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i had to cheat a little bit and use part of my photo final for my project. i actually had a different idea for today, but by the end of the day it was this photo that i felt connected to.
my teddy bears broken heart breaks my heart too, and im certainly not feeling my best.
i think its against the rules of life to say i hate my family, but i think i really do. i hate how they make me feel like im worthless, and like no one in the entire world would ever waste a second paying any attention to me. truly breaks both of our hearts.
35018/46115/45627/44932 are seen here nearing Clapham with the 5Z36 Derby-Carnforth returning from the greatest gathering on the 5th August 2025.
One of the greatest lessons we can impart to our children and grandchildren is that they are not the first people to inhabit the earth. Instead, they are just an individual in a long, uninterrupted line of individuals from whom they inherited characteristics and character traits that help form a significant part of who they are becoming on their path to adulthood and beyond.
Now as the sun is setting on my sojourn on this planet, I find my appreciation is growing of the values my father instilled in our family. I am still not sure if he even knew he was doing this or if he could articulate what values he wanted passed on. Until our home dribbled out the last of the eight siblings and he began to see retirement at the end of the tunnel, my father had not been a communicative person about such things. He simply quietly modeled them in everyday life.
One attitude he planted in us was the concept of a work ethic. Hard work became our daily companion, Sundays included, as we did chores, worked in the field and helped neighbors with putting up hay, rounding up cattle, shelling corn and filling silos. Work was not something we questioned; we just did it because dad did.
Now decades after his passing, we have carried on that work ethic and sought to pass it on to his grandchildren with varying degrees of success. At the ripening age of 75 my days normally begin before 5 AM and are still going after 10 at night. Work has become like a comfortable Lazy Boy in my old age; it may not be fancy but it is a reliable companion that gives each day purpose.
I didn’t know my grandfather well but he was climbing ladders and painting barns and houses up into his 80s so my guess is he introduced my father to hard work early on in the dusty environs of South Dakota as he sought unsuccessfully to make a living on a farm.
This photo of my father was taken in 1926 in my father’s 17th year. He left his parent’s farm near Huron, SD and joined a threshing crew that meandered across North Dakota doing hot, dusty harvesting work on a contract basis for farmers. He was by far the youngest on the crew and according to those who knew him, a reliable hard worker. (I colored him in the photo so he would stand out)
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
― Shannon L. Alder
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My dad's Army uniform. He was stationed in Berlin Germany in 1946 and witnessed a lot of the clean up and horrors of WWII. He never spoke of it but often threw German words into a conversation. I have also included an atlas of WWII maps, an old Big Ben clock front, rationing stamps and old cameras. His army hat is included.
I did not think I could find a hidden gem of the Civil War, a war that is so heavily researched. But I have.
Virginian George H. Thomas from Southampton County was the quiet engine that supported Grant and Sherman in a number of their wins against the Confederacy. Thomas was the military leader whom they wanted to cover their back. The major general was a brilliant strategist and logistical commander. No Confederate general ever won against Thomas in a battle or at least in his part of the battle.
Why does Thomas rise to the top of the list of legendary generals of the Civil War? It is true that Ulysses S. Grant destroyed THREE major armies of the Confederacy while Thomas "just" two. But there was that ding in Grant's amazing record, that bloody standstill at Cold Harbor against Lee. There was also Grant's stumbling into the Battle of Shiloh. Ultimately a win, there was a tremendous loss of life because of military intelligence blindness by a gung-ho Grant. On the other hand, part of Thomas being considered slow and deliberate was because he emphasized, demanded and waited for his military intelligence and logistics to come through so that he could own the battlefield and battle. As early as his victory over a Confederate Army in the Battle of Mill Springs in Kentucky, Thomas saw the opposing general do dumb things without using good military intelligence as his eyes and ears. The Confederate general was shot dead when he shouted commands to the wrong army, the Union army, which he meandered into and thought were his soldiers. When all is said, that discipline paid off for the U.S. general. Thomas did not lose. As for fellow Virginian Robert E. Lee, as great as he was, he had many battle defeats, including his last loss by the strategy of Grant.
