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The mausoleum is to honour of the hero Pahlavon Mahmud, writer, philosopher and fighter who has become a patron saint of Chiwa. After the legend he helped the Indian ruler, and to recompense him, he asked what he wants as a present. He asked to release his fellow citizens in the prison so many as possible who could contain a cowhide. This was accepted, but he cut it in thin pieces to receive a very long belt which saved a big number of them.
The mausoleum comes from 1362, however, was rebuilt in 19. and in 1913 to be converted into the mausoleum of the Khan family. The room is in the Persian style with a turquoise-coloured dome in which the grave of the Khan Mohammed Rakhim is accommodated. In another space there is the tomb of Pahlavon Mahmud, decorates with tiles.
The building in the background is Saffron Square tower is.
Well, it's hard to miss it even if you tried.
The 43-storey tower stands a whopping 134 metres tall and is the borough's second tallest building, behind only 101 George Street, the tallest modular tower in the world.
Saffron Square tower is visible from several miles away and is undoubtedly a distinctive part of Croydon's skyline, mainly due to its purple, shiny appearance.
Northumberland is England’s northernmost county, and it sits right on the border with Scotland. It’s historical hot property, a land long fought over by kingdoms and invaders – evident in its many castles, citadels and the 2,000-year-old Hadrian’s Wall.
blue skies and spring blossoms. The approaching spring fills me with such happiness!!!
This is for the group Parallel Vision~Word of the Week~Happy(~.~)
Now that flickr is working again, I will be doing some catching up! Thanks to all of my wonderful contacts, for all of your encouragement and support. You are all so sweet and inspire me to no end!
Edit~I used this texture from les brumes as well as one from Skeletal Mess.:-)
"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them." (John Ruskin)
Have a fine day - I'll try to visit your photostreams tonight...
The Tamrack is one of my favorite trees - when in Springtime it buds out so soft and almost fuzzy feeling ...it then takes on the appearance of the typical pine tree with needles and as fall approaches the greens begin to lighten and eventually become golden - it's pine cones tiny and so perfect.
The train is a green Pullman carriage that was armored and weighed 83 tons. Stalin used the train for travel starting in 1941, including trips to the Yalta and Tehran Conferences. Stalin had a phobia about flying so instead he travelled from place to place in the Soviet Union using this train carriage. The train was recovered from the railway yards in Rostov-on-Don in 1985 and is now on display at the Stalin Museum in Gori, Georgia.
This is a shot from City Beach. City Beach is one of our suburban beaches which has a beautiful grassed area plus many cafes and restaurants. In addition, there is quite a lot of striking and thoughtful architecture. Perhaps not as nice as Scarborough Beach (3-5 km north) but a very place to visit.
As a general rule, all the suburban beaches in Perth, Western Australia are stunning. Here the blue water and sky contrast with the pure white sand. No colour enhancement needed.
This is a merged image of 3 sets of HDR. Since the low fog changed rapidly and HDR can present its 3D effect. Lake Kawaguchi Bridge is showing in the fog.
拍攝富士山雲海時，發現HDR比較能呈現雲海立體的感覺，所以拍攝了三組各七張的相片，組合成這張全景，下面若隱若現的是河口湖大橋。
~天下茶屋前, 河口湖, 山梨県, 日本
Lake Kawaguji, Japan
- ISO 100, F16, 1/80~1/2 sec(3 sets of 7 shots HDR), 70 mm
- Canon 5D MarkIII with EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L lens
- Sunrise @ 6.16am (112º) / Shot @ 6.45am
- Visibility 0.21km @ 7.00am/ Humidity 100% @6.50am
- Temperature 11.1ºC @ 6.50am
“There is enough in the world for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.”
Frank Buchman
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SIGMA 10-20mm f 3.5 dc hsm
Sony E adapter
It is happening again.
Checking your phone won’t stop it.
Full circle, a rugged wheel has turned and stopped
As if retired from its last monster truck rally
Its shadow as heavy as its material density
You sat there all day distracting yourself as usual
But that wheel remained like a portal
If you went up to it, it could be dangerous
First, an arm and then a foot might pass through.
