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Israel is at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, bounded by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest. It lies between latitudes 29° and 34° N, and longitudes 34° and 36° E.
The sovereign territory of Israel, excluding all territories captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War, is approximately 20,770 square kilometers (8,019 sq mi) in area, of which two percent is water.[1] However Israel is so narrow that the exclusive economic zone in the Mediterranean is double the land area of the country.[140] The total area under Israeli law, when including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, is 22,072 square kilometers (8,522 sq mi),[141] and the total area under Israeli control, including the military-controlled and partially Palestinian-governed territory of the West Bank, is 27,799 square kilometers (10,733 sq mi).[142] Despite its small size, Israel is home to a variety of geographic features, from the Negev desert in the south to the mountain ranges of the Galilee, Carmel and toward the Golan in the north. The Israeli Coastal Plain on the shores of the Mediterranean is home to seventy percent of the nation's population. East of the central highlands lies the Jordan Rift Valley, which forms a small part of the 6,500-kilometer (4,039 mi) Great Rift Valley.
There is a protest today (Saturday, June 20th) from 5 to 8 pm at UN Plaza in Civic Center in San Francisco
There also will be a press conference Tuesday, June 23rd at noon on the steps of City Hall before the Board of Supervisors votes on Ross Mirkarimi's resolution of support for democracy in Iran
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Maen Llia is a standing stone which sits on moorland at OS grid reference SN 924192 in the Brecon Beacons National Park in the county of Powys in South Wales. The stone which is composed of Old Red Sandstone measures 3.7m (12ft) high by 2.8m (9ft) wide by 0.6m (2ft). It is roughly diamond-shaped and is partly moss-covered.[1] Its age and original purpose are unknown though it is thought to date from the Bronze Age. It is a popular tourist attraction, lying just 30m off a minor road running north from the village of Ystradfellte in the Waterfall Country towards the hamlet of Heol Senni and Brecon, the former county town of Brecknockshire.
There is a low heather-covered henge nearby. Another significant standing stone, Maen Madoc, lies just off the old Roman road known as Sarn Helen about 3.5km to the south. Whilst this latter stone bears legible writing, there is none visible on Maen Llia though some faint lettering was reported still to be visible in the mid twentieth century.
Legend has it that the stone goes down to the river, the Afon Llia to drink on occasion. This tale seems likely to be an allusion to the fact that its shadow is cast across the moorland as far as the river when the sun is low in the evening sky.
9543 is a 1965 model "Main Line" Westinghouse R36 IRT passenger unit built by St. Louis Car, delivered 2/1965. Last new build passenger rail equipment in North America with conventional sash windows. 9543 tested Westinghouse E-Cam DC traction in 1988, later installed on GOH R44s (1991) and now on all R62s, R62As, R68s and R68As.
The 34 Main Line R36s (9524-9557) are actually Main Line R33s delivered at the tail end of the R36 order, being assembled from leftover Main Line R33 car shells between July 1964 and early 1965. These leftover R33 car shells resulted when it was decided to have the last 40 R33s built as single units for 11-car operation for Flushing Line World's Fair Service.
9543 is in the New York Transit Museum fleet.
Director Spike Lee at the premiere of his new documentary If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre in New Orleans. Photo by Kim Welsh.
Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and 6th-largest in the European Union with a population of over 1.9 million. The Hamburg Metropolitan Region has a population of over 5.1 million and is the eighth-largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union.
At the southern tip of the Jutland Peninsula, Hamburg stands on the branching River Elbe at the head of a 110 km (68 mi) estuary to the North Sea, on the mouth of the Alster and Bille. Hamburg is one of Germany's three city-states alongside Berlin and Bremen, and is surrounded by Schleswig-Holstein to the north and Lower Saxony to the south. The Port of Hamburg is Germany's largest and Europe's third-largest, after Rotterdam and Antwerp. The local dialect is a variant of Low Saxon.
The official name reflects Hamburg's history as a member of the medieval Hanseatic League and a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. Before the 1871 unification of Germany, it was a fully sovereign city state, and before 1919 formed a civic republic headed constitutionally by a class of hereditary Grand Burghers or Hanseaten. Beset by disasters such as the Great Fire of Hamburg, North Sea flood of 1962 and military conflicts including World War II bombing raids, the city has managed to recover and emerge wealthier after each catastrophe.
