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I was out when the sky covered up with clouds after two long hard summer months. In India, rains are always a welcome sight.
Prilep is a city in the Western Macedonia, nicknamed "The city under Marko’s towers" (referring to the fortress). The city is the Macedonian tobacco capital. Prilep was the capital of the medieval kingdom of Kings Volkasin and Marko which explains the large number of churches and monasteries in and around the city.
Prilep has small, pleasant and well maintained bazaar with orthogonal streets. Of interest are the Clock tower (the most beautiful one in Macedonia) built in 1858 and Carshi Mosque built in 1475, the only one in Europe with two balconies on its minaret (awaiting restoration).
The Berlaymont is an office building in Brussels, Belgium that houses the headquarters of the European Commission, which is the executive of the European Union (EU). The structure is located at Schuman roundabout at 200 Rue de la Loi, in what is known as the "European district". The building has housed the European Commission since its construction, and has become a symbol of the Commission (its name becoming a metonym for the Commission) and the European presence in Brussels. The Commission itself is spread over some 60 odd buildings, but the Berlaymont is the institution's headquarters, being the seat of the President of the European Commission and its College of Commissioners. Read more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlaymont_building
Odeceixe is a civil parish in the northern part of the municipality Aljezur, in the Portuguese Algarve, lying within the Nature Park of the Southwest Alentejo and Vincentine Coast.
The parish of Odeceixe is situated on the steeply inclined topography that divides the Algrave and Alentejo regions; the south bank of the Ribeira de Seixe which runs through this parish is the dividing line for this frontier.
The parish includes Praia do Odeceixe at the mouth of the Ribera de Seixe. This has one of the few official naturist beaches in Portugal.
The parish is bordered in the north by São Teotónio, east by Marmelete and south by Rogil, while to the west is the Atlantic Ocean.
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We made a short stop in Odeceixe during our journey from Sagres to Lisbon - it is a peaceful place with a fine beach and nice views from nearby hills.
is exactly what it looks like.
makes the term "bible belt" seem a lot less ridiculous, no? hope everyone is having a good weekend, considering.
This tiny bird is in constant motion and has given me lots of frustration trying to photo them. Today I was lucky.
This is not a commercial for the shoes! to be honest I don't know what it is but I like it! :)
(my mother would say on this pics .. "dear you have cut her head! Discard!")
Finnieston, Glasgow.
At 127m (417 ft) tall, the Glasgow Tower is currently the tallest tower in Scotland. It holds a Guinness World Record for being the tallest tower in the world in which the whole structure is capable of rotating 360 degrees. The whole structure rests upon a 65cm (26 in) diameter thrust bearing, and is connected to its foundations by two concentric rings and shock absorbers, whilst the thrust bearing rests in a 15m (50 ft) deep caisson; this is designed to allow it to rotate under computer control to face into the wind.
The tower, previously known as the Millennium Tower, was the winning design in an international competition to design a tower for the city centre of Glasgow. The original architectural design was by the architect Richard Horden, with engineering design by Buro Happold, but after commissioning the project was taken over by the Glasgow architects BDP. In the end the tower cost £10 million. Glasgow Council successfully sued contractors Carillion over the quality of the work.
This is the first time I’ve seen the I-80 Yolo bypass completely dry. This drought is pretty serious
Dress, Peter Som for Kohl’s. Shoes, Seychelles. Sunglasses, Girlprops. Earrings and belt, thrifted. Bag, Walgreen’s. Bracelet, Charming Charlie.
This heat is pretty serious, too. I'm struggling to find appropriate, yet cool, outfits each day. (And also gaining a new appreciation for my sales calls in Suisun City, where the temps are a good 10 degrees cooler than Sacramento.)
Barbie and friends escaped to a Tropical Paradise for the Summer...an old pic I took couple of years back..I need to come up with a new Summer scene!!
Our next stop was Mt Rosa Winery March 7, 2014 Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand.
Here is what the says about his winery and wines.. and he was such a character with is gumboots and short.. and very tall...sure was laid back!
At Mt Rosa we leave nothing to chance we are relentless in the pursuit of excellence, hence the top end marketing. Our tasting room is built to exacting specifications in our woolshed, ie rough. Our wines are as good as we can make them and they are there to be drunk. We are found at the sunny end of the Gibbston, many say , ie us , the better end.
Follow SH6 to Gibbston and hang a right up the 3rd road past the Bungy and follow your nose. www.nzwine.com/winery/mt-rosa-central-otago/
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
For many years, the hypothesis of the Soviet historian Vladimir Zagorovsky dominated: he produced the toponym "Voronezh" from the hypothetical Slavic personal name Voroneg. This man allegedly gave the name of a small town in the Chernigov Principality (now the village of Voronizh in Ukraine). Later, in the 11th or 12th century, the settlers were able to "transfer" this name to the Don region, where they named the second city Voronezh, and the river got its name from the city. However, now many researchers criticize the hypothesis, since in reality neither the name of Voroneg nor the second city was revealed, and usually the names of Russian cities repeated the names of the rivers, but not vice versa.
A comprehensive scientific analysis was conducted in 2015–2016 by the historian Pavel Popov. His conclusion: "Voronezh" is a probable Slavic macrotoponym associated with outstanding signs of nature, has a root voron- (from the proto-Slavic vorn) in the meaning of "black, dark" and the suffix -ezh (-azh, -ozh). It was not “transferred” and in the 8th - 9th centuries it marked a vast territory covered with black forests (oak forests) - from the mouth of the Voronezh river to the Voronozhsky annalistic forests in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and in the west to the Don (many forests were cut down). The historian believes that the main "city" of the early town-planning complex could repeat the name of the region – Voronezh. Now the hillfort is located in the administrative part of the modern city, in the Voronezh upland oak forest. This is one of Europe's largest ancient Slavic hillforts, the area of which – more than 9 hectares – 13 times the area of the main settlement in Kyiv before the baptism of Rus.
