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are you joking!!!??? I couldn't believe it when I saw this then when I saw the date on the back and saw it was less than 2 weeks old!!
Steak and Gourmet burgers! It's great being out with the camera in December on Princes Street when darkness falls and suddenly the whole town comes alive with the ....smell of delicacies from all over the World. It's just as well I remembered to wear my tweed underpants as it's a bit parky standing here! I was so tempted to stop for a while and have a burger with mug of mulled wine from the German market but managed to resist - only just!
"Concentration Mr Monty ...focus and posture for the job to be done - you're not here to enjoy yourself", a familiar voice said in my ear!
Okay, so it's Volvo 7900 Hybrid, number 8 (SN13 BDV) peeping it's new rosy red head in to the photo.
Vauxhall Cresta PADX (1961) *Engine 2651cc S6 OHV Production 91,923 (PADX Cresta and Velox)
Registration Number 447 UKO (Maidstone
VAUXHALL SET
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*This car is powered by a non standard 3500cc V8 engine
The twin Velox and upmarket Cresta models replaced the very similar PA Velox, Cresta model of 1957-60. Now with a larger 2651cc engine with wedge shaped combustion chambers. The same basic styling but with larger wheels and tail fins, and new grilles. Mechanically lower geared steering, dual overdrive and Hydramatic available and either servo assisted front disc brakes or full servo assisted drum brakes
Apart from the obvious modifications this car is running a 3500cc engine
Many thanks for a fantabulous
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Shot Brooklands New Years Day Gathering, 01.01.2016 - Ref 111-430
Not content with having one poorly Standard (See previous upload), another one has joined the ranks.
Latterly with the Lancashire United Transport Society, 1978 built Fleetline 511, or 6927 as it will become, is now the second money draining pit in the collection. I question my sanity at times, I really do!
GRG26/5/4 Photographic Portraits of South Australian Soldiers, Sailors and Nurses who took part in World War One
Number 1874 CHISHOLM, Alister Roderick
Army Medical Corps
Place of birth: Inverness Scotland
Residence: Prospect
SRSA ref: GRG26/5/4/1874
Number 47, a battle-scarred red 1967 Volvo 123 GT - 22-60-GL - arriving at a halt in the action.
It was seen competing in the HERO's (Historic Endurance Rallying Organisation's) Land’s End to John O’Groats Reliability Trial and Classic Car Tour (LE JOG) December 2019.
The car was entered by Dirk-Jan Verder and Rinald Kloppenberg.
Any additional information on the vehicles will be welcomed.
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The Black Stone (called الحجر الأسود al-Hajr e Aswad in Arabic) is a Muslim relic, which according to Islamic tradition dates back to the time of Adam and Eve. Historical research claims that the Black Stone marked the Kaaba as a place of worship during pre-Islamic pagan times.[1] It is the eastern cornerstone of the Kaaba, the ancient stone building towards which Muslims pray, in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.[2] The Stone is a dark rock, polished smooth by the hands of millions of pilgrims, that has been broken into a number of fragments cemented into a silver frame in the side of the Kaaba. Although it has often been described as a meteorite, this hypothesis is still under consideration.[3]
Muslim pilgrims circle the Kaaba as part of the Tawaf ritual of the Hajj. Many of them try, if possible, to stop and kiss the Black Stone, emulating the kiss that Islamic tradition records that it received from the Prophet Muhammad.[4] If they cannot reach it, they point to it on each of their seven circuits around the Kaaba.[5]
Contents [hide]
1 Physical description
2 History and tradition
3 Ritual role
4 Scientific origins
5 Notes
6 References
7 External links
[edit] Physical description
The Black Stone, surrounded by its silver frame and the black cloth kiswah on the Kaaba in Mecca.The Black Stone consists of a number of fragments held together by a silver frame, which is fastened by silver nails to the Stone.[6] Some of the smaller fragments have been cemented together to form the seven or eight fragments visible today. The Stone's exposed face measures about 20 centimetres (7.9 in) by 16 centimetres (6.3 in). Its original size is unclear; its recorded dimensions have changed considerably over time, as the stone has been remodelled. In the 10th century, an observer described it as being one cubit (slightly over 2 feet (0.61 m) long). By the early 17th century, it was recorded as measuring 1.5 yards (1.4 m) by 1.33 yards (1.22 m). According to Ali Bey in the 18th century, it was 42 inches (110 cm) high, and Muhammad Ali reported it as being 2.5 feet (0.76 m) long by 1.5 feet (0.46 m) wide.[3]
