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Stokesay Castle is a fabulous 13th century stone manor house with a stunning yellow and black half-timbered 17th century gatehouse. It was built by a very wealthy wool merchant, Laurence of Ludlow, between 1285 and 1291 after Edward I’s conquest of Wales in 1284. Laurence was wealthy enough to lend money to Edward I, as well as many of the great lords of the Welsh borderlands. He drowned when his ship transporting wool to Flanders sank in a storm in 1294 but his descendants remained lords of the manor at Stokesay until 1498.
The Great Hall is the earliest part of the castle, with its oak roof and staircase dating to its original construction in the 1280s, making it one of the oldest such structures surviving in Britain. The fabulous gatehouse was added in 1640-41 just before the Civil War when it was in the ownership of William Craven, a Royalist. The castle surrendered peacefully in 1645 and was left largely intact except for the curtain wall which was demolished.
William Craven recovered all his estates after Charles II’s restoration in 1660 but he did not return to Stokesay. It was occupied by tenant farmers, the Baldwyn family, who remodelled the Solar (living room) in the 1660s with wood panelling and the elaborately carved wooden fireplace overmantle which was originally brightly painted. The Baldwyns left in the early 18th century and subsequent tenants let the buildings deteriorate, the Solar, for example, being used as a granary. In 1869 John Derby Allcroft, a successful London glove manufacturer, bought the estate, and began an extensive and unusually sympathetic programme of repairs which restored the main structure of the castle to its original state.
This is a photograph from the 60th Anniversary Commerative Half Marathon for Tullamore Harriers AC which was held on Saturday 31st August 2013 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland at 12:00. This was a really great event and there couldn't be any fault found with any aspect of the race. There were stewarts all along the route, 3 drink stations with bottled water, superb facilities, and great after-race refreshments. The stewards along the route provided great encouragement to all of the runners. Tullamore Harriers and the local community really worked together to make this is a wonderful event.
Race event manangement and organisations was provided by PRECISION TIMING - see their website at [www.precisiontiming.net/]
This photograph is one of a set of photographs from the Tullamore Harriers Half Marathon 2013. The permanent link to the full set of photographs is [http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157635307620452/]. This set of photographs includes photographs of the start and then photographs of the finish up to the 2 HOUR finishing time.
This race celebrates the 60th Anniversary (a Diamond Anniversary) of the foundation of Tullamore Harriers AC. The club was formed in the town in November 1953. However, it was almost 1979 before facilities close to what we see today open in the present day site. Over 50 provincial and national athletics meetings are held at Tullamore Harriers every year. The facilities available combined with it's central geographical location joing routes from North, South, East, and West make it a very attractive venue. The race today brings competitive national road racing back to The Harriers. In the past there was the famous Quinnlan Cup
Festival of Races (see a link below for some nostalgia) which was one of Ireland's Blue Ribband events. Today, the facilities at Tullamore Harriers are the envy of many athletics clubs in Ireland. The facilities provided by Tullamore make it one of the premier venues for local and national level athletics in Ireland. There is an Olympic standard tartan track, a fully equipped gym, changing facilities, press and media facilities, meeting room spaces, etc. The club also provides a social center and niteclub which makes "The Harriers" a very well known on the local social scene. Esssentially, the town of Tullamore would be a different place if it weren't for the presence of Tullamore Harriers AC.
Overall Race Summary
Participants: There was about 500 participants of runners, joggers, and walkers.
Weather: The midday start seen warm pleasant conditions for running. The layout of the course meant that there was a stiff breeze into the face of competitors for the first few miles. When the race turned around to return to Tullamore the wind was more favourable to runners.
Course: The race starts on the Charleville Road just outside the entrance to Tullamore Harriers. The race proceeds south along the R421 and onto the N52 before taking a route onto local back roads. The race then completes a large rural road route before it joins to the R421 again and the final 1.5 miles are the same as the first mile of the race. The runners enter tullamore stadium and complete one lap of the tartan track before the finish line. The course is challenging in places with some undulations along the route. But overall it is fair course.
Location Map: Start/finish and registration and race HQ was all at Tullamore Harriers AC Club Grounds: goo.gl/maps/xZ4GM (Google Streetview)
Refreshments: There was a very impressive selection of refreshments including sandwiches, cakes, home-made breads, etc in the Harriers clubhouse afterwards. People were able to enjoy their post race refreshments outside in the warm pleasant sunshine.
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Some Useful Links related to the race
Race Results are available from PRECISION TIMING: www.precisiontiming.net/result/racetimer
Facebook event page: www.facebook.com/events/547723028583924/
The Tullamore Harriers AC Website: www.tullamoreharriers.com/
The Tullamore Harriers Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/tullamore.harriers (Facebook logon required)
The Tullamore Harriers Half Marathon ROUTE on MapMyRun: www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/217165415
The Boards.ie Athletics Discussion Thread on the Race: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056942637
Read about Tullamore Town on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullamore
Quinlan Cup 1997: ireland.iol.ie/~ar5meade/quinlan97.htm
The Entrace to Tullamore Harriers AC Club Grounds: goo.gl/maps/xZ4GM (Google Streetview)
An Aerial Image of the Facilities of Tullamore Harriers AC: binged.it/12UPZ9N (Bing Aerial BirdsEye )
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This is a picture of a pied billed grebe working on her nest on the pond along the 6th fairway on The Villages Gold course. These pictures were taken just after 7 p. m. She was very busy, moving vegetation around and collecting new algae and sticks to add to the nest. She left the nest for about four minutes and swam around, perhaps feeding. She went about 30 feet away from the nest on the surface and then swam back to the nest underwater.
The final of the Flintspiration churches from April. A great event and one I hope is held again.
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A church I did not know existed before Saturday, but one on the way back to The Red Lion where Jools and a pint with my name on were waiting.
From St Giles I walked down through the market place, then through the Lanes and up London Street, past the Cathedral and the Maids Head Hotel.
There were a lot of people milling around, there had been a recital and proud parents were talking to their children, I think, Anyway, I was greeted by the organiser whom I saw in St Saviours hours before, did I want to see something only recently discovered?
She showed me stones used on the east wall of the chancel, which are now thought to be Saxon and so pre-dates the church itself, probably robbed from a previous building. He said there had been at least two previous churches on the site.
Inside, the nave had been converted into a triple-decked auditorium and cafe. I think it works, and certainly it seemed those who attended the concert were happy enough.
As with a lot of the redundant churches, most of the memorials remain, and add to the atmosphere of the building.
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A small church, but everything is in place: the tower, the aisles, the clerestories. But on closer inspection the appearance of St Martin is of a substantial Victorian restoration, as a result of a partial collapse of tower and chancel, and the heavy hand of Edward Hakewill.
Despite the proximity to the cathedral (the Palace in question is that of the Bishop) the setting was rather unlovely until a couple of decades ago, because the Norwich city gasworks sat immediately to the north of it. At one time, there had been a plan for a railway that would have cut St Martin off from the Cathedral precincts, but this is an area of regeneration, and today you would not know that such a controversy had ever existed. George Plunkett's image on the left, taken on a late winter afternoon in 1934, shows the church substantially as it is today, although the western end of the graveyard is now under the road.
There is a fine courts building now on the site of the gasworks, and this has resulted in St Martin finding an excellent new use as the home of the Probation service. Internally, there is a split level steel and glass mezzanine providing working space above and below the floors; it ascends into the space beneath the tower, reaching ground floor level at both the west end and in the chancel. The aisle chapels have been glassed in and form meeting rooms. It is all crisp and airy, fully functional without detracting from the former character of the church; the inner walls are pretty much intact and unscathed. Of course, it is now very different to how George Plunkett found it in 1934.
The windows were destroyed in the Norwich blitz, and were fortunately replaced by some fine modern glass before redundancy was declared as a result of the Brooke report. The east window shows the risen Christ flanked by Mary and a Roman centurion, while to the west is St Martin flanked by two smaller figures.
A surviving piece of Victoriana is the solemn inscription How Dreadful is this Place: This is the House of God, and this is the Gate of Heaven above the south doorway, which must have concentrated the mind a bit. A good 18th century ledger stone features a skull and hourglass backed by crossed bones.
In 1934, George Plunkett also photgraphed a large tombchest, a candelabra and the 15th century font, all gone today.
I asked the kind man who let me wander around if it was a suitable building for its new use. He said that it was, and that the setting generally encouraged everybody to take each other seriously, and so when clients came for the first time they knew that this was a place that would give them a future. Amen to that.
Simon Knott, November 2005
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norwichmartinpalaceplain/norwic...
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The church of St Martin at Palace is one of the oldest in Norwich. It stands close to a stretch of the riverbank where, on the site of the present Law Courts, traces of some of the earliest settlement have been found.
The church is referred to in Domesday Book (1086) and excavations made during the conversion of the church in the 1980s revealed foundations of a Norman church as well as evidence of one, if not two, earlier Anglo-Saxon timber churches. The Norman Bishop's Palace and the remains of a Norman house (beneath the Law Courts) are testimony to the high status of this part of the City at that time.
This church is now let to the Norfolk Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (Norfolk ACRO).
The building we see today dates in general from the 15th century, though it is much overlaid by Victorian work. Documentary evidence shows that money was left in 1490 for 'the new aisle off the south side of the choir'. Most of the windows are in the Perpendicular style, typical of the mid 14th to early 16th centuries.
