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One of a number of adverts from the c.1929 "Official Handbook" to the County Borough of Dudley in Worcestershire produced on behalf of the Corporation by the publisher E. j. Burrow & Co. Ltd. The adverts show the then relatively prosperous industrial and manufacturing town that was still, in many ways, closely allied to the traditional Black Country industries based on the centuries old coal, iron and steel enterprises.
The Earl of Dudley's works at Round Oak near Brierley Hill, in Staffordshire, had been established as an iron works in 1857 but, with a view to a shift to steel manufacturing, the company was reformed in 1891 as a publci company but it struggled financially and in 1897 it was reformed again under the Dudley family control as the The Earl of Dudley's Round Oak Works Ltd. In post-war years after Nationalisation it returned to private ownership under Tube Investments before, like the rest of the industry, returning to government ownership in 1967. Finally British Steel closed the plant in 1982. The site now forms part of the Merry Hill shopping centre.
One of the old railway carriages which are used as beach huts on the Duver, St Helens, Isle of Wight
Leverett, Massachusetts
Listed 1/29/2014
Reference Number: 13001131
The East Leverett Historic District is significant under Criteria A and C at the local level. Under Criterion A it is significant as a late 18th_ and 19th -century agricultural and industrial village whose residents followed the occupational patterns of their time, working as both farmers and in the grist, saw, textile, and turning mills that over time occupied the waterpower sites on Roaring Brook in Leverett. Theirs was a mixed economy, typical of the small towns of western Massachusetts where reliance ole ly n agriculture or industry was not wise or possible due to the nature of the soils and irregular landscap available for fanning, and to the limited size of the streams and rivers to power machinery. The district is significant for its representative shift from a 19 1h -century mixed economy to that of a second home destination in the early 20th century, and then back to a permanent residential district from the mid 20th century, this time to University of Massachusetts faculty and staff. These are some of the broad patterns of history in western Massachusetts represented in East Leverett. Under Criterion C, the district is significant for the examples of late 18t- through 191h -century architectural styles and building forms. Federal buildings in good condition are found among the Greek Revival, Italianate, and Colonial Revival style buildings that constitute the majority of the district and are also in good condition. A former schoolhouse, a former store, a former mill, houses, and outbuildings are varied building types remaining in the district. The buildings are, by and large, modest in scale and ornament, but were well constructed and remain well preserved.
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Championsship Cup Series CCS and ASRA racing at New Jersey Motorsports Park on August 13th 2011. Also includes ASRA and USGPRU.
Ivan Misko’s cosmic scope
Exhibition of works by well-known sculptor and People’s Artist of Belarus hosted by National Art Museum
By Victor Mikhailov
More than 40 works by the artist are on show, including sculptural portraits of such distinguished cosmonauts as Yury Gagarin, Piotr Klimuk, Vladimir Kovalenok, Valentina Tereshkova and their colleagues from France, Bulgaria, Syria, Japan and other countries. The exhibition includes pencil sketches depicting images of cosmonauts and a number of photos portraying sculptures mounted and stored in Mr. Misko’s studio.
Belarusian-Russian cosmonaut Colonel Oleg Novitsky, of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre, attended the opening. Since 2012, he has participated in a six-month expedition to the International Space Station, on the crew of the ‘Soyuz TMA-06M’, returning to Earth in March of this year.
Ivan Misko has been working on the theme of space since the first-ever cosmonaut Yury Gagarin entered orbit. “The flight of a cosmonaut is an act of knowing the unknown. My aspiration is to know the soul of a cosmonaut,” the artist explains, adding that he finds cosmonauts like everyone else, but ‘a little bit kinder’ and ‘with stronger nerves’!
At a press conference before the exhibition opening, the sculptor announced his plans for a new project on the capital’s Kosmonavtov Street, saying, “It will be a huge bas-relief devoted to space. There will be three figures placed before the stars: Piotr Klimuk, Vladimir Kovalenok and Vladimir Novitsky.”
He added that he is preparing for a much bigger exhibition at the Museum of Minsk History — planned to open by next Cosmonautics Day, on April 12th, 2014.
An album devoted to the life and work of Ivan Misko was presented at the opening of the exhibition, containing biographical details as well as various pictures of his works.
Of course, it’s always preferable to see a sculptor’s works life-sized, so the latest exhibition is not to be missed. His studio has a rich history, being housed in a 19th century former stable, in which he took residence 40 years ago. The first Belarusian cosmonaut, Piotr Klimuk, became the sculptor’s first model in this studio and was the first to sign a mirror brought by the sculptor from his house. Each member of the Star City space crew has signed it over the years, since Mr. Misko was once a constant guest at Star City, being its resident sculptor. Like a real secret-service agent, he was sworn to secrecy.
Ivan Misko is the most famous space sculptor across post-Soviet territory, having created likenesses of every Soviet cosmonaut — and others besides. His studio boasts a door of cosmonauts’ autographs, as at Baikonur cosmodrome.
