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This Townsend's warbler was posed in the bushes the other day; with the one leg up, it reminds me of a statue of some heroic figures!
Monument to Leningrad's Heroic Defenders in WW II during the 900-day Siege
The Blockade of Leningrad resulted in the worst famine ever in a developed nation - over a million people died
"We never knew what friends we had
Until we came to Leningrad"
A heroic President on horseback, but instead of George Washington in uniform it's Ronald Reagan in a t-shirt. A tribute to Reagan's visit to Dixon in 1950, when he rode in the town's "Injun Summer Days" parade. - See more at: www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/31830#sthash.YosrjNTA.dpuf
Messolonghi, Aetoloacarnania, Greece 2018. Celebrating the heroic exodus of people of Missolonghi in 1826. The self-sacrifice paved the way for country’s independence. Even today they show the way. History is repeated.
Celebrations are also dedicated to the Greek folk hero Lord Byron. he fought, gave all his possessions and finally his own life in the struggle for freedom, for the universal ideals.
I wonder
does Artificial Intelligence have courage
will it stand in the gap to protect freedom and love
will it take that bullet with true heroics
or will just give us over to a faceless coward
the father of this life
created a thing not known to stand above
but to creep and crawl like a snake in the mud
they tell us it's purpose is for the greater good
but how can that be
without a tongue to taste
a heart to feel
or a hand to hold
all that is truly good noble and bold.
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Lat.: Panorpa communis
En.: Common scorpionfly
De.: Gemeine Skorpionsfliege
Obere Belpau, Belp, Schweiz / Switzerland
Wundervoller Sänger: ein Zaunkönig (Troglodytes troglodytes)
Wonderful singer: a Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)
* Norddeutschland | Niedersachsen | Northern Germany | Lower Saxony
The seed may have landed on the road, but that didn't stop this heroic poppy from sprouting, growing, and now trying to bloom.
For the #FlickrFriday theme #hero
Yesterday we saw some photographs of this abandoned little church building in Cleveland, Tasmania. It is known as the Union Chapel, and was built in 1855.
The building was not very secure, the front door being held shut with a piece of rope. So I did my photographer's duty and went inside. What I found horrified me. If you love birds, look away now.
This is exactly the scene that greeted me as I stepped through the door. This chapel is unique in only having windows on one side. The only thing on the left hand side is a plaque with the names of ten heroic war dead from the area in the World War of 1914-1918. Stop and think about that for a moment. This has always been a small settlement, and yet ten young local men all lost their lives in this dreadful war.
[Enlarge this shot and you can clearly read their names.]
This image is dedicated to the President of the United States of America, Mr. Barak Hussein Obama. OK, he might never get to see this image and he might never get to know about this dedication either. What a pity, he doesn’t know what he is missing. LOL!
So you might be wondering why I am doing this. The sitting president has on his desk a proposal to create a new national monument called Bear Ears. This national monument would give protection to 1.9 million acres and contains more than 100,000 cultural and archeological sites. At the moment this area is the most significant unprotected archeological area in the United States.
There is a fierce political battle going on. On one side republican Utah representatives Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz who are telling constituents for three years that they have been drafting legislation to protect the area, but they failed to introduce legislation containing specific boundaries and provisions. It became increasingly clear that the so-called negotiations that they aimed to run out the clock on the Obama administration’s ability to use the Antiquities Act to create a national monument.
On the other side of the rope is an unprecedented Inter-Tribal Coalition of 26 tribes and other environmentally interested organizations trying to get the President of the Untied States of America to sign the bill before he leaves the office beginning of next year.
Obama has previously showed vision and courage in using this authority, and creating a Bears Ears National Monument would be very much in that tradition and fully justified by the facts.
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You are aged 11, or 12 max, and you have uncovered a Disgraceful Thing right under the very noses of the grown-ups who just won't listen, not even the ones with sensible shoes.
