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Prambanan is a the second largest Hindu temple in the world, reaching 47 meters high, and constructed during the 9th century. It was built during the Hindu-Buddhist Mataram kingdom of Central Java, when a new civilisation was flourishing under Indian Hindu influence and by the fertility provided by the neighbouring Merapi volcano. Within 100 years of construction, the Prambanan complex was already abandoned. Disastrous volcanic eruptions, as the oppression on the population by exhausting temple construction, could have led to a collapse, which urged the court and people to move to east Java, where later the Majapahit Empire was found.
Randonnée matinale sur le site de Bromo en Indonésie. Il faut faire vite pour capturer les bonnes lumières à proximité de l'équateur ... 5 minutes et c'est foutu! Ça me change de l'Islande ;) Superbe ce site, soit dit en passant ...
Abandoned branch in Krakatoa Island
Taken by Nikon D7000 with Tokina 11-16 wide lens while traveling around Krakatoa Island.
Photo taken in the evening with CPL Filter
I recently spent a week in Hawaii. Birding wasn't my focus, but I did see LOTS of birds as I toured parks and gardens near Honolulu.
This Java Sparrow was another species I saw most often foraging in the grass. And like the Chestnut Munias and Common Waxbills, I usually saw them in groups of a half-dozen or more.
NOTE: If you'd like to see more birds and flora from Hawaii, I've created a dedicated album that contains several photos not in my Photostream.
She is the chief of the Borobodur Cheerleaders, perhaps cos she's very tall, and also cos she's very nice...
Borobodur, Java indonesia
© Eric Lafforgue
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Here is my LEGO version of "The Java Server" from "The Simpsons" I built it a couple month ago but never had a chance to take pictures of it so here it is!
Part of my "Springfield Project"
Already done:
My website: 6kyubi6 Lego Creations
You will find 184 of my poems HERE. fno.org/poetry/index.html
Java
You are my morning coffee
My java
My caffeine
And my wake-up call
Each morning
And each day
You wake me with kisses
Change my night dreams
To day dreams
Smile like a sun rising
And give me a thousand reasons
To rise and shine
You are my café au lai
My cappuccino
Hot stuff
Jamocha
Joe
Full of punch
Soft with the touches
And tender like the night
You perk me up
Pick me up
And make my day
© Jamie McKenzie, all rights reserved
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and in The Storm in Its Passing and Flights of Fancy.
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Central Java R-trip Episode 02 - Lawang Sewu
Lawang Sewu ("Thousand Doors") is a landmark in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, built as the headquarters of the Dutch East Indies Railway Company. The colonial era building is famous as a haunted house, though the Semarang city government has attempted to rebrand it.
Lawang Sewu was designed by Cosman Citroen, from the firm of J.F. Klinkhamer and B.J. Quendag. It was designed in New Indies Style, an academically-accepted term for Dutch Rationalism in the Indies. Similar with Dutch Rationalism, the style is the result of the attempt to develop new solutions to integrate traditional precedents (classicism) with new technological possibilities. It can be described as a transitional style between Traditionalists and the Modernists, and was strongly influenced by the design of Berlage.
Construction began in 1904 with A building, which was completed in 1907. The rest of the complex was finished in 1919. It was initially used by the Nederlandsch-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij, the first railway company in the Dutch East Indies.
After the Japanese invaded Indonesia in 1942, the Japanese army took over Lawang Sewu. The basement of B building was turned into a prison, with several executions taking place there. When Semarang was retaken by the Dutch in the battle of Semarang in October 1945, the Dutch forces used the tunnel leading into A building to sneak into the city. A battle ensued, with numerous Indonesian fighters dying.Five employees working there were also killed.
After the war, the Indonesian army took over the complex. It was later returned to the national railway company. In 1992 it was declared a Cultural Property of Indonesia.
Source:Wikipedia.
Prambanan is a the second largest Hindu temple in the world, reaching 47 meters high, and constructed during the 9th century. It was built during the Hindu-Buddhist Mataram kingdom of Central Java, when a new civilisation was flourishing under Indian Hindu influence and by the fertility provided by the neighbouring Merapi volcano. Within 100 years of construction, the Prambanan complex was already abandoned. Disastrous volcanic eruptions, as the oppression on the population by exhausting temple construction, could have led to a collapse, which urged the court and people to move to east Java, where later the Majapahit Empire was found.