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International Mother Language Day is an observance held annually on 21 February worldwide to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. It was first announced by UNESCO on 17 November 1999. Its observance was also formally recognized by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution establishing 2008 as the International Year of Languages.[1]
International Mother Language Day originated as the international recognition of Language Movement Day, which has been commemorated in Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) since 1952, when a number of University of Dhaka students were killed by the Pakistani police and army in Dhaka during Bengali Language Movement protests.
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Main article: Bengali Language Movement
On 21 March 1948, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the Governor general of Pakistan, declared that Urdu would be the only official language for both West and East Pakistan. The people of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), whose main language is Bangla, started to protest against this. On 21 February 1952, (8th Falgun 1359 in the Bangla calendar), students in the present day capital city of Dhaka called for a provincial strike. The government invoked a limited curfew to prevent this and the protests were tamed down so as to not break the curfew. The Pakistani police fired on the students despite these peaceful protests and a number of students were killed.[2]
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The amazing keithhull grey sky curse continues today for the third day.....So I had to invoke some hope for a bit of light at the end of the tunnel out of my archives....
1099 - 1st Crusaders capture, plunder Jerusalem
1205 - Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitude and subjugation due to crucifixion of Jesus
1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
1240 - A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1307 - Duke Henrik van Karinthi chosen king of Bohemia
1381 - John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of Richard II of England.
1410 - Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs King Ladislas II of Poland
1500 - Duke Albrecht of Saxon beats Friese rebellion
1500 - "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione & Lavinia Colonna in Perugia family Baglione massacre
1501 - Explorer Pedro Cabral back in Lisbon
1524 - Emperor Karel I bans German national synode
1538 - Peace talks between Karel & King Francois I
1662 - King Charles II charters Royal Society in London
1741 - Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1755 - French ambassador recalled from London
1779 - US troops under Gen A Wayne conquer Ft Stony Point, NY
1783 - 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France
1787 - Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes
1789 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new National Guard of Paris.
1795 - "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis, Egypt in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts (with some minor differences between them), it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
1806 - Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest
1808 - French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte surrenders at Rochefort & is later exiled on St Helena
1815 - 1st flat horse race held on Nottingham Hill at Cheltenham, England (day and month TBC)
1823 - A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
1830 - 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, signs a treaty giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri
1840 - England, Russia, Austria & Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance
1850 - John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's
1856 - Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
1862 - CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet & Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R
1863 - Pres Davis orders service duty for confederate army
1864 - Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 & injuring 109 of 955 aboard
1867 - SF Merchant's Exchange opens
1869 - Margarine is patented by Hippolye Méga-Mouriès for use by French Navy
1870 - Georgia becomes last confederate to be readmitted to US
1870 - Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province & NW Territories created
1870 - Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada
1876 - Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford
1888 - Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years
1893 - Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
1900 - President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin
1901 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St Louis, 5-0
1902 - Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex v Surrey
1904 - 1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles
1906 - Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam
1909 - Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs
1911 - 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines
1912 - British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
1914 - Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe
1916 - 22.22" (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass NC (state record)
1916 - Boeing Co (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle Wash
1918 - 2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I
1920 - Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season
1922 - 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo
1922 - 26th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie CC in Ill
1923 - 27th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood CC in NY
1923 - Italian parliament accepts new constitution
1926 - VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms
1927 - 62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St Andrews
1927 - Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
1929 - 1st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca
1932 - President Hoover cuts own salary 15%
1933 - Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world
1934 - Continental Airlines commences operations.
1936 - Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget
1937 - Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens
1937 - Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
1938 - Arthur Fagg completes 244 & 202 in the same cricket game for Kent
1939 - Clara Adams (NYC) is 1st woman to complete round world flight
1940 - 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il
1940 - Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam
1941 - Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin)
1942 - 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
1942 - Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"
1944 - Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb
1945 - 27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine CC Dayton Ohio
1946 - British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown
1948 - Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain
1948 - Pres Truman nominated for another term (Phila)
1949 - "Miss Liberty" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 308 performances
1949 - Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US
1949 - WBTV TV channel 3 in Charlotte, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 - 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins
1952 - Gerald D Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding
1954 - 110°F (43°C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record)
1954 - 1st coml jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
1954 - KOCO TV channel 5 in Oklahoma City, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - WBOC TV channel 16 in Salisbury, MD (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
1956 - Beverly Hanson/Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational
1956 - Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
1957 - Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
1958 - US marines deployed in Lebanon
1959 - The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
1960 - Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
1961 - "Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 68 performances
1961 - 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale
1961 - Spain accept equal rights for men & women
1962 - Algeria becomes member of Arab League
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
1962 - Neth & Indonesia accord over New-Guinea
1963 - KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 - Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding
1964 - Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans
1965 - "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars
1965 - Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece
1967 - "Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 608 performances
1967 - LA Wolves beat Wash Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Ass champs
1967 - Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open
1967 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - "One Life to Live" premieres on TV
1968 - Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR
1968 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1968 - NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA)
1968 - Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres
1969 - Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
1969 - Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season
1970 - Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
1971 - Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China
1972 - 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane
1972 - Sandra Palmer/Jane Blalock wins Angelo's Four-Ball Golf Championship
1973 - Calif Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0
1973 - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1973 - Paul Getty III kidnapped
1973 - Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide
1973 - Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs
1974 - Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees
1975 - 46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
1975 - All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pitts Pirates) & John Matlock (NY Mets)
1975 - Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz)
1975 - Soyuz 19 & Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later
1976 - 36-hr kidnap of 26 school children & their bus driver in Calif
1978 - 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St Andrews
1979 - 34th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz
1979 - Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India
1980 - Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record
1982 - Body of Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle
1982 - Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas
1982 - Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0
1983 - 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France
1983 - Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance"
1984 - 39th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1984 - John Lennon releases "I'm Stepping Out"
1985 - Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe
1986 - 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston
1986 - All star MVP: Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox)
1987 - Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence
1987 - John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings
1987 - State of siege ends in Taiwan
1990 - 45th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1991 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1991 - US troops leave northern Iraq
1991 - Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game between New Haven Skyhawks & Phila Spirit
1992 - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed
1994 - Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary
1994 - Israel & Jordan agree to talks in Wash DC on July 25th
1994 - NJ Nets Derrek Coleman accused of rape in Detroit
1994 - Sonia O'Sullivan runs 3K (8:21.64)
1995 - Birmingham Barracudas 1st CFL home game (vs Hamilton)
1995 - Jews take Jerusalem
1995 - Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540
1996 - After 2,216 consecutive games at shortstop, Cal Ripkin goes to 3rd
1996 - MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV
1996 - Prince Charles & Princess Di sign divorce papers
1996 - Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake
1996 - A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1999 - The inaugural game at the Seattle Mariners' Safeco Field was held in Seattle, Washington.
2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
2002 - Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
2003 - AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
2009 - A 7.9 Magnitude earthquake registers 160km west of Invercargill, New Zealand, creating a small tsunami.
