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Country Road after heavy snowfalls between the municipality of Georgensgmuend and the village of Untersteinbach, Franconia (Bavaria)
Some background information:
On this photo, which was taken just 500 metres away from our home, you can see the little hamlet of Hauslach on the left. On the right side (just outside the picture area) Buehl hill is located.
Buehl hill is a limestone hill, where limestone was quarried in the past. As a side product of the limestone many fossils were found but the people who quarried the limestone didn’t pay them much attention. However, at the end of the 18th century the famous French naturalist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier (1769 to 1832) first mentioned Georgensgmuend as a notable place of fossil finds. In particular fossils of Deinotherium, primeval rhinoceros and ancient horse were found at Buehl hill, but also mammoth bones and teeth were unearthed in this area. The German paleontologist Hermann von Meyer (1801 to 1869) examined the fossil finds of Georgensgmuend closely. Today they still boot renowned collections, e.g. in Frankfurt and London. Owing to von Meyer’s researches Georgensgmuend came into the limelight of then paleontology. For the first time it was proved that former fauna was significantly distinguished from today’s one. However people still assumed that the fossils were a proof for the biblical Flood. Today amateur paleontolgists can still find interesting fossils at Buehl hill.
Although human stone tools and tools from the Bronze Age were also found in this area, Georgensgmuend was first mentioned in a document not before 1304. Its then name was "Villula Gmuendt". The settlement was built at the junction of two important trade routes and the confluence of the rivers Franconian Rezat and Swabian Rezat. That is why tradesmen settled there and many wayfarers came through. In the 16th century also Jews started to locate in Georgensgmuend. Until fascism of Nazi Germany they were an important part of the village community and even had their own synagogue as well as their own cemetery.
On 21st October 1631, during the Thirty Years” War, Georgensgmuend was heavily destroyed by marauding lansquenets of the Catholic Imperial forces under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly. As the population was either killed or had fled, the settlement was completely ambandoned afterwards. However, in the years that followed the Thiry Years’s War, religious refugees from Austria and Swabia resettled in Georgensgmuend. Later also the Jews came back. In 1714 already six Jewish families were recorded.
In 1666 Albrecht V, Margrave of Ansbach-Brandenburg, who was the territorial lord of the whole area, built a hunting château just opposite the settlement. His son Johann Friedrich became the name giver of Friedrichsgmuend, which is part of Georgensgmuend now, but then was an own new village, just separated from Georgensgmuend by the Franconian Rezat.
During the Third Reich Jews were harassed in Georgensgmuend just as in all of Germany. At the entrance to the community a sign was attached, which said: "Our need of Jews is already met." In 1938, during the so-called Night of the Broken Glass, the synagogue was partly destroyed, but the Jewish cemetery was spared from desecration. The Jews were forced to leave Georgensgmuend by the end of the year. Some of them were able to emigrate to the US, while others were killed in concentration camps.
After World War II Georgensgmuend has bethought of its Jewish cultural heritage: The synagogue and the Tahara house have been restored while the Jewish cemetery has been listed.
Today Georgensgmuend, my hometown, has almost 7,000 residents. The municapility is located just 36 km (20 miles) south of the city of Nuremberg and 120 km (75 miles) north of Munich. Nuremberg’s perfect accessibility both by train and car as well as Georgensgmuend’s own considerable industrial area makes the community a popular and still growing place of residence for younger and older employees.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Dada movement, a Pseudo-Symposium on 'Data Dada' was held at Stanford on April 13, 2016.
This event was hosted by cultural historian Piero Scaruffi, organizer of the Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASERs). It was a stimulating evening with many kindred spirits, such as interactive artist Kal Spelletich (see my short video of his noise machines in this set), futurist composer Luciano Chessa (playing his electric saw), Jonathan Keats (presenting his Copernican Art Manifesto) and Burning Man's co-founder John Law, to name but a few. Through these talks, Piero aimed to link today's age to Dada's age, which was just what we needed.
I was invited invited to present our ‘Pataphysical Slot Machine at this extravagant centennial, and gave a short talk in full regalia about our community-created poetic oracle -- and the peer learning network that evolved from it. People seemed to appreciate our collaborative maker art, and I expect a few of them will come view our work in our upcoming exhibits.
I also enjoyed spending time with my friends and art partners who joined us at Stanford: Dr. Skidz, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Dr. Zboon (a.k.a. Mark ‘Spoonman’ Petrakis, who rode to Stanford with me): we had some great conversations about art, dada, politics, theater and the rise of a new humanism.