A sculptural portrait of Gagarin was Misko’s first in his space series, which he began to sculpt on the day of the cosmonaut’s death. He worked on the portrait in his old studio, situated in the art museum. Today, this first bust of Gagarin is mounted in the legend’s home country.
In fact, Mr. Misko began to sculpt while in the army. He gained a place at art school, with painting as his specialty, but failed to take up his place, lacking accommodation. After serving in a tank regiment, he began studying under Andrey Bembel, a master of sculpture; he has been in love with the genre now for 55 years.
Ivan Misko headed the Republican Monumental Council for 12 years. Now, he is responsible for town planning in the Minsk Region and manages the Regional Monumental-expert Council. He donates all his works to the country and his studio is likely to become a museum, with himself as its first employee! He is unique in having dedicated his artistic life to the space theme, using not only sculpture but sketching and photography to capture the character of each brave cosmonaut. Among them are Piotr Klimuk, Vladimir Kovalenok, Alexey Leonov and Valentina Tereshkova. He has even depicted Anna Timofeevna Gagarina, with whom he enjoyed a great friendship.
All cosmonauts arriving in Minsk have visited Ivan Misko’s studio: Georgy Beregovoy and Valery Ryumin, Vitaly Sevastianov and Victor Savinykh, Yury Romanenko and Yury Glazkov, Tamayo Mйndez from Cuba and Mirosław Hermaszewski from Poland. An especially great friendship has united the sculptor with Piotr Klimuk and Vladimir Kovalenok: his fellow citizens.
Georgy Beregovoy once joked that, since Baikonur had a door where all cosmonauts placed their signatures, Mr. Misko should do the same. The joke became a reality and the door is now on show alongside the sculptures, photographs, memorable souvenirs and other artefacts, at the National Art Museum.
Over the years, other guests started adding their signatures, including Alexander Lukashenko, during his time as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet.
As a young boy, Ivan Misko heard the name Star City and yearned to visit. Of course, his dream later came true. Within a few decades, the sculptor was an annual visitor to his second studio, where he created his portraits of cosmonauts and learnt about their training schedules and personal lives. He once obtained a permit to try out the training simulators, which left him feeling drunk for two days. One simulator imposed the illusion of flying around the globe. Following his experience, he chatted with American astronauts, who admitted that it’s easy to become depressed or irritable during space missions; accordingly, selection is conducted carefully.
Ivan even took saunas with the cosmonauts, who were able to spend whole days in the heat. Of course, it was part of their training to endure high temperatures. While working in Star City, the sculptor made a great number of masks of cosmonauts’ faces, before their flights. Each was surprised on afterwards viewing the results, which seem to capture a moment in time and revive their memories of each mission.
Naturally, Mr. Misko’s depiction of Yury Gagarin is among his most prized. On hearing a radio announcement of his tragic death, Mr. Misko surrounded himself with photos of the first cosmonaut and began a sculpture of the heroic pilot. He later left it outside to dry and, on returning home after an hour, was met by fire-engines extinguishing his burning barn. The sculpture was damaged (harking to Yuri’s own death during a fighter jet crash) but later restored, and resides still in his studio.
In due time, the sculptor met Yury’s mother, Anna Timofeevna Gagarina, who visited his studio more than once. One of his portraits of Anna, cast in bronze, is mounted in the homeland of the first cosmonaut. He recollects, “Her kind, clever eyes are still in my memory.” The great lady was always warmly welcomed by cosmonauts.
Yury’s mother presented Mr. Misko with some of her son’s photos, one bearing the inscription: ‘For Ivan Yakimovich, with wishes for success. July, 1979 A. Gagarina’. He also met the mothers of Pyotr Klimuk and Vladimir Kovalenok, embodying them in his Mothers of Heroes.
Sculptural portraits and compositions devoted to cosmonauts can be found not only in Ivan Misko’s studio and Star City but in each of the brave crew members’ homeland and, often, further abroad.
Mr. Misko’s passion has driven his lifelong love affair with space, having been rarely compensated for his frequent trips, with their associated costs. Many of his works were made without having been ordered and with no guaranteed payment. Sadly, it’s been three years since his last visit to Star City, leaving some works unfinished and, frustratingly, preventing him from meeting the cosmonauts training for their new flights. In fact, his next dream is not to take his exhibition to Star City but to allow it to tour the native countries of his cosmonaut subjects.
More than once, museums have asked to buy particular works but he refuses, being reluctant to see his collection broken up. However, for many years, he has been hoping for a sponsor to come forward, willing to take the whole collection. It would certainly create a unique feature, drawing visitors from far and wide.
The sculptor is currently working on a bust of Oleg Novitsky, the third Belarusian in space, who helped crew the ISS. “I find it easy to work with Oleg; time passes quickly while we’re chatting,” smiles Mr. Misko. “In honour of the exhibition opening, Oleg gave me a photo of Minsk, taken as the space station flew over Belarus.”
Ivan has worked not only with Belarusians and Russians but with cosmonauts from Poland, Cuba, Romania, Mongolia, France, Germany, Bulgaria, Syria, Great Britain, Vietnam, Austria, Japan, Afghanistan and India, creating works which are well-known far beyond the borders of Belarus.
