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Nelson Mandela being photographed by Adrian Steirn at his home in Qunu, Eastern Cape for the 21 Icons project. From left, Harriet Pratten, Gary Van Wyk, Nelson Mandela, Richard Gregory, Damon Hyland and Adrian Steirn. Date 13:09:2011.
Today the We're Here group members are visiting the Muffler Men and other Roadside Statues, also cool signs group.
I had to Google Muffler Men as well as being inventive today.
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This 17th Century British Royal Navy Dockyard, has been restored and is now a major tourest attraction. It was secure against attack and provided an excellent shelter from Hurricanes.
..... chainsaw sculpture of Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, in the village of his birth, Burnham Thorpe.
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Nelson Mandela 1918-2013
Overleden op 5 december 2013
R.I.P.
Het standbeeld van Nelson Mandela, gemaakt door Arie Schippers, staat nog niet zo lang binnen de grenzen van de International Zone in The Hague
Necrologie in de NRC, geschreven door Bram Vermeulen
BR Coal Sector Class 37/7 37896 was recorded at Nelson & Llancaiach with MGR 7C91, the 17:36 Deep Navigation Colliery to Aberthaw Power Station.
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UP L-PG04 ducks under the 4-track CNW signal Gantry at Nelson with GP15 #Y705 and a dozen fridges from Rochelle. Nelson was a signal enthusiasts' paradise, featuring an array of searchlight bridges, masts, and even a coaling tower . It was one of the few places in mainline America you could spend an entire day shooting and not get the same angle twice. Nelson was cut over in its entirety in 2023—ending 75 years of searchlight signalling on the former CNW main
In a scene that has been repeated thousands of times shows GNRR GP38 #2000 leading the southbound Tate-Elizabeth local coming through the small town of Nelson,GA. Like most of the small mountain towns in Pickens County, Nelson was created around the marble mining industry. The industry was/is so huge here that it is nicknamed 'the Marble Capital of the World'. Tate Elementary School is built out of marble. Many of the churches at the end of the line in Marietta were built from the marble mined in these towns and shipped by rail. The statue of Abraham Lincoln from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. was even built from the marble mined here. Most of the marble is white, but there is also very rare pink marble and is one of the few places in the world where pink marble is found. The marble is also used for tombstones for the United States Military. Thank you Wikipedia!
Apparently Frances "Fanny" Nelson, Viscountess Nelson, and wife of Admiral Horatio Nelson was so p-ssed off at him always being away fighting and harassing the French fleets that when she got word that he had landed at Portsmouth and was on his way home for some R and R she got all his underwear, slit them up the front, and hung them out as 'flags' in the Tower hamlet where they lived. She was such a clever woman, conversant with Naval and nautical ways, that she not only knew how to use a sextant to work out her position from the sun and stars, but also how to signal by flag using semaphore.
Her hero husband spotted his home from afar and could see the gaily coloured 'flags' from where he was but he could make no sense of them where they hung from the lanyards.. His unease grew to real concern as the carriage got closer, and he could hear the footmen and carriage driver (as well as a couple of drunken Venetian gondoliers), guffaw and giggle, but he only had one good eye, and even that was a bit iffy. He grabbed his telescope and in between the jolts and lurches of the horse-drawn carriage he managed to read the flags one at a time. He read, "Your tea is in the oven and please can you walk the dog and tidy up the house a bit before you go to bed. I'm off out partying with my girlfriends, and I'll be back late. And I'll be tired so don't get any ideas of sex, even if it is nine months since you were last in our bed. You might be desperate but I'm not. Our window cleaner has been doing a great job while you have been losing yourself an arm and a leg. See you later, love!"
Well, apparently Horatio was lost for words, and immediately ripped the 'flags' down the moment he got in the front door of the now empty house. He swore the carriage driver and footmen to silence. Unfortunately, the experience hurt him badly, especially when he found out the window cleaner was French. But it is to England's benefit that this event scarred Lord Nelson so deeply for he turned on all things French with a vengeance, destroying their fleets wherever he found them on the oceans. Inside he secretly seethed, "You f--- with my wife, and I will f--- you!" It was with this rattling round in his head, that as he approached his final encounter with the French at the Battle of Trafalgar, reminded of his wife's antics with his underwear, he came up with the now famous flag signal, with expletives deleted, that said " England expects every man to do his duty!" And so, as he lay dying on the deck of HMS Victory, shot by a French sniper hiding in the rigging, he demanded, "Kiss me Hardy!" The poor man was only doing his duty.
For those of a sceptical nature I can at least say this is Nelson's monument on Calton Hill overlooking the great city of Edinburgh
Series of ten. Fort Nelson has a healthy family of Kestrels (5 this year). The juveniles were happy to loaf around doing very little. I visited them several times over the holiday and took so many pics, hard to choose from. Not often you see a Kestel chased by a Swallow.
When we were on the 6 day tour from Capetown to Durbin, our guide took us past the home of Nelson Mandela, where we saw his burial place on top of the hill near his house. We then went to the museum which was nearby.
Waiting near the entrance to Deep Navigation Colliery* is 37 123. The crew have decided to de-camp for a cup of tea in the nearby hut. 22/09/1983.
37123 was built at Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Ltd and entered service 25/04/1963 as D6823, a further re-numbering took place in 1986 when it became 37679, it was withdrawn from service 28/02/2007 the loco is preserved.
*In spite of a 'good' weather forecast the day was dark and overcast, not the best for dear old Agfa!
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Nelson Atkins reflecting pool just before sunset.
This is a 3 shot bracket blended in Photomatix. It started out with a pretty heavy HDR look and then I blended that with another less HDR looking shot by reducing opacity. This is maybe not my favorite look in the whole world but sometimes I like to change things up every now and then.
The Union Pacific 4014 has just cleared the coal tower at Nelson, IL and is preparing to cross the Rock River Bridge. A eastbound calls clear of the bridge, 4014 acknowledges and highballs into Sterling. This is the last shot of our aerial chase. We will land at Whiteside airport, Dad will pick me up in the truck and we will roll over into Iowa and chase the old fashioned way.