In 1783 a large part of the tower fell and it was not until 1874 that the two upper stages were rebuilt and the lower part refaced. Notice the unusual appearance of the quoins to the tower: they are long and narrow and their white stone contrasts with the dark flintwork. In 1851 the North Chancel Aisle and most of the Chancel itself collapsed. They were rebuilt in 1853-4, when a thorough 'restoration' of the whole building was undertaken. As a result it is sometimes hard to tell what is Medieval and what is Victorian. The two storey South Porch appears to be a 19th century rebuild.
Now enter the churchyard and walk round to the east end of the church. Notice the corner stones (quoins) of the Chancel. They are built 'long and short', the long sides of the stones alternately vertical and horizontal. This technique is normally associated with Saxon work, so it may well be that part of the earlier building is incorporated in the present structure.
To go inside the church continue round to the modern stone doorway on the north side.
Inside you are at once aware of the modern structures which have been inserted in the building. In the late 1980s the church was converted for use as a Day Centre for the Probation Service. Because their offices are just north of the church, it was decided to form a new entrance on this side. The conversion allows for a mix of open and screened-off spaces, but the way in which these have been provided is unconventional.
The Nave and Chancel remain open, but within them have been 'suspended' three decks at different levels, connected by the stairs. The highest is level with the first floor of the tower, into which a kitchen has been slotted. Underneath, the original floor has in part been lowered to form a snug sitting area. Its excavation doubled as an archaeological dig. Cabinets, combining heating and storage partly separate Nave from Aisles, a mezzanine floor has been inserted in the North Nave Aisle and both Chancel Aisles and the Tower have been screened off. The conversion has changed the character of the building. But old and new are clearly distinct from one another: the old can still be appreciated while the new has an architectural integrity of its own.
There are some fine monuments in the church. In particular, see in the North Chancel Aisle the chest tomb of Elizabeth Calthorpe (died 1578). In the South Chancel aisle is a good 18th-century wall memorial above the small doorway. Notice the many fine slate memorial slabs in the floor dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. There are also several older paving slabs that once held brasses, including one very large one at the west end of the Nave.
Many of the windows hold good Victorian stained glass by the William Morris workshop and by Heaton, Butler and Bayne: unfortunately their ornate decorative backgrounds have been removed, leaving the figures 'floating' in large areas of clear glass. A panel of fragments of Medieval glass has been set in one of the North Aisle windows.
A tiny fragment of wall painting can be seen beside the east window. There may be more concealed behind the later plaster. In the North Aisle mezzanine there is a panel of black letter text with strap work ornament from the 17th-century, discovered when a wall memorial was removed. Only two texts remain of what must have been an ambitious scheme of Victorian wall decoration over the east window and over the south door. The latter reads 'How dreadful is this place. This is none other than the House of God and this is the Gate of Heaven'.
www.norwich-churches.org/St Martin at Palcce/home.shtm
This is the village of Burnham Market in Norfolk.
Burnham Market is one of the Burnhams, a group of adjacent villages in North Norfolk. It is the result of the merger of three of the original Burnham villages, namely Burnham Sutton, Burnham Ulph and Burnham Westgate.
We parked not to far away from North Street.
A NatWest bank on North Street, Burnham Market.
It is Grade II listed.
Bank - Burnham Market - Heritage Gateway
Former chapel, now a bank. C.1840 later a school. Pebble flint with
gault brick dressings, cast iron casements and decorations. Single storey,
3 bay facade, 4 bay west return. Facade has 2 casements, cast iron, with
glazing bars with ogeeGothic heads within rectangular frame, with moulded
brick architrave surround and drip mould heads. Central door with same
architrave, 6 panels, raised and fielded, 2 glazing bars. Brick plinth
and end pilasters with moulded capitals, elaborately moulded brick and
wooden eaves. Hipped roof. Returns have windows with same details.
Paired cast iron railings attached to the facade have cast iron plinth,
elaborately moulded rails with fleur-de-lys spear heads. Cast iron coping
to brick wall to west with details identifying as the work of the
Burnham iron works.
Knowsley Safari Park is a zoological park and tourist attraction in the Knowsley area of Merseyside, England. Knowsley Safari Park is a member of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). The safari park contributes to conservation and research through links with conservation projects and its links with universities in Liverpool, Chester and Manchester.
History
The park was opened in July 1971 by Edward Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby and Jimmy Chipperfield[9] using the expertise of general manager Laurence Tennant MBE, formerly the Chief Game Warden of Parks in Uganda and Botswana. Initially the road through the park was 3.5 miles (5.6 km), with visitors driving past lions, cheetahs, monkeys, giraffes, zebra, elephants and various antelope. Due to the popularity of this route, an additional 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of road was added in 1973, and camels, buffalo, white rhino, and tigers were added to the park. Over the years, a few modifications have been made. For instance, tigers are now displayed in enclosures within the reserve, and a bypass around the baboons was built for visitors who are worried about damage to their cars.
The park was also home to a former RAF airfield which closed at the end of World War II. The RAF airbase situated at the safari park was also known as No 49 SLG or RAF Knowsley Park and was in use between 13 May 1942 – November 1944.
The park has hosted several sporting events including the Olympic torch relay, watched by 6,000 children and families in June 2012. The park hosted the finish of Stage Two of the 2012 Tour of Britain cycling event and is scheduled to host Stage Three of the 2013 Tour on Tuesday 17 September.
Most recently it hosted the final leg of Big Learner Relay 2017 which has raised over £300,000 for the BBC Children in Need appeal since 2014. Louise Walsh the inspiration behind the BLR has been awarded the prime minister's points of light award which recognises outstanding individual volunteers.
In 1995 Mr William Middleton, a warden at the park, was crushed and paralysed due to a faulty elephant enclosure. Mr Middleton died 12 years later due to complications caused by his injuries.
Zoological collection
Situated around Knowsley Hall on the ancestral estate of the Earl of Derby, the reserve is home to many different animals including elephants, giraffes, lions, bongos, tigers and baboons. The Derby Estate have a tradition of keeping animals, ever since the famous artist and nonsense-poet Edward Lear was employed there in the 19th century to paint pictures of the Earl's collection.
The park is open to the public and customers drive around the park in their own vehicles. There is a bypass route past the baboons for those who wish to avoid the risk of the baboons damaging their cars. In 2009 the baboons made the news all over the world when a video was released showing how they were intelligent and curious enough to open car roofboxes.
Tiger Trail
Amur Tiger Trail opened 25 May 2018, home to the Amur Tiger otherwise known as the Siberian Tiger. The area is 10,000m2 and includes forested areas, natural streams and ponds.
The Equatorial Trail
This exhibit focuses on animals who thrive in habitats around the Earth's Equator. The exhibit also houses the 'Equatorial Express', a small train which visitors can ride to gain a unique viewpoint of the animals. 4 completely different species of animals are housed in this exhibit, the South American tapir, Sitatunga, Rhea and the Capybara.
African Elephant
Until 2017 the park housed a herd of 4 adult cows named Tana, Ashanti, Nala and Juba. They were transported to Zoo Parc d'Beauval, France to enter the European Breeding Programme and allow for transformations on Knowsley Safari's Foot Safari. Knowsley previously housed a bull named Nissim, who collapsed in June 2014. Knowsley also recently lost their cow named Shaba due to a long battle with elephant arthritis.
Southern White Rhinoceros
Knowsley's crash of 11 adult rhinos is one of the most successful and genetically diverse breeding groups in Europe. The latest calf (as at 4 June 2016), Nomvula (Mother of Rain – a reference to the recent wet weather), born to mum Meru and is the 19th to be born at the facility in the last 40 years. Nomvula is Meru's 6th calf and was born on 2 January 2016.
Safari Drive
The Safari Drive is the park's main attraction and contains over 29 species of animals in 7 zones.
Zone 1+11
This zone contains: Père David's deer, Yak, Kiang and Bactrian camel.
Zone 2+8
This zone contains: Blackbuck, Nilgai, Eld's deer, Chital (Axis Deer) and Barasingha.
Zone 3+4+6
Zone 6 is over 100 acres and contains over a mile of road. It is one of Knowsley's two white rhino paddocks and is one of the largest in the UK. This zone contains: Southern White Rhino, Roan antelope, Eland, Lechwe, Wildebeest, Plains Zebra, African Forest Buffalo, Ostritch and Waterbuck.
Zone 5
This zone contains: Blesbok and Bongo
Zone 7
This zone contains exclusively the Olive baboon, which are famous for removing windscreen wipers and other appendages off vehicles. There is a car-friendly route which totally removes this zone however is still visible from outside the perimeter. This leads directly to zone 6.
Zone 9
This zone contains: European Bison, Fallow Deer and European Moose
Zone 10
This zone contains: Lion, and the Somali wild ass. This zone previously housed African wild dog, Iberian Wolf and Siberian Tiger.
All information correct and sourced from the Knowsley Safari Guide Book 2018 and edited by an editor who loves animals.
Railway and other attractions
The park features a 15 in (381 mm) gauge railway, 'The Lakeside Railway', on which visitors may tour parts of the site. There is also a collection of amusements and fairground rides on site plus paintballing, off-road driving challenges, and aerial extreme ropewalks.
A baboon house was added in 2006, along with African wild dogs that same year, a lion and tiger house in 2007. Red river hogs and marmosets were also added to the walkaround section, as well as an outdoor pool.
