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Taken on Independence Day in my former neighborhood.
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390 107 branded for the film Independence Day speeds north with 1H66 11.40 London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly, today could prove to be just that; we'll know in the morning!
Kyiv, Ukraine
Independence Square
An exhibition of destroyed russian equipment is taking place on Khreschatyk in Kyiv.
PHEW.......Without bloodshed........Hokey Cokey Day.In out shake it all about.....................It was always about Money..now all we need are friends........A marriage not made in heaven . Now watch the messy divorce.
This was taken from the road heading up to independence pass between Aspen Colorado and Leadville. The pass is at 12097 feet. It was absolutely beautiful up there.
Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, where the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted by America's Founding Fathers.
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This historic precedent of Colonial Georgian Architecture sits at the heart of Philadelphia's old city center. Independence Hall also played a crucial role in the founding of the United States, as its storied assembly rooms witnessed the signing of both the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787.
Independence Day Parade on Euclid Street, July 4,2018, Ontario, California.
To watch more of this traditional parade go to my YouTube at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1t-1QPjHWE
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Ty42-107 with the train number 33285 named as in the title, leaves the former station in Kasina Wielka a few minutes after 7 a.m., on the way from Chabówka to Nowy Sącz. Of course, November 11, 2021, the Independence Day.
Recipe for exhaust effects? Low temperature and heavy load. Not only is the train starting here, but the track goes uphill to the highest point on line no 104 - the passenger stop in Skrzydlna.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
Ty42-107 z pociągiem numer 33285 o nazwie jak w tytule, kilka minut po siódmej rano odjeżdża z byłej stacji w Kasinie Wielkiej, w drodze z Chabówki do Nowego Sącza. Oczywiście 11 listopada 2021 roku.
Przepis na dużo efektów z komina? Niska temperatura i duże obciążenie. Tu nie dosyć, że pociąg startuje, to jeszcze szlak prowadzi pod górę do najwyższego punktu na linii 104 - przystanku w Skrzydlnej.
Fot. Jarek / Chester
Independence day parade on Euclid Avenue in Ontario California.
To watch more of this traditional parade go to my YouTube at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1t-1QPjHWE
LOT 737 SP-LVD in special "Proud of Poland's Independence" markings arrives at Heathrow with a flight from Warsaw.
Aircraft: LOT Polish Airlines (LO/LOT) Boeing 737 MAX 8 SP-LVD.
Location: Bedfont Park, near London Heathrow Airport (LHR/EGLL), UK.
While we were in Ho Chi Minh City we took a look around Independence Palace, which was like a time capsule of the 1960s and 1970s.
Independence Palace (Dinh Độc Lập), also known as Reunification Palace (Vietnamese: Dinh Thống Nhất), built on the site of the former Norodom Palace, is a landmark in Saigon, Vietnam. It was designed by architect Ngô Viết Thụ and was the home and workplace of the President of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. It was the site of the end of the Vietnam War during the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, when a North Vietnamese army tank crashed through its gates.
On 27 February 1962, two pilots of Diệm's Republic of Vietnam Air Force, Nguyễn Văn Cử and Phạm Phú Quốc, rebelled and flew two A-1 Skyraider aircraft towards the palace and bombed it, instead of going on a raid against the Việt Cộng. As a result, almost the entire left wing was destroyed. However, Diệm and his family escaped the assassination attempt. As it was almost impossible to restore the palace, Diệm ordered it demolished and commissioned a new building in its place. The new palace was constructed according to a design by Ngô Viết Thụ, a Vietnamese architect who won the First Grand Prize of Rome (Grand Prix de Rome) in 1955, the highest recognition of the Beaux-Arts school in Paris. He was also a laureate of the Prix de Rome awarded by the French government.
The construction of the new Independence Palace started on 1 July 1962. Meanwhile, Diệm and his ruling family moved to Gia Long Palace (today the Ho Chi Minh City Museum). However, Diệm did not see the completed hall as he and his brother and chief adviser Ngô Đình Nhu were assassinated after a coup d'état led by General Dương Văn Minh in November 1963. The completed hall was inaugurated on 31 October 1966 by the chairman of the National Leadership Committee, General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, who was then the head of a military junta. The Independence Hall served as Thiệu’s home and office from October 1967 to 21 April 1975, when he fled the country as communist North Vietnamese forces swept southwards in the decisive Ho Chi Minh Campaign.
Un piccolo omaggio per il 4 luglio: ma questo è orgoglio newyorkese o provocazione francese?
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A little homage for the Independence Day: Pride of New York or French provocation?
In this historic building, both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for the United States were debated and adopted.
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While Alice and I were wandering in Edinburgh there was a rally organised to promote Scottish independence from the UK. These guys were in the parade. I liked the uniforms and thought they'd do for my 112 in 2012 challenge.
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On August 24, 2021, I attended the Veterans’ Parade on Independence Day. This video shows veterans of the volunteer battalion 'Aidar' marching along Taras Shevchenko Boulevard (altogether, about 18,000 Donbas war veterans took part in the parade). While the veteran units were marching, as in this video, chants were constantly heard: 'Putin – huilo' ('dickhead') and 'Zelya – ssyklo ('bedwetter/pussy'). '
The first chant is an insult directed at the Russian ruler. It emerged and was thrown into the media space in the spring of 2014, when Russian troops annexed Crimea and the hybrid war in Donbas began. Initially, it was sung as a chant by the ultra fans of the Kharkiv football team 'Metalist.' From there, the media spread it widely, and numerous music tracks with this chant appeared. The Ukrainian people loved it, but personally, I thought back then that Putin would exact a heavy price for this unprecedented insult against him. And, in fact, that is what is happening now. Wars are not won with insults—especially when you are insulting an enemy far stronger, terrifying, and ruthless than yourself.
