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The first written mention of Chełmno is known from a document allegedly issued in 1065 by Duke Boleslaus II of Poland for the Benedictine monastery in Mogilno. In 1226 Duke Konrad I of Masovia invited the Teutonic Knights to Chełmno Land. In 1233 Kulm was granted city rights known as "Kulm law" (renewed in 1251), the model system for over 200 Polish towns. The town grew prosperous as a member of the mercantile Hanseatic League. Kulm and Chelmno Land were part of the Teutonic Knights' state until 1466, when after the Thirteen Years' War Chełmno was incorporated into Poland and made the capital of Chełmno Voivodeship.
In 1772, following the First Partition of Poland-Lithuania, the city was taken over by the Kingdom of Prussia. Between 1807 and 1815 Chełmno was part of the Duchy of Warsaw, being reannexed by Prussia at the end of the Napoleonic Wars.
This year we end the Seven Days of Thanksgiving series in Paprihaven on the day after. Why? While it is wonderful to have a day set aside specifically to acknowledge our impossible debt to God by expressing our gratitude, every day should truly be a day of thanksgiving. After the amazing celebration at the Simmons,* the girls are back at Tracy's house.
Tracy: Wow. So tired. What a great time. Thank you, God.
Buckley: I'm so stuffed! I'll sleep on this bench if I can't make it upstairs.
Tracy: Who said you're staying here??
Buckley: You gotta be responsible, Trace! You can't let me drive home in this condition.
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: You're not drunk! You don't even drink!
Buckley: I'm loaded with tryptophan. I can't make it. I'm DONE FOR, offissaaAAaa!
Briar: HAHA! What's 'trippafan'?
Tracy: It's an amino acid in turkey that people say makes you sleepy. I think what happened is we all just ate too much.
Briar: I ate sooooo much! I looooved that corn casserole! Who made that?
Tracy: I think Honor did.
Buckley: Ooohhh, I'm gonna pop. Let's just all get in bed, under the covers, and tell stories til we fall asleep.
Briar: That's FUN!
Buckley: But y'all GOTTA CARRY ME UUUUUUP!
Briar: HAHAHA!
Tracy: Oh, good grief. I'm stuck with both of you tonight. Are you sure you even have homes? You're always here.
Buckley: Oh! Haha! On Paprichat, Sheila Harper posted a video of her poodle grabbing a piece of turkey from the table!
Briar: I want to see that!
Tracy: Can you not be on your phone for like two seconds? And, I want to see too. And, who's Sheila Harper?
Buckley: She's got that pretty green Jaguar? Always real shiny? **
Tracy: Oh, yes.
Briar: I wanna see the video!
Buckley: Then come over here.
Briar: Can't move. You come over here.
Buckley: Uh uh.
Briar: BuuUUUUCK!!!
Buckley: You're outta luck, kid.
*WOOF!*
Briar: Hey, Biff!
Buckley: The Biffster!
Tracy: Wow, what a great day. And now we're just chilling. Peace. Joy. Love. God is good.
Buckley: All the TIME!
Briar: All the time!
Tracy: And, all the time...
Buckley: God is GOOD!
Briar: God is good!
Tracy: Bible challenge, then we somehow struggle upstairs. God's loving kindness. Psalm 117:2, "For His lovingkindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord is everlasting. Praise the Lord!"
Briar: Psalm 63:3, "Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips will praise You."
...
Tracy: Buckley...
Buckley: Um... What's the one? "Please answer me God because you are loving and kind... and compassionate?"
Tracy: Close enough! Psalm 69:16, "Answer me, O Lord, for Your lovingkindness is good; According to the greatness of Your compassion, turn to me." Okay, upstairs! Up!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
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God wants you to give thanks.
Well, Thanksgiving came and went. Did your gratitude last beyond your afternoon nap? For many, that’s the extent of their thanksgiving—a one-time, get-it-out-of-the-way holiday that reminds them to reflect on how blessed they are. Too often and too quickly, people resort back to being ingrates. But God wills us to be thankful all the time, in all things. That’s the point of 1 Thessalonians 5:18 where Paul says, “In everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” So if you’re saved, Spirit-filled, sanctified, submissive, and suffering, you have one thing left to do in order to follow God’s will—be saying thanks.
