Mount Kailash itself is known in the Tibetan language as Gang Ti-se and informally as Gang Rinpoche ("Precious Snow Mountain"), to the Bon as Yungdrung Gutsek ("Nine stacked Svastikas"). Though only 6714 m high, it stands quite alone like a great white sentinel guarding the main routes into Tibet from India and Nepal in the south and west.

Traditionally a pilgrim undertakes the 52-km trekking cirquit or circumambulation (khorlam) around Mount Kailash commencing at Darchen (4575 m) and crossing the 5630 m Dolma La pass on the second day of the three-day walk. This is followed by a trek of the same duration around the beautiful turquiose Lake Manasarovar known in the Tibetan language as Mapham Yutso མ་ཕམ་གཡུ་མཚོ།

Known colloquially as the starfish flower for obvious reasons , Stapelias originate in South Africa and typically have 5 pointed, very interesting looking flowers. This is a purple variety of Stapelia grandiflora. Stapelia's main insect pollinator are flies and therefore they unfortunately have a smell like decaying meat. However this was great fun when I was a kid asking unknowing friends and relatives to smell it.

Also known as the Kaiser Jubilee Church (German: Kaiserjubiläumskirche) and the Mexico Church (German: Mexikokirche), is a Basilica-style Catholic church in Vienna, Austria. Built between 1898 and 1910, it was consecrated in 1913.

One of my very favorite photos from the trip and one that I almost didn't take. We were told that the ship was sailing at 11:45 pm. It was after 11 pm and I mentioned to one of the crew that I wish I had a chance to shoot that church as we could see it from the boat. She told me - "it is only a 5 minute walk to a good place to shoot - you have time." I ran to my room got the gear and headed out. You can see by the time on the clock that I cut it pretty close - 11:30.

I got back with a few minutes to spare - I was so grateful for the tip.

Known locally as chicken buses throughout the country, based on their typical cargo, these buses were my main transportation between the small towns. Always unexpected and amazing experiences here!

Northern Nicaragua, near Esteli.

Day 49 of 100 with aperture 1.2

Fujifilm X-T2 with Color Reflex 55 1.2 wide open with ND filter

Marina City, affectionately known as "the corn cob", is a mixed-use residential-commercial building complex in Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America, designed by architect Bertrand Goldberg. The multi-building complex opened between 1963 and 1967 and occupies almost an entire city block on State Street on the north bank of the Chicago River on the Near North Side, directly across from the Loop. Portions of the complex were designated a Chicago Landmark in 2016.

The complex consists of two 587-foot (179 m), 65-story apartment towers, opened in 1963, which include physical plant penthouses. It also includes a 10-story office building (now a hotel) opened in 1964, and a saddle-shaped auditorium building originally used as a cinema. The four buildings, access driveways, and a small plaza that originally included an ice rink are built on a raised platform next to the Chicago River. Beneath the platform, at river level, is a small marina for pleasure craft, giving the structures their name.

Sonnenberg Gardens, also known as Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park, Canandaigua, New York, USA, at the North end of Canandaigua Lake, in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. The house and gardens are open to the public every day, May through October.

The property was once the summer home of Frederick Ferris Thompson, a prominent banker in New York City, and his wife Mary Clark Thompson, whose father, Myron Holley Clark, was Governor of New York State in 1855. The Clark family was from Canandaigua, NY. Mr. & Mrs. Thompson's main home was in NYC in a large townhouse on Madison Avenue. The Thompsons purchased the Sonnenberg property in 1863, keeping the name, Sonnenberg (which means "sunny hill" in German). In 1887, they replaced the original farmhouse with a forty-room Queen Anne style mansion. The property also had a 100-acre farm to the east. Sonnenberg's gardens were designed and built between 1902–1919, and originally consisted of nine gardens in a variety of styles.

NRHP Reference#:73001240

Known in North America as the Black-bellied Plover. It is the largest species of Plover on the Continent.

Quidi Vidi Lake, St.John's, NL

September 30, 2017

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Fireweed also known as Epilobium angustifolium, this beautiful, tall, vigorous, showy perennial graces the margins of woodland, bogs, railway embankments and roadsides from June to September and can reach a height of almost 2 metres. It has slightly unequal, notched, four-petalled deep pinkish-purple flowers (15-25mm across) growing up a long spike. A hairy plant, it has oblong to lanceolate, coarsely toothed leaves. In autumn the downy seed pods split into four and releasing numerous long plumes of cottony hairs with tiny light seeds. This plant has become quite widespread across Ireland, possibly because it seems to thrive on disturbed land. This plant is native to part of the country and has been introduced to other areas. It belongs to the family Onagraceae.

