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Pictured is a The George Cross.
The George Cross is plain bordered cross in silver with a circular medallion in the centre depicting the effigy of St George and the Dragon after Benedetto Pistrucci, surrounded by the words for GALLANTRY.
In the angle of each limb is the Royal cypher GVI. The cross hangs by a ring from a bar adorned with laurel leaves.
The George Cross (GC) is the highest gallantry award for civilians for acts of heroism and courage in extreme danger, as well as for members of the Armed Forces in actions for which purely military honours would not normally be granted.
It superseded the Empire Gallantry Medal whose holders were then required to return it and receive the GC in exchange.
By warrant of December 1971 surviving recipients of the Albert and Edward Medals (Edward Medal Mines (EMM) and Edward Medal Industry (EMI) were invited to exchange their awards for the GC, a move which created a controversy which is still continuing, particularly among those who received the Albert Medal (AM).
Instituted on 24th September 1940..The ribbon measures 38mm across in dark blue (originally 32mm). A silver miniature cross emblem is worn on the ribbon..The medal is made of silver..The diameter width is 45mm, with a height of 48mm.
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Soho George snapped on Old Compton Street. Part of my "London's Last Bohemians" project.
You can see some more photos of this splendid dandy here: www.sillettphotography.co.uk/Soho-George
They were all taken on a Mamiya RZ67 and Portra 400, for any fellow film geeks out there
George Lake campground, in Killarney Provincial Park, is situated on two bays of the lake. The third and largest part, of the lake, is found when one paddles through this passage between the rocky cliffs. It is the starting point for interior canoe trips and leads to a whole chain of lakes and portages.
Lake George, nicknamed the Queen of American Lakes, is a long, narrow oligotrophic lake located at the southeast base of the Adirondack Mountains, in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York. It lies within the upper region of the Great Appalachian Valley and drains northward into Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence River drainage basin. The lake is situated along the historical natural (Amerindian) path between the valley of the Hudson River and that of the St. Lawrence, so lies on the direct land route between Albany, New York and Montreal, Canada. The lake extends about 32.2 mi (51.8 km) on a north-south axis, is quite deep, and varies from 1 to 3 miles (1.7 to 5 km) in width, presenting a significant barrier to east-west travel. Although the year-round population of the Lake George region is relatively small, the summertime population can swell to over 50,000 residents, many in the Village of Lake George region at the southern end of the lake.
Lake George drains into Lake Champlain to its north through a short stream, the La Chute River, with many falls and rapids, dropping about 230 feet (70 m) in its 3½-mile (6 km) course—virtually all of which is within the lands of Ticonderoga, New York and near the site of the famous Fort Ticonderoga. Ultimately the waters flowing via the 106-mile-long (171 km) Richelieu River empty into the St. Lawrence River downstream and northeast of Montreal and then into the North Atlantic Ocean above Nova Scotia.
This bronze sculpture by Robert Amendola of a young George Washington Carver is along the loop trail at the National Monument near Diamond MO. The National Monument was created in 1953 and the sculpture was installed in 1961. The cloudy sky and green trees created a wonderful patina for the sculpture.
Ffestiniog Railway Double Fairlie no 12 David Lloyd George drifts downhill at Rhiw Goch farm with a train of 1920s livered stock. This loco is a new build completed in the railways workshop in 1992.
I often pass George on my drive to East New York, panhandling at a busy corner, weaving in and out of cars. Today I was walking, and when he saw me with my camera, he gave a big smile, stretched out his arms, and said "Take a picture of me."
Sixty five and originally from Puerto Rico, George lives in a homeless shelter not far from the intersection. He has been homeless for most of the last twenty years, having no family left in the states and a few run ins with the law. He messed with drugs long ago, but now he only drinks here and there.
When I asked him how he wanted to be described he said, "as everyone calls me, Anciano, or old man."
