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In the summer of 1914, the Canadian military leased enough land from the Tsuu T'ina Nation to establish a site for training soldiers who were to be assigned to fight during World War I. Some 45,000 men were trained at the military camp, making it the largest military training establishment in Canada during the war time. Army engineers mapped the area. Each unit established its identity within its prescribed area by using stones that were hauled in sacks from the river; soldiers hauled sacks of rocks more than 2 km (1.2 mi) during off-duty hours as part of their training program.
After their training was over, the battalions were assigned to regions abroad to fight in World War I. Soldiers who survived the war met at the park, till the 1960s, to carry out weeding operations and also to re-paint the stones of their battalion number which they had erected in the past. Eventually, the numbers were almost forgotten, overgrown by shrubs and grass. The stones were almost obscured till a local historian found them when planning for residential and retail development was underway. Over several years, cadets of the units, particularly the 157th Battalion stationed in Calgary pursued historical status for the site. The stones were safely stored while the area was developed, and then restored. Battalion Park officially opened on 3 November 1991.
Am I the only one who finds irony in the juxtaposition of the sign on the Target store and the battalion numbers on the hill above?
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I wanted to post the photo below as they are the numbers that everyone wants, but alas I twas out numbered by my fan club.
These were stamped into the firewall, but on the passenger side! The leading number is easier to read from inside the car and it was done upside down [now has some kind of scarring in the metal]. We think that perhaps to make it match the 11B tag, someone pounded in these numbers and ground off the numbers which are supposed to be on the other side of the firewall--haven't found any there yet and i'm down to bare metal.
This is a detail lino block print of Countess, Lady Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program.* She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (the first - analogue! - computers), correcting his notes on how to calculate Bernoulli Numbers with the Analytical Engine. More importantly, she (a great communicator, daughter of mad, bad and dangerous to know Lord Byron) was able to understand and explain the workings of the analytical engine and the potential of computing machines. Her comments seem visionary to the modern reader. Babbage called her the Enchantress of Numbers and the Princess of Parallelograms.
The print is in gold, purple and turquoise water-based block printing ink on mauve Japanese gampi paper 15.25 inches x 10.5 inches.
A Rethink Autism therapist instructs the student to match numbers. Taken from the Pre-Academic category "Matching Numbers"
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This was the best location to signal back and forth with inmates of Alcatraz. Lenny "Long Shot" Gabortz kept his numbers racket thriving by using one of his guys on the outside. The actual mode of signaling was never discovered.
San Francisco, California 2013
and so we decided why shouldn't our house have one too. I designed and cut out the numbers, Margaret made the mosaic. order one here www.etsy.com/shop/nutmegdesigns?section_id=6606833