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The wood duck (German: Brautente) is not a native European bird, its natural range is North America. A few specimens have found their way into German wildlife, howsoever.
Actually, as with many animals, this colorful specimen is not the bride ("Braut") but the groom ("Bräutigam") 😄
This handsome young man walked up as I was on the jungle gym with my son. He stared intently into the lens of my medium format Bronica ETRSi and waited for me to take his photo. After I did, he walked away, happy. Not a word was exchanged!
His father later told me that he was an immigrant from, if I recall correctly, Senegal, and that he had just arrived the day before and does not speak any English.
Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 75mm f/2.8 EII, F/2.8. Fujifilm Pro 160c. Scanned with Epson Perfection v800.
Byodo-In Temple, a nondenominational Buddhist temple, located on O'aha in the Valley of the Temples Memorial Park, and dedicated in August 1968 to celebrate the 100th anniversity of the first Japanese immigrants to Hawaii.
We come from the land of the ice and snow. From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow. The hammer of the gods. We'll drive our ships to new lands to fight the horde and sing and cry: Valhalla, I am coming!🎶.
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Puerto Varas es la capital turistica del sur de Chile. Ubicada en la Provincia de Llanquihue en la Región de Los Lagos, a orillas del Lago Llanquihue a 1016 kms al sur de Santiago y a 20 kms al norte de Puerto Montt.
La ciudad fue fundada en 1853 a partir de la colonizacion principalmente de emigrantes provenientes de Alemania y Suiza hoy cuenta con 32.000 habitantes. Destaca por su belleza escenica, orden y limpieza asi tambien denominada la "Cuidad de las Rosas"
Es el punto de inicio para una serie de actividades principalmente del tipo "Turismo Aventura" entre los que destacan caminatas y ski en las laderas del Volcan Osorno, visitas al Lago Todos los Santos y Parque Nacional Vicente Perez Rosales con los Saltos del Río Petrohue, el Cruce Andino de los las Lagos Patagonicos, Pesca Deportiva (Flyfishing), kayaking, velerismo, y una infinidad de otras activividades derivadas de su entorno agricola y natural siempre verde.
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Puerto Varas is the tourist capital of southern Chile. Located in the Province of Llanquihue in the Lakes Region on the shores of Lake Llanquihue to 1016 kms south of Santiago and 20 km north of Puerto Montt.
The city was founded in 1853 after the colonization mainly immigrants from Germany and Switzerland today has 32,000 inhabitants. Noted for its scenic beauty, order and cleanliness so also called the "City of Roses"
It is the starting point for a series of activities mainly of type "Adventure Tourism" among them hiking and ski on the slopes of Volcan Osorno, visits to Lake Todos los Santos and Vicente Perez Rosales National Park with the falls of Petrohue, the crossing of the Patagonian lakes, fishing (Flyfishing), kayaking, sailing, and a host of other activividades derived from the surrounding agricultural and natural evergreen
The old Presbyterian Cemetery was established in 1827. In the mid-1880s, a ship carrying immigrants arrived in the area which had experienced a cholera epidemic on board; numerous immigrants were buried in the southern part of the cemetery in an unmarked area who died shortly after their arrival. In 1897, the cemetery was closed. Many of the bodies and stones from the old cemetery were relocated to the new cemetery, and many unmarked graves were discovered in the process and also moved. These are the few graves that still remain on site.
The Blackbird, an immigrant, knows that spring blooms not by calendar, but by feeling and in Australia, it’s September...
(Turdus merula)
Rhododendron sp.
“Rhododendron is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family. They can be either evergreen or deciduous. Most species are native to eastern Asia and the Himalayan region, but smaller numbers occur elsewhere in Asia, and in North America, Europe and Australia.”
—Wikipedia
“About” the tenth power of two? Just passing along the text, not judging. Canada seems to have achieved peace and respect among its immigrant populations, now working hard on extending that to indigenous people.
Plants don’t care. This one seems happy to be here.
Nikkor 105mm Macro lens with Raynox DCR-150 snap-on macro lens
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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Bauhinia × blakeana, Hong Kong orchid tree. Originated in Hong Kong in 1880, now widely cultivated. From Queen’s Market in Waikoloa on the Big Island of Hawaii, where almost nothing is natural except bare volcanic rock.
Like many of the diverse immigrants who lend a collectively unique quality to Hawaii, this Zulu Giant (Stapelia gigantea)—a succulent plant native to southeastern Africa—is thriving alongside Hunakai Street in Honolulu's Kahala neighborhood. It is sometimes called a carrion plant because its large flower emits a faint carrion odor, which attracts the insects that pollinate it. January 21, 2018
Russian immigrants sailing in Harbin (China) in ab. 1930. My restoration and digital hand colorization of V. P. Ablamskii´s image in the Library of Congress archive.