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Official Portrait of Astronaut George Zamka in his orange Launch and Entry Suit (LES), helmet and gloves on the table with the American flag and a model of the shuttle in the background. The photo was taken in Bldg. 8, Rm 272 (Photo Studio).
Credit: NASA
Image Number: jsc2006e55043
Date: November 28, 2006
The memorial commemorates the contributions of Mason, a Founding Father who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, served as a delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and created much of the language, inspiration, and groundwork for what became the United States Bill of Rights. Mason, an Anti-Federalist, did not sign the United States Constitution because it did not abolish the slave trade and because he did not think it had necessary protection for the individual from the federal government. He was sometimes known as the "reluctant statesman", which was also the title of a biography written about him by Robert A. Rutland.
Although this street is never overly busy with cars, there's usually a lot of foot traffic.
With how quiet it's been I thought it would be nice to capture an image of it while on the way to collect dinner.
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The Place Georges Pompidou in front of the museum is noted for the presence of street performers, such as mimes and jugglers. In the spring, miniature carnivals are installed temporarily into the place in front with a wide variety of attractions: bands, caricature and sketch artists, tables set up for evening dining, and even skateboarding competitions.
Santayana is popularly known for aphorisms, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", "Only the dead have seen the end of war",[4] and the definition of beauty as "pleasure objectified". Although an atheist, he always treasured the Spanish Catholic values, practices, and worldview in which he was raised.[citation needed] Santayana was a broad-ranging cultural critic spanning many disciplines.
"Those who don't learn from history we are doomed to repeat it."
- George Santayana
George Francis Moutrey Hardwick (2 February 1920 – 19 April 2004) was an English footballer, manager and coach. During his time as an active player, he was a left-sided defender for Middlesbrough. He was also a member of the England national football team, playing in 13 international matches and serving as the team's first post-World War II captain.
In 1947, the nations of Great Britain joined together to form a football team, which Hardwick captained and led to victory (6–1) against the rest of Europe.
Owing to a knee injury Hardwick had to terminate his international career after 12 matches. He is held in high esteem by Middlesbrough fans, and is regarded as the greatest defender in the club's history.
After his career as a player, Hardwick served as player manager for Oldham Athletic and manager for PSV Eindhoven, and, from 1959 to 1961, the Netherlands national football team. He later managed Sunderland A.F.C. and Gateshead.
Today his legacy lives on in the form of The George Hardwick Foundation, a charity dedicated to helping carers, former carers and patients. The Patron is his wife Jennifer, who cared for George during his latter years. They have three main sites at Stockton, Middlesbrough and The University Hospital of North Tees.
Yet another pop/rock icon suddenly and unexpectedly dies in 2016. Not really a fan of George Michael -though I still have a couple of Wham! singles from way back- but it's always sad to see someone pass away before their time.
As with Prince, I know many of his numerous fans will miss him but, from a personal point of view, the big losses musicwise for me this year were Bowie, Cohen and Alan Vega. Of course, a big deal was made about four of those deaths but, unfortunately, the recent death of Rick Parfitt (Status Quo) as well as those of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) were hardly noticed nor acknowledged by many.
Fujifilm X100. Astia preset in Lightroom. In Explore 18 May 2014 #101. Thanks for all the views of my lovely cat!
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A Day Trip to Yorkshire with the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, for the Sunday of a 2 day Event celebrating Lancashire and Yorkshire carriages, followed by going to the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway.
As Usual, the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
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Here, at Bolton Abbey Station, "Cumbria" was about to run round the train that I am about to join for a journey along the line.
