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in concerto al Raindogs di Savona il 28 Novembre 2014.
Con il link seguente potrete ascoltare Sergio Vallarino e soci che presentano un pezzo del nuovo album che registreranno a giorni in Spagna. Il pezzo è "Farsi Male" che come dice Zibba, non è mai stata una soluzione...
La band:
Zibba (Sergio Vallarino)
Andrea "Bale" Balestieri
Stefano Ronchi
Stefano Riggi
Caldera
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Every time I come back to Russia, people ask me "Why? It's cold and grey here. Spain is much better". True: most of days are cloudy, people can be grumpy and rude (lack of sunlight, I guess), Moscow is overpopulated, dirty and extremly expensive.
How could I don't come back?
Because there is beauty in ugliness too. At least when that ugliness has been your home for seven years. Sometimes even without the ugly part.
Patriots Park in Voronezh: history and description
Voronezh - a significant Russian city, located in the European part of the country in 535 km from the capital. There are many places for cultural rest: museums, theaters, philharmonic society, scenic stages, sports complexes. In good weather, residents are pleased to visit the numerous parks and squares, where they walk along wide alleys and relax in the shade of trees from the city noise and dust. Among all the green oases, the Park of Patriots stands out . Voronezh is proud of him. Read more about this amazing place in the article.
History of creation
How did the Park of Patriots appear on the city map? Voronezh is famous for its glorious military history, for good reason it is called the cradle of the Russian Navy and the birthplace of the Airborne Forces. Even under Peter I the city became the center of shipbuilding, and during the Great Patriotic War it staunchly sustained fierce enemy attacks and in many ways contributed to the victory of the Soviet people over the fascist invaders.
In memory of the heroes of the Second World War - soldiers and civilians - in the 60 years of the last century in Voronezh, the Park of Patriots was laid. He is permeated with the spirit of patriotism and pride for his countrymen.
Local people love and appreciate the patriotic park. Voronezh is known for its green oases, and this park is one of the largest and most visited in the city. At its center is the Eternal Flame, which symbolizes the memory of the heroes of the war who fought in 1941-1945. For their homeland.
A little more to the left of the Eternal Flame stands a granite stele. It is stylized under the Doric order, its top is crowned with the coat of arms of Russia, and the pedestal is adorned with a cartouche, on which are placed the lines from the presidential decree that Voronezh is given the title of "City of Military Glory". A memorial sign was installed in the park in May 2010.
On the perimeter of the Patriots Park (Voronezh) there are military equipment - tanks, guns and antiaircraft guns, a truck with the famous "Katyusha", infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, even a military helicopter MI-8T.
All the territory is crossed by avenues lined with trees, along the paths there are benches for rest.
Surprisingly, the park very often becomes a platform for wedding photo sessions.
This is one of the main attractions of the Patriots Park in Voronezh. The museum's photo is placed in the article. Under its roof is collected an impressive collection of exhibits dedicated to the period of the Patriotic War and the heroism of soldiers and civilians who defended their land. Also here are exhibited relics and artifacts, which tell of the glorious military past of Russia and the history of the Voronezh region. Draws attention to the gallery of portraits of famous military leaders of antiquity and our time.
The museum-diorama is rightly called "folk", as its funds are replenished by veterans, members of their families, private collectors. Among the exhibits are really rare and valuable specimens.
In the Park of Patriots (Voronezh), often held themed evenings, which are invited veterans of the Second World War, the Afghans. The purpose of these events is to educate the patriotic spirit of youth.
It is necessary to organize festivities on the City Day.
Since 2014 it has become a tradition to hold a family festival in the picnic format in the park. Dads, moms and kids participate in mass entertainment and have a great time.
Because it occurred to me that it's a long time since I had a picture of me in me compact little kitchen.
[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
By age 15 a girl in South Sudan is more likely to have died in childbirth than to have completed secondary education.
50 years of war and poverty has disrupted the learning of entire generations in the world’s newest country. Today 2 in 3 South Sudanese girls do not go to school at all, with girls only half as likely to be literate as boys. Of the girls who do go to school, most drop out at around 10 years old, because of the pressures of home life, domestic work, and early marriage and pregnancy.