Paul’s simple, direct command—in everything give thanks—allows believers no excuse for harboring ingratitude. In everything carries an unlimited requirement. It refers to everything that occurs in life. With the obvious exception of personal sin, we are to express thanks for everything. No matter what struggles or trials, God commands us to find reasons for thanking Him always (Acts 5:41; James 1:2-3; 1 Peter 1:6-9). That’s His will.
If you’re not obeying that command, you’re not following God’s will. Think of it like this: If gratitude doesn’t come easy for you, neither will finding God’s will. Or to put it another way, if you struggle with being thankful, you’ll struggle with following God’s will. Need some motivation? Here are some reasons God wills you to be thankful:
God commands it:
Gratitude should come naturally to believers in response to all God has done on their behalf, but because of our hardness of heart, God enjoins us to thanksgiving with commands (Philippians 4:6; Colossians 2:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:18). Therefore, all forms of ingratitude are sinful. Paul commanded the Colossians, “And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful” (Colossians 3:15).
When Paul describes the believer’s Spirit-filled life, he writes, “speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father” (Ephesians 5:20). God doesn’t merely command those expressions of gratitude and leave believers helpless to comply. He enables us to articulate them (Philippians 2:13), and is pleased when we do.
Joni Eareckson Tada, who was involved in an accident that left her paralyzed from the neck down, writes, “Giving thanks is not a matter of feeling thankful, it's a matter of obedience.”
Thankfulness acknowledges God’s sovereignty:
The single, greatest act of worship you can render to God is to thank Him. It’s the epitome of worship because through gratitude, we affirm God as the ultimate source of both trial and blessing—and acknowledge our humble acceptance of both.
With a thankful heart, you can say in the midst of anything, “God be praised.” That kind of attitude looks beyond the circumstance to the plan of God. It sees beyond the pain to the sovereignty of God. It remembers, “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). An attitude of thankfulness enables us to deal with those who wrong us, saying with Joseph, “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Genesis 50:20). Those who are thankful see the providential hand of God everywhere and say, “God, I thank You for the peaceful times as well as the hard times—a difficult marriage, a challenging job, a severe illness—because I know You will use those things for my good and Your glory.”
The grateful Christian remembers that suffering perfects, confirms, strengthens, and establishes him (1 Peter 5:10). God wills that kind of thankfulness.
God judges ingratitude:
William Shakespeare wrote, “How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. Ingratitude thou marble hearted fiend.” If Shakespeare understood the hostile attitude behind thanklessness, imagine what God must think about it.
Ingratitude is the very essence of an unregenerate heart, ranking among the most intolerable sins in Scripture. The apostle Paul identified unbelievers as ungrateful: “For even though they knew God [through conscience and general revelation], they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened” (Romans 1:21). Because man in his pride fails to honor and glorify God as Creator, he also refuses to thank Him for His gracious provision. Ingratitude betrays unbelief, and both sins bring about God’s judgment.
Although God is the source of every good thing that men possess—giving life, breath, rain, sunshine, and other natural blessings to the just and unjust alike (Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:15–17)—the natural man refuses to thank Him. In his fallen mind, to thank God is to acknowledge his own obligation to worship Him.
In summary, God wills our being thankful in all things because gratitude is the ultimate expression of a transformed heart. But thanklessness can infest and destroy a church, marriage, family and home. So cultivate a heart of gratitude. Be thankful for all things and in all circumstances. That’s God’s will. Are you following it?
- John MacArthur, adapted from God Wants You To Give Thanks
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* As seen yesterday!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/54950920265
** As seen in BP 2021 Day 107!
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51121244013/
Previous Days of Thanksgiving on Paprihaven:
2015:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/22949342829/
2016:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31221411415/
2017:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/37886668344/
2018:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/31063953947/
2019:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/49137396007/
2020:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/50649209702/
2021:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/51704094592/
2022:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/52521485290/
2023:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/53349976036/
2024:
We shot this beautiful on-location picture with Molly last weekend, which plays with the concept of loneliness in a city, surrounded by people.