I think for these and many other reasons, a strong case can be made that this is America's greatest Civil War general; albeit, he's been forgotten with time. (At the end of the 19th Century, the United States' $5 bill had Thomas' face on it.)
Thomas didn't believe in tooting his own horn. He didn't write a memoir about his military exploits such as Julius Caesar did; instead, he left it to history to interpret the significance of his military command. He didn't have a brother who was a U.S. congressman such as William Sherman had, who consistently talked about how great Sherman was. (He was.) He didn't have state leaders backing him and touting his leadership at the national level such as Grant did. He wasn't connected to the George Washington family such as Robert E. Lee was. In contrast, Virginia and the South wanted to forget that Thomas ever existed. The Virginian followed what he thought was right. He went against his tribe at great cost. His siblings disowned him.
For those who point out that as a young man, George Thomas had slaves, that is true. But the Virginian learned from that experience. He embraced emancipation. When his best friend General William Sherman balked at taking on slaves as colored troops, it was Thomas who agreed to have colored troops. He felt that it would be good for the emancipation of slaves, good for the development of slaves into free men, good for the Union Army, and good for the United States.
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Among the many informative articles I read on Thomas, there is this gem, Catching up with Old Slow Trot in the Smithsonian Magazine.
"The greatest romance one can find is to fall in love with God.
The greatest journey one could embark on is to seek Him.
The greatest achievement one can obtain is to find Him."
-St. Augustine
The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team in San Francisco, California, that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957 before transferring to Phoenix, Arizona. They were named for the abundant California sea lion and harbor seal populations in the Bay Area. The 1909, 1922, 1925, and 1928 Seals were recognized as being among the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time.
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Harry Richard "Rube" Suter (b. September 15, 1887 in Independence, Missouri – d. July 24, 1971 at age 83 in Topeka, Kansas) was a professional baseball pitcher from 1906 to 1912. He played one season in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox. Suter was 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg). He started his baseball career in 1906 with the South Texas League's Austin Senators and had a win–loss record of 15–9. The following season, he was 23–13. Suter then joined the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League and became one of the top pitchers in the circuit. In 1908, pitching a league-leading 415 innings, he went 27–20 with a 2.00 earned run average. Suter's contract was purchased by the Chicago White Sox in August 1908. He was on the White Sox roster throughout 1909, and he made seven starts, relieved in 11 other games, and went 2–3 with a 2.47 ERA. His contract was then sold back to San Francisco after the season, and he never played in the majors again. Returning to his old club in 1910, Suter picked up where he left off, going 16–14 with a 1.95 ERA. The following season, his ERA rose to 2.67, but he struck out 339 batters to set a Seals team record. He also threw a no-hitter on April 25 to beat Oakland, 1–0. In 1912, Suter joined the Portland Beavers. He set a Pacific Coast League record on October 12, when he struck out 16 batters in a game against San Francisco. Suter pitched in 20 games that year and won only 5. His playing career ended after the season. In 1938, Suter was the manager of the Western Association's Salina Millers.
(Clipped from - The Topeka State Journal newspaper - Topeka, Kansas - 8 Jun 1905) - Sedalia has a new pitcher by the name of Harry Suter, son of George Suter of Fulton. He is a home-guard, but promises In great shape. He formerly pitched for the Westminster College team.
(Clipped from - The Topeka State Journal newspaper - Topeka, Kansas - 17 Jun 1905) - Sedalia - Harry Suter, the home guard kid phenom, who showed up so well in the box, refused to go along on the present trip. He only wants to play at home. In July he pitched for the Nevada Elks baseball team.
(Clipped from - The Sedalia Democrat newspaper - Sedalia, Missouri - 23 Feb 1906) - Sedalian Signed As Pitcher - Harry Suter, the young man who pitched such phenomenal ball for the Nevada Elks last summer, has signed with the Austin, Tex., ball team, says the Nevada Mall. Suter will make good in the Texas league, and If no accidents happen to him he will be In professional company before the passing of many seasons. He is a real “box-artist" of the strikeout order.