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How many cats that played with Charlie Parker, Lester Young, John Coltrane, Johnny Griffin, Gene Ammons and Richard "Groove" Holmes are not only still around, but still making music...still gigging...still having a ball...and still pushing themselves musically? My guess is very few. Here's one: The great jazz guitarist George Freeman. His late brother Bruz Freeman played drums with Hampton Hawes on the fabled "All Night Session" albums. His late brother Von Freeman is a tenor sax legend. His nephew Chico Freeman is a world-renowned multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader and educator. When Gene Ammons passed away in '74, Freeman decided to head back to Chicago to take care of his mother-a move he never regretted but one that clearly kept him from having the kind of fame and career he so deserved. Since his brother Von's passing in 2012, the 88-year-old George has experienced something of a renaissance. His latest album is "All In The Family" with nephew Chico, who says "I've heard him earlier (in life) playing a lot of notes, playing fast, and he could run through (chord) changes a lot. Now it's like pure – just pure expression of himself. There's no wasted notes in what he plays.The spaces he leaves are equally as important as the notes he plays".
'Soho George' is the name given to 80+ year-old George Skeggs, also known as 'The Suitman'.
I met George today on the South Bank, walking with his great-grandsons.
George is known best for being seen in Soho, particularly around Berwick Street.
A lovely friendly guy and family, great to meet him today.
French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 361. Photo: Sam Lévin.
Glamorous French beauty Nicole Maurey (1926) appeared in 65 film and television productions between 1944 and 1997. She flirted with Hollywood stardom in the 1950’s, co-starring with Bing Crosby in Little Boy Lost (1953) and Danny Kaye in Me and the Colonel (1958). She probably remains most noted as Charlton Heston's leading lady in Secret of the Incas (1954), often cited as the primary inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
Nicole A. Maurey was born in Bois-Colombes, a northwestern suburb of Paris, in 1926. Her father was an architect, her mother housewife. She had one sister. Besides going to school, she took ballet lessons. She entered as a ‘small rat’ at the Paris Opera, but her family preferred a career in the theatre. So she took drama lessons at the Cours d'Art Dramatique from Maurice Escandre. Nicole played her first film role in Blondine (1944, Henri Mahé) opposite Georges Marchal. Other films were Le cavalier noir/The black knight (1945, Gilles Grangier) with Georges Guétary, and La bataille du feu/ The Battle of fire (1949, Maurice de Canonge). In 1950 she married the young actor Jacques L. Gallo whom she had met on the Paris metro. An important film on her résumé is Journal d'un curé de campagne/Diary of a Country Priest (1951) directed by Robert Bresson. It tells the story of an inexperienced and frail priest (Claude Laydu), who has just arrived in his first parish, a village in northern France, where he is not welcome. He tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment. The film won eight international awards, including the Grand Prize at the Venice International Film Festival, and the Prix Louis Delluc. It was a financial success in France and established Bresson's international reputation as a major film director. Film critic Andre Bazin wrote an entire essay on the film, calling it a masterpiece "because of its power to stir the emotions, rather than the intelligence." The film also had considerable influences on Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. Two years later Maurey appeared in the American drama Little Boy Lost (1953, George Seaton) about a war correspondent (Bing Crosby) stationed in Paris during World War II and once married to a French girl (Maurey) who was murdered by the Nazis. Following the war, he returns to France trying to find their son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris. Filmed on location in Paris, Little Boy Lost received the Golden Globe Award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding and was also entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival. Maurey was then Charlton Heston's leading lady in Secret of the Incas (1954, Jerry Hopper), often cited as the primary inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Secret of the Incas was filmed by Paramount Pictures on location in Peru at Cuzco and Machu Picchu, the first time that a Hollywood studio filmed at this archeological site. Five hundred native Indians were used as extras in the film, which also featured the Peruvian singer Yma Sumac. The film caused a surge in tourism to Peru in 1954. The film is often cited as a direct inspiration for the Indiana Jones films, with many of the scenes in Secret of the Incas bearing a striking resemblance in tone and structure to scenes in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Heston and Maurey reprised their roles in 1954 in a Lux Radio Theater version of Secret of the Incas.
