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Sandsteinbruch - Steinbruch für Sandstein aus der Abbauperiode ab etwa 1827 im Ostermundigenberg ob Ostermundigen im Kanton Bern in der Schweiz
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Ostermundiger Steinbrüche - Sansteinbrüche
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Die Sandsteinbrüche Ostermundigen befinden sich auf dem Gebiet der Gemeinde
Ostermundigen bei Bern im Berner Mittelland im Kanton Bern in der Schweiz
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Seit dem 15. Jahrhundert - Mittelalter wurde in der S.tadt Bern und in der Umgebung der
Name Ostermundigen viel genannt wegen seiner Steingrube und im 19. Jahrhundert, als
sich hier der grösste Sandsteinbruch unseres Landes befand, war in der ganzen Schweiz
und über die Grenzen hinaus von Ostermundigen die Rede.
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Erster Steinbruch am H.ättenberg - H.ätteberg n.ördlich der B.ernstrasse
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Der älteste urkundliche Hinweis auf die Steinbrüche Ostermundigen, stammt aus der Zeit,
als man die H.ochmauern des M.ünsters baute, dessen G.rundstein im Jahre 1.4.2.1 gelegt
wurden.
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Der bernische Rat erliess am 5. N.ovember 1.4.8.1 folgenden Befehl:
„An die von B.ollingen und M.uri, das Gestein zu Ostermundingen S.anct V.incentzen harin
ze füeren“ ( das M.ünster war dem heiligen Vinzenz geweiht ).
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N.otar S.chellhammer schrieb 1.7.1.9 , man habe seit 1.7.0.3 aus dem „ E.yngeweid “ des
dem „ J.ukerberg “ ( O.stermundigenberg ) anhangenden Hügels ( H.ättenberg ) “ etliche
100 000 Fuder Steinen, welche die schönsten im gantzen Land, in die S.tadt geführt “
Wenn man auch zur angegebenen F.uderzahl ein kräftiges Fragezeichen setzen muss,
so beweist doch dieser Bericht die grosse Bedeutung der Grube und das Ansehen, dass
ihre Steine genossen.
Ab etwa 1.7.3.7 wurden im a.lten Steinbruch - a.lten Steingrube noch b.lauer Sandstein für
P.latten gebrochen, später aber, diente sie als S.chuttablagerungsstätte. Er wurde immer
mehr zugeschüttet und so ist von dem berühmtesten Steinbruch des alten Bern heute nur
noch so wenig zu sehen.
Nur die obersten Teile einiger Abbruchwände ragen noch über die Auffüllung hinaus ( in
der Umgebung des heutigen P.fadiheim S.teigrüebbli )
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Z.weiter Steinbruch ab 1.7.3.7 => Die neue Steingrube s.üdlich der B.ernstrasse
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Im Sommer 1.7.3.6 musste der bernische Rat davon Kenntnis nehmen, dass „die Stein-
gruben zu Ostermundigen, wo der K.irchenbank ist , zu end rücke“( dort war zu dieser
Zeit dasbeste Gestein, dass für den K.irchenbau und die obrigkeitlichen Gebäude vor-
behalten war).
Heute sieht man von der damaligen Steingrube nicht mehr sehr viel, weil ein seither auf-
geschütteter S.chutzwall die Sicht verdeckt. Zudem ist nur noch ein Einschnitt als Z.ugang
vorhanden, der aber seit langem gesperrt ist, denn die Eidgenossenschaft hat im Jahre
1.9.1.1 das seit über 40 Jahren verlassene Steinbruchareal gekauft und hier M.agazine für
die K.riegspulverfabrik W.orblaufen eingerichtet. Seither dient es der W.affenfabrik ( heute
R.U.A.G ) als L.agerraum
Im Z.weiten W.eltkrieg wurde dieser Steinbruch durch die A.rmee bewacht, wovon die
vielen eingerizten W.appen am E.ingang zeugen.
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Steinbrüche auf dem O.stermundigenberg
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Während die alten Steinbrüche an der B.ernstrasse in der Hand des Staates lagen, waren
die Steinbrüche auf dem O.stermundigenberg im Besitz der H.olzgemeinde Ostermundigen.
„Der Niklaus Blank könne die nötigen Steinen zu seinem neuen Haus bey der H.ubelholen
aussen brechen lassen“, steht im Protokoll der H.olzgemeinde vom 2. M.ärz 1.8.2.7:
Am H.olzweg in der „H.olen“ ( H.ohlweg) oberhalb des H.ubels, wo Sandstein zutage trat,
wurde also einem Gemeindegenossen erlaubt, den zu seinem Hausbau nötigen Sandstein
im gemeinschaftlichen W.ald zu brechen.
Es muss dort gutes Material zum Vorschein gekommen sein und es blieb deshalb nicht bei
einer einmaligen Steingewinnung. Im Jahr 1.8.6.5 hat die Holzgemeinde dem Gesuch der
Firma Glauser & Co. entsprochen, zwischen den zwei Steinbruchparzellen ( diese waren
jeweils verschiendenen Besitzern zugeteilt ) einen Durchbruch zu erstellen, damit die ge-
hauenen Stücke aus dem oberen in den unteren Steinbruch gebracht und dort verladen
werden konnten.