Known by Pateira de Fermentelos, it is the largest natural lagoon in the Iberian Peninsula. There are habitats, ecosystems and species with national and international protection status. A fantastic place to visit…

Known as "The Crow," the Cleveland Works Railroad services the Cleveland Cliffs (former Arcelor Mittal) steel mills in the industrial flats area south of Cleveland, Ohio. On a sunny Sunday morning, a trio of SW1001 switchers can be seen pulling out of the furnace area after spotting a cut of bottle cars.

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Cleveland, OH

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CWRO 209 SW1001 Ex. RT 109, ALQS 1002 Blt. 1975

CWRO 216 SW1001 Ex. CWRO 1003,CUVA 1003, ALQS 1003, MCRR 420 Blt. 1970

CWRO 205 SW1001 Ex. RT 105 Blt. 1976

..... also known as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. It lies 335 km (208 mi) south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs, 450 km (280 mi) by road. Kata Tjuta and Uluru are the two major features of the Uluṟu-Kata Tjuṯa National Park. Uluru is sacred to the Anangu, the Aboriginal people of the area. The area around the formation is home to a plethora of springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Poinsettia, also known by Easter morning names (in Portugal), beak-to-parrot-tail macaw and parrot (in Brazil), cardinal flower-of-natal or star-of-home is a plant native of Mexico, where it is spontaneous. Its scientific name is Euphorbia pulcherrima, meaning "the most beautiful (pulcherrima) of euphorbias."

It is a plant widely used for decorative purposes, especially at Christmas time due to its leaves like red petals. As it is a short-day plant, flowers exactly the winter solstice coincides with Christmas (in the northern hemisphere - which would explain why this plant is not so identified with Christmas in Brazil).

Effectively, what many people consider to be modified flowers are only bracts surrounding pseudo-umbel where the flowers are small, enveloped by a green tissue layer and a yellow gland born only on one side of the flower.

From:https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poins%C3%A9tia

Blackcap - Sylvia Atrcapilla (M)

The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) usually known simply as the blackcap, is a common and widespread typical warbler. It has mainly olive-grey upperparts and pale grey underparts, and differences between the five subspecies are small. Both sexes have a neat coloured cap to the head, black in the male and reddish-brown in the female. The male's typical song is a rich musical warbling, often ending in a loud high-pitched crescendo, but a simpler song is given in some isolated areas, such as valleys in the Alps. The blackcap's closest relative is the garden warbler, which looks quite different but has a similar song.

The blackcap feeds mainly on insects during the breeding season, then switches to fruit in late summer, the change being triggered by an internal biological rhythm. When migrants arrive on their territories they initially take berries, pollen and nectar if there are insufficient insects available, then soon switch to their preferred diet. They mainly pick prey off foliage and twigs, but may occasionally hover, flycatch or feed on the ground. Blackcaps eat a wide range of invertebrate prey, although aphids are particularly important early in the season, and flies, beetles and caterpillars are also taken in large numbers. Small snails are swallowed whole, since the shell is a source of calcium for the bird's eggs. Chicks are mainly fed soft-bodied insects, fruit only being provided if invertebrates are scarce.

In July, the diet switches increasingly to fruit. The protein needed for egg-laying and for the chicks to grow is replaced by fruit sugar which helps the birds to fatten for migration. Aphids are still taken while they are available, since they often contain sugars from the plant sap on which they feed. Blackcaps eat a wide range of small fruit, and squeeze out any seeds on a branch before consuming the pulp. This technique makes them an important propagator of mistletoe. The mistle thrush, which also favours that plant, is less beneficial since it tends to crush the seeds. Although any suitable fruit may be eaten, some have seasonal or local importance; elder makes up a large proportion of the diet of northern birds preparing for migration, and energy-rich olives and lentisc are favoured by blackcaps wintering in the Mediterranean.

The German birds wintering in British gardens rely on provided food, and the major items are bread and fat, each making up around 20% of the diet; one bird survived the whole winter eating only Christmas cake. Fruit is also eaten, notably cotoneaster (41% of the fruit consumed), ivy and honeysuckle, and apple if available. Some birds have learned to take peanuts from feeders. Blackcaps defend good winter food sources in the wild, and at garden feeding stations they repel competitors as large as starlings and blackbirds. Birds occasionally become tame enough to feed from the hand.

Aristotle, in his History of Animals, considered that the garden warbler eventually metamorphosed into a blackcap. The blackcap's song has led to it being described as the "mock nightingale" or "country nightingale", and John Clare, in "The March Nightingale" describes the listener as believing that the rarer species has arrived prematurely. "He stops his own and thinks the nightingale/Hath of her monthly reckoning counted wrong". The song is also the topic of Italian poet Giovanni Pascoli's "La Capinera" [The Blackcap].