(Clipped from - The Sedalia Democrat newspaper - Sedalia, Missouri - 5 Nov 1906) - SEDALIA BALL PLAYER - Austin, He Will Likely Be Sold by Austin, Texas to St. Paul. Harry Suter, the plumber and baseball pitcher, who played last season with the Austin, Texas, baseball team in the Southern Texas league, is in receipt of a letter from W. P. Allen, secretary of the league, in which he states that Suter will very likely be sold to the St. Paul, Minn. American association club the coming season. (he ended up staying one more year with the Austin baseball team).
(Clipped from - The Morning Union newspaper - Grass Valley, California - 18 February 1908) - LONG SIGNS GOOD MAN FROM TEXAS - SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 17. - Danny Long announced today that he had all but signed Harry Suter, who helped to pitch Austin into the championship in the Texas League last year. Suter was drafted by Washington. When Long sold Street to Cantillon the understanding was that the latter should send him a player in addition to the money that was passed. Now if Washington can secure waivers on Suter he will be turned over to the Seals. "Suter is a left-handed pitcher", said Long, "and was one of the best men in the Texas League last year. His side-kicker, Bailey, was tried out by the St. Louis American Club last fail and made good, and from all accounts Suter is as good a man. I am told that he has a lot of speed and for a left-hander and is remarkably steady. We need a good southpaw and I look for Suter to fill the bill."
(Clipped from - The Sedalia Democrat newspaper - Sedalia, Missouri - 2 April 1908) - A SEDALIA BALL PLAYER WHO HAS MADE GOOD WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO TEAM IN COAST LEAGUE. HARRY SUTER IS A FIXTURE THERE - Washington Drafted Him From Texas, but Turned Him Adrift Without a Trial and Is Sure to Regret It. Harry Suter, son of George Suter, the plumber of this city, has made good with the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast Baseball League. Suter has something up his sleeve that no other pitcher is working on. Suter’s new junk is the “knuckle ball.” it is a combination of the slow ball and the spitter. In making the delivery, Suter grasps the ball firmly of course, against the knuckles of the pitching hand. It is delivered with the same motion that sends the swift ball across the plate. And that is where the deception lies. While the swing is that of a fast ball the knuckle sphere is in reality a slow ball, it comes to the batter looming up as large as a balloon and then suddenly drops, just like the “saliva special.’
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T212 Obaks were to the West Coast what T206’s were to the rest of the country. While little of the players are known, their images endure...trade cards from the "Obak Baseball Players" series (T212), distributed by the California branch of the American Tobacco Company to promote their Obak Mouthpiece Cigarettes brand. The set was released in three separate subsets, one per year from 1909 through 1911.
While the players may not be well known to fans today—and most probably weren't to fans in the eastern half of the country even in 1910—the cards are appreciated for their stunning good looks. The artwork on these is sensational, transporting you back in time to a period when the game was beginning to grow up in California, Oregon and Washington, where these players toiled in hopes of getting noticed by a big league club in the east.
Link to - Obak Cards Were West Coast’s Version of T206 - www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/obak-cards-were-west-coasts...
All three Obak sets feature the same front design. The design has a brightly-colored lithograph of a player, surrounded by a white border. At the bottom are the player's last name and team city, and the specific league is added for the 1910 and '11 sets. Collectors can identify which year the card was issued by its back design. 1909 cards feature an Obak advertisement in Old English script. 1910 had the Obak wording in block type, along with a mention of either 150 or 175 subjects. There are a total of 35 different slogans available on the 1910 card backs. Finally, the 1911 cards are printed in red ink, with a biography of the player and a few lines of statistics. There are 426 total cards in the three sets.
Many 1909 Obaks were obviously hand-cut at the factory and were issued exactly in this manner; these cards are encapsulated as "Authentic" due to their very slight irregular cut but are definitely not trimmed. There were 10 horizontal cards issued in the 1909 set (Boyce, Brackenridge, Brown, Dillion, W. Hogan, Martinke, Mohler, Nelson, Reidy and Wiggs).