Animal care
In January 2011, local animal rights activists held a peaceful demonstration after an inspection by government vets found one instance of a breach of regulations on the disposal of animal ‘by-products’. Pictures in the Daily Mail showed animals lying dead on the ground and in binbags, although the park's directors claim the pictures were staged by the photographer, whose husband the paper claimed had recently lost his job at the park. The park has since installed an enclosure for the storage of animal carcasses before disposal. The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) later said it had ‘full confidence’ in Knowsley and praised its ‘excellent standards of animal husbandry and welfare’.
Hi guys! My name is Wobble Pops, but mostly I just go by Wobbles. I was born July 10, 2017. I am a very sweet and very special boy who LOVES to be held and cuddled. I will kindly ask for attention to get pets, affection and love from my people. I am full of personality. You'll never meet another kitty like me. I am a fun boy who loves to play with all types of cat toys. When I was a kitten, I did not get to spend any time with other kitties my own age, so I did not learn all my manners very well. Sometimes, when I get really playful, I might nip too hard because I forget human arms are more delicate than my stuffed animal toys and other cats. So I would definitely do best in a home without little humans.
Everyone tells me that I am very special, but I don’t really think I am different from any other cat. When I was a very young kitten, I was in an accident; a little human closed a sliding door and I got caught in the way. Since the accident, I have not been able to use my rear legs, but I do not let that slow me down. My foster mom and dad did a lot of physical therapy with me and even got a wheelie cart for me. However, I'm not really a fan of the cart and am very happy being just the way I am. I get around just fine by myself, thank you very much. I tolerate baths, since I get them regularly, and I kind of enjoy the blow dryer. It’s nice and warm and gets me dry faster.
I may not be able to run and jump, but I still get around quite well and I can move fast when I want. I can move my rear legs and use them to help me get over small barriers, I just can't use them to stand longer than a few seconds, or to run and jump. I’m trying to learn how to use steps so I can get on the couch by myself (I can already get off the couch by myself). I get along very well with other cats, with cat-friendly dogs and even a chinchilla. I am just so happy to be alive and well and loved and cared for. Everyone tells me I am the happiest cat they know. I just want some yummy food and some nice people to give me lots of attention and to play with me too. As long as I have good food and get to cuddle and give you head rubs, I will keep being the happiest cat ever! Please give me a chance! I need a compassionate human to be my life companion. I promise to return your love tenfold.
Adoption fee: $60. Adopt a pair: $90. Fee includes testing, deworming, vaccinations, spay/neuter, microchip and 30 days of free pet insurance. Apply at www.pawsforliferescue.org
This is the first of 21 photos taken during the course of Monday, 26 January A.D. 2026 ... which happens to be my birthday. Hence, I've titled this photo session "I Don't Look a Day Over 75!".
(You may disagree with me, convinced I look a whole lot older than 75. But this very day being my 75th birthday, I'm able to truthfully say I'm NOT a day OVER 75 in these photos..)
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NOTE: These 21 photos are the follow-up to the 6 photos I posted to my Flickr photostream yesterday.
Today is the shortest day of the year here in Fauske. The sun rose above the horizon at 11:30 and set at 12:23, which means it was up for 53 minutes. I took this picture at 11:53, which was the brightest point of the day today. We don't see the sun until a little over halfway through January anyway, because from the beginning of December it's not able to rise over the mountains.
But from tomorrow the length of the bright period increases (by one minute), and on Christmas Eve the sun is above the horizon for exactly one hour. We have -10 degrees (50F), snow and clear skies. It doesn't get more Christmassy than this, guys!
Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic Christianity under Saints Aidan, Cuthbert, Eadfrith, and Eadberht of Lindisfarne. The island was originally home to a monastery, which was destroyed during the Viking invasions but re-established as a priory following the Norman Conquest of England. Other notable sites built on the island are St Mary the Virgin parish church (originally built in 635 CE and restored in 1860), Lindisfarne Castle, several lighthouses and other navigational markers, and a complex network of lime kilns. In the present day, the island is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and a hotspot for historical tourism and bird watching. As of February 2020, the island had three pubs, a hotel and a post office as well as a museum.
The Lindisfarne Abbey was first established in 634 AD. The island served as the site of a monastery for roughly 900 years. The site, most of which has fallen into a state of ruin, has since become a popular tourist destination and focus of pilgrimage journeys. The church of St Mary the Virgin is the only original building that has been more or less continually maintained and which remains standing within the original monastic compound. Remains from the pre-Norman/Anglo-Saxon era can be found in the chancel wall of this church. The monastery was described as an abbey by Bede but when it was rebuilt after the Norman Conquest it was described as a (relatively smaller) priory.
The current parish church stands on the site of the wooden church built by St Aidan in AD 635. When the site was rebuilt by the Normans, the site of the original abbey church was redeveloped in stone as the parish church. It is the oldest building on the island that has been maintained in some fashion, and which has a roof on it. Remains of the Anglo-Saxon church exist as the chancel wall and arch. A Norman apse (subsequently replaced in the 13th century) led eastwards from the chancel. The nave was extended in the 12th century with a northern arcade, and in the following century with a southern arcade.
After the Reformation the church slipped into disrepair until the restoration of 1860. The church is built of coloured sandstone which has had the Victorian plaster removed from it. The north aisle is known as the "fishermen's aisle" and houses the altar of St. Peter. The south aisle used to hold the altar of St. Margaret of Scotland, but now houses the organ.
The church is a Grade I listed building number 1042304, listed as part of the whole priory. The church forms most of the earliest part of the site and is a scheduled ancient monument number 1011650. The Church of St Mary the Virgin has daily services of worship.
Lindisfarne Castle was built in 1550, around the time that Lindisfarne Priory went out of use, and stones from the priory were used as building material. It is very small by the usual standards, and was more of a fort. The castle sits on the highest point of the island, a whinstone hill called Beblowe.
After Henry VIII suppressed the priory, his troops used the remains as a naval store. In 1542 Henry VIII ordered the Earl of Rutland to fortify the site against possible Scottish invasion. Sir John Harington and the Master Mason of Berwick started to plan to build two earth bulwarks, although Rutland advised the use of stone from the priory. In September 1544 a Scottish fleet led by John Barton in the Mary Willoughby threatened the English coast. It was thought the Scottish ships might try to burn Lindisfarne, so orders were given to repair the decayed bulwark or blockhouse at Holy Island.
By December 1547, Ralph Cleisbye, Captain of the fort, had guns including a wheel-mounted demi-culverin, two brass sakers, a falcon, and another fixed demi-culverin. However, Beblowe Crag itself was not fortified until 1549 and Sir Richard Lee saw only a decayed platform and turf rampart there in 1565. Elizabeth I then had work carried out on the fort, strengthening it and providing gun platforms for the developments in artillery technology. When James VI and I came to power in England, he combined the Scottish and English thrones, and the need for the castle declined. At that time the castle was still garrisoned from Berwick and protected the small Lindisfarne Harbour.
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Carver Heights in Lexington Park, Maryland on Christmas Day, 25 December 2004 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Constructed in two different phases between 1942 and 1944 the first location was adjacent to the main gate of Patuxent Naval Air Station at Patuxent River in Lexington Park Maryland the Lexington Manor aka Flat Tops Development was built for whites. Many who worked at or whose jobs were connected with the base.
With the same architectural design and similar streetscape, and located a few miles south down 235 and between the main and south gate, the Carver Heights Development was built for Negro Americans. Many who also worked at Pax River Naval Air Station.
2005 Christmas Day in Southern Maryland
Elvert Barnes Photography
Here are some resources:
Lexington Park Leader at lexleader.net/park-history-2/
Sunday, 24 June 2007 Washington Post at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/22/...
12/11/2014 Baynet at www.thebaynet.com/articles/1214/sole-survivor-of-the-flat...
Architectural Plans and Survey at msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/026000/026...
Original photo at flic.kr/p/4Sc2p
London’s Southbank is a wonderful and vibey place on most days, but it really comes alive on the weekends with street artists, food stalls, little markets, skateboarders and of course tourists. The glorious view of the Thames from the bank or from any of the bridges that connects the two banks is always breathtaking. Sometimes, when the weather is exactly right, when the warm breeze of the river gently carries the imagination, for a brief moment, it can feel like you understand the way the universe works, and why without a doubt London is the most amazing city in the world.
I walked from Leicester Square via Trafalgar Square to the Southbank, only snapping a few photos on my way with the wonderful Canon 5D MkII and the Canon 24-70m f/4.0 USM lens. I leave a lot of the experimenting to the post processing, playing with colours and shadows. I’m particularly proud of the soap bubbles shots. Got really lucky with how they came out.
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This is a photograph from the Castlepollard 5KM Road Race and Fun Run 2019, which was held in Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath, Ireland on Wednesday 14th August 2019 at 20:00. The race is hosted by North Westmeath Athletic Club. This race is the penultimate race in the Kia Race Series 2019. The weather was very changeable this evening and was not very suitable for racing. The participants had a very stiff breeze in their faces on the outward stretch and all the way to the 2KM mark within Tullynally. This then became a helpful tailwail for the final KM of the race. There was a heavy shower of rain just before the start of the race.