The highlight of the evening for me was meeting Kal, who demonstrated two of his noise machines, including a sling shot divining rod instrument and a robot that plays the violin when people make its light shine on a pine cone. His interactive art is really original, bringing a grunge aesthetic to a field that’s often a bit too slick. He creates magic by connecting everyday objects to do wild things with simple electronics.
Overall, it was a fun and informative evening, and I enjoyed meeting so many 'like minds', at the frontier of knowledge and imagination. Merci, les amis!
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KRAKOW, POLAND - JULY 6, 2019: One of the performers of the Belgian, high-flying acrobatic act - Moving Poles - making her entrance at the 32nd ULICA Street Festival of Theatre, one of Krakow's most vibrant yearly traditions with acts performed in public places, streets and squares, such as here in front of the Krakow Main Train Station.
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In continuing my late trend of not posting until after midnight, my latest addition. My to-do folder is down to 180! Woohoo. Though I admit that is partially because I have done little new scanning lately. So it is a double-edged victory. ;-)
Anyway, I was editing images and listening to the new U2 album. I admit, I am a huge U2 fan. I first saw them in concert relatively recently, in 1996 at Autzen Stadium. Rage against the Machine opened for them. It was my first "real" concert if you don't count the occasional state fair.
It was awesome.
I saw them again a few years later in Portland for their All That You Can't Leave Behind tour. It still stands as one of the best live performances I have ever seen, and the bootleg of that concert still gets regular playing time.
I saw them again a couple of years after that in Seattle at Key Arena for the HTDAAB tour. It was one of the worst performances I have ever seen live, but a large part of that was the acoustics of the building. Though I admit, that album is probably my least favorite of all their records. In fact, my enjoyment of them has actually tapered off these past two albums, and when I did cue them up, I consistently was going back to Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby or War.
So it was with a mix of hope and curiosity that I picked up their latest, and have been delightedly surprised.
On a related side note, the cover photo on the album is by Hiroshi Sugimoto, whose work has had a fair amount of influence on how I view the world.
Not to mention, if I could be any celebrity photographer for a day it would be Anton Corbijn, who just had a book out last year chronicling the 20+ years he has been photographing U2. Whether or not you are a fan of the band, if you are at all interested in celebrity portraiture of the more edgy style, check his work out. Very very good stuff. And it does not hurt that so much of his work is on film. ;-)
So that should answer the question, "is there anything Zeb is interested in besides photography?" Just in case you were wondering. ;-)
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Existential planes are not given conditions but levels of intensity of metaphysical seeing (sanskrit vidya).
The wisdom of non-differentiation is superior to the wisdom of differentiation, but it could not be achieved without the wisdom of differentiation. Therefore the wisdom of differentiation should precede the wisdom of non-differentiation.
5. How can it be imagined about the one who is unable to surmount his own education and the effects of his family, schooling and mass communication that he can surmount that which will arise as ontic bondage on his spiritual way?
6. To eliminate his defective judgements of value man should attend to a process of radical autocorrection in the course of which every earlier view should be rejected, and then that which stands the test of the new view should be reaccepted.
9. Not only a view but a way of looking; not only a view of the world but a way of looking at the world; not only a Weltanschauung (world view) but world contemplation; not only structure and frame but a living process…
32. Spiritual and theistic Weltanschauungs should be markedly different from materialistic and atheistic ones in each aspect of life: in eating, sleeping, walking but first of all in their views.
39. There is but one true normality: the normality of the centre.
40. If the knowledge related to the centre is lacking, then in fact the knowledge related to the periphery is lacking as well.
52. Beyond a certain level there can not be external or internal any more. There is no external or internal - for in relation to the limit of consciousness everything is inside and in relation to the centre of consciousness everything is outside.
53. Existential planes are not given conditions but levels of intensity of metaphysical seeing (sanskrit vidya).
56. The wisdom of non-differentiation is superior to the wisdom of differentiation, but it could not be achieved without the wisdom of differentiation. Therefore the wisdom of differentiation should precede the wisdom of non-differentiation.
57. Things can only be united if they have previously been separated.
62. Earth can essentially be in touch with Heaven (the Motionless Mover) only where it is not in motion - i. e. at the poles.