Bravely, you and your little gang and little blue and orangey red boat set about exposing the Disgrace and crikey, you've caught them red handed !
Now you need Aunt Fiona or Uncle Tommy - the only decent grown-up in the village - to arrive in the nick of time to take charge of the baddies and this is the very boat they should arrive in.
Gosh !
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Nebbiolo Vineyards, in Canavese, Piedmont, Italy.
These vineyards are called
" Heroic viticulture "
because of the very difficult steep slope mountain territory were they are grown.
Vini Cascina Figliei
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Rocketdyne produced seven serialized high-fidelity F-1 engine mock-ups. Although non-functional, they were used for early engineering purposes. Most are/were? mounted on test (i.e., non-flight) Saturn V first stages.
In this photograph, the second of these, FM-101 (the first being FM-100), was featured in a paper written by D. E. Aldrich & D. J. Sanchini of the Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation. See:
heroicrelics.org/info/f-1/fm-101/fm-101.jpg
“I don't know exactly when FM-101 (or any of these engine mock-ups) were manufactured, but they certainly reflect an early design:
- There is no provision for thermal insulation.
- There is no interface panel.
- The fuel high-pressure ducts are straight, rather than the "U"-shaped ducts which characterized later production engines.
- The LOX dome has twin-elbow inlets.
F-1 engine mock-up FM-103 is on display in the Kennedy Space Center Rocket Garden (where, oddly enough, it is completely painted silver).”
The direct copy/paste above is in quotations, along with my paraphrasing from Mike Jetzer’s superlative “HEROIC RELICS” website, which he gleaned from Alan Lawrie’s book “Saturn” and a paper, “Saturn V Booster – The F-1 Engine”, by D. E. Aldrich, located in the Saturn V Collection, Dept. of Archives/Special Collections, M. Louis Salmon Library, University of Alabama in Huntsville, at:
heroicrelics.org/info/f-1/fm-101.html
I’m hoping the above is no longer the case, and that FM-103 was moved out of the elements into the Apollo/Saturn V Center.
Or:
evergreene.com/projects/ksc-f-1-engine-prototype/
Credit: EVERGREENE Architectural Arts website
As if the above wasn't enough, see/read also...wow:
heroicrelics.org/info/f-1/f-1-config-changes.html
Also credit: Mike Jetzer/"HEROIC RELICS" website
Wait…one more. Look at the multiple monstrous card catalog cabinets behind the F-1! Commensurate with the size of the the engine.
Been very upset and angry over the past couple of days. Didn't go out anywhere all day today. I was sat next to my picture window, working, when it rained cats and dogs for a few minutes and then the skies turned War-of-the-Worlds rusty-red. And then sun shone and this rainbow lined my street. I came out with my camera and took a few shots. This is a panorama from 5 vertical images, which failed to get me in a better mood.
Nonetheless, I am always amazed by the fact how a bright rainbow can overcome dark, gloomy skies. It's so fuckin' heroic!
And my favorite landscape picture from the Yellow Mountains.
It's possible I screamed my lungs out, out of amazement.
A heroically arduous Sunday wander falls on Network Rail's VIU nr1 (railcar 153311) 2Z01 Derby RTC-Eastleigh East Yd transfer as a 120min delay mid-journey is incurred.
By 19.15 the Portsmouth Direct heading past Guildford is no doubt welcomed seen passing Shalford Junction (+96).
Maintaining a presumed custom the destination panel reads 'Llanelli'.
10th August 2025
St George and The Dragon sculpture, forecourt Victorian State Library. Sculptor: Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm
Third entry for Summer joust. This one was a lot of fun. The helmet for the knight took waaay to long to get right...wanted to give a little nod to Jonah www.flickr.com/photos/silmaril_1/ that designed the stunning poster for the joust. Didn't really realize there are no simple angles on it...haha! So the connections inside are...not stabile...but it works!
Anyways, hope you all like it :)