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Northampton U3A went on a Tour of the Olympic venues. Security was very tight, and we were not allowed into any of the sites, but were extremely impressed by the regeneration of the area, and the amazing architecture of the different buildings
We crossed the Thames on the Woolwich Ferry. The shooting events are based at Woolwich Arsenal. Our final stop was in Greenwich where the equestrian events are due to take place.
Scanned from Annual Report project. Photo was taken in San Francisco using Nikon F with 300mm Nikkor lens and a 2X tele-extender shot on Ektachrome.
A railing and gate separates the altar area from the public area.
By the time restoration began in the 1930s, little was left standing of the 1749 mission. At that time, this church and two other buildings were rebuilt. The beautifully restored church has never been used as a church.
At Misión EspÃritu Santo, Goliad. Texas. Full name: Mission Nuestra Señora de la BahÃa del EspÃritu Santo de Zúñiga. The partially restored mission is at Goliad State Park, which I visited on March 16, 2021.
Early in the 18th century, the Spanish crown decided securing its claim to Texas required establishing settlements there. Unable to recruit willing settlers in Spain, the crown turned to missions as an alternative. A mission was a fortified village run by a few priests and supported by a few soldiers. The crown supplied seed money and the soldiers. An Indian group would be persuaded to abandon their nomadic ways, embrace the Roman Catholic faith and move into the mission. The priests instructed them in the faith and in farming, ranching and European skills. The soldiers instructed them in the use of European weapons and tactics. In this win-win arrangement, the crown got its settlement, the Indians got a more dependable food supply and the priests got souls for God. After a generation or two, the Indians no longer needed the mission and would leave it to settle in the vicinity. The mission church sometimes remained in service, to minister to the local community.
because the Randall House is habitat for a rare species of bat, it stands behind a padlocked gate, rather than just an "authorized vehicles only" sign.
this is outside bill gate's house, just before i got kicked out:)
i steadied my camera on the car roof, all before the guard came out and started videotaping me...
A look at Buckingham Palace from The Mall. One of the most popular areas in London visited by tourists. As you can see here there was loads around!
At this time of year The Queen is in Balmoral, so visitors can pay to go into the palace (via a side entrance I think). Probably best to book online beforehand, than showing up and buying tickets.
Buckingham Palace is Grade I listed.
Buckingham Palace, Westminster
TQ 2879 NE and 2979 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER THE MALL, SW1
89/15 ; 90/22
5.2.70 Buckingham Palace
G.V. I
Royal Palace. 1825 design, begun 1826 by John Nash, rebuilding Buckingham
House of 1705 as a palace for George IV, completed 1837 with alterations by
Edmund Blore; the east range added 1847-50 by Blore; the Ballroom block of
1853-54, with Ambassadors' Court, by Sir James Pennethorne; the east front
refaced 1913 by Sir Aston Webb for George V. Marble faced east front, the rest
Bath stone except for Blore's west quadrangle front in Caen stone; slate and
leaded roofs. Quadrangle plan. Monumental Graeco-Roman, composed with
picturesque intent by Nash; Webb's east front a stiff Dixhuitieme exercise
constrained by Blore's existing range but with elegant detailing:
East front: 3 storeys with ground and attic floor mezzanines. Fenestration in
rhythm 3:7:3:7:3 with centrepiece and terminal pavilion. Channelled ground
floor with semicircular arched central gateway flanked by square headed
doorways, all with fine ornamental iron gates of 1847; end pavilions and main
range with square headed and semicircular arched gateways respectively;
architraved sashes with open pediments on 1st floor and cornices on 2nd floor;
fluted Corinthian pilasters rise through 1st and 2nd floors supporting main
entablature with blocking course and balustraded parapet; centrepiece and
terminal pavilions with Corinthian columns in antis and plain outer pilasters,
in pairs on centrepiece, crowned by blind attics with pediments; continuous
balustraded balcony to 1st floor. West front: of Blore's east range; advanced
centrepiece with tetrastyle giant fluted Corinthian column portico above
archway; sculpture in pediment. North and South quadrangle ranges: by Nash and
given uniform 3 storey height, with attic, by him in 1828; slightly advanced
5-window wide pilastered centrepieces; ground floor Greek Doric colonnades
filled in by Blore; to the south Ambassadors' Court with temple portico-porch
and flanking ranges with Corinthian colonnade in antis, adjoining Pennethorne's
1853-1854 Ballroom block which continues giant columned corner pavilion theme
of Nash's garden front. East front of Nash's West range: originally open to
deep forecourt and Mall, has storeys and attic main block, 11 windows wide,
with 3 storey 3-window wings, the main block with prominent, tetrastyle, 2
storey portico centrepiece, its low ground storey with cast iron coupled Greek
Doric columns and the upper with giant coupled stone Corinthian columns
carrying entablature and pediment with sculpture by Baily and crowning figures
in Coade stone by W Croggan; the cast iron Doric colonnade is returned across
ground floor of main block which has pavilion end bays dressed with giant
pairs of Corinthian columns; tall blind attic; the friezes either side of
portico by Westmacott and originally intended for the attic of Marble Arch.