You can read a bit more about it on the following blog post: www.joseesteve.com/molly/
Following the purchase of GWR Castle Class No.7029 Clun Castle in January 1966 by Patrick Whitehouse, the locomotive needed a base close to its central West Midlands supporters' base. Whitehouse found space available at Tyseley, on the site of the former GWR depot, and formed 7029 Clun Castle Ltd to own both the locomotive and the rights to stable it at the depot.
In October 1968, 7029 Clun Castle Ltd purchased LMS Jubilee Class No.5593 "Kolhapur". With further locomotives and railway artefacts available as a result of the Beeching Axe, the supporters established the Standard Gauge Steam Trust as a registered educational charity, to preserve and demonstrate the steam locomotives. Following negotiations the trust acquired a long-term lease on a large part of the Tyseley site, and established the Tyseley Collection which still owns the locomotives and artefacts via the limited company, the depot site became the "Birmingham Railway Museum".
The trust cleared buildings and repaired the dilapidated tracks, and two water columns were repaired to allow steam locomotives to stay at the site. In 1968 the old coaling stage was converted into a two-road shed with an inspection pit to hold both acquired locomotives. In November 1966 Clun Castle was stripped and restored.
In 1999 the trust achieved its long-held objective of running a regular steam train service on the national main line railway network: the Shakespeare Express between Birmingham Snow Hill and Stratford-upon-Avon. At this point the trust felt that the term museum was inappropriate for its new status, and hence separated its assets and operations into two new organisations, Tyseley Locomotive Works and the operating arm Vintage Trains, with the third arm remaining the Tyseley Collection.
Following eight plus inches of snow, and with temps below freezing; Tropical Tanning shines like a beacon of hope for days of better weather.
Just because the landscape is white and pasty, doesn't mean your epidermis has to remain so.
Nikon Z7II
Nikkor Z 24-70 f/2.8
Following up on my tribute to Carrie Fisher's (1956-2016) character princess Leia, I have built R2-D2 and gave Leia neck and waist articulation, and swapped her weapon for her personal blaster. Here she is giving R2-D2 the stolen plans to the Death Star from the beginning scene of Star Wars : A New Hope.
More pictures to follow of both Leia and R2-D2. His 3rd leg retracts inside of him, head rotates and side legs pivot. :)
Sorry for the somewhat poor photo quality, my iPhone doesn't handle low light well. Orange light glow is from my salt block lamp.
Most of these spectators were following the game closely and applauding the occasional worthy shot or moment of good fielding.
Following the Normandy landings of June 1944, the Allied advance through northern Europe was extraordinarily rapid and on 11 September 1944, the Second Army entered the Netherlands just south of Eindhoven, the first Allied troops to set foot in the country since its fall in May 1940.
Their next aim was to cross the Rhine before the Germans had time to reorganise after their recent setbacks, securing crossings over the rivers and canals that stood in their path at Grave, Nijmegen and Arnhem. 'Operation Market Garden' would involve the United States 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, the Commonwealth 1st Airborne Division and the Polish Parachute Brigade.
On 17 September 1944, the 1st Airborne Division began landing west of Arnhem, but German resistance, bad weather and problems with supplies and reinforcements led to heavy losses, and their objectives were not taken. They were forced to form a perimeter at Oosterbeek which they held stubbornly until 25 September, when it was decided to withdraw the remnants of the division across the lower Rhine.
Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery contains the graves of most of those killed during the September landings, and many of those killed in later fighting in the area.
There are now 1,684 Commonwealth servicemen of the Second World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 243 of the burials are unidentified and two casualties are commemorated by special memorials. There are also 79 Polish, three Dutch and four non-war (including three former Commission employees) graves in the cemetery.
The cemetery was designed by P.D. Hepworth.
