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This is the old Richman Brothers Company factory on East 55th Street, which once employed thousands in Cleveland’s Goodrich-Kirtland Park neighborhood. Constructed in 1917 with additions in 1924 and 1927, the hulking building was where the company manufactured clothing. The company was founded in 1853 by Jewish-Bavarian Immigrants Henry Richman, Sr. and Joseph Lehman as the Lehman-Richman company in Portsmouth, Ohio, relocating to the larger city of Cleveland in 1879. The business, initially located closer to downtown in a smaller building, rapidly expanded around the turn of the 20th Century, being renamed Richman Brothers in 1904 after being passed on to Richman’s three sons. The company lasted until 1969, when it was absorbed into the F.W. Woolworth Company; however, the factory remained in operation until 1992, when declining revenues led to the factory’s closure. Since that time, several options for adaptive reuse of the structure have been floated, but as of yet, none have come to be. Despite this, and it’s listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, I don’t see the building as being endangered at this point, as the building remains in somewhat decent condition, with the strong concrete structure and industrial-grade finishes appearing to be holding up well after a quarter century of abandonment.
*evil grin* A prank on a friend- all in good fun. Just know that when you skip work to make-out, well- this is what will happen.
The Great Hall of Hampton Court Palace is the only surviving hall built by Henry VIII. At first-floor level, it stands above two large cellars and was principally constructed between 1532 and 1535. The Great Hall either completely replaced a medieval ground-floor hall or may, conceivably, be a very substantial rebuilding of an earlier first-floor hall built by Cardinal Wolsey. Certainly, in the early 1530s a conscious decision was made to dramatically remodel the Great Hall in order that Hampton Court could accommodate the full royal court for the celebration of principal court festivals, such as Christmas, Twelfth-Night and Easter. These festivals required large spaces to accommodate lavish court ceremony and entertainments (The Great Hall and other greater chambers); a Chapel Royal to permit elaborate liturgical celebration; and a substantial body of lodgings, served by a respectively large wing of kitchens and household offices, to accommodate the court and its guests.
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Susan is an Atlanta native, rare in this city of transplants. She received a Bachelor's degree in history and later continued her education to pursue dental hygiene at the Perimeter College of Georgia. She began practicing dental hygiene here in Atlanta, and joined our practice in 2006. Susan is a focused, well-versed clinician, and an avid outdoors-person, recently rafting down the technical Ocoee River, and hiking portions of the Appalachian Trail.
This raptor is most easily identified in the field by its smallish head and the black bands on the wings and tail. It has a long middle toe that allows it to dig into hives. The slit-shaped nostrils, bare tarsus and fine streaks on breast distinguish it from the Changeable Hawk Eagle.
In Singapore it is a common passage migrant and winter visitor. It can be found islandwide. Called a honey buzzard because of its diet, but it is really more related to kites than buzzards. The main subspecies found in Singapore during the migratory season is orientalis.The subspecies resident to Peninsula Malaysia is torquatus.
The colour and pattern of its plumage varies extraordinarily across its range with six subspecies differing markedly in appearance.Extraordinarily, the distinct plumage of each subspecies closely resembles that of a species of hawk-eagle that overlaps its range. It is argued that this mimicry evolved to prevent the relatively weak honey-buzzard from being attacked by more powerful raptors
A vital attribute shared by all honey-buzzards are scale-like feathers around the eyes and forehead which provide armour against the stings of the wasps, bees and hornets it preys upon. In addition, all have feet equipped with relatively straight claws adapted for digging and walking.
Photographic note: was fortunate to chance upon this migrant during a morning walk up mount faber with my son. Thankfully my gear was ready and son was cooperative in his stroller.
Took several static shots and was stopping down to get more details when the buzzard decided to make a move! Speed was sufficient only to get the head and body sharp. Hopefully the blurred wings do convey a sense of motion.
This action pic is my favorite of the lot of otherwise static shots.
Using a square crop to remove most of the grey background.
This is the Dee River as it passes through the tourist town of Llangollen. The canal passes by up above the red brick buildings to the extreme right of the photo. The canal level at this point along its route is higher than the roofs of those buildings. The water going into the canal comes from above a falls further up on the river. That was one engineering aspect of the canal system that I found intriguing. Miles and miles and miles of canal meandering along the valley walls high up above the river. As noted on the aqueduct photo the canal crossing the aqueduct is fed by the same river which, at that point, is passing by 126 feet below it.