Später sind der obere und der untere Bruch durch Abbruch weiterer Bänke zu einem ein-
zigen vereinigt worden.
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Die S.teinbruchbahn und das langsame Ende der Steinbruchgesellschaft Ostermundigen
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Ebenfalls im Jahr 1.8.6.5 wurde die „A.ktiengesellschaft für die Steinbrüche Ostermun-
digen“ gegründet, dies weil nur ein grosses und florierendes Unternehmen in der Lage
war, die Kosten für die S.teinbruchbahn zu tragen, die bereits 1.8.6.4 der Firma Glauser
&Co. bewilligt worden war.
Im H.erbst 1.8.7.1 nahm die S.teinbruchbahn ihren B.etrieb auf.
Sie und auch die moderne V.erladeeinrichtungen ( D.ampfkran ) trugen dazu bei, dass der
Steinbruch nach der B.aukrise , verursacht durch den D.eutsch - F.ranzösischen K.rieg
einen neuen Aufschwung erlebte.
Das Jahr 1.8.7.4 wird als Spitzenjahr bezeichnet allerdings folgte daraufhin bald ein Nieder-
gang, der in den Jahren 1.8.8.3 - 1.8.8.4 seinen Tiefststand erreichte. Der grossbetrieblich
ausgebeuteten Berner Sandstein erwies sich als zu wenig dauerhaft und dazu kamen ver-
mehrt neue Baumaterialien wie B.ackstein, K.unststein und B.eton auf den Markt, die den
Sandstein konkurrierten.
Ein zweiter Höhepunkt erlebte der Steinbruch während des Baus des P.arlamentsgebäu-
des in Bern.
Danach ging es aber rasch dem Ende entgegen
1.9.0.1: Kündigung des Ausbeutungsvertrages der AG mit der H.olzgemeinde
1.9.0.2 : Endgültige Einstellung des B.ahnbetriebes. Die G.eleise wurden sofort abge-
brochen und verkauft ( heute ist nur noch der E.inschnitt der Z.ahnradstrecke am Hang
teilweise zu sehen )
Als die Steinbrecherei ihre einstige grosse Bedeutung verloren hatte und der Sandstein
auf dem Areal ohnehin grösstenteils ausgebeutet war, kam die H.olzgemeinde zum Ent-
schluss, ihren gemeinsamen Besitz zu verkaufen und sich aufzulösen.
Käufer war der Staat, der den Steinbruch bis 1.9.6.6 an die F.irma K.unststein- und Stein-
hauerfirma K.S.chürmann verpachtete und seither der K.unststeinfabrik C. B.ernasconi in
B.ümpliz.
Die Steinbrecherei wird immer noch weitergeführt, allerdings heute mit modernen Ma-
schinen und nur noch im kleinen Ausmass, vorallem für G.ebäuderenovationen in der
S.tadt
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Mit den industriellen Möglichkeiten in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts erreichte
die Produktion ihren Höhepunkt. Zu jener Zeit war der Ostermundiger Sandsteinbruch
der grösste in der Schweiz. Geliefert wurde weit über die L.andesgrenzen hinaus.
In den Sandsteinbrüchen Ostermundigens wurden jahrhundertelang Sandsteine ge-
brochen, die in der S.tadt Bern als Bausubstanz verwendet wurden. Namentlich auch
das B.erner M.ünster wurde zu grossen Teilen aus Ostermundiger Sandstein erbaut.
Sogar Teile des K.ölner D.oms wurden mit Ostermundiger Sandstein hergestellt.
Der Sandsteinabbau hat die Gemeinde Ostermundigen stark geprägt. Generationen
von Taglöhnern, Steinbrechern und Baumeistern haben ihre Existenz auf dem Oster-
mundiger Sandstein begründet. Unzählige Gebäude, einfache wie prunkvolle, sind
aus diesem Material entstanden. Die Steinbrüche und ihre Geschichte sind noch
heute das eigentliche Wahrzeichen von Ostermundigen.
Das Projekt eines P.aul K.lee gewidmeten M.useums sowie dessen Realisierung in
unmittelbarer Nähe der Gemeinde Ostermundigen hatte eine integrative Wirkung auf
die bereits existierenden, jedoch unterschiedlichen Bestrebungen rund um die Stein-
brüche.
Allen Beteiligten war bekannt, dass K.lee von den Steinbrüchen und den darin arbeiten-
den Menschen begeistert war und sich deshalb oft dort aufgehalten hatte. Die Stein-
brüche dienten ihm als Inspirationsquelle für zahlreiche Bilder und Zeichnungen.
Die Idee, das einst bis ins Ausland bekannte Wahrzeichen von Ostermundigen aus der
Vergessenheit zu holen und gleichzeitig das Z.entrum P.aul K.lee attraktiv zu erschliessen,
nahm in der Folge konkrete Formen an. Innerhalb kürzester Zeit wurden aus Kreisen der
Bevölkerung, der Politik, der Wirtschaft und der Verwaltung Initiativen formuliert.