You can see yourself and your life in a different timeline
One in which you didn’t waste your days.
An adventurer for the ages.
You traveled to all the wonders
Had no regrets
Enjoyed each moment of your existence
And one day that other self heard a faint
Ringing in your other ears
A sharp pain behind your alternative eyes
And you just knew, didn’t you?
We tire of the same realities day after day.
I glimpsed a girl passing through
A young human can still eclipse the whole world.
Speeding like a scene in a fast forwarded film
Upset because she had lost a part of herself
A single eyelash carrying the weight of reality
Landing on her cheek softly like a secret
Stolen by a single breeze
A wish she would never get back again.
**All poems and photos are copyrighted**
This is the old ranch road that goes down to the beach & laguna at Arroyo de la Cruz. This view across the soft chaparral to the ridge across the highway (on the Hearst Ranch, private property) caught my eye on a visit on a cold, foggy morning. Boy, was I glad to get away from the freezing blasts at the blufftop trail into a bit of shelter from these scrubby Monterey pines! This is a reliably interesting walk -- but more pleasant on calm days. Non-existent in spring or early summer, in my experience,
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
Rumi
This is the oldest British flyable aircraft.
Built in 1912 by Robert Blackburn, it is the only one of this model constructed.
If you look very carefully, you can just see the engine cylinders, below the propeller shaft, which rotate around the crankshaft in the opposite direction to the propeller, as this is a rotary engine (not to be confused with a radial engine.)
Turns are aided by warping or twisting the wings via cables. Wing warping was invented and patented by the Wright Brothers, who vigorously defended their patents - it is likely that Wilbur, in particular, spent more time in court than he ever spent in the air.
Despite its fragile appearance, the Blackburn type D was capable of 60mph and a flight duration of more than 2 hours.
The aircraft was damaged in a landing accident in 1914 and later purchased by Richard Shuttleworth. It was restored to flight in 1947 and can be seen on calm days flying at The Shuttleworth Collection's base of Old Warden.
Every year is happening the Sommernachtstraum in the Olympic Park Munich and it ends always with an impressive fireworks display. This picture was taken in front of the BMW World
Your first love is always alive and lives all time in your heart. How much you try to forget.It never goes away from your heart!
It happens only for once and second time is always a compromise made to forgot the first love.
The first love was,is and will be serene...
It is no secret how durable and long lasting EMD locomotive are, in particular the GP38-2 and SD40-2 series. I kidnapped my dad yesterday, took him out to lunch, and of course stropped by the train yard afterward to see what was going on.
Sitting on the service track in Provo was an SD40N. It had just arrived from service on the weekday only LUL41 local that plies the rails of the Provo Sub main, the Tintic, and Provo Industrial Lead.
When I arrived at home I pulled up the archive to see if I had shot UP 1696. Surprisingly, nothing to show. After a quick internet search, I discovered the "snoot" was built UP 3432 by EMD in April 1978.
One more search revealed I had not photographed 3432 either, but Doug Harrop had. It was assigned to lead a Rio Grande detour train, specifically hot intermodal train 100 east out of Ogden. Mr. Harrop got a great photo as UP 3432 passed through the CTC crossovers at Strawberry, a few miles east of Ogden on June 22, 1983.
This is what happens when I try to take a shortcut home to make it in time for dinner and end up choosing the least safe route. Sammy and I almost became dinner ourselves!
I'm wearing:
MadPea Shark Bite Hat
MONTANA Tee by Cold-Ash
CHINO Shorts by Cold-Ash
[P.0.E] - Messenger Bag (Demo) Crate
REBELLION = "ELLISON" SANDALS
Props:
Synnergy Flooded Room Backdrop (dismantled and altered for my scene)
Dock piling (2 Prim) by Kagehi Kohn
My lovely pet ♥
JIAN Pets Splashy Spaniels / Brit. Gold
The bitey sharks:
JIAN Sharks
Background was taken at Fruit Islands Surf beach (Frozen Banana)
Humberheads Peatlands National Nature Reserve, near Wroot, North Lincolnshire. Whilst the peatlands and pools are a feature of the reserve there is a lot of Silver Birch woodland. I was on my way into the reserve when the edge caught my attention...the striking white bark against the darker background. It's a blue hour photo, I waited for the sun to rise over my shoulder in the hope of more colour but it rose into a cloud. That said I like the cooler colour and abstract nature of the photo.
