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This Sears store in Elyria, Ohio is closing in early September 2017.
The Midway Mall opened in 1966 with Higbee's, Sears, JCPenney, and Woolworth as anchor stores. Over the years, Higbee's became Dillard's (then closed in 2007) and Woolworth became Best Buy. A new south wing was added to Midway Mall in 1990. That wing featured a May Company department store (later Kaufmann's and Macy's before closing in early 2016).
As of Summer 2017, the Sears department store is closing and the mall has just been sold for $4.25 million on July 12th. As of writing this, the buyer of the mall has yet to be known. The rumors for what happens to the mall next are all over the place; they range from a hospital complex to a hotel / casino complex to a giant mobile home park (obviously a joke)...
Hopefully something actually is done rather than letting the mall slowly die like Randall Park or Rolling Acres did. At least the occupancy in this mall has stabilized for the small stores over the last couple years instead of continuing downward. The department store closings seem to be the biggest drain on the mall; JCPenney is the last traditional department store left at the mall after the Sears closing.
I decided to post these 130 photos as the photos that bring me over 10,000 photo mark on Flickr. I chose this mall because it is my hometown mall.
Midway Mall - Elyria, Ohio
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The Hague Central Station
August 2012
The Netherlands
Candid shots in and around the Public Transport in The Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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In the 1980s, BHS moved into the large block on O'Connell Street which is now home to Penneys. The space was shared with other members of the Storehouse group, Mothercare and Habitat. However, as part of a rationalisation programme in March, 1992, Storehouse closed down its operations in the Republic Of Ireland.
British Home Stores (BHS) is a British department store chain with branches mainly located in high street locations or shopping centres, primarily selling clothing and household items. It was founded in 1928 by a group of U.S. entrepreneurs.
In recent years, the company expanded into furniture, electronics, entertainment, convenience groceries and, most recently, fragrance and beauty products. The company operated 163 stores throughout the United Kingdom, and 74 international stores across 18 separate territories.
BHS was bought by Sir Philip Green in 2000 and taken private. The company became part of Green's Arcadia Group in 2009.
On 12 March 2015, BHS was sold to the consortium Retail Acquisitions Ltd for the nominal value of £1. On 25 April 2016 it was confirmed that the chain had entered administration, following the failure to bring an estimated £60 million into the business, required to safeguard its future.
On 2nd June 2016 it was announced that the company would be wound down following failed attempts to find a buyer. A creditors vote on liquidation is set for the 23rd June.
St. Barbora Church (chrám Svaté Barbory) in Kutná Hora is a masterpiece of Czech Gothic architecture. Its building started in 1381 and was left uncompleted in 1512. Three famous architects designed it -- Jan Parler, the son of Petr Parler who designed St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague Castle, Matyas Rejsek, the author of the Powder Tower in Prague, and Benedikt Reid, who designed the Vladislav's Hall in Prague Castle.
Current look is a result of completing the cathedral in Neo-gothic style by Josef Mocker in the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1995 St. Barbora Church was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List along with historical town centre of Kutná Hora and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec.
Bunkers in the sea at the Vigsoe Battery north jutland Denmark. via 500px ift.tt/29O4eVr For more please visit www.bernholdt.dk
in remembrance of a good friend who passed away eleven years ago. a re-edit of a photo I made one off the last URBEX trips we did together. you will never be forgotten mate
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The CN Tower skyline and a bit of the Humber Bay Park as seen from The Sky Lounge on the 34th floor of my sister's condo in Toronto.
Enjoy your day and thanks as always for dropping by.
Portugal’s third-largest city, Braga is an elegant town laced with ancient narrow lanes closed to vehicles, strewn with plazas and a splendid array of baroque churches. The constant chiming of bells is a reminder of Braga’s age-old devotion to the spiritual world. But don’t come expecting piety alone: Braga’s upscale old centre is packed with lively cafes and trim boutiques, and some excellent restaurants. (From the Lonely Planet guide)
Because it occurred to me that it's a long time since I had a picture of me in me compact little kitchen.