At RISING 15 three inspiring South Sudanese women joined a trustee of Friends of Ibba Girls School to take on the question of education in their home country, exploring the challenge of girls education and the practical steps that are being taken along this very hard road to hope.
They showed how changing the lives of girl students supports whole communities in South Sudan, with inspiring examples from Ibba Girls School.
Here we see Joni dancing away in the newly "psychedelicized" dance floor in the Savoy Lounge. (To borrow a term from an old Chambers Brothers' song.). . . .
It is to be noted that this dance video was recorded on March 5, 2026, a mere 5 days after trump launched his sneak attack in conjunction with Israel against Iran. This "brief excursion", as trump called it at the time, got off to a great start as the initial assaults killed Iran's chief mullah Khomeini and virtually decapitated almost all of the upper echelon of the Iranian government's leadership. trump and Israel were hell bent on achieving a regime change in Iran by destroying the fanatical ruling Islamic Republic and replacing it with some type of democracy that was favorable to the interests of the United States and accepting of Israel's continuing survival. Not to condone Israel's participation in the attack, and Joni doesn't, but it must at least be recognized that Israel does have a very fundamental and existential problem with Iran, a nation which is dedicated to the proposition that Israel must be wiped off the map. As for the United States, whatever its fears and concerns about Iran might be, and however unacceptable and distressing the occasional and random Iranian-sponsored terrorist attacks may be, none of it amounts to an existential crisis.
To be sure, the USA does share Israel's concerns about Iran's ability to develop any kind of a nuclear weapon. . . However, according to trump, Iran's nuclear program had been completely destroyed by America's precision air and missile strikes last summer. Surely, trump didn't lie about that too, did he?? So one had to wonder what was the urgency for the March 1 sneak attack??
Regardless of the issue of urgency, there was no cause for alarm, as America's king of ignorance assured the nation that the USA had already won "trump war II" in the first hour of the conflict, thanks to a "perfectly executed" war plan; albeit one devoid of strategic concerns. There remained only a routine "clean up operation" that wouldn't take more than three weeks. So trump and his fox news' Weekend Update war-mongering Secretary of Defense Hogshit took multiple victory laps to the bewildered applause of his maga base, only some of whom seemed to recall a trump campaign promise that trump's Amerika would not become engaged in any foreign wars, but I guess if one read the fine print, that promise apparently only applied to the Ukraine's war of aggression against Russia.
Fortunately, Joni is not a graduate of Hillsdale College, that bastion of Christian Nationalism and high brow maga intellectaulism, so Joni wasn't buying any of the spin foaming from the mouth inside the Oval Office. Fully cognizant of the truism that everything trump touches eventually turns to shit, Joni confidently waited for "Operation Epic Fury" to morph into "Operation Epic Futility." It turned out it didn't take long at all before the Iranians, despite being mercilessly bombed by the USA, were able to gain the upper hand by simply shutting down the Strait of Hormuz, thereby cutting off more than 20% of the world's oil imports and more, thereby holding the entire world-wide economy hostage in the process.
The rest has been history as trump keeps issuing pathetic statements about how the Iranians are desperate to make a deal to restore peace, or risk biblical annihilation, when in fact, it is he who is the desperate party, and he keeps hinting that the end of the war he started was/is imminent, while the original three week war drags on without any resolution. The war is now more than three months old with no end in sight. Three years would be a more realistic, if not optimistic, timeline, as the Iranians prefer to play the long game . Recall that the Iranians refused to deal with Jimmy Carter during the Hostage Crisis, but rather waited until Reagan was inaugurated, who promptly gave them what they wanted, and like magic, the hostages were freed. . . It should be noted that the Iranians early on stated a clear preference for negotiating with v.p. vance as opposed to trump. vance, unlike trump, has actually met face to face with Iranian representatives, and Allah only knows what they discussed in private. Perhaps the Iranians know something about a regime change in Washington, D.C, that most Americans don't?? Being first in the line of succession to Amerika's throne, would it be beneath that ambitious hillbilly vance to stab trump in the back by beseeching the cabinet members to invoke the 25th Amendment thereby making himself POTUS??. . . . "Et tu, jd?"
