This is a small waterfall in Iceland, about 3 m high. This waterfall is in the area where the powerplant Búðarhálsvirkjun is to be built. About 600 - 700 m above see level. The wind was biting me hard this day.

This is the Flathead River. At this point, you're only 12 miles or so from the entrance of Glacier National Park, and you'll start seeing some very large mountains that are in Glacier National Park. The Flathead River, in the northwestern part of the U.S. State of Montana, originates in the Canadian Rockies to the north of Glacier National Park and flows southwest into Flathead Lake, then after a journey of 158 miles, empties into the Clark Fork. The river is part of the Columbia River drainage basin, as the Clark Fork River is a tributary of the Columbia River tributary, with a drainage basin extending over 8,795 square miles and an average discharge of 11,380 cubic feet per second, the Flathead is the largest tributary of the Clark Fork and constitutes over half of its flow. Boy the Columbia River is an enormous river!!!!!

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This is really a 2K11 'Krug'- the Russian word for 'Circle'. Krug is also used for a radar service, so "Moscow Krug" means 'Moscow Radar". The GANEF name is a Yiddish word for thief, as this is a copy of the very British Bloodhound.

La Boqueria

The Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria, often simply referred to as La Boqueria (Catalan pronunciation: [?? ßu.k?'?i.?]), is a large public market in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and one of the city's foremost tourist landmarks, with an entrance from La Rambla, not far from the Liceu, Barcelona's opera house. The market has a very diverse selection of goods.

History

The first mention of the Boqueria market in Barcelona dates from 1217, when tables were installed near the old city gate to sell meat. From December 1470 onwards, a pig market was held at this site; at this time it was known as Mercat Bornet. Later, until 1794, it was known simply as Mercat de la Palla, or straw market. In the beginning, the market was not enclosed and had no official status, being regarded simply as an extension of the Plaça Nova market, which extended to the Plaça del Pi.

Later, the authorities decided to construct a separate market on La Rambla, housing mainly fishmongers and butchers. It was not until 1826 that the market was legally recognized, and a convention held in 1835 decided to build an official structure. Construction began on March 19, 1840 under the direction of the architect Mas Vilà. The market officially opened in the same year, but the plans for the building were modified many times. The inauguration of the structure finally took place in 1853. A new fish market opened in 1911, and the metal roof that still exists today was constructed in 1914.

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Maurizio's dream is to captain a boat in the bay of Naples and to protect the habitat around Pospitillo and the Amalfi Coast. When he shakes hands, his grip is of old rope.

Maurizio is currently living out his dream.

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This is my origami make of the stunning compound of 3 cubes. I had been attracted to this compound since seeing it on a poster in elementary school. I finally got around to actually folding it in '06 I think it was...

Since 8/12 of the each cube's edges are split into three parts and the other 4/12 of them are cut in half, the total number of units required was 3 x (3x8 + 2x4) = 96. The model is composed of 4 different units which are each variations on a basic edge unit idea. This is the first model I ever designed which actually requires units of varying width on top of varying length. This is due to the angles the cubes intersect each other at.

For information on the geometry of this shape, I suggest wolfram mathworld.

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MY THEME FOR THIS WEEK IS: "Karama's A Bitch...And Death Is Her Sister."

Requirements:

~Full body shot

~Fierce and fashionable outfits

~Death must be easy to see

~Try not to make this a bloodbath.

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**YOU CANNOT USE STRANGLED AS A DEATH. I'M USING IT AS AN EXAMPLE. BUT YOU CANNOT USE STRANGLED.**

Hi I'm Sweetie Reginia and this is my story.

It all started when as the new neighbor moved in next to us.

I went to him! welcome to bring a gift and I said

"I'm Sweetie Reginia their neighbor and that is a welcome gift!" he is delighted with the gift!

BUT THEN ONE DAY IT IS HAPPENING! HE CAME TO ME AND SAYS HAVE LUS come along? I invite you to a coffee

I said yes right!

he took me as we drove to the car, I told him we are driving in the wrong direction!

HE SAYS I KILL YOU TONIGHT!!

I thought it would be a joke but he was serious!

I wanted to get out but he hit me on the head! I AM powerless

then were there he was! in a warehouse, where he has continued dismembered and murdered people!

HE HAS STABBED ME AND ME WILL carve up! HE HOLDS AN AXE IN HAND

I SCREAM HELPPPPPP! !! but no one can hear me!

the last thing I said was "NOOO! WHY!!"

END <3

i hope you like it!!!

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This is one of the first views you get as you enter Urquhart Castle. This is looking back towards Drumnadrochit and Loch Ness. You can also see the pier, where the Jacobite Cruise vessel docks for visitors, as part of their Loch Ness tour.

Pykhtino is a Moscow Metro station of the Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line. It was opened on 6 September 2023.

The station serves Solncevo-Park residential complex. Its design features an escalator incline decorated by a scale model of TU-144 plane.

The station's walls are decorated with drawings of Tupolev passenger airplanes.

All is calm..the world is still, my soul is so very silent.

Thank you to lisajen@devinatart.com for the image of the women.

party cats....they are waiting for the visitors

Turkish Airlines is slowly growing to become a very key player at London Heathrow, already the airline operating 4 daily flights between Heathrow and Istanbul, the airline in February and March this year acquired 2 slot pairs from SAS, one morning pair and the second one afternoon pair. With London Heathrow so heavily slot constrained given it is at full capacity, the valuation of these slots equated to US$82million and US$22million respectively.

Turkish has seen growth similar to the ME3, and its flights regularly into Heathrow sees a wide range of aircraft as small as the Airbus A321 to the much larger Airbus A330-300 and Boeing 777-300ER.

Away from Heathrow, Turkish has also expanded in the USA... On 13th April 2015, Turkish launched its 7th destination to the USA following the inauguration of flights between Istanbul to San Francisco (a city on my bucket-list). To coincide with the launch, Juliet Uniform was the chosen airframe to feature special 'San Francisco - Istanbul' colours, with the Pilot side feature landmarks of Istanbul whilst the First Officer side features San Francisco's landmarks, with the Golden Gate Bridge easily visible. Not only does San Francisco add to Turkish's USA portfolio, but provides connection opportunities given San Francisco is a Star Alliance hub plus has codeshare agreements with United Airlines.

Juliet Uniform meanwhile is one of 19 Boeing 777's currently in service with Turkish, all of which on the 777-300ER and currently 13 more examples on-order. She was delivered new to Turkish back in December 2014 and is powered by 2 General Electric GE90-115B engines.

Boeing 777-3F2ER TC-JJU 'Büyükada' on final approach into Runway 09L at London Heathrow (LHR) on TK1985 from Istanbul-Atatürk (IST).

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This is my own creation of vtuber Nanashi Mumei. 😊

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This picture is #84 in the 100 Strangers Project - Round 2

Meet Helen

During the last 3 years of the strangers project I have met people in different random places – on the streets, at the gym, in parks, at malls, at restaurants, airports but for a first time this happened at the church.

I would say Helen's personality and her very elegant dressing with the beautiful red dress sealed the deal. What was even more definitive is that wifey agreed whole heartedly. But as the service drew to a close I was undecided if I should wait and ask or pass it up. Eventually we agreed that I would drop p my wife and kid at Giants in the neighboring shopping complex to finish the grocery shopping and I’d walk back and try make a request. Of course by the time I walked back services had already ended and the crowd had dispersed. But as luck would have it I noticed the young lady, her red dress absolutely standing out, praying by the grotto. I excused myself as she finished her prayers and started walking with her sister. After hearing me out she was open to being a part of the pics. However I had to abandon my idea to walk towards a darker background when I realized she had a big family waiting for her. So we decided to instead shoot a few pics using open shade next to the church as her mom and dad after a quick friendly chat left for a walk and other family members stood around at a distance talking. It's always a little challenging to be in this situation and feeling a little rushed is natural but on the flip side am thankful to get the oppurtunity.

Helen was a pleasure to photograph though I honestly didn't do her justice. Her twinkling happy eyes screamed kindness.. and not surprising that kindness was her favorite quality. Her family hails from Ivory Coast in West Africa - which I believe explains her strong features and beauty. My interaction also revealed another quality I see as simplicity and almost a childlike directness and honesty.

An accountant by profession she enjoys cooking - photography is something she enjoys as well. We agreed to connect again to photograph her in a follow up session since she enjoys that as well.