Für die konzeptionelle Arbeit wurde unter der Leitung des damaligen Ostermundiger
G.emeindepräsidenten T.heo W.eber die „A.rbeitsgruppe Steinbrüche“ eingesetzt. Die
Federführung des Projekts liegt heute beim Z.entrum P.aul K.lee.
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Das Konzept für die Nutzung der einzelnen K.avernen sieht vor, K.inder, J.ugendliche,
E.rwachsene und F.amilien gleichermassen anzusprechen. Kernstück der Attraktionen in
den Steinbrüchen ist die P.lattform „S.tandort P.aul K.lee, Ostermundigen“.
Sie ist so platziert, dass sie dieselbe Sicht auf die Steinbrüche ermöglicht, die einige
Bilder von P.aul K.lee zeigen. D.idaktische T.afeln ermöglichen eine vertiefte Auseinander-
setzung mit dem Ort und seiner Bedeutung für die Gemeinde Ostermundigen, für Bern
und für P.aul K.lee.
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It was a special moment on the rooftop of the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles as BMW M Motorsport introduced the world to their latest racing outlier, the BMW M Hybrid V8. It's daring, futuristic, powerful, high-tech, revolutionary, and fast! Presented in traditional BMW M hues representing the avant-garde livery, the prototype will compete in the GTP class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2023. Principal drivers for the two BMW M Team RLL cars include Connor De Phillippi, Philipp Eng, Augusto Farfus, and Nick Yelloly. In addition, Colton Herta of the IndyCar series will offer his experience and support.
Army National Guard Soldiers competing in the Region III Best Warrior Competition (BWC) hosted by the South Carolina National Guard performed several events on their fourth day of the competition, Aug. 6, 2020, with a swim test at the University of South Carolina's pool in Columbia, South Carolina, target engagements using the M9 pistol on the Combat Pistol Qualification Course, patrol lanes and a pugil stick competition at McCrady Training Center in Eastover, South Carolina. Region III BWC includes U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers from Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina competing in physical and mental challenges, Aug. 3-7, 2020. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Brian Calhoun, South Carolina National Guard)
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St James, Newton-in-the-Isle, Cambridgeshire
I left Ipswich under a clear, starlit sky on the early train, and by Bury the sun was up and shining. It was still shining at Ely, and it actually felt quite warm on my face at Downham Market where I met up with John Vigar. But by the time we got to Wisbech, barely ten minutes away, the shelf of cloud was coming in. We crossed the Nene into Cambridgeshire and headed out into the increasingly grim fen, the rain starting to spatter on the windscreen, to Newton-in-the-Isle.
I had made arrangements for the church to be open, although though ordinarily it is kept locked without a keyholder notice. We stepped out of the wind and rain into a vast, gloomy 14th Century barn of a church. The hexagonal 15th Century sandstone font was melting away. It felt like a symbol for what might well be a dying church, now only in use by its declining and elderly congregation. Despite the gloom of the nave there was an interesting and early restoration of the chancel with good 1850s glass by Heaton, Butler & Bayne, stencilled roof and the highest quality tiling. There is a dubious Hugh Easton window of the early 1930s in the north aisle.
In an antiquarian exercise, the rood loft was rebuilt in the 1890s, and is the most significant feature of the church. Iit was possible to go up - but it was very precipitous, I don't have a good head for heights, and it was much easier getting up than coming down again. The Hanoverian royal arms which previously fitted into the chancel arch are now reset above the tower arch. They are in poor condition, but it is hard to see that the parish will ever have either the money or motivation to repair them.
The church is close to its neighbours West Walton, Walpole St Peter and Leverington, but is very different in feel to those three. It is, I fear, not a church to lift the heart, if only that it feels very unused.
Outside, the wind and rain whipped across the bleak churchyard. We had met an old man in the churchyard who told us he's retired to the village from south London, and how much he loved it, but I couldn't imagine ever wanting to live in a place like this, or what effect it would have on me if I did. It was a relief to move on up through the lanes to the larger village of Tydd St Giles.
In one of his last interviews, Stephen Hawking suggested that humans need to colonize a new planet within 100 years to keep our species alive. This camera has an exposure time of 100 years. It starts here at Ars Electronica Festival and you can be a part of the exposition for a last picture from our world. Do you accept being one of the last inhabitants on planet Earth?
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Der Hambuger Stadtteil Wilhelmsburg zwischen den beiden großen Elbarmen von Norderelbe und Süderelbe. 1672 erwarb Georg Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Celle drei große Elbinseln, die darauf hin eingedeicht und durch Verbindungsdeiche vereint worden sind. Sie trugen fortan den Namen Wilhelmsburg. In Folge der Annexion des Unterelbegebiets durch Frankreich war Wilhelmsburg zwischen 1811 und 1814 ein Kanton des Amts Hambourg des Elbemündung-Departements, danach wieder Teil des Königreiches Hannover, das nach 1866 preußische Provinz wurde. Durch das Groß-Hamburg-Gesetz wurde Wilhelmsburg in den Stadtstaat Hamburg eingegliedert . Mit ca. 35 km² ist der Stadtteil der größte Hamburgs - ca. 50000 Einwohner leben in Wilhelmsburg.