From the Weekly Space Station Science Summary:
NASA astronaut Steve Swanson completed daily checks for the Veg-01 investigation, and watered and took a weekly photo. The study uses the new Veggie facility, a deployable plant growth unit with the potential of producing salad-type crops to provide the crew with appetizing, nutritious and safe fresh food. It also will provide a venue for future plant growth research, and is a low-cost growth chamber that uses a flat-panel light bank that includes red, blue and green LEDs for plant growth and crew observation. The facility’s unique design is collapsible for transport and storage and expandable up to 18 inches as plants grow inside it. The investigation will focus on the growth and development of "Outredgeous" lettuce seedlings in the spaceflight environment. Outredgeous is a red romaine lettuce. An improved understanding of the basic growth and environmental response phenomena of living organisms has important implications for improving growth and biomass production on Earth. Veggie technology might also be readily adaptable to hort-therapy and recreational activities for elderly or disabled individuals.
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Tijdelijk lichtkunstobject van de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Alicia Eggert, die in haar werk wel vaker verband legt tussen natuurkunde en filosofie. Bij het Amsterdam Light Festival van 2018 stond het al eens op de Nieuwe Brug tegenover het Centraal Station
Temporary light art object by American artist Alicia Eggert, who likes to connect physics and philosophy in her work. This object was exhibited before at Amsterdam Light festival of 2018, when it was situated on a bridge opposite Central Station
Amsterdam, Brouwersgracht/Herengracht
[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with rifleman's hat]
[between 1861 and 1865]
1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.1 cm (case)
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Case: leather quatrefoil design.
Additional information in collections file.
Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:105).
Purchased from: Shiloh Civil War Relics, Shiloh, Tennessee, 2007.
Subjects:
United States.--Army--People--1860-1870.
Soldiers--Union--1860-1870.
Military uniforms--Union--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.
Format: Portrait photographs--1860-1870.
Ambrotypes--Hand-colored--1860-1870.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Ambrotype/Tintype filing series (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650518
Liljenquist Family collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 2010650519
More information about this collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lilj
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.26918
Call Number: AMB/TIN no. 2065
1. Unknow title ~ day 35, 2. Rosa de cumpleaños, 3. Llegan nuevos deseos, 4. 030/366 Hortensia rosa, 5. Viento a favor, 6. Untitled, 7. Untitled, 8. lonely feeling, 9. **, 10. crocheted roses, 11. Una valla más..., 12. 16/52::A wonderful fact to reflect is that each creature is constituted as a unique and profound secret and mystery::, 13. {cigüeñas en la Iglesia}, 14. {may all your wishes come true...}, 15. Pensamientos, 16. Self, 17. 174/365 sending butterflies for you, 18. Evening light, 19. 1/52 Pileteando en nuestro metro cuadrado., 20. simplicity, 21. Mi bici de pequeña, 22. Untitled, 23. Where the roses grow, 24. Chartreux., 25. Colores en mi mesa
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Mayo fue el mes de las texturas, ese fue el tema que tuvimos en nuestro grupo en este mosaico las fotografias que participaron, gracias a cada una de ustedes por participar :)
Sientete libre de etiquetarte si no lo estas :) gracias!
Ya tenemos publicado el tema de Junio te esperamos no dejes de participar._
At the riverside in 1901. The group of young girls at left are seen passing John Atkinson's Pleasure Boat Hotel just downstream from the Continental. The former hotel still exists as two attached houses but the boat house on the right of the property with the decorative barge boards and finials has since been demolished. Also of interest is the steel girder railway bridge seen here under construction. The bridge would open to rail traffic in 1902 and was part of the new formations on the west side of the station. Directly behind the young boy seated on the bank is John Crook's boat hire pontoon, where for a couple of pennies you could hire one of a fleet of rowing boats and spend a pleasant hour or two messing about on the river.
Magic Lantern Slide. Image courtesy of C.M. Halse
Silhouette of tree against the sunset, taken from my garden in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England.
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I saw Duru sitting on a wall in Nottingham, so went over and introduced my stranger project to her. Across the road was a church, and I thought the colour of Duru’s hair and top would go well with the tones of the stonework. The wind caused a few problems as it blew Duru’s hair across her face so I tried to time my shots to when the breeze wasn’t as strong. I do like how the wind added some movement to Duru’s hair and that the weak sunlight was strong enough to provide some effective side lighting to her hair.
Duru is from Istanbul, Turkey, and had come to England to study in Nottingham. Duru had just begun her first year of three in music business. Duru told me she had chosen England over America as it was closer to home and she also thought America was too big.
Duru plays the cello and was a little disappointed that she hadn’t been able to bring it with her due to cost. She would have had to buy a plane seat for the cello as well as herself and couldn’t justify the expense. Duru used to play her instrument in an orchestra back home in Istanbul but now plays for her own enjoyment.
If I could grant Duru a wish what would it be? “To bring her cello to the U.K.” she said.
