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Winnemucca is the only incorporated city in and is the county seat of Humboldt County, Nevada, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 7,396, up 3.1 percent from the 2000 census figure of 7,174. Interstate 80 passes through the city, where it meets U.S. Route 95.
The town was named for a local 19th-century chief of the Paiute, who traditionally lived in this area; he and his band had a camp near here. Winnemucca, loosely translated, means "one moccasin." The chief's daughter, Sarah Winnemucca, was an advocate for education and fair treatment of the Paiute and Shoshone tribes in the area. Their family all learned to speak English, and Sarah worked as an interpreter, scout and messenger for the United States Army during the Bannock War of 1878. In 1883 Sarah Winnemucca published the first autobiography written by a Native American woman, based on hundreds of lectures she'd given in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic. It has been described as "one of the most enduring ethno-historical books written by an American Indian."
On September 16, 1868, the Central Pacific Railroad reached Winnemucca, and was officially opened on October 1 of that year. It was part of the transcontinental line.
On September 19, 1900, Butch Cassidy's gang robbed the First National Bank of Winnemucca of $32,640.
According to a billboard along State Route 140 (the "Winnemucca to the Sea Highway"), Winnemucca styles itself "The City of Paved Streets".
Winnemucca is home to the Buckaroo Hall of Fame and Heritage Museum.
Many of Winnemucca's residents are employed by mining companies such as Newmont and Barrick Gold or by companies serving the mining industry. Carry-On Trailer employs over 100 residents at their manufacturing facility in the Airport Industrial Park. Other employers include the many casinos, hotels and restaurants located in the city.
Winnemucca is mentioned in the American version of the song "I've Been Everywhere", recorded, for instance, by Hank Snow (1962), the Statler Brothers (1973), Lynn Anderson (1970), and Johnny Cash (1993).
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5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, Inc. is an outdoor art exhibit space in Long Island City, New York, considered to be the world’s premiere “graffiti Mecca,” where aerosol artists from around the globe paint colorful pieces on the walls of a 200,000-square-foot factory building.
The name 5Pointz signifies the five boroughs coming together as one but, because of its reputation as an epicenter of the graffiti scene, the industrial complex has actually united aerosol artists from across the world. Legendary writers from Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Japan, Brazil, and all over the United States have painted on the building walls, including Stay High 149, Tracy 168, Cope2, Part, and Tats Cru.
Over the past decade, the striking, graffiti-covered warehouse has attracted several hip-hop and R&B stars, including Doug E. Fresh, Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Kaz, Mobb Deep, Rahzel, DJ JS-1, Boot Camp Clik, Joan Jett, and Joss Stone.
On any given day, 5Pointz visitors can expect to find prominent artists, musicians, deejays, Emcees (rappers), and B-boys (break dancers) on site, in addition to filmmakers, photographers, and entire tour buses full of admirers soaking in the more than 350 Technicolor murals.
The gallery curator is graffiti veteran Jonathan Cohen, best known by his signature tag, “Meres One.” His goal is to convert the five-story, block-long industrial complex at Jackson Avenue and Davis Street, formerly the Phun Phactory, into a graffiti art museum.
Mission Statement
5Pointz gallery curator, Meres, plans to convert the five-story, block-long industrial complex at Jackson Avenue and Davis Street into a graffiti museum. He is currently seeking a 501(c)3 certification for 5Pointz to confer tax-exempt status and allow tax-deductible donations.
In addition, he plans to open a school for aspiring aerosol artists, complete with a formalized curriculum that imparts lessons in teamwork, art history, and entrepreneurship in addition to technique.
Curator
The founder of 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center, Inc. and curator of its outdoor gallery is graffiti veteran Jonathan Cohen, best known by his signature tag, “Meres One.” The Flushing native adopted his tag in his teenage years after determining that M, R, and E were his best calligraphic letters.
Meres took an interest in graffiti at the young age of 13 after seeing an aerosol-based painted Smurf on a wall and flipping through a few graffiti books, and started the The Deadly4Mula (TD4) crew five years later. By the mid-‘90s, Meres had studied art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, sold a few paintings, and was transitioning his craft from tagging and throw-ups to piecing. He produced hundreds of aerosol art murals throughout all five New York boroughs, along the East Coast, and even in Holland.
In 2001, Meres reopened the Phun Phactory in Long Island City, New York, which had been closed for about a year and nearly destroyed by vandals and, over the next five years, transformed the industrial, 5-story, block-long complex into an outdoor art exhibit space he called 5Pointz: “The Institute of Higher Burnin’.”
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.
Today is a cold blustery day, gusty winds and snow flurries. Found this fence up the road by the creek, I loved the reflections of the trees in the water.
(still trying to figure out this new camera, I see it has the date/time wrong so I'll have to check into that)
Have a great weekend everyone!
The Market Hall is an impressive red sandstone building in the centre of Ross, dating to 1660-74. The ground floor - still used for markets - is open, while the rooms above contain the Ross Visitor Centre, which has a small museum, displays explaining the history of the town, and visitor information. The Visitor Centre is accessed by the 17th century wooden staircase or, for less mobile visitors, by the modern lift tucked discreetly alongside.
The Market Hall is said to have been built by Frances, the wife of William, second Duke of Somerset. At the east end of the building is a medallion of Charles II (1660-1685). In the 17th century, the upper floor was used for Manor Courts, which were held three times a year. Other uses of the Market Hall have included a boys school, a ballroom, the town library, a Magistrates' Court, and the Council Chamber.
The hall is in the middle of the medieval market area of the town. Early evidence suggests that the market area originally stretched westwards along High Street as far as St Mary's Street and northwards along Broad Street as far as New Street. By the 14th century the temporary market stalls had become permanent shops.
'La Bruja' is a dance their group performs near the end of the festival each year. They dance while holding candles and then while balancing them on their heads
Taken at the 2017 Day of the Dead festival in the Plaza District of OKC.
Ryde is a British seaside town and civil parish on the Isle of Wight. The town grew in size as a seaside resort after the villages of Upper Ryde and Lower Ryde were merged in the 19th century. The influence of this era is still strongly visible in the town's central and seafront architecture.
As a resort, the town is noted for its expansive sands, which are revealed at low tide, making its pier necessary on the wide beach for a regular passenger service. Ryde Pier is a listed structure, and the fourth longest pier in the United Kingdom, as well as the oldest.
The Doll Project is a series of conceptual digital photographs that uses fashion dolls to embody the negative messages the media gives to young girls. Though it would not be fair to blame it all on Barbie, there have been many instances in which she has come dangerously close. I chose to use Barbie dolls because they are miniature mannequins, emblems of the fashion world writ small, a representation of our culture's impossible standards of beauty scaled to one sixth actual size. The little pink scale and How To Lose Weight book are both real Barbie accessories from the 1960s. They are recurring motifs in the pictures in the series, symbolizing the ongoing dissatisfaction many girls and women feel about their weight and body image. The dolls' names, Ana and Mia, are taken from internet neologisms coined by anorexic and bulimic girls who have formed online communities with the unfortunate purpose of encouraging each other in their disordered eating. With each passing era, Ana and Mia are younger and younger, and the physical ideal to which they aspire becomes more unattainable. They internalize the unrealistic expectations of a society that digitally manipulates images of women in fashion and beauty advertisements and value their own bodies only as objects for others to look at and desire.