Following an extensive bathing and preening session this amazing Osprey looked straight into my camera lens, stretched and then launched into the air. Although I was caught a little unawares, as I was just enjoying watching the precision the Osprey took in cleaning and preening, I was thankful that I managed a capture a few images as it headed back to it perch.
Spotted Deer fawn in Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary, a part of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Also called Chital or Cheetal or Axis Deer
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Following a Seattle Z and company traffic off the Altoona Sub, a short transfer from East Minneapolis is back under way at Jackson Street and heading for the Belt Yard with an always-nice trio of EMDz.
Following the final passenger train out of Liverpool Lime Street along the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, Class 37 loco 37612 leads the 1Q18 Track Recording Coach Test Train from Crewe LNWR through Huyton station, with fellow loco 37610 tailing the rear
The following comes from the pub’s own information board.
The Coach and Horses' beautiful exterior stain glass windows marks this pub as one that is hard to miss. The pub was once connected at the first floor to another building. However, after its neighbour received considerable damage, the original building had to be pulled down. It was later rebuilt in 1933 for William Younger & Co.
Behind this pub lies a mysterious, spooky story, which will chill the bones of even the most fearsome of people.
In the eighteenth century, the story goes that a coach pulled along by four horses was being driven by a ghostly figure. Those who saw this ghostly ghoul told the tale that as the coach came closer to the building, they realised the driver was headless and the passengers of this supernatural coach were staring through the windows with their dreary skull-like faces.
Bruton Street in London Mayfair has something Royal about itself, in fact is the birth place of Queen Elizabeth II born at 17 Bruton Street London April 21, 1926.
Following the snows, this one seemed to be fine.
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
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Following my footplate experience day on the Foxfield Railway you realise that the drivers role is pretty relaxed whilst being the fireman is all go. Not only do you shovel coal, but you also clamber about the engine when topping up with water, couple and uncouple the engine from the train and operate the ground frames etc. Here we have the fireman of 80080 operating the hand point to allow the engine to run round its train at Leicester North, Great Central Railway, 12th March 2022.
Locomotive History
The British Railways Standard class 4MT 2-6-4T was based on the London Midland and Scottish Railway Fairburn class 4, 2-6-4T, which in turn had a lineage back to the London Midland and Scottish Railway Fowler design of 1927. The principal modifications to the Fairburn design involved the reduction in size to enable them to fit into the L1 loading gauge. One hundred and fifty five locomotives were built split between Brighton works (one hundred and fifteen), Derby works (fifteen) and Doncaster works (ten). 80080 was built at Brighton works and entered traffic in March 1954, initially allocated to Plaistow MPD for commuter services on the London Tilbury and Southend line. In 1962 when this line became electrified it was transferred to Croes Newydd (Wrexham) and remained there until July 1965 when 80080 was withdrawn from traffic By January 1966 it had been moved to Woodham Brothers yard in Barry, South Wales where it remained for the next fourteen years succumbing to the ravages weather, metal thieves, and later preservationists removing parts. When the locomotive was purchased in the autumn of 1980 all non ferrous and motion parts were missing and it was no more than a skeletal hulk. Restoration to working order took seven years and was completed in October 1987 at the Midland Railway Centre.
I dashed out the door with camera pointed upward, when my husband alerted me that Sandhill Cranes were calling in the distant sky. I could not get all of the birds into the shot, but there were approximately 70-80.
Following the tragic incident in which 17 people died after the crash of the Gloria Elevator, television crews from around the world briefly descended on Lisbon before heading off in search of more bad news. Here one presenter reads a script to camera from a teleprompter.