Major regional broadcaster NDR, the printing and publishing firm Gruner + Jahr and the newspapers Der Spiegel and Die Zeit are based in the city. Hamburg is the seat of Germany's oldest stock exchange and the world's oldest merchant bank, Berenberg Bank. Media, commercial, logistical, and industrial firms with significant locations in the city include multinationals Airbus, Blohm + Voss, Aurubis, Beiersdorf, Lufthansa and Unilever. Hamburg is also a major European science, research, and education hub, with several universities and institutions, including the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron Laboratory DESY. The city enjoys a very high quality of living, being ranked 19th in the 2019 Mercer Quality of Living Survey.
Hamburg hosts specialists in world economics and international law, including consular and diplomatic missions such as the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the EU-LAC Foundation, and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, multipartite international political conferences and summits such as Europe and China and the G20. Former German chancellors Helmut Schmidt and Angela Merkel were both born in Hamburg. The former Mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, has been the current German chancellor since December 2021.
Hamburg is a major international and domestic tourist destination. The Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 2015.Hamburg's rivers and canals are crossed by around 2,500 bridges, making it the city with the highest number of bridges in Europe, and with 5 of the world's 29 tallest churches standing in Hamburg, it is also the city with the highest number of churches surpassing 100 metres (330 ft) worldwide. Aside from its rich architectural heritage, the city is also home to notable cultural venues such as the Elbphilharmonie and Laeiszhalle concert halls. It gave birth to movements like Hamburger Schule and paved the way for bands including the Beatles. Hamburg is also known for several theatres and a variety of musical shows. St. Pauli's Reeperbahn is among the best-known European red light districts.
This is the insect whos larvae produce the frothy mass, commonly known as "cuckoo spit", which is seen on plants in spring and early summer.
The froth is created to help protect the developing nymphs of froghoppers. The nymphs drink more plant sap than they need for growth and health. The undigested excess is then blown out of the back end, producing the froth. The froth hides them from predators.
The name "froghopper" comes from the appearance of the insect when viewed from above, which is quite frog-like. The similarity is enhanced by the insects ability to jump incredible distances.
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
For many years, the hypothesis of the Soviet historian Vladimir Zagorovsky dominated: he produced the toponym "Voronezh" from the hypothetical Slavic personal name Voroneg. This man allegedly gave the name of a small town in the Chernigov Principality (now the village of Voronizh in Ukraine). Later, in the 11th or 12th century, the settlers were able to "transfer" this name to the Don region, where they named the second city Voronezh, and the river got its name from the city. However, now many researchers criticize the hypothesis, since in reality neither the name of Voroneg nor the second city was revealed, and usually the names of Russian cities repeated the names of the rivers, but not vice versa.
A comprehensive scientific analysis was conducted in 2015–2016 by the historian Pavel Popov. His conclusion: "Voronezh" is a probable Slavic macrotoponym associated with outstanding signs of nature, has a root voron- (from the proto-Slavic vorn) in the meaning of "black, dark" and the suffix -ezh (-azh, -ozh). It was not “transferred” and in the 8th - 9th centuries it marked a vast territory covered with black forests (oak forests) - from the mouth of the Voronezh river to the Voronozhsky annalistic forests in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and in the west to the Don (many forests were cut down). The historian believes that the main "city" of the early town-planning complex could repeat the name of the region – Voronezh. Now the hillfort is located in the administrative part of the modern city, in the Voronezh upland oak forest. This is one of Europe's largest ancient Slavic hillforts, the area of which – more than 9 hectares – 13 times the area of the main settlement in Kyiv before the baptism of Rus.
In it is assumed that the word "Voronezh" means bluing - a technique to increase the corrosion resistance of iron products. This explanation fits well with the proximity to the ancient city of Voronezh of a large iron deposit and the city of Stary Oskol. As well as the name of Voroneț Monastery known for its blue shade.
Folk etymology claims the name comes from combining the Russian words for raven (ворон) and hedgehog (еж) into Воронеж. According to this explanation two Slavic tribes named after the animals used this combination to name the river which later in turn provided the name for a settlement. There is not believed to be any scientific support for this explanation.
In the 16th century, the Middle Don basin, including the Voronezh river, was gradually conquered by Muscovy from the Nogai Horde (a successor state of the Golden Horde), and the current city of Voronezh was established in 1585 by Feodor I as a fort protecting the Muravsky Trail trade route against the slave raids of the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. The city was named after the river.