Read more about the project here:
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City Museum is a museum, consisting largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri.
Popular among residents and tourists, the museum bills itself as an "eclectic mixture of children's playground, funhouse, surrealistic pavilion, and architectural marvel." Visitors are encouraged to feel, touch, climb on, and play in the various exhibits. The museum attracted over 300,000 visitors in 1999 and over 600,000 in 2007. It has been named one of the "great public spaces" by the Project for Public Spaces, and has won other local and international awards as a must-see destination.
City Museum was founded by artist Bob Cassilly and then-wife Gail Cassilly. Bob Cassilly remains the museum's artistic director. The building where the museum is located was once a shoe factory and warehouse but was mostly vacant when the Cassillys bought it in 1993. Construction began in January 1995 and the building opened to the public on October 25, 1997. Since the original opening, the museum has continued to expand, adding new exhibits such as MonstroCity in 2002, Enchanted Caves and Shoe Shaft in 2003, and World Aquarium in 2004. A circus ring on the third floor offers daily live acts. The City Museum also houses The Shoelace Factory, a working factory producing colorful shoelaces on antique braiding machines. The newest addition to City Museum are the Lofts at City Museum. The lofts, which range from 1,300 to more than 2,800 square feet (260 m2), are located on the fifth floor of the museum complex.
The museum has been visited by various celebrities, including Miley Cyrus in 2007 and the Jonas Brothers. The Museum has hosted concerts.
This is a seismogram from the Borgarfjordur seismic station in Iceland. The clusters of noise are from an earthquake swarm in Iceland in early July 2023. As of 12 noon, local time, 5 July 2023, about 2,200 earthquakes occurred in Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula (= Southern Peninsula), southwest of the town of Reykjavik since the 4th of July. The three most powerful events on the chart are magnitude 4.5. Hypocenters of early quakes were about 8 kilometers deep. Later quakes were shallow, ranging from about 4 to 2 kilometers deep. The Icelandic Meteorological Office interprets the activity as an igneous dike emplacement event, similar to three dike intrusion events in the same region in 2021 and 2022. Two previous seismic swarms / dike emplacement events resulted in basaltic surface eruptions.
Update: a basaltic fissure eruption commenced in the late afternoon, local time, on 10 July 2023 next to a hill called Litli Hrútur.
Iceland is a volcanic island in the North Atlantic Ocean between Britain and Greenland. It is situated on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, along which the North American Plate and the Eurasian Plate separate and new oceanic crust forms. Seismicity in the area is due to subsurface magma movement from hotspot (mantle plume) activity, as well as seafloor spreading (= tectonic divergence).
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An earthquake is a natural shaking or vibrating of the Earth caused by sudden fault movement and a rapid release of energy. Earthquake activity is called "seismicity". The study of earthquakes is called "seismology". The actual underground location of an earthquake is the hypocenter, or focus. The site at the Earth's surface, directly above the hypocenter, is the epicenter. Minor earthquakes may occur before a major event - such small quakes are called foreshocks. Minor to major quakes after a major event are aftershocks.
Most earthquakes occur at or near tectonic plate boundaries, such as subduction zones, mid-ocean ridges, collision zones, and transform plate boundaries. They also occur at hotspots - large subsurface mantle plumes (Examples: Hawaii, Yellowstone, Iceland, Afar).
Earthquakes generate four types of shock waves: P-waves, S-waves, Love waves, and Rayleigh waves. P-waves and S-waves are body waves - they travel through solid rocks. Love waves and Rayleigh waves travel only at the surface - they are surface waves. P-waves are push-pull waves that travel quickly and cause little damage. S-waves are up-and-down waves (like flicking a rope) that travel slowly and cause significant damage. Love waves are side-to-side surface waves, like a slithering snake. Rayleigh waves are rotational surface waves, somewhat like ripples from tossing a pebble into a pond.
Earthquakes are associated with many specific hazards, such as ground shaking, ground rupturing, subsidence (sinking), uplift (rising), tsunamis, landslides, fires, and liquefaction.
Some famous major earthquakes in history include: Shensi, China in 1556; Lisbon, Portugal in 1755; New Madrid, Missouri in 1811-1812; San Francisco, California in 1906; Anchorage, Alaska in 1964; and Loma Prieta, California in 1989.
Catalog #: 09_00209
Title: Capt. Forrest Blalock Special Collection Photo Picture is signed, ""To my good friend, Major Blalock. From. Chesty {illegible} Lt. Colonel, ""Air Corps, 1 May 44
Date: 4/1/1944
Additional Information: Signed Portrait,
Tags: Capt. Forrest Blalock Special Collection Photo Picture is signed, ""To my good friend, Major Blalock. From. Chesty {illegible} Lt. Colonel, ""Air Corps, 1 May 44, 16163
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Taken at Doi Inthanon, Chiangmai, Thailand (Elevation: 2,565 m or 8,415 ft).
Doi Inthanon (Thai: ดอยอินทนนท์) is the highest mountain in Thailand. It is located in Mae Chaem District, Chiang Mai Province. This mountain is an ultra prominent peak and was also known in the past as Doi Luang (meaning big mountain) or Doi Ang Ka, meaning the crow's pond top. Near the mountain's base was a pond where many crows gathered. The name Doi Inthanon was given in honour of the king Inthawichayanon, one of the last kings of Chiang Mai, who was concerned about the forests in the north and tried to preserve them. He ordered that after his death his remains shall be placed at Doi Luang, which was then renamed.
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Barking Riverside is a mixed-use development in the area of Barking, east London, England, within the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. It is being built on land formerly occupied by Barking Power Station, adjacent to the River Thames, and is 10.5 miles (16.9km) east of Charing Cross. The 440 acre brownfield site has planning permission for 10,800 homes.
As planning restrictions prevented more than 1,200 homes without adequate transport links,[2] the London Overground Gospel Oak to Barking line has been extended to Barking Riverside to allow the development to be completed as planned. The new station opened to the public on 18 July 2022 and was opened official in the morning of my visit on 25 July.
Between 1995 and 2000, Bellway Homes built 900 homes and since 2004 the development has been managed by Barking Riverside Ltd, a partnership between GLA Land and Property and Bellway. Building work under this partnership commenced in 2010 and the first homes were occupied in 2012.
In 2016, housing association L&Q bought out Bellway's stake in Barking Riverside Ltd, entering into a joint venture with the GLA to deliver the remaining new homes. There will be three neighbourhood centres and when complete in the 2030s, the development as a whole will have a population of approximately 26,000.
Kirtipur (Nepali: कीर्तिपुर, Nepal Bhasa: किपू Kipu) is an ancient city in Nepal. It is located in the Kathmandu Valley 5 km south-west of the city of Kathmandu. It is one of the five municipalities in the valley, the others being Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur and Madhyapur Thimi.
ETYMOLOGY
The name Kirtipur comes from Kirti (glory) and pur (city).
DEMOGRAPHICS
Originally a Newar foundation, Kirtipur is still a center of Newar culture. It has been merged with surrounding villages to form the municipality of Kirtipur with a population of 67,171.