For blog entries of my June 2009 travels to the UK including my walking of the Offa's Dyke Path and visits in Scotland see: Wales and Scotland June 2009
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There is a car bridge and a railroad bridge here over the Potomac in Shepherdstown, across from Maryland, near Antietam. There are also the remains of two old bridges. I like the trees going out of them.
Info on the route 34 New Rumsey Bridge over the Potomac.
Information on the Rumsey Monument on the Potomac in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Take a walking tour of historic Shepherdstown, West Virginia.
Agriculture is the main stay of Uganda’s economy, however, the share of agriculture in the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been declining steadily. In fiscal year 2009/10, agriculture contributed only 14.6% to the national GDP of which 1.3% was attributed to the livestock sub-sector. The dairy industry is estimated to contribute more than 50% of the total output from the livestock sub-sector. The dairy industry employs many people who are engaged in various economic activities along the dairy value chain, particularly in milk production, collection, bulking and transportation, processing, distribution and marketing as well as provision of inputs and support services.
Passau is een stad en Kreisfreie Stadt in de Duitse deelstaat Beieren. De stad telt 49.952 inwoners[1].
Passau ligt langs de Duitse Bundesautobahn 3, niet ver voor de Oostenrijkse grens.
In de oude binnenstad komen drie rivieren bijeen: de Donau, de Inn en de Ilz, waardoor de stad ook wel Dreiflüssestadt wordt genoemd. Hoewel de Inn de breedste van de drie rivieren is, wordt het vervolg van deze drie stromen toch Donau genoemd, omdat de Donau de langste van de drie is.
De stad heeft het Keltische oppidum Boiodurum en de Romeinse castra Boiotro als oorsprong. De Bataafse huursoldaten die in het Romeinse kamp gelegerd waren gaven de stad haar naam (uit Batavis werd Passau).
In de oude binnenstad bevinden zich nog:
Kathedraal Dom St. Stephan deels in barokstijl; de bouwperiode is de 15e eeuw tot en met de 17e eeuw. In de kerk staat een orgel, dat bekendstaat als een van de grootste kerkorgels ter wereld. Het heeft 17.794 pijpen.
Twee voormalige paleizen: het oude paleis (1680) en het nieuwe paleis uit de jaren 1712-1730.
Raadhuis uit de 14e eeuw
Twee burchten, namelijk Oberhaus (13e eeuw) en Niederhaus uit de 14e eeuw.
Observatorium uit de 17e eeuw.
Speelgoedmuseum
Donaupromenade
Klooster Niedernburg
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Here is a resubmission of a Doll that made me completely crack ♥
I find at the Japan Expo 2012, his back a little, but I'm so behind in my presentations at the same time Doll :/
I love it reminds me a little version of Kiki but better, what Girly ^ _ ^
This is a small Doll Blings particularly the "Muffin Bear" model. Yes she is in disguise Bear :D And she serves tea ! If this is not the top frankly :)
So here is my little Winnie :D
Voici une nouvelle présentation d'une Doll qui m'a fait complètement craquer ♥
Je l'ai dénicher à la Japan Expo 2012, sa remonte un peu, mais j'ai tellement retard dans les présentations de mes Doll en même temps :/
Je l'adore elle me rappelle un peu la version des Kiki mais en mieux, plus Girly quoi ^_^
Cette petite est donc une Doll Blings plus particulièrement le modèle "Muffin Bear". Eh oui elle est déguiser en Ours :D Et elle sert le Thé ! Si c'est pas le top sa franchement :)
Je vous présente donc ma petite Winnie :D
Kloveniersdoelen is een gebouw aan de Achter de Houttuinen tegenover de Langeviele in Middelburg in de provincie Zeeland. Het gebouw heeft een Vlaamse gevel.
De Kloveniersdoelen is gebouwd in 1607 in de Vlaamse Renaissance-stijl. De Doelen was de oefenruimte (doelen) van de Kloveniers (schuttersleden die met de bus schoten). In de Franse tijd was het een militair hospitaal.
Van 1984 tot 2004 was het gebouw het onderkomen van de Stichting Centrum Nieuwe Muziek. Vanaf 21 juni 2013 heeft het pand weer een horeca- en cultuurfunctie in de vorm van een combinatie van een Grand Café en de Cinema Middelburg.
