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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.
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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The history of bottle stoppers goes back to the early days of wine production, when wine was stored and transported in wooden barrels. To prevent the wine from oxidizing, a piece of bladder was used to seal the barrel. This method of sealing evolved over time, leading to the development of more massive bottle stoppers
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This was originally the American Brake Company plant, now abandoned. Thanks for looking back with me.
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.
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Two images from my WordPress post about the Norse history of Scotland.
The Door of St. Magnus in the Orkneys, and the ruins of St. Mary's at Duirinish, an original Viking settlement on Skye.
Allee vom Jagtschloss Falkenlust zum Schloss Augustusburg wird von der Bahnstrecke Köln- Bonn gekreuzt.
Stadtbahnstation auf quadratischem Grundriss, Entwurf 1894 ...
Otto Koloman Wagner; 13 July 1841 – 11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect and urban planner.
He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader
Art Nouveau
movement. Many of his works are found in his native city of Vienna, and illustrate the rapid evolution of architecture during the period.
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Around the beginning of the Great Depression in late 1920, an apple company decided to sell apples to people on credit, who in turn sold the apples. Five cent apple sellers could be found throughout street corners in New York.
The apple selling scheme had several benefits: It helped the apple industry move surplus produce that might never get purchased otherwise, and it helped men earn some money. But more than that, it gave men a small sense of pride. By selling apples instead of begging, the unemployed men still seemed to be in charge of their own destinies. Photographs of men selling the apples remain one of the most well-known symbols of the Depression today.
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