It consists of many temples, gumbas (Buddhist monastery) and churches too. Due to the presence of Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur is also a popular area for out-of-town students and professors to rent houses and they are major contributors to the local economy.
HISTORY
Kirtipur's history dates from 1099 AD. It was part of the territory of Lalitpur at the time of the invasion of the Kathmandu Valley by the Gorkhali king Prithvi Narayan Shah in the 18th century.
In 1767, Kirtipur was annexed to the Gorkhali kingdom by Prithvi Narayan following the Battle of Kirtipur. He took the town on his twenty third attempt, after entering it by trickery. After this, he cut off the noses and lips of everybody in the city.
This was the site of an inspirational peaceful demonstration of the people in the 2006 mass uprising that overthrew the powers of the king. It is considered to be an anti-monarchy city due to its bitter history against the Shah dynasty whose modern founder conquered the city insultingly, which was followed by negligence of the administration and development by subsequent rulers.
PLACES OF INTEREST
BAGH BHAIRAB
Bagh Bhairab temple is one of the most popular temples dedicated to the God Bhairab in the form of a tiger. This god is regarded as the guardian of Kirtipur and the locals call it Ajudeu, a grandfather god. Bhairab, the most terrifying and awful form of Shiva is the destroyer on one hand and the guardian on the other. Ceremonial rituals in relation to the important events of life such as rice-feeding, puberty, marriage and even the construction of houses cannot be done without propitiating this deity in most of the towns and cities of Nepal.
The present three storeyed temple of Bagh Bhairab probably built in 16th century stands in the brick-paved rectangular courtyard with the rest houses around it. There are some small shrines and stone images spread over the courtyard. The main gate is at the southern side. There are two other gates in the eastern and western sides. The two roofs of the temple are of tiles while the third one is covered with gilt-copper. There are wooden pillars carved with Hindu gods and goddesses. They have been erected in between windows of the second storey and the names of the carved deities have been finely cut out below them on the pedestals.
There are eighteen pinnacles-one in the first roof, six in the middle and eleven in the top roof. Beneath the eaves of the first roof there are very old but faded murals depicting the stories of Ramayan. Maha Bharat and the various manifestations of Durga, the mighty mother goddess. These paintings are frescoes in red with white plaster background. At the right side of the main gate of the temple there is Hifa Dyo, the god of blood sacrifice is allowed directly to Bagh Bhairab, all animal offerings to the deity are made here on behalf of this deity just as the animal sacrifices are made to Kumari, a stone idol, placed at the second gate in the left side of Chandeswori at Banepa and to the Chhetrapal which is at the very beginning of the final series of the steps to the temple of Khadga Jogini at Sankhu.
There are two torans over Hifa Dyo. They bear very fine cuttings of Asta-Matriks, Asta-Bhairabs and other gods and goddesses. In the western wall of the temple there is a hollow space regarded by the local people as Nasa Dyo, the god of music and dance. Bagh Bhairab made of clay has been enshrined in the left side corner in the temple. The three glass-eyed tiger-god is tongue-less and tooth-less but covered with silver and copper plates and heavily ornamented. This deity as mentioned in the stone inscriptions has been called Bagheswor (the tiger god), Bhimsen Bhattarak (Bhimsen, the governing deity), Gudei Sthanadhipati (the lord in the form of tiger) and Ajudyo(the ancestral god).
The local peoples hail this deity as the embodiment of prudence, knowledge, productivity and strength to resist all evils. Hence, the auspicious ceremonies such as weddings, hair-cuttings, rice-feedings and other ritual performances in Kirtipur are done only after a puza to this deity.
CHILANCHO STUPA
A Buddhist shrine, is situated on the southern hill. It is located in Kirtipur, Nepal. It was made in medieval period. An inscription of Nepal Samvat 635 is found in this Chaitya. Therefore, it is one of the most important historical stupa of this region.
UMA MAHESHWAR
Uma Maheshwar temple (locally, Kwacho Dega) is one of the important heritage sites of Kirtipur. This pagoda-style three-storied temple is situated at the highest point (1414 m) of Kirtipur. Since this temple is at the top of the hill, one can enjoy picturesque view of the Kathmandu valley and mountains like Langtang, Dorge Lakkpa, Chobhu Bhamure, and Gaurishankar.
The temple was constructed in 1655 AD by Rautra Vishwanath Babu, a son of king Sidhhi Narsinga Malla. It was destructed in an earthquake in 1832 AD. After remained dilapidated for about a century, it was restored in 1933 AD after it was again destroyed by an earthquake. Local people and government made a herculean effort to renovate it into the current state. The restoration process was completed only in 1982 AD. Recently, in 2008 some work was done to preserve the arts of temple.
There is an artistic stone gate at the entrance. On each side of the stone staircase leading to the temple, there is a stone elephant, with sculptures of Bhimsen and Kuber as protectors of the temple. The main deities in this temple are standing Lord Shiva and Parvati. There are other images of deities like Sarasvati and Mahismardini on false doors around temple.
The wooden doors, pillars, and beams are crafted with artistic figures of different gods and goddess such as Astamatrika and Asta Bhairav. Similarly, erotic figures are also carved in wooden beams. According to archeologists, these figures on beams have tantric values.
The bell on the northern side of temple was cast in 1895 by Gillett & Johnston Founders, Corydon. It was one of the four quarter bells of Ghantaghar of the central Kathmandu and was reallocated to this temple after the Ghantaghar was destroyed by the earthquake in 1933.
SHRI KIRTI BIHAR
A Theravada Buddhist monastery built in traditional Thai architectural style, is situated near the entrance to the city.
MEDIA
To Promote local culture Kirtipur has one FM radio station Radio Newa F.M. - 106.6 MHz Which is a Community radio Station.There are several weekly newspaper published from Kirtipur. They are Shahid Weekly, Kirtipur Darpan, Kirtipur Sandesh. Also there is a local television station, Kirtipur Channel and some more local channel.
WIKIPEDIA
This is a photograph from the 46th Dunboyne 4 Mile Road Race and Fun Run, sponsored by Eirgrid, which was held in Dunboyne Village, Co. Meath, Ireland on Sunday 29th March 2015 at 15:00
Our full set of photographs from today's event are available on Flickr at the following link https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157651227801108/
Don't forget to scroll down to see more information about the race and these photographs!
Event Management and Timing was provided by PRECISION TIMING. The results from today's events can be found on Precision Timing's website at this URL [www.precisiontiming.net/result.aspx?v=2514]. You can checkout their facebook page at www.facebook.com/davidprecisiontiming?fref=ts
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►We simply missed you - sorry about that - we did our best!
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This is an Uglydoll Action Figure Prototype Sample. This was the first piece done to gain approval for the Action Figures. The piece is made of a poly resin material. It is hand painted. Unlike the actual produced pieces, the arms and waist do not move. For comparison, the plastic, produced, retail piece is on the right.
This is a co-creation with Amy Cheng, Bobby Cheng, Joe Chan and Marco Lee back in 2018 to commemorate the 60th birthday of the LEGO Brick.
Who could have thought that a little brick born in the small town of Denmark 60 years ago would capture the imagination of generations of kids and kids at heart, and be used to build endless miracles?