Giovanni Verga's 1871 novel Storia di una capinera, according to its author, was inspired by a story of a blackcap trapped and caged by children. The bird, silent and pining for its lost freedom, eventually dies. In the book, a nun evacuated from her convent by cholera falls in love with a family friend, only to have to return to her confinement when the disease wanes. The novel was adapted as films of the same name in 1917, 1943 and 1993. The last version was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and its English-language version was retitled as Sparrow. In Saint François d'Assise, an opera by Messiaen, the orchestration is based on bird song. St Francis himself is represented by the blackcap.

Folk names for the blackcap often refer to its most obvious plumage feature (black-headed peggy, King Harry black cap and coal hoodie) or to its song, as in the "nightingale" names above. Other old names are based on its choice of nesting material (Jack Straw, hay bird, hay chat and hay Jack). There is a tradition of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm bases being named for birds. A former base near Stretton in Cheshire was called HMS Blackcap.

Population:

UK breeding:

1,200,000 territories

UK wintering:

3,000 bird

This town in Peloponnese was once known as Naples of Romania.

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Porto , also known as Oporto is a city in the north of Portugal, the second largest city in the country. There live as many as two million people, and was the cultural capital of Europe since 2014. Many foreign visitors increasing interest in Porto. A little further south, across the Douro River, is also the city of Vila Nova de Gaia famous for its port wines. The numerous terraces along the Douro you can get yourself tasting this world famous wine! On the Douro is the oldest district of Porto, Ribeira. The long history of the district can be seen everywhere: with the narrow alleys , local markets and the old facades in the harbor as if time seems to have stood still. The Baixa district is rising from the riverbank – all pitched terracotta roofs and stucco painted in shades of mustard, Elastoplast and estuarine grey. The Porto Cathedral located in the historical centre of the city is one of the city's oldest monuments and one of the most important Romanesque monuments in Portugal. The city itself is built on the steep northern bank of the River Douro and radiates out to the Atlantic to the west and the ports of Matisinhos and Leça in the north. For the visitor, most points of interest are shoe-horned into a fairly small area between the riverside Ribeira district and the central Avenida dos Aliados. It is within this area that you will find the maze of medieval alleys, old world shops, cobbled streets and baroque monuments that define this city.

Walking around Porto’s cluttered, cobbled streets ascending haphazardly from the banks of the river Douro – particularly in the grey mist and rain – feels like jumping right onto the page of a Dickens novel. Porto has a rustic charm. The Rabelo boat is a traditional Portuguese cargo boat that for centuries was used to transport people and goods along the Douro River. Native from the Douro region, it does not exist in any other place of the world. Its history is closely linked to the production and trade of port wine. Before the arrival of the railway, the rabelo was the fastest and the most efficient means of transport between the Douro Valley, where port wine is produced, and the city of Porto, where it was traded and exported worldwide. Although not in use anymore, still today the Douro River holds these vessels, belonging to port wine companies, in the cities of Porto and Gaia.

Porto ook wel Oporto genoemd is een stad in het noorden van Portugal, de op één na grootste stad van het land. Er wonen maar liefst twee miljoen mensen, en sinds de stad in 2014 culture hoofdstad van Europa was, hebben ook buitenlandse bezoekers steeds meer interesse in Porto. Iets verder naar het zuiden, aan de overkant van de rivier de Douro, ligt ook de plaats Vila Nova de Gaia, waar de bekende portwijnen geproduceerd worden. Op de talloze terrasjes langs de Douro kunt u deze wereldberoemde wijn zelf komen proeven! Aan de Douro ligt ook de oudste wijk van Porto, Ribeira. De lange geschiedenis van de wijk is nog overal terug te zien: dankzij de smalle steegjes, de lokale markten en de oude gevels in de haven lijkt het alsof de tijd heeft stilgestaan. Midden in het historische centrum van Porto is de Sé kathedraal van Porto te vinden. Deze kathedraal is het belangrijkste Romaanse bouwwerk van Porto en behoord tot de belangrijkste van Portugal. De Luis I-brug over de rivier Douro is een opvallende boogbrug in de Portugese stad Porto. Het klimaat in Porto is op zijn zachtst gezegd nogal wispelturig. Word je wakker met zon, dan kun je ’s middags ineens in de mist zitten. En moet je door de regen snel een portproeverij inschieten. Want zeg je Porto, dan zeg je natuurlijk Port. Je kan uitgebreid Port proeven bij de grote Porthuizen in Vila Nova de Gaia. Bij de Porthuizen liggen de Rabelo's. Een Rabelo is een vrachtboot zonder kiel, die speciaal is gemaakt voor het transporteren van vaten port over de wilde Douro naar de wijnhuizen in Porto. Inmiddels zijn de barco Rabelo's weggeconcurreerd door het transport over de weg, maar het is thans nog mogelijk om in Porto rondvaarten te maken op een dergelijke boot.