Boughton House, Northamptonshire, is a country house about 3 miles north-east of Kettering near Geddington. Part of an estate of 11,000 acres, it is one of the seats of the Duke of Buccleuch and famed for its beauty, its collections, and the fact it has survived virtually unchanged since the 17th century. While possessing a medieval core, its exterior evokes an opulent French chateau, causing it to be called 'The English Versailles'.
In keeping with the French style of its exterior, Boughton House is set amidst a highly impressive formal, yet arcadian garden of strict geometry, designed on the golden ratio. Vast swathes of turf, planes of reflecting water, strong lines of trees and linear earth forms create an intellectually meditative landscape indicative of the Age of Enlightenment and the idea that a garden could be a journey of the mind, yet acknowledge the natural world. The 2nd Duke, who had been nicknamed John The Planter, swept away the previous ornamental parterres, multiplied the avenues of elms and planes, and developed the role of water which structures the garden. Later, the landscaper of the garden at Stowe, Charles Bridgeman, who was under his employ, is believed to have created the sculptural earth forms.
Restoration of the garden was begun by the 9th Duke, and has continued under the 10th Duke. It included returning the River Ise to its eighteenth-century width, which required two miles of green oak boarding, fixed by coach bolts. In 2009 landscape designer Kim Wilkie was commissioned to create a new work to complement an existing pyramidal grassed mount. The result, called Orpheus, is named after the famed musician of Greek mythology who, when his wife Eurydice died, went down into the underworld to try to reclaim her. His music was so beautiful that Hades relented and allowed Eurydice to return to the world of the living. This striking landform seamlessly continues the garden's intellectual dialogue via an immense inverted pyramid and spiral rill, both set within a golden ratio. In 2015 The Grand Etang, or ‘large lake’ in French, a long-vanished lake of almost one-acre with a 75 ft tall water jet was recreated, to once again reflect the main frontage of Boughton. Located immediately to the north-west of the House, it is one of the earliest surviving features from the original gardens and designed landscape. It was created in the early 18th century as a reflecting pool for the house and was also used for ice-skating in the winter.
Thy Art Is Murder performs on the AP Stage during Day 1 of South By So What?! Music Festival at QuikTrip Park in Grand Prairie, Texas.
March 14th, 2014
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Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria. It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately 30 kilometres (19 miles) south of the Czech border, on both sides of the River Danube. The population of the city is 193,814, and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about 271,000. In 2009 Linz, together with the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, was chosen as the European Capital of Culture. Since December 1, 2014 Linz is a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities (UCCN) network as a City of Media Arts. Cities receive this title for enriching the urban lifestyle through the sponsorship and successful integration of media art and involving society in these electronic art forms. Linz is well known for the Linzer torte, which is said to be the oldest cake in the world, with its first recipe dating from 1653.
This is another picture supplied by Heather Fretwell.
It dates from 22nd June 1911 and shows the parade along Newbegin to celebrate the coronation of King George V.
It's Interesting that there are no women in the procession.
You can pick out the roofs of what is now the Town Hall, with the Methodist Church behind it in the background.
At this time, there was still a working farm off Newbegin and there is a Haystack just behind the wall near the centre of the picture
The Hassan II Mosque is a mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. It is the largest mosque in Africa, and the 5th largest in the world. Its minaret is the world's tallest minaret at 210 metres. Completed in 1993, it was designed by Michel Pinseau and built by Bouygues. The minaret is 60 stories high topped by a laser, the light from which is directed towards Mecca.[4] The mosque stands on a promontory looking out to the Atlantic Ocean; worshippers can pray over the sea but there is no glass floor looking into the sea. The walls are of hand-crafted marble and the roof is retractable. A maximum of 105,000 worshippers can gather together for prayer: 25,000 inside the mosque hall and another 80,000 on the mosque's outside ground
Address: Boulevard de la Corniche, Casablanca 20000, Morocco
Height: 689′ CTBUH
Construction cost: $400–$700 million
Architectural style: Moorish architecture
Architect: Michel Pinseau
First up, this is probably influenced by Marcelloly
So, I haven't mentioned this yet, but I am a Born-Again Christian. Tonight I went to House-Group Bible study, I haven't been in years- I used to go when I went to a local church but the majority of my life has been spent in churches a few towns away, it makes engagement in the week pretty impossible.
So, since all the snow in January, we have been going to a local church- literally up the road from where I live. So, I didn't go to the study last week but did today.
We looked at the resurection, as we are on the run up to Easter.
I might come onto this area later in my 365.