In celebration of 60 years of LEGO brick, our beloved minifigures have gathered and prepared this fascinating 8-tier celebration cake. Each tier records important milestones/ key achievements of LEGO since 1950s, including Ole Kirk's House, LEGO House and many fan favourites. 60 mini-models have been created and we will tell you about them all soon.
We are really excited to be presenting this one of a kind gift to our most treasured LEGO brick.
Happy 60th birthday, LEGO Brick!
Westerkerk ("Western church") is a Dutch Protestant church in central Amsterdam. It is next to Amsterdam's Jordaan district, on the bank of the Prinsengracht canal.
It was originally built by Roman Catholics and were converted to Protestantism during The Reformation in 1578, the Westerkerk has been one of the first purposely built Protestant churches. Noorderkerk and Zuiderkerk preceded Westerkerk. Today the Westerkerk remains the largest Protestant church ever built for the Protestants in the Netherlands.
The Westerkerk was built in 1620-1631 after a design by the late Renaissance architect Hendrick de Keyser in the Dutch Renaissance style and in the form of a patriarchal cross.
Rembrandt van Rijn was buried in the Westerkerk on October 8, 1669. The exact location of the grave is unknown, but presumed to be somewhere along the northern wall. Rembrandt's lover Hendrickje Stoffels is also buried here, as is Rembrandt's son Titus van Rijn. Other painters buried in the Westerkerk are Nicolaes Berchem, Gillis d'Hondecoeter, Melchior d'Hondecoeter and Govert Flinck. The church organ is decorated with doors painted by Gerard de Lairesse.
The Westerkerk is located close to the Achterhuis (now Anne Frank House) where diarist Anne Frank, her family and others hid from Nazi persecution for two years during World War II. The Westerkerk is mentioned frequently in her diary - its clock tower could be seen from the attic of the Achterhuis and Anne Frank described the chiming of the clock as a source of comfort. A memorial statue of Frank is located outside the church.
On March 10, 1966, Queen Beatrix (then Princess Beatrix) married Prince Claus in the Westerkerk.
This is a photograph of the 34th Airtricity sponsored Dublin City Marathon which was held in Dublin, Ireland on Bank Holiday Monday 28th October 2013 at 09:00. There was dry but very blustery conditions for the runners over the famous Dublin Marathon course which seen over 14,000 people participating in the event making it a record participation at the event. Please see the extensive set of links below for more details about the race itself.
This is part of a larger set of photographs available on our Flickr photostream which is available here [http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157637013735556/].
Photographs were taken at the start of all three waves, near the finish line from the winner to 2:43 finish time, and then some photographs at the 25.5 mile mark of approximately 3:40 finish time participants.
Athlete Tracking and Timing are provided by www.tdl.ltd.uk/race-results.php
These are completely unofficial photographs of the event: Please see the official website dublinmarathon.ie/ for details of the official authorised distributor of race-day photographs. Our photographs are taken on a completely non-commercial basis and are not for sale.
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Some Useful Links Associated with this Race Event
The Dublin Marathon Official Web Homepage: dublinmarathon.ie/
The Dublin Marathon Official Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/dublinmarathon?fref=ts (Requires Facebook Logon)
The Dublin Marathon Official Twitter Feed: twitter.com/dublinmarathon
Boards.ie Athletics Forum Discussion Pages on the Dublin Marathon 2013: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056896382
Racepix.com where you are likely to find links to many different photographers' photographs from Dublin Marathon 2013: www.racepix.com/Dublin-Marathon-2013/pictures/1024/
A PDF Document containing the Dublin Marathon 2013 Route: dublinmarathon.ie/s/AT-DM13-ROUTE-MAP.pdf
An unofficial GPS Garmin Trace of the Route from 2012 (same for 2013) connect.garmin.com/activity/243433212
For runners based in the Province of Munster the well known running blog munsterrunning.blogspot.ie/ might have some links to pictures and videos from 2013
William Murphy's Dublin Marathon 2012 Photographs on Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/sets/72157631881471894/
William Murphy's Flickr Sets: www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/sets/
Pixels Promotions on Facebook have an extensive set of Dublin Marathon 2013 Photographs: www.facebook.com/Pixelspromotions?fref=ts
Action Photography will have photographs available from the Dublin Marathon 2013: www.actionphotography.ie/
Boards.ie Athletics Forum - Dublin Marathon Novices Thread 2013: www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056913937
Dublin Marathon 2013 Race Results will Appear Here: www.tdl.ltd.uk/race-results.php
Our Flickr Set from the Dublin City Marathon 2012: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157631880879021/
Our Flickr Set from the Dublin City Marathon 2011: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157628021593264/
Our Flickr Set from the Dublin City Marathon 2010: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157625240675108/
Our Flickr Set from the Dublin City Marathon 2009: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157622543521201/
Our Flickr Set from the Dublin City Marathon 2008: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157608459477451/
Our Flickr Set from the Dublin City Marathon 2007: www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157602802514024/
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I ran in the race - but my photograph doesn't appear here in your Flickr set! What gives?
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Pontefract Castle
Pontefract (or Pomfret) Castle is a castle ruin in the town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. King Richard II is thought to have died there. It was the site of a series of famous sieges during the 17th-century English Civil War.
History
Model reconstructing Pontefract Castle
The castle, on a rock to the east of the town above All Saints' Church, was constructed in approximately 1070 by Ilbert de Lacy. on land which had been granted to him by William the Conqueror as a reward for his support during the Norman Conquest. There is, however, evidence of earlier occupation of the site. Initially the castle was a wooden structure which was replaced with stone over time. The Domesday Survey of 1086 recorded "Ilbert's Castle" which probably referred to Pontefract Castle.
Robert de Lacy failed to support King Henry I during his power struggle with his brother, and the King confiscated the castle from the family during the 12th century. Roger de Lacy paid King Richard I 3,000 marks for the Honour of Pontefract, but the King retained possession of the castle. His successor, King John gave Lacy the castle in 1199, the year he ascended the throne. Roger died in 1213 and was succeeded by his eldest son, John. However, the King took possession of Castle Donington and Pontefract Castle. The de Lacys lived in the castle until the early 14th century. It was under the tenure of the de Lacys that the magnificent multilobate donjon was built.
In 1311 the castle passed by marriage to the estates of the House of Lancaster. Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (circa 1278–1322) was beheaded outside the castle walls six days after his defeat at the Battle of Boroughbridge, a sentence placed on him by King Edward II himself in the great hall. This resulted in the earl becoming a martyr with his tomb at Pontefract Priory becoming a shrine.It next went to Henry, Duke of Lancaster and subsequently to John of Gaunt, third son of King Edward III. He made the castle his personal residence, spending vast amounts of money improving it.
Richard II
The ruins of Pontefract Castle's keep
In the closing years of the 14th century, Richard II banished John of Gaunt’s son Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford, from England. Following the death of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, in 1399, Richard II seized much of the property due to Bolingbroke. Richard then shared some of the seized property around among his favourites. The castle at Pontefract was among such properties which was under threat. These events aroused Bolingbroke to return to England to claim his rights to the Duchy of Lancaster and the properties of his father. Shakespeare's play Richard II (Act 2, scene 1, 277) relates Bolingbroke’s homecoming in the words of Northumberland in the speech of the eight tall ships:-
Richard III
Richard III had two relatives of Elizabeth Woodville beheaded at Pontefract Castle on 25 June, 1483 - her son, Sir Richard Grey, and her brother, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers.