64. In the cosmos the spirit manifests itself as light. When Christ says that »I am the light of the cosmos«, it means that He is the light of the cosmos which is beyond the cosmos - that is to say, He is the spirit of the cosmos but this spirit is beyond the cosmos.
65. The material world is essentially a spiritual world. What does »spiritual« mean? Does that mean that it is more subtle than material? It also means that but the main point is something else. The world is spiritual if the fact that it is in the consciousness becomes evident.
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Metaphysical aphorisms by András László
www.tradicio.org/english/solumipsum.htm
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Painting by Giovanni di Paolo
SN16OXU is an ADL Enviro E20D B28F purchased new by Perryman's of Berwick in August 2016, captured in Hawick.
University of Ghana students listen to their political science professor, Dr. Evans Aggrey-Darkoh in Accra, Ghana on October 14, 2015. Photo © Dominic Chavez/World Bank
I have already posted one image of Evelyn's monument but have since found this bit of history about her and thought it was worth adding another with the story....
The Ghostly Little Evelyn of Bodie
Bodie is one of California's most popular state parks. A ghost town with a past, there is little left of the once sprawling metropolis....The ghosts, however, stay on. One of Bodie's most popular ghosts is that of the tragic little Evelyn.
When gold was discovered nearby in 1859 the town saw its population grow to nearly 10,000 residents. Evelyn's parents were among those who came seeking their fortune. But Bodie was a wild town and life was especially hard on the children. Death played no favorites. They were subjected to the same harsh winters and free flying bullets as the adults were. And if that didn't get them, rampaging disease and accidents helped to doom many of them to early graves.
Little Evelyn was the victim of a terrible accident that sent her to her untimely death. It seems that Evelyn, a child of four, liked to follow a kind hearted miner to work every morning. She patiently waited outside her small home till she heard the miner's cheerful whistle, then off she'd go, tagging along behind him.
Sometimes the little girl would stop and watch the man go about his chores before she headed back home. Early one fall morning, the winds began fiercely whipping down off the mountains. The darkened gray sky was heavy with the threat of an impending snowstorm. Undaunted, Evelyn followed closely on the miner's heels. Halfway to his job site the miner stopped and stared intently at the sky. Realizing that snow was on its way, he told Evelyn that the weather was about to change and she would have to hurry back home. Smiling to himself, he watched as she turned and ran toward town.
Unfortunately, Evelyn was a headstrong child. She waited till he was occupied with his task, than sneaked back to where he worked. Ever so silently, she crept closer to the man. Unaware of her, he swung his heavy pickaxe back. At that moment the pickaxe smashed into the little girl's head, killing her instantly.
The miner was devastated. The townspeople were so heartbroken at poor little Evelyn's death that they erected a beautiful guardian angel headstone for her. It was a thoughtful gesture indeed. She must have really appreciated their kindness because she has stayed and haunted Bodie ever since.
While the ghosts of children seem especially sad, Evelyn's little ghost is always happy and smiling. Her apparition has been seen numerous times since her untimely demise. Some folks refer to the little girl as the "Angel of Bodie." She usually appears in the cemetery where she is buried, but she's also been seen in the town itself, especially on nights when the moon is full.
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I have been told the fatal injury to her head is why her monument has her pointing a finger to the top of her head.
Taken in Bodie, California, USA.
The first of a few stills from my fur collared coat set, had some lovely comments from a short video I posted, so I hope you like the pictures too, I have popped another picture onto my TV chix profile and it seems popular there, have a fab weekend everyone! 🌸
Memories Of Yesteryear
What happens when I experimented with using pixlromatic editor on a photo I took the other day. Canon EOS 350D and Olympus 50mm f1.8.
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A follow-up to yesterday's posting.
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
W. B. Yeats, 'The Second Coming', 1920.
Dedicated to the family of Peter McCloskey.
Overtime the Beaches became a sense of place for many different enjoyments. I loved being here to feel the warm breeze during the summer but I love the walks along the boardwalk and watching the waves rough up the frozen shoreline in winter as well.
Played around with my dad's film cameras. I think working the old stuff is pretty cool. Getting to understand the manual mechanics and learning more photography knowledge in general encourages and inspires me in what I do as a photographer.
Canon AE-1 Program
Ifford XP2 400
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Multicolor illustrations of animals and sea creatures from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature) by German zoologist, naturalist, professor, and marine biologist, Ernst Haeckel (1843–1919), in full Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckela. Haeckel was known for discovering and naming thousands of new species. Kunstformen der Natur was known for bridging the gap between science and art. We have digitally enhanced 100 marine lithographic prints of various organisms from his book. They are in high resolution printable quality and free to download under the CC0 license.