The Black Stone was first described in Western literature in the 19th and early 20th centuries by European travelers in Arabia, who visited the Kaaba in the guise of pilgrims. Swiss traveler Johann Ludwig Burckhardt visited Mecca in 1814, and provided a detailed description in his 1829 book Travels in Arabia:
It is an irregular oval, about seven inches in diameter, with an undulating surface, composed of about a dozen smaller stones of different sizes and shapes, well joined together with a small quantity of cement, and perfectly well smoothed; it looks as if the whole had been broken into as many pieces by a violent blow, and then united again. It is very difficult to determine accurately the quality of this stone which has been worn to its present surface by the millions of touches and kisses it has received. It appeared to me like a lava, containing several small extraneous particles of a whitish and of a yellow substance. Its colour is now a deep reddish brown approaching to black. It is surrounded on all sides by a border composed of a substance which I took to be a close cement of pitch and gravel of a similar, but not quite the same, brownish colour. This border serves to support its detached pieces; it is two or three inches in breadth, and rises a little above the surface of the stone. Both the border and the stone itself are encircled by a silver band, broader below than above, and on the two sides, with a considerable swelling below, as if a part of the stone were hidden under it. The lower part of the border is studded with silver nails.[7]
Visiting the Kaaba in 1853, Sir Richard Francis Burton noted that:
The colour appeared to me black and metallic, and the centre of the stone was sunk about two inches below the metallic circle. Round the sides was a reddish brown cement, almost level with the metal, and sloping down to the middle of the stone. The band is now a massive arch of gold or silver gilt. I found the aperture in which the stone is, one span and three fingers broad.[7]
Ritter von Laurin, the Austrian consul-general in Egypt, was able to inspect a fragment of the Stone removed by Muhammad Ali in 1817 and reported that it had a pitch-black exterior and a silver-grey, fine-grained interior in which tiny cubes of a bottle-green material were embedded. There are reportedly a few white or yellow spots on the face of the Stone, and it is officially described as being white with the exception of the face.[3]
[edit] History and tradition
A 1315 illustration from the Jami al-Tawarikh, inspired by the Sirah Rasul Allah story of Muhammad and the Meccan clan elders lifting the Black Stone into place.[8]The Black Stone, in Muslim belief, has its origins since the time of Adam. According to the Hadith, "it descended from Paradise whiter than milk, but the sins of the sons of Adam made it black".[9] According to belief, an angel spoke to the great prophet Abraham, and told him to institute the rite of the stone in the Pilgrimage at Mecca.[10]
The Black Stone was revered well before the preaching of Islam by Muhammad. By the time of Muhammad, it was already associated with the Kaaba, a pre-Islamic shrine that was revered as a sacred sanctuary and a site of pilgrimage. In her book, Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong asserts that the Kaaba was dedicated to Hubal, a Nabatean deity, and contained 360 idols which either represented the days of the year, or were effigies of the Arabian pantheon. The Semitic cultures of the Middle East had a tradition of using unusual stones to mark places of worship, a phenomenon which is reflected in the Hebrew Bible as well as the Qur'an.[11] A "red stone" was for the deity of the south Arabian city of Ghaiman, and there was a "white stone" in the Ka'ba of al-Abalat (near the city of Tabala, south of Mecca). Worship at that time period was often associated with stone reverence, mountains, special rock formations, or distinctive trees.[12] The Kaaba marked the location where the sacred world intersected with the profane, and the embedded Black Stone was a further symbol of this as an object that linked heaven and earth.[13]
Islamic tradition holds that the Stone fell from Heaven to show Adam and Eve where to build an altar, which became the first temple on Earth. Muslims believe that the stone was originally pure and dazzling white, but has since turned black because of the sins of the people.[14] Adam's altar and the stone were said to have been lost during Noah's Flood and forgotten. Ibrahim was said to have later found the Black Stone at the original site of Adam's altar when the angel Jibrail revealed it to him.[11] Ibrahim ordered his son Ismael - who was an ancestor of Muhammad - to build a new temple, the Kaaba, in which to embed the Stone.