In it is assumed that the word "Voronezh" means bluing - a technique to increase the corrosion resistance of iron products. This explanation fits well with the proximity to the ancient city of Voronezh of a large iron deposit and the city of Stary Oskol. As well as the name of Voroneț Monastery known for its blue shade.
Folk etymology claims the name comes from combining the Russian words for raven (ворон) and hedgehog (еж) into Воронеж. According to this explanation two Slavic tribes named after the animals used this combination to name the river which later in turn provided the name for a settlement. There is not believed to be any scientific support for this explanation.
In the 16th century, the Middle Don basin, including the Voronezh river, was gradually conquered by Muscovy from the Nogai Horde (a successor state of the Golden Horde), and the current city of Voronezh was established in 1585 by Feodor I as a fort protecting the Muravsky Trail trade route against the slave raids of the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. The city was named after the river.
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town. Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later proclaimed the town's patron saint.
Owing to the Voronezh Admiralty Wharf, for a short time, Voronezh became the largest city of South Russia and the economic center of a large and fertile region. In 1711, it was made the seat of the Azov Governorate, which eventually morphed into the Voronezh Governorate.
In the 19th century, Voronezh was a center of the Central Black Earth Region. Manufacturing industry (mills, tallow-melting, butter-making, soap, leather, and other works) as well as bread, cattle, suet, and the hair trade developed in the town. A railway connected Voronezh with Moscow in 1868 and Rostov-on-Don in 1871.
Explored.
Potters shop at Saidpur village, Islamabad - Pakistan.
These old cultural and traditional pottery is still very much in use and demand in modern times.
Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population of Pasadena was 137,122, making it the 180th-largest city in the United States, down from 168th place in 2009. Pasadena is the ninth-largest city in Los Angeles County. Pasadena was incorporated on June 19, 1886, becoming the fourth city to be incorporated in Los Angeles County, after Los Angeles (April 4, 1850), Anaheim (February 10, 1870) and Santa Ana (June 1, 1886); the latter two moved to Orange County after its separation from Los Angeles County in 1889. It is one of the primary cultural centers of the San Gabriel Valley.
The city is known for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses Parade. In addition, Pasadena is also home to many scientific and cultural institutions, including the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Fuller Theological Seminary, Art Center College of Design, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Norton Simon Museum of Art and the Pacific Asia Museum.
The original inhabitants of Pasadena and surrounding areas were members of the Native American Hahamog-na tribe, a branch of the Tongva Nation. They spoke the Tongva language (part of the Uto-Aztecan languages group) that lived in the Los Angeles Basin for thousands of years. Tongva dwellings lined the Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County) in present day Pasadena and south to where it joins the Los Angeles River and along other natural waterways in the city.
They traded for ocean fish with the coastal Tongva. They made cooking vessels from steatite soapstone from Catalina Island. The oldest transportation route still in existence in Pasadena is the old Tongva foot trail, also known as the Gabrielino Trail, that goes along the west side of the Rose Bowl and up the Arroyo Seco past the Jet Propulsion Laboratory into the San Gabriel Mountains. That trail has been in continuous use for thousands of years. An arm of the trail is also still in use up what is now called Salvia Canyon. When the Spanish occupied the Los Angeles Basin they built the San Gabriel Mission and renamed the local Tongva people "Gabrielino Indians," after the name of the mission. Today, several bands of Tongva people live in the Los Angeles area.
Pasadena is a part of the original Mexican land grant named Rancho del Rincon de San Pascual, so named because it was deeded on Easter Sunday to Eulalia Perez de Guillén Mariné of Mission San Gabriel Arcángel. The Rancho comprised the lands of today's communities of Pasadena, Altadena and South Pasadena.
The popularity of the region drew people from across the country, and Pasadena eventually became a stop on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, which led to an explosion in growth. From the real estate boom of the 1880s until the Great Depression, as great tourist hotels were developed in the city, Pasadena became a winter resort for wealthy Easterners, spurring the development of new neighborhoods and business districts, and increased road and transit connections with Los Angeles, culminating with the opening of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, California's first freeway. By 1940, Pasadena had become the eighth largest city in California and was considered by many to be a twin city to Los Angeles.
The American Craftsman era in art and design is exceptionally well represented in Pasadena. In architecture Greene and Greene, the Green Brothers firm, developed the style with many residences still existing. Two examples of their Ultimate bungalow versions are the masterpiece Gamble House (public tours), and the Robert R. Blacker House (private).
The Second World War proved to be a boom to Pasadena as Southern California became a major staging area for the Pacific War. High tech manufacturing and scientific companies made the city their home, a trend which continued in the decades following the war, notably with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Tetra Tech and Ameron International.
In the 1950s, Pasadena saw a steady influx of people from the Southern United States, especially African-Americans from Texas and Louisiana. Pasadena also began hosting a large immigrant community, particularly from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Armenia.
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Hạ Long Bay (literally: "descending dragon bay") is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a popular travel destination, in Quảng Ninh Province, Vietnam. Administratively, the bay belongs to Hạ Long City, Cẩm Phả town, and part of Vân Đồn District. The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various shapes and sizes.
Hạ Long Bay is a center of a larger zone which includes Bái Tử Long Bay to the northeast, and Cát Bà Island to the southwest. These larger zones share a similar geological, geographical, geomorphological, climate and cultural characters.