1911 Obak - The final year of production for the original Obak baseball card brand. The 1911 Obak Baseball set featured players from the six PCL teams and the four NWL teams. These teams included professional clubs from Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Vernon, and Seattle. This year is noticeably different from the previous two years as the backs are printed in red ink and contain a bio and statistics. The stats are a first for minor league cards.
Link to - Finding 5 Gems In The T212 Obak Minor League Set - www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/t212-obak-set/
The OBAK (T212) cards were printed in San Francisco at the Schmidt Lithography Co. Judging from the 76-card
uncut sheet shown in Post #8, Schmidt Lithography used a 30-inch wide press track to print 19 cards across the
sheet.
Links to 1911 T212-3 Obak Cigarettes (179 cards) complete sheet (printed by the Schmidt lithography company in San Francisco, sold for $16,000) - www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cct-worth-...
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Described as the greatest railway journey in the world, this 84 mile round trip takes you past a list of impressive extremes. Starting near the highest mountain in Britain, Ben Nevis, it visits Britain's most westerly mainland railway station, Arisaig; passes close by the deepest freshwater loch in Britain, Loch Morar and the shortest river in Britain, River Morar, finally arriving next to the deepest seawater loch in Europe, Loch Nevis!
“Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need.
First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door.
Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying 'time heals all wounds' is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.
Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.
Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.”
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Hong Kong Culture | Modern Hong Kong History started in 1841.
Visit Hong Kong - one of the World‛s GREATEST Cities!
Hong Kong is blessed with some of the most amazing panoramic city views in the World today and even better 75% of the land area consists of country parks and wetlands plus we have 575+ named hills and peaks offering some great hiking trails and lots of very fine beaches and remote islands - in a nutshell, Hong Kong is full of surprises!
Victoria Peak, The Peak Tram, Victoria Harbour, The Big Buddha | Po Lin Monastery, Tai O Fishing Village, The iconic Star Ferry, The Ocean Terminal Deck, The iconic Street Tram on HK Island, TST Promenade, Cheung Chau Island, Peng Chau Island, Temple Street Night Market, The Ladies Market, Chi Lin Nunnery | Nan Lian Garden, Statue Square, The Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple, Tsz Shan Monastery, Tai Kwun Centre, Hollywood Road, The Mid Levels Escalator, Aberdeen, Stanley, The West Kowloon Cultural Centre, Food Markets... the list goes on and on of cool and unusual places you should “visit or do” when you come to Hong Kong.
Book a Private Tour of Hong Kong to maximise your time here and gain an in depth understanding of this amazing city, in addition we have a great food culture and night life scene with some 15,000 - 20,000 Restaurants and Bars officially and unofficially and any and all visitors should take a private or group food tour in Hong Kong!
Hong Kong has one of the very best public transport systems in the world (MTR Subway and Buses + 18,163 Taxi‛s) they are cheap, reliable and easy to use.
Hong Kong - Some Facts - Population 7.5 Million people | 92% Ethnic Chinese | English is an Official Language along with Cantonese and Mandarin | 1,114 sq km or 430sq miles of diversity | 263 Islands | People | Street Scenes | Traffic Scenes | Nature Scenes | Animals | Buildings | Shopping | Gardens | The Countryside | Islands and the Ocean + Daily Life and anything interesting, all Districts, Hong Kong
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Siena, Toscany October 2010 HDR
Piazza del Campo is the principal public space of the historic center of Siena, Tuscany, Italy and is one of Europe's greatest medieval squares. It is renowned worldwide for its beauty and architectural integrity. The Palazzo Pubblico and its Torre del Mangia, as well as various palazzi signorili surround the shell-shaped piazza. At the northwest edge is the Fonte Gaia.
The twice-per-year horse-race, Palio di Siena, is held around the edges of the piazza.