As for the second chant—I heard it for the first time that day, but it was clear to me why it was being shouted. In patriotic veteran circles, the view prevailed that Zelensky was afraid of Putin and was not acting firmly enough. The thing is, he ran for election under the slogan 'we just need to stop shooting' and promised to negotiate peace with Putin. That is why 73% of Ukrainian voters supported him, in contrast to Poroshenko, who at the time positioned himself as a supporter of a much tougher stance (his slogan was 'army–language–faith'). But once in the presidential chair, Zelensky was unable to fulfill his promises—among other reasons, due to active resistance from the national-patriotic part of Ukrainian society.
This actively-minded minority of society wanted the war to continue. They blocked the reopening of water supplies from the Kakhovka Reservoir to occupied Crimea and electricity supplies as well. They staged riots outside the Presidential Office on the day of the Putin–Zelensky meeting in Paris. Patriotic propagandists and bloggers criticized Zelensky’s decision to enforce a ceasefire along the contact line (allowing only return fire) and all his other attempts to reconcile with Russia. At his first presidential press conference, one well-known Ukrainian journalist directly demanded that Zelensky declare a state of war, establish a military command headquarters, and move Ukraine onto a war footing. In his YT broadcasts, he even mocked Zelensky, asking, 'Are you a president—or is it all just crap?' (Ironically, after the start of the full-scale invasion, this journalist did not go to fight at the front but fled from Kyiv to some village in the Carpathian mountains). At that moment, Zelensky’s approval rating had fallen below 30%..
Watching this video, I wonder: how many of these people are still alive today, and how many have been killed? How many have lost their health, their homes, their relatives and loved ones? How many have left Ukraine forever? Did they understand the consequences of their demands and wishes back then, four years ago? I think most of them did not. Not everyone is capable of overcoming their emotions and foreseeing the consequences of their desires, words, and actions.
Now, according to the latest Gallup polling, 69% of Ukrainians want an immediate end to the war through negotiations. This figure does not differ much from the 73% who voted for Zelensky in the 2019 elections (incidentally, Poroshenko also ran in 2014 with a promise to negotiate, and many of my friends voted for him precisely because of that promise (he gsined 55% back then).
The problem is that the Ukrainian people are not currently the decision-makers. Decisions are being made for us by global geopolitical players outside Ukraine, as well as by powerful clans inside the country. The Ukrainian people have been dragged into a war in which we had no real chance of victory, but every chance of losing our country—which is, in fact, what is happening now.
Today, I look at the actions of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and realize that I would like to see a politician of his caliber in Ukraine. Pashinyan did not give in to the emotional impulses of the ultra-patriotic part of Armenian society or the Armenian diaspora. He found the strength to make a painful decision connected with the loss of territory. He risked his political future. But by doing so, he preserved the life of his small, ancient country and its people.
It is precisely this type of politics that Ukraine currently lacks. Today, we celebrated the 34th anniversary of Ukrainian independence. I hope it will not be the last—though my feelings right now are uneasy.
Fireworks over Downtown Miami, Watson Island, Miami, FL
To continue my story... after seeking shelter under the I-395 bridge, the famous PINK! Bridge Al had this ingenious idea that we should climb up one of these big containers that were standing under thse bridge and shoot the fireworks from up there. I was like, these are 10 feet high, how am I supposed to get up there? Oh, they have stairs...
Yeah, they really did. So we climed up there with our tripods, put them into position and waited. It was still raining and we didn't know will there be fireworks or not? Well, the answer's in the picture. :-)
BTW, Al only told me afterwards that those were garbage containers... LOL. Didn't matter, though, (a) I sorta figured although I wasn't sure, (b) they were pretty clean (they had gotten a wash by the rain too).
View the fireworks larger on black.
In March, 1836 59 men elected from municipalities across the territory met in an unfinished frame building in Washington, TX and signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. They declared Texas independent from Mexico; penned a new constitution; and organized an interim government, giving birth to a new nation: the Republic of Texas. The building is a replica of the original Independence hall which was destroyed in a fire. The monument was donated by local school children to memorialize that "Here A Nation Was Born". The site is now part of the Washington-on-the-Brazos State Park.
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Thought I'd create a mosaic of the fireworks display from the other night rather than posting each one individually. Of course, if you would like to have a better look at any of the images, simply click on one of the links below which will take you directly to the image or you can click here, dbushue's photostream
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The castells are one of the most original traditions of the Catalan folklore, closely linked to the celebrations of popular festivals. They consist in building human towers several stories high by amateur groups, by people seated on top of each other's shoulders. In 2010 Unesco has decided to include the castells in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, emphasizing that the human towers "are recognized by Catalan people as an integral part of their cultural identity, transmitted from generation from generation and providing community members a sense of continuity, social cohesion and solidarity".
The habit of raising human towers in places has a tradition of over 200 years and its origin is in the area of Camp de Tarragona. Over time the castells spread throughout Catalonia and ended up as a symbol of Catalan identity.
The flag on this belt is the red "Estalada", - a socialist flag for independence!