In 2000, the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has inscribed the Hạ Long Bay in the World Heritage List according to its outstanding examples representing major stages of the Earth’s history and its original limestone karstic geomorphologic features. The Hạ Long Bay and its adjacent areas consist of a part of the Sino-Vietnamese composite terrane having its development history from pre-Cambrian up to present day. See en.wikipedia.org
This is an out-take from my first time on stage with my lovely duet partner, 12-year old Miss Kate. She's preparing her audition for Annie - so wish her oodles of good luck! I know she could be a fantastic Annie. Although I'm not auditioning for the part of Sandy, Annie's dog, I'm definitely keen to follow my queues. Maybe one day Kate and I will perform "I'd Do Anything For You," as surely I'd do anything for sweet Miss Kate. Thank you Miss Kate!!!
love you always,
Miss Vivi
Life is beautiful
But it's complicated
We barely make it
We don't need
To understand
There are miracles
Miracles
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This is one of the ways I keep my legs toned so that they look good and have that sensuous and feminine curvature!
This is an ensemble I got from Newport News a while back during their seamless spandex phase. Its a wonderfully tight and clingy matching set that I've embellished with a stretch belt, seamless panty hose, scrunch socks and my workout shoes. I hope you like my purple outfit and the way it clings to my curves!
To see more pix of me in other tight, sexy and revealing outfits click this link:
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This is the quite large central area, once enclosed by the wall of enceinte, which ran along the edge of the bank where I am standing. The Spey loops around below the bank that starts at the left side of the photo; passes just beyond the dead tree in the centre of the photo, but well this side of the distant hill; and then round below the right side of the photo. This area, although wilderness, is known to have been partially cultivated and used for cattle grazing, with the result that any signs of castle buildings (which would probably have been of timber construction) within the enceinte (above ground level at least) have been erased.
Drumbarrow is in Fife and we know that George Leslie of Drumbarrow (aka Dunberach) was sent north by his father to be captain of his castle of Rothes - now in not much better shape than this. The earl would have needed a reliable man for this job because he would have spent little if any time in these wild and heathen parts himself, being so far from the centres of power and politics.
The 1st Earl of Rothes was married three times. His son and heir, born to his 2nd wife, Andrew Master of Rothes, died 12 years before his father, leaving (besides his own children) a lot of sisters and one brother - and one illegitimate brother - George of Drumbarrow. With a shortage of sons, the Earl, as was quite common in those days, made best use of whatever sons he had, regardless of 'which side of the blanket' they came from!
There is an entry in the Register of the Secret Seal, that a precept of legitimation was issued to "Georgii Leslie, bastardi, filii naturalis Georgii Leslie de Akinwa" on 22 July 1584. I thought on reading it that the George being legitimated was George 1st of Aikenway, but it isn't, it is his son.
Here it is! My Corvette got the much needed refit. It now matches the 1942 period better.
What has been fixed, you're wondering? Several things:
-The camouflage now resembles the Western Approaches Pattern applied on escort vessels in service in the North Atlantic in 1942
- The armament has been updated with the addition of the Hedgehog rocket launcher, rebuilt depth charges racks and added side depth charges dischargers, addition of a Pom Pom 2pdr. in the Tub, 20mm Oerlikons both sides of the bridge
- Added details on the rear deck (door, access ladder, hatch, vents and winch), on the bridge ( rebuilt ASDIC hut and added voice pipes) and others
- Rebuilt aft section with a better curvature and more realistic depth charge racks
- Added Life boats and Baley rafts
And I'll let you find out the rest ;)
Sorry for this massive description, and I hope you like and leave a comment. :D
Diwali is one of the biggest festival of Hindus, celebrated with great enthusiasm and happiness in India. The festival is celebrated for five continuous days, where the third days is celebrated as the main Diwali festival or 'Festival of lights'. Different colorful varieties of fireworks are always associated with this festival. On this auspicious day, people light up diyas and candles all around their house. They perform Laxmi Puja in the evening and seek divine blessings of Goddess of Wealth. The festival od Diwali is never complete without exchange of gifts. People present diwali gifts to all near and dear ones.
During Diwali, Goddess Lakshmi is believed to visit homes that are well lit, so families decorate their homes. People wear their best clothes or buy new ones, children are given presents and new year greetings are exchanged through visits or Diwali cards. Thus, a Rangoli design is created on doorsteps to welcome everybody. Rangoli exudes a pattern in color that are specific for each region.
During Diwali, in the art of floor painting, the central rangoli design is the symbolic one denoting the deity or the theme. Motifs generally created are lotus, fish, birds, snakes etc. which reflects the unity of man and beast. Most of the rangoli designs are circular exuding a sense of endlessness of time. Celestial symbols such as the sun, moon and other zodiac signs are also common themes for rangoli. Layered with symbolism is the lotus denoting Goddess Lakshmi, the unfolding of life, the heart or the wheel.
*from my "post cards from the front" prjoject:
"For the first time that I saw "post cards from the front" was as a eight year old while going to German grade school in Prague, Bohemia.
Our new substitute teacher, Mr. Otto Funk was a first world war veteran and a "ardent Nazi"
Mr. Funk did not care for rabbits, canaries or goldfish as some of our previous teachers encouraged us to bring and talk about.
With Mr. Funk it was all about war!
Wednesdays was "Show and Tell" day and it consisted of "sharing" photographs of relatives, friends, neighbors who fought at the front "in a life and death struggle for the survival of our race"
Most photographs brought by the children did not look like anyone was fighting, they were quite ordinary snapshots of smiling civilians,soldiers and officers posing in front of some destroyed village or building. Some of the pictures showed prisoners; girls thought they looked like they were crying, we thought they were also smiling and happy not to have to fight anymore; they all looked dirty and wore rags.