This was my first foray into documenting the world of The Dog Show, i had been wanting to attend a show as part of a couple of ongoing personel projects so when this local opportunity arose i jumped at it...plus my sister also got the chance to show her pride & joy, the Lakeland Terrier Beryl.
I love dogs & really wanted to capture them at their level but also their humans in a social documentary way to meet & understand this sometimes eccentric world of Rosettes, treats, waggy tails & proud 'parents'.
This was only a fun show to raise money for a local dog rescue charity Rens Rescue but as fun & enjoyable as it was there is always the underlying competitive side....from the humans you understand! ;)
I'd like to attend a more serious competition next time as i imagine the competitiveness & eccentricity may go up rapidly so watch this space!
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According to Agilitynut Mom's Diner was previously known as the Premium Diner. It is a Fodero from the late 1940s. The diner is now vacant.
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CAFE designed for the magazine SPIEGEL in the 1969 by VERNER PANTON at the MK&G (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe / Hamburg )
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The Jewish Square, Vienna 1, formed in the Middle Ages under the name of "schoolyard" the center of the former Jewish Town, extending next to the Ducal court. It was closed from the rest of the city by four gates. Here there were school, bathhouse, synagogue and the house of the rabbi. The school was one of the most important of German-speaking countries. The community existed from about 1190 to the Vienna Geserah in 1421.
The stemming from the 15th century Jordan House, Nr. 2, bears a late Gothic relief with the representation of Jesus' baptism in the Jordan. This is not only a reference to the name of the house owner, Jörg Jordan, but also to the Vienna Geserah which the accompanying text endorses. On the initiative of Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the Archdiocese of Vienna donated a plaque which Cardinal Franz König on 29 October 1998 unveiled. Its text reads: "Kiddush HaShem" means "sanctification of God". With this awareness, chose Viennese Jews in the synagogue here on Jewish Square - the center of an important Jewish community - at the time of persecution 1420/21 the suicide to escape a feared by them forced baptism. Others, about 200, were burnt alive in Erdberg (today 3rd district of Vienna) at the stake. Christian preachers of that time spread superstitious anti-Jewish ideas and thus incited against the Jews and their faith. So influenced, Christians in Vienna acquiesced without resistance, approved it and became perpetrators. Thus, the liquidation of the Vienna Jewish Town in 1421 was already a looming omen for what happened in our century throughout europe during the Nazi dictatorship. Medieval popes pronounced unsuccessfully against the anti-Jewish superstition, and individual believers struggled unsuccessfully against the racial hatred of the Nazis. But those were too few. Today Christendom regrets its involvement in the persecution of Jews and recognizes its failures. "Sanctification of God" today for Christians can only mean: asking for forgiveness and hope in God's salvation. October 29, 1998
Already in 1910, consisted the plan here the poet of the Enlightenment, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), who in his play "Nathan the Wise" the interdenominational tolerance has put up a literary monument, to honor with a statue. In 1935, a sculpture by Siegfried Charoux was unveiled, but only four years later, in 1940, taken off and melted down for armaments. In 1968, the same artist created again a Lessing monument, which came first on the Morzin square and 1981 on the original site.
Since 2000, the place is a unique ensemble of remembering with the memorial by Rachel Whiteread for the 65,000 Austrian victims of the Shoah. 1995 the foundations of the in 1420 destroyed synagogue were excavated which now with finds constitute a part of the branch of the Jewish Museum Vienna. A computer-animated walk leads into one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe which existed here in the early 15th century. Another room is dedicated to the Shoah documentation.
Der Judenplatz, Wien 1, bildete im Mittelalter unter dem Namen „Schulhof“ den Mittelpunkt der einstigen Judenstadt, die sich neben dem Herzogshof erstreckte. Sie war durch vier Tore von der übrigen Stadt abgeschlossen. Hier befanden sich Schule, Badestube, Synagoge und das Haus des Rabbiners. Die Schule war eine der bedeutendsten des deutschen Sprachraums. Die Gemeinde bestand ab etwa 1190 bis zur Wiener Geserah im Jahre 1421.