Starting off many years ago the race was very much a local affair drawing runners from the sounding areas of Mullingar, North East Meath, Cavan, and Longford. However, the race has grown in stature and popularity over the years and is now one of the most well attended road races in the midlands and sees participants from all over Ireland. The race offers prizes in all categories. The Castlepollard 5KM Road Race attempts to support young runners and walkers by organising a range of underage races around the town square before the adult race at 20:00. Profits from the race go towards grassroots athletics in the region - North Westmeath Athletics, Schools Cross Country, and local community games. As summer moves into autumn the Castlepollard 5KM can be considered as the 'unofficial ending' of summer evening road racing in the midlands as with the fading light of the late summer evenings there are less opportunities to hold races in the evening time. Castlepollard is a small town located in North County Westmeath amongst the lakes of Lough Lene and Lough Derravagh. One of the show pieces of the race landscape is Tullynally Castle which provides almost 2.5KM of the race route. The name Tullynally is an adaption of 'Tulaigh an Eallaigh' – the Hill of the Swan. The hill overlooks the mythical Lough Derravaragh. Irish folklore legend names the lake as where the Children of Lir, who were turned into swans, were destined to live for 300 years. Tullynally Castle is still a family home to this day. It provides a dramatic and historic setting for the race.
The race begins near the center of the town square and proceeds directly out the R395 towards Coole and Edgeworthstown. The first KM is flat and quick allowing the field to spread out. The race then enters the Tullynally Castle estate and proceeds up the tree-lined avenue. Underfoot conditions are good on well maintained tarmacadam roads. The gardens, like the castle are on a grand scale, taking in nearly 12 acres. This allows the race to make a big loop of the gardens with a quick downhill stretch followed by a sharp climb (passing the Castle) before the race rejoins its outgoing path for the final 1.5KM of the race. The final 1100M from the archway gate of the Castle grounds to the finish is as the first - fast and flat and allows for a great finish passing the GAA grounds with finish line just outside the local Fire Station.
This year almost 350 took part in the race. It goes without saying that the Castlepollard 5KM has become one of the "must do" road race events in the midlands. Everything that is good about club road racing in Ireland can be found here. There is a great community atmosphere about the race. A very find spread of refreshments are provided afterwards in the Hotel Castlepollard where prize-giving and chatting goes on late into the evening.
Electronic Timing and Event Management are provided by Popup Races and their website is www.popupraces.ie
One of the enduring symbols of the Castlepollard 5KM is the tireless work of Andy MacEoin of North Westmeath AC who has been a visitor to almost every road race in the Midlands and beyond over the past number of months to publicize the event. Many of the participants tonight will have seen Andy's strategically placed advertising signs around other road race routes. Certainly this work, and that of many other members of North Westmeath AC, has paid off well.
Photographs
We have a full set of photographs from tonight's race which is available on our Flickr photostream: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157710303936276
We have photographs from seven of the previous Castlepollard 5KM road races - 2012 was missed. They are available here on Flickr:
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2018: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157700238076885
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2017: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157684179507162
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2016: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157672157788196
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2015: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157656750245820
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2014: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157646408272725
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2013: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157635070120285
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2011: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157627404031092
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2010: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157624655001130
Our Flickr Photographs from Castlepollard 5KM 2009: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157622023529006
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Djs that were playing Sarah Main And Sander Kleinenberg
Pacha is well known by theirs parties, located in Ibiza, and in NYC, and others locations around the world, Pacha NYC specially brought to us the best of their djs and the music, to Miami, especially in Shelborne Hotel, were I was Staying. :)
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Lorginac is a small village, surrounded by vinyards, near the Gironde. The parish church Saint-Pierre in it´s center was built within the 12th century, but got greatly altered in the 19th century.
The left side of the capital, just seen on the previous upload. It is part of the western facade, that survived the great reconstruction process and still is in a good condition.
A devil holds a miser by the neck. Avarice was a deathly sin - and the miser´s purse is indeed well filled. The devil has an enormous hairdo, that looks a bit like headdresses and war bonnets worn by Native Americans. But Christopher Columbus was still "far away"...
This is a snapshot of my ESL class at a year-end party at my house in 1993, my third year of teaching English.
Because I've now taught English to hundreds of students (from at least 51 countries) and generally have a crappy memory for faces, it surprises me that I still remember some of these people so vividly.
The lady sitting on the right in the first row (the one without glasses) is Luisa, from La Paz, Bolivia, who worked as a seamstress in the US. She attended my class for years and was one of my best students. I still remember to this day her essay on how much better the food from the market in La Paz tastes than American supermarket food. I hope to find out someday if she was right.
The blonde lady on on the right in the back row is Aija, a Latvian linguist who was visiting her uncle in the US just to improve her English. She taught me a lot of English grammar. I'll never forget the day when a student asked me a question I didn't know and Aija said, "Pardon me, but could it perhaps be the modal form of the verb?" I had no idea what she was talking about then, but she gave me an incentive to learn.
Aija returned to Latvia and I think she was working at the airport in Riga the last time I googled her. After 20 years of teaching English to hundreds of students, Aija is definitely in my all-time top ten of my students.
I think (but am not 100% sure) that the man next to Aija is Mehmet, a Turk who had spent years living in Germany. The Turks who have attended my classes over the years have given me an entirely different perspective on the Muslim world. I had no idea there were so many highly secularized Turks living in Germany or that Turkey had so many people who identify completely with Europe and the West. (It's also possible this fellow is an Iranian Marxist physician, but the date on the photo doesn't match the date on his ESL attendance records.)
The couple in the center of the back row are Oscar and Zonia, from Guatemala. Oscar worked downtown in a parking garage and I kept up with him for a while, but we drifted away. Oscar and Zonia didn't have much education, but they both worked hard and loved the opportunities that America was creating for their children.
I believe the two ladies to the left of the top row were both from Colombia and they loved romantic movies (Ghost), but I confess my memories of them have faded somewhat. And unfortunately I just don't have any memory at all of the lady with glasses in the front row.
(and our cat Kitty, who I'm holding, had a long happy life, dying just this past July 4th)
This is a photograph from the 4.5KM mark of the annual Na Fianna AC "Bob Heffernan and Mary Hanley" 5KM Road Race and Fun Run which was held in Johnstownbridge, Co. Kildare, Ireland on Tuesday 16th May 2023 at 20:00.
This race needs no introductions as it is now firmly established on the Leinster road racing calendar with athletes travelling from all over the region to take part. The race has gained a glowing reputation as being one of the fastest 5KM road races in Ireland. It is one of the rare occasions around road racing circles these days where a very small club can organise a very successful large participation race. The attendance at this year's race exceeded all expectations. Today's race again recorded an attendance of over 700 participants following on from approximately the same numbers in 2022.
The full set of photographs are available at our Flickr photoset here :
www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72177720308322444
This race has great historical and emotional significance for the hosting club Na Fianna. Since the race's inception over 26 years ago it has commemorated the years of work and volunteering that local man Bob Heffernan gave to Meath, Leinster, and Irish athletics from grass roots upwards and his work with the host club Na Fianna AC. Last year the dearly departed Mary Hanley joined Bob Heffernan in receiving the honour of race co-dedication. Mary Hanley was a stalwart athlete, coach and volunteer for Na Fianna AC for her entire life right up to her untimely passing during the summer 2021. Mary and Bob gave a lifetime of dedication to the promotion of their club. Na Fianna AC are typical of many rural sporting clubs who have a large catchment area which combines rural North Kildare and South Meath taking in Enfield, Rathmoylan, Johnstownbridge and Baconstown. The race, known affectionately by club-members as simply "Bob's race" (and now Mary's) is a fitting tribute to commemorate their contributions to this sport. Indeed, not many road races are held in the same affection as this race with runners returning back every year to sample the course and the wonderful atmosphere again.
In addition to the fast course and competitive field, the weather was perfect for road racing. There was warm evening sunshine with hardly any wind.
The race is part of the Popup Races KIA Race Series. The race is a fixture on the Meath AAI Road Race calendar despite the fact that the race is run completely in County Kildare. The current route for the race has stayed the same over the past few years. However previous to that the race was held in Enfield and also Rathmoylan in County Meath. The race starts on the busy Enfield to Edenderry road and this requires a big effort from stewards and marshalls. However, as always, the event was a resounding success with personal bests and great runs from many of the participants. The course is very fast and flat - it is a one loop course which is left-handed in terms of turns.
Photographs from 2022: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72177720299045746
Photographs from 2019: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157708548820525
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The image above is part of an advert by a company offering VHS (etc) tape to DVD dubbing services. People send their tapes and photograph albums to the company, who converts the analogue formats to digital and sends them back to the customers in DVD form.
But what happens to the video tape? Should it just go in the trash? What happens if the video tape is of someone deceased? This Japanese company offers an additional service, in the case of one video tape at twice the price of the dubbing itself, funereal, mourning rites, at an affiliated Buddhist temple. Customers pay for about $30 USD for a Buddhist priest to chant Buddhist prayers over up to twenty of their VHS video tapes, several times, before eventually disposing of them.
This question would not occur to a Westerner. In Japan there is a far greater reticence towards destroying visual representations since these visual representations are far closer to the persons videoed. Similarly, for example there are also funereal rites for dolls in Japan because dolls are far more felt to have had lives.
So, is there a Nacalian transformation? Do Westerners pay our respects towards diaries, or voice recordings, especially of the dead, for instance?
Funeral rites for visual representations of persons (real or otherwise) may suggests a desire for visual representations of persons to live on - to go to a pictorial heaven as it were, where images live forever in an eternal light.
While I am unaware of a direct transformation, where Westerners pay respect to the linguistic representations of the dead, while they are alive it is found that at least Westerner strive towards 'symbolic immortality,' in the face of "mortality salience" - being required to think about their own death.