Tudor Era
In 1536, the castle's guardian, Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy handed over the castle to the leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace, a Catholic rebellion from northern England against the rule of King Henry VIII. Lord Darcy was executed for this alleged "surrender," which the king viewed as an act of treason.
In 1541, during a royal tour of the provinces, it was alleged that King Henry's fifth wife, Queen Catherine Howard, committed her first act of adultery with Sir Thomas Culpeper at Pontefract Castle, a crime for which she was apprehended and executed without trial. Mary, Queen of Scots was lodged at the castle on 28 January 1569, travelling between Wetherby and Rotherham.
Royalist stronghold
The garrison handed over the castle to John Lambert on 24 March 1649. On his way south to London, King James rode from Grimston Park to view Pontefract Castle on 19 April 1603 and stayed the night at the Bear Inn at Doncaster.
Royalists controlled Pontefract Castle at the start of the English Civil War. The first of three sieges began in December 1644 and continued until the following March when Marmaduke Langdale, 1st Baron Langdale of Holme arrived with Royalist reinforcements and the Parliamentarian army retreated. During the siege, mining and artillery caused damage and the Piper Tower collapsed as a result. The second siege began on 21 March 1645, shortly after the end of the first siege, and the garrison surrendered in July after hearing the news of Charles I's defeat at the Battle of Naseby. Parliament garrisoned the castle until June 1648 when Royalists sneaked into the castle and took control. Pontefract Castle was an important base for the Royalists, and raiding parties harried Parliamentarians in the area.
Oliver Cromwell led the final siege of Pontefract Castle in November 1648. Charles I was executed in January, and Pontefract's garrison came to an agreement and Colonel Morrice handed over the castle to Major General John Lambert on 24 March 1649. Following requests from the townspeople, the grand jury at York, and Major General Lambert, on 27 March Parliament gave orders that Pontefract Castle should be "totally demolished & levelled to the ground" and materials from the castle would be sold off. Piecemeal dismantling after the main organised activity of slighting may have further contributed to the castle's ruined state.
It is still possible to visit the castle's 11th-century cellars, which were used to store military equipment during the civil war.
Preservation
The ruins of St Clement's Chapel within the castle
Little survives of what "must have been one of the most impressive castles in Yorkshire" other than parts of the curtain wall and excavated and tidied inner walls. It had inner and outer baileys. Parts of a 12th-century wall and the Piper Tower's postern gate and the foundations of a chapel are the oldest remains. The ruins of the Round Tower or keep are on the 11th-century mound. The Great Gate flanked by 14th-century semi-circular towers had inner and outer barbicans. Chambers excavated into the rock in the inner bailey possibly indicate the site of the old hall and the North Bailey gate is marked by the remains of a rectangular tower.
The castle has several unusual features. The donjon has a rare Quatrefoil design. Other examples of this type of Keep are Clifford's Tower, York and at the Château d'Étampes in France. Pontefract also has an torre albarrana, a fortification almost unknown outside the Iberian Peninsula. Known as the Swillington Tower, the detached tower was attached to the north wall by a bridge. Its purpose was to increase the defender's range of flanking fire.
Wakefield Council, who own the site, commissioned William Anelay Ltd to begin repairs on the castle in September 2015, but work stopped in November 2016 when Anelay went into administration. The Council then engaged Heritage Building & Conservation (North) Ltd, who began work on the site in March 2017. A new visitor centre and cafe were opened in July 2017; but in April 2018 the council announced that they had terminated the contract with HB&C (North) Ltd, as no work had been done since mid-March, and they had not had any reassurances that the work would restart. On Yorkshire Day 2019, the restoration was completed, and the castle was removed from Historic England's "Heritage At Risk" list.
Terra is a striking circular knit and a great easy lace project. Here Jennifer wears Terra as a layering piece for day, adding a splash of color and extra warmth to a stylish and casual winter outfit.
Terra is one of the patterns available in our Wraps Organica collection.
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This is an EMD F9 A-unit that was built in 1957 at the EMD plant in LaGrange, IL. It spent its whole working life with the Erie Mining Company pulling iron ore cars to the ore docks on Lake Superior. When it was retired, it was given to the Lake Superior Railroad Museum. Although this locomotive looks a little rough, it is in good working order and was left in Two Harbors for the weekend as backup motive power for the North Shore Scenic Railroad in case the Soo Line 2719 Steam Locomotive encountered problems.
The F9 was an early diesel locomotive. This model was often coupled with a cabless "B" unit to provide additional pulling power. The cabless unit was controlled from the cab of the "A" unit.
The European green woodpecker is a member of the woodpecker family Picidae. There are four subspecies and it occurs in most parts of Europe and in western Asia. Wikipedia
Freya is very proud of putting all the parts back correctly!
"Discover the wonders of science at Adventure Science Center - a world of interactive adventures that inspire imagination and curiosity.
Established in 1944, the Children’s Museum of Nashville resided on 2nd Avenue South in downtown Nashville. World War II was coming to an end and the nation was beginning to look to the future. Sgt. John Ripley Forbes’ vision for Nashville’s future was focused on children. His enthusiasm for a children’s museum sparked some of the city’s most prominent and influential citizens, including the museum’s first president, Vernon Sharp, Jr. A lease on the old University of Nashville building was signed in November 1944, and on Oct. 30, 1945, the Children’s Museum of Nashville opened its doors to the public.
In 1952, the Center opened the first planetarium in Tennessee and named it after one of the founding Board of Trustees, Anthony Sudekum, whose family had contributed the funds to purchase the first star projector. The Museum moved to Old Saint Cloud Hill, known as Fort Negley in the Civil War, in 1974. The organization’s name changed over the years, most recently from Cumberland Science Museum to Adventure Science Center in November 2002."
Unsurprisingly this is in York and somewhere I've been keen to visit since purchasing some excellent cans from them during lockdowns when the pubs were shut. Along with Magic Rock and Vocation these three Yorkshire breweries are taking beer brewing in many different directions. Craft beer is Brew York's prime product but they also brew some marvellous cask ales. After going up the stairs we were met with a wall of I think twenty seven craft taps and two hand pumps out of use. Although I was happy to drink the craft I was looking forward to their real ale. This was the beer hall with lots of benches and Yuzu Street Food offering Japanese and Korean dishes. Thankfully I was directed to a downstairs Tap Room with three hand pumps where I ordered my Korean vegan bao buns with asian pickles.
brewyork.co.uk/venues/venue-york/
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The two Visitors from New York have been gone for a time ...
THESE are their last photos to share.
I have updated their entire photographic portfolio ...
for Cathy, for the girls, and for any new potential Mommy and/or Daddy that may come along!
YES, these lovely girls are FA ... and if you have any interest, you may contact Cathy directly (RoxyPaige Customs) :)
UPDATE: ABIGAIL HAS BEEN ADOPTED !!! (March 17, 2015)
CONGRATULATIONS to the new parent/s ... this is such exciting news!!
xoxo
WE love and miss you girls!!
xoxo
Heidi,
and the entire Modeling Troupe at Blythe Fifth Avenue,
California, USA
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Photo Credits:
PUMPKIN is a RoxyPaige Custom Cloud 9 Bowl (SBL) ...