I was thinking about my favourite Bible verse- I guess at some stage I always revisit this one from 1 Corinthians 13:4-7:
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Its easy to think you love someone, but when you have a hard look at all the actions that love is, and all the things it is not- I always have to check myself....
Verse 13 concludes with:
13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
Agreed!
SOOC
About Stanley Park
Stanley Park is a 404.9 hectare (1,001 acre) urban park bordering downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was opened in 1888 by David Oppenheimer in the name of Lord Stanley of Preston, the Governor-General of Canada.
It is more than 10% larger than New York City's Central Park and almost half the size of London's Richmond Park. The park attracts an estimated eight million visitors every year, including locals and tourists, who come for its recreational facilities and its natural attributes. A paved 22 kilometres (14 mi) seawall path circles the park, which is used by 2.5 million pedestrians, cyclists, and inline skaters every year. Much of the park remains forested with an estimated half million trees, some of which stand as tall as 76 metres (249 ft) and are up to hundreds of years old. There are approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) of trails and roads in the park, which are patrolled by the Vancouver Police Department's equine mounted squad. The Project for Public Spaces has ranked Stanley Park as the sixteenth best park in the world and sixth best in North America.
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
The first chronicle references to the word "Voronezh" are dated 1177, when the Ryazan prince Yaropolk, having lost the battle, fled "to Voronozh" and there was moving "from town to town". Modern data of archeology and history interpret Voronezh as a geographical region, which included the Voronezh river (tributary of the Don) and a number of settlements. In the lower reaches of the river, a unique Slavic town-planning complex of the 8th – early 11th century was discovered, which covered the territory of the present city of Voronezh and its environs (about 42 km long, about 13 forts and many unfortified villages). By the 12th – 13th centuries, most of the old towns were desolate, but new settlements appeared upstream, closer to Ryazan.
For many years, the hypothesis of the Soviet historian Vladimir Zagorovsky dominated: he produced the toponym "Voronezh" from the hypothetical Slavic personal name Voroneg. This man allegedly gave the name of a small town in the Chernigov Principality (now the village of Voronizh in Ukraine). Later, in the 11th or 12th century, the settlers were able to "transfer" this name to the Don region, where they named the second city Voronezh, and the river got its name from the city. However, now many researchers criticize the hypothesis, since in reality neither the name of Voroneg nor the second city was revealed, and usually the names of Russian cities repeated the names of the rivers, but not vice versa.
The linguistic comparative analysis of the name "Voronezh" was carried out by the Khovansky Foundation in 2009. There is an indication of the place names of many countries in Eurasia, which may partly be not only similar in sound, but also united by common Indo-European languages: Varanasi, Varna, Verona, Brno, etc.
A comprehensive scientific analysis was conducted in 2015–2016 by the historian Pavel Popov. His conclusion: "Voronezh" is a probable Slavic macrotoponym associated with outstanding signs of nature, has a root voron- (from the proto-Slavic vorn) in the meaning of "black, dark" and the suffix -ezh (-azh, -ozh). It was not “transferred” and in the 8th - 9th centuries it marked a vast territory covered with black forests (oak forests) - from the mouth of the Voronezh river to the Voronozhsky annalistic forests in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and in the west to the Don (many forests were cut down). The historian believes that the main "city" of the early town-planning complex could repeat the name of the region – Voronezh. Now the hillfort is located in the administrative part of the modern city, in the Voronezh upland oak forest. This is one of Europe's largest ancient Slavic hillforts, the area of which – more than 9 hectares – 13 times the area of the main settlement in Kyiv before the baptism of Rus.
In it is assumed that the word "Voronezh" means bluing - a technique to increase the corrosion resistance of iron products. This explanation fits well with the proximity to the ancient city of Voronezh of a large iron deposit and the city of Stary Oskol. As well as the name of Voroneț Monastery known for its blue shade.
Folk etymology claims the name comes from combining the Russian words for raven (ворон) and hedgehog (еж) into Воронеж. According to this explanation two Slavic tribes named after the animals used this combination to name the river which later in turn provided the name for a settlement. There is not believed to be any scientific support for this explanation.
In the 16th century, the Middle Don basin, including the Voronezh river, was gradually conquered by Muscovy from the Nogai Horde (a successor state of the Golden Horde), and the current city of Voronezh was established in 1585 by Feodor I as a fort protecting the Muravsky Trail trade route against the slave raids of the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. The city was named after the river.
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town. Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later proclaimed the town's patron saint.