When required to think about their death, humans -- or at least Westerners -- attempt to live on in their narratives. The question as to whether Asians attempt to achieve "symbolic immortality" is controversial. Heine, Harihara, and Niiya (2002) found that Japanese do. Kashima, Halloran, Yuki, and Kashima (2004) found that mortality salience produced different effects in Japanese and Westerners. Yen & Cheng (2010) found that Taiwanese do not. Ma-Kellams and Blascovich (2012) found that Asians do other things in the face of death: rather than focus upon symbolic immortality they attempt to enjoy "life" more.
Heine, S. J., Harihara, M., & Niiya, Y. (2002). Terror management in Japan. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 5(3), 187–196. Retrieved from onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-839X.00103/full
Kashima, E. S., Halloran, M., Yuki, M., & Kashima, Y. (2004). The effects of personal and collective mortality salience on individualism: Comparing Australians and Japanese with higher and lower self-esteem. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(3), 384–392. doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2003.07.007
Ma-Kellams, C., & Blascovich, J. (2012). Enjoying life in the face of death: East–West differences in responses to mortality salience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 103(5), 773–786. doi.org/10.1037/a0029366
Yen, C.-L., & Cheng, C.-P. (2010). Terror management among Taiwanese: Worldview defence or resigning to fate? Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 13(3), 185–194. doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-839X.2010.01328.x
Addendum
Come to think of it. According to Derrida's Freud, I am a funeral rite.
Derrida, J., Brault, P.-A., & Naas, M. (1996). By Force of Mourning. Critical Inquiry, 22(2), 171–192. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/1343969
This is a photograph from the Tullamore Harriers AC "Quinlan Cup" Half Marathon which was held on Saturday 29th August 2015 in Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland at 12:00. This is the third year of the event. The race is organised and promoted by Tullamore Harriers AC. The race starts on the Charleville Road just outside the entrance to Tullamore Harriers. The race proceeds south along the R421 and onto the N52 before taking a route onto local back roads. The race then completes a large rural road route before it joins to the R421 again and the final 1.5 miles are the same as the first mile of the race. The runners enter Tullamore stadium and complete one lap of the tartan track before the finish line. The course is challenging in places with some undulations along the route. But overall it is fair course. 2013 seen the first year of the event as the club commemorated the 60th Anniversary of the formation of Tullamore Harriers AC which today is one of Ireland's best known athletics clubs.
The race was perfectly organised. The weather was good for racing but there was a very strong headwind for the first 6 miles of the race which made the conditions difficult. The weather was dry and warm except for the torrential downpour at around 1:45pm which cleared the whole finish area of spectators and runners. There were stewarts all along the route, 3 drink stations with bottled water, superb facilities, and great after-race refreshments. The stewards along the route provided great encouragement to all of the runners. Tullamore Harriers and the local community really worked together to make this is a wonderful event. There was also a relay option where teams of two can run approximately 10.5km each. In total almost 700 participants took part. This was higher than the 568 participants who completed the race which is almost 150 more than the 2013 event.
We have a large set of photographs from today's race at the start and the finish until the 2-00 finish time. They are available on Flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157655560294853
Timing and event management was provided by Precision Timing. Results are available on their website at www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2855
Our photographs from the 2014 Half Marathon on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157646587496250/
Our photographs from the 2013 Half Marathon on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157635307620452/
Half Marathon Route on MapMyRun: www.mapmyrun.com/ie/tullamore-l/half-marathon-tullamore-r...
2014 Race Results are available from PRECISION TIMING: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2136
2013 Race Results are available from PRECISION TIMING: www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=1448
Tullamore Harriers on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tullamore.harriers?fref=ts
As mentioned above this race half marathon started in 2013 and celebrated the 60th Anniversary (a Diamond Anniversary) of the foundation of Tullamore Harriers AC. The club was formed in the town in November 1953. However, it was almost 1979 before facilities close to what we see today open in the present day site. Over 50 provincial and national athletics meetings are held at Tullamore Harriers every year. The facilities available combined with it's central geographical location joining routes from North, South, East, and West make it a very attractive venue. The half marathon today firmly brings competitive national road racing back to "The Harriers". The Quinlan Cup which will be awarded to the winning club team. For more than 40 years the Harriers Quinlan Cup was the most prestigious event on the road racing calendar. Having started as a cross-country race back in 1957, it became a road race in 1967 and remained so until 2000 when the race was last held. During its reign as a blue-ribband event the Quinlan Cup was won by the likes of John Treacy and Eamonn Coughlan.
Today, the facilities at Tullamore Harriers are the envy of many athletics clubs in Ireland. The facilities provided by Tullamore make it one of the premier venues for local and national level athletics in Ireland. There is an Olympic standard tartan track, a fully equipped gym, changing facilities, press and media facilities, meeting room spaces, etc. The club also provides a social center and niteclub which makes "The Harriers" a very well known on the local social scene. Esssentially, the town of Tullamore would be a different place if it weren't for the presence of Tullamore Harriers AC.
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
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That is great set of whiskers.
In the 2012 Memorial Day Mother Lode camera donation at the MECCA I found a box of slides marked "Circus." There were Kodachrome slides from 1954 and a few Ektachromes from 1960. There were 30 slides in total. One of the coolest orphaned image finds to date.
One of the funniest I found is the stop motion Super 8 reel I call the missing Zapruder film of Lincoln assassination.
This is the sixth photograph of last night. Saturn proves to be challenging due to its low brightness compared to Jupiter. Blue channel becomes very noisy at high gain therefore I had to use only 3.75 fps on this one to keep low noise. Seems to me this is much better than the last attempt and seeing conditions were much better.
C-11 SCT, CGEM Mount, DMK21AU04 mono camera with Astronomik LRGB filters. Lum 15 fps, Red and Green 7.5fps, Blue 3.75 fps.
Is there a designer type? To what limit are designers individualists and how does the most average designer look like? Design Statistics Annual is trying to figure out the answers. The book looks upon how designers are portrayed in images, where they come from, and what they are doing. All the facts are illustrated in diagrams, reproductions of portraits and text.
During one year statistics was collected from magazines. The work was completed in Eindhoven, and is about designers from all the world. This edition is based on the I.D. Magazine (International Design Magazine). One year’s edition of the magazine has been carefully counted, analyzed and registrated. The book consists of 226 pages, mentions 1523 persons and shows that the most average designer likes to dress in a pale blue shirt, jeans and black sneakers.
Design Statistics Annual is a collaboration between Maria Johansson and Lina Huring. They met at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands where they both were exchange students.
The book can be purchased at bookshop Konst-ig, Åsögatan 124, Stockholm. info@konstig.se
This is a photograph from the FINISH of the SSE Airticity Dublin Marathon which was held in Dublin City, Ireland on Monday October 27th 2014 at 09:00. This was the 35th year of the SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon, which is run through the historic Georgian streets of Dublin, Ireland's largest and capital city. This photograph was taken in Dublin City Center at Mount Street Canal Bridge which is just before the 26 mile mark on Mount Street.
PLEASE NOTE: These are completely unofficial photographs. We have no linkages whatsoever to the official photography outlets for the marathon
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Yes (Explaination 1) - If you're using these photographs please don't just take them and post them without some type of acknowledgement that this is not your photograph. Remember it takes hours of photography, thousands of euros of equipment, IT Skills and hours of uploading to make these photographs available. It only takes 10 seconds to copy them and post them as you're own. Please think of the photographers before you post.
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Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.
In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting does take a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
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The explaination is very simple.
Attribution- anyone using our photographs gives us an appropriate credit for it. This ensures that people aren't taking our photographs and passing them off as their own. This usually just mean putting a link to our photographs somewhere on your website, blog, or Facebook where other people can see it.
ShareAlike – anyone can use these photographs, and make changes if they like, or incorporate them into a bigger project, but they must make those changes available back to the community under the same terms.
Creative Commons aims to encourage creative sharing. See some examples of Creative Commons photographs on Flickr: www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
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That's OK! We understand!
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Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets
This is a photograph from the Leinster Cross Country Championships which was held at Moyvalley Hotel and Golf Estate at Balyna Estate, Moyvalley, Co. Kildare, Ireland on Sunday 25th October 2015 begining at 11:00 until the final race at 14:20. The programme for today included Boys and Girls even ages, Junior male and female, Novice male and female and Masters male and female. The races were run on a superb course beside the Moyvalley hotel where the vast acres of prime farmland provided a large space to have a fair but challenging course on good firm ground.
The Leinster event was hosted by local club Na Fianna from Co. Meath. However the venue was actually just inside Co. Kildare in a part of the county where Meath and Kildare borders intersect several times along the route of the old N4/N6 road. The luxury Moyvalley Hotel & Golf resort is set amidst 550 acres of historic Kildare countryside and is easily accessed from the M6/M4 at Enfield or Kinnegad.
Results can be found at MyRunResults.com and their website www.myrunresults.com/results.html
Balyna Estate where the races were held can trace its history back to the 1500s. More recently the estate was owned by the Bewley Family of the Bewley Cafe fame. The hotel and resort were taken over by new management in 2014 who are implementing big plans to expand Moyvalley further.
Our full collection of photographs from the races today are available on Flickr at this set www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157659898745159
USING OUR PHOTOGRAPHS - A QUICK GUIDE AND ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS
Can I use these photographs directly from Flickr on my social media account(s)?
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BUT..... Wait there a minute....
