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As a young boy, these imposing gates terrified me, with their staring "sun faces" - though I entered once, obsessed with ghosts, on a tip-off that this local stately home was full of them; a boy who fell into the library fire, another who'd drowned in the private river. My father tells me that a local man had, certainly, hung himself from a tree in the grounds here, 1970/80's.
On Main street in Brunswick, Maine. This is in response to a contact's request. Bowdoin College, First Parish Church and Joshua Chamberlain's home can be seen from the sculpture location.
Cysyllte Ancient Bridge, known locally as Pont Cysyllte or Pont Cysylltau, is a fine post-medieval masonry bridge over the River Dee near Telford’s famous Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. The bridge is a Grade I listed Scheduled Ancient Monument and continues to carry road traffic. It has been much repaired over the years so that only the south arch and part of the south pier are from the original structure. Photograph by Pamela Vallance taken from the world famous Pontcysyllte Aquaduct.
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).
At the epicenter of the ancient Kavirian Mysteries, at Samothraki
Κέντρο της μυστηριακής λατρείας των Καβείρων, Παλαιόπολη, Σαμοθράκη
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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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Pergamon Museum
Berlin
The Middle East Museum (Vorderasiatisches Museum)
The Ishtar Gate (Assyrian: ܕܵܪܘܲܐܙܲܐ ܕܥܵܐܫܬܲܪ translit: Darwaza D'Ishtar, Arabic:بوابة عشتار) was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon. It was constructed in about 575 BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the north side of the city.
Dedicated to the Assyrian goddess Ishtar, the Gate was constructed of blue glazed tiles with alternating rows of bas-relief sirrush (dragons) and aurochs.
The roof and doors of the gate were of cedar, according to the dedication plaque. Through the gate ran the Processional Way which was lined with walls covered in lions on glazed bricks (about 120 of them).
Statues of the deities were paraded through the gate and down the Processional Way each year during the New Year's celebration.
Originally the gate was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the world until, in the 6th century AD, it was replaced with the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
A reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate and Processional Way was built at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin out of material excavated by Robert Koldewey and finished in the 1930s. It includes the inscription plaque. It stands 47 feet high and 100 feet wide (14 meters by 30 meters). The excavation ran from 1902-1914 and during that time 45 feet of the foundation of the gate was uncovered.
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Gulliver's Gate, New York
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Furumine-jinja(shrine), Kanuma-shi(city) Tochigi-ken(Prefecture), Japan
栃木県鹿沼市(とちぎけん かぬまし) 古峯神社(ふるみねじんじゃ)
Gate from Kimmeridge coast path onto the Lulworth Range walk. Tyneham Cap and Gad Cliff in the distance.
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco with view to the City.
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Die Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco mit Blick auf die Stadt.
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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
"Arrows fell like a hailstorm upon the shieldsmen at the gate. Not a single flinched or gave way. All strode forward in one bleak formation with shields raised high and jaws set. The attackers witnessed the encroaching step of the Obsidian Guard and knew awe."
Showing off a glimpse of the new shields I made for the shop, though there are far, far more designs than made it into this. Original image by Aradia Hextall, touch ups by me. Aradia's stream can be found here. www.flickr.com/photos/aradiahextall/