Das aus dem 15. Jahrhundert stammende Jordanhaus, Nr. 2, trägt ein spätgotisches Relief mit der Darstellung der Taufe Jesu im Jordan. Dieses ist nicht nur eine Anspielung auf den Namen des Hausbesitzers, Jörg Jordan, sondern auch auf die Wiener Geserah, die der beigefügte Text gut heißt. Auf Initiative von Kardinal Christoph Schönborn stiftete die Erzdiözese Wien eine Gedenktafel, die Kardinal Franz König am 29. Oktober 1998 enthüllte. Ihr Text lautet: „Kiddusch HaSchem“ heißt „Heiligung Gottes“ Mit diesem Bewußtsein wählten Juden Wiens in der Synagoge hier am Judenplatz — dem Zentrum einer bedeutenden jüdischen Gemeinde — zur Zeit der Verfolgung 1420/21 den Freitod, um einer von ihnen befürchteten Zwangstaufe zu entgehen. Andere, etwa 200, wurden in Erdberg auf dem Scheiterhaufen lebendig verbrannt. Christliche Prediger dieser Zeit verbreiteten abergläubische judenfeindliche Vorstellungen und hetzten somit gegen die Juden und ihren Glauben. So beeinflusst nahmen Christen in Wien dies widerstandslos hin, billigten es und wurden zu Tätern. Somit war die Auflösung der Wiener Judenstadt 1421 schon ein drohendes Vorzeichen für das, was europaweit in unserem Jahrhundert während der nationalsozialistischen Zwangsherrschaft geschah. Mittelalterliche Päpste wandten sich erfolglos gegen den judenfeindlichen Aberglauben, und einzelne Gläubige kämpften erfolglos gegen den Rassenhaß der Nationalsozialisten. Aber es waren derer zu wenige. Heute bereut die Christenheit ihre Mitschuld an den Judenverfolgungen und erkennt ihr Versagen. „Heiligung Gottes“ kann heute für die Christen nur heißen: Bitte um Vergebung und Hoffnung auf Gottes Heil. 29. Oktober 1998
Schon 1910 bestand der Plan, dem Dichter der Aufklärung Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781), der in seinem Stück „Nathan der Weise“hat Lessing der interkonfessionellen Toleranz ein literarisches Denkmal gesetzt hat, hier mit einem Standbild zu ehren. 1935 wurde eine Plastik von Siegfried Charoux enthüllt, doch schon vier Jahre später entfernt und 1940 für Rüstungszwecke eingeschmolzen. 1968 schuf der selbe Künstler wieder ein Lessing-Denkmal, das zunächst auf den Morzinplatz und 1981 an den ursprünglichen Aufstellungsort kam.
Seit 2000 ist der Platz ein einzigartiges Ensemble des Erinnerns mit dem Mahnmal von Rachel Whiteread für die 65.000 österreichischen Opfer der Schoa. 1995 wurden die Fundamente der 1420 zerstörten Synagoge ergraben, die nun mit Funden einen Teil der Außenstelle des Jüdischen Museums Wien ausmachen. Ein computeranimierter Spaziergang führt in eine der größten jüdischen Gemeinden Europas, die Anfang des 15. Jahrhundert hier bestand. Ein weiterer Raum ist der Schoa-Dokumentation gewidmet.
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New Milton is a market town in south west Hampshire, England. The town has a high street and holds a market every Wednesday. Situated on the edge of the New Forest, the town is about six miles ( 10 km ) west of Lymington town centre and 12 miles ( 19 km ) east of Bournemouth town centre. New Milton dates back to Anglo-Saxon times, and encompasses Old Milton, Barton on Sea, Ashley, Bashley, and Wootton. It is recorded as having a population of around 23,000 in 2001. The traditional village centre of Milton was just south of the church. Up to the 1960's, moated earthworks were still visible next to the road known as Moat Lane. Excavations of these earthworks in 1956 revealed a series of peasant enclosures and hut remains dating from the 9th to the 12th century, but no evidence of a manorial farmstead was found.
The parish church of Milton is dedicated to Mary Magdalene and consists of a chancel with vestry, a nave and a western tower. The medieval church was pulled down and replaced around 1830, although the tower is of an earlier 17th century date. In 1835 a Church of England National School was founded on an island of land near the village green, where children were taught until just after World War I. In 1881, the population of the entire Milton parish was only 1489 people, and Milton was still a small village. The location of the village on the main Christchurch to Lymington road ( now the A 337 ) meant that there were two coaching inns - The Wheatsheaf and The George - the former of which is still operating.
In March 1888 New Milton railway station was opened, which is still in operation today. A new town developed, which expanded rapidly with the coming of the railway and the name New Milton was used for the first time and can originally be traced back to the Post Office that stood opposite the railway station. In 1895, the owner of the Post Office, Emma Newhook, commissioned a sign, which read - New Milton Sub Post Office to differentiate it from the post office in Old Milton. This was officially accepted in 1896, and so the name New Milton caught on. Much of the local farmland has been developed, first in the 1960's for commuter housing and again in the 1970's for small industrial / trade units. There is a mix of housing from cottages on the outskirts to more modern, urban housing in the central area.
Milton village subsequently became known as Old Milton, and lies between New Milton and Barton on Sea. There are a few notable architectural points of interest in the local area. However, a distinctive row of Coast Guard Cottages are to be found in Barton Lane, Barton on Sea, which were built at the end of the 19th century by the Government of the day to house armed guards to try to stop the smuggling that was rife at the time. The Barton on Sea and Mudeford coastline was renowned for smuggling with many of the offshore seaways and routes to shore being named after well known local smuggling families. It was in this context that Frederick Marryat, author of The Children of the New Forest, was sent on patrol here as a young naval lieutenant in 1821, to watch over the Christchurch Bay area. Britain's first reinforced concrete bridge was built in 1901 just outside New Milton at Chewton. There was an earlier experiment in building with this material in its un reinforced form at Sway ( Sway Tower ).