Owing to the Voronezh Admiralty Wharf, for a short time, Voronezh became the largest city of South Russia and the economic center of a large and fertile region. In 1711, it was made the seat of the Azov Governorate, which eventually morphed into the Voronezh Governorate.
In the 19th century, Voronezh was a center of the Central Black Earth Region. Manufacturing industry (mills, tallow-melting, butter-making, soap, leather, and other works) as well as bread, cattle, suet, and the hair trade developed in the town. A railway connected Voronezh with Moscow in 1868 and Rostov-on-Don in 1871.
20th century
During World War II, Voronezh was the scene of fierce fighting between Soviet and combined Axis troops. The Germans used it as a staging area for their attack on Stalingrad, and made it a key crossing point on the Don River. In June 1941, two BM-13 (Fighting machine #13 Katyusha) artillery installations were built at the Voronezh excavator factory. In July, the construction of Katyushas was rationalized so that their manufacture became easier and the time of volley repetition was shortened from five minutes to fifteen seconds. More than 300 BM-13 units manufactured in Voronezh were used in a counterattack near Moscow in December 1941. In October 22, 1941, the advance of the German troops prompted the establishment of a defense committee in the city. On November 7, 1941, there was a troop parade, devoted to the anniversary of the October Revolution. Only three such parades were organized that year: in Moscow, Kuybyshev, and Voronezh. In late June 1942, the city was attacked by German and Hungarian forces. In response, Soviet forces formed the Voronezh Front. By July 6, the German army occupied the western river-bank suburbs before being subjected to a fierce Soviet counter-attack. By July 24 the frontline had stabilised along the Voronezh River as the German forces continued southeast into the Great Bend of the Don. The attack on Voronezh represented the first phase of the German Army's 1942 campaign in the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.
Until January 25, 1943, parts of the Second German Army and the Second Hungarian Army occupied the western part of Voronezh. During Operation Little Saturn, the Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh Offensive, and the Voronezhsko-Kastornenskoy Offensive, the Voronezh Front exacted heavy casualties on Axis forces. On January 25, 1943, Voronezh was liberated after ten days of combat. During the war the city was almost completely ruined, with 92% of all buildings destroyed.
Post-war
By 1950, Voronezh had been rebuilt. Most buildings and historical monuments were repaired. It was also the location of a prestigious Suvorov Military School, a boarding school for young boys who were considered to be prospective military officers, many of whom had been orphaned by war.
In 1950–1960, new factories were established: a tire factory, a machine-tool factory, a factory of heavy mechanical pressing, and others. In 1968, Serial production of the Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic plane was established at the Voronezh Aviation factory. In October 1977, the first Soviet domestic wide-body plane, Ilyushin Il-86, was built there.
In 1989, TASS published details of an alleged UFO landing in the city's park and purported encounters with extraterrestrial beings reported by a number of children. A Russian scientist that was cited in initial TASS reports later told the Associated Press that he was misquoted, cautioning, "Don't believe all you hear from TASS," and "We never gave them part of what they published", and a TASS correspondent admitted the possibility that some "make-believe" had been added to the TASS story, saying, "I think there is a certain portion of truth, but it is not excluded that there is also fantasizing".
21st century
From 10 to 17 September 2011, Voronezh celebrated its 425th anniversary. The anniversary of the city was given the status of a federal scale celebration that helped attract large investments from the federal and regional budgets for development.
On December 17, 2012, Voronezh became the fifteenth city in Russia with a population of over one million people.
Today Voronezh is the economic, industrial, cultural, and scientific center of the Central Black Earth Region. As part of the annual tradition in the Russian city of Voronezh, every winter the main city square is thematically drawn around a classic literature. In 2020, the city was decorated using the motifs from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. In the year of 2021, the architects drew inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen as well as the animation classic The Snow Queen from the Soviet Union. The fairy tale replica city will feature the houses of Kai and Gerda, the palace of the snow queen, an ice rink, and illumination.
Moody is a sweet 92 lb blue Doberman.
This AKC registered boy is about 5 1/2 years old and has his natural ears with a docked tail. Moody is super passive and enjoys affection all day every day!
His foster home reports that his indoor manners are flawless and that he knows sit, lay down, stay, and come.
He has lived with dominant female and male Dobermans and patiently them boss him around. He played very well with a puppy in his foster home. Moody’s friendly and submissive personality leads us to predict no problems living with other dogs, cats or kids, but proper introductions are ALWAYS a must!