Saint Petersburg formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924), then Leningrad (1924–1991), is a city situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. It is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow. With over 5.3 million inhabitants as of 2018, it is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, as well as being the northernmost city with over one million people. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city).

In modern times, Saint Petersburg is considered the Northern Capital and serves as a home to some federal government bodies such as the Constitutional Court of Russia and the Heraldic Council of the President of the Russian Federation. It is also a seat for the National Library of Russia and a planned location for the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site, so it's also referred to as Russia's Culture Capital. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world.

Nikon F4, Vivitar 19/3.8, Fuji C200.

Also known as... Queen Anne's lace, mother die, mummy die, fairy lace, lady’s lace and hedge parsley. At Taunton Deane, Somerset.

In times gone by the names "mother die" and "mummy die" were used to frighten children into thinking that if they picked cow parsley, their mother would die. This was intended to deter children from potentially picking deadly hemlock. - The Woodland Trust.

Also known as the “Ghost of Cassiopeia”, these brightly outlined flowing shapes look ghostly on a cosmic scale. A telescopic view toward the constellation Cassiopeia, the colorful skyscape features clouds IC 59 (top border left of center) and IC 63.

The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. The NGC contains 7,840 objects, including galaxies, star clusters and emission nebulae. Dreyer published two supplements to the NGC in 1895 and 1908, known as the Index Catalogues (abbreviated IC), describing a further 5,386 astronomical objects.

The clouds of IC 63 shown in the image, about 600 light-years distant, aren't actually ghosts. They are slowly disappearing though, under the influence of energetic radiation from hot, luminous bluish star gamma Cas to the upper right.

Gamma Cas is physically located only 3 to 4 light-years from the nebulae. Slightly closer to gamma Cas, IC 63 is dominated by red H-alpha light emitted as hydrogen atoms ionized by the hot star's ultraviolet radiation recombine with electrons. Farther from the star on the top border, IC 59 shows less H-alpha emission but more of the characteristic blue tint of dust reflected star light. (courtesy APOD 10/26/2024)

Capture info:

Location: SkyPi Remote Observatory, Pie Town NM US

Dates: 11/8- 12/8/2024

Telescope: Orion Optics UK AG14 (F3.8)

Mount: 10Micron GM3000

Camera: QHY268M

Data: HaRGB 12, 5.5, 5, 5.5hrs respectively

Processing: Pixinsight

known for scintillating musicianship, vibrant playing, youthful style... and for taking their performances out of the concert hall and into the bars and clubs of East Coast America. Is this an approach that might attract new (and younger) audiences to (less stuffy) classical gigs in non-traditional venues?

Here Kee-Hyun Kim stands for applause for pieces by Bartok, Beethoven & Webern.

Members of the Quartet met at the New England Conservatory in Boston, MA, in 2002

Known as the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’, is a bridge across the Biel Water. The Biel Water is a stream that runs from the Luggate Burn through the village of Biel into Belhaven Bay

Pyracantha, commonly known as firethorn (Czech: hlohyně), is an ornamental shrub that enhances our gardens and parks with its vibrant berries, persisting well into winter. Belonging to the Rosaceae family, it is favored by birds as a source of food and shelter. The Latin name is derived from the Greek pyr meaning "fire" and akanthos meaning "thorn".

Captured in winter 2024, Czech Republic.

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Autumn, also known as Fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere). Autumn is the season when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably. Day length decreases and night length increases as the season progresses until the Winter Solstice in December (Northern Hemisphere) and June (Southern Hemisphere). One of its main features in temperate climates is the striking change in colour for the leaves of deciduous trees as they prepare to shed.

Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of North America, Eastern Asia (including China, Korea, and Japan), Europe, southeast, south and part of the midwest of Brazil, the forest of Patagonia, eastern Australia and New Zealand's South Island.

Eastern Canada and New England are famous for their autumnal foliage, and this attracts major tourism (worth billions of US dollars) for the regions.

Known by the affectionate nickname of 'Teddy', St Edmund Hall is the smallest of the colleges that together make up the University and claims to be the oldest. Although there is no exact date it is thought it was founded around 1236.

On the right is the college chapel and above it the old library, the main library is now housed in the old church of St Peter in the East which stands in its graveyard just behind the picturesque range of buildings on the left.

A well known spot but the first time I've ever been and wow, what a place, arrived just after sunrise and still managed to snag some of the remaining golden light late early on.

This image has turned into a bit of a watershed moment for me, it's my first ever Explored image and I'm grateful to everyone for their kind comments and encouragement on this image as well as all my prior submissions too. Thank you to you everyone for looking and for commenting.