Muhammad is credited with setting the Black Stone in place in the wall of the Kaaba. A story found in Ibn Ishaq's Sirah Rasul Allah tells how the clans of Mecca renovated the Kaaba following a major fire which had partly destroyed the structure. The Black Stone had been temporarily removed to facilitate the rebuilding work. The clans could not agree on which one of them should have the honour of setting the Black Stone back in its place. They decided to wait for the next man to come through the gate and ask him to make the decision. That individual happened to be the 35-year-old Muhammad, five years before his prophethood. He asked the elders of the clans to bring him a cloth and put the Black Stone in its centre. Each of the clan leaders held the corners of the cloth and carried the Black Stone to the right spot. Then Muhammad himself set the stone in place, satisfying the honour of all of the clans.[15]
The Stone has suffered desecrations and significant damage over the centuries. It is said to have been struck and smashed to pieces by a stone fired from a catapult during the Umayyad siege of Mecca in 756. The fragments were rejoined by 'Abd Allah ibn Zubayr using a silver ligament.[15] In January 930 it was stolen by the Qarmatians, who carried the Black Stone away to their base in Hajar (modern Bahrain). According to Ottoman historian Qutb al-Din, writing in 1857, Qarmatian leader Abu Tahir al-Qarmati set the Black Stone up in his own mosque, the Masjid al-Dirar, with the intention of redirecting the Hajj away from Mecca. However, this failed, and pilgrims continued to venerate the spot where the Black Stone had been.[16]
According to historian Al-Juwayni, the Stone was returned twenty-three years later, in 952. The Qarmatians held the Black Stone for ransom, and forced the Abbasids to pay a huge sum for its return. It was wrapped in a sack and thrown into the Friday Mosque of Kufa, accompanied by a note saying "By command we took it, and by command we have brought it back." Its abduction and removal caused further damage, breaking the stone into seven pieces.[11][17][18] Its abductor, Abu Tahir, is said to have met a terrible fate; according to Qutb al-Din, "the filthy Abu Tahir was afflicted with a gangrenous sore, his flesh was eaten away by worms, and he died a most terrible death."[16]
The Stone has been subjected to other indignities during its history. In the 11th century, a man allegedly sent by the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah attempted to smash the Black Stone, but was killed on the spot, having caused only slight damage.[16] In 1674, according to Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, someone smeared the Black Stone with excrement so that "every one who kissed it retired with a sullied beard". The Shi'ite Persians were suspected of being responsible and were the target of curses from other Muslims for centuries afterwards, though explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton doubted that they were the culprits; he attributed the act to "some Jew or Greek, who risked his life to gratify a furious bigotry."[19]
[edit] Ritual role
Muslim pilgrims jostle for a chance to kiss the Black Stone; if they are unable to kiss the stone because of the crowds, they can point towards the stone on each circuit with their right hand. In each complete circuit a person says "In the name of God, God is Great, God is Great, God is Great and praise be to God". Once people have kissed the stone a guard stands ready to push them away.The Black Stone plays an important role in the central ritual of the Hajj, when pilgrims must walk seven times around the Kaaba in a counter-clockwise direction. They attempt to kiss the Black Stone seven times, once for each circumambulation of the Kaaba, emulating the actions of Muhammad. In modern times, large crowds make it practically impossible for everyone to kiss the stone, so it is currently acceptable for pilgrims to simply point in the direction of the Stone on each of their circuits around the building. Some even say that the Stone is best considered simply as a marker, useful in keeping count of the ritual circumambulations (tawaf) that one has performed.[20] Its black color is deemed to symbolize the essential spiritual virtue of detachment and poverty for God (faqr) and the extinction of ego required to progress towards God (qalb).[11]