"The term Harbin Russians or Russian Harbinites refers to several generations of Russians who lived in the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China. Russian settlers were responsible for turning Harbin into a Russian city with the majority of the population being from Russian ethnic groups, from approximately 1898 to the mid-1960s."
(Wikipedia)
"Vladimir Pavlovich Ablamskii (1911-1994), a figure-skating champion from northern China, was also a famous Harbin photographer and photojournalist. This collection contains Ablamskii's photographs depicting the life of the Russian immigrant community in Harbin. World Digital Library."
(Library of Congress archive)
Tradescantia pallida is native to the lowland forests of southeastern Mexico, but has been spread far and wide by horticulturists. It has a close relative native to Colorado, Tradescantia occidentalis, which goes by the common names spiderwort, cow slobber and snotweed, These common names follow the excess production of saliva by cows and humans who eat the leaves, which are mucilaginous.
Each of the water droplets acts as a magnifying glass, showing the fine texture of the petals (most clearly seen in the largest size). Photographed in one of CU's greenhouses, managed by my favorite horticulturist/botanist, Tom Lemieux.
With the discovery of gold in 1851 the steady flow of immigrants sailing into the Port Phillip District became a flood. Within a year nearly 100,000 people had arrived in Melbourne by sea.
Due to the crowded conditions on board, ships were breeding grounds for disease. Cholera, smallpox, typhoid, influenza and measles occurred in epidemics in the 1800s and caused many deaths.
A number of ships suffered significant outbreaks of disease on the voyage to the colony. The Ticonderoga lost 100 passengers to scarlet fever and typhoid by the time it anchored off Portsea.
To control and prevent the spread of these diseases Point Nepean was opened in 1852 as a maritime quarantine reserve. Ships carrying passengers with infectious diseases were required to land all cases there along with those at risk of contracting the disease. Passengers' luggage was taken ashore to be fumigated with formaldehyde gas and passengers were required to take baths using antiseptic soap.
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The Eurasian Collared Dove, Streptopelia decaocto, also called the Eurasian Collared-Dove or simply the Collared Dove, is one of the great colonisers of the avian world. Its original range was warmer temperate regions from southeastern Europe to Japan. However, in the twentieth century it expanded across the rest of Europe, reaching as far west as Great Britain by 1953, and Ireland soon after. It also now breeds north of the Arctic Circle in Scandinavia. It is not migratory.
It was introduced into the Bahamas in the 1970s and spread to Florida by 1982. Its stronghold in North America is still the Gulf Coast, but it is now found as far south as Veracruz, as far west as California, and as far north as British Columbia and the Great Lakes. Its impact on native species is as yet unknown; it appears to occupy an ecological niche between that of the Mourning Dove and Rock Pigeon; some have suggested that its spread represents exploitation of a niche made available by the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon.
This is a gregarious species, and sizeable winter flocks will form where there are food supplies such as grain. The song is a coocoo, coo repeated many times. It is phonetically similar to the Greek decaocto ('eighteen'), to which the bird owes its name. Occasionally it also makes a harsh loud mechanical-sounding call lasting about 2 seconds, particularly when landing in the summer.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_Collared_Dove
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La tórtola turca (Streptopelia decaocto) es una ave natural de Asia, pero ha ido avanzando por toda Europa, llegando a la península Ibérica en el año 1960.
Mide entre 28 y 33 cm, tiene un plumaje sin manchas, los adultos son de un gris claro y se camuflan fácilmente en los edificios de la gran ciudad. Tienen un característico collar negro ribeteado de blanco en el cuello. Cabeza gris y algo rosada, pecho gris rosado claro, cola grisácea por encima, con punta y bordes blancos por debajo, ancha banda terminal blanca. Pico negro y patas rojizas. Hay dos variedades de color, la marrón con una ligera tonalidad gris y la blanca. Ambos sexos son iguales en colorido. El macho se distingue de la hembra en que arrulla.
Early on Sunday morning hundreds of members of the Greek police force raided an unofficial refugee camp in the Greek port of Patras as part of a nationwide 'clean sweep" operation. The camp which has been in existence for nearly a decade was home to hundreds of immigrants, mainly from Afghanistan hoping to sneak aboard trucks headed for Italy.
See here for BBC footage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0OFotZdKC4
Using bulldozers the local authorities razed to the ground the shacks and huts that until recently housed an estimated 150 people. Several fires were reported as a result of the raid and according to official police sources 44 minors were detained along with 30 adults who will be held in a reception centre until they are deported. The raid has been criticised as "inhuman" and called a "pogrom" by the left wing SYRIZA party and the Greek Communist party.