Here wearing a sweet little frock doing duty as a lacy night dress (by MiniJijo ~ etsy )
All bedding by Wendy's Doll House (etsy)
Little Puppy is by (gosh, where is Jocelyn when you need her ?? ;) <3 )
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This is a series of photos from Project Documerica in the US National Archives (by photographer Ron Hoffman) and Life Magazine showing Aspen culture in the 1970s. I restored them a tad to bring them back to life. More from the period can be found at www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/sets/72157622453....
As a child, I saw many older teens and older cousins dressed like this during the winters. I always thought it was so cool and discovered a bit later when I was included in the skiing trips, it was a take off of the Aspen (and European skiing) life. Fleeting memories. Enjoy.
Shōchū (焼酎?) is a Japanese distilled beverage. It is typically distilled from barley, sweet potatoes, or rice, though it is sometimes produced from other ingredients such as brown sugar, buckwheat or chestnut. Typically shōchū contains 25% alcohol by volume, which is weaker than whisky or standard-strength vodka but stronger than wine and sake. It is not uncommon for multiply distilled shōchū, which is more likely to be used in mixed drinks, to contain up to 35% alcohol by volume.
Shōchū originated in Kyūshū but is produced in locations throughout Japan.[
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dch%C5%AB
PHOTO FROM WIKIPEDIA
Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Cove Farm is a national historic district that includes a living farm museum operated by the National Park Service, and located at Oxon Hill, Prince George's County, Maryland. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
The park provides an excellent resource for environmental studies, wildlife observing, fishing, and other recreational activities made possible by easy access to the Potomac River. Fourteen buildings and two structures are located in the historic district and associated with the property's sequential development as a plantation, an institutional agricultural complex, and a farm museum.
The Oxon Hill Farm includes the Mount Welby home, Farm Museum, barns, a stable, feed building, livestock buildings and a visitor activity barn. Farm animals include cows, horses and chickens. Visitors can view the animals up close daily and learn about the workings of a farm. The Farm Museum building displays historical farm equipment dating from the late 19th century.
The district also includes a hexagonal frame outbuilding; ca. 1830 brick root cellar; ca. 1973 frame hog house; ca. 1890 frame horse and pony barn; ca. 1991 frame chicken house; ca. 1970 steel-frame implement shed; ca. 1980 frame visitor barn; ca. 1970 steel-frame windmill; ca. 1940 frame hay barn; ca. 1890 frame feed building; ca. 1830 brick stable; ca. 1970 frame tool shed; ca. 1980 frame "sorghum sirip" shed; and a ca. 1980 frame dairy barn, and ca. 1940 tile silo. From the 1890s to 1950s, under the ownership of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the site was used as a therapeutic treatment center for the mentally ill known as Godding Croft. The Oxon Cove Farm historic district is located on the crest of a ridge overlooking the Potomac River, north of I-95.
The principal dwelling, known as "Mount Welby," is a ca. 1807-1811 two-story three-bay brick structure laid in Flemish bond with Italianate detailing and sheltered by a shed roof, and visible to motorists crossing the interstate Woodrow Wilson Bridge. The house was built by Irish immigrant Dr. Samuel DeButts. It was entrusted to the National Park Service in 1959 in order to protect its resources from increased development. From 1891 to 1950, the property was used as a therapeutic farm by St. Elizabeths Hospital, and was known as Godding Croft.
The house is operated as a historic house museum, with exhibits about period life in the early 19th century for the owners and slaves on the plantation. Other exhibits focus on the home's role at Godding Croft.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxon_Cove_Park_and_Oxon_Hill_Farm
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St Michael the Archangel's Church, Booton, is a redundant Anglican church near the village of Booton, Norfolk, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church stands in an isolated position about 1 mile to the east of the village. It is often known as the "Cathedral of the Fields".
St Michael's was built in the later part of the 19th century, replacing an earlier church on the site. The church, and its fittings, were designed by Rev Whitwell Elwin, the rector of the church from 1849 to 1900
The church is constructed in flint with limestone dressings, and has tiled roofs. Its plan consists of a nave, a chancel, a north porch, a south vestry, and twin west towers. The whole is in an "eccentric French Gothic style". The towers are slim and set diagonally. They are in three stages, the lower two stages containing elongated blank arcading. The top stage contains tall bell openings, and on the summit of the towers are pierced friezes with crocketed pinnacles on the corners. Between the towers is a doorway, over which is a four-light window. A three-tier pinnacle rises from the west gable. This also has blank arcading and has the appearance of a minaret. Along the sides of the church, the bays are separated by buttresses with crocketed pinnacles, and there are similar pinnacles on the gable ends. In the south wall of the chancel is a priest's door, and above this is an elaborately carved niche. Set inside the east wall of the north porch is a 14th-century headless statue of the Virgin and Child that was discovered during the rebuilding of the church.
The nave has a hammerbeam roof which is decorated with carved wooden angels by James Minns, a local master-carver. The roof of the chancel is a false hammer-beam. Above the chancel arch is a triangular opening. Around the nave wall is linenfold dado panelling. The pulpit and other fittings all date from the 19th century. The stained glass depicts angels, musicians, and female faces. The architect Edward Lutyens said of the church that it was "very naughty but built in the right spirit".
The architect of the church and designer of the fittings and stained glass was the rector, Rev Whitwell Elwin, from 1853 to 1860 the editor of the Quarterly Review. He had no architectural training, and based his designs on details of other churches, and from his own imagination. According to the guidebook produced by the Churches Conservation Trust, the design of the west doorway was inspired by a doorway at Glastonbury Abbey, the triangular opening above the chancel arch by Lichfield Cathedral, the stained glass in the nave windows from St Mary's Church at Temple Balsall, Warwickshire, and that in the west window by St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster. The hammer beam roof is said to be based on that of Saint Botolph's Church in Trunch, Norfolk.
There are two structures in the churchyard which are listed Grade II for their group value with the church. One is the 19th-century boundary wall of the churchyard, together with two sets of gate piers and wooden gates. The other is a late 19th-century sexton's store, constructed in flint with stone dressings and tiled roofs. Its façade has three gables with coped parapets and ball finials.
This is my Ultimaker. They come in kit form and require no soldering or glueing. It proved to be very easy to build with all the parts fitting together perfectly, no drilling, cutting or filing. This one has been personalised using watered down wood dye (so that it shows the grain). A blue cable cover and heat shrink tubing. The final cosmetic task was to carefully retouch the robot. Apart from that I used recycled heat sinks for the stepper motors to allow for an eventual heated (or chilled for PLA) enclose with ducted motor cooling.
The #CCLNRB
The CCLNRB is a joint project by Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Motion Bank and NODE Forum for Digital Arts, Frankfurt.
Eight Kenyan and German artists are commissioned to create a project evolving around the them of „Designing Hope“ with their very different artistic means: choreography, the voice, composition, vr-technology or other digital art practices.
#CCLNRB artists are Melisa Allela, Benjamin van Bebber, Amelie Hinrichsen, Leo Hofmann, Alacoque Ntome, Awuor Onyango, Jared Onyango and Else Tunemyr.