Islam strictly prohibits idolatry. Muslims believe that the Stone's role in hajj is simply representative and symbolic nature, not related to belief in the stone itself as having any special power. A well-known hadith records that, when second Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab (580-644) came to kiss the Stone, he said in front of all assembled: "No doubt, I know that you are a stone and can neither harm anyone nor benefit anyone. Had I not seen Allah's Messenger [Muhammad] kissing you, I would not have kissed you."[21] Most Muslims follow the example of Umar: they pay their respects to the Stone in a spirit of trust in Muhammad, not with any inherent belief in the Stone. This, however, does not indicate their disrespect to the Black Stone, but their belief that harm and benefit are in the hands of God, and nothing else. Muhammad Labib al-Batanuni, writing in 1911, commented that the pre-Islamic practice of venerating stones (including the Black Stone) arose not because such stones are "sacred for their own sake, but because of their relation to something holy and respected." [22]
In recent years, however, literalist views of the Black Stone have emerged. A small minority accepts as literally true an allegorical hadith which asserts that "the Stone will appear on the Day of Judgement (Qiyamah) with eyes to see and a tongue to speak, and give evidence in favor of all who kissed it in true devotion, but speak out against whoever indulged in gossip or profane conversations during his circumambulation of the Kaaba".[22]
Writing in Dawn in Madinah: A Pilgrim's Progress, Muzaffar Iqbal described his experience of venerating the Black Stone during a pilgrimage to Mecca:
At the end of the second [circumabulation of the Kaaba], I was granted one of those extraordinary moments which sometimes occur around the Black Stone. As I approached the Corner the large crowd was suddenly pushed back by a strong man who had just kissed the Black Stone. This push generated a backward current, creating a momentary opening around the Black Stone as I came to it; I swiftly accepted the opportunity reciting, Bismillahi Allahu akbar wa lillahi-hamd ["In the name of God, God is great, all praise to God"], put my hands on the Black Stone and kissed it. Thousands of silver lines sparkled, the Stone glistened, and something stirred deep inside me. A few seconds passed. Then I was pushed away by the guard.[23]
[edit] Scientific originsThe nature of the Black Stone has been much debated. It has been described variously as basalt stone, an agate, a piece of natural glass or — most popularly — a stony meteorite. Paul Partsch, the curator of the Austro-Hungarian imperial collection of minerals, published the first comprehensive history of the Black Stone in 1857 in which he favoured a meteoritic origin for the Stone. Robert Dietz and John McHone proposed in 1974 that the Black Stone was actually an agate, judging from its physical attributes and a report by an Arab geologist that the Stone contained clearly discernable diffusion banding characteristic of agates.[3] A significant clue to its nature is provided by an account of the Stone's recovery in 951 AD after it had been stolen 21 years earlier; according to a chronicler, the Stone was identified by its ability to float in water. If this account is accurate, it would rule out the Black Stone being an agate, basalt lava or stony meteorite, though it would be compatible with it being glass or pumice.[6]
Elsebeth Thomsen of the University of Copenhagen proposed a different hypothesis in 1980. She suggested that the Black Stone may be a glass fragment from the impact of a fragmented meteorite that fell some 6,000 years ago at Wabar, a site in the Rub' al Khali desert some 1,100 km east of Mecca. The craters at Wabar are notable for the presence of blocks of silica glass, fused by the heat of the impact and impregnated by beads of nickel-iron alloy from the meteorite (most of which was destroyed in the impact). Some of the glass blocks are made of shiny black glass with a white or yellow interior and gas-filled hollows, which allow them to float on water. Although scientists did not become aware of the Wabar craters until 1932, they were located near a caravan route from Oman and were very likely known to the inhabitants of the desert. The wider area was certainly well-known; in ancient Arabic poetry, Wabar or Ubar (also known as "Iram of the Pillars") was the site of a fabulous city that was destroyed by fire from the heavens because of the wickedness of its king. If the estimated age of the crater is accurate, it would have been well within the period of human habitation in Arabia and the impact itself may have been witnessed.[6] However, a recent (2004) scientific analysis of the Wabar site suggests that the impact event happened much more recently than first thought and might have occurred only within the last 200–300 years.[24] The meteoritic hypothesis is now seen as doubtful, and the British Natural History Museum suggests that it may be a pseudometeorite, i.e., a terrestrial rock mistakenly attributed to a meteoritic origin.[25]
The historic McDonogh Number 11 school building, which is now at the intersection of South Claiborne Avenue and Cleveland Avenue in New Orleans. Built in 1879, it was originally located at the 2000 block of Palmyra Street, but was moved back in 2011 in order to make way for University Medical Center.