Gores of brick paving viewed from the Torre del Mangia
The open site was a marketplace established before the thirteenth century on a sloping site near the meeting point of the three hillside communities that coalesced to form Siena: the Castellare, the San Martino and the Camollia. Siena may have had earlier Etruscan settlements, but it was not a considerable Roman settlement, and the campo does not lie on the site of a Roman forum, as is sometimes suggested. It was paved in 1349 in fishbone-patterned red brick with ten lines of travertine, which divide the piazza into nine sections, radiating from the mouth of the gavinone (the central water drain) in front of the Palazzo Pubblico. The number of divisions are held to be symbolic of the rule of The Nine (Noveschi) who laid out the campo and governed Siena at the height of its mediaeval splendour between 1292-1355. It was and remains the focal point of public life in the City. From the piazza, eleven narrow shaded streets radiate into the city.
The palazzi signorili that line the square, housing the families of the Sansedoni, the Piccolomini and the Saracini etc, have unified rooflines, in contrast to earlier tower houses — emblems of communal strife — such as may still be seen not far from Siena at San Gimignano. In the statutes of Siena, civic and architectural decorum was ordered :"...it responds to the beauty of the city of Siena and to the satisfaction of almost all people of the same city that any edifices that are to be made anew anywhere along the public thoroughfares...proceed in line with the existent buildings and one building not stand out beyond another, but they shall be disposed and arranged equally so as to be of the greatest beauty for the city."[1]
The unity of these Late Gothic houses is effected in part by the uniformity of the bricks of which their walls are built: brick-making was a monopoly of the commune, which saw to it that standards were maintained. (Ingersoll)
At the foot of the Palazzo Pubblico's wall is the late Gothic Chapel of the Virgin built as an ex voto by the Sienese, after the terrible Black Death of 1348 had ended.
"Once I wanted to be the greatest
No wind of waterfall could stall me
And then came the rush of the flood
Stars of night turned deep to dust
Melt me down
Into big black armour
Leave no trace of grace
Just in your honour
Lower me down
To culprit south
Make 'em wash a space in town
For the lead
And the dregs of my bed
I've been sleepin'
Lower me down
Pin me in
Secure the grounds
For the later parade
Once I wanted to be the greatest
Two fists of solid rock
With brains that could explain
Any feeling
Lower me down
Pin me in
Secure the grounds
For the lead
And the dregs of my bed
I've been sleepin'
For the later parade
Once I wanted to be the greatest
No wind of waterfall could stall me
And then came the rush of the flood
Stars of night turned deep to dust"
- The Greatest by Cat Powers
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Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 151.
Va-va-voom singer Abbe Lane (1932) achieved her greatest success as the vocalist for Xavier Cugat's orchestra, but she also appeared in several American and Italian films. The beautiful, curvaceous Lane was nicknamed 'the swingingest sexpot in show business.'
Abbe Lane was born Abigail Francine Lassman to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, in 1932. She began her career as a child actress on radio and in movie shorts by Vitaphone. From there she progressed to singing and dancing on Broadway. At 16, she appeared on Broadway in George Abbot's Barefoot Boy with Cheek. A year later, she was a featured vocalist on the Vincent Lopez television show and worked on stage in a Michael Todd production of As the Girls Go. Bandleader Xavier Cugat spotted her calypso number in that stage show and hired her as a vocalist for his famous orchestra. In 1952, the two married and Cugat influenced her music which favoured Latin and rumba styles. With her palpable sexuality she became a nightclub sensation as well as a fixture on television variety shows, such as Toast of the Town. She attracted attention in talk shows for her suggestive comments such as "Jayne Mansfield may turn boys into men, but I take them from there". Her costume for an appearance on the Jackie Gleason Show was considered too revealing and she was instructed to wear something else. Lane made her Hollywood debut in the Western Wings of the Hawk (Budd Boetticher, 1953), followed a year later by Ride Clear of Diablo (Jesse Hibbs, 1954) starring Audie Murphy. Cugat supervised her musical number in another WesternThe Americano (William Castle, 1955), starring Glenn Ford. When the live Xavier Cugat Show premiered in 1957, Lane was front and centre. She recorded a series of Latin jazz-inspired LPs for RCA. In 1958 she collaborated with Tito Puente on the top-selling record album Be Mine Tonight and she also starred opposite Tony Randall in the Broadway musical Oh, Captain!. Lane later recorded her songs in that musical on a solo album.