White is maybe the most rigorous and psychological color, it seems to purify the surfaces, it’s a color that makes the vacuum merge. The empty spaces have slight contrasts of shape as a value.
I like to deal with this non-pigmentation because its process is a ramification of many harmonic elements that allude to a perfect informality. These pictures may seem incongruous because they are elegant and messy at the same time. They are contemporary, I took familiar objects like: “Burger King” glasses, crumbled pills, glasses of plastic or packs, which I photographed in high key. This kind of illumination, in which high and white tones are predominant, spreads positivity and freshness, which is another element of contrast towards the mess of the scenery, that often has a dirty tablecloth, like someone suddenly left the meal. The position of elements is never random, but it is necessary to highlight the constituent structure: pieces of silverware, pills, bottles, remains of food or dry branches are often put close to each other on levels, like there was a narrative correlation more or less narrow between each other. There is no human presence, but it is re-invoked through the representation of objects, where plasticity alternates with flatness, creating at the same time tension and melancholy.
We visited a Masai settlement and these guys were slowly getting together to perform the tribal greeting.
This photo is not very good as the contrast was too high I've tried it in hdr to attempt to get some detail...its a little better! Kept it because of the memory it invokes! To say they were reluctant would be an understatement mainly I think it was because we were only two and female! Oh well! a few more to follow asap!
52% of the British people who voted elected to leave the EU on the promise of independence, greater prosperity, control of our borders. Who will deliver these?
All we know at the moment is that:
Our PM David Cameron has said he will stand down by October and pass on to his successor the role of invoking the EU's Article 50 procedure to negotiate the terms of the UK withdrawal.
Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which has never been used before, sets a two-year time limit for reaching a deal. Generally seen as a tight deadline, it can be extended only if all 28 member states agree.
The process requires the UK to unpick some 80,000 pages of laws binding the UK to the EU. Some will be kept, because some areas of EU policy are shared with non-EU countries, like Norway and Switzerland.
Under this "divorce settlement", as some have called it, the UK and EU must agree how to divide assets, resolve EU budget issues and set out the future rights of EU nationals in the UK and vice versa.
The settlement requires approval by a majority of EU members, plus the European Parliament and UK Parliament.
And this all started to preserve the unity of the Conservative Party in the face of an advance by UKIP. The prime minister wanted to stop his party "banging on about Europe".
Another picture that invokes memories; or , possibly, feelings of another place and time. It's how I remember the countryside as a child; or rather, how I remember pictures of the coutryside when I was a child - muted colours, grey, washed-out skies, defunct hedges, long forgotten fences, wind strained trees and sheep. This is what old photographs can do to your memories - to your memories of memories: they replace the bright sunshine, vibrant colours of nature and the sense of freedom of being out in the countryside.
And here I am, perpetuating and even exacerbating the problem.
With apologies to you know whom … I simply could not resist showing this little levitation gem enhanced by some cool rim light. Does not look too shabby in large either. What happened is that the resident squirrel received a visit from his south-american cousin, the flying squirrel. Family being what it is, and not to offend the south-american machismo, he pretended to be genuinely impressed by his cousin’s antics. But as soon as his cousin had left, he came over and in a conspiratorial voice whispered to me “Come watch this and bring your camera”. I had nothing better to do at the time, actually, I rarely have anything better to do at any time, and moved the Adirondack chair into position and observed his masterful command of levitation in some pretty cool lighting conditions. Truth be told, we were at this for about an hour and these lighting conditions occurred for only about 5 minutes.
I have a huge problem here. During my research for catchy tunes I came across this Elvis song that has absolutely nothing to do with this image. You may have noticed that does happen from time to time. What to do? I could just ignore this dilemma and post the song but the squirrel sprang to my aid and invoked an old light incantation whose origin is shrouded in mystery to this day. He turned to the sun and whispered "Kiss me Quick" …
"An Educational Family Adventure Game"
It was $4.50 at the thrift store, looks complete, and pretty unique for a board game.
From Timbuk II games, Palenque is an educational archaeological adventure board game for 2 to 4 players, themed around the ancient Mayan city of Palenque.
The core objective of the game is for each player, acting as a rival archaeologist, to be the first to complete a specific expedition and return to the main structure.
Specifically, you want to be the first archaeologist to recover certain treasures from the ancient Maya temples and then return to the "Great Palace" to claim a final prize.
The game has a fun theme. It is set in the tropical rainforest ruins of Palenque, and tries to invoke danger, mystery, and intrigue as players search through the ancient temples.
Winning the game requires a keen memory and a "poker" face, suggesting elements of hidden information and deduction are involved.
The game includes a large board (approx. 29" x 29") with cool Maya-type artwork, stone-like character playing pieces, Expedition Records, an "Old World Map," Temple Playing Cards, and "Kan" Treasure Cards.
Archaeologists move across the ancient stone plaza and enter sacred temples. There are areas to beware of, like the sacrificial "cenote" and the sacred "ball court," implying hazards or restrictions on movement.
Each player is tasked with recovering specific, pre-determined "Kan" Treasure Cards from the temples. This often involves drawing, exchanging, or moving cards based on movement and spaces landed on.
Again, the emphasis on a "keen memory" and a "poker face" strongly suggests that the recovered or necessary treasure cards may be hidden from other players, requiring players to track what others are collecting or bluff about their own progress.
Once the required treasures are recovered, the final stage is a race to the "Great Palace" to win the game.
this is early evening.
its almost 8 p.m. and the sun is still not set in the sky.
we lost today, to downingtown west, they're a good team, i'm not pulling my hair out over it.
there are far more reason to be doing that.
i read something the other day that made me think a whole lot. i thought it was pretty funny because it definitely wasn't written to invoke deep-thinking but somehow it ended up that way:
He stood there checking it for nearly 20 minutes. Dudes were pulling up and paddling straight out. But this guy was timing sets, studying the crowd, and sprinkling sand into the wind. He removed his board from his fin sock, sat on the curb and began scraping off the wax. When he was finished, he wiped the board with a moist towel and began the careful task of waxing back up. Base coat first. Nose to tail. Tail to nose. Slow, careful circles. Meticulous, evenly spaced beads. He checked his fins. Checked his tail pad, his leash, his rails. Then he set the board carefully in the shade and covered it with a towel. Time for sunscreen. Vertra for the face. White slather everywhere else. Behind the kneecaps. Between the fingers. He even had a flat neoprene strap to rub the hard-to-reach spot on his back. After stowing the sunscreen, he held a t-shirt under a faucet, rang it out and put it on wet. Out comes the First Aid kit. He holds a tiny reef cut under the faucet. Dries it. Applies Chinese medicine. Band-Aid. And then tapes over the whole situation. He runs a quick strength and flexibility test on the First Aid. Satisfied.
Now the stretching. Deep knee bends. Toe touches. Torso twists. Arm rotations. Everything slow, counted, and are-you-f--cking-kidding-me careful. He's staring at the surf. Sniffing the wind. Getting his mojo together. And now he's ready. He waxes the top of his feet. Secures and double checks his leash. Then jogs down the steps to the waters edge.