This dog is great and very relaxed, preferring to just hang out next to you while you’re home and appreciating the moment.
Chaco is a hefty 5 year-old AKC registered male, weighing in at 90 lbs, fawn in color, and has a docked tail with natural ears.
Like just about every Doberman, this boy loves to be petted and shown attention. His house manners are fantastic, no accidents in the foster home, and he does know basic commands such as sit, lay down, stay, and come.
While Chaco is quite laid-back in the home, he tends to take the more assertive role in the dog-pack so Chaco should be paired with a more submissive, relaxed dog in his new home.
Here is a large Cicada (family Cicadidae in the old order Homoptera) insect on a winged stem of flowering Perennial Sweet Pea (Lathyrus latifolius) in the Fabaceae plant family. The plant is a common roadside weed in Oregon. The cicada has a face like the grill on a big truck! (Near Susan Creek, North Umpqua River, Oregon, 13 August 2013)
Julie says they were singing in Oregon, but I really can't hear them. Their chorus is the same pitch as my tinnitus - that constant ringing in my ears that comes from too many years of too-loud music. Be warned! (On the other hand, a constant chorus of cicadas isn't bad!)
This is the only stave church remaining in Vestfold and built in two phases. The first part was built around 1150, in the Roman style, with the second phase following approximately 100 years later and built in the Gothic style.
It is is one of only three preserved stave churches having a stave or pillar in the middle of the church.
The church has 12 different staves symbolising the apostles, in addition to the one in the middle, which symbolises Christ, all of which serve to support the building. Each stave is unique among the others. Along the walls one can see 8-10 crosses which were dedicated at the time the church was first used.
Originally, the church had an earthen floor, with benches along the walls where old and weak people might sit. Others had to remain standing during the mass.
The altar dates from around 1630.
The church was restored in 1948. Under the floor, 5 well preserved skeletons were found without coffins and just a thin layer of dirt over them. A man, two women and two children. They were left in place. It is believed they were victims of the Black death around 1349.
Les mer i norsk her.
More about Stave churches and their construction here.
This is a photograph from the third annual running of the Killyon National School 5KM Road Race and Fun Run which was held at Hill-of-Down, Clonard, Co. Meath, Ireland at 11:00 on Sunday 19th June 2016. The race is held as a fundraiser for the local primary school. Killyon is actually a parish rather than a town or village. With that the race started and finished at the well known Hill-of-Down where the Royal Canal and Dublin Sligo rail line run parallel and cross under the Kinnegad (Westmeath) to Trim (Meath) road. The 5KM route took in a final KM on the beautiful towpath of the Royal canal and finished outside Moran's Pub beside the Canal. Overall the race was very well organised with excellent stewarding and organisation. There was a great spread of refreshments afterwards. However the mild summer temperatures were ruined by persistent heavy rain for the duration of the race which dampened things a little. The race took place on Father's Day and attracted very good local support from the surrounding areas with local runners, joggers and walkers in attendance.
We have an extensive set of photographs from the start and finish of the race at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/albums/72157669442251041
Photographs from 2015's race are also on our Flickr account at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157654448993629
Photographs from 2014's race are also on our Flickr account at www.flickr.com/photos/peterm7/sets/72157644887755947
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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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Amélie and Oppy (2)
Amélie is impressed
Amélie loves Christmas
Big cuddle for oppy from Amélie
Christmas Day and the presents are opened
Echo mike Steve
Elizabeth Rose as Jesus
Fiona entertains the congregation whilst they wait
Fiona needs a reassuring hug first
Fireman Xandro
Here are the kings
Here is my chopper
Herod amuses all
Is Kathryn an Evertonian
Josephus speaks
Josh is great
Josh is the small shepherd
Kathryn is glowing
Lester and Xandro in their wigs
Lester in his Chelsea wig
Lester is glowing
Lester quietly waits his turn
Mary waits for the Angel
Mike is amused
Mr and Mrs Whitby
Nearly sorted
Ninja Xandro
Oppy has a cuddle of Amélie
Rector starts the ball rolling
Rehearsal over now for the real thing
Reindeer Steve
Sophia's sister has a look round
Steve in his gear
Steve, Em and Amélie
The Angels again
The angels arrive
The Angels sort themselves out
The Narrator
The shepherds join in
What a move
What a nose
Where is the fire
Xandro
Xandro and the guitar glasses
Xandro in the blue wig
Xandro in the red wig
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