I asked Duru what her guilty pleasure was and she said eating too much chocolate.
Thank-you Duru for saying yes to me photographing you for my stranger project. I hope you like your portrait.
This picture is number 390 in my 100 Strangers project, yes, I’ve decided to do a fourth round. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
This is my 361st submission to the Human Family Group. To view more street portraits and stories visit www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily/
Piloten trainieren mit dem Schulungshubschrauber EC 135 das Starten und Landen im Rahmen der Ausbildung zum Hubschrauberfluglehrer im Internationalen Hubschrauberausbildungszentrum in Bückeburg, am 01.04.2019.
©Bundeswehr/Christian Vierfuß
The Great Patriotic War (Russian: Вели́кая Оте́чественная война́, romanized: Velikaja Otečestvennaja vojna) is a term used in Russia and some other former republics of the Soviet Union to describe the conflict fought during the period from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945 along the many fronts of the Eastern Front of World War II, primarily between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. For some legal purposes, this period may be extended to 11 May 1945 to include the end of the Prague offensive.
History
The term Patriotic War refers to the Russian resistance to the French invasion of Russia under Napoleon I, which became known as the Patriotic War of 1812. In Russian, the term отечественная война originally referred to a war on one's own territory (otechestvo means "the fatherland"), as opposed to a campaign abroad (заграничная война), and later was reinterpreted as a war for the fatherland, i.e. a defensive war for one's homeland. Sometimes the Patriotic War of 1812 was also referred to as the Great Patriotic War (Великая отечественная война); the phrase first appeared in 1844 and became popular on the eve of the centenary of the Patriotic War of 1812.
After 1914, the phrase was applied to World War I. It was the name of a special war-time appendix to the magazine Theater and Life (Театр и жизнь) in Saint Petersburg, and referred to the Eastern Front of World War I, where Russia fought against the German Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The phrases Second Patriotic War (Вторая отечественная война) and Great World Patriotic War (Великая всемирная отечественная война) were also used during World War I in Russia.
The term Great Patriotic War re-appeared in the official newspaper of the CPSU, Pravda, on 23 June 1941, just a day after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. It was found in the title of "The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet People" (Velikaya Otechestvennaya Voyna Sovetskogo Naroda), a long article by Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, a member of Pravda editors' collegium. The phrase was intended to motivate the population to defend the Soviet fatherland and to expel the invader, and a reference to the Patriotic War of 1812 was seen as a great morale booster. During the Soviet period, historians engaged in huge distortions to make history fit with Communist ideology, with Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov and Prince Pyotr Bagration transformed into peasant generals, Alexander I alternatively ignored or vilified, and the war becoming a massive "People's War" fought by the ordinary people of Russia with almost no involvement on the part of the government. The invasion by Germany was called the Great Patriotic War by the Soviet government to evoke comparisons with the victory by Tsar Alexander I over Napoleon's invading army.
The term Отечественная война (Patriotic War or Fatherland War) was officially recognized by establishment of the Order of the Patriotic War on 20 May 1942, awarded for heroic deeds.
The term is not generally used outside the former Soviet Union, and the closest term is the Eastern Front of World War II (1941–1945). Neither term covers the initial phase of World War II in Eastern Europe, during which the USSR, then still in a non-aggression pact with Germany, invaded eastern Poland (1939), the Baltic states (1940), Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (1940) and Finland (1939–1940). The term also does not cover the Soviet–Japanese War (1945) nor the Battles of Khalkhin Gol (1939).
In Russia and some other post-Soviet countries, the term is given great significance; it is accepted as a representation of the most important part of World War II. Until 2014, Uzbekistan was the only nation in the Commonwealth of Independent States that had not recognized the term, referring to it as World War II on the state holiday - the Day of Remembrance and Honour.
PALM SUNDAY Mar 24, 2013 It's Snowing again in Lee's Summit !
Be Careful out there!
How Deep was the snow when YOU were little?
(Not a picture taken in Lee's Summit! - Not This Bad in Lee's Summit)
Mostra itinerante da Chioggia a Burano passando per Venezia...
Dal 13 al 21 novembre 2010 dalle 18.00 alle 20.00
Inaugurazione 13 novembre 2010 ore 17.00
Presso Ex Monte di Pietà
Corso del Popolo
CHIOGGIA (VE)
Coromandel Valley.