Sacret Kingfisher, or:
Alcyone.
In Greek mythology, Alcyone (Ancient Greek: Ἁλκυόνη Halkyónē) was the daughter of Aeolus, either by Enarete or Aegiale. She married Ceyx, son of Eosphorus, the Morning Star.
They were very happy together in Trachis, and according to Pseudo-Apollodorus's account, often sacrilegiously called each other "Zeus" and "Hera".[1] This angered Zeus, so while Ceyx was at sea (going to consult an oracle according to Ovid's account), the god threw a thunderbolt at his ship. Ceyx appeared to Alcyone as an apparition to tell her of his fate, and she threw herself into the sea in her grief. Out of compassion, the gods changed them both into halcyon birds, named after her.
Ovid[2] and Hyginus[3] both also recount the metamorphosis of the pair in and after Ceyx's loss in a terrible storm, though they both omit Ceyx and Alcyone calling each other Zeus and Hera (and Zeus's resulting anger) as a reason for it. Ovid also adds the detail of her seeing his body washed up onshore before her attempted suicide.
Ovid and Hyginus both also make the metamorphosis the origin of the etymology for "halcyon days", the seven days in winter when storms never occur. They state that these were originally the seven days each year (either side of the shortest day of the year) during which Alcyone (as a kingfisher) laid her eggs and made her nest on the beach and during which her father Aeolus, god of the winds, restrained the winds and calmed the waves so she could do so in safety. The phrase has since become a term used to describe a peaceful time generally.
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Model "Truck T12 MkII" Mack Granite is build with LEGO® in scale 1:17,5 and motorized using LEGO® Power Functions. It is a model of a Mack Granite 6x4 day cab truck. Both the looks and specifications are adjusted to match lowboy ”Trailer Tr4 MkII” and the optional jeep and booster ”Trailer Tr4 MkII Add1”. This rather heavy lowboy trailer combination, which might include a load, requires some extra power.
The truck features: solid axle suspension on all axles of which the rear axle uses tandem bogie suspension, PF powered driving with power transmitted independently to both rear axles, reduced speed to increase power/torque, Ackerman geometry on steering axle, Servo powered steering, fully functional fifth wheel, fifth wheel slider, modeled engine, detailed cabin interior and 3 light units.
Even though this truck is designed to go with ”Trailer Tr4 MkII” plus ”Trailer Tr4 MkII Add1” lowboy combination in the first place, it doesn’t necessarily mean it can't be used with other available trailers as well. If you prefer to give it a flat bed or log trailer, you are free to do so!
If a different trailer is used it might be useful to give this truck's drivetrain a various gear setup. For this a separate PDF file is available that tells you what gear reductions to use with which trailer. It also shows you how to do so. Evidently the torque will be reduced, but with lighter weight trailers that is no problem at all.
This model is another custom design by Ingmar Spijkhoven AKA 2LegoOrNot2Lego that comes with building instructions and inventory/parts list!
You can build it yourself! To do so you can buy the Building Instructions. Early in the building process you will see what it is that you are building. You will be very excited from the moment you start the build of "Truck T12 MkII" till you finish it with about 360 different parts totaling 1900 pieces.
As one of the designer's trademarks this truck model is provided with full solid axle suspension on all axles, so including the front steered axle. Regular LEGO® Technic shock absorbers proved too large. Instead Rubber Belts are used, to achieve this the movement is converted using a lever constructions.
What is particularly new to this model is the double rear axle setup. This new setup allows easy axle and wheel travel. Because it doesn't use any shock absorbing the wheels and axles do not have to deal with any force. It is based around the concept of the walking beam suspension.
This Mack Granite model is powered by a Mack MP8 engine which is visible with the hood opened. This power source is an inline 6 cylinder engine with a displacement of 13.0 L. The horsepower range is from 425 up to 505 HP and this engine has a torque range from 1570 to 1760.