New Milton water tower. Built in 1900 was the Tudor style water tower, which can be found adjacent to the car park in Osborne Road. It has a staircase and is constructed with a turret, slit windows and battlements. It is a striking orange - red colour, was built from locally manufactured bricks. The German Luftwaffe carried out bombing raids on New Milton on the 23rd August 1940, the 8th August 1942 and on January 22nd 1943. The town's water tower was suggested as the target. During the Second World War, New Milton homed evacuees and was a transit station for soldiers going to the battlefields. It also had an army hospital. It was a favourite for the American airmen who were based at the nearby airfields at Lymington and Holmsley. The Memorial Centre in Whitefield Road commemorates those who died in the raids, as well as towns people who have died more recently. Bricks can be purchased for inscription and insertion into the wall of the Memorial Room, which stands to the left of the front door and contains mementos saved from the original building, which was destroyed by fire in the 1970's.
Ballard Lake that borders Fernhill Lane and Lake Grove Road, in New Milton is a picturesque area of New Milton that you could spend a hot summers day feeding the many ducks, mallards, geese that live around this lake. A few walks branch out from this lake to stroll along. Seats have been sited from donations from residents who have passed away and serve as a reminder to long lost friends or family. The stream from this lake meanders for many miles in many cases forming picturesque walks further along New Milton.
One of my students gave me a copy of What's Cooking - Vegetarian by Jenny Sacy for Christmas a few years ago and it's been sitting on our kitchen shelf with about ten other gift vegetarian cookbooks ever since.
This weekend, I decided to try one of the recipes from it and in spite of the ominous name, chose Vegetable Toad In The Hole.
It came out pretty well! The basic T-in-H technique was intriguing and suggests a lot of other uses. We're thinking about trying a more Mediterranian version with onions, capers, artichokes, olives and feta.
Not a spectatular, wake the kids, phone the neighbors success, but a definite success, nonetheless.
IT WAS A FUN APRIL 1ST at the SAINT STUPID DAY'S PARADE in SAN FRANCISCO. There is no other event in the world where folks gather to HAVE FUN and poke fun at the embedded horrid capitalist exploitation of the world.
Everyone came in costume...ADDA came as a REPUBLICAN BURNING IN HELL (which we all know in our deepest of hearts is where all REPUBLICANS and RIGHT WING A-0's will end up) ! i shouted MERRY CHRISTMAS to all the business people in the Financial District who stopped and stared in utter confusion.
Everyone gathered at the EMBARCADERO then proceeded to the WORKERS STATUE. There in honor of CLOWNS WITHOUT BOARDERS they put a 'red clown nose' on one of the statues! ADDA DADA got the crowd cheering 'HERO' for the guy who put the nose on the statue.
then to the PACIFIC STOCK EXCHANGE for the wonderful spoof...SOCK EXCHANGE...everyone exchanged socks & then tossed them in the air! One of ADDA DADA's Christmas SANTAs socks were found and declared a SAINT STUPID HOLY RELIC! (you so know i loved that)
Onward we went to the BANKER's HEART...the big, black marble rock in front of BANK OF AMERICA...where everyone tossed their loose pennies at the banker's black greedy heart! (This is just like the muslims in Mecca who toss rocks at the black stone which represents the devil..)
There was tons of good fun, great signs, good vibes, political statements, and incredible costumes
Good luck that the videos go on JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE tonight
International Conference on Computer Security in the Nuclear World: Security for Safety, held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 19 June 2023
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Opening Session:
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, Opening Remarks (virtual)
Lydie Evrard, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security
Na Young Lee, Conference President, (Republic of Korea), Opening Remarks
Robert Lee, Chief Executive Officer, Dragos, Current State of Computer Security and Critical Infrastructure
This is a photograph from the SSE Airticity Dublin Marathon which was held in Dublin City, Ireland on Monday October 27th 2014 at 09:00. This is the 35th year of the SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon, which is run through the historic Georgian streets of Dublin, Ireland's largest and capital city. This photograph was taken in Dublin City Center Mount Street Canal Bridge which is just before the 26 mile mark on Mount Street.
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Italian postcard by B.F.F. Edit., no. 2705. Photo: Paramount. Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (Cecil B. DeMille, 1934).
With her round apple face, big eyes and charm, French-born Hollywood star Claudette Colbert (1903-1996) was the epitome of chic sophistication. Her comedies It Happened One Night (1934) - for which she won the Oscar, Midnight (1939) and The Palm Beach Story (1942) are among Hollywood's greatest ever. After more than 60 films, she returned with great success to the theatre and was 84 years old when she won a Golden Globe for the TV mini-series The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987).