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town. Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later proclaimed the town's patron saint.
Owing to the Voronezh Admiralty Wharf, for a short time, Voronezh became the largest city of South Russia and the economic center of a large and fertile region. In 1711, it was made the seat of the Azov Governorate, which eventually morphed into the Voronezh Governorate.
In the 19th century, Voronezh was a center of the Central Black Earth Region. Manufacturing industry (mills, tallow-melting, butter-making, soap, leather, and other works) as well as bread, cattle, suet, and the hair trade developed in the town. A railway connected Voronezh with Moscow in 1868 and Rostov-on-Don in 1871.
Location: San Francisco, California.
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Exposure: F8
Film: Porst chrome X 100
Is Ginni Jones = Virginia Jones from Queensland?
Does anyone have any information on this potter Ginni Jones?
It's marked to the bottom and is dated '93.
This is a picture of your typical apartment complex mailbox set up. It is
understandable that the mailboxes need to be placed together but they could
at least make them look cool or something. Unfortunately to do
anything yourself is a felony because mailboxes are part of the government.
I cant even put a sticker on it without someone saying ,
"your defacing government property." Oh well. These mailboxes, that are
everywhere, are a big example of social organization because we all abide
by the mail rules and have to socially except what is giving to us. Unless
you have your own house, then you can have all-kinds of weird mailbox
designs.
The baldacchino is a 19th century restoration by Virginio Vespignani. It is in a pseudo-medieval style and has four Corinthian columns, which are described as porphyry, with gilded capitals, though it's not imperial porphyry.
The altar itself is the original 12th century one, and is made up of ancient marble slabs. On display is a modern icon of the Holy Face in the very ancient Byzantine tradition.
The mosaics on the conch or semi-dome of the apse, together with the wall into which it is inserted, were executed soon after the church was finished, perhaps 1148.
On the right is the prophet Jeremiah, and his scroll reads: Christus Dominus captus est in peccatis nostris ("Christ was caught in our sins"). At the top of the arch is a cross with the Greek letters A and Ω (Alpha and Omega), and this is flanked by the Seven Candlesticks of the Book of Revelation. The symbols of the Evangelists are to the left and right.
The main mosaic depicts Christ enthroned with Our Lady at his right hand, flanked by saints and popes. The Hand of God emerges from a wreath above his head. On the left side are Pope Innocent II, holding a model of the church, St Lawrence and Pope St Callixtus. On the right side are Peter the Apostle, Pope St Cornelius, Pope St Julius and St Calepodius.
Below this in turn is a frieze with the Lamb of God and the Twelve Apostles represented as a herd of sheep in procession. Behind the last lamb on each side are the two holy cities Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
In the area below the sheep, and on each side, the series of mosaic panels are the work of Pietro Cavallini (1290-1291). They form a strip broken by three round-headed windows in the apse, and show scenes from the life of the Blessed Virgin.
Osgoode Hall is the headquarters of the Law Society of Upper Canada, and the venue for the provincial Superior Courts of Justice. The original building was erected in 1828; although 15 major additions have been constructed, the latest in 1991, the 19th-early building has been preserved.
Los Angeles, CA - October 27, 2009 - Travis Payne at the Los Angeles Premiere of Columbia Pictures' MICHAEL JACKSON'S THIS IS IT at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live.
Photo By: SPE, Inc./Matt Dames
Overbridge is a 70-acre natural area located in Rutherford County approximately eight miles east of Murfreesboro. It supports a globally rare Middle Tennessee cedar glade ecosystem that provides habitat for six state-listed plant species, as well as, leafy prairie clover (Dalea foliosa) and Pyne's ground plum (Astragalus bibullatus), which are both federally endangered plant species.
The natural area has a small stream running through it called Dry Creek. The east section of the property contains most of the cedar glade with some barrens occurring where deeper soils support perennial grasses like little bluestem and side oats grama. Both the cedar glades and the barrens are surrounded by patches of eastern red cedar and mixed hardwoods which include several oak species like chinkapin, post, and Shumard's along with blue ash, winged elm, and southern shagbark hickory. These are typical tree species associated with cedar glades, and they are usually stunted due to shallow soil conditions and drought conditions that maintain the openness of the glades.
A few small farms and single-family residences surround the natural area. It had once been part of a 260-acre farm owned by Overbridge Cattle Company and it was purchased by the State during foreclosure procedures in 1993. The Nature Conservancy of Tennessee has also been active here, and has assisted in protecting Pyne's ground plum by fencing the area. Management needs require control of invasive species such as common privet, Queen Ann's lace, and common teasel.