Thanks a lot Helen for your time. It was wonderful making your acquaintance. I look forward to shoot I with you again. In the meanwhile wishing you all the very best and regards to the family

Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page

For my other pictures on this project: 100 Strangers - Round 2.

For pictures from my prior attempt at 100 Strangers: 100 Strangers - Round 1.

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The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul. --Chrysippus (Quoted by Cicero in De Natura Deorum)

[That's exactly how I see the world these days.]

[it's been taken while driving...]

Among blue's attributes: calm, peaceful, pacific. A room painted in dark blue can even have a sedative effect. But blue also displays a more dynamic side, one that promotes creativity and inspiration.

"This is the day that David prophesied in the psalms, when he said: All the nations that you have brought into being will come and fall down in adoration in your presence, Lord, and glorify your name. Again, the Lord has made known his salvation; in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.

This came to be fulfilled, as we know, from the time when the star beckoned the three wise men out of their distant country and led them to recognise and adore the King of heaven and earth. The obedience of the star calls us to imitate its humble service: to be servants, as best we can, of the grace that invites all men to find Christ."

– Pope St Leo the Great.

Detail from the medieval polychrome choir screen in Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral.

My sermon for the Epiphany can be read here.

Dayle Krall is once again pushing the boundaries of escapology. Dayle is locked in a pair of vintage 1925 Mattatuck handcuffs. Dayle is then locked into a Plexiglas cell with four authentic locks that secure the lid. To add to the impossibility, another lid is secured to the outer cell and locked in place with four more locks. Once imprisoned in the two cell's valves are opened and they begin to fill with water. It is the lonliest place on earth.

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Miro is on his way home after a long day of walking around the countryside, enjoying the colours of fall . He’s walking along a dry dirt road, the sounds of his hoof steps muffled by the dirt. The sun begins to slowly disappear behind the horizon and dark clouds are approaching from the south. He can see a grey wall coming with them.

“Oh for the love of…”, he says, clearly annoyed by the oncoming shower. He speeds up into a trot, hoping it would buy him time. The dirt road ends and merges into a normal pavement road. He turns right and goes into a gallop, the clopping of his horseshoes echoing from the ground. He tries to stay as far to the right as he can to give the cars passing by enough room. Now and then, he turns around to see how close the rain is.

While he runs, he comes across a small ranch on the other side of the road. However, he can see emergency vehicles by the building. Mainly Police and Ambulance. Their lights flickering in the dusk.

He slows down to a halt and watches for a while. He sees how one man in handcuffs gets pushed into one of the police cars and a teenage girl covered in blankets carefully into the other. Both cars take off and drive down the driveway before turning right and driving past Miro.

When the car with the man passes him, he could catch a glimpse of how he looks at him. The look in his eyes was very unsettling, almost crazy and murderous. Even that short glimpse was enough to give Miro the chills.

When the second car passed, he could see how the girl inside had a very disturb look on her face, starring into the void, clinching onto the blankets she’s wrapped in.

Both cars disappear into the distance with their sirens blaring, towards the rain.

His curiosity got the better of him and Miro walks up the driveway towards the buildings. The red lights of the ambulance illuminating the facade. When he walks past said car, he sees two man carrying a black bag on a stretcher out of the house. His intestines start to crumple as he realizes what happened. He watches them carrying it towards and into the ambulance back. They close the back doors and step into the passenger cab, not minding Miro any sort of looks, before driving off too. He stands there for a while looking after them, before taking in his surroundings again. The only light sources are the lamps on the walls on the buildings. While he looks around, he sees a pick-up with a trailer parked by a huge slide door. Inside the building the lights are on and he can hear noises from the inside. He slowly approaches the door, but as he came closer, the slight odor of death hits his nostrils. Miro stops dead in his tracks and covers his nose managing to suppress a gag reflex. “What the hell happened here?”, he thinks.

He slowly enters the building and looks around. He notices the single row of stalls along the wall. This is a stable then. Besides the odor mentioned before, the characteristic odor of horses lays in the air too. While he stands there, one of the stall gates opens and a man guiding a horse comes out of it.

Said horse is towering the man leading it. It has to be at least 2 metres tall. It’s coat is grey with a light touch of blue, and black patches along its body. It has a short black mane, same goes for its tail. Its lower legs are covered by feathering in the same colour. It’s eyes are what’s sticking out. While the left one has a green iris and looks normal, the right one is all bluish and cloudy. Is it blind on that eye, Miro asks himself?

The man leading it, talked to it while walking down the hallway. When he turned to look forward, he stopped when he spotted Miro.

“Who are you?”, he asks with a shocked expression. Even the horse got a bit nervous.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to intrude. But… I saw all this commotion from the road and was wondering what going on?”, Miro says while holding his hands up to signalise that he has no bad intentions. “What…?”, the man tries to say something but just sighs and starts talking. “The father turned out to be a narcissistic madman, that’s what’s going on!”, the man said in a shaky voice.

Miro remembers the man in the police car. And the mad look he gave to him when passing by.

The man continues, “I knew his wife and her daughter for years when she was still married to her first man. I was working part-time as their helping hand for their horses. I work for animal rescue mainly. We all had a good relationship towards each other. But then he died in a riding accident. And shortly after, she met this… this…”,he gestures towards the doorway.

Miro nods quickly to show him that he understands what he means.

“When they dated, he played ‘Mr. Nice Guy’ towards her and her daughter. But after they married, t’was like a switch was activated in his head and he showed his true face”, he continues.

“In what way?”, Miro asks.

“He was abusive and narcissistic. When his daughter or wife talked to somebody else, he yelled at them for why they were ignoring him and stuff. When it was a person of the same sex, he called them lesbians and all sorts of names. They had nobody to talk to and nowhere to go, since he followed their every step. I only kept my job here because he knew, as long as someone’s there to look after the horses, so his wife and daughter don’t have to. But that didn’t stop him to give me AND the horses the same treatment”, the man says.

Miro is shocked when he heard that.

The man goes on, “One day, he started to beat one of the horses because he stepped into it’s poop. I tried to stop him. But grabbed the pitch fork and stabbed me.”

He lifts his shirt and shows Miro the five small circular scars on his abdomen. Miro takes a deep breath while he closes his eyes and quenches his fists as the anger in him rises up.

“I don’t know what happened in the meantime when I was in the hospital. But one day before I was released from it, I got the message that she managed to get a divorce and a restraining order against him. She also charged him for domestic abuse.” He smiles when he said those words. “We thought it was over and went to go back to our ordinary daily routine. But we should have known better.

That bastard came back and waited for them as she picked her daughter up from school before shooting at them and the horses. The girl and this guy here are the lone survivors,” he says while patting the horse’s neck. At the same time, fresh tears ran down his cheeks while he tries to keep himself together.

The images of the disturbed girl in the cop car and the body bag on the stretcher flash up in Miro’s head. But he said, that they’re ‘the lone survivors’. He turns his head and peaks into the stall next to him. Inside, he sees a dead white horse with multiple gun shot wounds across it’s body and half crusted blood covering it. The rage inside him grew as he tries to not lose his composure. The sound of thunder enacts from outside. He turns his head and sees that the storm has reached the site.

The man continues, “The policemen told me that he probably shot the horses first before heading into the house. He shot his ex as she tried to protect her daughter from him. She managed to hide and call 911. But by the time they arrived, he already found her and it all turned into a hostage situation. After hours of negotiating, he finally gave up and surrendered.

It was my day off today, so I wasn’t here the whole day until I got called by the police.”

As the man finishes, he and Miro stare at each other for while in silence, while the rain hits the roof of the stable. Miro then looks at the horse before breaking the silence.

“So… what’s his name?”, he asks, gesturing at the horse.

The man looks at him, “ We got him shortly after their wedding. We had no time to give him a name, as we were already fearing for our lives at that point.” He sighs, “But it doesn’t really matter anymore, I’m afraid.”

“What you mean?”, Miro asks.

“The good thing, someone’s interested in him already. The bad thing, it’s butcher. And he’s the only one so far who contacted us.”

Miro’s intestines twist again.

The man continues, “We, or to be more exact, I, am desperately trying to find someone who could take care of our boy here.” He pets the horse on his nose. “But sadly, nobody I contacted so far is interest in a half-blind male Belgian. I have to lie to my superiors and the only client, saying that I have other potential takers and that they’re currently contemplating.”

Miro feels depressed. He asks, “But I thought horse meat is illegal?”

The man looks at him, “I don’t know either. I think it differs from country to country. Or even from state to state. I don’t know.”