Claudette Colbert was born Emilie ‘Lily’ Claudette Chauchoin in 1903 in Saint-Mandé, an eastern suburb of Paris, where her father owned a bakery. Her parents were Georges Claude Chauchoin and Jeanne Marie née Loew. In 1906 her family emigrated to New York. Though she did some acting in college, her primary interest was fashion design. She studied fashion when she met the writer Anne Morrison at a party who offered the 20-year-old student a small role in her play The Wild Westcotts (1923) on Broadway. She started to use the stage name, Claudette Colbert. After signing a five-year contract with the producer Al Woods, Colbert played ingénue roles on Broadway from 1925 through 1929. British actor Leslie Howard, with whom she had a brief relationship in 1924, encouraged her and persuaded his friend the producer Al Woods to put her under contract but, despite personally good notices, she did not get into a major hit until The Barker (1927) with Walter Huston and Norman Foster. In The Barker, she played a duplicitous snake charmer. She and Foster, later a Hollywood actor and director, were married the following year during the play's London run. Their marriage remained a secret for many years while they lived in separate homes. In Los Angeles, Colbert shared a home with her mother Jeanne Chauchoin, but her domineering mother disliked Foster and did not allow him into their home. Colbert and Foster divorced in 1935 in Mexico. Colbert's first film, For the Love of Mike (Frank Capra, 1927), was made during The Barker's Broadway run. The silent film is now believed to be lost. She was concerned that silent cinema failed to utilise her melodious voice, one of her greatest assets. The advent of talkies changed her attitude, and in 1929 she signed a Paramount contract. Only two of her first 15 films - The Big Pond (Hobart Henley, 1930) and The Smiling Lieutenant (Ernst Lubitsch, 1931), both co-starring Maurice Chevalier - were better than mediocre. Then Cecil B. De Mille asked her to play Nero (Charles Laughton)'s unscrupulous wife Poppaea in the Biblical epic The Sign of the Cross (1932). Her performance was acclaimed, while her bath in asses' milk received immense publicity and has become a famous scene in Hollywood history. Columbia offered her the role of a spoiled heiress in It Happened One Night (Frank Capra, 1934). Colbert was initially reluctant to appear in the screwball comedy and demanded to be paid $50,000 - twice her usual pay - and that filming was to be completed within four weeks to allow her to take a planned vacation. Tom Valance at The Independent: “The role gave her the chance to work with Clark Gable, who had been forced by his studio, MGM, to do the film. Neither star initially expected much of the low-budget comedy which won five Oscars. Colbert was in fact boarding a train for New York on the night of the ceremony when she was stopped and rushed back to accept her Best Actress award from Shirley Temple.” The madcap comedy was a mega-hit all across the country. Two more big hits consolidated her status. She played the title role in the lavish but inaccurate Cleopatra (Cecil B. De Mille, 1934), then starred in Imitation of Life (John Stahl, 1934), a trenchant study of racial intolerance. It was based on Fannie Hurst's novel about a young widow who becomes a millionairess marketing the pancake recipe of her black friend (Louise Beavers). While the widow and her daughter move into society, the friend insists on keeping in the background, and when her light-skinned daughter, who faces exclusion and prejudice where her counterpart has privilege and opportunity, tries to pass for white and disowns her mother tragedy follows.
In 1935, Claudette Colbert was named one of the top 10 money-making stars, a position she was to hold again in 1936 and 1947. Fred MacMurray had his first major role in her next film, The Gilded Lily (Wesley Ruggles, 1935), and the two would go on to co-star in six more films. Charles Boyer, co-star of Colbert's next film, Private Worlds (Gregory La Cava, 1935), and not yet fully conversant with the English language, would also acknowledge the support he received from the actress, who won a second Oscar nomination for her performance as a psychiatrist in this grim story of mental illness. Wikipedia: “Colbert was a stickler for perfection regarding the way she appeared on screen. She believed that her face was difficult to light and photograph, and was obsessed with not showing the right side of her face to the camera, because of a small bump resulting from a childhood broken nose. She often refused to be filmed from the right side of her face, and this sometimes necessitated redesigning movie sets.” Colbert's first marriage ended in 1935 while she was making She Married Her Boss (Gregory La Cava, 1935). The same year she married Joel Pressman, a throat specialist and surgeon at UCLA, who remained her husband until he died in 1968. Colbert's role in Under Two Flags (Frank Lloyd, 1936), based on Ouida's tale of the Foreign Legion, was an unusual one for her, that of the tempestuous camp-follower "Cigarette" who sacrifices herself for the love of a soldier (Ronald Colman). For the same director, she starred in Maid of Salem (Frank Lloyd, 1937), an account of the 1692 witch-hunts in Massachusetts. Colbert never seemed entirely comfortable in period pieces, and both audiences and critics were happy when she returned to modern comedy with I Met Him In Paris (Wesley Ruggles, 1937) and Tovarich (Anatole Litvak, 1937), in which she and Charles Boyer were impoverished Russian nobility working as maid and butler in a Parisian household. Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Ernst Lubitsch, 1938), with a screenplay by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, based on a 1923 Gloria Swanson silent film, was a disappointment. After a promising start in which Colbert meets Gary Cooper in a Riviera store where she is trying to buy pyjama bottoms while he is trying to purchase just the tops, it becomes contrived and frantic rather than funny. Zaza (George Cukor, 1939), in which Colbert sang several songs as a French music-hall star, was another failure. Then followed one of her greatest films, the Cinderella-inspired screwball comedy Midnight (1939), directed by Mitchell Leisen and brilliantly written by Brackett and Wilder. Colbert next appeared with Henry Fonda in the Western Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford, 1939), her first film in colour, as a farmer's wife coping with rugged conditions and hostile Indians. Boom Town (Jack Conway, 1940) was one of her most popular films, due to its star-power of Gable, Colbert, Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr.