The artists are discussing “hope” as a usually positively perceived yet ambiguous concept: Is a state of hope actually encouraging? What is the difference between hope and optimism? Doesn't hope always come with anxiety? And what is the role of technology in the shaping of social imaginaries?
In their interdisciplinary constellation the #CCLNRB members investigated different cultural fields that provide or make use of hope as a means and medium: from pop-music to religion, from commercial advertisement to the promises of technological innovation for development. During the presentation the group will showcase alternative concepts or settings for rethinking the quality of hope, ideas on utopia and dystopia.
In June 2017, the artists will meet for further two weeks to continue the collaboration in Frankfurt, Germany. The final result will be premiered at the German festival NODE17 Forum for Digital Arts in Frankfurt (Main) at Mousonturm and Naxoshalle Given future fundings, we will bring back the final project to Kenya in November 2017 to NFPMA (Nairobi Festival of Performance and Media Arts).
#CCLNRB has also been supported by Technical University of Kenya.
Photos by David Rittershaus
The Southern Right Whale. Hermanus, South Africa. Oct/2015
The southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) is a baleen whale, one of three species classified as right whales belonging to the genus Eubalaena. Like other right whales, the southern right whale is readily distinguished from others by the callosities on its head, a broad back without a dorsal fin, and a long arching mouth that begins above the eye. Its skin is very dark grey or black, occasionally with some white patches on the belly. The right whale's callosities appear white due to large colonies of cyamids (whale lice). It is almost indistinguishable from the closely related North Atlantic and the North Pacific right whales, displaying only minor skull differences. It may have fewer callosities on its head and more on its lower lips than the two northern species. Approximately 10,000 southern right whales are spread throughout the southern part of the Southern Hemisphere.
The size of an adult female is 15 m (49 ft)[12] and can weigh up to 47 tonnes (46 long tons; 52 short tons), with the larger records of 17.5–18 m (57–59 ft) in length and 80 tonnes (79 long tons; 88 short tons) in weight, making them slightly smaller than other right whales in Northern Hemisphere. The testicles of right whales are likely to be the largest of any animal, each weighing around 500 kg (1,100 lb). This suggests that sperm competition is important in the mating process. Right whales cannot cross the warm equatorial waters to connect with the other (sub)species and (inter)breed: their thick layers of insulating blubber make it impossible for them to dissipate their internal body heat in tropical waters. However, based on historical records and unconfirmed sightings in modern periods, E. australis actually do occur in equatorial waters.
The proportion and numbers of molten-coloured individuals are notable in this species compared with the other species in the Northern Hemisphere. Some whales remain white even after growing up.
A baleia-franca-austral (Eubalaena australis) é uma das três espécies de baleia-franca, pertencente ao género Eubalaena. Estima-se que haja cerca de 7500 exemplares desta baleia espalhadas pelo sul do Hemisfério Sul, numa faixa compreendida entre os 30º e os 55º de latitude. Pode atingir os 18 metros de comprimento e as 80 toneladas de peso.
A caça indiscriminada deste tipo de baleia, devido à quantidade de óleo possuída por exemplar, deixou-a quase em perigo de extinção. Desde o século XIX, a população destes animais foi reduzida em 90%. Actualmente estima-se que exista uma população que oscila entre os 7500 e 8000 indivíduos. Durante o inverno, as baleias escolhem as águas mais quentes do hemisfério sul para se reproduzirem, tais como os seguintes as costas da Península Valdés (na Patagónia), Austrália, África do Sul e Brasil.
and the final prize is for the orange elephant in the room. The Colossal Fossil.
Make America Colossal
The time has come to both award the Colossal Fossil and to finally call out those who deserve it the most!
While we have had some strong contenders (shout out to the Australian bullies), there seems to be only one clear choice. Only one who has been the absolute, hands-down, uncontested worst – the US administration.
Not really that much of a surprise, is it?
I am sure you all remember it well. When Donald Trump announced on June 1st that he intended to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement, he isolated himself on the global stage, turning his back on the rest of the world. Now that Syria has ratified, the Trump administration is completely, 100% alone in its rejection of this vital global agreement.
Super sad!
Let’s just remember that the US is still in the Paris Agreement for at least a few more years. But there is no doubt about the administration’s position on climate action. They’re attacking domestic climate policies such as the Clean Power Plan and fuel efficiency standards.
They’re propping up dirty energy by proposing a bailout for coal. They’re attempting to censor science, deleting any mention of climate change from documents and websites and issuing gag orders to government scientists. Last but not least, they sent fossil fuel cronies to represent the U.S. at COP. In other words, they are acting in direct opposition to the spirit of the Paris Agreement.
The Trump team tried to bring their backwards agenda to Bonn. The US administration’s only official side event was to promote fossil fuels. But the world was there to send them a message: You can’t sell coal at a conference to stop climate change!
Prompted by a journalist’s question, two of the four panelists explicitly said they disagree with Trump’s effort to pull out of the Paris Agreement. When even your fossil-fuel-funded panelists don’t agree with your decision, you know you’re on the wrong side of history. (As if there was any doubt before.)
But there is a ray of light. US mayors, governors, business leaders, university presidents, and committed individuals from all fifty states and every walk of life are standing by the Paris Agreement and with the world against the climate crisis. More than 100 of them came to Bonn and camped out in the funny looking igloos outside the Bula Zone to showcase their commitments, and many others mobilized for a Day of Action across the US to send the message that they are still in, too. They all give us hope.
Trump may have abandoned the world, but the rest of us haven’t. As young people from across the globe sang when they disrupted the US fossil fuels event on Monday: “We the people of the world unite, and we are here to stay.”
Unfortunately, this ray of hope does not replace the need for action from the U.S. federal government. All their bad behavior at home and here at COP should be widely and loudly condemned, they are truly deserving of the Colossal Fossil – the undisputed best of the worst.
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Blue skies may be delightful at times but in the midst of severe drought, they are frightful. I took these images off the television at lunchtime today ~ unusually warm temperatures, gusting Santa Ana winds, not a drop of rain in sight. We're under Red Flag warnings, which means severe fire danger. I hope I don't see any fire more devastating than the two pictured. These are frightening enough!
I'm going to be scarce this week, my Flickr friends! I'm spending the next three days with Amy, my daughter, I'm happy to say!
Thanks so much for showing up and for your support! Have a wonderful week, yourselves! I'll get back to you again after Friday!
“What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher.
When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?”
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Cottonwood Spring is one of five native fan palm oases in Joshua Tree National Park.
Washingtonia filifera, with the common names, Desert Fan Palm, Cotton palm, Arizona Fan Palm and California Fan Palm. It is a palm native to southwestern North America between an elevation range of 100–1,200 metres (330–3,900 ft), at seeps, desert bajadas, and springs where underground water is continuously available.
Washingtonia filifera is the only palm native to the Western United States and 'palm iconic' California. It is the largest native palm in the contiguous United States. The primary populations are found in desert riparian habitats at spring fed oases in the Colorado Desert (Low Desert) and throughout a major portion of the Mojave Desert; with all populations extant in isolated disjunct populations throughout the stated regions.
