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A green Jazz CRJ sits waiting for it's next flight to the United States here at gate 81 along Montrea;'s US Trans-border jetty.
“Gate to Perseus” is an image composition that contains all of the Perseid meteors captured from August 9th, 11th, 12th and 13th 2023. This beautiful astronomical view is accompanied by an ancient Roman temple called “Los Mármoles”, in Extremadura, Spain.
The Perseids are also known as the "Tears of Saint Lawrence", because their appearance more or less coincides with the feast of this saint (August 10). Deacon Laurentius was martyred in the Rome of Emperor Valerian on that day of the year 258. Tradition says that that night a display of shooting stars could be seen in the sky.
Authors: Javier Caldera (@astrocld on Instagram) and Miguel Gracia (@mxguelastro on Instagram).
The India Gate is a national monument of India. Situated in the heart of New Delhi, it was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
It commemorates the 70,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives fighting for the British Army during the World War I. The memorial bears the names of more than 13,516 British and Indian soldiers killed in the Northwestern Frontier in the Afghan war of 1919.
The foundation stone of India Gate was laid by His Royal Highness, the Duke of Connaught in 1921. The monument was dedicated to the nation 10 years later by the then Viceroy, Lord Irwin.
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Gulliver's Gate, New York
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Gulliver's Gate, New York
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The outer gate of the Kaminarimon (Thunder Gate) at night.
Mamiya RZ67 Pro II (handheld),
Fuji Neopan Presto 400 (pushed to 1600)
Gate from Kimmeridge coast path onto the Lulworth Range walk. Tyneham Cap and Gad Cliff in the distance.
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The Tiananmen Gate was first built in 1417 in the Ming Dynasty. During the demise of the Ming Dynasty, heavy fighting between Li Zicheng and the early Qing emperors damaged (or perhaps destroyed) the gate. The Tian'anmen square was originally designed and built in Beijing in 1651.[1] It was enlarged to its present size (four times its original size) and cemented over in 1958.[2]
British and French troops who invaded Beijing in 1860 pitched camp near the gate and briefly considered burning the gate and the entire Forbidden City down. They decided ultimately to spare the palace and to burn instead the emperor's Old Summer Palace. The Qing emperor eventually agreed to let the foreign powers establish headquarters in the area. During the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 the siege badly damaged the office complexes and several ministries were burnt down. In the conflict's denouement, the area became a space for foreign troops to assemble their armies and horses. It was cleared in due course to produce the beginning of what is now known as the Tiananmen Square.
Source: Wikipedia
Zion Gate is one of the primary access points to the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. During the Israeli war for independence in 1948, Jewish paramilitary forces assaulted the gate in an effort to gain access to the Old City. It was riddled with bullet holes during their fighting with Jordanian troops. The damage remains there today.
Part of Johnston Gate, the oldest -- 1889 -- and largest of the many gates from Harvard Yard to the streets beyond.
At the end of Meech Lake I came across this fine gate. I could see at least four cameras. The sign said that "Access to this area is prohibited for public safety reasons." and left a phone number (which I will phone)
The gate is visible on Google Maps (http://tinyurl.com/lucnh) and there is a large, somewhat unusual complex down the road. The prime minister does have a cottage on the lake.
By Sherrie Thai of ShaireProductions.com
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The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war.
The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence.
There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele.
The German offensive of March 1918 met with some initial success, but was eventually checked and repulsed in a combined effort by the Allies in September.
The battles of the Ypres Salient claimed many lives on both sides and it quickly became clear that the commemoration of members of the Commonwealth forces with no known grave would have to be divided between several different sites.
The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields. It commemorates casualties from the forces of Australia, Canada, India, South Africa and United Kingdom who died in the Salient. In the case of United Kingdom casualties, only those prior 16 August 1917 (with some exceptions). United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after that date are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war. New Zealand casualties that died prior to 16 August 1917 are commemorated on memorials at Buttes New British Cemetery and Messines Ridge British Cemetery.
The YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield with sculpture by Sir William Reid-Dick, was unveiled by Lord Plumer on 24 July 1927