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No, it's not a double exposure. It's a reflection on the glass as I peered from outside with my camera through a window of a restored 19th-century farm house near Ringwood, Illinois.
Known as the Powers-Walker House, the home, built in 1854, features historically accurate furnishings, some of which you can see through the glass here. But the reflection also includes a picnic table with benches, so I'm calling this a Bench Monday shot. 😄
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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.
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith
Castle Westhove. The castle dates from the 13th century.
The castle was in a charter of 1277 of Count Floris V mentioned as being the property of the abbey in Middelburg, but it is not clear how old the castle was then.
Here you see the left side. I just love this place!
A special thanks to Lenabem Anna for using one of her lovely textures!
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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
Dry Falls-Grant County-Washington State
Dry Falls is a geological wonder of North America. Carved by Ice Age floods more than 13,000 years ago, the former waterfall was once four times the size of Niagara Falls.
The old windmill of Eickhorst is one of my favorite places to dive into history. Minden Area, Ostwestfalen, Germany
Rue de la Huchette is one of the most famous streets in the Latin Quarter in the center of Paris.
It is a street that was not very safe in the Middle Ages because many thieves raged in this area.
La rue de la Huchette est une des rues les plus connues du quartier latin au centre de Paris.
C'est une rue qui n'était pas très sûre au Moyen âge car de nombreux voleurs sévissaient dans ce quartier.
"The hosts and guests of history must learn
to seek to learn the lessons both must earn....."
'lacrymae rerum' the tears of things...
part of a poem by Michael Shepherd Thanks Michael!
Done with Topaz clean and b&w effect.
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A shot of one part of Odunpazarı, Eskişehir. The area is full of these old Ottoman style houses, many of which, as in this street, have been restored.
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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West Montrose Covered Bridge, also known as the "Kissing Bridge", is a covered bridge in West Montrose, Ontario, within Waterloo Region and the last type of this style of bridge in Ontario. Built in 1880–1881 by John Bear, the bridge is still used by pedestrians, buggy traffic and vehicles weighing less than three tonnes over the Grand River.
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.
This victory tower symbolised the establishment of Islamic rule in North India in the 12th century. Today it’s a lesser known UNESCO world heritage site.
On the Menai Suspension Bridge.
4 shot stack. Looking along the massive cast iron links forming the suspension supports of the Menai Suspension Bridge.