Commonly known as moth orchids, is a genus of about seventy species of orchids in the family orchid. Orchids in this genus are monopodial epiphytes or lithophytes with long, coarse roots, short, leafy stems and long-lasting, flat flowers arranged in a flowering stem that often branches near the end. Orchids in this genus are native to India, China, Southeast Asia, New Guinea and Australia with the majority in Indonesia and the Philippines. A few to many, small to large, long-lasting, flat, often fragrant flowers are arranged on erect to hanging racemes or panicles. The sepals and petals are free from and spread widely apart from each other. The lateral sepals are usually larger than the dorsal sepal and the petals much wider than the sepals. The labellum is joined stiffly to the column and has three lobes. The side lobes are erect and more or less parallel to each other and the middle lobe sometimes has a pair of appendages or antennae. S20N_1213

The Kinnaur Kailash (locally known as Kinner Kailash) is a mountain in the Kinnaur district of the Indian state Himachal Pradesh. The Kinnaur Kailash has a height of 6050 meters and is considered as sacred by both Hindu and Buddhist Kinnauris. This mountain is sometimes confused with the Mount Kailash in Tibet. The Kinnaur Kailash Range borders the district of Kinnaur in the south and is dominated by the Kinnaur Kailash (elevation- 6050m) and Jorkanden (elevation- 6473m) peaks.[1] Jorkanden is the highest peak in the Kinner-Kailash range; one can admire it comfortably from a bungalow at Kalpa. Often mistaken with Kinner Kailash (which is a smaller holy pillar to north of it). Jorkanden has been climbed by the I.T.B.P IN 1974 and by the IndianPara Regiment in 1978.[2] The pass accessible on the trek is the Charang La at an altitude of 5300m. It is one of the toughest treks in Himachal Pradesh.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnaur_Kailash

"Dipodium variegatum, commonly known as the slender hyacinth-orchid, or blotched hyacinth-orchid, is a leafless mycoheterotrophic orchid that is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It forms mycorrhizal relationships with fungi of the genus Russula.

Description

Dipodium variegatum is a leafless, mycoheterotrophic orchid. For most of the year, it lies dormant and has no above-ground presence; its tubers grow fleshy roots and form shoots consisting of leaf-like, sharply pointed, overlapping bracts, sometimes protruding above the ground, from which inflorescences emerge. The plant blooms in December-February, and the unbranched flowering stem, 15–60 cm (6–20 in) tall, carries 2-50 flowers. The blossoms are fleshy and cream-coloured to light pink with maroon blotches."

"They can’t be grown. They occur only where they’ve planted themselves, and I’ve never heard of one choosing to come up in a garden.

This plant was living in the typical habitat of the species, which is open eucalypt forest with a light grassy understorey. Most of its life is spent completely underground. It only puts up flowering stems once a year, when it’s time to try for babies. A flourishing plant might put up three or four stems."

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otherrwise known as the (Fringilla coelebs), taken at Ulley Reservoir

Frederiks Kirk (Frederik's Church), also known as Marmorkirken (The Marble Church) in Nyhavn the entertainment district in the centre of Copenhagen in Denmark.

The church was designed by the architect Nicolai Eigtved in 1740 and was along with the rest of Frederiksstaden, a district of Copenhagen, intended to commemorate the 300 years jubilee of the first coronation of a member of the House of Oldenburg. Frederick's Church has the largest church dome in Scandinavia with a span of 31m. The dome rests on 12 columns. The inspiration was probably St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

The foundation stone was set by king Frederick V on October 31, 1749, but the construction was slowed by budget cuts and the death of Eigtved in 1754. In 1770, the original plans for the church were abandoned by Johann Friedrich Struensee. The church was left incomplete and, in spite of several initiatives to complete it, stood as a ruin for nearly 150 years.

In 1874, Andreas Frederik Krieger, Denmark's Finance Minister at the time, sold the ruins of the uncompleted church and the church square to Carl Frederik Tietgen for 100,000 Rigsdaler — none of which was to be paid in cash — on the condition that Tietgen would build a church in a style similar to the original plans and donate it to the state when complete, while in turn he acquired the rights to subdivide neighbouring plots for development.

The deal was at the time highly controversial. On 25 January 1877, a case was brought by the Folketing at the Rigsretten (Court of Impeachment ) Krieger being charged with corruption over this deal. He was, however, eventually acquitted.

Tietgen got Ferdinand Meldahl to design the church in its final form and financed its construction. Due to financial restrictions, the original plans for the church to be built almost entirely from marble were discarded, and instead Meldahl opted for construction to be done with limestone. The church was finally opened to the public on August 19, 1894.

Inscribed in gold lettering on the entablature of the front portico are the words: HERRENS ORD BLIVER EVINDELIG ("the word of the Lord endureth for ever"). A series of statues of prominent theologians and ecclesiastical figures, including one of the eminent Danish philosopher Kierkegaard (who, incidentally, had become very critical of the established church by the end of his life), encircles the grounds of the building.