His car door is wide open. Keys dangling from the ignition.
-Nathan Myers
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Mowgli sketches-compare 3
Start: Friday, April 10, 2009, 7:08:53pm
Done: Friday, April 10, 2009, 7:27:01pm
Panel 1- Mowgli running toward the animated camera. This is another shot of Mowgli running like in the 10th panel of my 1st Sketches. I traced this version cuz I thought it looked dynamic & I was also *running* out of ideas for screenshots. heheh ;p
Panel 2- Mowgli sitting down to take a breather against a rock to his back. Another serenic moment that I wanted to add to this volume. Drawing the toes hidden beneath the grass was a little tricky at first, but other than that, it was No Problemo. 8-)
Panel 3- Another “KHHHAAAAANNN!!!” shot, but with a slightly different angle than the previous one, including the overall Action Movie style posing.
Panel 4- Mowgli relaxing on a trunk of a tree. I forgot to add the blue tree outlines so that he doesn’t look like he’s floating on air, but you get the sense of the shot.
Panel 5- My favorite shot in the whole sketches here. I like his dynamic type of stance here & although he’s only a 10 year old Boy, he has that sense of Authority in Adults. So that’s why this is here.
Panel 6- Awwwwww, widdle Mowgli napping in a fetal position that I’m sure all you ‘kawaii’ type fangirls will enjoy. :roll: But yeah, I like the innocent type of pose here as well as the relaxation style too.
Panel 7- Mowgli sitting up in a tree & daydreaming. Again, I like the way he looks calm like your average Feral/Savage Wild Boy as they often sit up high in trees. I also like the expression that he shows in his face.
Panel 8- Another shot of Mowgli in a tree. Same thing as the 7th panel, but with a sense of curiosity in the character as to suggest what his attention is geared toward to.
Panel 9- yet Another shot of Mowgli in a tree, but looking a bit peeved. While the previous two were about relaxation & curiosity, this one has a bit of rage in him, as so to define him in a Savage/Ferocious manner.
Panel 10- Another ‘Awwwww’ shot but done at a different angle to show his back rather than the side.
Panel 11- Mowgli with his back to the view holding his temporary weapon, The Boomerang. I liked the way that he’s ready & waiting for something. Presumably to obliterate his next meal.
Panel 12- Another shot of Mowgli with the Boomerang but with his face toward us. This is almost like the previous panel, but in reverse to get that mirror type shot, or something.
Panel 13- Mowgli throws the Boomerang in an Action style pose that looks cool, as if he’s ready to take on his enemies n’ stuff.
Panel 14- Mowgli crawling out of his Home Cave so he can act like his Wolf Brothers. I like the way he’s crouched down low with his head up in a dramatic type pose cuz it adds a lot to his Feral personality. I also like the way I slightly altered his face as to have him question his own humanity because of the current upbringing that his whole ‘Family’ are Wolves & he’s the only Human in the Jungle. Which is why I, like many others, are greatly imposed over having him covered in a diaper/loincloth because his neutrality matches his Natural sense of surroundment & evokes the overall Human emotion that he expresses.
Panel 15- A somewhat young Mowgli crouched down at a water hole to take a swig. As before, I like the Feral type of pose he has here, as well as an additional sense of curiosity he has on his new surroundings.
Panel 16- Mowgli in his Home Cave supposedly nursing one of his wolf brethren to health. I like his pose & his look of Good Samaritan that he emotes. He also looks a bit creepy like he’s ready to pounce or attack someone Freddy Krueger style.
Panel 17- Same shot as panel 15, but at a different angle because I like style & variety. :D
Panel 18- The continuing shot from panel 14 as he emerges from the cave to act out his Inner Wolf. I like the way he sits up & the pose & stuff. I forgot to add a little hair extension, but other than that, it’s okay.
Panel 19- Mowgli shouting or becoming frustrated over something. His stature kinda invokes the early days of the Renaissance Era where everything about the Human Body was majestic in that aspect.
Panel 20- Mowgli sliding down Kaa’s body like a ride at DisneyLand. ;p I once thought of marking an outline of Kaa like I did with some of the blue/red outlines you see here, but I thought it wasn’t needed.
Not only I like the pose, but also the expression in Mowgli’s face & the sense of bewilderment in his eyes.
It displeases me that Kaa was made into a villain in the campy Disney version. :X
Panel 21- What follows from panel 16. I added the rest of his feet & accidentally made his mouth bigger.
Also added more to his feet on this one.
Panel 22- Mowgli in a scene with his Wolf Mother. I like the sense of affection that Mowgli expresses as Children are often like that. I improved the structure of his feet, especially the right foot by having a more shape like foot to it rather than just something added to his leg.
Panel 23- Mowgli sitting down on hands & knees from the 19th panel. I just like the way he’s sitting in a Innocent/Childlike manner which is nice once in a while.
Panel 24- Another shot of Mowgli on a tree. I like his stature, but I didn’t like drawing his hand covered by the tree trunk. I surprisingly did great on the feet, but I might have made the hand a bit bigger, I think.
Panel 25- Yet another shot of Mowgli on a tree, but with him crawling on the trunk. With the boomerang strapped behind him, I almost had a tough time drawing the arch of his back, the spine line & the backside, but it only took me a few tries so it wasn’t that difficult to pull off. I also forgot to add the blue lines across the tree but I like the overall stature of it anyway, so I didn‘t bother with it.
Panel 26, 27, 28 & 29- At this point, I’d almost had enough of plain old standing shots, so in the next volume you’ll see a lot more provocative postures & body language that the character expresses.
Panel 30- Mowgli getting ready to throw the Batman Weapon to deliver Obliteration on his enemies. I couldn’t pass on a cool panel like this as Mowgli looks really Kick Ass on this shot. 8-)
Panel 31- Another good shot of Mowgli with the Batman Weapon. I like this one a bit more better than the last panel cuz of his overall stance and I even decided to alter the expression on his face as if he’s saying “Don’t You F*ck with Me!!” to his would be victim. :threaten:
I kinda like that. 8-)
Panel 32- Mowgli lying down on the grass on a Warm Night. :relax: I like the feeling of relaxation on him like he’s just taking a rest from a busy day of Battling a few woodland critters. 8-)
Panel 33- The same thing on the last panel, but him sitting up & chatting with his Wolf Brothers. I had some time & room to spare, so I got this one because I like the way he sits up and commands attention to the scene. I drew the right ear too small, so it looks a bit funny not being symmetrical to the other ear.
Ah well, whaddya gonna do? :hmm:
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Re-posted ~ The most famous photo of the Loch Ness Monster was taken 81 years ago today.
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Dedicated to our inner-child and to all the dreamers like us. ♥
The Loch Ness Monster is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. The most frequent speculation is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving plesiosaurs. The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname "Nessie" since the 1950s.