“But you said that you work for animal rescue. So you should know, no?”

“I joined shortly after they got divorced. That was a few months ago. So, to tell the truth, I’m actually a greenhorn. I still have a lot to learn. If I don’t get caught for what I’m doing here, of course.”

Miro sighs as he struggles for words. Finally, he says, “So… what you gonna do now? How long do you think you can avoid him ending on someones plate?”

The man sighs, “All I can do for now is to take him to our nearest sanctuary. I don’t how long I can keep up the ‘multiple takers’, but I honestly start to slowly loose hope. So…”

Miro looks between the man and the horse. This situation became really gloomy.

“Now, if you excuse us, we have to get going”, the man says as he leads the horse past him and towards the trailer, grabbing an umbrella leaning by the door and opening it, as he steps out in the rain.

Miro mind is racing. He wants to help them. But he might not have the financials to do so. He doesn’t know how to take care of a horse properly, especially this size, and he is one himself. Somehow. Therefore, he doesn’t even need one. But still… .

“I take him”, Miro finally says.

The man stops shortly before the open trailer and turns around and looks at Miro with big eyes. “Wait. You what sorry?” He was surprised.

“I take him”, Miro repeats. He steps out into the rainy night, unfazed of getting wet. He has a serious face. The man looks him up and down.

“Sorry, but you must be joking”, he finally says. He clearly seems to be confused.

“I’m not”, Miro says with a slight smile. “I know what you’re probably thinking, ‘A horse buying a horse? What is this?’. But I’m serious. I can sorta see how much you liked this family. Their horses. You were ready to put yourself into the way of this guy. To protect them.” He bends down and puts his fist gently where the man has his stab wound scars. “You even do it now. Risking being put into prison. For his sake.” He nods towards the horse. “So, lemme help both of you, please. Tell me the price.”

The man stands there in awe, processing what just happened. “You ARE serious! Oh my… I don’t know what to… But… but why?”, he asks.

“Maybe because it felt personal to me. I mean, look at me”, Miro says gesturing at himself, giggling.

The man smiles. He seems to be relieved to have found one for the horse. Even though, this someone is horse too.

“So, how much?”, Miro asks again.

The man looks up at him, “You know, just take him. Lemme handle the financials for you.”

“Wait, what?”, Miro asks surprised.

“You have no idea how much this means to me. If they would have handed him to that butcher, it would have felt to me like, that this monster of a ‘family father’ wins in the end somehow”, he says a bit excited.

“True. But how are you gonna manage the money thing?”, Miro asks.

“I’m just gonna say that I accidentally gave you the number to my bank account and that I transferred your money to them.”

“And if that doesn’t work?”

“Then I have to tell them the truth. And hope that they understand my actions.”

Miro gives him a worried look, doubting that either of those plans work.

“So… anywhere specific where I can drop you two off? I doubt you wanna go all the back to wherever you came from in all this rain”, he says gesturing at the trailer and the the rainy weather.

Just now, Miro realizes how soaking wet he is. He’s right. It would be torture to wander in that weather. “Actually yes. There’s a place you can take us”, he says while telling the man the address.

“Good. The all aboard. Next stop,…”, before he could finish the sentence, a loud thunder enacts and makes all three of them jump. The horse rears up in fear and Miro and the man have calm him down. “Lets hurry, shall we?”, the man says. Miro nods while grabbing the horse’ halter and stepping into the trailer with him.

“Like I said before, we didn’t had a chance to give him a name. Since he’s yours now, you’re free to name him what you want. I’ll come by tomorrow at some point, so we can go over the paper work”, the man says while closing the trailer and stepping into the car. He starts the engine and soon they hit the road.

The rain hits the trailer and the rain drops on the small windows get push off by the wind.

Miro looks to the horse to his right. And he looks at him with his green eye. He probably wonders what kind of being his new owner, friend, or whatever, is. “How did you guys not develop some sort of claustrophobia, given how narrow it is in here?” The horse keeps looking. “So, you weren’t given a name, if I understand right?”, Miro asks him. He just keeps watching him. “I’m not sure if I can come up with one that suits you, so bare with me”, he adds while thinking for a good name.

He looks back out of the window as the dark landscape passes by. He never thought that he’ll safe one of his half-relatives from ending up on someone’s plate. He tried to get a glimpse of the cabin of the car, but due to the rain, it’s nearly impossible. He watches the drops running across the window before blown off.

Just then he had an idea! He looks back at the horse as it quietly stands there. “Listen, I think I might have an idea for a name for you, but I’m not sure if you’ll like it or not”, he says. The horse slowly turns his head towards him. “How about… Cullinan?”

The horse nickers and moves his head closer. Miro lifts his hand instinctively. The horse puts his nose against it and start rubbing it. Miro grins. “I guess that means ‘Yes’ then”, he says while running his hand along Cullinan’s head. He spots his blind eye, which up close, looks like a mesmerising nebula. However, he can feel anger building up inside him. He leans closer to Cullinan and whispers, “I hope they lock this guy up for good. I don’t wanna even know what you and the rest had to go through. That poor girl, lost her mother and probably her future. I wonder if she’ll looking for you, Cully?” Cullinan nickers again. Miro moves closer and places his head onto his.

“You’re welcome.”

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This is what happens, children, if you leave your toys out at night! They will steal your marbles! Or maybe even the moon! Happy Toy-in-the-frame Thursday!

This is a courtesy wake-up call to anyone building something for the "Space Jam!" contest:

- You have 2 days left to enter.

- You DO have to post your entries into their appropriate entry discussions for them to count.

Just uploading them into the group pool is not enough. Just uploading them to your photostream and typing in the description that it was for the contest is not enough (...I have seen both).

We try to do the nice thing and post reminders on MOC's that we think are for the contest, but we certainly can't go through every build that has been posted over the last 2 months. Please be sure to double-check your entries while you still have time.

Thanks to everyone for entering - and good luck to all!

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This is Jess, not the most co-operative of models, but a good opportunity to practice with the 85mm f1.2 I've borrowed for a few days off a good friend Graham while he is away on holiday... I may not want to give it back !? :-)

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Paradise is STUCK in my head =P I love that song SO much ever since it played on the Grammy awards XD it also snowed that day too ^.^ Is it just me or does Taylor look STUNNING in this picture? Oh and Happy Valentine's Day =D

This is my daughter Alexandra the oldest of four with whom I shared a wonderful 13 yrs before the others came along. We travelled, sat around, did our nails and shared things that are unique to us. She chides the others saying that she got the best of me - I agree. She is 13 yrs older than William, 16 yrs older than Sarah and 19 years older than Caroline (went off to university when she was just a baby!!)

I've always said that one kid is a party, more than that it becomes work and a much more serious business. Alex definitely got the younger, more energetic, up-for-anything, easy-going and patient mamma. Shot with an old F-series Nikon with b/w film

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North Korean soldier at the DMZ, in front of the table which separate North and South.

The Korean Demilitarized Zone is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula that serves as a buffer zone between North and South Korea. The DMZ cuts the Korean Peninsula in half, crossing the 38th parallel on an angle, with the west end of the DMZ lying south of the parallel and the east end lying north of it. It is 155 miles (248 km) long and approximately 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, and is the most heavily armed border in the world.

This isolation has created as a byproduct one of the most well-preserved pieces of temperate land in the world!!

The 2 countries have signed armistice but NOT the peace...

La Korean Demilitarized Zone, KMZ, est une bande de terre qui court le long de la péninsule coréenne pour séparer le nord et le sud le long du 38eme parallèle. Les deux pays ont signés l’armistice, mais pas la Paix. La frontière est marquée par une bordure en béton. Seuls les coréens du nord continuent à assurer une présence physique, les américains et les sud coréens ont construit un immense bâtiment d’où ils surveillent via cameras les mouvements du Nord.

Franchir la frontière revient à se faire tirer dessus. Peu de nord coréens osent franchir le 38eme parallèle car les représailles envers la famille restante, les voisins et les collègues de travail sont immédiates.

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after Elsie had perfected her reindeer face makeup (see previous two photos) she turned to me and said it was time to have my face painted. Oh no, I thought, and held out my hand. Please paint something beautiful on my hand. Taking a photo iwth my left hand only wasn't easy, but I sat down to supper as Grangran and not as something from Elsie's imagination!

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And now, something completely different.

No, it is not an M38 Sherman tank scope, it is not to be mounted on a Sterling submachine gun. It is a slightly different M38A2 scope that was supposed to be mounted on a project raygun.

