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Via del Foro Piscario is a street in the Rione Sant'Angelo that crosses the archaeological area of the Teatro di Marcello. The name Foro Piscario belonged to the place where the fish market took place for centuries.
A scene from Alberto Sordi's famous film An American in Rome was filmed on this street.
In my hometown there is an old Hotel which was used as a hospital(Lazarett) during the 2nd World War. ..... Lately ,at a visit, I noticed this old sign at the wall....It´s the sign of the "Red Cross", if you can imagine!!!?? Times and weather have washed the white colour......Tiles have been replaced ....History!!!!Today " Johannes Itten " would have been enthusiastic about the colours:-)))).. I´m really flashed , anyway<3
We used today to dive into the history of the Danish West Coast visiting the Tirpitz Museum in Blavand as well as the open air museum of Nymindegab. I can highly recommend both locations for people who love to learn more about the life of our ancestors in previous centuries. Nymindegab, Jylland, Denmark
The old windmill of Eickhorst is one of my favorite places to dive into history. Minden Area, Ostwestfalen, Germany
It seems like there must be an interesting historical story behind these unique rock formations at Arches National Park. There are amazing landscapes throughout the park!
Zaanse Schans Windmills
What comes around goes around. Isn't it fascinating that one of the main sources of the modern movement of "green energy" is the wind turbine? Humanity has been using windmills through recorded history in order to generate energy (in physics, work is the energy transferred to or from an object via the application of force along a displacement) all the way back to the 9th Century. Windmills as a major source of energy reached their zenith around 1850, but rapidly became obsolete with the advent of steam power. But now we have circled back again, with vast fields of new wind turbines producing "work" for our energy consumption.
Here at Zaanse Schans are these wonderful examples of how history does indeed repeat itself. These windmills, dating from 1574 onwards, but transplanted from around the Netherlands to Zaanse Schans starting in the 1950s, form a living history museum and still produce energy to accomplish industry: From the left, Het Jonge Schaap is a working sawmill, De Zoeker produces oil from peanuts through crushing, De Kat is the world's only working windmill to produce paints and pigments, and in the foreground is De Gekroonde Poelenburg, another sawmill.
A visit to the Netherlands is not complete unless you can make it to one of their many windmill sites (there are over 1000 still present in the country).
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This was originally the American Brake Company plant, now abandoned. Thanks for looking back with me.
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Our city is written in the book of UNESCO. Tourists take pictures of the same things. The Painted House, Basilica, Jewish Quarter, St. Martin's Church. I also took a picture Painted house, I live here!
The entry leg of the Specimen Creek Loop trail led to this section of forest that had been burned by fire. We followed the path going forward and in a few days entered back into this same place from the right. I'm not sure if this area burned in the Yellowstone Fires of 1988 or not. This regrowth seems much newer while other parts of the park have shown much more regrowth.
Fantastic Friday and weekend to you.
Allee vom Jagtschloss Falkenlust zum Schloss Augustusburg wird von der Bahnstrecke Köln- Bonn gekreuzt.
The Church of St. Nicholas (German: St.-Nikolai-Kirche) was a Gothic Revival cathedral that was formerly one of the five Lutheran Hauptkirchen (main churches) in the city of Hamburg, Germany. The original chapel, a wood building, was completed in 1195. It was replaced by a brick church in the 14th century, which was eventually destroyed by fire in 1842. The church was completely rebuilt by 1874, and was the tallest building in the world from 1874 to 1876. The bombing of Hamburg in World War II destroyed the bulk of the church. The removal of the rubble left only its crypt, its site and tall-spired tower, largely hollow save for a large set of bells. These ruins continue to serve as a memorial and an important architectural landmark.
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Unfortunately, I was not able to take pictures of the tall-spired tower due to renovation works, on the day when I visited the site.