We were told they were bad people who killed "our brave soldiers"
"They were bandits"
The most interesting photographs were those of "our soldiers and officers" wearing woman's fur coats, sweaters and gunny sacks wrapped around their boots.
I still remember one soldier posing with his hands in a fur muff, exactly like the one my mother owned and my sister gave away to the "winter relief" people when they came to our house collecting winter cloth for "our stranded troops".
Another time we celebrated "Memorial Day" a special remembrance day for those relatives who gave their lives for "our country'
We were all told that they were all heroes now resting in a special place called Valhalla reserved for them by "our all mighty " for heroes./ we never found out if the reference was made to God or "our Fuhrer"
We actually envied some of the kids who lost their fathers and brothers; many were simply reported as "missing"
The "Memorial Day" pictures were mounted on black cardboard and posted on the bulletin board, and were framed in black bunting and ribbons made in our class.
It was about that time that my father confided to me that my mother was of "Jewish background" and therefore arrested earlier and that he too would be "send away" to do "voluntary" work for the "war effort"
I was not to worry about them and that they would be well taken care off untill the end of the war.
I wondered weather they would be living in tents and cooking outdoors, it all sounded like fun!
I was to obey my older sister who was in the service and worked for an important person at the Hradcin castle, which was also the home of "our protector for Bohemia" Hermann Frank.
Before he was picked up by service men, He told me that I was old enough to to know the difference between life and death, and that I must swear to him, that under no circumstance ever to tell, even under "duress" that my mother was Jewish. /my mother was picked up the previous week while I was at school/
It was all very confusing, for the jews that we were shown pictures of in school did not look like my mother, they looked more like monsters with big noses and Mr. Funk referred to them as vermin.
From than on I dreaded wednesdays "Show and Tell" for I had no "post cards from the front" to show and nothing to tell, for the places my parents went, postcards were not send; from than on I lived in constant fear of being "discovered"
After the war we were reunited and soon after emigrated to Latin America to start a new life.
We all tried desperately to "forget" the horrors of the war; my mother, coming from a large family lost every one except herself and two brothers who also survived, the rest, all thirty eight members, woman and children, all were murdered in the gas chambers.
Somehow life went on, my mother painted portraits of American soldiers on sidewalks, my father repaired and later made stained glass windows while I apprenticed to become a jeweler, the war was "forgotten".
It was in 1956, deep in the jungles of Panama in the province of "Bocas del Toro", as if by some black magic, I found my self back in grade school, it was wednesday and it was "Show and Tell" time.
We spoke German, photos were pulled from musty shoe boxes and a photo album was pulled with the hand written title in Gothic "Achtung, Kamera, Aktion!"
That title, the cicumstance, the place and above all the images with their rather sarcastic, vulgar captions are as vivid in my memory as the murder of my mother's family and form the inspiration for my "Post cards from the front" project."
ps
above excerpt, shortened version to my introduction for my illustrated book of same title.
*In 1985 I held an exhibit of paintings titled: "Doctors of Death" at the Texas state University in San Marcos, Texas; I was asked to write a statement:
"As a child I grew up in a world dominated by the cruel and corrupt. Outwardly I have wiped this period of my life out. Still, my paintings must be the result of these experiences.
I am vaguely familiar with the process, which is entirely subconscious, activated on sleepless nights and seems as if guided by someone else. The experience is mostly painful, so I could hardly call it a hobby.
I have tried not to paint, which is even more painful.
It is entirely possible that some of us are so maddened by what happened, that we find ourselves forced to re-enact the same bloody horror over and over again; similarly as to a murder driven to the scene of his crime.
I consider my work an important find in Men's dark history and forms the links to a giant puzzle, ultimately to the truth." Stefan Krikl, September 25, 1985. p.s. the statement, at that time was in reference to that and the "Post cards from the front" project that followed.
The statement does not apply to the many other projects I have been involved with, even thou most are linked in some way to my childhood.
*after a lecture that was held at the University I received a call from a stranger who was an American officer who "liberated" Buchenwald concentration camp and who was in possession of a "murder kit" and some other Nazi "art" found on the premisses, since he had no use of any of it, he suggested I create some "still life" scenes, I was intrigued and consented the offer even thou I have never done still lives of anything, nor had the desire to do so.
Upon receipt of the parcel, to my dismay, there was an empty canister of Zyclon B, with instruction on how to use it .
It is one thing to read about it , quite another to actually hold it knowing that a can such as the one I was holding contained enough pellets to kill one hundred adults; an additional sixty two people besides the thirty eight members of my mother's immediate family who were murdered that way; she and her two brothers were the sole survivors.
The still life above was created when one of the containers in my outdoor studio fell on a open can of freshly mixed red paint, spilling the paint, the can and the "death kit"
This is the first picture taken with my new camera; the Canon 40D (Love it!)
Looking at some smoke pictures from other people got me inspired. This is my take on it.
I don't have an external flash, so it's kinda tricky getting enough light to hit the smoke. I ended up getting a construction light at Home Depot; 250W Halogen light on sale for $4! Still testing around how I could get better results. It's a ton of fun.
Brougham Castle is located about 3 kilometres south-east of Penrith. It was founded in the 13th century by Robert I de Vieuxpont. The site near the confluence of the Eamont and Lowther rivers had already been chosen by the Romans for a fort called Brocavum.
The Vieuxponts were a powerful family of landowners in the north-west of England. When Roger de Clifford married the granddaughter of Robert Vieuxponts in 1269, Brougham Castle fell to the Clifford family.
With the start of the Scottish Wars of Independence in 1296, Brougham Castle became an important military base and impressive stone walls and a large stone gatehouse were added. When the 2nd Baron de Clifford was executed as a traitor in 1322 the family's estates became the property of King Edward II, but were returned when Edward III came to the throne. The region was often threatened by the Scots and in 1388 they captured and plundered the castle.