West garden front, by Nash: Long symmetrical composition with 5 accents;
basement, ground floor, piano nobile through 2 storeys and attic to main block
with 3-storey wings; the main block with 5-window central bow and 3-window side
ranges terminating in 1-window pavilions; the wings each of 4 windows with
similar pavilion end bays; ground floor channelled, giant engaged Corinthian
columns to bow and detached coupled Corinthian columns to pavilions carrying
entablature with rich rinceau frieze; large frieze panels of Coade stone over
1st floor by Croggan; the attic above half dome of bow (Blore's replacement of
Nash's dome) has a frieze by Westmacott intended for Marble Arch; the range is
flanked at east of terrace by projecting conservatories in the form of
hexastyle Ionic temples with pediments; the south conservatory altered as
palace chapel in 1893 and as the Queen's Gallery in 1962.
Interior: State Apartments in west range at 1st floor level, with 2 suites
divided by the Picture Gallery, c1829-36 by Nash and Blore, in rich and already
eclectic Graeco-Roman style with Louis XIV and Wren details in mouldings and
motifs, approached via the Grand Hall with marble columns and Nash's recasting
of the original Buckingham House staircase as well as by Pennethorne's Grand
Staircase to south extended by Pennethorne to give access to his Ballroom
block; the Picture Gallery redecorated 1914; the interior of the Ballroom
retains Pennethorne's ceiling and throne recess but redecorated by Ludwig
Gruner in 1902 when the walls, windows and doorways were remodelled by Verity;
the plainer ground floor rooms below the State Apartments survive virtually as
designed by Nash. Marble Arch (q.v.) designed by Nash in 1828 as the forecourt
gateway was removed by Blore's east range and re-erected in 1851 on its present
site.
History of the Kings Works; Vol VI
Buckingham Palace; J Harris, G de Bellaigue & O Miller
John Nash; John Summerson
Listing NGR: TQ2899779614
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Source: English Heritage
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
Gates with Royal coat of arms.
taken on 11 September 2018. at Shinjuku City, Tokyo.
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Coin, AD 66
The gates of the temple of Janus in Rome were symbolically closed during periods of peace and opened in times of war. Augustus closed the temple gates on three occasions. Nero followed suit in AD 66, marking the end of the war with Parthia. This act was also celebrated with the issue of a special coin.
[British Museum]
Nero: the Man Behind the Myth
(May - Oct 2021)
Nero is known as one of Rome's most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty, debauchery and madness.
The last male descendant of the emperor Augustus, Nero succeeded to the throne in AD 54 aged just 16 and died a violent death at 30. His turbulent rule saw momentous events including the Great Fire of Rome, Boudicca's rebellion in Britain, the execution of his own mother and first wife, grand projects and extravagant excesses.
Drawing on the latest research, this major exhibition questions the traditional narrative of the ruthless tyrant and eccentric performer, revealing a different Nero, a populist leader at a time of great change in Roman society.
Through some 200 spectacular objects, from the imperial palace in Rome to the streets of Pompeii, follow the young emperor’s rise and fall and make up your own mind about Nero. Was he a young, inexperienced ruler trying his best in a divided society, or the merciless, matricidal megalomaniac history has painted him to be?
Nero was the 5th emperor of Rome and the last of Rome’s first dynasty, the Julio-Claudians, founded by Augustus (the adopted son of Julius Caesar). Nero is known as one of Rome’s most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty and debauchery. He ascended to power in AD 54 aged just 16 and died at 30. He ruled at a time of great social and political change, overseeing momentous events such as the Great Fire of Rome and Boudica’s rebellion in Britain. He allegedly killed his mother and two of his wives, only cared about his art and had very little interest in ruling the empire.