But it won't be.

What this does not fit on is a fictional Sci-Fi handgun, or a raygun, if you like, I have been working on (and off) for two years now. It's a completely handcrafted custom gun of my original design, it has an all-steel construction with walnut grips and electronics from Erv' of the Plecterlabs. Every bit of the gun is handmade, even some of the screws keeping it together, the only thing that isn't custom made is the sighting scope.

I wanted to use a real scope, partially as a nod to movie prop guns, but mostly to keep in touch with reality. I went for an old Weaver rifle scope because it's simple sleek tubular form (and cheap price, it cost only $14). The M38, which is all too familiar from the Stormtrooper blaster, is a gorgeous piece of vintage optics and I kept wondering if it would work despite the Star Wars connection. I kept an eye on those for about 18 months on eBay, and boy, were they expensive! Then I found this equivalent with fair price and thought, damn, I gotta try this.

I removed the Weaver and tried the M38A2 on instead. I immediately realized that it just doesn't work. Too heavy, too Star Wars, too obvious. So, it's back with the Weaver.

At the moment the raygun (visible in the background) has almost all the steel parts fitted in place, it still needs some serial and other numbers punched in before it can be polished, blued and worn to look like a hudred+ years old well oiled vintage handgun behind museum glass. Electronics will be fitted in last.

For the record: I do not own any guns or weapons of any kind, never have. This is just a raygun project, albeit a serious one in some levels. I will upload more photos with more info & detail as the project nears it's completion, but it'll be slow, I have too many projects going on. You know what it's like.

The Dassault Rafale is a French twin-engine, canard delta wing, multirole fighter aircraft designed and built by Dassault Aviation. Equipped with a wide range of weapons, the Rafale is intended to perform air supremacy, interdiction, aerial reconnaissance, ground support, in-depth strike, anti-ship strike and nuclear deterrence missions. The Rafale is referred to as an "omnirole" aircraft by Dassault.

In the late 1970s, the French Air Force and Navy were seeking to replace and consolidate their current fleets of aircraft. In order to reduce development costs and boost prospective sales, France entered into an arrangement with UK, Germany, Italy and Spain to produce an agile multi-purpose fighter, the Eurofighter Typhoon. Subsequent disagreements over workshare and differing requirements led to France's pursuit of its own development program. Dassault built a technology demonstrator which first flew in July 1986 as part of an eight-year flight-test programme, paving the way for the go-ahead of the project. The Rafale is distinct from other European fighters of its era in that it is almost entirely built by one country, involving most of France's major defence contractors, such as Dassault, Thales and Safran.

Many of the aircraft's avionics and features, such as direct voice input, the RBE2 AA active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar and the optronique secteur frontal infra-red search and track (IRST) sensor, were domestically developed and produced for the Rafale programme. Originally scheduled to enter service in 1996, the Rafale suffered significant delays due to post-Cold War budget cuts and changes in priorities. The aircraft is available in three main variants: Rafale C single-seat land-based version, Rafale B twin-seat land-based version, and Rafale M single-seat carrier-based version.

Introduced in 2001, the Rafale is being produced for both the French Air Force and for carrier-based operations in the French Navy. The Rafale has been marketed for export to several countries, and was selected for purchase by the Indian Air Force, the Egyptian Air Force, and the Qatar Air Force. The Rafale has been used in combat over Afghanistan, Libya, Mali, Iraq and Syria. Several upgrades to the weapons and avionics of the Rafale are planned to be introduced by 2018.

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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!

Some background:

Airbus Helicopters Tiger, formerly known as the Eurocopter Tiger, is a four-bladed, twin-engined attack helicopter, which first entered service in 2003. It is manufactured by Eurocopter (now Airbus Helicopters), the successor company to Aérospatiale's and DASA's respective helicopter divisions, which designate it as the EC665. In Germany and Australia it is known as the 'Tiger'; in France and Spain it is called the 'Tigre'.

In February 2016, the first of twelve newly built Tiger KWS was delivered to the German Bundeswehr and allocated to Luftwaffe and the Marineflieger units (each receiving six). Eight standard UHTs were to be updated until 2019, too. After initial trials 2016 on board of the German fregate "Bayern" in the course of the peacekeeping Operation Atalanta against pirates at the coast of Somalia, France became interested in the Artemis system, too, and considered the procurement of eight navalized and updated Tigers for the Aéronavale.

General characteristics:

Crew: Two (pilot and weapon systems officer)

Length: 13.21 m fuselage (43 ft 3 1/4 in)

Rotor diameter: 13.00 m (42 ft 8 in)

Disc area: 133 m² (1,430 ft²)

Height: 5.18 m (17 ft 11 in) with radome mast,

3.83 m (12 ft 7 in) w/o

Internal fuel capacity: 1,080 kg (2,380 lb)

Empty weight: 3,060 kg (6,750 lb)

Loaded weight: 5,090 kg (11,311 lb)

Max. takeoff weight: 6,000 kg (13,000 lb)

Powerplant:

2× MTU Turbomeca Rolls-Royce MTR390-G turboshaft engines, 1.102 kW (1.500 shp) each

Performance:

Maximum speed: 290 km/h (157 knots, 181 mph)

Range: 800 km (430 nm, 500 mi) in combat configuration

1,300km with external tanks at the inboard stations

Service ceiling: 4,000 m (13,000 ft)

Rate of climb: 10.7 m/s (2,105 ft/min)

Power/mass: 0.23 hp/lb (0.38 kW/kg)

Armament:

Four stub wing hardpoints for e.g. 12.7mm or 27 mm autocannon pods, 68 mm (2.68 in) SNEB or

70 mm (2.75 in) Hydra 70 unguided rockets pods, AGM-65 Maverick guided missiles or starters with 4x

PARS 3 LR and/or HOT3 anti-tank missiles; additionally, the German navy helicopters could carry up to

four Sea Skua missiles against sea targets

The kit and its assembly:

The second of my Italeri Tiger helicopters that I had purchased in a lot without a real plan some years ago. This one was simply spawned by the question what a) an updated UHT with a radar system like the AH-64D and b) a German Marineflieger UHT would look like? After the German navy got rid of their Tornados, what could be the more compact and economical alternative? This model combines these questions, and as a whif there was even a bit more to it.

The Italeri kit itself ain’t bad, but it has raised details and fit, esp. around the engines and the rotor mast, is rather dubious. PSR is a must. Anyway, it was built more or less OOB, the only changes are the Fenestron (transplanted wholesale from a Revell EC 135) with a corresponding movement of the stabilizers forward, the radome from an Academy AH-64D and the re-located Osiris optical system to the chin. The latter necessitated a fairing, which consists of a piece from a drop tank half.

Since I wanted to add Sea Skuas under the stub wings (taken from an Italeri 1:72 NATO weapon set), I also added a small thimble radome for an illumination radar on top of the nose. This subtly changes the Tiger's profile and adds a purposeful, Mi-28-ish look. Some blade antennae were re-located and radar warning sensors added, as well as a pitot made from thin wire in front of the cockpit.

Beyond the Sea Skuas I gave the model a single AIM-9 Sidewinder with a mathcing launch rail and a scratched gun pod, made from a Soviet GSh-23-2 pod with a single gun barrel (a hollow steel needle).

For later display and beauty pics, a vertical styrene tube was added into the model's center of gravity as an adapter for a holder.

Painting and markings:

The late German Marineflieger Tornados wore some interesting camouflage schemes under the Norm 87 scheme, and I wanted something similar for this navalized Tiger. However, a direct adaptation of the Tornados' scheme and its murky colors (RAL 7009, 7012 and 5008) appeared too dark for the smaller helicopter, lacking contrast that would help breaking up the outlines against sky and ground.

An alternative would have been RAL 7030, 7009 and 7012, but I used this one already on another Marineflieger whif (an Aero L-39 target tug). Another potential option was RAL 7030, 7000 and 7012 (incl. a bluish grey tone "Fehgrau", which is used uniformly on the German navy's ships and on some Marineflieger Do-28D Skyservants and Do 228s operated in the pollution control role), but this would rather have been suitable for a fighter aircraft, operating at medium to high altitudes. For "ground work", both options were IMHO too bright.

I eventually went back to the Tornado colors and replaced the RAL 7012 (Basaltgrau, very similar to Dark Sea Grey) with RAL 7030 (Steingrau, a brownish light grey). This resulted in a good contrast with the RAL 7009 (Grüngrau) and RAL 5008 (Graublau), and I kept the more or less naval color palette with grey/green/blue tones - even though and AFAIK, no German naval aircraft ever carried such a scheme. Still looks quite convincing.