In the following decade, Nicole Maurey worked as well in France as internationally. In France she was one of the many stars in the historical drama Si Versailles m'était conté/Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954, Sacha Guitry), which portrayed the personalities who lived in the Royal Palace, the Chateau of Versailles. The following year, she also appeared in Guitry’s historical epic Napoléon (1955, Sacha Guitry) that follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. Other French films were the crime film Section des disparus/The Missing Section (1956, Pierre Chenal) with Maurice Ronet, and the crime comedy Action immédiate/To Catch a Spy (1957, Maurice Labro), starring Henri Vidal. In Great Britain she appeared in the comedy The Constant Husband (1955, Sidney Gilliat) starring Rex Harrison. Then she co-starred in the American war film The Bold and the Brave (1956, Lewis R. Foster), which traces the destinies of three American soldiers (Wendell Corey, Mickey Rooney, and Don Taylor) stationed in Italy during World War II. Other international films were the thriller The Weapon (1957, Val Guest) with Lizabeth Scott, the war comedy Me and the Colonel (1958, Peter Glenville) starring Danny Kaye and Curd Jürgens, the crime film The Scapegoat (1959, Robert Hamer) with Alec Guinness and Bette Davis, and the western The Jayhawkers! (1959, Melvin Frank). In 1960 she divorced Jacques L. Gallo. Maurey reunited with Bing Crosby in the comedy High Time (1960, Blake Edwards), about a middle-aged widower who goes back to college, enters the world of a new generation of postwar youth and falls for professor Maurey. She settled in England and appeared pleasantly in a variety of films but without much fanfare. One of her best known British films is the science-fiction classic The Day of the Triffids (1962, Steve Sekely) based on the novel by John Wyndham. Triffids are plants with a deadly sting that are able to uproot themselves, walk and even communicate. Craig Butler at AllMovie: “Although it takes entirely too many liberties with the excellent novel upon which it is based, The Day of the Triffids is generally an entertaining sci-fi romp. It has many of the classic (some might say clichéd) elements often associated with the genre - an alien invasion, stalwart hero, rag-tag band of allies, and a race against time to save the entire planet.” In 1965 she was back in France for the comedy thriller Pleins feux sur Stanislas/Killer Spy (1965, Jean-Charles Dudrumet), starring Jean Marais. Later, she moved into television appearing in different made-for-TV movies and mini-series, like the hit series La demoiselle d'Avignon/The Maid of Avignon (1972, Michel Wyn) starring Marthe Keller. Her final film was the British-French historical drama Chanel Solitaire (1981, George Kaczender) starring Marie-France Pisier as legendary couturier Coco Chanel. On television Nicole Maurey was last seen in the drama Le grand Batre/The great Batre (1997, Laurent Carcélès) starring Marie-Christine Barrault and Jean-Claude Drouot.
Sources: Hal Erickson (IMDb), Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Craig Butler (AllMovie), Nicole Mayey.voila.net, Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen, Wikipedia and IMDb.
My Love is playing with his new toy our granddaughter bought him for Father's Day..
Remember this guy, diagnosed with dementia and could not hardly do anything but sit in a chair and stare down..He was so sick and his wife was so very worried, but they both knew a God who would listen when they prayed....He has been absent from Flickr since 2012 becasue he wasn't able to be here..He lost 50 pounds and had so many things wrong with him, it seemed all hope was gone......But like I said we both knew a God.......OUR GOD...
I have put his camera in his hands so many times in three years, but this summer is different, he has now gained back all his weight and had to go off of blood pressure pills because his blood pressure is so normal.....I could go on about how he had to go off of other medicine's but it would be such a long story....I just want to Praise God and give him all the glory...
PRAISE GOD..
The last couple of days, he has actually wanted to hold his camera and guess what, he actually went to the back yard and sit with me.....I am so very blessed, WE ARE SO VERY BLESSED....
And we did put some of his pictures on....He is such a good photographer...God Bless His Heart..
He is so very proud of this picture...
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Jazz am Bauernhof
Besetzung:
George Freeman: guitar
Osian Roberts: sax
Jan Korinek: hammond organ
Jeff Boudroux: drums