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Forty nine metres at 09:45am on Saturday 20th February 2021 off Blackheath Avenue and Charlton Way in the grounds of Greenwich Park, one of the Royal Parks of London situated in Greenwich, South East London.
The carrion crow (Corvus corone) is a passerine bird of the family Corvidae and the genus Corvus which is native to western Europe and eastern Asia. It can grow to twenty inches in length with a wingspan of up to thirty nine inches. Highly intelligent, utterly beautiful with an amazingly detailed and rich plumage, these stunning birds are much maligned and tainted with unfair tags attributed through folklore and ignorance. I love 'em!
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Nikon D850 Hand held with Sigma OS Optical Stabilization enabled on normal setting. Focal length 420mm Shutter speed: 1/250s Aperture f/6.0 ISO640 Image area FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L (8256 x 5504). NEF RAW L (14 bit uncompressed) Focus mode AF-C focus. AF-C Priority Selection: Release. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. Auto ISO 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points.AF-Area mode single point & 73 point switchable. Exposure mode: Shutter priority mode. Matrix metering. White balance on: Auto1 (4370K). Colour space: RGB. Vignette control: Normal. Picture control: Auto (Sharpening A +1/Clarity A+1)
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In recent years the strategy of the Jehovah's Witness group is to stand in busy areas, with publications on display. I have read that this is more successful than knocking on doors. I always feel a bit sorry for them, as almost everyone (including me), walks on by.
They must have some success though.
This shop on the corner of Clinton Place and Broad Street was an Electricity Board showroom in the 1980s. For several years it has been a 'bargain' store, with frequent name changes. The alarmingly named Wildfire Vape is around the next corner
This was taken about 11 am. Weather warmer (8º) and by afternoon considerably wetter.
A taste of my backlog.... In Bergdorf Goodman's "To New York, With Love, BG" 2017 holiday window display series that "celebrates the cultural institutions of New York City."
The perfume of your body dulls my sense.
I want nor wine nor weed; your breath alone
Suffices. In this moment rare and tense
I worship at your breast. The flower is blown,
The saffron petals tempt my amorous mouth,
The yellow heart is radiant now with dew
Soft-scented, redolent of my loved South;
O flower of love! I give myself to you.
Uncovered on your couch of figured green,
Here let us linger indivisible.
The portals of your sanctuary unseen
Receive my offering, yielding unto me.
Oh, with our love the night is warm and deep!
The air is sweet, my flower, and sweet the flute
Whose music lulls our burning brain to sleep,
While we lie loving, passionate and mute.
Flower of Love by Claude McKay
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
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And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
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History
The fortress which exists today was built by the Turks in 1684 for the purpose of protecting Chalkida from the Venetians. It was designed by Beneto Gerolimo Galopo and its architecture is more European than Turkish. The fort was unsuccessfully besieged by Morozini in 1688 and the Turks were able to maintain their domination until the liberation of Greece.The Karababa castle is situated on Viotias hill which is called Fourna. It is in a strategic position as it controls the Strait of Euripus and the city of Chalkida.
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Modern cameras do such an incredible job of adjusting for lighting conditions, the entire concept of low-light photography is foreign to many people. My first camera was an Argus C3 in which I shot Kodachrome (ISO 25!) film. In today's shot, I tried to somewhat reproduce what an indoor shot without flash might have looked like in those days. Yes, there really *is* content here, but you have to look closely.
West wall of Menlo Home & Garden at 914 W. Congress St., Tucson, AZ
Seen from S. Grande Ave.
There are many similar murals in the Hispanic neighborhoods of Tucson.
The sanctuary windows were made locally in Adelaide By Thompson & Harvey and were donated by parents connected with the college: Sacred Heart being the gift of Mrs Fred Tennant, Our Blessed Lady that of Mr Taylor, and St Joseph, Mr P Flannagan. Ref: Stained Glass Australia.
Other chapel stained glass windows were designed by Franz Xaver Zettler of Munich, Germany.
Sacred Heart College Memorial Chapel
The Marist Brothers were favoured with beautiful, though rather warm weather, for the double ceremony which took place at the Sacred Heart College, Glenelg, on Sunday afternoon last, when his Grace the Archbishop blessed and opened the extensions to the College recently erected, and laid the foundation stone of the fine new chapel which is to be erected as a memorial of the jubilee of the Marist Brothers in Australia and of the students of the College who were killed in the late European war.