Knowledge is no matter of time. If you have good books You have the key to knowledge. And knowledge is power.
Hohenschwangau Castle is a 19th-century palace in southern Germany. It was the childhood residence of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and was built by his father, King Maximilian II of Bavaria. It is located in the German village of Hohenschwangau near the town of Füssen, part of the county of Ostallgäu in southwestern Bavaria, Germany, very close to the border with Austria.
UP 1350 guides the MIR job westbound for Plymouth. For those who don't know this job often leaves East Minneapolis in the morning which is in bad light but for some unknown reason this train departed around 13:00, thanks to a heads up from Henry Jansen saying he shot the train going by Nicollet Island I figured I could meet the train west of Golden Valley. They were just about to finish working an industry and I had just enough time to set up the pole to document the move of the MIR in good light AND with the engine facing the right way.
On the west side of the village Vleuten is the ancient Ham-tower on an island in a canal. This seven-story donjon is the remnant of a water castle, knight-hof city of Ham. For the first time in a document from 1325 mentioned castle was initially built as a residential tower. It is suspected that it was built around 1260 which was strategically chosen for an inlet of the old Rhine river as it became more defensible. The castle was able to exercise the owner power of the surroundings. Several cases were Den Ham deployment of battle. In 1481 it was partially destroyed, then it was expanded to include a second tower. In 1536 the States of Utrecht recognized the castle as knight-hof city, the residents were then admitted to the Knighthood. In 1642 the gatehouse was rebuilt giving access to Den Ham. In 1857 the castle was owned by Willem Jan Royaards. One of the current owners is a descendant of him.
Around 1872 the castle wrong in dilapidated condition and was, at the western keep and part of the east wing after aborted. Between 1962 and 1975 the tower was restored. Today the tower is private property. The moated tower has five feet thick brick walls about 27 meters high. On top is applied include a bypass and the total height is approximately 35 meters. Inside, it has six floors and a basement with medieval girders are preserved.
When you have enough money € 1.900.000,-
The Ustyurt Plateau is an important migratory path for not only songbirds, but also for several species of birds of prey. This black kite was one of the many birds we saw migrating.
March is the ugliest month. Even beautiful foothills of the Berkshires look glum in March. Taken from a park that was created after flooding destroyed a trailer park in Williamstown, MA.
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Resting on grass cuttings, a tough and scarred chalk Beachskull has made it to the road above the beach. I wonder what the story is?..
Laying as found
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Bachalpsee is a mountain lake close to the First above Grindelwald in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland. The lake is located at an elevation of 2,265 m above sea.
Eine alte Liebe ist wie ein Buch .
Es passt der Inhalt .-
aber zwischen den Seiten
da ist noch viel Luft .
Dadurch bleibt es ein Leben lang spannend .
(c) Ch.Dol. ( ich )
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An old love is like a book. The content fits - but there is still a lot of space between the pages. This keeps it exciting for a lifetime . (c)Ch.Dol. ( me )
Anaklia (Georgian: ანაკლია) is a town and seaside resort in western Georgia. It is located in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region, at the place where the Enguri River flows into the Black Sea.
The earliest settlement on Anaklia's territory dates back to the mid-Bronze Age and is typical to the Colchian culture. It is the Classical Heraclea of Colchis, Anaclia of later authors, and Anarghia of Archangelo Lamberti and Jean Chardin (both the 17th-century travelers). After the fragmentation of the Kingdom of Georgia in the 15th century, it was an important fortified town, sea port and fishing station within the Principality of Mingrelia. In 1723, the town was captured by the Ottoman Empire and converted into its maritime outpost and slave-trading locale. Western Georgian kingdom of Imereti regained control over Anaklia in 1770, seizing the opportunity of Ottoman Empire being at war with Russia (Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)). Solomon I, the king of Imereti, was supposed to be supported in this endeavor by a small Russian contingent under General Totleben, but the Russian troops retreated before a clash against the Turks.
