted objects in gold, silver and glass, and featured star loans including the extraordinary Panagyurishte Treasure from Bulgaria. Whether coveted as objects of prestige or disparaged as signs of decadence, the beauty of these Persian, Greek and Hellenistic luxuries shaped the political landscape of Europe and Asia in the first millennium BC – and their legacy persists in our attitudes to luxury today.
[*British Musem]
Taken in the British Museum
Class 37's thundering under the A46 through Tewkesbury station with the Berkeley - Crewe nuclear flask train
Laboratory flasks filled with miscellaneous chemicals.
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Blown and trailed glass, 3rd century C.E.
The distinctive blue and yellow colors of the snake-thread trails mark this small flask out as a product of the late Roman glass factories at Cologne on the Rhine in Germany. The dropper-flask shape, however, is paralleled by numerous examples decorated with colorless trails, found principally in the Roman east.
(L.2007.33.8)
Text from the Metropolitan Museum card.