Despite these successes, Hollywood offered Abbe Lane mainly decorative parts and like many other American stars, she moved to Rome to work in Italian films. In 1955 she and Cugat toured Italy, where she co-starred in the film Quando tramonta il sole/Sunset in Naples (Guido Brignone, 1955) . Her attempts to promote the project were complicated when Italian television network RAI called her 'too sexy' to appear on air. More Italian films soon followed, like the drama I girovaghi/The Wanderers (Hugo Fregonese, 1956) starring Peter Ustinov, and the comedy Tempo di villeggiatura/Time of Vacation (Antonio Racioppi, 1956) with Vittorio de Sica. As Eva, she played the female lead in the Italian comedy Totò, Eva e il pennello proibito/Toto in Madrid (Stefano Vanzina, 1959) starring Totò and Louis de Funès. When Cugat moved back to New York, Lane chose to remain in Italy. The distance proved too much for the couple, and they divorced in 1964. Lane remained in the public eye throughout the 1960s, guest-starring on TV series including F Troop (1966), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966), The Flying Nun (1968), and The Brady Bunch (1970), but her career flagged throughout the 1970s. She appeared in a segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie (George Miller, 1983) in the role of an airline stewardess and did some final TV appearances. In 1992 Lane unexpectedly resurfaced with But Where Is Love?, an autobiographical novel about a Broadway ingénue who falls in love with a Latin bandleader. Since 1964, she is married to Peter Leff.
Sources: Frank Thistle (Adam), Carina MacKenzie (Los Angeles Times), Jason Ankeny (AllMusic), Wikipedia and IMDb.
50007 'Hercules', 50033 'Glorious' and 50049 Defiance'
Derby Litchurch Lane Works (Alstom), 2/8/25
'The Greatest Gathering' Rail 200 Event
I was grateful to be an invited guest of one of the organisers of The Greatest Gathering for this night shoot.
DESCRIPTION:
Once the greatest champion of Astra, Muriel Morningstar was tempted by treasure and corrupted by a ring of chaos. Now it is the warlord of Inferna; the angel of the Abyss, whose name is Abaddon, the Destroyer .”
From the Abyss of Inferna, the gigantic furnace, darkening the sun and sky with smoke, comes the dark angel, the warlord, Abaddon.
Its dragon head is adorned with antlers, where it wears the golden crowns of fallen royalty.
With breastplates of iron, Abaddon charges forward. The sound of its wings is the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. It has a saw tail with stingers, like scorpions, wielding it's Tri-glave and cosmic disruptor.
WEAPONS:
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Energized Tri-Glave
2 Midak (Zamor) Skyblasters
2 Inika Light-up Laser Axes
Waist mounted cosmic disruptor
Energy shield
Flame tank, atomic flame breath
Power saw stinger
BUILD SUMMARY:
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Dec 24, 2019 – Feb 29, 2020
~180 hours
Height: 35 in / 89 cm / 111 studs tall to the top of the antlers
Chest: 26 in / 66 cm circumference at the widest
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I wanted to try building with Bionicle. I found most of the elements at two different Bricks and Minifigs in the Denver area.
Included is the Blacktron Dragon Obscurtronum , which was the inspiration for this build.
The Greatest Showman by Delain Canucci!
Bellisseria's 3rd Anniversary Celebration is Proud to Present:
The Greatest Showman by Delain Canucci!
Saturday, April 16th @ 1:00 PM SLT
Bellisseria Fairgrounds
The Greatest American Hero and Wonder Woman at Free Comic Book Day. Picture taken at Amazing Fantasy Books & Comics in Lockport Illinois.
A Circus by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey came to Fairfax in April 2013.
[Long back, in early sixties I had seen a movie with the same title (in Srikumar, Trivandrum) by the famous director Cicil B. DeMille with Charlton Heston and Betty Hutton in lead roles. The unforgettable character was the mysterious clown(James Stewart) who never removed his makeup between the shows. He turned out to be a fugitive doctor wanted by the FBI and was arrested at the end when he had to show his professional competence after an accident.]
I understand that this award winning movie was taken in the sets of this circus