One is a common factor of every number, but it is quite difficult to see at a glance that 101 is an odd number when it is made from ones. This is one of the reasons why we can not usually look closely at numbers in their fundamental display as a line of ones. Instead of 1 we use X. X is a common factor to all numbers. It is one of two equal parts of an even number, and one of three parts if it is an odd number: one part is one, and the other two parts are equal, since one is what separates the odd from the even. So 5 minus 1 divided into two equal parts is 2 and 2 is also the X of 4. Every even number is 2X, and every odd number is 2X+1.
Any even number is divisible by two till we arrive to the first two which, divided into two, gives us one , which proves that the skeleton of natural numbers is the odd numbers.
Two divides the odd numbers into halves, but leaves the even numbers whole, they receive a special treatment from it.
Two doubled again and again as long as we wish - remains even , as do four and eight which are actually versions of two.
Two is made of two ones each of which is one of two , while in half we see the opposite: the two is part of one .
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Mantua, Ohio
Listed 9/4/2013
Reference Number: 13000682
The Mantua Center School is eligible for the National Register under Criteria A as representative of the continuing evolution of the educational process in the small community of Mantua Center. Within Portage County twenty-one township schools were constructed between 1913 and 1920 as a result of the centralization of township one-room schools into spacious, centrally located facilities. Mantua Center School was an early example in the county and one of only five that remain. At the time of its design and construction, the community ensured that its new building included the latest technology in fire safety and sanitation facilities. The school continued to be a central social as well as educational facility in the community, seeing continuous use as a school building through various consolidations encouraged by the state and pushed by the Portage County superintendent of schools. Finally, post-World War II population increase and educational trends of the 1950's and 60's prompted the planning of an addition to the school, which was completed in 1964. The school is also eligible under Criteria C as a good example of an early twentieth century Neo-Classical Revival educational facility. The restrained and dignified features of the Mantua Center School reflected its status in a small rural community and served as inspiration to the community members as well as to the students within its walls. It retains sufficient integrity to visually represent its significant past.
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Accession Number: spa.si.167
Dr Sian Caiach and Gwynfor Evans on the steps of the Welsh Office, Cardiff. This picture is dated December 1986.
For biographical information about Gwynfor Evans please see his obituary in The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/gwynfor-evans-49588...
This picture forms part of the Scots Independent donation to the Scottish Political Archive. The Scots Independent is a monthly Nationalist newspaper. The paper was founded in 1926 and is the longest surviving political newspaper in Scotland in the twentieth century. For further information about the Scots Independent please visit their website at www.scotsindependent.org
The Scottish Political Archive is housed at the University of Stirling. The archive is home to the oral interviews, personal papers and associated material from prominent Scottish politicians. For further information about the work of the archive please visit our website www.scottishpoliticalarchive.org.uk
This dateless OO number plate looks really striking. Spotted at the petrol station... the gentleman informed me he'd had it for around 25 years. Stylish.
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Seen at The Chalet, Caterham, the personal helicopter of David Gold, Founder of "Ann Summers" lingerie.
Experimental macro shot. Taken using a 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 combined with a reverse mounted 50mm f/1.8 lens at the end of it. Getting some extreme magnification but with a number of distortions to it.
The depth of field with this set-up is extremely shallow and I couldn't get the whole "5" in focus. There was also a lot of vignetting in this shot.
On another note, I'm proud to note that Wall.E is a Mac. Haha... To all Mac-philes who noticed, the sound of Wall.E being fully charged is the same sound that a Mac makes when its booted up. Also he rocks on his awesome iPod. That just oozes cool.
I'll award bragging rights to anyone that can identify what this is a macro shot of.
Any ideas? The hub says 71 9... but I was expecting a letter at the beginning of the serial number and there isn't one
Here is the earmark trend chart based on CAGW numbers. Democrats certainly deserve credit for their FY07 moratorium but they don’t deserve praise for what happened in FY08. Facts are stubborn things and the number of earmarks is UP from the previous two years. I realize folks like to compare each year to FY05 but that was three years ago and we shouldn’t allow Congress to get credit year after year for “reducing” earmarks just because the total is lower than it was in FY05. That’s just spin.
The Old Bailey court listing notice for the trial of Levi Bellfield, convicted yetserday of the murders of two women and the attempted murder of a third.
He is now being investigated for other killings and attacks.
From the BBC News website:
A man has been found guilty of murdering two students he stalked at bus stops in south-west London.
Levi Bellfield, 39, of West Drayton, west London, was convicted of killing Amelie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha McDonnell, 19.
He has also been found guilty of the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy.
Bellfield attacked the women between 2001 and 2004. Police also suspect him of carrying out 20 other attacks on women. He will be sentenced on Tuesday.
Police revealed after the trial that the other attacks Bellfield is suspected of carrying out include six attempted date rapes involving drugs and they believe more victims will now come forward.
The former bouncer is also due to be questioned over the murder of 13-year-old Milly Dowler, who went missing on her way home from school in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey on 21 March 2002.