We take these photographs as a hobby and as a contribution to the running community in Ireland. We do not charge for our photographs. Our only "cost" is that we request that if you are using these images: (1) on social media sites such as Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter,LinkedIn, Google+, VK.com, Vine, Meetup, Tagged, Ask.fm,etc or (2) other websites, blogs, web multimedia, commercial/promotional material that you must provide a link back to our Flickr page to attribute us or acknowledge us as the original photographers.
This also extends to the use of these images for Facebook profile pictures. In these cases please make a separate wall or blog post with a link to our Flickr page. If you do not know how this should be done for Facebook or other social media please email us and we will be happy to help suggest how to link to us.
I want to download these pictures to my computer or device?
You can download this photographic image here directly to your computer or device. This version is the low resolution web-quality image. How to download will vary slight from device to device and from browser to browser. Have a look for a down-arrow symbol or the link to 'View/Download' all sizes. When you click on either of these you will be presented with the option to download the image. Remember just doing a right-click and "save target as" will not work on Flickr.
I want get full resolution, print-quality, copies of these photographs?
If you just need these photographs for online usage then they can be used directly once you respect their Creative Commons license and provide a link back to our Flickr set if you use them. For offline usage and printing all of the photographs posted here on this Flickr set are available free, at no cost, at full image resolution.
Please email petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com with the links to the photographs you would like to obtain a full resolution copy of. We also ask race organisers, media, etc to ask for permission before use of our images for flyers, posters, etc. We reserve the right to refuse a request.
In summary please remember when requesting photographs from us - If you are using the photographs online all we ask is for you to provide a link back to our Flickr set or Flickr pages. You will find the link above clearly outlined in the description text which accompanies this photograph. Taking these photographs and preparing them for online posting takes a significant effort and time. We are not posting photographs to Flickr for commercial reasons. If you really like what we do please spread the link around your social media, send us an email, leave a comment beside the photographs, send us a Flickr email, etc. If you are using the photographs in newspapers or magazines we ask that you mention where the original photograph came from.
I would like to contribute something for your photograph(s)?
Many people offer payment for our photographs. As stated above we do not charge for these photographs. We take these photographs as our contribution to the running community in Ireland. If you feel that the photograph(s) you request are good enough that you would consider paying for their purchase from other photographic providers or in other circumstances we would suggest that you can provide a donation to any of the great charities in Ireland who do work for Cancer Care or Cancer Research in Ireland.
Let's get a bit technical: We use Creative Commons Licensing for these photographs
We use the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License for all our photographs here in this photograph set. What does this mean in reality?
The explaination is very simple.
Attribution- anyone using our photographs gives us an appropriate credit for it. This ensures that people aren't taking our photographs and passing them off as their own. This usually just mean putting a link to our photographs somewhere on your website, blog, or Facebook where other people can see it.
ShareAlike – anyone can use these photographs, and make changes if they like, or incorporate them into a bigger project, but they must make those changes available back to the community under the same terms.
Above all what Creative Commons aims to do is to encourage creative sharing. See some examples of Creative Commons photographs on Flickr: www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
As mentioned above we take these photographs as a hobby and as a voluntary contribution to the running community in Ireland. Very often we have actually ran in the same race and then switched to photographer mode after we finished the race. Consequently, we feel that we have no obligations to capture a photograph of every participant in the race. However, we do try our very best to capture as many participants as possible. But this is sometimes not possible for a variety of reasons:
►You were hidden behind another participant as you passed our camera
►Weather or lighting conditions meant that we had some photographs with blurry content which we did not upload to our Flickr set
►There were too many people - some races attract thousands of participants and as amateur photographs we cannot hope to capture photographs of everyone
►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
You can email us petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com to enquire if we have a photograph of you which didn't make the final Flickr selection for the race. But we cannot promise that there will be photograph there. As alternatives we advise you to contact the race organisers to enquire if there were (1) other photographs taking photographs at the race event or if (2) there were professional commercial sports photographers taking photographs which might have some photographs of you available for purchase. You might find some links for further information above.
Don't like your photograph here?
That's OK! We understand!
If, for any reason, you are not happy or comfortable with your picture appearing here in this photoset on Flickr then please email us at petermooney78 AT gmail DOT com and we will remove it as soon as possible. We give careful consideration to each photograph before uploading.
I want to tell people about these great photographs!
Great! Thank you! The best link to spread the word around is probably http://www.flickr.com/peterm7/sets
This is a really old photo set- I still took it in my old flat and it stars Anja, a doll that I recently sold- she was very pretty, but somehow I couldn't really bond with her and decided I would like to rather have Go North from this year's IFDC, so I sold her to invest in Go North.
She is wearing a HJ Couture outfit from Hucky's Halloween collection that I was lucky enough to pick up on the secondary market.
Wisdom is in the Air... Look down :)
In Large
'Eternal Reflections' On Black
The first EP from Ardhon is available in the iTunes store now!!
I Remember a Room...
May we invite you on our tour..
If you ever get the chance to come to Dublin you should make sure to visit Glasnevin Cemetery and it is recommended that you sign up for a walking tour. The tours give a valuable insight to this unique burial place and into the final resting-place of the men and women who have helped shape Ireland's past and present.
Daily tours of the cemetery at 2.30pm for Winter Months. Including Sundays & Bank Holidays
Glasnevin Cemetery, officially known as Prospect Cemetery, is the largest nondenominational cemetery in Ireland. It first opened in 1832 and is located in Glasnevin, Dublin.
This graveyard has been described as a hidden gem, not only because are there more Dubliners buried here than are currently living in the city. Some of those who found their final resting place in Glasnevin are amongst the most important historical figures of Ireland.
The cemetery contains many historically interesting monuments as well as the graves of many of Ireland's most prominent national figures — Pádraig Ó Domhnaill, Charles Stewart Parnell and Daniel O'Connell as well as Michael Collins, Éamon de Valera, Arthur Griffith, Maude Gonne, Kevin Barry, Sir Roger Casement, Charles Gavan Duffy, George Gavan Duffy, Constance Markiewicz, Brendan Behan, Seán MacBride, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Christy Brown, Frank Duff, Luke Kelly of the Dubliners. Boyzone singer Stephen Gately was cremated at Glasnevin Crematorium, which is located within the cemetery grounds, on October 17, 2009.
The cemetery also offers a view of the changing style of death monuments in Ireland over the last 200 years: from the austere, simple, high stone erections of the period up until the 1860s, to the elaborate Celtic crosses of the nationalistic revival from the 1860s to 1960s, to the plain Italian marble of the late twentieth century.
The high wall with watch-towers surrounding the main part of the cemetery was built to deter bodysnatchers, who were active in Dublin in the 18th and early 19th century. The watchmen also had a pack of blood-hounds who roamed the cemetery at night. Prime Minister, Robert Peel, when questioned in Parliament on the activities of the body-snatchers, admitted that it was, indeed, a "grave matter".
This is the first metalmark I have seen --- a "lifer." Disturbingly, I discovered after taking the photos that this tiny butterfly (1" or 25 mm wingspan) had been captured by a crab spider hidden in the tiny buckwheat blossom. [1 more photo to follow in a day or two]
Adobe Springs, Stanislaus County, California
Lake Baringo is at its highest level since 1964, resulting in widespread flooding. This means the hippos are going further inland to find food. The flood water came right up to our room at the hotel. We couldn't stay at Roberts Camp as our cottage was under 5 feet of water. It meant a great night of hippo watching out of the window of the hotel, but they used the gap between us and the next room as a pathway. It was quite scary going to the restaurant in the evening. It has dramatically changed the scenery since we went there last year. On the second morning we saw a large crocodile just feet from our room as the water level had raised again. You can see how close the tents and buildings are in some of the hippo photos. Just after we left we heard there was a landslide which buried 14 villages. This is a disaster for the area. Tourism is suffering as accommodation is flooded, and the local people are losing their villages. They also can't get to the beehives in the trees in the flooded area, and selling honey is their main source of income.
Ricketts Glen State Park is home to the Glens Natural Area, a Nati onal Natural Landmark. Take the Falls Trail and explore the Glens, which boasts a series of wild, free-fl owing waterfalls, each cascading through rock-strewn cleft s in this ancient hillside. The 94-foot Ganoga Falls is the highest of the 22 names waterfalls. Various other trails are available, varying in length up to 26 miles. A 12.5 miles equestrian
trail is available as well as 20 miles of snowmobile and cross-country skiing trails. Ice climbing is permitt ed, when conditi ons allow. Old growth forest and diverse wildlife also att ract visitors to this park. The park is famous for its exceptional diversity of bird life, from 23 varieti es of warblers to bald eagles. About 10,144 acres are open to hunti ng, trapping and the training of dogs during established seasons. Common game species are deer, turkey, grouse, bear, coyote, pheasant and squirrel. Common furbearers are raccoon, mink, muskrat, beaver, coyote and
bobcat. About 83,000 acreas of state game lands lie to the west and north of the park. The 245-acre Lake Jean has warm water game fi sh, pan fi sh and trout. All PA Fish & Boat rules and regulati on apply. The 600-foot beach is open from late-May to mid-September; 8am to sunset. Swimming is at your own rick. Seasonal Boat
Rental and Food Concessions are available near the beach area from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Environmental Education programs are also available through the park service.
Photo by Ingrid Barnes - CMVB.