Coromandel Valley was named after the ship called the Coromandel which berthed at Holdfast Bay (Glenelg) in January 1837 before Colonel Light had even surveyed and laid out the city of Adelaide. (That happened in March of 1837.) The valley got its name from the desertion of around 10 sailors from the ship the Coromandel. Some hid in the valley until the vessel had left South Australia and then they surrendered to authorities and were remandered for a few days before they were released. None of these escaping sailors became the first residents of Coromandel Valley as they had just been squatting on the land. Surveys and sales of land in the valley did not occur until around 1839 when the SA Company became one of the major purchasers of land. Amongst the early legitimate settlers were James Ackland who gave his name to the hill behind the valley that leads up to Cherry Gardens and Scott Creek and other areas of the Adelaide Hills. Another pioneering settler was Alexander Murray whose name was used for the Murray Hill area of the valley. He arrived in Coromandel in 1840 and in the 1850s established his very successful biscuit and jam factory to use some of the produce of the valley. The factory exported biscuits and jams to the other colonies until business waned in the 1890s and the factory finally closed in 1903. Murray named his house Craiglee and he employed local builder John Weymouth junior to build it. Thomas Turner (hence Turners Avenue where the government established an experimental orchard in 1910) established himself in the valley in 1848. He immediately built a two storey residence on Sturt River and a bakery/general store opposite his house. This was leased to Richard Winn in 1883 and the bakery was soon known as Winns bakery on Winns Road. The Winn family had settled on land in the valley around 1850. That building is now owned by the Coromandel Valley National Trust and run as their little local museum. Another important pioneer was Thomas Matthews who took up land in the valley in 1839. He also established early dairy herds near Springton and near Mount Torrens in the Adelaide Hills. Whilst setting up his dairy farms he had a grand two storey stone house built in the valley. When it was completed in 1849 Matthews named the property Hurds Hill after his wife’s maiden name and the village in Somerset. John Weymouth another early local was the builder of Hurds Hill. Weymouth, who arrived in SA with his family in 1838 acquired land in the valley in 1839 and operated a quarry from it. His sandstone was used for many Coromandel Valley buildings which he erected with the help of his son John. He also built other houses in the valley and his name is now commemorated by the Weymouth Oval in Coromandel and Weymouth road off Acklands Hill road. John Weymouth senior died in 1887 and was buried in the Coromandel Valley cemetery. His son John went on to become a major builder in the Clarendon, Cherry Gardens and Eden Hills areas. He was killed in a bushfire at Coromandel Valley in 1934. The Coromandel Cricket Club was founded in 1862 and is one of the oldest cricket clubs in South Australia. The club used the Weymouth oval.
The Wesleyan Methodist Church had its foundation stone laid in 1859 and it was completed a few months later. In 1905 a Sunday school room was added. The church closed around 1998 and became private residence. At that time a new Uniting Church was built elsewhere in Coromandel Valley but the bell from the 1859 church was removed and mounted on a stone in front of the new church. Although the Wesleyan Church was the first to be built in Coromandel Valley other denominations followed with their own churches. The Anglicans built the pretty Gothic style St Johns church in local slate stone in 1872. It opened in 1873 and a stone apse and vestry was added in 1905. The building contractor for that 1905 work was the local Blackwood builder Mr D Hewitt. The final 19th century church to be built in Coromandel Valley was the Baptist Church. It was finished in 1895. The Baptists added a vestry and Sunday school room in 1908. After the church closed the Uniting Church acquired it as a church hall as it is next to their modern 1998 church. The Coromandel Valley Institute was built in 1881 on land donated by the wife of Samuel Gill. It was used for meetings and public functions for many years and the library room was widely used. The Baptist Church held services in the Institute until their church was built in 1895. A small private school was started up in the valley by the Reverend Samuel Gill the father of the famous watercolourist S.T. Gill. He started his first school in Coromandel in 1843. In 1850 a school room and chapel was built on land donated by Thomas Matthews of Hurds Hill. This was eventually demolished and the stone government school, the first in the Blackwood and Belair districts opened in 1877. It is still in use as the Coromandel School. Coromandel Valley has a small general cemetery which opened in 1857 with the trustees being some of the well-known pioneers of the Valley namely Thomas Matthews, Alexander Murray, joseph turner and others. It was established on land donated by Thomas Matthews. The cemetery is now controlled by the City of Onkaparinga and the first burial was in 1853 four years before the cemetery was formally founded. Among the many people buried there were members of the Winn family, Alexander Murray and his family members, Thomas Matthews, the Mackereth family of Scott Creek and Weymouth family members.