The ruling New Democracy party has also announced that it will set up internment camps throughout the country to house those who do not have a legal right to stay in the country. It should be noted that at present Greece grants asylum to 0.1% of those who apply for it and has been repeatedly criticised by Amnesty International, other European governments and the UNHCR for its treatment of refugees and immigrants.
On the other hand the latest poll carried out by Public Issue found that 93% of those questioned thought that Greece could not take in any more immigrants and that 62% said that immigration is probably harming Greece.
Stung by his party's poor showing in the recent European elections prime minister Kostas Karamanlis has decided to get tough on the issue of immigration in order to avoid losing more support to the far right LAOS party. With the possibility of general elections in either September or March 2010 at the latest Karamanlis is hoping that a tough stance on crime and immigrants will help bring back voters who have deserted the party in droves after two years of corruption and influence peddling scandals involving several government ministers
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Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere
The phrase "in Trastevere" (beyond the Tiber) describes the neighborhood of Rome in which the Basilica of Santa Maria is located. In ancient times, the neighborhood was mainly inhabited by immigrants, sailors, fishermen, and retired soldiers. Before Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (306–337 AD) decriminalized Christian worship by issuing the Edict of Milan in 313, Christian worship took place in "tituli"--private "house churches" that were sometimes named for the priest designated by church authorities as the patron. The original house church in this site was founded in 220 by Pope Callixtus I, who died in 222; and it became known as "Titulus Callisti."
The oratory of the house church that Pope Callixtus I proposed to build at this location necessitated displacement of part of the "Taberna meritoria" (a tavern and refuge for retired soldiers). This created a dispute between Christians and tavern-keepers. The new and young Roman Emperor Alexander Severus (approximately 14 years old)--not himself a Christian--settled the dispute in favor of the Christians, reportedly declaring, "I prefer that it should belong to those who honor God, whatever be their form of worship." Implicit in the young emperor's ruling, Christian worship in the church was known about and allowed 93 years before such worship's official decriminilization in 313's Edict of Milan. This then became one of the first locations (perhaps the very first location) of imperially permitted Christian worship in Rome.
According to inscriptions in the basilica, the original structure was rebuilt and enlarged in 340, restored in the 5th and 8th centuries, then re-erected on its old foundations in 1140-1143. The remains of Pope Callixtus I are preserved under the altar.
The central nave down which this photo looks, is built on the original floor plan. It is bounded on the sides by an assortment of granite columns that were taken from various ancient Roman ruins.
They say immigrants steal the hubcaps
Of the respected gentlemen
They say it would be wine and roses
If England were for Englishmen again
Well I saw a dirty overcoat
At the foot of the pillar of the road
Propped inside was an old man
Whom time would not erode
When the night was snapped by sirens
Those blue lights circled past
The dancehall called for an ambulance
The bars all closed up fast
My silence gazing at the ceiling
While roaming the single room
I thought the old man could help me
If he could explain the gloom
You really think it's all new?
You really think about it too?
The old man scoffed as he spoke to me
I'll tell you a thing or two
I missed the fourteen-eighteen war
But not the sorrow afterwards
With my father dead and my mother ran off
My brothers took the pay of hoods
The twenties turned the north was dead
The hunger strike came marching south
At the garden party not a word was said
The ladies lifted cake to their mouths
The next war began and my ship sailed
With battle orders writ in red
In five long years of bullets and shells
We left ten million dead
The few returned to old Piccadilly
We limped around Leicester Square
The world was busy rebuilding itself
The architects could not care
But how could we know when I was young
All the changes that were to come?
All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield And now the terror of the scientific sun
There was master and servants
And servants and dogs
They taught you how to touch your cap
But throught strikes and famine
And war and peace
England never closed this gap
So leave me now the moon is up
But remember all the tales I tell
The memories that you have dredged up
Are on letters forwarded from hell
The streets were now deserted
The gangs had trudged off home
The lights clicked off in the bedsits
And old England was all alone
something about england
sandinista
the clash
San Francisco’s skyline, captured from the tranquil waters of the bay, tells a story etched in resilience and reinvention. The towering skyscrapers of downtown—once the rubble of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire—now pierce the fog like modern-day monuments to ambition. To the left, the Golden Gate Bridge (1937), an Art Deco marvel born during the Great Depression, stretches defiantly into the Marin Headlands, its ‘International Orange’ hue glowing against the Pacific mist.
This city began as a Spanish mission in 1776, exploded into chaos during the 1849 Gold Rush, and rebuilt itself from ashes into a Gilded Age jewel. The Ferry Building (1898), once the gateway for millions of immigrants and gold-seekers, still anchors the waterfront, while the Transamerica Pyramid (1972) and Salesforce Tower (2018) symbolize its relentless pivot from counterculture to tech empire.
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