A crowd of some thousand persons, including many visitors from the city and suburbs, assembled in the grounds to witness the ceremony.
The Archbishop first blessed the extensions at the rear of the College, assisted by Rev Frs Gatzemeyer and Considine.
He then blessed the ground on which the memorial chapel is being erected on the eastern side of the College, and blessed and laid the foundation stone. For this purpose he was presented by Bro Joseph with a silver trowel, suitably inscribed, the gift of the architects (Messrs Garlick and Jackman).
Fifty years ago four Marist Brothers arrived in Sydney to take up the work at St Patrick's School in that city. They began with 117 scholars. Since then they had extended their operations from New Norcia, in the West, to Sydney, in the East, throughout the Commonwealth, in the Dominion of New Zealand, and the islands of the Pacific, and had nearly 300 brothers engaged in scholastic work, and something like 9000 scholars.
In order to signalise this jubilee a committee was formed. They were anxious to mark the occasion by some permanent memorial. The Marist Brothers had never made an appeal to the public for help during their 50 years' existence in Australia, and he thought that was a record for any of the Orders in Australia. The committee also desired to erect a memorial to the ex-students of the College who had fallen in the war, and it had been decided that the two objects could best be combined in the erection of a college chapel.
Bro. Joseph said it was his pleasant duty to introduce his Grace the Archbishop, who had kindly come down to perform the ceremony.
The one concern of the appeal committee was the erection of the chapel, which would cost between £9000 and £10,000, and which they all knew would be an architectural ornament, not only to the college, but to the district. The committee was not merely an ornamental body. It had done a large amount of work in the 12 months since its formation with his Grace's consent, and deserved their best thanks. It had £3300 in hand, of which the members had contributed £1200, over a third, out of their own pockets. They had shown themselves willing to back their enthusiasm with their cash.
In addition to being a memorial of the jubilee, the building would serve another purpose, rather by coincidence than by set design. His Grace would remember that he was present five years ago, when Sir Henry Galway unveiled a roll of honour to over 300 of their students who had enlisted. Some 70 or 80 went to the front afterwards, bringing the total up to nearly 400. Between 60 and 70 of these had made the supreme sacrifice. It was thought fitting to commemorate them by a jubilee and memorial chapel.
The visitors then inspected the building and extensions, and afternoon tea was served.
The style adopted for the new chapel is that known as the Romanesque, and the materials to be used, bluestone with cement dressings, will harmonize with the architectural treatment of the existing buildings. The foundations are of specially designed reinforced cement concrete. The walls will be built of Tapley's Hill bluestone, with cement quoins and dressings to all door and window openings. The trustees have obtained a lease of a quarry at Tapley's Hill, and only specially selected stone will be used.
All the window frames will be of steel, with subdued colour-stained glass leaded lights of simple design. The joinery will be of blackwood, specially chosen for beauty of grain, and polished. The whole of the walls internally will be finished in cement and brown sand, thus giving a permanent buff shade effect, and they will be jointed to represent stone. The ceiling will be panelled in wood and stained to harmonize with the cement-finish of the walls.
The roof is to be covered with Roman-pattern terra cotta tiles. The width of the chapel will be 28 feet, and the length 66 feet, with aisles on each side six feet wide. The sanctuary at the eastern end will be 18 feet wide and 21 feet long, semicircular and lighted by three stained glass windows placed above the altar.
The entrance porch will be 14 feet by 10 feet, with white Angaston marble steps leading from the carriage drive. At each side of the entrance porch will be a tower 12 feet square carried up to a height of 60 feet, the upper portion of which will be octagonal and surmounted with a copper dome and cross.
Provision will be made over the entrance porch for an organ chamber, and curved and panelled wooden gallery for the organ-passage ways leading from the sanctuary.
The whole of the floors will be of reinforced cement concrete, covered with wood parquetry flooring of specially selected blackwood and oak. Messrs Garlick and Jackman are the architects, and Messrs Dwyer and Warner the contractors.
[Ref: Southern Cross Friday 29-9-1922]
The blessing and opening of the magnificent Romanesque Memorial Chapel recently erected in the grounds of the Sacred Heart College, Glenelg, will take place on Sunday, March 30, at 3.15 pm. The ceremony will be performed by his Grace the Archbishop. The public are cordially invited to attend, especially the parents and friends of Marist Bros' old boys who fell in the war, of whom the chapel is a memorial. It also commemorates the centenary of the Marist Brothers in France in 1817 and the golden jubilee of their establishment in Australia in 1922.