The castle was passed down through the Clifford family but got neglected in the 17th and 18th century. By the 1750s, Brougham Castle served only as a source of building stone for the village of Brougham.
Saggart is one of two termini for the Luas Red Line. The other terminus is Tallaght. The line provides a direct link to Dublin city with a journey duration of 45 minutes. 40 years or more have passed since I last visited Saggart so this morning I thought that it might be a good idea to visit the village. To say that the tram stop is in Saggart is a slight exaggeration. The Luas Line A1 Citywest extension terminus from Belgard to Saggart is actually about ten minutes walk away from the centre of the village.
I must admit that I found the village to be ugly and unattractive and that really surprised me. There were many unoccupied unattractive modern buildings and lots of dust … the sort that one sees at unfinished building sites.
Chestatee is a Cherokee Indian village in northeastern Forsyth County, Georgia, United States, due west of where the Chestatee River runs into the Chattahoochee River, it was called Atsunsta Ti Yi. The word Chestatee is a Cherokee word meaning pine torch place or place of lights, because they would use bonfires along the riverbanks to light their torches. They would then use these torches for hunting deer and other wild game in the forest. The name Booger Bottom comes from white Gold Miners who found gold in this area durning the gold rush. In 1951 a survey was done for the Buford Dam project. During the survey a large Burial Mound was found The Summerour Mound. Three weeks were spent on an archaeological excavation of the mound, before it was flooded by Lake Lanier. The Mound was 250 feet long by 200 feet wide and was possibly the oldest Mound in the Southeastern United States. But this Indian Village and Mound called The Place Of Light is now at the bottom of Lake Lanier in a place of darkness. Booger Bottom.
Neela's dream is to be famous in the movies.
Neela is currently with her family at the Batu Caves celebrating the Hindu Deepavali. She is with her family and her mother with ponderous hips nods appreciatively at me. "Are you going to put her on the Internet? She will be famous yes?" Neela demurs, then I ask her if she wants to be famous in Hollywood or Bollywood movies. She bobbles her head around like a Sikh in a sandstorm, which clearly means, "YesNo".
Neela comes from my Portraits Gallery
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania is best known as the home to General George Washington's Continental Army for the winters of 1777-1778. Back in those days, large scale combat wasn't conducted during the winter since snow and cold weather presented a logistical nightmare so armies would build up large camps where they could spend the winter. Despite popular belief, the winters during these years weren't especially harsh (the belief that they were is mostly due to America's romanticism of this period). The winters however were full of disease which plagued the troops who were in extremely close proximity to one another. During those two winters at Valley Forge, the Continental Army trained and became an even stronger unit.
I had visited Valley Forge once before (shortly after I graduated high school) but for some reason didn't remember it well. Walking around the park in the summer's high heat and ridiculous humidity was worth it. It's a beautiful place that's fully of amazing history.
ABOUT THE SERIES
In June 2010 Michelle and I traveled to Philadelphia (and surrounding areas) for a summer vacation and to visit her extended family. I'd been to Philadelphia twice before, once in eighth grade and once during college but I only remember bits and pieces of each previous trip. The trip during college was during the 2010 Republican National Convention (I wasn't there for the convention) and I remember the entire city resembling a police state with police everywhere due to all the protests.
Anyway, it was great to return to the city and see some of the surrounding areas I hadn't explored before. We visited during a heatwave (90 degree heat with intense humidity which apparently is a little unusual in June but typical in August) but it was well worth the trip.
Samarkand is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Samarkand is the capital of the Samarkand Region and a district-level city, that includes the urban-type settlements Kimyogarlar, Farhod and Khishrav. With 551,700 inhabitants (2021)] it is the third-largest city in Uzbekistan.
There is evidence of human activity in the area of the city dating from the late Paleolithic Era. Though there is no direct evidence of when Samarkand was founded, several theories propose that it was founded between the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Prospering from its location on the Silk Road between China, Persia and Europe, at times Samarkand was one of the largest cities in Central Asia, and was an important city of the empires of Greater Iran. By the time of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, it was the capital of the Sogdian satrapy. The city was conquered by Alexander the Great in 329 BC, when it was known as Markanda, which was rendered in Greek as Μαράκανδα. The city was ruled by a succession of Iranian and Turkic rulers until it was conquered by the Mongols under Genghis Khan in 1220.
The city is noted as a centre of Islamic scholarly study and the birthplace of the Timurid Renaissance. In the 14th century, Timur made it the capital of his empire and the site of his mausoleum, the Gur-e Amir. The Bibi-Khanym Mosque, rebuilt during the Soviet era, remains one of the city's most notable landmarks. Samarkand's Registan square was the city's ancient centre and is bounded by three monumental religious buildings. The city has carefully preserved the traditions of ancient crafts: embroidery, goldwork, silk weaving, copper engraving, ceramics, wood carving, and wood painting. In 2001, UNESCO added the city to its World Heritage List as Samarkand – Crossroads of Cultures.
Modern Samarkand is divided into two parts: the old city, which includes historical monuments, shops, and old private houses; and the new city, which was developed during the days of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union and includes administrative buildings along with cultural centres and educational institutions. On 15 and 16 September 2022, the city hosted the 2022 SCO summit.
Samarkand has a multicultural and plurilingual history that was significantly modified by the process of national delimitation in Central Asia. Many inhabitants of the city are native or bilingual speakers of the Tajik language, whereas Uzbek is the official language and Russian is also widely used in the public sphere, as per Uzbekistan's language policy.
Pictured is a 1985 Lotus-Renault 97T Grand Prix Car.