The earliest legend about the Loch Ness monster recorded is the story of the Irish monk Saint Columba’s encounter with the beast. During is pilgrimage in Scotland to spread Christianity across the land, on his way to visit with the Pictish king in Inverness, he encountered some Picts burying what remained of one of their own people, badly savaged by a creature in the Loch. Columba ordered one of his followers to swim over to the other side of the water and retrieve the dead man’s boat. During this the servant was attacked by a creature. Columba (invoking the name of God) commanded the beast to return to whence it came and it vanished beneath the waters of the Loch leaving the swimming man unharmed.
It was not until 1933 that the monster became world famous as the world newspapers reported the story. So keep your eyes on the loch as you travel around, you never know you may be lucky and spot the monster too.
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The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun
Light has been broken and the spell has begun
Step into another realm, it's a dark night
You never know what you’ll see or you might find
Open up your mind and pay close attention
Invite the ghosts, engage your senses
Light your candles and watch the room glow
Moon glow outside your window
In the shadows the music will find you
With a rhyme designed to bind you
While I invoke intense attractions
Positive and negative reactions
Transmutation, divination
It’s all about the imagination
Interpretation, intoxication
Lay back in the cut and feel the vibration
EXPLORE Jun 3, 2011 #354
The sentence "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." was written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913 poem Sacred Emily, which appeared in the 1922 book Geography and Plays. In that poem, the first "Rose" is the name of a person. Stein later used variations on the sentence in other writings, and "A rose is a rose is a rose" is probably her most famous quotation, often interpreted as meaning "things are what they are," a statement of the law of identity, "A is A". In Stein's view, the sentence expresses the fact that simply using the name of a thing already invokes the imagery and emotions associated with it, an idea also intensively discussed in the Problem of universals debate where Peter Abelard and others used the rose as an example concept. As the quotation diffused through her own writing, and the culture at large, Stein once remarked "Now listen! I’m no fool. I know that in daily life we don't go around saying 'is a ... is a ... is a ...' Yes, I’m no fool; but I think that in that line the rose is red for the first time in English poetry for a hundred years."
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Du col de Roccapina, sur la route nationale 196 qui longe le littoral entre Bonifacio et Sartène (Corse du Sud), se détache la saisissante silhouette d’un lion couché et couronné, qui semble surveiller la Méditerranée. La légende raconte qu’il s’agissait d’un puissant seigneur si craint de ses ennemis sarrasins qu’ils le surnommèrent le "lion", et qui, repoussé par une bergère dont il était épris, invoqua la Mort, qui le pétrifia… sous l'apparence d'un lion. D'où la citation : "Ton coeur est de pierre, lion de pierre tu seras !"
Roccapina est également un lieu chargé d’histoire. La côte majestueuse symbolisant l’extrême sud de la Corse est également le lieu de fréquentes tempêtes où les bateaux se retrouvent souvent en difficulté. Dans la nuit du 16 au 17 avril 1887, sous l'œil du lion, le Tasmania (paquebot à vapeur anglais) ayant quitté Bombay deux semaines plus tôt pour se rendre à Londres, alla s’éventrer sur le Rocher des Moines. Le navire avait en sa possession de nombreux présents d'une valeur inestimable dont de l'or, de l'ivoire, et de la joaillerie, trésors du maharajah de Jodhpur, cadeaux destinés à la reine britannique Victoria, devant célébrer son jubilé. Une tout autre légende raconterait qu'une partie de ce trésor aurait ensuite été retrouvée par un bandit, puis caché dans une grotte, dans le vaste maquis de Roccapina. Mais la plus grande partie du butin serait encore dispersée dans l'immensité de la mer Méditerranée…
The lion of Roccapina: halfway between Sartène and Bonifacio, between Legend and History
From the Col de Roccapina, on the national road 196 that runs along the coast between Bonifacio and Sartène (South Corsica), stands out the striking silhouette of a reclining and crowned lion, which seems to be watching the Mediterranean. Legend has it that he was a powerful lord so afraid of his Saracen enemies that they nicknamed him the "lion," and who, repulsed by a shepherdess he was in love with, invoked Death, which petrified him. in the guise of a lion. Hence the quote: "Your heart is of stone, you will be a stone lion!"
Roccapina is also a place steeped in history. The majestic coastline symbolizing the extreme south of Corsica is also the site of frequent storms where boats often find themselves in trouble. On the night of April 16-17, 1887, under the lion’s eye, the Tasmania (English steamer) having left Bombay two weeks earlier to go to London, went to tear itself apart on the Rock of the Monks. The ship had in its possession many gifts of inestimable value, including gold, ivory, and jewelry, treasures of the Maharajah of Jodhpur, gifts to the British Queen Victoria, to celebrate her jubilee. A very different legend would say that part of this treasure was later found by a bandit and then hidden in a cave in the vast maquis of Roccapina. But most of the loot would still be scattered in the vastness of the Mediterranean Sea…
From Wikipedia:
Sagat is menacingly tall, a trait he uses to his advantage in his long-reaching attacks. His natural size drove him to become a powerful fighter. His hands are massive enough to close around the entire head of many of his opponents. He is depicted as being totally bald, except in one official artwork that shows him with a full head of long hair.
In the Street Fighter II series, Sagat's in-game sprite does not display the highly muscular build of the Street Fighter Alpha series, although even at that time he had been consistently portrayed so in his Super Street Fighter II Turbo ending, and other Capcom artworks. Later on, the game graphics improved to match those of the comics.
Sagat wears a black eyepatch over his severely damaged right eye, though the lack of depth perception and loss of peripheral vision do not seriously hamper his ability as a powerful fighter.
Due to a technical limitation in the Street Fighter series, Sagat's eyepatch will appear to switch from eye to eye when Sagat faces another direction, since the left-facing sprite is a mirror-image of the right. The 3D Street Fighter EX games do not feature this limitation.
The massive scar on his chest is a constant reminder of Ryu's victory. Sagat makes no attempt to conceal the disfigurement, and in fact draws power from the hateful memory it invokes; in Capcom vs. SNK 2, Sagat's scar glows while he charges energy for his S-Groove super meter.
Sagat wears traditional Muay Thai kickboxing shorts and classic wraps. The trunks have colors varying from purple with yellow trim, to blue with red trim, to blue with yellow trim. He wears tape around his fists and feet to protect his hands and ankles.
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Terrific poppy field. Invoking rain with my music... it works!
Many thanks to Javier Pogdorica for finding the location and make the shooting !
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patron saint of couples seeking to conceive, expectant mothers, unborn babies, healthy childbirth, sick children, loss of parents and lost causes. She is invoked by those who are struggling with difficult challenges and situations.