Information Source:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik's_Church

Also known as Cadwell 4, NGC7023 is a bright reflection nebula of magnitude 6.8 located in the constellation of Cepheus (the King), the dust in this region that creates the nebula is illuminated by a magnitude 7 star. It is 1,300 light years distance from Earth.

Taken at Sugar Grove Nature Center, McLean, IL on 6/27/2017

Image type: HA-LRGB 20x180ea

Type: Ha-LRGB: 10:8:8:8:8 frames of 300:300, 180, 180, 180 secs each.

Hardware: AT8RC, SBIG ST8300M

Software: Nebulosity, CCDStack, Photoshop CS6

Known as sea lamingtons - I wonder why? Norfolk Island. Even though test looks slightly domed, these aren't T. gratilla as the lamington colouration (black or dark chocolate test with white spines) is always T. australiae.

Known as "Big Red", this finch is known for taking the best seeds and selling them deeper in the forest for exhorbitant prices. When confronted about his questionable practices he responded, "Hey, "tariffs are just good business." Make birding great again!

Nestled on the south coast in West Sussex is the seaside town of Littlehampton. Here you can find a cluster of semaphores to envy the finest displays remaining in the UK. The small terminus is also frequented by the ageing 313 units dating back to 1976. Both the semaphores and units days are numbered. 313206 is seen leaving Littlehampton passing the signal box with the 1816 to Bognor Regis.

Ipomoea indica, commonly known as Blue Morning Glory, is a climbing perennial plant in the family Convolvulaceae. Native to tropical and subtropical regions, it is known for its vibrant blue to purple flowers. It thrives in seasonally dry tropical climates and can grow vigorously, often covering large areas if not controlled.

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SN/NC: Strongylodon macrobotrys, Fabaceae Family

Strongylodon macrobotrys, commonly known as the jade vine, emerald vine, or turquoise jade vine, is a leguminous vine endemic to the Philippines. It is a popular ornamental plant known for its cascading clusters of vibrant turquoise or greenish-blue claw-shaped flowers. Cultivating jade vine requires a tropical environment, making it a popular choice in botanical gardens and conservatories. The plant's striking appearance and limited distribution contribute to its allure among plant enthusiasts worldwide. Absolutely gorgeous!

Strongylodon macrobotrys, comumente conhecida como trepadeira-jade, videira-esmeralda ou jade-turquesa, é uma trepadeira leguminosa endêmica das Filipinas. É uma planta ornamental popular, conhecida por seus cachos em cascata de flores vibrantes em forma de garra, nas cores turquesa ou verde-azulada. O cultivo da trepadeira-jade requer um ambiente tropical, o que a torna uma escolha popular em jardins botânicos e estufas. A aparência marcante da planta e sua distribuição limitada contribuem para seu fascínio entre entusiastas de plantas worldwide. Simplesmente deslumbrante!

Strongylodon macrobotrys, comúnmente conocida como parra de jade, enredadera esmeralda o jade turquesa, es una enredadera leguminosa endémica de Filipinas. Es una planta ornamental popular, conocida por sus racimos en cascada de flores vibrantes en forma de garra, de color turquesa o verde azulado. Su cultivo requiere un ambiente tropical, por lo que es una elección popular en jardines botánicos e invernaderos. La apariencia llamativa de la planta y su distribución limitada contribuyen a su encanto entre los entusiastas de las plantas de todo el mundo. ¡Absolutamente impresionante!

Strongylodon macrobotrys, communément appelée liane de jade, liane émeraude ou jade turquoise, est une liane légumineuse endémique des Philippines. C'est une plante ornementale populaire, connue pour ses grappes en cascade de fleurs vibrantes en forme de griffe, de couleur turquoise ou bleu-vert. Sa culture nécessite un environnement tropical, ce qui en fait un choix populaire dans les jardins botaniques et les conservatoires. L'apparence frappante de la plante et sa distribution limitée contribuent à son attrait auprès des passionnés de plantes du monde entier. Absolument magnifique !

Strongylodon macrobotrys, comunemente nota come vite di giada, vite smeraldo o giada turchese, è una pianta rampicante leguminosa endemica delle Filippine. È una popolare pianta ornamentale, conosciuta per i suoi grappoli a cascata di vibranti fiori artigliati di colore turchese o verde-azzurro. La sua coltivazione richiede un ambiente tropicale, il che la rende una scelta popolare negli orti botanici e nelle serre. L'aspetto straordinario della pianta e la sua distribuzione limitata contribuiscono al suo fascino tra gli appassionati di piante di tutto il mondo. Assolutamente splendida!