In 1802, Kelesh-Bey Sharvashidze, the pro-Turkish ruler of the neighboring Principality of Abkhazia, capitalized on the internecine feuds in Mingrelia, and forced Prince Grigol Dadiani of Mingrelia into surrendering Anaklia, taking Grigol’s son and heir, Levan, as a hostage. When Mingrelia accepted the Russian protectorate in 1803, the Russian commander in Georgia, Prince Tsitsianov, demanded that Kelesh-Bey release Levan. On his refusal, Tsitsianov sent Major General Ion Rykgof into Abkhazia. In March 1805, the Russians took hold of Anaklia and threatened to march against Sukhum-Kaleh, forcing the Abkhazian prince to release Dadiani. The capture of Anaklia drew an Ottoman protest, however, and Tsitsianov hastened to disavow his subordinate and even apologize for his action, removing a Russian garrison from Anaklia. However, the incident added to an increasing tension between the two empires. When the next Russo-Turkish War broke out in 1806, the Russian forces restored Redoubt Kali and Anaklia to the Mingrelian prince Levan who would later relinquish the control of these forts to the Russian administration. (See Russian conquest of the Caucasus#Black Sea Coast.) In the 1850s, Anaklia was a small but strongly fortified seaport, which had a custom-house and carried on a considerable trade with Turkey.
Subsequently, the importance of the Anaklia port significantly reduced, but it remained a minor Black Sea Fleet base in the Soviet times.
After the War in Abkhazia (1992–93), a Russian peacekeeping post was opened at Anaklia in 1994. In 2006, the Ministry of Defense of Georgia reported numerous damages inflicted by the Russian soldiers upon the 17th-century fortress of Anaklia and accused the peacekeepers of installing latrines and baths within the walls of the fort. Following a series of protests by the Georgians, the Russian military post was withdrawn in July 2007.
A monument has been erected in Anaklia on May 21, 2012, commemorating Russia's expulsion of the Circassian people from the region following the conclusion of the Caucasian War in the 1860s. The May 21 date was chosen to coincide with the day on which the Circassian people themselves commemorate the expulsion, which the Georgian government has recognized as an act of genocide. The monument was designed by Khusen Kochesokov, a sculptor from the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Eglwys Petroc Sant/ St Petroc's Church - Bosvena/ Bodmin
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Wrth deimlo dros bobl Israel o dan daflegrau Irán, cofiwch beth mae Israel yn ei wneud,.
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As you feel for the people of Israel under Iran's missiles, remember what Israel is doing.
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"Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip have been “denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely” by Israel amid its genocidal war on the enclave, according to Amnesty International, a global rights group.
Amnesty warned on Tuesday that women and girls in Gaza have been pushed “to the brink” as the Israeli war has spurred a series of hardships, from mass displacement to the destruction of the local healthcare system.
Pregnant women, as well as those who need treatment for cancer and other illnesses, have been particularly hard-hit by the lack of adequate health services in the territory, Amnesty said in a statement.
“This systematic erosion of their rights to health, safety, dignity and a future is not an unfortunate by-product of war; it is a deliberate act of war targeting women and girls,” the group said.
“It is also the foreseeable consequence of Israel’s calculated policies and practices of multiple mass displacement, deliberate restrictions on basic and essential items, as well as humanitarian relief, and two years of relentless bombardment that have devastated Gaza’s health system and decimated entire families.”
More than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023.
Israeli attacks have continued despite a US-brokered “ceasefire” that came into effect in October of last year, killing more than 600 people, according to the latest figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza."
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/10/women-in-gaza-denied-con...
10 Mawrth/ March 2026
Gen Sir Richard Shirreff, Nato's former deputy supreme allied commander Europe, said "yet again we have an American president who has launched a war of choice with no clear understanding where this thing is going to end".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y4458d9jdo
Well this all seems remarkably familiar. I don't suppose we will get to know - but I wonder who is benefitting from this "non-war war".
(Obviously arms manufacturers will, but who else?)