Most of what we know about Nero comes from the surviving works of three historians – Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio. All written decades after Nero’s death, their accounts have long shaped our understanding of this emperor’s rule. However, far from being impartial narrators presenting objective accounts of past events, these authors and their sources wrote with a very clear agenda in mind. Nero’s demise brought forward a period of chaos and civil war – one that ended only when a new dynasty seized power, the Flavians. Authors writing under the Flavians all had an interest in legitimising the new ruling family by portraying the last of the Julio-Claudians in the worst possible light, turning history into propaganda. These accounts became the ‘historical’ sources used by later historians, therefore perpetuating a fabricated image of Nero, which has survived all the way to the present.
Nero was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus on 15 December AD 37.
He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger. Both Gnaeus and Agrippina were the grandchildren of Augustus, making Nero Augustus’ great, great grandson with a strong claim to power.
Nero was only two years old when his mother was exiled and three when his father died. His inheritance was taken from him and he was sent to live with his aunt. However, Nero’s fate changed again when Claudius became emperor, restoring the boy’s property and recalling his mother Agrippina from exile.
In AD 49 the emperor Claudius married Agrippina, and adopted Nero the following year. It is at this point that Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus changed his name to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. In Roman times it was normal to change your name when adopted, abandoning your family name in favour of your adoptive father’s. Nero was a common name among members of the Claudian family, especially in Claudius’ branch.
Nero and Agrippina offered Claudius a politically useful link back to Augustus, strengthening his position.
Claudius appeared to favour Nero over his natural son, Britannicus, marking Nero as the designated heir.
When Claudius died in AD 54, Nero became emperor just two months before turning 17.
As he was supported by both the army and the senate, his rise to power was smooth. His mother Agrippina exerted a significant influence, especially at the beginning of his rule.
The Roman historians Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all claim that Nero, fed up with Agrippina’s interference, decided to kill her.
Given the lack of eyewitnesses, there is no way of knowing if or how this happened. However, this did not stop historians from fabricating dramatic stories of Agrippina’s murder, asserting that Nero tried (and failed) to kill her with a boat engineered to sink, before sending his men to do the job.
Agrippina allegedly told them to stab her in the womb that bore Nero, her last words clearly borrowed from stage plays.
It is entirely possible, as claimed by Nero himself, that Agrippina chose (or was more likely forced) to take her own life after her plot against her son was discovered.
Early in his rule, Nero had to contend with a rebellion in the newly conquered province of Britain.
In AD 60–61, Queen Boudica of the Iceni tribe led a revolt against the Romans, attacking and laying waste to important Roman settlements. The possible causes of the rebellion were numerous – the greed of the Romans exploiting the newly conquered territories, the recalling of loans made to local leaders, ongoing conflict in Wales and, above all, violence against the family of Prasutagus, Boudica’s husband and king of the Iceni.
Boudica and the rebels destroyed Colchester, London and St Albans before being heavily defeated by Roman troops. After the uprising, the governor of Britain Suetonius Paulinus introduced harsher laws against the Britons, until Nero replaced him with the more conciliatory governor Publius Petronius Turpilianus.
The marriage between Nero and Octavia, aged 15 and 13/14 at the time, was arranged by their parents in order to further legitimise Nero’s claim to the throne. Octavia was the daughter of the emperor Claudius from a previous marriage, so when Claudius married Agrippina and adopted her son Nero, Nero and Octavia became brother and sister. In order to arrange their marriage, Octavia had to be adopted into another family.
Their marriage was not a happy one. According to ancient writers, Nero had various affairs until his lover Poppaea Sabina convinced him to divorce his wife. Octavia was first exiled then executed in AD 62 on adultery charges. According to ancient writers, her banishment and death caused great unrest among the public, who sympathised with the dutiful Octavia.
No further motives were offered for Octavia’s death other than Nero’s passion for Poppaea, and we will probably never know what transpired at court. The fact that Octavia couldn’t produce an heir while Poppaea was pregnant with Nero’s daughter likely played an important role in deciding Octavia’s fate.
On 19 July AD 64, a fire started close to the Circus Maximus. The flames soon encompassed the entire city of Rome and the fire raged for nine days. Only four of the 14 districts of the capital were spared, while three were completely destroyed.
Rome had already been razed by flames – and would be again in its long history – but this event was so severe it came to be known as the Great Fire of Rome.
Later historians blamed Nero for the event, claiming that he set the capital ablaze in order to clear land for the construction of a vast new palace. According to Suetonius and Cassius Dio, Nero took in the view of the burning city from the imperial residence while playing the lyre and singing about the fall of Troy. This story, however, is fictional.