The camouflage pattern was adopted from the land-based German Tigers, just the colors were replaced. I used Revell 75, 67 and a 1:1 mix of Humbrol 77 and 79. The cockpit interior became medium grey (Revell 47), the rotor blades Anthrazit (Revell 9).

The kit received a light wash with black ink and some panel post-shading.

The German roundels, flags as well as the tactical codes were created with material from TL Modellbau. The "MARINE" marking on the IR dampers was made up with single black 3mm letters, also with TL Modellbau material. A few stencils were taken from the OOB sheet, and some additional inscriptions were gathered from an 1:72 MiG-21 sheet from Begemot or simply painted. Finally, everything was sealed with matt acrylic varnish.

An apparently simpel build, but the intergration (and choice) of the Fenestron tail rotor caused some headaches and PSR sessions. But I am happy with the result: fist of all, I finally found a use for the surplus kit (reducing the stash height, marginally...), and the resulting helicopter does not look bad or unrealistic at all.

*Project Neverland is a way for us to show our love for Movies, TV Shows and Books in a Fashion way. We make references, not cosplays.

Model: Jenniré Narváez.

Team:

-Daniela Salvador

-Jenniré Narváez

-Julia Olivo

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This is a photo of the new Bull's Garage after the original site was demolished due to the opening of RAF Swinderby.

A pub was demolished to make way for this garage which in the present day is the A46 Lincoln to Newark road.

I don't know how long the garage operated under the name Bull's Garage as in later years this became more of a service station between the two locations.

In 1989 this was a Heron filling station, later selling Elf before it closed around 1994 and was decomissioned.

The buildings still stand in the present day and has been home to a plumbing & heating company for some time.

In the early 2000's this road was made dual carriageway.

The site in the present day

www.google.com/maps/place/Green+Ln,+Lincoln/@53.1465521,-...

Thanks to Geoff Lloyd for permission to reproduce this photo.

Paul Farrows photo from 1989 as well as a recent photo from me are in the comments below.

The store is in pretty good shape, but little was done to it when Acme took over. At first, the store was crowded (as Pathmark always was)...but as Albertsons has raised prices and cut products left and right, "sales have fallen off a cliff", as one employee told me.

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The Acme (former Pathmark) of Ferry Street in Newark, NJ is having a going-out-of-business sale. The closing was announced by the UFCW local 1262 a few weeks back. Unfortunately, the closing is not surprising. In a gentrifying neighborhood full of immigrants from Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Ecuador and lots of other places--Pathmark, with its deep expertise in ethnic merchandising--was a perfect fit; by contrast, Acme makes little effort to carry the products that the people of the neighborhood want to buy. It’s like the company has one model for supermarkets, and they plop them down no matter what neighborhood they operate in.

The sad part is that Pathmark was so successful and high-volume in this neighborhood that, in 1995, they replaced an older store next door with this 65,000 sq. ft. super center. Once A&P took over, prices went up, but at least the store still carried the wide selection of fresh and dry goods that the neighborhood wanted. Acme cut tons of these products and greatly reduced the selection. They replaced the once vibrant international flavor of Pathmark with a WASPy supermarket that your grandmother might have shopped at.

I am sure this is only the first of many former A&P/Pathmark stores that will close under Acme's leadership. The stores are mostly devoid of customers. The owners of New Albertson’s never had a long-term strategy to be in the grocery business. This is a company run by Wall-Street money men who buy up companies, leech money out of them to make themselves rich, saddle the companies with debt, and then try to sell them quickly. And believe me, they are saddling New Albertsons with billions of dollars of debt, financing all these acquisitions and store renovations. Unfortunately for them, there has been low interest in an Albertsons IPO the two times they have tried to offer the company up for sale, and now that same-store sales are tanking, it seems even more unlikely. To top it off, the company still hasn’t had a single profitable quarter since it was formed and is losing tens of millions every quarter.

Employees are being offered opportunities to relocate to other stores, but the ones I spoke to said many of the stores are too far away, and after being put through the wringer over the years, I think they are ready to move on. No one has yet signed on to takeover the supermarket, but the buzz was that ShopRite was interested in the store. The Kearny ShopRite operates 3 miles away.

This is the booth where Brandi got her pasties from a couple years ago. She's got a pretty cool tattoo that's a little hard to see as there's other things distracting you from it. I should probably moderate this so I don't get in trouble.

The Miami Beach Post Office is a historic 1937 Art Moderne U.S. Post Office building in Miami Beach, Florida, designed by Howard Lovewell Cheney and built under the patronage of the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.

This building is a historic building primarily in the Art Moderne style, closely related to Art Deco, known for its circular lobby, glass blocks, and distinctive cupola.

Key Architectural Features:

Style: Art Moderne (sometimes called Depression Moderne or Streamline Moderne), blending with Miami's Art Deco

surroundings.

Materials: Constructed with limestone and concrete.

Interior: Features murals by Charles Hardman depicting Florida history. While the main public area is on the ground floor, the central rotunda has a second level, topped by a cupola.

Significance: A notable example of Depression-era federal architecture, built under the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

Cheney designed the post office with a tall circular lobby with a cone-shaped roof and a thin tall cupola; a small round fountain directly beneath it and murals by Charles Hardman depicting Ponce de Leon's invasion of Florida on the wall above gold-colored post office boxes.

The building features a noteworthy main entrance with double doors topped by a ten-foot-high wall of glass blocks that allow natural light to fill the lobby. Just above the doorway a large stone eagle dominates the entrance. From the main lobby, the post office branches off to the rear service area and the side lobby where customers are received.

Charles Hardman, a native Floridian, was commissioned to paint a mural in 1940 by the Section of Fine Arts of the Works Progress Administration. He created a three-section mural that adorns the lobby wall. The sections are entitled Discovery, which shows Ponce de Leon’s arrival in Florida in 1513; de Soto and the Indians, showing Hernando de Soto and his men engaged in battle with Native Americans in 1539; and Conference, which shows General Thomas Jesup negotiating with Native Americans after the Second Seminole War in 1837. Hardman also painted a mural entitled Indians Receiving Gifts for the post office in Guntersville, Alabama.

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The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale. One of the larger rorqual species, adults range in length from 12–16 metres (39–52 ft) and weigh approximately 36,000 kilograms (79,000 lb).

The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with unusually long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. An acrobatic animal known for breaching and slapping the water with its tail and pectorals, it is popular with whale watchers off the coasts of Australasia and the Americas.

Males produce a complex song lasting 10 to 20 minutes, which they repeat for hours at a time. Its purpose is not clear, though it may have a role in mating. Found in oceans and seas around the world, humpback whales typically migrate up to 25,000 kilometres (16,000 mi) each year.

Humpbacks feed only in summer, in polar waters, and migrate to tropical or subtropical waters to breed and give birth in the winter. During the winter, humpbacks fast and live off their fat reserves. Their diet consists mostly of krill and small fish.

Humpbacks have a diverse repertoire of feeding methods, including the bubble net feeding technique. Like other large whales, the humpback was and is a target for the whaling industry. Once hunted to the brink of extinction, its population fell by an estimated 90% before a moratorium was introduced in 1966. While stocks have since partially recovered, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with ships, and noise pollution continue to impact the 80,000 humpbacks worldwide.

A humpback whale can easily be identified by its stocky body with an obvious hump and black dorsal coloring. The head and lower jaw are covered with knobs called tubercles, which are hair follicles, and are characteristic of the species. The fluked tail, which it lifts above the surface in some dive sequences, has wavy trailing edges.

The four global populations, all under study, are: North Pacific, Atlantic, and Southern Ocean humpbacks, which have distinct populations which complete a migratory round-trip each year, and the Indian Ocean population, which does not migrate, prevented by that ocean's northern coastline.

The long black and white tail fin, which can be up to a third of body length, and the pectoral fins have unique patterns, which make individual whales identifiable. Several hypotheses attempt to explain the humpback's pectoral fins, which are proportionally the longest fins of any cetacean.

The two most enduring mention the higher maneuverability afforded by long fins, and the usefulness of the increased surface area for temperature control when migrating between warm and cold climates. Humpbacks have 270 to 400 darkly colored baleen plates on each side of their mouths.