This detailed MP8 engine is nice to build and to give it those realistic looks a total number of 55 parts is used. It is detailed with for example engine oil dipstick, fan, fan belt, pulleys, hoses, oil filters including by-pass oil filter and a turbo.
Together with much more engine bay details which are added the looks are phenomenal. These include break fluid reservoir, windshield washer container, internal air cleaner system with tubing and steering shaft.
A lot of detail is added to the cabin's interior as well in the colors Dark Bluish Gray with some Reddish Brown details. By opening this model’s doors one can access the cabin. The interior's colors, which is quite dark, really standout because of the truck's body work mainly Orange color.
For the driver's comfort the interior has gauges, switches and comfortable seats. Other details are a angled dash and gauge panel, a steering wheel and a gear shift.
Frontier cabin at Old Faithful Snow Lodge. This is one with a sink but no toilet or shower facilities. Yellowstone National park has accommodations for all manner of luxury and wilderness experiences.
Opening weekend.
Shooting with Cocktail at the Mediaharbour in Düsseldorf.
Strobist setup:
- 430 EXII @ 1/16 24mm through Westcott Micro Apollo with blue gel cam left
- 580 EXII @ 1/4 24mm through 50" Westcott Apollo Softbox
- EOS 5D MKII @ 1/12 ISO 1000
- EF 70-200 2.8 L IS @ 200mm f/2.8
- triggered with Phottix Tetra
vader:"Palpa, i'll be working late tonight, im not coming back for dinner..."
Stormie:"Wrong Number!"
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Life had been tough for the owners of the Free Spirit Cruise Boat since just before Xmas 2021 when their long-time regular wharf at Waterline Boatshed unexpectedly became unavailable.
After a year of liaising with other boatsheds, Mid Coast Council and the NSW Government in the hope of securing another wharf from where they could pick up and set down passengers, it looked like time was running out for the very popular small business to secure a permanent wharf in Wallis Lake. To make matters doubly difficult the owners were advised by Mid Coast Council that they could not legally pick up and set down passengers at any of Wallis Lake's public wharves with the council apparently being unable to assist the Free Spirit Cruises business to stay in business.
The Free Spirit had been operating on Forster's Wallis Lake for more than 28 years and had been one of the region's top tourism operators.
Despite not having a permanent base wharf to operate the business from, Free Spirit Cruises somehow managed to continue to operate thanks to support from several local boatsheds who allowing them to casually pick up from their wharves. With the situation becoming increasingly untenable, in late 2022 the owners of the Number 1 Boatshed approached the owners of the Free Spirit with an offer of purchase the vessel. The offer was accepted and the boat now resides and operates out of Number 1 Boatshed on Little Street Forster.
Forster's other very successful whale watching cruise boat - the 'Amaroo', which had operated in Forster since the 1970's, also had its own problems in operating viably during much of 2022and 2023.
The Amaroo had been unable to operate regularly due to the channel route that the vessel needed to pass through to get to sea being so silted up that the vessel could no longer reliably negotiate the sand bars.
Representations to Mid Coast Council and the State Government over several years failed to convince the then LNP state government to allocate funds to enable dredging of the channel.
The end result, late in 2023, was that the Amaroo was sold out of Wallis Lake. An attempt by the owners to run a smaller rubber ducky type whale watching vessel soon failed and it too was sold.
Only time will tell if the Amaroo can again ply the waters of Wallis Lake but that depends entirely on a commitment by authorities to keep navigation channels in the lake open.
This image of the Free Spirit moored at Boatshed Number One was taken on December 20th 2022 on the evening of an on water ownership transition party attended by former and continuing staff. The new owners were also in attendance having formally acquired the business just a few days earlier. All the old staff will continue to be employed by the new owners which means no jobs were lost due to the sale.
[Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, Wales]
[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.
Notes:
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J--foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.
Print no. "10516".
Forms part of: Views of landscape and architecture in Wales in the Photochrom print collection.
Subjects:
Wales--Bangor.
Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Views of landscape and architecture in Wales (DLC) 2001700652
More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.07355
Call Number: LOT 13408, no. 019 [item]
Summer - so nice for the people, not so nice for the underlying ecosystems, here where i am, only a few month s back it was flooded!