Frankly, none of this comes as a surprise to Joni, nor should it come as a surprise to anyone else who has not been maga brainwashed. trump is completely delusional and totally unhinged, as his recent conduct and statements clearly document. Overlooking the fact that trump should have been serving a life sentence all along for the treachery, he orchestrated on January 6, 2021, he now clearly belongs in a strait jacket in an institution for the criminally insane. If you saw his recent interview this past weekend on "Meet the Press", as well as his recent comments about inflation and the economy, then you know what I mean. . . . In the later stages of World War II, the Nazi generals finally realized that Hitler had become unglued when he started to order them to activate 'reserve" armies and Panzer divisions and move them forward to the front lines. The only problem being that the units in question had already surrendered or had been previously annihilated, or never even existed. trump, in his own way, has come to the same delusional fantasy land that even his most loyal sycophants in the cabinet can't ignore. . . . Okay, maybe "Little Marco" Rubio can, but even he should agree that trump should no longer have access to the nuclear codes!!
It's a truly pathetic situation, but what is it that a woman like Joni is supposed to do?? . . . Well, Joni decided to maintain her sanity and dress up en femme and go out somewhere in Orlando on a Wednesday night. . . . You know, somewhere she "could forget all her troubles and forget all her cares, and go downtown" to the Savoy Lounge!! Joni's loyal followers may recall that Joni had initially planned to visit the Savoy Lounge on the previous Saturday evening, only to walk away when confronted by an overflow crowd and a $15.00 cover charge. Now a Wednesday night might not seem like an ideal night for a girl who likes to dance, but the admission was free, and wonder of wonders, Joni discovered that the house DJ was on duty and the dance floor was open! Even more amazing, Joni discovered that the Savoy Lounge had upgraded and "psychedelized" the dance floor since her last visit nearly a year ago. Not only were there more lights and lazers, but a large screen had been added upon which mind-blowing images were projected that generally defy description, but left one with the sense that they were on an LSD trip, not that Joni would know. The concert footage in this video was very tame compared to some of the other stuff that was projected on other videos that Joni recorded, although it was fun to have a simulated audience while dancing. Unfortunately, those other videos remain on Joni's cell phone, but she hasn't been able to successfully transfer them to her computer yet, but maybe someday. . . .
In any event, while trump and the rest of the world is going to hell in a hand basket, Joni chooses to remain above the fray by enjoying her feminine moments and dancing the night away! Really, what else can a T-Girl do???
...at Khejdon Ka Rasta in Jaipur, there are hundreds of artists who create beautiful statues from marble. They have been doing this work here for hundreds of years now. Though there are some machines used now, but most of the work is still done by hand.
Protestant Church of Peace was built in XVIIth century, after the thirthy-year war. Because catholic authorities wanted the church to be weak and they perhaps wanted it to collapse soon, they said that it can be only made without using any nails and stone, but could be only made from straw, wood, sand and clay. These components were luckily so solid and strong that we can admire this beautiful church until today. This Church of Peace is only one of two of this kind in Poland, and they are both the UNESCO landmarks today. The one in Świdnica is also the biggest wooden baroque church in the world. It is a real pearl of baroque. The interiors enchant with a reach, beautiful elements, main altar and organ or balustrades and paintings.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Socialists meeting in Union Square, New York
5/1/08 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Subjects:
New York
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.00342
Call Number: LC-B2- 66-13
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._
GERMAN ARMY WW2 VW KUBELWAGEN DAMYNS HALL AERODROME MILITARY AND CAR SHOW IN AN EAST LONDON BOROUGH SUBURB STREET VENUE ENGLAND 9-8-2015 DSCN0231 C
Woman with Flowers in Her Hair
Vignette
The twilight hour weaves its tender shroud across the decaying streets as the last remnants of day’s warmth surrender to the cool breath of evening. She stands in the dim glow of lanterns flickering like dying embers, a melancholic and wild vision. Her hair, crowned with roses and entwined vines, blooms defiantly against the weary, withering city that crumbles around her.
Beneath the flowers rests a serene yet haunted face, as if sorrow’s soft whispers have painted shadows beneath her eyes. The world stirs in echoes of forgotten grandeur, and she, like some mythic sentinel of the earth, is at once the bearer of life’s vibrant colour and the solemn mourner of its inevitable decay, a living embodiment of the cycle of life and death.
Here, amidst the ruins, she is both the flower and the tombstone, standing silent as the day’s final breath collapses into night. Yet, there is something eternal in her stillness, as if in her fragile bloom lies the pulse of creation itself, defying the darkened world to wither her bloom.
Description
She emerges in a city where dusk falls like a velvet curtain—an ethereal vision crowned with vivid blooms. The vibrant roses in her hair stand in stark contrast to the decaying urban streets around her, a symbol of beauty and resilience amidst chaos. Capturing the spirit of strength and serenity, this haunting image evokes the timeless balance between nature’s grace and humanity’s ruins. Just like the fleeting twilight, she is a fleeting yet unforgettable presence. 🍂🌹 #UrbanElegance #CityOfContrasts
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A Night in the Forest.
"I needed time away. Time to clear my mind and to regenerate. The night in the forest was sacred because it provided sought after opportunity to escape. A sacred ‘wedge’ of time to gather strength and to think of something other.
... I wanted to just sit and feel – the changing of the light, the forest smell, the sounds of birds going to sleep and others waking up..."Mark Boulet
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.
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Ethne in Aphrodisias’ Sebasteion - IV: ΚΡΗΤΗ
Ethnos of Greek island in peplos (Crete ?). The figure wears a thick, sleeveless dress (peplos) and a short himation, and stands with the weight on her right leg, her head turned looking to her left in three-quarter view. Both hands once held attributes. The hair is gathered in a tight bun at the back with one curl escaping on to the neck. This is a familiar ideal hairstyle of Greek women and goddesses. Hairstyle, dress and pose seem designed to characterize the figure as unambiguously Greek and 'free', as opposed to barbarian and captive.
Her dress is thick and arranged in a manner close to a classical peplos. A short himation or shawl is draped over the right shoulder, brought across the chest and hung over the left forearm. This figure, then, speaks a thoroughly Hellenized language in both drapery and hairstyle and should therefore represent one of the three Greek islands, Crete, Cyprus or Sicily, all of whose bases were found close to this panel at the very east end of the north portico.
Source: Smith R.R., Simulacra Gentium: The Ethne from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias
Roman bas-relief
Claudius – early Nero age: approx. 41 - 60 AD
Aphrodisias, Archaeological Museum
Aphrodisias, Caria, Turkey
Mostra itinerante da Chioggia a Burano passando per Venezia...
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Inaugurazione 13 novembre 2010 ore 17.00
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Sony A7R RAW Photos of Pretty, Tall Blond Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess in Laguna Beach! Victoria Beach! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens & Lightroom 5.3
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And here're a couple of HD video movies I shot of the goddess with the 4K Sony:
Enjoy! Be sure to watch in the full 1080P HD!
The epic goddess was tall, thin, fit, tan, and in wonderful shape (as you can see).
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Epic Goddess Straight Out of Hero's Odyssey Mythology! Pretty Model! :) Tall, thin, fit and beautiful!
Welcome to your epic hero's odyssey! The beautiful 45surf goddess sisters hath called ye to adventure, beckoning ye to read deeply Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, whence ye shall learn of yer own exalted artistic path guided by Hero's Odyssey Mythology. I wouldn't be saying it if it hadn't happened to me.