The plates measure from a mere 18 inches (46 cm) in the front to approximately 3 feet (0.91 m) long in the back, behind the hinge. Ventral grooves run from the lower jaw to the umbilicus about halfway along the underside of the whale. These grooves are less numerous (usually 14–22) than in other rorquals but are fairly wide.

The stubby dorsal fin is visible soon after the blow when the whale surfaces, but disappears by the time the flukes emerge. Humpbacks have a 3 metres (9.8 ft), heart-shaped to bushy blow, or exhalation of water through the blowholes.

Because humpback whales breathe voluntarily, the whales possibly shut off only half of their brains when sleeping. Early whalers also noted blows from humpback adults to be 10–20 feet (3.0–6.1 m) high.

This image was taken on a Elding Whale Watch trip from Akureyri in Iceland

Now summer is over and my lack of photographs being uploaded has continued despite my many attempts and many apology's. I do wish I had more time to upload my photographs but I have been working extra shifts and focusing on my Alevels as it is my last year before university. I hope sincerly that my efforts are being put to good use although I miss my efforts put in sharing my photographs on Flickr and I regret my neglect for it deeply. I enjoy sharing my photographs as photography is my biggest passion as is what I strive to study beyond Alevel, thus being my chosen course in which I want to study at university next year. With the thought of university and actually applying to university I am going to have to have to take an extra focus in on my photography and do everything I can to improve my chances of receiving an offer to my particular choices. Needless to say that Flickr plays a big role in this therefore I hope but do not promise that photo's will be being uploaded more frequently and more regularly.

Aside from my personal life and goals this is another awaited image from my vist to Stratford-Upon-Avon in April earlier this year. It only seems appropriate that I continue to upload these photographs before any recent ones as they have been sitting on my computer without a purpose. I want to give these images a purpose as the weekend was beautiful and one which the memories will live on forever. I enjoyed taking these photographs and I am proud to say that these photographs are mine.

After a few last busy weeks having a little time for Flickr. I bought a new umbrella to try portraits of my niece. This is my "test model" Indy :)

Equipment:

40d + Tamron 17-50 + Speedlite 540EZ + white umbrella

Processing:

APs - lucisart, tiffen

Thanks for your visit and have a great week everybody!!!

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Rusty Bear is an amazing Dawg-Father. He had double knee surgery last November to help his dislocated bones after the massive abuse he endured before getting rescued. But the way he struts today, you'd never believe what difficult painful times he has been through in his life. He's a true role model to the world. We are writing his heroic story and we'll keep you updated when it's published.

This is the memorial to not one but two mining disasters at Auchengeich. In 1931 six miners were killed by an explosion - a number of their comrades tried to go back to save them, but were overcome by fumes and had to be rescued themselves.

The second disaster was in 1959, when 47 men were trapped by a blaze, a thousand feet below the surface of the Earth. So severe was the fire and smoke (most were overcome by the smoke, it is thought) that the rescue attempts could not get close, and eventually they were left with no choice but to flood the put to dowse the flames.

47 men gone just like that, dozens of families shattered. My mother was a wee girl when it happened, but she remembered some of the children whose family members were in the pit being taken out of school, wailing and screaming their grief. The history books like to talk about the Great Events - the Industrial Revolution, exploration, empire and all of that, but often neglects that everything was built on the broad backs of men who laboured in such dangerous conditions for little reward.

Efficiency is the result of many people's hard work.

This is the open star cluster NGC 2420 (also known as Collinder 154, Melotte 69) located in the constellation Gemini and it has an estimated age of 2.5 ± 0.5 billion years. The cluster counts about 685 member stars within a radius of 20 arc minutes, which corresponds to about 39 light years.

Designation: NGC 2420

Right Ascension (J2000.0): 07h 38m 23.8s

Declination (J2000.0): +21° 34' 27"

Visual magnitude: 8.3 mag

Tech Specs: Orion 8” RC Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at -10F, 54 x 60 seconds, Celestron CGEM-DX pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: February 5, 2024. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

Skandasashti is a Hindu festival celebrated all over India,of course,with different names in different Regions.In Tamilnadu it is to worship Lord Muruga who annihilated the evil demon king Soorapadman ,his two powerful brothers and the entire lot of Asuras who represent evils.The celebration concludes on the 6th day when Lord Murugan killed Soorapadman and released the devas from incarceration.The entire celebrations are marked by special poojas,alankarams and cultural programs.

Covent Garden (/ˈkɒvənt/) is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the Royal Opera House, which is also known as "Covent Garden". The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Transport Museum.

Though mainly fields until the 16th century, the area was briefly settled when it became the heart of the Anglo-Saxon trading town of Lundenwic. After the town was abandoned, part of the area was walled off by 1200 for use as arable land and orchards by Westminster Abbey, and was referred to as "the garden of the Abbey and Convent". The land, now called "the Covent Garden", was seized by Henry VIII, and granted to the Earls of Bedford in 1552. The 4th Earl commissioned Inigo Jones to build some fine houses to attract wealthy tenants. Jones designed the Italianate arcaded square along with the church of St Paul's. The design of the square was new to London, and had a significant influence on modern town planning, acting as the prototype for the laying-out of new estates as London grew. A small open-air fruit and vegetable market had developed on the south side of the fashionable square by 1654. Gradually, both the market and the surrounding area fell into disrepute, as taverns, theatres, coffee-houses and brothels opened up; the gentry moved away, and rakes, wits and playwrights moved in. By the 18th century it had become a well-known red-light district, attracting notable prostitutes. An Act of Parliament was drawn up to control the area, and Charles Fowler's neo-classical building was erected in 1830 to cover and help organise the market. The area declined as a pleasure-ground as the market grew and further buildings were added: the Floral Hall, Charter Market, and in 1904 the Jubilee Market. By the end of the 1960s traffic congestion was causing problems, and in 1974 the market relocated to the New Covent Garden Market about three miles (5 km) south-west at Nine Elms. The central building re-opened as a shopping centre in 1980, and is now a tourist location containing cafes, pubs, small shops, and a craft market called the Apple Market, along with another market held in the Jubilee Hall.

Covent Garden, with the postcode WC2, falls within the London boroughs of Westminster and Camden, and the parliamentary constituencies of Cities of London and Westminster and Holborn and St Pancras. The area has been served by the Piccadilly line at Covent Garden tube station since 1907; the journey from Leicester Square, at 300 yards, is the shortest in London.

Early history

The route of the Strand on the southern boundary of what was to become Covent Garden was used during the Roman period as part of a route to Silchester, known as "Iter VII" on the Antonine Itinerary. Excavations in 2006 at St Martin-in-the-Fields revealed a Roman grave, suggesting the site had sacred significance. The area to the north of the Strand was long thought to have remained as unsettled fields until the 16th century, but theories by Alan Vince and Martin Biddle that there had been an Anglo-Saxon settlement to the west of the old Roman town of Londinium were borne out by excavations in 1985 and 2005. These revealed Covent Garden as the centre of a trading town called Lundenwic, developed around 600 AD, which stretched from Trafalgar Square to Aldwych. Alfred the Great gradually shifted the settlement into the old Roman town of Londinium from around 886 AD onwards, leaving no mark of the old town, and the site returned to fields.

Around 1200 the first mention of an abbey garden appears in a document mentioning a walled garden owned by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. A later document, dated between 1250 and 1283, refers to "the garden of the Abbot and Convent of Westminster". By the 13th century this had become a 40-acre (16 ha) quadrangle of mixed orchard, meadow, pasture and arable land, lying between modern-day St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane, and Floral Street and Maiden Lane. The use of the name "Covent"—an Anglo-French term for a religious community, equivalent to "monastery" or "convent" —appears in a document in 1515, when the Abbey, which had been letting out parcels of land along the north side of the Strand for inns and market gardens, granted a lease of the walled garden, referring to it as "a garden called Covent Garden". This is how it was recorded from then on.

The Bedford Estate (1552–1918)

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540, Henry VIII took for himself the land belonging to Westminster Abbey, including the convent garden and seven acres to the north called Long Acre; and in 1552 his son, Edward VI, granted it to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford. The Russell family, who in 1694 were advanced in their peerage from Earl to Duke of Bedford, held the land from 1552 to 1918.