It was driven in 1985 by triple Formula 1 World Champion Ayrton Senna and Italian Elio de Angelis.
This car won three of the sixteen Grands Prix in which it competed, Senna taking his first career victory in the soaking wet Portuguese Grand Prix. A second win would follow later in the season in Belgium. De Angelis inherited victory in the San Marino Grand Prix after Alain Prost was disqualified following post-race scrutineering for an underweight car.
This would be the last victory for de Angelis, the Italian being killed whilst testing for the Brabham team at Paul Ricard in 1986.
Senna and de Angelis would end the season fourth and fifth, respectively, in the championship standings. Lotus finished fourth in the Constructors Championship.
Pictured in January 2012 at the Autosport International show at the NEC in Birmingham.
Stavanger Cathedral (Stavanger domkirke) is Norway's oldest cathedral. It is situated in the middle of Stavanger, and is the seat of the Diocese of Stavanger
Bishop Reinald, who may have come from Winchester, is said to have started construction of the Cathedral around 1100. It was finished around 1150, and the city of Stavanger counts 1125 as its year of foundation. The Cathedral was consecrated to Swithin as its patron saint. Saint Swithun was an early Bishop of Winchester and subsequently patron saint of Winchester Cathedral. [1]
Stavanger was ravaged by fire in 1272, and the Cathedral suffered heavy damage. It was rebuilt under bishop Arne, and the Romanesque Cathedral was enlarged in the Gothic style.
In 1682, king Christian V decided to move Stavanger's episcopal seat to Kristiansand. However, on Stavanger's 800th anniversary in 1925, king Haakon VII instated Jacob Christian Petersen as Stavanger's first bishop in nearly 250 years.
During a renovation in the 1860s, the Cathedral's exterior and interior was considerably altered. The stone walls were plastered, and the Cathedral lost much of its medieval looks. A major restoration led by Gerhard Fischer in 1939-1964 partly reversed those changes. The latest major restoration of the Cathedral was conducted in 1999
"St Botolph's Church is a parish church in the Church of England in Boston, Lincolnshire. Its tower, 266 feet 9 inches (81.31 m) tall, has been nicknamed the "Boston Stump" since its construction. It was long used as a landmark for sailors, and on a clear day can be seen from Norfolk.
The church is one of the largest parish churches in England, and has one of the tallest Medieval towers in the country. The tower is approximately 272 feet (83 m) high. It can be seen for miles around; its prominence accentuated by the flat surrounding countryside known as The Fens. On a clear day, it can be seen from East Anglia on the other side of The Wash. The nickname, Boston Stump or simply The Stump, is often used as a reference to the whole church building or for the parish community housed by it. The formal name is Saint Botolph's Parochial Church of Boston. The name "Boston" is thought to have evolved from "Botolph's Town".
Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England, about 100 miles (160 km) north of London. It is the largest town of the wider Borough of Boston local government district. The town itself had a population of 35,124 at the 2001 census, while the borough had a total population of 66,900, at the ONS mid-2015 estimates. It is north of Greenwich on the Prime Meridian.
Boston's most notable landmark is St Botolph's Church ("The Stump"), the largest parish church in England, visible for miles around from the flat lands of Lincolnshire. Residents of Boston are known as Bostonians. Emigrants from Boston named several other settlements around the world after the town, most notably Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States.
The name "Boston" is said to be a contraction of "Saint Botolph's town", "stone", or "tun" (Old English, Old Norse and modern Norwegian) for a hamlet or farm, hence the Latin villa Sancti Botulfi "St. Botulf's village").
After the Norman conquest, Ralph the Staller's property was taken over by Count Alan. It subsequently came to be attached to the Earldom of Richmond, North Yorkshire, and known as the Richmond Fee. It lay on the left bank of The Haven.
During the 11th and 12th centuries, Boston grew into a notable town and port. In 1204, King John vested sole control over the town in his bailiff. That year or the next, he levied a "fifteenth" tax (quinzieme) of 6.67% on the moveable goods of merchants in the ports of England: the merchants of Boston paid £780, the highest in the kingdom after London's £836. Thus, by the opening of the 13th century, Boston was already significant in trade with the continent of Europe and ranked as a port of the Hanseatic League. In the thirteenth century it was said to be the second port in the country. Edward III named it a staple port for the wool trade in 1369. Apart from wool, Boston also exported salt, produced locally on the Holland coast, grain, produced up-river, and lead, produced in Derbyshire and brought via Lincoln, up-river.
A quarrel between the local and foreign merchants led to the withdrawal of the Hansards around 1470. Around the same time, the decline of the local guilds and shift towards domestic weaving of English wool (conducted in other areas of the country) led to a near-complete collapse of the town's foreign trade. The silting of the Haven only furthered the town's decline.
At the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII during the English Reformation, Boston's Dominican, Franciscan, Carmelite, and Augustinian friaries—erected during the boom years of the 13th and 14th centuries—were all expropriated. The refectory of the Dominican friary was eventually converted into a theatre in 1965 and now houses the Blackfriars Arts Centre.
Henry VIII granted the town its charter in 1545 and Boston had two Members of Parliament from 1552.
The staple trade made Boston a centre of intellectual influence from the Continent, including the teachings of John Calvin that became known as Calvinism. This, in turn, revolutionised the Christian beliefs and practices of many Bostonians and residents of the neighbouring shires of England. In 1607, a group of pilgrims from Nottinghamshire led by William Brewster and William Bradford attempted to escape pressure to conform with the teaching of the English church by going to the Netherlands from Boston. At that time, unsanctioned emigration was illegal, and they were brought before the court in the Guildhall. Most of the pilgrims were released fairly soon, and the following year, set sail for the Netherlands, settling in Leiden. In 1620, several of these were among the group who moved to New England in the Mayflower.