La Palma is located at 28°40′N 17°52′W / 28.667°N 17.867°W / 28.667; -17.867, making it the most northwesterly of the Canary Islands. La Palma has an area of 706 km2 making it the fifth largest of the seven main Canary Islands. The total population is about 85,000, of which 18,000 (2003 data) live in the capital, Santa Cruz de la Palma and about 20,000 (2004 data) in Los Llanos de Aridane.
La Palma, like the other islands of the Canary Island archipelago, is a volcanic ocean island. The volcano rises almost 7 km (4 mi) above the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. There is road access from sea level to the summit at 2,423 m (7,949 ft),[1] which is marked by an outcrop of rocks called Los Muchachos ("The Lads"). This is the site of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, one of the world's premier astronomical observatories.
La Palma's geography is a result of the volcanic formation of the island. The highest peaks reach over 2,400 m (7,874 ft) above sea level, and the base of the island is located almost 4,000 m (13,123 ft) below sea level. The northern part of La Palma is dominated by the Caldera de Taburiente, with a width of 9 km (6 mi) and a depth of 1,500 m (4,921 ft). It is surrounded by a ring of mountains ranging from 1,600 m (5,249 ft) to 2,400 m (7,874 ft) in height. Only the deep Barranco de las Angustias ("Valley of Fear") canyon leads into the inner area of the caldera which is a national park. It can be reached only by hiking. The outer slopes are cut by numerous gorges which run from 2,000 m (6,562 ft) down to the sea. Today, only few of these carry water due to the many water tunnels that have been cut into the islands structure.
In 1815, the great German geologist Leopold von Buch visited the Canary Islands. It was as a result of his visit to La Palma and Tenerife where he visited the Las Cañadas and Taburiente calderas, that the Spanish word for cauldron - "Caldera" - was introduced into the geological vocabulary.
From the Caldera de Taburiente to the south runs the ridge Cumbre Nueva. The southern part of La Palma is dominated by the Cumbre Vieja, a volcanic ridge formed by numerous volcanic cones built of lava and scoria. The Cumbre Vieja is active - but dormant, with the last eruption occurring in 1971 at the Teneguia vent which is located at the southern end of the Cumbre Vieja - Punta de Fuencaliente, (The Point of the Hot Fountain).
La Palma is dominated by the colours blue, green and black. Blue represent the surrounding ocean, Green represents the abundant plant life (which is the most diverse in the Canary Islands) and Black comes from the volcanic rocks that forms the landscape and the numerous playas (beaches) of black sand.
La Palma is nicknamed "Isla Bonita" [2] ("beautiful island") and the "island of San Pedro" (after it's patron Saint: Peter). San Pedro is also a music venue on the island where international bands play[3], something which may be referred to in La Isla Bonita.
Santa Cruz de La Palma (the island's main port) retains many elegant 17th and 18th century houses, and produces high quality hand made cigars made from locally grown tobacco.
.... this is a series, long - and - short, of black and white photographs, made in Sardinia last summer 2018; I returned to the places where I attended the first years of high school as a boy. I returned to Cuglieri (Oristano), I reviewed its places-beaches-coasts (Santa Caterina di Pittinnuri, S'Archittu, Torre del Pozzo, Is Arenas, Cornus); I've been to Oristano, Putzu Idu, Bosa, Bosa Marina, Alghero, Castelsardo (with its Elephant Rock), Capo Testa, Porto Cervo, Cala Volpe; I reviewed the Nuraghi, typical conical truncated buildings built from 1800 BC. until 1100 BC (I focused on the "window" in the shape of Toro, presents on the entrance of the nuraghi, in fact the Taurus in Sardinia was a divine symbol); I visited the "Domus de Janas" (the "fairy houses"), necropolis built in a period between the Neolithic and the Bronze Age; I was in Cabras (Oristano) where I saw the "Giants of Mont'e Prama", which are Nuraghic sculptures. Finally I thank my former high school friend and friend, Engineer Giuseppe Idda, who in this my journey in the wonderful land of Sardinia was a prompter and attentive and affectionate mentor; I also thank my former high school friend and friend Peppino Sulas, who always gives me his affection and his ironic sympathy, finally I thank all the old acquaintances and friends I met in Cuglieri, who welcomed me making me feel as if in Sardinia I was at my house.
.... questa è una serie, lunga - e - corta, di fotografie in bianco e nero, realizzate in Sardegna la scorsa estate 2018; sono ritornato nei luoghi nei quali frequentai da ragazzo i primi anni del liceo. Sono ritornato a Cuglieri (Oristano), ho rivisto i suoi luoghi-spiagge-coste (Santa Caterina di Pittinnuri, S'Archittu, Torre del Pozzo, Is Arenas, Cornus); sono stato ad Oristano, Bosa, Bosa Marina, Alghero, Castelsardo (con la sua Roccia dell'Elefante), Capo Testa, Porto Cervo, Cala Volpe; ho rivisto i Nuraghi, tipiche costruzioni tronco coniche costruite a partire dal 1800 a.C. fino al 1100 a.C (mi sono soffermato sulla "finestra" a forma di Toro, presenta sulla porta d'ingresso dei nuraghi, il Toro infatti in Sardegna era un simbolo divino ); ho visitato le "Domus de Janas" (le "case delle fate"), necropoli realizzate in un periodo compreso fra il Neolitico e l’età del Bronzo; infine sono stato a Cabras (Oristano) ove ho visto i "Giganti di Mont'e Prama", i quali sono sculture nuragiche. Infine ringrazio il mio ex compagno di liceo ed amico, l'Ingegnere Giuseppe Idda, che in questo mio viaggio nella meravigliosa terra di Sardegna mi è stato suggeritore ed attento ed affettuoso mentore; ringrazio anche il mio ex compagno di liceo ed amico Peppino Sulas, che mi fa dono sempre del suo affetto e della sua ironica simpatia, infine ringrazio tutti i vecchi conoscenti ed amici incontrati in quel di Cuglieri, i quali mi hanno accolto facendomi sentire come se in Sardegna fossi a casa mia.
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Cartagena de Indias is one of my favorite cities in Colombia, because of the picturesque, its history, its architecture, its romanticism.
Located on the shores of the Caribbean Sea, was founded on June 1, 1533 by Pedro de Heredia
Cartagena has been a city mainly associated with the pirate history, because it was there where numerous attacks were presented by the pirates coming from Europe, who found in the city a suitable place to plunder in the colonial era, what it did in its To become the most strengthened city in South America and the Caribbean, becoming almost as strong as the Gulf of Mexico itself in its time. At present, its colonial architecture is maintained.
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Cartagena de Indias es una de mis ciudades preferidas en Colombia, por lo pintoresco, por su historia, por su arquitectura, por su romanticismo.
Ubicada a orillas del Mar Caribe, fue fundada el 1 de Junio de 1533 por Pedro de Heredia
Cartagena ha sido una ciudad principalmente asociada con la historia pirata, pues fue allà donde se presentaron numerosos ataques por parte de los piratas provenientes de Europa, que encontraron en la ciudad un lugar adecuado para saquear en la época colonial, lo que la hizo en su momento, convertirse en la ciudad más reforzada de América del Sur y el Caribe, llegando a estar casi tan reforzada como el mismo Golfo de México en su época. En la actualidad se mantiene su arquitectura colonial.
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Copyright © - Esta fotografÃa es propiedad intelectual de su autor, y está protegida por la Ley. Su uso o reproducción por cualquier medio sin previa autorización por escrito del fotógrafo está estrictamente prohibido.
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INFORMACIÓN EXIF
Date: 29/11/2011
Hour: 09:29:49
Department: Bolivar
Municipality: Cartagena De Indias
Site: Cartagena De Indias
Category: Aspectos Urbanos
Dimensions: 2448 x 3264
Camera: Canon
Model: PowerShot SX100 IS
Shutter Speed: 1 / 640 s
F - Number: F / 4
ISO: 80
Exposure Bias Value: 0,00 EV
Focal Length: 18,1 mm
Flash: Off, Did Not Fire
Metering Mode: Pattern
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This is what Yahoo! campus looks like. This is what Lockheed Martin campus looks like. We have windows on our buildings. They don't.
Sunnyvale, California has a name that is very similar to Sunnydale, California the small-town setting for the show 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' Coincidence? I think not.
Is it just me or do they just tend to go into crazy-face-mode when I am around? :P
Gears : 350D + 24-70L + 430EX
The date is unclear, but the stamp indicates by way of the overprint that it is after currency reform on 24 June 1948.JV Fahrzeugbau refers to IndustrieVerwaltung, a transition phase between the State of Saxony picking up the pieces of the Industry in the region (Sächsiches Aufbauwerk) and nationalising them , and the Russian Zone-wide Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau (IFA). The DKW factory has already been taken over by the state, and now it has just been incorporated into IFA as a subsidiary,the DKW Werk.. The chief of the former Auto Union AG left for Ingolstadt in Bavaria.
(In 1932,Horch, Audi, DKW and Wanderer had united to form Auto Union, hence the four familiar rings)
At this time the Griessbach factory was making RT125 IFA motorbikes.
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www.zschopau.de/die-motorradstadt/geschichte
The works was only in Wilischtal 1945-50
Konark Sun Temple ([koɳarəkə]; also Konârak) is a 13th-century Sun Temple at Konark in Odisha, India. It is believed that the temple was built by king Narasimhadeva I of Eastern Ganga Dynasty around 1250 CE. The temple is in the shape of a gigantic chariot elaborately carved stone wheels, pillars and walls. A major part of the structure is now in ruins. The temple is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and has also featured on various list of Seven Wonders of India.