Strongylodon macrobotrys, allgemein bekannt als Jaderanke, Smaragdranke oder Türkis-Jaderanke, ist eine leguminose Rankenpflanze, die auf den Philippinen endemisch ist. Sie ist eine beliebte Zierpflanze, die für ihre herabfallenden Trauben von lebhaften, krallenförmigen Blüten in Türkis oder Grünlich-Blau bekannt ist. Der Anbau der Jaderanke erfordert ein tropisches Klima, was sie zu einer beliebten Wahl in botanischen Gärten und Gewächshäusern macht. Das auffällige Erscheinungsbild der Pflanze und ihre begrenzte Verbreitung tragen zu ihrer Anziehungskraft bei Pflanzenliebhabern weltweit bei. Ganz wunderbar!

Strongylodon macrobotrys, algemeen bekend als de jaderank, smaragdrank of turkoois jaderank, is een peulvormige klimplant die endemisch is in de Filipijnen. Het is een populaire sierplant, bekend om zijn cascades van levendige, klauwvormige bloemen in turkoois of groenachtig blauw. De teelt van de jaderank vereist een tropische omgeving, waardoor het een populaire keuze is in botanische tuinen en kassen. Het opvallende uiterlijk van de plant en de beperkte verspreiding dragen bij aan haar aantrekkingskracht onder plantenliefhebbers wereldwijd. Echt prachtig!

ストロンギロドン・マクロボトリスは、一般にジェードバイン（翡翠葛）、エメラルドバイン、またはターコイズジェードバインとして知られ、フィリピン固有のマメ科のつる植物です。ターコイズまたは青緑色の鮮やかな爪形の花が滝のように連なる房で知られる人気の観賞植物です。栽培には熱帯環境が必要なため、植物園や温室でよく見られます。その印象的な外観と限られた分布が、世界中の植物愛好家の間で人気を集めています。実に見事です！

翡翠葛（Strongylodon macrobotrys），俗称碧玉藤、绿玉藤或绿松石碧玉藤，是菲律宾特有的一种豆科藤本植物。它是一种受欢迎的观赏植物，以其层叠的花序和 vibrant 的绿松石或蓝绿色爪形花朵而闻名。栽培碧玉藤需要热带环境，因此它是植物园和温室的热门选择。其引人注目的外观和有限的分布范围使其受到全球植物爱好者的追捧。真是太美了！

سترونجيلودون ماكروبوتريس، المعروفة باسم نبات اليشم، أو المتسلقة الزمردية، أو اليشم الفيروزي، هي نبتة متسلقة من البقوليات مستوطنة في الفلبين. إنها نبتة زينة مشهورة، معروفة بعناقيدها المتتالية من الأزهار الفيروزية أو المزرقة المخضرة المنقارية الشكل. زراعة نبات اليشم تتطلب بيئة استوائية، مما يجعله خيارًا شائعًا في الحدائق النباتية والمحميات. المظهر المذهل للنبتة وتوزيعها المحدود يساهم في جاذبيتها لدى عشاق النباتات حول العالم. رائعة حقًا!

Jaisalmer, affectionately known as "the Golden City," is nestled right in the middle of the stunning Thar Desert. Its nickname truly fits, thanks to the beautiful yellow sandstone used to build its structures, which comes straight from the surrounding desert. The streets of Jaisalmer hide small treasures everywhere, offering a fairytale-like sight, just like here in this grand gate, where the light of an elegant chandelier gilds the lobed arcade. An entrance imbued with a special charm.

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Once known as the Bald Eagle Valley Branch by the Pennsylvania Railroad. This 54-mile line was actually a connection between the PRR Middle Division main at Tyrone and the Buffalo Line at Lock Haven. It provided a short cut for traffic between Pittsburgh and the New England states. The line was busy enough after WWII that CTC was installed the length of the line.

Fast forward to 1984 when Conrail sold the line to the Nittany & Bald Eagle (SEDA-COG) operated by the North Shore Railroads group. This sale included the 12-mile Bellefonte Secondary Track.

Today the CTC is long gone and the NS still dispatches the now dark territory line between Tyrone and Lock Haven. NS occasionally operates freight and coal trains on the route. NBER runs turn jobs out of Bellefonte to each end of the line. Here a turn job to Tyrone hauls ass at Port Matilda behind a pair of great looking Geeps. I paced them once at 40MPH.

Known for its bold eyering and prominent necklace. Teichner Preserve. Leelanau Co.

Also known as the Confederate Rose, this flower is from the same family as a flower featured a few days ago. And like that earlier flower, this one was also found at Orewa Beach on the northern edge of the city of Auckland.

Orewa is colloquially known as "The Hibiscus Coast", and it didn't take long to discover why; there seemed to be more Hibiscus than we ever saw in Rarotonga a few years ago...!