Boston remained a hotbed of religious dissent. In 1612, John Cotton became the Vicar of St Botolph's and, although viewed askance by the Church of England for his nonconformist preaching, became responsible for a large increase in Church attendance. He encouraged those who disliked the lack of religious freedom in England to join the Massachusetts Bay Company, and later helped to found the city of Boston, Massachusetts, which he was instrumental in naming. Unable to tolerate the religious situation any longer, he eventually emigrated himself in 1633.
At the same time, work on draining the fens to the west of Boston was begun, a scheme which displeased many whose livelihoods were at risk. (One of the sources of livelihood obtained from the fen was fowling, supplying ducks and geese for meat and in addition the processing of their feathers and down for use in mattresses and pillows. The feathery aspect of this is still reflected in the presence of the bedding company named Fogarty, nearby in Fishtoft.) This and the religious friction put Boston into the parliamentarian camp in the Civil War, which in England began in 1642. The chief backer of the drainage locally, Lord Lindsey, was shot in the first battle and the fens returned to their accustomed dampness until after 1750.
The later 18th century saw a revival when the Fens began to be effectively drained. The Act of Parliament permitting the embanking and straightening of the fenland Witham was dated 1762. A sluice, called for in the act, was designed to help scour out The Haven. The land proved to be fertile, and Boston began exporting cereals to London. In 1774, the first financial bank was opened, and in 1776, an act of Parliament allowed watchmen to begin patrolling the streets at night." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC on the rest of the then known European continent. Today a cosmopolitan metropolis, modern Athens is central to economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life in Greece. In 2008, Athens was ranked the world's 32nd richest city by purchasing power and the 25th most expensive in a UBS study.
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Weekend photoshoot in the fall forest done two weeks ago. I really enjoy the new IS shape, so I wanted to do this just to explore it some more.
I also have a new homepage since last time I posted here: www.bilbilder.se
Facebook is still unchanged: www.facebook.com/bilbilder
The Borgward Isabella is a medium sized two door saloon that was manufactured by the Bremen based auto-manufacturer Carl F. W. Borgward GmbH between 1954 and 1962. Initially the car was badged, like its predecessor, as the Hansa 1500, but within the company it was known from the beginning by the code name, Isabella (after Carl Borgward's wife), and cars produced after 1957 bore the ‘Isabella’ name, inscribed eye catchingly within the rhombus at the centre of the front grill: in retrospect the car produced from 1954 is known as the Isabella to differentiate it from the (first) Hansa 1500/1800 which the company produced between 1949 and 1954.
Despite its aspirational positioning in the marketplace, the Isabella had a smaller engine (and was marginally shorter) than its immediate predecessor. Late in 1952 the firm had launched their six cylinder Hansa 2400 model. The larger car never found many buyers; but in 1954 it made commercial sense to keep the two models from competing too directly with one another.
Initial sales volumes were not maintained. Responding to a sales decline of almost a third between 1955 and 1956, Carl Borgward decided to produce a more beautiful Isabella with a shortened roof line. The Borgward Isabella Coupé was developed, and the four hand built prototypes were well received by the press. Borgward gave one of these prototypes to his wife, Elizabeth, who would continue to drive it into the 1980s. Commercial production of the coupé, powered by the more powerful TS version of the engine first seen in the cabriolet, commenced in January 1957. The coupe appears to have achieved it’s marketing objective of further distancing the Isabella’s image from similarly sized competitors from Opel and Ford.
(Wikipedia)
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Die Borgward Isabella ist ein Mittelklassewagen der Carl F. W. Borgward G.m.b.H. in Bremen-Sebaldsbrück, das erfolgreichste Modell der Borgward-Gruppe, das ab 10. Juni 1954 zunächst unter dem Namen „Hansa 1500“ vom Band lief.
Der spätere Name „Isabella“ war nicht das Ergebnis von Marktuntersuchungen, sondern eine spontane Eingebung von Carl F. W. Borgward selbst. Gefragt, was man auf die noch streng geheimen Vorserien-Modelle schreiben solle, wenn sie Probefahrten im öffentlichen Verkehr machen, soll Borgward geantwortet haben: „Das ist mir egal; schreibt meinetwegen Isabella drauf."
Ab 1957 war der ursprüngliche Tarnname im Borgward-Rhombus des Kühlergrills zu lesen.
Die moderne Konzeption und die gefällige Erscheinung des Hansa 1500 (Isabella) wurden bei der Vorstellung 1954 enthusiastisch begrüßt. Der Wagen traf den Publikumsgeschmack und war vom ersten Tag an ein Verkaufserfolg. Der Wagen war nach einer Entwicklungszeit von nur zehn Monaten anfangs mit zahlreichen Kinderkrankheiten behaftet, die jedoch nach und nach abgestellt wurden.
Als 1956 der Absatz der Isabella gegenüber 1955 um fast ein Drittel zurückgegangen war, entschloss sich Carl Borgward, ein „schönes Auto“ mit verkürztem Dach zu bauen. Daraufhin entstand das Borgward Isabella Coupé, von dem zunächst vier Prototypen in die Öffentlichkeit gelangten und das Interesse der Presse weckten. Einen dieser handgefertigten Prototypen schenkte Borgward seiner Frau Elisabeth, die ihn bis in die 1980er Jahre fuhr.
Die Serienproduktion des Coupés (mit dem TS-Motor) begann im Januar 1957. Karl Deutsch in Köln wandelte auch dieses Modell in ein Cabriolet um, das aber den Schriftzug „Coupé“ am Heck behielt. Die Coupé-Cabriolets kosteten zwischen 15.600 und 17.000 DM.