Tacitus, the only historian who was actually alive at the time of the Great Fire of Rome (although only 8 years old), wrote that Nero was not even in Rome when the fire started, but returned to the capital and led the relief efforts.
Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all describe Nero as being blinded by passion for his wife Poppaea, yet they accuse him of killing her, allegedly by kicking her in an outburst of rage while she was pregnant.
Interestingly, pregnant women being kicked to death by enraged husbands is a recurring theme in ancient literature, used to explore the (self) destructive tendencies of autocrats. The Greek writer Herodotus tells the story of how the Persian king Cambyses kicked his pregnant wife in the stomach, causing her death. A similar episode is told of Periander, tyrant of Corinth. Nero is just one of many allegedly ‘mad’ tyrants for which this literary convention was used.
Poppaea probably died from complications connected with her pregnancy and not at Nero’s hands. She was given a lavish funeral and was deified.
Centred on greater Iran, the Parthian empire was a major political and cultural power and a long-standing enemy of Rome. The two powers had long been contending for control over the buffer state of Armenia and open conflict sparked again during Nero’s rule. The Parthian War started in AD 58 and, after initial victories and following set-backs, ended in AD 63 when a diplomatic solution was reached between Nero and the Parthian king Vologases I.
According to this settlement Tiridates, brother of the Parthian king, would rule over Armenia, but only after having travelled all the way to Rome to be crowned by Nero.
The journey lasted 9 months, Tiridates’ retinue included 3,000 Parthian horsemen and many Roman soldiers. The coronation ceremony took place in the summer of AD 66 and the day was celebrated with much pomp: all the people of Rome saw the new king of Armenia kneeling in front of Nero. This was the Golden Day of Nero’s rule
In AD 68, Vindex, the governor of Gaul (France), rebelled against Nero and declared his support for Galba, the governor of Spain. Vindex was defeated in battle by troops loyal to Nero, yet Galba started gaining more military support.
It was at this point that Nero lost the support of Rome’s people due to a grain shortage, caused by a rebellious commander who cut the crucial food supply from Egypt to the capital. Abandoned by the people and declared an enemy of the state by the senate, Nero tried to flee Rome and eventually committed suicide.
Following his death, Nero’s memory was condemned (a practice called damnatio memoriae) and the images of the emperor were destroyed, removed or reworked. However, Nero was still given an expensive funeral and for a long time people decorated his tomb with flowers, some even believing he was still alive.
After Nero’s death, civil war ensued. At the end of the so-called ‘Year of the Four Emperors’ (AD 69), Vespasian became emperor and started a new dynasty: the Flavians.
[Francesca Bologna, curator, for British Museum]
Taken in the British Museum
Forget Chairman Mao. Chairman Bill Gates is the new role model in China. Photo credit: Leander Kahney.
Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver. Saturated the green on this HDR shot, incredible detail and a lucky break of blue sky in the cloud layer.
Postmarked 1906. These gates, made in 1711, were later sold and re-assembled at a park in NY state in 1926.
This is a bit of a rarity, film format wise, this is a found half frame Agfacolor slide showing the Westminster Arms in Storeys Gate. In the early 1990s I was a Police Sergeant at Rochester Row Police Station; our area covered the west side of storeys Gate including the Methodist Central Hall. I was on duty at a Trade Union meeting at the Hall, I can’t remember the Union although it was one of the heavy industry Unions. Things became quite heated when they left the meeting and the nearby pub became a magnet for Union members. Soon they were spilling out of the pub into the roadway causing obstruction to pedestrians and vehicles. I managed to enter the pub and told the manager to close, I have never seen such a relieved expression on anyone’s face. We cleared the pub and they wandered off to find other pubs, there are many in the area.
This beautiful pedestrian gate was created by Adrian Stapleton at Trinity Forge. It features highly decorated hand forged panels salvaged from a Welsh chapel. A lovely example of re-cycling.
Pole-mounted Republic F-105A Thunderstreak 61-050 'The Boss', seen at the gate to Richmond Air National Guard Base in October 2000
35mm transparency scanned with a Plustek 7600i Ai film and neg scanner, photo-shop and then Neat Image
Rob [The Journalist] paddles past a modern version of an ancient water gate. Trunk gates like this open and close with tides and spring freshets to let water in and out of impoundments such as rice fields and duck ponds.
The plantations along Cuckolds Creek and the Lower Combahee River were mostly producers of rice and fields hand dug and gates hand built by slaves.
Now, the modern rice fields are mostly managed areas for wildlife.