ETYMOLOGY
The name Konark derives from the combination of the Sanskrit words, Kona (corner) and Arka (sun), in reference to the temple which was dedicated to the Sun god Surya.
The monument was also called the Black Pagoda by European sailors. In contrast, the Jagannath Temple in Puri was called the White Pagoda. Both temples served as important landmarks for the sailors.
ARCHITECTURE
The temple was originally built at the mouth of the river Chandrabhaga, but the waterline has receded since then. The temple has been built in the form of a giant ornamented chariot of the Sun god, Surya. It has twelve pairs of elaborately carved stone wheels which are 3 meters wide and is pulled by a set of seven horses (4 on the right and 3 on the left). The temple follows the traditional style of Kalinga architecture. It is carefully oriented towards the east so that the first rays of sunrise strikes the principal entrance. The temple is built from Khondalite rocks.
The original temple had a main sanctum sanctorum (vimana), which was supposedly 70 m tall. Due to the weight of the super structure and weak soil of the area the main vimana fell in 1837. The audience hall (Jagamohana), which is about 30 m tall, still stands and is the principal structure in the surviving ruins. Among the structures, which have survived to the current day, are the dance hall (Nata mandira) and dining hall (Bhoga mandapa).
The Konark temple is also known for its erotic sculptures of maithunas.
Two smaller ruined temples have been discovered nearby. One of them is called the Mayadevi Temple and is located southwest from the entrance of the main temple. It is presumed to have been dedicated to Mayadevi, one of the Sun god's wives. It has been dated to the late 11th century, earlier than the main temple. The other one belongs to some unknown Vaishnava deity. Sculptures of Balarama, Varaha and Trivikrama have been found at the site, indicating it to be a Vaishnavite temple. Both temples have their primary idols missing.
A collection of fallen sculptures can be viewed at the Konark Archaeological Museum which is maintained by the Archaeological Survey of India.
HISTORY
ANCIENT TEXTS
According to Bhavishya Purana and Samba Purana, there may have been a sun temple in the region earlier than current one, dating to the 9th century or earlier. The books mention three sun temples at Mundira (possibly Konark), Kalapriya (Mathura), and Multan.
According to the scriptures, Samba, the son of Krishna, was cursed with leprosy. He was advised by the sage, Kataka, to worship the sun god to cure his aliment. Samba underwent penance for 12 years in Mitravana near the shores of Chandrabhaga. Both the original Konark temple and the Multan temple have been attributed to Samba.
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (1st Century CE) mentions a port called Kainapara, which has been identified as current day Konark.
SUN DIAL AND TIME
The wheels of the temple are sundials which can be used to calculate time accurately to a minute including day and night.
SECOND TEMPLE
According to the Madala Panji, there was another temple in the region. It was built by one Pundara Kesari. He may have been Puranjaya, the 7th century ruler, of the Somavasmi Dynasty.
NARASIMHADEVA I
The current temple is attributed to Narasimhadeva I of the Eastern Ganga Dynasty. His reign spanned from 1238 to 1264 CE. The temple may have been a monument to his victory against Tughral Tughan Khan.
DHARMAPADA´S TALE
According to local folklore, Narasimhadeva I had hired a chief architect called Bisu Maharana to build the temple. After a period of twelve years, a workforce of twelve thousand almost finished the construction. But, they failed to mount the crown stone. The impatient king ordered the temple to be finished in three days or the artisans be put to death. At the time, Bisu Maharana's twelve-year-old son, Dharmapada arrived at the site. Bisu Maharana had never seen his son, as he had left his village when his wife was still pregnant. Dharmapada successfully proposed a solution to mount the crown stone. But, the artisans were still apprehensive that the king will be displeased to learn that a boy succeeded where his best artisans failed. Dharmapada climbed onto the temple and leapt into the water to save his father and his co-workers.
COLLAPSE
There have been several proposed theories for the collapse of the main sanctum. The date of the collapse is also not certain.
The Kenduli copper plates of Narasimha IV (Saka 1305 or 1384 CE) states the temple to be in a perfect state.
In the 16th century Ain-i-Akbari, Abul Fazl also mentions Konark being in a proper state. The account also mentions the cost of construction being 12 years of revenue.
The cause of collapse is also placed on Kalapahad who invaded Odisha in 1568.
In 1627, the then Raja of Khurda had removed the sun idol from Konark and moved it to the Jagannath temple in Puri.
James Fergusson (1808–1886) had the opinion that marshy foundation had caused the collapse. But, the structure has shown no sign of sinking into its foundation. Fergusson, who visited the temple in 1837, recorded a corner of the main sanctum still standing. It also fell down in 1848 due to a strong gale.
According to Percy Brown (1872–1955), the temple was not properly completed and so it collapsed. This contradicts earlier recorded accounts of the temple being in a proper state.
In 1929, an analysis of a moss covered rock estimated the date of abandonment at around 1573.
Other proposed causes include lightning and earthquake.
ARUNA STAMBHA
In the last quarter of the 18th century, when worship had ceased in the temple, the Aruna stambha (Aruna pillar) was removed from the entrance of Konark temple and placed at the Singha-dwara (Lion's Gate) of the Jagannath temple in Puri by a Maratha Brahmachari called Goswain (or Goswami). The pillar is made of monolithic chlorite and is 10.26 m tall . It is dedicated to Aruna, the charioteer of the Sun god.
PRESERVATION EFFORTS
In 1803, requests were made for conservations by the East India Marine Board, but only removal of stones from the site was prohibited by the Governor General. As a result, a part of the main tower, which was still standing, collapsed in 1848.
The then Raja of Khurda removed some stones and sculptures to use in a temple he was building in Puri. A few gateways and some sculptures were destroyed in the process. In 1838, after the depredation of the Raja of Khurda, Asiatic Society of Bengal requested conservation, but the requests were denied and only preventative of human-caused damages were guaranteed. The Raja was forbidden to remove any more stones.
In 1859, Asiatic Society of Bengal proposed moving an architrave depicting the navagraha to the Indian Museum in Calcutta. The first attempt in 1867 was abandoned as the funds ran out.
In 1894, thirteen sculptures were moved to the Indian Museum.
In 1903 when a major excavation was attempted nearby, the then Lieutenant governor of Bengal, J. A. Baurdilon, ordered the temple to be sealed and filled with sand to prevent the collapse of the Jagamohana.
In 1906, casuarina and punnang trees were planted facing the sea to buffer the site against sand-laden winds.
In 1909, the Mayadevi temple was discovered while removing sand and debris.
The temple was granted World Heritage Site status by the UNESCO in 1984.
WIKIPEDIA
This is a type of scorpionfly known as Chorista australis. I don't know much about it as there is very little information about it! This is only the fourth photo of this species on flickr and photos on the web are equally rare. I found this little beauty whilst searching for orchids at Black Mountain back in April.
Truro is a city and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. Truro is Cornwall's county town and only city, its centre for administration, leisure and retail. It is the most southern city in mainland Great Britain. People from Truro are known as Truronians.
Truro grew as a centre of trade from its port and then as a stannary town for the tin mining industry. The city's cathedral was completed in 1910. Places of interest include the Royal Cornwall Museum, the Hall for Cornwall and Cornwall's Courts of Justice.
Taoyuan International Airport is the main international airport in Taiwan. It is located in Taoyuan City, approximately 40 kilometers west of Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.
Taoyuan Airport is the busiest airport in Taiwan, serving more than 40 million passengers annually. It has two terminals, Terminal 1 and Terminal 2, which are connected by a shuttle bus. Terminal 1 was opened in 1979 and underwent major renovations in 2014, while Terminal 2 was opened in 2000 and expanded in 2012.
The airport has a wide range of facilities for travelers, including restaurants, cafes, shops, lounges, and duty-free stores. It also has a number of transportation options for getting to and from the airport, such as taxis, buses, and a metro line that connects the airport to Taipei and other parts of Taiwan.
You can buy my postcards in here or buy me a coffee!
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The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of 156 miles (251 km) that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop). Though not especially long, the river is notable for being a reason why Chicago became an important location, with the related Chicago Portage being a link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley waterways and eventually the Gulf of Mexico.
The River is also noteworthy for its natural and man-made history. In 1887, the Illinois General Assembly, partly in response to concerns arising out of an extreme weather event in 1885 that threatened the city's water supply, decided to reverse the flow of the Chicago River through civil engineering by taking water from Lake Michigan and discharging it into the Mississippi River watershed. In 1889, the Illinois General Assembly created the Chicago Sanitary District (now The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District) to replace the Illinois-Michigan Canal, which had become inadequate to carry the city's increasing sewage and commercial navigation needs, with the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, a much larger waterway. The District completed this man-made hydrologic connection between the Great Lakes and Mississippi watershed in 1900 by reversing the flow of the Main Stem and South Branch of the river using a series of canal locks, and increasing the river's flow from Lake Michigan, causing it to empty into the new Canal. In 1999, this system was named a 'Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium' by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The river is also noted for the local custom of dyeing it green on St. Patrick's Day.
The river is memorialized, in part, by two horizontal blue stripes on the Municipal Flag of Chicago. The river also serves as inspiration for one of Chicago's ubiquitous symbols: a three-branched, Y-shaped symbol (called the municipal device) is found on many buildings and other structures throughout Chicago; it represents the three branches of the Chicago River.
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