(Wikipedia)
There is a whole new generation that does not remember Krishna Menon which, I guess, is fair enough. He was forced out of Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet in 1962 and died in 1974. "His glory years were during the struggle for Indian independence when he mobilised support for the freedom movement in London. Later, during the 1950s, he became a major voice in global affairs helping resolve such international disputes as those in Cyprus, Korea and Suez.
To those who do remember him, his role is usually restricted to a single event: the 1962 War with China. In the public imagination, he is the man who lost us that war. And indeed the defeat led to his resignation from Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet -- and he was never quite rehabilitated in the public eye.
Jairam Ramesh’s massive and painstakingly-researched biography covers all of Menon’s life, from his birth into a wealthy Malayali family, to his early association with the Theosophical Society (he called Annie Besant ‘mother’) to his time in London. As you read about Menon it rapidly becomes clear that he was a remarkable man, rising in British politics, helping found Penguin Books, and working tirelessly for Indian Independence."
~ GOD is able ~
by Hillsong
VERSE 1:
God is able
He will never fail
He is almighty God
Greater than all we seek
Greater than all we ask
He has done great things
CHORUS:
Lifted up
Defeated the grave
Raised to life
Our God is able
In His name we overcome
For the Lord
Our God is able
VERSE 2:
God is with us
God is on our side
He will make a way
Far above all we know
Far above all we hope
He has done great things
BRIDGE:
God is with us
He will go before
He will never leave us
He will never leave us
God is for us
He has open arms
He will never fail us
He will never fail us
There is a lot of creeping around the house listening for sounds at the moment. As Elodie wanders around, she can't shake the feeling that she has a shadow following her.
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Pullips Ririko and Victorique wearing dresses from juliettaexussetta and CupcakeCurio
One of the main Surma / Suri customs is stick fighting. This ritual and sport is called Donga or Sagenai (Saginay). Donga is both the name of the sport and the stick, whereas sagenai is the name of the stick-fighting session. Stick fighting is central in Suri culture. In most cases, stick fighting is a way for warriors to find girlfriends, it can also be a way to settle conflicts. On this occasion men show their courage, their virility and their resistance to pain, to the young women. The fights are held between Suri villages, and begin with 20 to 30 people on each side, and can end up with hundreds of warriors involved. Suri are famous for stick fighting, but they are not the only ones to respect such a custom, as the neighbor tribe, the Mursi, also practice these traditional fights. The day before the sagenai, fighters have to purge themselves. They do it by drinking a special preparation, called dokai, which is made of the bark of a special tree, which is mixed with water. After taking it, warriors make themselves vomiting the drink. The water is supposed to bring with it many of the body’s impurities. After this ritual they don’t eat until the following morning. Warriors walk kilometers to come fighting at Sagenai, which takes place in a clearing. They stop when crossing a river in order to wash themselves, before decorating their bodies for the fight. They decorate themselves by sliding the fingers full of clay on the warrior’s bodies. This dressing up and decoration is meant to show their beauty and virility and thus catch the women’s attention. The phallic shape ending the sticks contributes to that virile demonstration. Fighters arrive on the Donga field all together, carrying the strongest man,dancing and singing. Some fighters wear colourful headdresses sometimes with feathers on it, and also knee-protectors. But most of them use no protection at all and fight completely naked in order to show their bravery. They also wear strings of decorative coloured beads around their necks given by the girls and waist, but their genitals are most of the time uncovered and they are barefoot. All of them get a chance to fight one on one, against someone from the other side. In the beginning each fighter looks for an opponent of the same stature, and exchanges a few held back blows with him in order to test him. If both fighters feel they have found a match, they suddendly throw themselves into the fight, hitting ferocious fast strokes with their sticks. If one of the warriors knocked out or puts paid to his opponent, he immediately declares himself the winner. Sagenai consists in qualifying rounds, each winner fighting the winner of a previous fight, until two finalists are left. It is strictly forbidden to hit a man when he is down on the ground. During these fights there are referees present to make sure all rules are being followed. Many stick fights end within the first couple of hits. Nevertheless the fights are really violent, and it is quite usual to see men bleeding. Stick fighting has proven to be dangerous because people have died from being hit in the stomach. Loosing an eye or a leg during the fight is quite common, although it is strictly forbidden for a fighter to kill his opponent, and if a fighter gets killed during the fight, his opponent and all his family are banned from the village for life. For the other locals, especially teenagers, sagenai is a great outing. Girls watch the fights, but it is also the occasion to check out the men, and to meet in order to chat or even gossip. At the end of the fights, the winners point their phallic sticks in direction of the girls they want to date with, if the girl put a necklace around the stick, it means she is willing to date the champion.
© Eric Lafforgue
Unsere kleine, persönliche Hommage an Captain Future, die kultige Science Fiction Serie, die wohl alle Jungs, die in den 70ern geboren wurden, kennen! ;D
Strobist Info:
1x Nissin Di622mk2 through small softbox from cam right, triggered by rf602
1x diy Reflector, cam left
"The dawn is the best proof that there is always the opportunity for a fresh start in our lives." - (Author Unknown)
Photo: Yuri Borba - Date: 05.05.2014 | Dawn Beach in the Cardo in Sepetiba, in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro.
Hunter Project Soul ™ © | Series VISIONS OF EVERYDAY.
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“O amanhecer é a prova maior que haverá sempre a oportunidade de um recomeço em nossas vidas.” – (Autor Desconhecido)
Foto: Yuri Borba - Dia: 05/05/2014 | Amanhecer na Praia do Cardo, em Sepetiba, na Zona Oeste do Rio de Janeiro.
Projeto Caçador de Almas ™© | Série VISÕES DO COTIDIANO.
Here is a new LEGO part idea prototype,
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