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Freetown Christiania, also known as Christiania or simply Staden, is an intentional community and commune in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of the Danish capital city of Copenhagen. It began in 1971 as a squatted military base. Its Pusher Street is famous for its open trade of cannabis, which is illegal in Denmark.

The open trade of cannabis was shut down in April 2024 as a collaborative effort with police and the majority inhabitants of Christania. Pusher Street's cobblestone road was physically removed, and a new apartment complex is expected to be built there.

Christiania is considered to be the fourth largest tourist attraction in Copenhagen, with half a million visitors annually.

The residents of Christiania are called Christianit, or Christianshavner and Amagerkaner because Christiania is located on the island of Amager. The 1976 protest song "I kan ikke slå os ihjel" ("You cannot kill us"), written by Tom Lunden of flower power rock group Bifrost, became the unofficial anthem of Christiania. The flag of Christiania is a red banner with three yellow discs representing the dots in each i in "Christiania".

Within Christiania itself, some common laws are in place. For example, no private cars are allowed. Residents with cars park on the streets surrounding the Freetown. After negotiating with city authorities, Christiania agreed to establish parking areas for residents' own cars on its territory. As of 2005, parking space for only 14 cars had been established within the area. Weapons, hard drugs (i.e. anything other than marijuana and alcohol), biker colours, bulletproof clothing, sales of fireworks, thunderflashes, and stolen goods are also prohibited.

Commonly known as the carnation or clove pink, it is a species of Dianthus. It is probably native to the Mediterranean region but its exact range is unknown due to extensive cultivation for the last 2,000 years. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing up to 80 cm tall. The leaves are glaucous greyish green to blue-green, slender, up to 15 cm long. The flowers are produced singly or up to five together in a cyme; they are around 3–5 cm diameter, and sweetly scented; the original natural flower color is bright pinkish-purple, but cultivars of other colors, including red, white, yellow and green, have been developed. The fragrant, hermaphrodite flowers have a radial symmetry. The four to six surrounding the calyx, egg-shaped, sting-pointed scales leaves are only ¼ as long as the calyx tube. Carnations require well-drained, neutral to slightly alkaline soil, and full sun. They are used for medical purposes, such as for upset stomach and fever. Their fragrance was historically used for vinegar, beer, wine , sauces and salads. 26462

The Colossus of Prora, commonly known as simply "Prora", is a building complex in the municipality of Binz on the island of Rügen, Germany. It was built by Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1939 as part of the Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude or KdF) project. It consisted of eight identical buildings and was 4.5 km in length parallel to the beach, with the surviving structures stretching 3.0 km. Although the buildings were planned as a holiday resort, construction was not completed and they were not used for this purpose. After World War II, the complex found various military uses, first by the Soviet Army, then by the East German Volksarmee, and then by the German Bundeswehr. Today it houses a large youth hostel, a hotel and vacation apartments. The complex has a formal heritage listing as a particularly striking example of Nazi architecture.

Known as "Pugin's Gem", St Giles' Church - built by Augustus Pugin - is the architect's own tribute to inner peace and serenity and a design wonder of the Gothic Revival - being opened just over 150 years ago.

Through the generosity of John Talbot, the 16th Earl of Shrewsbury (the Lord of the Manor at Alton Towers - now one of the country's most famous theme parks and just up the road!), Augustus Welby Pugin was commissioned to design and build a church that would have no rival. To achieve this, the Earl placed unlimited means at Pugin's disposal.

The Church itself was opened and consecrated on the 31st August 1846. The very next day the First Solemn Mass was celebrated amid great pomp and splendour. Historical records tell us that eight carriages bearing the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury and their guests left Alton Towers(when it was a stately home) for the drive to Cheadle. Among the guests were eight Deacons, 53 Priests, 13 Bishops and two Archbishops.

Unfortunately, the 16th Earl died before the Church could be endowed and his heir, the 17th Earl died only four years later. The 18th Earl was not a Roman Catholic and so the upkeep and maintenance of the Church has since fallen upon the parishioners and townspeople of Cheadle.

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Known by Pateira de Fermentelos, it is the largest natural lagoon in the Iberian Peninsula. There are habitats, ecosystems and species with national and international protection status. A fantastic place to visit…

Known as the Jurassic Coast, quite a walk to get here, but well worth it!

Known as the frontal buffalo.

In Hluhluwe Imfolozi Park, established in 1885

Head-torso length 240 to 340 cm (plus 50 to 110 cm long tail), shoulder height 148 to 175 cm, weight 350 to 900 kg.

Bulls are larger and about twice as heavy as females.

A herd consists of dominant females leading the herd, followed by cows with very young calves and young animals in the middle. This also includes bulls of different ages.