Russell had Bedford House and garden built on part of the land, with an entrance on the Strand, the large garden stretching back along the south side of the old walled-off convent garden. Apart from this, and allowing several poor-quality tenements to be erected, the Russells did little with the land until the 4th Earl of Bedford, Francis Russell, an active and ambitious businessman, commissioned Inigo Jones in 1630 to design and build a church and three terraces of fine houses around a large square or piazza. The commission had been prompted by Charles I taking offence at the condition of the road and houses along Long Acre, which were the responsibility of Russell and Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth. Russell and Carey complained that under the 1625 Proclamation concerning Buildings, which restricted building in and around London, they could not build new houses; the King then granted Russell, for a fee of £2,000, a licence to build as many new houses on his land as he "shall thinke fitt and convenient". The church of St Paul's was the first building, begun in July 1631 on the western side of the square. The last house was completed in 1637.

The houses initially attracted the wealthy, though when a market developed on the south side of the square around 1654, the aristocracy moved out and coffee houses, taverns, and prostitutes moved in. The Bedford Estate was expanded in 1669 to include Bloomsbury, when Lord Russell married Lady Rachel Vaughan, one of the daughters of the 4th Earl of Southampton.

By the 18th century, Covent Garden had become a well-known red-light district, attracting notable prostitutes such as Betty Careless and Jane Douglas. Descriptions of the prostitutes and where to find them were provided by Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies, the "essential guide and accessory for any serious gentleman of pleasure". In 1830 a market hall was built to provide a more permanent trading centre. In 1913, Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford agreed to sell the Covent Garden Estate for £2 million to the MP and land speculator Harry Mallaby-Deeley, who sold his option in 1918 to the Beecham family for £250,000.

Modern changes

Charles Fowler's 1830 neo-classical building restored as a retail market.

The Covent Garden Estate was part of Beecham Estates and Pills Limited from 1924 to 1928, after which time it was managed by a successor company called Covent Garden Properties Company Limited, owned by the Beechams and other private investors. This new company sold some properties at Covent Garden, while becoming active in property investment in other parts of London. In 1962 the bulk of the remaining properties in the Covent Garden area, including the market, were sold to the newly established government-owned Covent Garden Authority for £3,925,000.

By the end of the 1960s, traffic congestion had reached such a level that the use of the square as a modern wholesale distribution market was becoming unsustainable, and significant redevelopment was planned. Following a public outcry, buildings around the square were protected in 1973, preventing redevelopment. The following year the market moved to a new site in south-west London. The square languished until its central building re-opened as a shopping centre in 1980. An action plan was drawn up by Westminster Council in 2004 in consultation with residents and businesses to improve the area while retaining its historic character. The market buildings, along with several other properties in Covent Garden, were bought by a property company in 2006.

Geography

Historically, the Bedford Estate defined the boundary of Covent Garden, with Drury Lane to the east, the Strand to the south, St. Martin's Lane to the west, and Long Acre to the north. However, over time the area has expanded northwards past Long Acre to High Holborn, and since 1971, with the creation of the Covent Garden Conservation Area which incorporated part of the area between St Martins Lane and Charring Cross Road, the Western boundary is sometimes considered to be Charring Cross Road. Shelton Street, running parallel to the north of Long Acre, marks the London borough boundary between Camden and Westminster. Long Acre is the main thoroughfare, running north-east from St Martin's Lane to Drury Lane.

The area to the south of Long Acre contains the Royal Opera House, the market and central square, and most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Transport Museum; while the area to the north of Long Acre is largely given over to independent retail units centred on Neal Street, Neal's Yard and Seven Dials; though this area also contains residential buildings such as Odhams Walk, built in 1981 on the site of the Odhams print works, and is home to over 6,000 residents.

Governance

The Covent Garden estate was originally under the control of Westminster Abbey and lay in the parish of St Margaret. During a reorganisation in 1542 it was transferred to St Martin in the Fields, and then in 1645 a new parish was created, splitting governance of the estate between the parishes of St Paul Covent Garden and St Martin, both still within the Liberty of Westminster. St Paul Covent Garden was completely surrounded by the parish of St Martin in the Fields. It was grouped into the Strand District in 1855 when it came within the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works.

In 1889 the parish became part of the County of London and in 1900 it became part of the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster. It was abolished as a civil parish in 1922. Since 1965 Covent Garden falls within the London boroughs of Westminster and Camden, and is in the Parliamentary constituencies of Cities of London and Westminster and Holborn and St Pancras. For local council elections it falls within the St James's ward for Westminster, and the Holborn and Covent Garden ward for Camden.

Economy

The area's historic association with the retail and entertainment economy continues. In 1979, Covent Garden Market reopened as a retail centre; in 2010, the largest Apple Store in the world opened in The Piazza. The central hall has shops, cafes and bars alongside the Apple Market stalls selling antiques, jewellery, clothing and gifts; there are additional casual stalls in the Jubilee Hall Market on the south side of the square. Long Acre has a range of clothes shops and boutiques, and Neal Street is noted for its large number of shoe shops. London Transport Museum and the side entrance to the Royal Opera House box office and other facilities are also located on the square. During the late 1970s and 1980s the Rock Garden music venue was popular with up and coming punk rock and New Wave artists.

The market halls and several other buildings in Covent Garden were bought by CapCo in partnership with GE Real Estate in August 2006 for £421 million, on a 150-year head lease. The buildings are let to the Covent Garden Area Trust, who pay an annual peppercorn rent of one red apple and a posy of flowers for each head lease, and the Trust protects the property from being redeveloped. In March 2007 CapCo also acquired the shops located under the Royal Opera House. The complete Covent Garden Estate owned by CapCo consists of 550,000 sq ft (51,000 m2), and has a market value of £650 million.

Landmarks

The Royal Opera House, often referred to as simply "Covent Garden", was constructed as the "Theatre Royal" in 1732 to a design by Edward Shepherd. During the first hundred years or so of its history, the theatre was primarily a playhouse, with the Letters Patent granted by Charles II giving Covent Garden and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane exclusive rights to present spoken drama in London. In 1734, the first ballet was presented; a year later Handel's first season of operas began. Many of his operas and oratorios were specifically written for Covent Garden and had their premières here. It has been the home of The Royal Opera since 1945, and the Royal Ballet since 1946.

The current building is the third theatre on the site following destructive fires in 1808 and 1857. The façade, foyer and auditorium were designed by Edward Barry, and date from 1858, but almost every other element of the present complex dates from an extensive £178 million reconstruction in the 1990s. The Royal Opera House seats 2,268 people and consists of four tiers of boxes and balconies and the amphitheatre gallery. The stage performance area is roughly 15 metres square. The main auditorium is a Grade 1 listed building. The inclusion of the adjacent old Floral Hall, previously a part of the old Covent Garden Market, created a new and extensive public gathering place. In 1779 the pavement outside the playhouse was the scene of the murder of Martha Ray, mistress of the Earl of Sandwich, by her admirer the Rev. James Hackman.

Covent Garden square

Balthazar Nebot's 1737 painting of the square before the 1830 market hall was constructed.

The central square in Covent Garden is simply called "Covent Garden", often marketed as "Covent Garden Piazza" to distinguish it from the eponymous surrounding area. Laid out in 1630, it was the first modern square in London, and was originally a flat, open space or piazza with low railings. A casual market started on the south side, and by 1830 the present market hall was built. The space is popular with street performers, who audition with the site's owners for an allocated slot. The square was originally laid out when the 4th Earl of Bedford, Francis Russell, commissioned Inigo Jones to design and build a church and three terraces of fine houses around the site of a former walled garden belonging to Westminster Abbey. Jones's design was informed by his knowledge of modern town planning in Europe, particularly Piazza d'Arme, in Leghorn, Tuscany, Piazza San Marco in Venice, Piazza Santissima Annunziata in Florence, and the Place des Vosges in Paris. The centrepiece of the project was the large square, the concept of which was new to London, and this had a significant influence on modern town planning in the city,[56] acting as the prototype for the laying-out of new estates as the metropolis grew. Isaac de Caus, the French Huguenot architect, designed the individual houses under Jones's overall design.

The church of St Paul's was the first building, and was begun in July 1631 on the western side of the square. The last house was completed in 1637. Seventeen of the houses had arcaded portico walks organised in groups of four and six either side of James Street on the north side, and three and four either side of Russell Street. These arcades, rather than the square itself, took the name Piazza; the group from James Street to Russell Street became known as the "Great Piazza" and that to the south of Russell Street as the "Little Piazza". None of Inigo Jones's houses remain, though part of the north group was reconstructed in 1877–79 as Bedford Chambers by William Cubitt to a design by Henry Clutton.