Claudette Colbert cited as her favourite film Arise My Love (Mitchell Leisen, 1940), set just after the Spanish Civil War. Tom Valance in The Independent: “It has some splendidly romantic, dramatic and comic moments as Colbert, playing a reporter, pretends to be the wife of a condemned soldier of fortune (Ray Milland) to save him from a Spanish firing squad, then inevitably falls in love with him. Brackett and Wilder's screenplay tried to keep pace with changing events in Europe (the story ends after the invasion of France) which resulted in some uneasy shifts of mood in an otherwise impressive work.” Better still was Henry King's warmly charming piece of Americana Remember The Day (Henry King, 1941), in which Colbert gave a glowing performance as a school teacher who while visiting a now-famous former pupil recalls the past and her sweetheart who was killed in the First World War. Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story (1942) is one of the screen's greatest screwball comedies and contains the sequence Colbert later cited as her favourite comic scene. Having left her husband to find a millionaire to finance his inventions, she is climbing into a train's upper berth when she steps on the face and glasses of a rich passenger (Rudy Vallee). During the Second World War Colbert's husband, Joel Pressman, became a Navy lieutenant and she spent much time selling war bonds and working for the war effort. Two of her major films were effective wartime propaganda: So Proudly We Hail (Mark Sandrich, 1943), a tribute to the nurses in Bataan and Since You Went Away (John Cromwell, 1944), producer David O. Selznick's ambitious three-hour tribute to the families at home. Colbert considered hard before taking the role of the mother to two teenage girls, but it became one of her finest, most deeply felt performances, representing the women left to raise families while their husbands are at war. In one remarkably touching scene Colbert, who has taken a job at a munitions factory, converses with a refugee, now a naturalised American (Alla Nazimova). For the part, she received her third Academy Award nomination but lost to Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight. She appeared in such mild comedies as Practically Yours (Mitchell Leisen, 1944), and tepid dramas as Tomorrow is Forever (Irving Pichel, 1946) with Orson Welles. Colbert and Fred MacMurray had an enormous box-office hit with The Egg and I (Chester Erskine, 1947) as a city couple trying to run a farm, but the slapstick (lots of falling about in the mud) was far from the sophistication Colbert purveyed so expertly. Three Came Home (Jean Negulesco, 1950) gave her a strong dramatic role as Agnes Newton Keith, a true-life American author captured when the Japanese invaded Borneo in 1941. Her scenes with Sessue Hayakawa (as the cultured prison camp commander) were memorable in a gripping film which was too grim to be a major hit. Colbert had appeared on radio regularly throughout her career, and in 1951 she made her television debut on The Jack Benny Show. Other appearances included The Royal Family of Broadway (1954), The Guardsman (1955) and Blithe Spirit (1956), with Noel Coward and Lauren Bacall. In 1951 she also returned to the stage, with a tour of Noel Coward's Island Fling (later known as South Sea Bubble). She went to Britain to star with Jack Hawkins in The Planter's Wife (Ken Annakin, 1952) based on the native terrorism being faced by rubber planters. The film was a hit in Britain. The following year Colbert went to France to play a mistress of Louis XIV in Sacha Guitry's lavish Si Versailles m'etait conte/Royal Affairs in Versailles (1953). She returned to Broadway in 1955, replacing Margaret Sullavan in Janus, then in 1958 starred in a new play, Leslie Stevens's The Marriage-Go-Round. The play was a hit and Colbert won a Tony nomination. Her last film was Parrish (Delmer Daves, 1961), a soap opera in which Colbert played the mother of Troy Donahue. She continued to make Broadway appearances, among them The Irregular Verb To Love (1963), The Kingfisher (1978) and A Talent For Murder (1981), and she returned to the London stage in Frederick Lonsdale's Aren't We All? (1984) opposite Rex Harrison. For her television work in the mini-series The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (John Erman, 1987) she received a Golden Globe and a nomination for an Emmy Award. Claudette Colbert spent much of her time at the 200-year-old plantation house she and her husband had bought long ago in Barbados, and she also had a flat in Paris and an apartment on the East Side of New York. After three strokes, she died in Barbados in 1996 at the age of 92.
Tom Vallance in The Independent: “It is no accident, surely, that she flourished at that most European of studios, Paramount, home of Lubitsch and Chevalier, Mamoulian, Von Sternberg and Wilder. Her distinctive high-cheekboned beauty and the throaty individuality of her voice were complemented by superb comic timing and fine technical skill honed by an extensive apprenticeship in the theatre. She could be warmly compassionate in romantic drama but was unsurpassable in sophisticated comedy.”
Sources: Tom Vallance (The Independent), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Denny Jackson (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Censky will deliver remarks at National Rural Electric Cooperative, visit Samuel Green Charter School, and visit Covenant House, an organization that provides shelter and holistic support services, including employment and training, to homeless and at-risk youth in New Orleans, LA TOMORROW, Wednesday, February 4th.