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The Romanian artist Mercea Cantor composes enigmatic artworks that appear to invoke the interrelationship between the planet, man, faith and time. The rosette shape of Rosace evokes the south rose window of Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral, suggestion faith or worship. However, Cantor’s hanging rosette comprises no medieval stained glass but rather ashtrays composed of soda cans that he bought from a street vendor in Paris. Rosace’s materials hind at contemporary society’s devotion to disposable products, as well as the resourcefulness and creativity inherent in repurposing the cans.
from the sorrow of her broken home
with battered wings held in captivity
singed by a candle flame
borrowed hopes
without a rail ticket
to Ajmer she came
begging from the hijras
at Moti Katla
the Muslim beggar
womans shame
earnestly invoking
his Holy Name
a pawn of ill doomed
fate she became
a lost marriage , four children
a drunken husband who is lame
the torrential storms of calamity
she helplessly could not tame
life could have been worse
but He takes care of her
a victim of a man made cruel game
Muslim macho male dominated
society another innocent claims
her world before before she was born
was already gutted inflamed
in the name of sanctimonious dogma
its womanhood we defame
the Muslim man goes Scott free
its the Muslim woman we frame
Federation Square is a cultural precinct in Melbourne, Australia. It comprises a series of buildings containing a public broadcaster, art galleries, a museum, cinemas, exhibition spaces, auditoria, restaurants, bars and shops around two major public spaces, one covered (The Atrium), the other open to the sky, and composed of two spaces that flow into one another (St. Paul's Court and The Square). The majority of the precinct is built on top of a concrete deck over busy railway lines. Construction began in 1998 and the site opened in 2002.
Federation Square occupies roughly a whole urban block bounded by Swanston, Flinders, and Russell Streets and the Yarra River. The open public square is directly opposite Flinders Street Station and St Paul's Cathedral. The layout of the precinct helps to connect the historical central district of the city with the Yarra River and a new park Birrarung Marr. This refocusing of the city on the Yarra River also partly reinforces links with the Southbank district, whose redevelopment has been ongoing as a key part of central Melbourne since the late 1980s.
The site of Federation Square has had a variety of former uses. The Gas and Fuel Buildings, Jolimont Yard and the Princes Bridge railway station were the immediate predecessors, though in the 19th century there was a morgue on the site. The result of an international design competition in 1997, Federation Square was designed by Don Bates and Peter Davidson of Lab Architecture Studio. A key part of the plaza design is its large, fixed public screen, which has been used to broadcast major sporting events, such as the AFL Grand Final, and still continues to do so. During the 2006 FIFA World Cup, thousands of football fans braved cold nights to watch the matches on the Federation Square screen.
The complex of buildings forms a rough U-shape around the main open-air square, oriented to the west. The eastern end of the square is formed by the glazed walls of The Atrium. While bluestone is used for the majority of the paving in the Atrium and St. Paul's Court, matching footpaths elsewhere in central Melbourne, the main square is paved in 470,000 ochre-coloured sandstone blocks from Western Australia, intended to invoke images of the Outback. The paving is designed as a huge urban artwork called 'Nearamnew', by Paul Carter and gently rises above street level, containing a number of textual pieces inlaid in its undulating surface.
I personally thought the whole site was an ugly modern monstrosity....'carbuncle' comes to mind. Seen from the Eureka Skydeck on the 88th floor of 7, Riverside Quay, Southbank in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
In our virtual world, where so much takes place in the vapor zone known as cyberspace, the feel of the ground below my feet, coupled with the familiar scents, sights and sounds on this ridge where we live, gives me comfort. I call it serenity of place.
Speaking of a sense of place: here's my live and very personal rock n' roll version of a country tune that definitely invokes a sense of place. Check it out if you dare and never let it be said that an old man can't rock. :-)
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La verdad es que la idea de ir a Pancorbo un día como este en el que las carreteras estaban casi impracticables parecía una insensatez. Podía haber sido un día marcado por las supresiones de trenes pero hubo muchas más circulaciones de las esperadas porque los trenes con destino Santander tuvieron que encaminarse a Bilbao al estar cerrado el Puerto del Pozazal. La aparición de estas dos veteranas japonesas a buena velocidad fue todo un espectáculo y subo esta foto a mi Flickr para invocar un invierno con mucha nieve en el que podamos repetir una jornada tan inolvidable como la de aquel día.
The truth is that the idea of going to Pancorbo a day like this in which the roads were almost impracticable seemed a folly. It could have been a day marked by the suppressions of trains but there were many more circulations of the expected ones because the trains with destination Santander had to go to Bilbao when being closed the Port of Pozazal. The appearance of these two veteran Japaneses at good speed was quite a spectacle and I upload this photo to my Flickr to invoke a winter with lots of snow in which we can repeat a day as unforgettable as that day
- or so they say about democracy and parliaments... The building (or complex of several) invokes analogies with Westminster Palace, both magnificent examples of Gothic Revival, standing by major rivers and having enormous historical significance for each country...
Mushroomeo and Julily's love could not been more darkly forbidden if it invoked the name of every Elder Being from here to eternity. His goth metal obsession, biker gang affiliations, and surly attitude would have fostered apprehension in the minds of most parents, not to mention a pair of mellow and respectable water nymphs, but none of this even came into consideration. As a Myconid, Mushroomeo was barred from any contact with water nymphs due to a centuries-long feud everyone had forgotten the reasoning behind. Julily's parents' efforts to “protect” her in the name of this feud were as vain as trying to hold...well, water. When she by chance had the house to herself, she invited him over to watch Netflix and chill a little before they eloped on his questionably legal motorcycle. A rash decision surely, but the power of their passionate love burned to overcome all barriers of class and ancient hatred; it would be eternal, in life or deat-
WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING TO MY MOTORCYCLE YOU TIN CANS
NOOOOOOOOOO
YOU RUINED IT
I CAN'T RIDE SOMETHING THAT'S NOT BLACK
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This is part of a building game the tagged builders played for fun that is similar to Symphony of Construction , but uses captions rather than musical compositions for a more laid-back execution. This is the starter build.
The caption given by Ultron32 to this build inspired Robots painted the Aliens Motorcycle purple by Dead Frog Inc.
Nearly a year ago at Brickcon 2015, Grant Davis handed me a purple barrel and motorcycle shell and charged me with the task of integrating them both into one build. I think he wanted me to do something creative with them; put them to uses other than their intended purposes?
Obviously I had no recourse but to use them for their exact intended purposes!
Perched on top of a hillock is Hyderabads famous Shrine of Hazrat Ali, followers from far and wide come here to pay their floral tributes and invoke the first Shia Imam for blessings.Beneath the Shrine at the foothills is the Shrine of his brave son Hazrat Abbas ..This is my new series I visited Hyderabad almost 5 years back, pictures shot on negatives.The first time I came to Hyderabad to shoot Ashura all by myeslf ,than I came again to shoot the Chehlum, this time with my wife Afshaan.Hyderabad the fabulous city of the Nawabs is grandeur personified , the people of Hyderabad , absolutely honest, hospitable and even the poorer lot totally humble.For the Shias of Hyderabad Moharam is a way of Life , almost Life itself.The Hyderabadi Moharam fervour is a collective ethos of spirtuality.Azadri E Hussain , is awesome here in Hyderabad.Only black shirts and clothes for the mourning period that lasts 2 months , and eight days.I was lucky to have met Sajjad Bhai a Shia cop who was my host , who really opened doors , I have never seen a Momin like him, he carried my camera bag , while I scourged behind the Bibi Ka Alam.I was new to photography , so there are flaws but I am sure you will see the brighter side of a culture , the moods the vagaries of Shia timelessness.Forgive me but I continue with the Shia pilgrimage .Showing you Shiasm captured from a lens of a poet..and street philospher .I tweaked this as it was quite blurry , but man bowing to a greater divinity a thought poetically focussed showing his vulnerability and mortality .
What do you need to be a successful dictator?
Here are 6 rules every dictator lives by.
Trump is working with all of them as if "crossing the Rubicon" is a distinct and imminent possibility.
Rule 1 – Violence and Repression
Rule 2 – Cash Flow and Buying Loyalty
Rule 3 – Demobilizing and Counter-Mobilizing Opposition
Rule 4 – Controlling Life Opportunities
Rule 5 – Controlling Media and Information
Rule 6 – Creating a Narrative and a Threat
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The Six Rules Every Dictator Lives By | Stephen Kotkin (Dartmouth Lecture)
He's In His Coup Era
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Trump is flirting with invoking the Insurrection Act, and when he says he “can do something,” he usually means he's GOING to do it. This week, Stephen Miller encouraged the fantasy of Trump’s so-called “plenary authority” to deploy the National Guard in Chicago and Portland. At the same time, Kristi Noem floated an ICE expansion to “restore order.” Rick Wilson breaks down how Trump’s martial law threats, Miller’s authoritarian fetish, and MAGA’s open calls for arrests are all part of the same anti-democracy fever dream that's becoming more and more of a reality.
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Víkingur Ólafsson – Bach: Prelude & Fugue, BWV 855a: 1. Prelude No.10 in B Minor (Transcr. Siloti)
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Horses of Saint Mark
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_of_Saint_Mark
The Horses of Saint Mark (Italian: Cavalli di San Marco), also known as the Triumphal Quadriga or the Horses of the Hippodrome of Constantinople, are a group of bronze statues of four horses that originally formed part of a monument depicting a quadriga — a four-horse chariot used in chariot racing and Roman triumphs.
The horses were placed on the façade, on the loggia above the porch, of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, northern Italy, after the sack of Constantinople in 1204. They remained there until they were looted by Napoleon in 1797, but were returned in 1815. The original sculptures have since been moved indoors for conservation, with replicas now occupying their former position on the loggia.
St Mark's Basilica
Basilica di San Marco
The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark
Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco
Location: Venice, Italy
Denomination: Catholic Church
Consecrated: 8 October 1094
Titular saint: Mark the Evangelist
Designation: Cathedral (minor basilica)
1807–present
Episcopal see: Patriarchate of Venice
Prior status
Designation: Ducal chapel
c. 836–1797
Tutelage: Doge of Venice
Built: c. 829–c. 836
Rebuilt: c. 1063–1094
Styles: Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic
EXPLORED February 26, 2017
This morning, we welcomed the Milky Way Galactic Core to shine brightly over Texas. Hope the next 8 months provide us several opportunities to capture the skies.
That is my friend and talented photographer Wisanu Boonrawd invoking the heavens over the Red River.On the left is Oklahoma and on the Right is Texas.
In the foreground is the Carpenter's Bluff Bridge which spans the Red River and links Grayson County to Bryan county, Oklahoma. Built in 1910, it was designed to allow trains, wagons, pedestrians, and horses to cross for a toll. In the 1960's, the bridge was deeded to Grayson County, which renovated it for automobile use. It's now a one-lane bridge with the old wooden walkway hugging it on one side. This piece of history gets to stand as a pedestrian bridge when the $7.3M replacement bridge which is currently under construction opens.
At 9,560' in elevation, this old snag has seen some severe weather - both winter and summer. Over the decades it survived everything Mother Nature could invoke and grew to be a tall sentinel overlooking the once verdant Paddy Creek drainage on the west flank of Escudilla Mountain.
However, in 2011 the Wallow Wild Fire killed much of the vegetation on the mountain, including this monarch. While certainly not as regal as before, he still stands tall with the thousands of other aspen, spruce, and pine skeletons as a reminder of what once was.
I was very lucky and caught the ¾ moon in the frame as it moved across the sky at sunset. Sometimes things work out.
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as the namazis pray
invoking allah
she invokes allah too in
humility she pleads
to get more charity
so her hungry children
she can feed
in the hot sun
different strokes
different needs
the same religion
the same creed
mans original sin
was always his
primary greed
its only man
in the name of god
that makes another
man bleed
here i pay
tribute to fatwas
that on the phone
you can divorce
your legal wife
in a second
of a nano speed
whether she hears
or hears not
whether it is cross
connection
curse the soul
of muslim womanhood
born in slavery
to produce children
breast feed
used abused
discarded
on the roads
she begs dirtied
if only only
she had
learnt to
write and read
her soul
she could have freed
her fate
overwritten
how could
she succeed
when the end
comes in an
unmarked grave
hurriedly
buried
her husband
takes another woman
the circle of deceit
muslim beggar
womans life complete
talaq talaq talaq on eid
A large jenga-style structure which monkeys sit on or walk greets viewers as the walk into the gallery housing Stephanie Quayle’s installation. Some of her clay monkeys watch us from atop planks of wood, as if waiting our reaction – and subsequent reaction – to their plight. The jenga emits a palpable threat of instability, compounded by Quayle’s use of decaying joists from timber barns and old
wooden beams. As with the game of jenga, it appears the installation could collapse at any moment. Quayle invokes the instability inherent in jenga to highlight the precarious situation human hands have wrought upon wildlife as a result of deforestation and consequence loss of habitat.
patron saint of godparents, France, the city of Rheims, France and its inhabitants, Dhuy, Belgium, Archdiocese and City, Arignano, Italy, the Frankish Kings, the conversion of the Franks to Christianity, those who want to make good meditations, and invoked against religious indifference, snakes, snake bites, epidemics, plague, the pest, fever, neck and throat pains
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Noh - Hyakuman
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One of the most vivid memories of my own childhood happiness invokes the moment when the inhabitants of our family wagon would first catch a glimpse of the beach. The roads always seemed to be twisty and curvy, slowing us, thus lengthening the anticipation in the hot kid-stuffed back seat.
As these fortunate people turn into their driveway, their eyes are fixed on the blue Atlantic at the end of the way.
Today.
Cummaquid, Massachusetts.
Chester Cathedral and Chester Visual Arts present ‘Our Colour Reflection’ by international artist, Liz West. The installation creates a conversation between the viewer and the setting using hundreds of mirrors made of coloured acrylic.
West creates vivid environments that mix luminous colour and radiant light. Working across a variety of mediums, West aims to provoke a heightened sensory awareness in the viewer through her works. She is interested in exploring how sensory phenomena can invoke psychological and physical responses that tap into our own deeply entrenched relationships to colour.
Open Monday to Saturday: 9am – 5pm, Sunday: 11am – 4pm
FREE ENTRY – generous donations welcome
For more information about Chester Cathedral see:
For more information about Liz West see:
#ChesterCulture #ourcolourreflection
One important ritual of Hinduism is tarpana. Tarpana means “satisfying” or “satiating”. One acknowledges the debt one has to devas (gods), rishis (sages) and pitris
(ancestral manes) and tries to satisfy them using this ritual.Just as gods are invoked in fire in a homam, pitris are invoked in water in this ritual, then held in the palm and released in a specific way conducive to freeing them.
The fifth and last picture that invokes memories; or , possibly, feelings of another place and time. It's how I remember the countryside as a child; or rather, how I remember pictures of the coutryside when I was a child - muted colours, grey, washed-out skies, defunct hedges, long forgotten fences, wind strained trees and sheep. Though this example lacks some of the features listed, for me, it still carries the same feelings. This is what old photographs can do to your memories - to your memories of memories: they replace the bright sunshine, vibrant colours of nature and the sense of freedom of being out in the countryside.
And here I am, perpetuating and even exacerbating the problem.
The Kinavai ceremony, that signifies landing of Tolai people on the shores of East New Britain, starts before sunrise with Tolai secret society invoking Duk Duk (male) and Tubuan (female) spirits. The society is referred to as secret because its rituals are restricted to its members only. When we arrived on the shore at around 4am we could not see anything, we only could hear voices and people walking on the beach in both directions. We did not know what is happening. With sun rising we saw more people gathered on the shore including those wearing Duk Duk and Tubuan ceremonial costumes. After sunrise more Tolai people in Duk Duk and Tubuan costumes arrived on canoes accompanied by chanting and drumbeat. In the past, Duk Duk and Tubuan acted as sole law enforcers. These were people wearing Duk Duk and Tubuan masks believed to have spirits residing in them after the spirit was invoked. Their judgement was unquestionable and they would on occasion burn houses and kill people as a punishment. We saw Duk Duk and Tubuan dancing until shaman announced that possession by a spirit took place. After that Duk Duk and Tubuan would go to villages to administer punishment to wrongdoers including their own relatives.
We found this Shining Sunbeam in a polylepis forest near Lima, Peru during a visit in February of 2010. I find it to be a pretty interesting bird, but somehow the name Shining Sunbeam invokes such a powerful image in my mind that I don’t think anything could live up to it.
When I spotted this bird, I was walking around on a steep hillside which was quite challenging. It was quite interesting to walk among the stunted trees at the top of the Andes and it sure was a treat to spot this beauty when I sat down on a rock to take a break. While I was enjoying this bird and the amazing scenery that surrounded it, I could hardly imagine that only a couple of hours away was the bustling city of Lima.
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Aglaeactis cupripennis
Chester Cathedral and Chester Visual Arts present ‘Our Colour Reflection’ by international artist, Liz West. The installation creates a conversation between the viewer and the setting using hundreds of mirrors made of coloured acrylic.
West creates vivid environments that mix luminous colour and radiant light. Working across a variety of mediums, West aims to provoke a heightened sensory awareness in the viewer through her works. She is interested in exploring how sensory phenomena can invoke psychological and physical responses that tap into our own deeply entrenched relationships to colour.
Open Monday to Saturday: 9am – 5pm, Sunday: 11am – 4pm
FREE ENTRY – generous donations welcome
For more information about Chester Cathedral see:
For more information about Liz West see:
#ChesterCulture #ourcolourreflection
Some people have reported seeing butterflies when they invoke Archangel Raphael
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There is a sense of hope/adventure if you stand at the edge of a cliff and look out into the wider world. Staring at a wall immediately in front of you invokes sadness/melancholy. Not to suggest that is the emotion the puffin is experiencing. It is the emotion I feel from observing the puffin. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the puffin is merely thinking "maybe this is a good place to build our den".
Newfoundland has much to offer, and puffins are no doubt among the best of the offerings. The Atlantic/common puffin is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN due to their rapid population decline.
The guilds of Venice started in medieval times as artisans got together to help protect and promote their industry. As with almost everything in Venice, the state soon got involved and a system was created in which the guilds were set up officially, with statutes (mariegole) approved by the government and lodged in the state archives (where they remain to this day). In the 16th century guild membership became compulsory for all artisans and shopkeepers and the guilds were given the responsibility to provide soldiers and sailors from among their membership in time of war.
Each guild, or arte had a headquarters, often in a church, but the larger and more important guilds had their own building known as a scuola. These buildings were used for meetings and ceremonies and were often decorated by famous artists. The guilds charged their members fees but membership of a guild also acted as a form of social security. Needy members received medical assistance and sometimes housing from the guild and often the guild paid for their funerals.
Saint Roch or Rocco is specially invoked against the plague.
I’m shaken, stunned & dazed. As I invoked the invincible Hand of God which did freeze up the lions deadly jaws from using Daniel for a meal, the cameraman @ the ongoing revival @ the National Biennial Conference of Christian Intellectuals @ Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology captured unusual radiant supernatural Hand to Gods Glory & participants from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana Institute of Journalism, University of Ghana, University of Development Studies, Ghana Medical School, University of Mines & Technology, University of Education, Central University College, Institute of Professional Studies, Takoradi Polytechnic, Kumasi Polytechnic, Cape Coast Polytechnic & Sunyani Polytechnic were shocked beyond description
The River Hongbao 2023 edition has something for everyone during the Lunar New Year, even for those that may not be too interested in the Chinese Zodiac decorations. For the kids and young at heart, there are always the carnival games and bumper cars to create memories and invoke nostalgia.
Sepolcro di Dante, Tumba de Dante, Tomb of Dante,
Dantis poetae sepulcrum, Tumba del poeta Dante, Tomb of Dante the poet,
La Tumba de Dante (en italiano: Sepolcro di Dante) es un monumento nacional italiano de estilo neoclásico construido en 1781 sobre la tumba del histórico poeta Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Está situado junto a la Basílica de San Francesco, en el centro de la ciudad de Rávena.
El monumento está rodeado por el área denominada "zona dantesca", en la que los visitantes deben permanecer en silencio y mostrar respeto. Junto al monumento se encuentra un pequeño jardín, históricamente conocido como Quadrarco di Braccioforte, el cual tuvo su origen en el claustro monástico. Esta área también incluye los claustros franciscanos, el complejo de museos y la Casa Dante.