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Is this Ardmore or Ardlair, based on the fact I'm facing the Ardlair casks it is probably Ardlair but can you really tell based on color? One is peated and one is not, so by smell or taste you could tell them apart assuming you have any whisky tasting ability at all.
This is Homecoming weekend for most High Schools, and it all starts with the Homecoming Football game. Friday night saw the Red Lion Lions travel to Small Athletic Field in York, PA where after a short ceremony announcing the Homecoming court, then the King and Queen, the York High Bearcat Offense went to town. Sam Stoner threw 3 TD's to #3 Jacquez Simmons. #4 Jahiem White had 3 rushing TD's. #2 Ajani Cheshire had a 85yd pick six, and #6 had to additional rushing touchdowns. Red Lion managed to score two touchdowns and lost the game with a final score of 64-14.
LockedIN Magazine photographer Rick "Beetle" Bailey of @bbphotographer58 and @MyMidAtlantic was on the side lines to keep our fans LockedIN.
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The Freedom Monument is a monument honouring soldiers killed during the Latvian War of Independence. The granite and copper monument in the city core of Riga symbolizes Latvian statehood, national unity, independence and freedom. The monument was funded entirely by donations from residents. It was unveiled on November 18, 1935 as part of sculptor Karlis Zale’s project Shine Like a Star.
The 42.7 meter high monument is made up of 56 sculptures, divided into 13 sculptural groups on four levels, which depict Latvian history and culture. At the base of the monument, the motto For Fatherland and Freedom is inscribed.
At the top of the monument’s obelisk is the nine-meter symbol of freedom – a young woman holding three stars above her head, which symbolize the three historic provinces of Latvia, and national unity.
During the Soviet occupation, no flowers were allowed at the monument and public transport lanes ran on both sides to prevent people from approaching it.
Pupuan is a place to fill your eyes with awesome memories of great landscape accompanied by no one other than the friendly local farmers. It is located in the western part of Bali. Being in a position above this rice paddy gave you a wonderful perspective. Each rice paddy has a converging seam, where one field is separated by another. The slopes in the area have, over the years, been turned into amazing and beautiful rice terraces, together with coffee groves and orchards. .... Details please visit: www.bali-individually.com/news/20101022/pupuan-rice-terrace |Contact Us: sales@bali-individually.com | Telp. +62-361-7415637 | Skype: bali.individual
Melanie is co-curator of ebb & flow and co-founder of we love your books. A book artist for 15 years, she has also worked in design and education. Melanie has Artists’ Books in national and international public and private collections; including Tate Library. She has exhibited in Armenia, USA, UAE, Australia and UK.
ebb~flow~em (ii) is a collaboration with Emma Powell; both published books of their Ebb & Flow exploration; having unbound them, they made anew. This is Melanie's second set of structures created from her and Emma's Ebb and Flow images.
This circus is falling down on its knees
The big top is crumbling down
It's raining in Baltimore fifty miles east
Where you should be, no ones around
I need a phone call
I need a raincoat
I need a big love
I need a phone call
These train conversations are passing me by
And I don't have nothing to say
You get what you pay for
But I just had no intention of living this way
I need a phone call
I need a plane ride
I need a sunburn
I need a raincoat
And I get no answers
And I don't get no change
It's raining in Baltimore, baby
But everything else is the same
There's things I remember and things I forget
I miss you I guess that I should
Three thousand five hundred miles away
But what would you change if you could?
I need a phone call
Maybe I should buy a new car
I can always hear a freight train if I listen real hard
And I wish it was a small world
Because I'm lonely for the big towns
I'd like to hear a little guitar
I think its time to put the top down
I need a phone call
I need a raincoat
"Raining in Baltimore" by Adam Duritz. A perfect song to fit my mood currently.
İş hayatında yer alan bayanların resmi toplantılar veya günlük kullanım için en güzel tesettür takım elbise modellerini sizlere tanıtacağız. Tesettür giyimin en özel takım elbise modelleri arasında yer alan 2015 tasarımları etek ceketli takımlar, tunikli takım modelleri, bluzlu, bolerolu takımlar... yazının devamını incelemek ve diğer fotoğraflar için bit.ly/1IIEvLL adresini ziyaret edebilirsiniz.