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She was a beauty--a gold 45 goddess for sure! A Gold 45 Goddess exalts the archetypal form of Athena--the Greek Goddess of wisdom, warfare, strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason. A Gold 45 Goddess guards the beauty of dx4/dt=ic and embodies 45SURF's motto "Virtus, Honoris, et Actio Pro Veritas, Amor, et Bellus, (Strength, Honor, and Action for Truth, Love, and Beauty," and she stands ready to inspire and guide you along your epic, heroic journey into art and mythology. It is Athena who descends to call Telemachus to Adventure in the first book of Homer's Odyssey--to man up, find news of his true father Odysseus, and rid his home of the false suitors, and too, it is Athena who descends in the first book of Homer's Iliad, to calm the Rage of Achilles who is about to draw his sword so as to slay his commander who just seized Achilles' prize, thusly robbing Achilles of his Honor--the higher prize Achilles fought for. And now Athena descends once again, assuming the form of a Gold 45 Goddess, to inspire you along your epic journey of heroic endeavour.
ALL THE BEST on your Epic Hero's Odyssey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
Modeling the Gold 45 Revolver Gold'N'Virtue swimsuit. :)
A laid-back,classic, socal lifestyle shoot!
May the 45surf goddesses inspire you along am artistic journey of your own making!
All 45surf Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography is shot in the honor of Truth, Beauty, and the Light of Physicist Dr. E's Moving Dimensions Theory's dx4/dt=ic . The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c. Ergo relativity, time, entropy, and entanglement.
All the best on your Epic Hero's Odyssey from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
New blog celebrating my philosophy of photography with tips, insights, and tutorials!
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Sony A7R RAW Photos of Pretty Brunette Bikini Swimsuit Model Goddess! Carl Zeiss Sony FE 55mm F1.8 ZA Sonnar T* Lens! Lightroom 5.3 ! Pretty Hazel Eyes & Silky Brown Black Hair!
All the best on your Epic, Homeric, Heroic Odyssey into the Art of Photography from Johnny Ranger McCoy!
All 45surf Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography is shot in the honor of Dynamic Dimensions Theory's First Law and equation: The fourth dimension is expanding relative to the three spatial dimensions at the rate of c: dx4/dt=ic.
Karoonda Pioneer Park.
It is located in what was once the encircling parklands of Karoonda. These parklands, however we resurveyed for building blocks in 1928 but did not sell. It was reinstituted as parklands in 1982 and the Pioneer Park was started. The museum/park concentrates on pioneer farming techniques from 1910 to 1950 and the era when the railway was paramount in the Mallee. Old buildings in the Park include the Wynarka Methodist Church (1913), Bolt’s Bush Shed and Stables (1944), Westover’s Horse Shaft chaff cutter (1920s), Kunlara Post Office (about 1914), the first Hood family farmhouse (1913), and Brown’s blacksmith works (1914.) Structures from the railway era are quite prolific and include: railcar stock- sheep wagons, goods van, louvred van, Y truck for mallee roots, a 75 class railcar; Yurgo Railway Station; a railway siding; Mindarie Railway Pump House (1917); a pull trike; and an American made Brill(Barwell Bull) Railcar from Philadelphia which entered service in 1924. The Philadelphia Company provided chassis and the Islington Railway workshops built the body of the carriage. An improved version entered the service of South Australian Railways in 1927. The petrol running Brill cars were retired from service in 1971 after serving on almost all SAR country rail lines for nearly 50 years. (Henry Barwell was Premier of South Australia from 1920-1924 when the Brill cars first entered service and he was the man who authorised the erection of the current Adelaide Railway station. He also appointed William Webb from Colorado as the Chief Commissioner of the Railways in 1923. It was Webb who modernised SAR, expanded railway operations in Murray Bridge and Tailem Bend and introduced large, faster and heavier railway engines which necessitated rebuilding much of the railway line from Adelaide to Mount Lofty and elsewhere in SA. Webb returned to the USA in 1930 leaving SAR in debt but with good infrastructure which proved to be invaluable with troop and equipment movement during World War Two.
Karoonda.
Karoonda is the government town for the Hundred of Marmon-Jabuk which like the Hundred of Hooper was opened for sale in 1911.The town itself is right on the edge of the hundred because of the Brown’s Well railway line alignment which veered to this point because of a deep government well (220 feet) located here. Steam trains always needed good water supplies and so wells and bores were sunk across the Murray Mallee. There are excellent quality water supplies across the region which is why Lameroo and Pinnaroo have become major irrigation areas for vegetables. Beyond Karoonda the next deep government bore for water for steam trains was located at Alawoona. Regular passenger and freight trains started arriving at Karoonda from early 1913 but by then the government had already released plans for more railways in the Murray Mallee to Peebinga( the so-called railway to nowhere) and to Waikerie on the upper Murray.
Thus Karoonda was destined to be a major railway junction point from its inception with railway engines and cars and railway employees based in the future town. In fact the refreshment rooms were erected in 1914 as trains stopped in Karoonda for 10 minutes. Major work was done on the railway station in 1916 and from its inception the rail yards always had piles of mallee roots destined for the winter fires of Adelaide. Roots were obtained for the process of clearing the dense mallee and provided farmers with an additional source of income. Karoonda was the base for rail cars used on services to Peebinga, Waikerie, Barmera and Loxton. The rail services were a boon for Karoonda businessmen as Karoonda bakery sent items to stations most of the way to Loxton ; the blacksmith sent metal parts and repairs to sidings etc.
But most of the Mallee lines radiating out from Karoonda were closed during the 1980s but the Tookayerta Railway was converted to standard gauge in 1998. It allows standard gauge trains to operate between Tailem Bend and the Viterra Grain Terminal just outside of Loxton. It has grain stops at Karoonda, Mindarie, Wanbi, Alawoona and Loxton (Tookayerta). The only other rail line in the Mallee converted to standard gauge was the Pinnaroo line which also has grain trains in season. It also branches out from Tailem Bend. The railway lines north from Karoonda to Waikerie and east to Peebinga were closed in 1990 and Karoonda is no longer a rail junction.
Karoonda grew quickly despite the misgivings some had about the viability of farming in the Mallee. The town was
proclaimed in December 1913 and town lots were sold in January 1914. All the 103 allotments were purchased with prices for blocks opposite the railway line fetching the highest prices. One allotment was set aside by the government for an institute and in September 1914 a fine stone Institute hall had opened. This hall was crucial to the early settlers in Karoonda as the town school started in the hall in January 1915 and the first Anglican, Catholic and Methodist church services were held in this building. (The school was opened in 1917 and added to in 1928.) The first purchasers of town lots included a solicitor, blacksmith, butcher, greengrocer, storekeeper, hotelkeeper, fruiterer, carpenter, saddler, baker etc. Most of the first buildings were galvanised iron or timber framed and one example was the Bank of Adelaide which opened in 1914. The Karoonda Hotel opened in 1914 as the licensee of the hotel in Parrakie near Lameroo transferred his licensee to Karoonda. By the end of 1914 Karoonda had a police station, hotel, institute, four stores, a bakery, blacksmith, saddler, boarding house and some dwellings. Many of the early stone buildings were erected in 1915. Around 1918 Male Brothers from Murray Bridge opened their carriage and blacksmith works. By 1920 it had 40 employees.
In the 1920s Karoonda continued to grow and expand. New town subdivisions (1925 and 1928) were created south of the railway line and to the west of the existing town. The stone Post Office was completed in 1925; the Karoonda Hotel was extended in 1927 and 1930 (and again in 1961); the Institute had a movie projection box added to the front; the Masonic Lodge although formed in 1925 had their Temple open in 1930; the first Council Chambers were finished in 1927( before then a wooden prefab room was used); the Methodist church opened in 1925; All Hallows Anglican Church opened in July 1926; and St. Finian of Clonard Catholic Church opened in February 1930 and St. Johns Lutheran Church was completed in 1927. Then the Great Depression hit the town and drought years exacerbated its effects. The main structure built in the thirties was a new Police Station in 1938. Since the thirties a new besser block front has been added to the old Institute building (1962), new Council Chambers opened in 1981, and a new hospital was added to the town in 1970. As mentioned before Karoonda Area School was formed in 1940 with its official opening in January 1941. Its creation meant the closing of five surrounding small schools in 1940 and a further four school closures in 1941. Karoonda Area was the first in the state. New classrooms were built for it in 1963 and 1970. Karoonda is now surviving well as higher prices for wool and lamb and a more diversified range of cereal and legume crops adapted to low winter rainfall avoids low crop yields except in severe drought years.
Karoonda has a claim to fame that no other SA town can match. On 30th November 1930 a ball of fire was seen in the sky near Karoonda. A search by Professor Kerr Grant of the University of Adelaide located the meteorite that had landed near Karoonda two weeks after the sightings. It shattered on landing and 92 fragments of the meteorite were gathered. Professor Douglas Mawson the Professor of Geology analysed and described the meteorite for a 1934 scientific publication. It was an unusual meteorite type known as chondritic asiderite.It mainly consisted of olivine with minor amounts of a range of unusual minerals. A small fragment is kept in the Council Chambers. Its chemical composition was re-analysed in America in the 1950s. The town has a small plaque about the meteorite.
Commonwealth Lake in Beaverton is loaded with waterfowl right now. If the soupy fog we've been having clears and the sun breaks through in the afternoon, it's a terrific place to photograph birds. I was lucky enough to catch this female American wigeon as she flew right in front of me along this narrow little lake. It wasn't hard to fill two memory cards on this afternoon in just two hours!
Elle Mills, World Fair
This picture is of the World Fair in Knoxville Tennessee, in 1982. Carnivals, Festivals, and Fairs have seemed to always be apart of American tradition. They seem to cross the line of color, class, and status, by allowing everyone an opportunity to enjoy themselves. “1876 Centennial Exposition filled Philadelphia’s Fairmont Park with a spectacular building that not only drew 9.9 million people to celebrate the nation’s emergence as an industrial power, but also advertised the notion of seeing the rest of America.” In 1893 Chicago hosted the World Fair. It drew in 27 million visitors. It was very popular because it was almost seen as a substitute for travel since they had collected and displayed things from all over the world. Natural Wonders were remade into miniatures versions, so that people could experience them. From the fair they could also get postcards, which were only recently okayed by the postmaster, and other souvenirs of their trip. This is also where commercialized souvenirs and guide books first began to sell. These souvenirs also sold others on the fair as a future destination for mid nineteenth century travelers. In 1888 George Eastman developed a cheaper and simpler way to make pictures and prove to people that you had actually been to the place you said. For the fair you had to pay a small fee for bringing your camera. Not only did the fair bring in tourist, but the city did as well. People who lived in the country wanted a taste of the city life. They wanted to come explore the buildings and different amusements in the city. In the 1890s the cost of the bicycle dropped allowing people access to local tourism. This trend helped to spring up local museums and historic foundations. In the 1920s the wealthy and upper middle class started traveling outside of the United States. They traveled abroad on new luxury steamboats. In 1927 there was a new southern route which allowed for travel around the world. The World Fair was more or less for the working class people who could not venture out to see the sights the fair had replicated. Later, bus systems like Grey Hound were developed because they were more flexible then trains at getting people to different destinations. Busses also helped smaller towns along the route gain tourist dollars from the bus stops. When cars became cheap enough for a family to buy, they were usually the main source of travel for Americans, and fairs were easily accessible.
Cindy S. Aron, "The American Amusement Park Industry: A Histroy of Technology and Thrills." _ The Business History Review_v.66 no.2 (Summer 1992): 380-381.
Hayden Ramsay, _Reclaiming Leisrue Are, Sport and Philosophy_ (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 102-124.
Gary S. Cross, “World Fair.” _Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America_ v.2 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004): 372-373.
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As it turns out, the window isn't in such a bad spot afterall, so I left it alone. All I needed to do was put something underneath it. At first, I thought a radiator cover was the answer, but after I started building the shell, I realized I could use a slim, custom table instead. It still has to be finished off and painted, but in process photos let me know if I'm headed in the right direction. In hindsight, a bookcase would have worked here too.
Two of the pieces that I need to create more artwork haven't arrived yet, but while I'm waiting for my online order to get here, I went shoppping in person and found black frames with off-white mats that might be just the right size to hang on either side of the main piece of art. Hmmm.
As an aside, new, slightly taller baseboard trim was also added.
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