En su lecho de muerte, Dante Alighieri expresó su deseo de ser vestido con el hábito franciscano. Eligió como lugar de sepultura el convento de los Frailes Menores, establecido en Rávena en 1261. Los solemnes funerales se celebraron en la iglesia de este convento, y el poeta fue originalmente enterrado en el cementerio adyacente al mismo. Este lugar es conocido como el Quadrarco di Braccioforte, (en español: "Cuadrarco del Brazo Fuerte"), puesto que el lugar es conocido por ser el emplazamiento en el que dos personas hicieron un acuerdo importante y, para garantizar su cumplimiento, invocaron al "brazo fuerte" de Cristo como símbolo de justicia y autoridad. En ese mismo lugar, había una imagen pintada del brazo de Cristo, lo que dio origen al nombre de este lugar.
Por otro lado, la familia Da Polenta, una influyente dinastía de Rávena, tenía una pequeña celda, dentro de la cual se colocó el sarcófago que contenía los restos de Dante Alighieri después de su muerte, lo que muestra el papel destacado de la familia en la protección y custodia de los restos del Sumo poeta.
En 1441, tras la expulsión de la familia Da Polenta por la República de Venecia, la celda que albergaba los restos de Dante quedó en estado de abandono. En 1483, el podestà veneciano Bernardo Bembo emprendió la restauración y ampliación de la tumba a sus expensas. Encargó el trabajo al escultor Pietro Lombardo, quien contó con la colaboración de sus hijos para la ejecución de la obra. Cabe mencionar que, sobre el sarcófago, Lombardo esculpió un conocido bajorrelieve que representa a Dante pensativo frente a un atril.
En 1778, cuando Luigi Valenti Gonzaga asumió el cargo de legado pontificio en Rávena, el cardenal tomó la decisión de promover la construcción de un nuevo sacello, un pequeño edificio religioso destinado al culto. Para llevar a cabo este proyecto, confió la tarea al reconocido arquitecto de Rávena, Camillo Morigia, conocido por su talento y creatividad en el diseño de espacios arquitectónicos.
Construida entre 1780 y 1781 sobre una estructura anterior del siglo XV, la tumba tiene una planta cuadrada y está diseñada en forma de un pequeño templo neoclásico coronado por una pequeña cúpula, rematada con una piña. Separada de la calle por una estrecha delimitación, su fachada exterior es muy sencilla. Incluye una puerta sobre la que se encuentra el escudo arzobispal del Cardenal Gonzaga, y en cuyo arquitrabe se lee, de manera simple y en latín: Dantis poetae sepulcrum ("Tumba del poeta Dante")
Destacan dos elementos decorativos: una serpiente que se muerde la cola (Uróboros), símbolo de la eternidad de la fama del Poeta, y el escudo del cardenal Gonzaga. Las hojas de la puerta de acceso están hechas de madera.
A la derecha del monumento funerario se encuentra un pequeño jardín que incluye, entre otros elementos, el Quadrarco di Braccioforte. Desde 1921, este jardín está cerrado con una reja de hierro forjado diseñada por el artista veneciano Umberto Bellotto.
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The Tomb of Dante (Italian: Sepolcro di Dante) is an Italian neoclassical national monument built over the tomb of the poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) in 1781. It is sited next to the Basilica of San Francesco in central Ravenna.
The monument is surrounded by a "zona dantesca", in which visitors have to remain silent and respectful. The small garden to the monument's right originated as the monastic cloister but now only has a colonnade on one side. The garden is traditionally named after the Quadrarco di Braccioforte, where two people invoked the "strong arm" of Christ to guarantee their contract and therefore had the image of that arm painted on the arch.
Dante spent his final years in exile in Ravenna and died there in 1321. The day after his death his funeral was held in the cloister of the basilica, then a Franciscan monastery, the Church of San Pier Maggiore, later called Basilica di San Francesco. He was then buried outside the cloister by the roadside in an ancient Roman sarcophagus, in which he still rests.
The sarcophagus was moved to the west side of the cloister by Bernardo Bembo, Venetian podestà of Ravenna, at the end of the 15th century.
A few years later Dante's hometown of Florence began making requests to have his remains returned. This had the support of two Medici popes, Pope Leo X and Pope Clement VII. The first request was supported by Michelangelo and in 1519 Leo granted Florence permission to move the sarcophagus there, but the Franciscans had enough time to make a hole in the wall and secretly move Dante's bones there. A Tuscan delegation duly arrived but found the sarcophagus empty. It was moved into the cloister and kept under guard.
Meanwhile the bones were put in a new box in 1677 by Antonio Sarti, prior of the monastery. The sarcophagus was restored under armed guard in 1692. The bones were put back in their original sarcophagus in 1781, the same year as the monument was completed, having been commissioned from the local architect Camillo Morigia by Luigi Valenti Gonzaga, the cardinal legate in Romagna. Square in plan and with a small cupola and dome, it covers the sarcophagus. Its interior is covered in marble and stucco. Morigia planned to have images of Virgil, Brunetto Latini, Cangrande della Scala and Guido Novello da Polenta in the pendentives of the dome's interior vault, but this plan was abandoned.
Behind the sarcophagus is a 1483 bas-relief by Pietro Lombardo, which also stood in this position for most of the 15th century, showing Dante reading at a lectern. From the ceiling hangs an 18th century votive lamp, continually kept burning with olive oil from the Tuscan hills donated by Florence every 14 September, the anniversary of Dante's death. The monument's facade to the street is very simple, with a gate surmounted by Cardinal Gonzaga's archiepiscopal coat of arms and the simple inscription "DANTIS POETAE SEPULCRUM" ("tomb of Dante the poet"). The friars hid the bones in the 1677 box again in 1810 during the French occupation to prevent them being confiscated. They hid the box under an old doorway between the Basilica of San Francesco and the Braccioforte Chapel before leaving the city. Florence had not given up hope of having the remains removed from Ravenna, however, and in 1829 the city erected a cenotaph in Santa Croce Basilica, showing the poet seated in thought and a personification of Poetry weeping over the sarcophagus.
The box's location was forgotten until 27 May 1865, when it was found by a worker carrying out restoration work for the 600th anniversary of Dante's birth. A young student and later a respected notary, Matteucci Anastasio, noticed the words "OSSA DANTIS" (Dante's bones) on the box and saved it from being thrown into a common grave. (The full inscription stated: "Dantis ossa a me Frate Antonio Santi hic posita 1677, die 18 Octobris", written by Friar Santi.)
The almost complete skeleton of bones were rearticulated and put on display to the public in a crystal coffin for a few months before being reburied under the monument in a walnut chest protected by a lead cover. It remains in place and has never been returned to Florence.
In 1921 a bronze garland was added to the foot of the sarcophagus in memory of the dead of World War I, as well as a marble plaque to its right describing the various restorations of the tomb and an iron gate to the neighbouring garden, designed by the Venetian artist Umberto Bellotto. The bones were hidden yet again during World War II to prevent them being destroyed by bombing. They were buried in the garden from March 1944 to 19 December 1945 until they were returned to the monument, now marked with a plaque. The monument was restored in 2006–2007, including a complete repainting of its facades.