Now look at it.!
raw, bare and exposed! - and we're not into summer for another few days : (
Number 96, a Yellow 1971 TVR 2500 - GGY 123J - entered by Richard Morris, seen between runs at Doune Hill Climb and MG Show, September 2023.
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Ford GT Heritage Edition.
I saw this car in a private garage of the owner. The owner has also a Maybach 57S, Bugatti Veyron, Slr Mclaren 722 edition and a Shelby Supersnake wich has 750 Bhp!
(can't tell you where this is so I can't add this photo to the map.)
(Psarocolius wagleri)
Valle de Antón
Panamá
My species number 434 on birdsby.me/ (username:jvverde)
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All my photos are now organized into sets by the country where they were taken, by taxonomic order, by family, by species (often with just one photo for the rarer ones), and by the date they were taken.
So, you may find:
- All the photos for this trip Panamá (2014) (87)
- All the photos for this order PASSERIFORMES (3553)
- All the photos for this family Icteridae (Icterídeos) (77)
- All the photos for this species Psarocolius wagleri (2)
- All the photos taken this day 2014/02/11 (13)
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A MARC express is whisking along northbound at Glendale on the #2 main with the 4903 leading the 4902. June 29, 2015. Nikon F100, Fujichrome RVP-100.
On Commercial Street Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini 2, number 333 (SN59 BFP) is the second vehicle to appear colour branded for Service 22 and fleet numbers 330 to 350 are the last of Lothian's Gemini's to be repainted predominantly in Weinrot und Weiss - a modern interpretation of the famous madder red and white, with gold trimmings. The project to return Edinburgh's buses to this livery began in April 2010 and more than fours year later
there are just 55 of the 650 public service fleet left to do. Each and everyone of them have been photographed and written about and please click on my special album Stuart's Madder Family:
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Commercial Street is a street in Leith, North Edinburgh with a high concentration of businesses including graphic designers, recruitment agencies, restaurants, marketing agencies, architects and charities. In the last twenty years it has received huge investment to regenerate old warehouses and factories like this one in the photo. Luxury flats and state-of-the art offices are common place and smart restaurants owned by Martin Fisher, Malmaison and other great names in dining are to be found in this area. Just behind the building here is the Scottish Government's
offices for civil servants and along from their lives the Royal Britannia boat.
Commercial Street was also once in the heart of Edinburgh's 'red light' district where ladies of the night could be sought out by visitors and residents in Edinburgh and beyond.
Aston Martin DB11 V12 (2017-on) Engine 5204cc Twin Turbo V12 AE31
Registration Number4 TSH (Cherished number first allocated from Berwickshire)
ASTON MARTIN SET
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Designed by Miles Nurnburger (exterior) and Matt Hill (interior) under chief designer Marek Reichman the DB 11 debuted at the 2016 Geneva Motorshow as a replacement for the DB9. The new design features new roof strakes that separate the body from the roof, available in black or body colour, and the "Aeroblade" intakes in the front strakes. The bonnet is a 'clam-shell' design made from a single piece of aluminium. The DB11 does not use the older Aston Martin VH platform but makes use of an all-new riveted and adhesive-bonded aluminium platform with more cockpit space. Production officially started on 28 September 2016.
At launch the only available engine was an all-new 5,204 cc twin turbocharged V12, called the AE31 of 608bhp.making it the first turbocharged series-production Aston Martin. The car is equipped with a rear-mounted 8-speed automatic transmission manufactured by ZF Friedrichshafen.
The DB11 V8 joined the lineup in early 2017, powered by a 4.0-litre Mercedes-Benz M177 twin-turbocharged V8 engine of 503bhp, developed by Mercedes-AMG, offering a weight saving of 254lbs over the V12.
The V12 was superceeded in May 2018 by the even more potent DB11 AMR, with 630bhp rom its 5.2-litre AE31 twin-turbocharged V12 engine. Other unique features include a more aggressive exhaust note in Sport & Sport+ mode, black roof, dark interior trim and new 3.5 kg lighter, 20-inch forged alloy wheels. It is believed that this was brought about by the V8 performing better than expected narrowing the gap between the two models, which has been redressed by this more powerful variant.
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
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Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
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And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
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Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
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Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Elliot McGucken Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography