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Less than perfect Panorama.
I should own up to some fairly big photoshop.
1) tweaking local contrast,
2) fixing stitching errors and
3) airbrushing out obstructive station furniture.
Perhaps less well known than the tales of smuggling more usually associated with Brandy Cove are the two stories of the supernatural connected with the beach. The first concerns a certain old woman who went by the name Old Moll.
Old Moll was said to have made her home in one of Brandy Coves' caves, but spent much of her time wandering through the many small villages and farms on the Gower Peninsula. Old Moll had the reputation of being a witch and of being cursed. Whenever she travelled through a farm, its cattle would fall ill or lame, and villagers who spied her ragged form would soon fall upon some bad luck or dire misfortune. On one occasion Old Moll is said to have heard a small child laughing at her haggard appearance. Thereafter the child was plagued with the cruellest of nightmares.
The people of Gower became so afraid of Old Moll that they made a collection of silver coins and ornaments and took these to a blacksmith to be fired into silver bullets. Arming themselves with these, a gang of vigilantes went out towards Brandy Cove in search of Old Moll - meaning to rid themselves of her evil forever. Discovering her on one of Gower's many commons, they fired at her but Old Moll turned herself into a hare to flee more quickly from her pursuers.
Old Moll managed to escape from the gang but not without taking a shot to her leg. Nonetheless, the villagers had cause for celebration as, no doubt fearful for her life, Old Moll was never again spotted on the peninsula.
Whilst Gower folk rejoiced, however, farmers and villagers in other regions of Glamorgan were less than jubilant, as Old Moll made a new home for herself in their hills and valleys further inland - her bad luck spreading wherever her limping form was spotted.
Mamie Stuart
A later tale of the supernatural connected with Brandy Cove has a chilling link with a real life murder that took place on or near the beach during the winter of 1919. First reported by a couple who were walking along the cliffs above Brandy Cove one evening - stories of a woman's screams which echoed through the caves of the beach soon became common talk amongst the surrounding villages of Pennard, Bishopston and Caswell.
These tales continued, with the locals becoming too afraid to visit the beach after dark, until 1961 when matters came to a sudden head after several youths from Bishopston decided to thoroughly explore the caves of Brandy Cove. It did not take them too long to uncover a horrifying secret. There, hidden behind a wall of boulders in an old lead mine, they discovered the skeletal remains of Mamie Stuart - a young woman who had disappeared from the area more than forty years earlier. Although her murderer was never traced, evidence does strongly suggest that the young chorus girl died at the hands of her jealous bigamist husband George Shotton.
With so many years having passed since her death, there were no soft tissue or body organs present on the skeleton when it was discovered and so no actual cause of death could be ascertained from Mamie's remains. What was easily discernible, however, was that her body had been inexpertly cut into three large pieces before being walled into the cave. The resulting police investigation immediately brought up George Shotton as the chief, if not only, suspect in the case.
Unfortunately, Shotton was never brought to trial as he died of natural causes in 1958, aged 78 years - just three years before the discovery of Mamie's remains. Despite the fact that justice was never seen to have been done over her murder, no ghostly cries were heard again at Brandy Cove. Sadly Mamie's remains were never buried and were last seen in 2007 in a box in Cardiff University but since then have vanished.
A less sweet variation of Martinez cocktail, made with Old Tom gin, is a precursor to the martini. Ransom is a "historically accurate revival" from Oregon, USA, while Hayman's uses recipe of "great-grandfather in 1863" from London, England. Cocktails made with dry vermouth have a lighter reddish hue than with sweet vermouth.
The sweetness of Hayman's gin is pleasantly evident using dry vermouth, while that of Ransom is much less so.
• 2.5 oz. (80 mL) Old Tom gin
• 0.5 oz. (20 mL) dry vermouth
• 1 tsp. (5 mL) Maraschino
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters
Stir with ice in mixing glass and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
(Liboré, le 13 janvier 2013)
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"Laveurs" de linge, au bord des ghats inondés, à Varanasi, il y a un an... Excellente journée photo, sauvée par Anne qui me prête un appareil photo après que j'aie emporté par erreur une batterie vide.
She's my cherry pie
Cool drink of water, such a sweet surprise
Tastes so good, makes a grown man cry
Sweet Cherry Pie, yeah
Well, swingin' on the front porch, swingin' on the lawn
Swingin' where we want 'cause there ain't nobody home
Swingin' to the left and swingin' to the right
If I think about baseball, I'll swing all night, yeah
Yeah, yeah
A decidedly nawty dress in 15 bold colours, 3 metal choices, materials and shine!
There are no buttons, nor a zipper, this dress is held up by pierced nipples. You know you want it! You know you’re a little nawty!
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Less well known than Tutankhamun's burial but equally mostly intact was the tomb of his great-grandparents, Yuya and Thuya, the parents of Queen Tiye (and grandparents of Akhenaten).As the in-laws of Pharaoh Amenophis III they were given a burial in the Valley of the Kings, and though smaller than most royal tombs it nonetheless yielded a treasure-trove of artefacts when it was discovered in 1905.
The tomb had been entered by robbers in antiquity but they were presumably disturbed as the mummies were still intact within their coffins and the funerary goods including a large amount of furniture also remained. It was the most complete ancient Egyptian tomb discovered until Tutankhamun's seventeen years later.
For more on this remarkable couple and their tomb see below:-
I made the same dress on Littlefee size, after Pukifee size and now I made the same dress for pukipuki size. xaxa
This is a view of Mies van der Rohe's TD Centre in Toronto. By the time it was completed in 1969 Mies van der Rohe's tower dominated the entire downtown core. It stood in stark contrast to the buildings around it and was an illustration of his famous dictum: "Less is More".
TD Centre was still under construction when Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" was released. To my child's eye it reminded me of the black slab in that film.
During the 1960's the Toronto Board of Education included an aerial shot of downtown with every class photo. It allowed students to track their progress through the elementary school system against the construction of skyscrapers in the downtown core. It was an example of the how this town once embraced the modernist sensibility.
Louis Usabal Y Hernandez Madge Lessing (1866-1932) was very successful as a stage actress at the end of the 19th century. Her film career began in Germany in 1913.Her first movie was "Wo ist Colett?" , it followed the movie "Die blaue Maus".When Madge Lessing went to England she concentrated to the theater again.
Wintergarten Theater, Berlin (1880-1944).
After 56 years of shows and a final performance on 21 June 1944 the Wintergarten is destroyed in a bombing raid. The most spectacular variety theatre Germany has ever known lies in ruins.
Mural seen at 131 West 2nd Street in Flint, Michigan. Please tag if you know the artist.
Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
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Taken at the foot of Coniston Old Man in the Lake District in Sept 2014. There was actually a lot of colour in the sky and I got some pretty spectacular sunset shots. But, after post-processing a whole bunch of them and doing what I could to bring out the vibrant blues and greens and orange tones I just felt that sometimes "less is more". So I desaturated this one to bring out the earthiness and give it a more "painted" feel.
Vi esta película por primera vez durante un verano muy caluroso. La vi no porque me entusiasmara la historia (había leído el libro y no me había parecido nada del otro mundo...) sino porque estaba Robert Downey Jr. Su trabajo como Julian es demoledor. El es lo mejor que tiene "Less than zero". Y por él la posteo. Por él y por Pablo Lombardo, un amigo que admiraba mucho a Robert. Nunca llegamos a hablar con él de esta película pero seguro que coincidiría conmigo.
Sé que él se sentía muy cercano a Robert por muy loco que esto parezca: habían nacido el mismo día del mismo mes del mismo año. Incluso había llegado a comparar sus respectivas cartas natales. Y cuando nos lo contó, nos quedamos muy impresionados. Siempre vamos a recordar ese detalle. Siempre lo vamos a recordar a él. Siempre.
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Esta película es para vos, Pablo.
Menos que cero (Less than Zero)
Marek Kanievska
1987
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