Joshua Tree National Park (in the Mojave Desert) preserves and protects healthy riparian palm habitat examples in the Little San Bernardino Mountains section, and westward where water surfaces up through the San Andreas Fault on the east valley side.
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Dolmen
De Dolmen van Wéris, noordelijke dolmen of Wéris I is een dolmen van het type allée couverte dat wordt toegeschreven aan de Seine-Oise-Marne-cultuur en is gelegen bij Wéris in de gemeente Durbuy in de Belgische provincie Luxemburg. De dolmen ligt aan de weg van Wéris naar Barvaux genaamd de Rue des Dolmens op zo'n 600 meter ten noordwesten van het dorp. In de omgeving ligt zuidwestelijker op zo'n anderhalve kilometer nog een andere iets kleinere dolmen: de Dolmen van Oppagne en in en rond de vallei waarin Wéris gelegen is bevinden zich een aantal menhirs. De verschillende megalieten in de omgeving zouden verschillende alignmenten met elkaar vormen die evenwijdig aan elkaar gelegen zijn.
De dolmen is de bekendste dolmen van de twee en wordt veel bezocht door toeristen. In de nabijheid heeft men een parking aangelegd.
In het laat-neolithicum, zo'n 5000 jaar geleden, zouden de mensen van de Seine-Oise-Marne-cultuur deze dolmen hebben opgericht.
In 1882 werd de dolmen aangekocht door de Belgische Staat voor 1200 Belgische frank.
In 1885-1886 werd de dolmen min of meer deskundig gerestaureerd, waarbij men tevens een hek plaatste rond het object. Bij de opgraving kwamen Romeinse munten boven water. Naast de dolmen lag een Romeinse weg (nu nog Chemin des Romains geheten) en de dolmen is door Romeinen reeds bezocht en bekeken.
In 1991 werd de dolmen opnieuw gerestaureerd en heeft men het hek weggehaald.
In de lente van 2000 werd de Romeinse weg die vlak bij de dolmen lag blootgelegd.
Bij opgravingen trof men Romeinse munten, fragmenten aardewerk uit de trechterbekercultuur, plukjes haren van een zwijn, pijlpunten van de Seine-Oise-Marne-cultuur, een vuursteen en enkele stukjes bot van mensen aan.
De dolmen heeft een lengte van bijna elf meter lang, een breedte van vijf meter en een hoogte van twee meter. Tegenwoordig ligt de dolmen gelijk met het maaiveld en niet er onder, wat afwijkend is ten opzichte van andere allée couvertes, maar hij kan vroeger een dekheuvel gehad hebben.
De ingang van de dolmen ligt in het noordnoordoosten. Daar bevindt zich een tegelvormige steen waarin men een gat heeft aangebracht, een Seelenloch. Voor de ingang staan nog andere stenen die waarschijnlijk een kort voorportaal vormden.
Verder heeft de dolmen (thans nog) twee draagstenen aan beide zijkanten, een sluitsteen aan het zuidwestelijke uiteinde en twee dekstenen bovenop. Een van die dekstenen weegt zo'n 30 ton.
De menhirs die in het verlengde van het portaal van de dolmen staan zijn allen, op drie na, afkomstig uit de weilanden in de omgeving. Boeren uit de omgeving hebben deze stenen verplaatst om zo niet gestoord te worden door de keien.
The Dolmen of Wéris, northern dolmen or Wéris I is an allée couverte type dolmen attributed to the Seine-Oise-Marne culture and is located near Wéris in the commune of Durbuy in the Belgian province of Luxembourg. The dolmen is located on the road from Wéris to Barvaux called the Rue des Dolmens about 600 meters northwest of the village. In the vicinity, about a mile and a half to the south, is another slightly smaller dolmen: the Dolmen of Oppagne and in and around the valley in which Wéris is located there are a number of menhirs. The different megaliths in the area would form different alignments with each other that are parallel to each other.
The dolmen is the most famous of the two and is much visited by tourists. A parking lot has been constructed nearby.
In the late Neolithic, about 5000 years ago, the people of the Seine-Oise-Marne culture are said to have erected these dolmen.
In 1882 the dolmen was purchased by the Belgian State for 1200 Belgian francs.
In 1885-1886 the dolmen was more or less expertly restored, and a fence was also placed around the object. During the excavation, Roman coins were discovered. Next to the dolmen was a Roman road (now called Chemin des Romains) and the dolmen has already been visited and viewed by Romans.
In 1991 the dolmen was restored again and the fence was removed.
In the spring of 2000, the Roman road close to the dolmen was uncovered.
Excavations have revealed Roman coins, fragments of pottery from the Funnel Beaker culture, tufts of boar hair, arrowheads from the Seine-Oise-Marne culture, a flint and a few pieces of human bone.
The dolmen is almost eleven meters long, five meters wide and two meters high. Today the dolmen is level with the ground and not below it, which is different from other allée couvertes, but it may have had a deck mound in the past.
The entrance to the dolmen is in the north-northeast. There is a tile-shaped stone in which a hole has been made, a Seelenloch. In front of the entrance are other stones that probably formed a short porch.
Furthermore, the dolmen (still) has two supporting stones on both sides, a keystone at the southwestern end and two capstones on top. One of those capstones weighs about 30 tons.
All but three of the menhirs that are an extension of the portal of the dolmen come from the meadows in the area. Farmers from the area have moved these stones so as not to be disturbed by the boulders.
This is the historic church down the road from Villa Park. It makes the perfect snowy wintery scene what with all that snow.
It is a Grade II* listed building, currently listed as the Anglican Church of Ss Peter & Paul. It was formerly listed as the Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul, Witton Lane, Witton. But it is actually in Aston. It is quite close to the Aston Expressway - A38(M).
It is the only church in Birmingham mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1086 (although nothing from that time remains). The current church dates from the 15th to the 19th centuries.
Selected details from Heritage Gateway:
An Anglican parish church, originating before 1086, though nothing visible survives from this date. The west tower dates from the C15, with its spire renewed in 1776-7 by John Cheshire (circa 1739-1812); otherwise the church dates from 1879-90, with the south porch added in 1908, all to designs by Julius Alfred Chatwin (1830-1907). The church is constructed from brownish-grey sandstone, under slate roofs.
The building is set on a moulded sandstone plinth, and has angle buttresses and pitched roofs. There is a west tower of four stages with angle buttresses, three-light windows and an unusual treatment of the bell stage, which has rows of segment-headed recesses with two tiers of trefoil-headed panels; the central pair are louvred, those flanking are blind. The stages are marked by moulded string courses. The tower is surmounted by an elegant, broachless octagonal spire. The tower, nave and chancel have unifying crenellations. The aisle windows and those to the south (Erdington) chapel have simple Y-tracery, with drip moulds and some head stops, in part to accommodate stained glass from the earlier church. The clerestory has windows of three lights, with cusped heads and trefoils in Decorated tracery above. The nave and chancel are continuous, the transition between the two marked by large pinnacles with gargoyles at their bases. The high, five-sided chancel has tall buttresses with multiple off-sets, and three-light windows with continuous mullions, those to the sides with similar tracery to those in the clerestory. Nave, chancel and chapel have gargoyles and moulded detailing.
Anglican Church of St Peter & St Paul - Heritage Gateway
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