Following her full rebuild and sporting a five-bladed prop on her Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, racy looking Supermarine Spitfire LF.XIVe RN201 seen taxying out at Duxford sometime in the mid 2000's
Originally delivered to the Belgian Air Force as SG-31, she became G-BSKP after completion of the re-build in 2002
Then flying as RN201 until 2007, she was sold as N201TB in the USA
Scanned print
This location is a little upstream from the noted Meeting-of-the-Waters Viewpoint with the Yoho and Kicking Horse Rivers. Before making my way down to that point though, I decided to look upstream and take a wider angle view of Yoho River as it flowed by. My idea wasn't just to capture a sweeping view of the river, but I also wanted to include the mountain and hillside of trees is a backdrop. I found it easier to do that by angling my SLR camera slightly downward. That perspective really brought out the sweeping of the river and created a feel of just how tall the mountain was off in the distance. It also helped that the skies above were slightly cloudy and overcast so there was no real need to include any of the skies above for the final image.
The charter fishing fleets have started operating and the alewives (small, silver fish) are running. The gull population here is quite happy .
An eastbound BNSF oil train is just north of Dotsero as it follows a relatively calm section of the Colorado River. Rafters are enjoying a hot summer evening on a beautiful day. Gypsum, CO 8/2/2024
Following the cut through the sand hills made by the Middle Loup River, westbound empties wait for permission on to Alliance. The train is stopped at Seneca, NE and the Stable Productions Exotic Animal Ranch is in the background. Home to zebras, water buffalo, elk, reindeer and other exotics, the only thing from out-of-town I caught in the frame was a Kansas City Southern SD70ACe.
Urmia Lake, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
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Following the sun, to find the one
Who's giving you the wings to fly
Following the sun, the golden one
Losing sense for space and time
Can you feel the waves of life
(Can you) hear the sigh of love
Do you believe in it ?
Following the sun, just for the one
Till you'll find the door you thought
Following the sun, like everyone
Searching for a sign of hope
Have a look up to the sky
See the billion stars above
'cause (maybe) on one of them
You'll spend your further life.
Enigma – Following The Sun
Written by Michael Cretu, Voyageur 2003
Lake Urmia :
Lake Urmia (Persian: Daryache-ye Orumiye,Azerbaijani Urmu gölü,Kurdish Wermy,Armenian: Կապուտան ծով,Kaputan ts'ov; ancient name: Lake Matiene) is a salt lake in northwestern Iran near Iran's border with Turkey.The lake is between the provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan in Iran,and west of the southern portion of the Caspian Sea.At its full size, it is the largest lake in the Middle East and the sixth largest saltwater lake on earth with a surface area of approximately 5,200 km² (2,000 mile²),140 km (87 mi) length,55 km (34 mi) width, and 16 m (52 ft) depth.
Lake Urmia along with its approximately 102 islands are protected as a national park by the Iranian Department of Environment.
History :
One of the early mentions of Lake Urmia is from the Assyrian records from 9th century BCE.There,in the records of Shalmaneser III (reign 858–824 BCE),two names are mentioned in the area of Lake Urmia:Parsuwash (i.e., the Persians) and Matai (i.e., the Mitanni).It is not completely clear whether these referred to places or tribes or what their relationship was to the subsequent list of personal names and "kings".But Matais were Medes and linguistically the name Parsuwash matches the Old Persian word pārsa,an Achaemenid ethnolinguistic designation.
"Lake Matianus" (Latin: Lacus Matianus) is an old name for Lake Urmia.It was the center of the Mannaean Kingdom,a potential Mannaean settlement,represented by the ruin mound of Hasanlu,was on the south side of Lake Matianus.Mannae was overrun by the people who were called Matiani or Matieni,an Iranian people variously identified as Scythian,Saka,Sarmatian,or Cimmerian.It is not clear whether the lake took its name from the people or the people from the lake,but the country came to be called Matiene or Matiane.
The lake is named after the provincial capital city of Urmia,originally a Syriac name meaning city of water.In the early 1930s,it was called Lake Rezaiyeh after Reza Shah Pahlavi,but after the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970s,the lake was renamed Urmia.Its ancient Persian name was Chichast (meaning, "glittering"–a reference to the glittering mineral particles suspended in the lake water and found along its shores).In medieval times it came to be known as Lake Kabuda (Kabodan),from the word for "azure" in Persian, or 'կապույտ' ("Kapuyt/Gabuyd") in Armenian.