Covent Garden market

The first record of a "new market in Covent Garden" is in 1654 when market traders set up stalls against the garden wall of Bedford House. The Earl of Bedford acquired a private charter from Charles II in 1670 for a fruit and vegetable market, permitting him and his heirs to hold a market every day except Sundays and Christmas Day. The original market, consisting of wooden stalls and sheds, became disorganised and disorderly, and the 6th Earl requested an Act of Parliament in 1813 to regulate it, then commissioned Charles Fowler in 1830 to design the neo-classical market building that is the heart of Covent Garden today. The contractor was William Cubitt and Company. Further buildings were added—the Floral hall, Charter Market, and in 1904 the Jubilee Market for foreign flowers was built by Cubitt and Howard.

By the end of the 1960s, traffic congestion was causing problems for the market, which required increasingly large lorries for deliveries and distribution. Redevelopment was considered, but protests from the Covent Garden Community Association in 1973 prompted the Home Secretary, Robert Carr, to give dozens of buildings around the square listed-building status, preventing redevelopment. The following year the market relocated to its new site, New Covent Garden Market, about three miles (5 km) south-west at Nine Elms. The central building re-opened as a shopping centre in 1980, with cafes, pubs, small shops and a craft market called the Apple Market. Another market, the Jubilee Market, is held in the Jubilee Hall on the south side of the square. The market halls and several other buildings in Covent Garden have been owned by the property company Capital & Counties Properties (CapCo) since 2006.

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

The current Theatre Royal on Drury Lane is the most recent of four incarnations, the Second of which opened in 1663, making it the oldest continuously used theatre in London. For much of its first two centuries, it was, along with the Royal Opera House, a patent theatre granted rights in London for the production of drama, and had a claim to be one of London's leading theatres. The first theatre, known as "Theatre Royal, Bridges Street", saw performances by Nell Gwyn and Charles Hart. After it was destroyed by fire in 1672, English dramatist and theatre manager Thomas Killigrew engaged Christopher Wren to build a larger theatre on the same spot, which opened in 1674. This building lasted nearly 120 years, under leadership including Colley Cibber, David Garrick, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In 1791, under Sheridan's management, the building was demolished to make way for a larger theatre which opened in 1794; but that survived only 15 years, burning down in 1809. The building that stands today opened in 1812. It has been home to actors as diverse as Shakespearean actor Edmund Kean, child actress Clara Fisher, comedian Dan Leno, the comedy troupe Monty Python (who recorded a concert album there), and musical composer and performer Ivor Novello. Since November 2008 the theatre has been owned by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and generally stages popular musical theatre. It is a Grade I listed building.

London Transport Museum

The London Transport Museum is in a Victorian iron and glass building on the east side of the market square. It was designed as a dedicated flower market by William Rogers of William Cubitt and Company in 1871, and was first occupied by the museum in 1980. Previously the transport collection had been held at Syon Park and Clapham. The first parts of the collection were brought together at the beginning of the 20th century by the London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) when it began to preserve buses being retired from service. After the LGOC was taken over by the London Electric Railway (LER), the collection was expanded to include rail vehicles. It continued to expand after the LER became part of the London Passenger Transport Board in the 1930s and as the organisation passed through various successor bodies up to TfL, London's transport authority since 2000. The Covent Garden building has on display many examples of buses, trams, trolleybuses and rail vehicles from 19th and 20th centuries as well as artefacts and exhibits related to the operation and marketing of passenger services and the impact that the developing transport network has had on the city and its population.

St Paul's Church

St Paul's, commonly known as the Actors' Church, was designed by Inigo Jones as part of a commission by Francis Russell in 1631 to create "houses and buildings fitt for the habitacons of Gentlemen and men of ability". Work on the church began that year and was completed in 1633, at a cost of £4,000, with it becoming consecrated in 1638. In 1645 Covent Garden was made a separate parish and the church was dedicated to St Paul. It is uncertain how much of Jones's original building is left, as the church was damaged by fire in 1795 during restoration work by Thomas Hardwick; though it is believed that the columns are original—the rest is mostly Georgian or Victorian reconstruction.

Culture

The Covent Garden area has long been associated with both entertainment and shopping, and this continues. Covent Garden has 13 theatres, and over 60 pubs and bars, with most south of Long Acre, around the main shopping area of the old market. The Seven Dials area in the north of Covent Garden was home to the punk rock club The Roxy in 1977, and the area remains focused on young people with its trendy mid-market retail outlets.

Street performance

Street entertainment at Covent Garden was noted in Samuel Pepys's diary in May 1662, when he recorded the first mention of a Punch and Judy show in Britain. Impromptu performances of song and swimming were given by local celebrity William Cussans in the eighteenth century. Covent Garden is licensed for street entertainment, and performers audition for timetabled slots in a number of venues around the market, including the North Hall, West Piazza, and South Hall Courtyard. The courtyard space is dedicated to classical music only. There are street performances at Covent Garden Market every day of the year, except Christmas Day. Shows run throughout the day and are about 30 minutes in length. In March 2008, the market owner, CapCo, proposed to reduce street performances to one 30-minute show each hour.

Pubs and bars

The Covent Garden area has over 60 pubs and bars; several of them are listed buildings, with some also on CAMRA's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors; some, such as The Harp in Chandos Place, have received consumer awards. The Harp's awards include London Pub of the Year in 2008 by the Society for the Preservation of Beers from the Wood, and National Pub of the Year by CAMRA in 2011. It was at one time owned by the Charrington Brewery, when it was known as The Welsh Harp; in 1995 the name was abbreviated to just The Harp, before Charrington sold it to Punch Taverns in 1997. It has been owned by the landlady since 2010.

The Lamb and Flag in Rose Street has a reputation as the oldest pub in the area, though records are not clear. The first mention of a pub on the site is 1772 (when it was called the Cooper's Arms – the name changing to Lamb & Flag in 1833); the 1958 brick exterior conceals what may be an early 18th-century frame of a house replacing the original one built in 1638.[94] The pub acquired a reputation for staging bare-knuckle prize fights during the early 19th century when it earned the nickname "Bucket of Blood". The alleyway beside the pub was the scene of an attack on John Dryden in 1679 by thugs hired by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, with whom he had a long-standing conflict.

The Salisbury in St. Martin's Lane was built as part of a six-storey block around 1899 on the site of an earlier pub that had been known under several names, including the Coach & Horses and Ben Caunt's Head; it is both Grade II listed, and on CAMRA's National Inventory, due to the quality of the etched and polished glass and the carved woodwork, summed up as "good fin de siècle ensemble". The Freemasons Arms on Long Acre is linked with the founding of the Football Association in 1896; however, the meetings took place at The Freemasons Tavern on Great Queen Street, which was replaced in 1909 by the Connaught Rooms.

Other pubs that are Grade II listed are of minor interest, they are three 19th century rebuilds of 17th century/18th century houses, the Nell Gwynne Tavern in Bull Inn Court, the Nag's Head on James Street, and the White Swan on New Row; a Victorian pub built by lessees of the Marquis of Exeter, the Old Bell on the corner of Exeter Street and Wellington Street; and a late 18th or early 19th century pub the Angel and Crown on St. Martin's Lane.

Cultural connections

Covent Garden, and especially the market, have appeared in a number of works. Eliza Doolittle, the central character in George Bernard Shaw's play, Pygmalion, and the musical adaptation by Alan Jay Lerner, My Fair Lady, is a Covent Garden flower seller. Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 film Frenzy about a Covent Garden fruit vendor who becomes a serial sex killer, was set in the market where his father had been a wholesale greengrocer. The daily activity of the market was the topic of a 1957 Free Cinema documentary by Lindsay Anderson, Every Day Except Christmas, which won the Grand Prix at the Venice Festival of Shorts and Documentaries.

Transport

Covent Garden is served by the Piccadilly line at Covent Garden tube station on the corner of Long Acre and James Street. The station was opened by Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway on 11 April 1907, four months after services on the rest of the line began operating on 15 December 1906. Platform access is only by lift or stairs; until improvements to the exit gates in 2007, due to high passenger numbers (16 million annually), London Underground had to advise travellers to get off at Leicester Square and walk the short distance (the tube journey at less than 300 yards is London's shortest) to avoid the congestion. Stations just outside the area include the Charing Cross tube station and Charing Cross railway station, Leicester Square tube station, and Holborn tube station. While there is only one bus route in Covent Garden itself—the RV1, which uses Catherine Street as a terminus, just to the east of Covent Garden square—there are over 30 routes which pass close by, mostly on the Strand or Kingsway.

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