The chapel, which was built at a cost of £11,000, is an imposing structure of Tapley Hill bluestone. In the porch two beautiful statues of Youth will serve as lights. The chapel has seating accommodation for 350 persons.
[Ref: Southern Cross Friday 14-3-1924]
James Connolly 5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was an Irish republican and socialist leader, aligned to syndicalism and the Industrial Workers of the World. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents. He left school at the age of 11, but became one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day. He also took a role in Scottish and American politics. He was executed by a British firing squad because of his leadership role in the Easter Rising of 1916.
Connolly was not actually held in gaol, but in a room (now called the "Connolly Room") at the State Apartments in Dublin Castle, which had been converted to a first-aid station for troops recovering from the war.
Connolly was sentenced to death by firing squad for his part in the rising. On 12 May 1916 he was taken by military ambulance to Royal Hospital Kilmainham, across the road from Kilmainham Gaol, and from there taken to the gaol, where he was to be executed. Visited by his wife, and asking about public opinion, he commented, "They will all forget that I am an Irishman."
Connolly had been so badly injured from the fighting (a doctor had already said he had no more than a day or two to live, but the execution order was still given) that he was unable to stand before the firing squad; he was carried to a prison courtyard on a stretcher. His absolution and last rites were administered by a Capuchin, Father Aloysius Travers. Asked to pray for the soldiers about to shoot him, he said: "I will say a prayer for all men who do their duty according to their lights." Instead of being marched to the same spot where the others had been executed, at the far end of the execution yard, he was tied to a chair and then shot.
His body (along with those of the other rebels) was put in a mass grave without a coffin. The executions of the rebels deeply angered the majority of the Irish population, most of whom had shown no support during the rebellion. It was Connolly's execution, however, that caused the most controversy. Historians have pointed to the manner of execution of Connolly and similar rebels, along with their actions, as being factors that caused public awareness of their desires and goals and gathered support for the movements that they had died fighting for.
The executions were not well received, even throughout Britain, and drew unwanted attention from the United States, which the British Government was seeking to bring into the war in Europe. H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister, ordered that no more executions were to take place; an exception being that of Roger Casement as he had not yet been tried.
Tower of Silence is a circular, raised structure used by Zoroastrians for exposure of the dead. There is no standard technical name for such a construction. The common dakhma or dokhma originally denoted any place for the dead. Zoroastrian tradition considers a dead body to be unclean, i.e. potential pollutant. To preclude the pollution of earth or fire the bodies of the dead are placed atop a tower and so exposed to the sun and birds of prey.
Palio of ASTI - Edition 2007 (September 16, 2007)
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Café Landtmann
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Café Landtmann at the Palais Lieben-Auspitz, left the University Ring
The Café Landtmann, photographed from the roof of the Burgtheater
Winter garden and summer beer garden, behind the Town Hall
Great Hall at Café Landtmann
Schanigarten
(Wikipedia: Schanigarten is the Austro-Bavarian term for tables and chairs set up on the sidewalk in front of eating and drinking places. Unlike normal beer gardens (Gastgärten), the customers actually sit on public property. Originally, Schanigärten (pl.) referred only to Viennese coffee houses, but now the expression is used in other parts of Austria and for other types of establishments like restaurants and taverns)
Projection on the façade
Winter Garden, looking towards Universitätsring
The Zuckerkandl room in Landtmann's Bel-Etage
The Café Landtmann in Vienna is a typical Viennese coffee house in the Ringstrasse style. It is located in the first District at the University Ring 4, corner Löwelstraße 22, and is known throughout the city.
Location
The cafe is located on the ground floor of the Palais Lieben-Auspitz called Mietwohnhauses (apartment building), in the immediate vicinity of the Burgtheater, the University of Vienna and the party headquarters of the Social Democrats and close to the Vienna City Hall with the City Hall Park, the Federal Chancellery and three ministries. The café is therefore frequented by, among other actors, politicians, civil servants and journalists and is the venue for press conferences.
History
The coffee was on 1 October 1873 of the Cafétier (café owner) Landtmann as "Vienna 's most elegant and largest café-localities" in a prominent, 1872 built corner house at the at the time also new Franzensring (so to 1919 the address of this part of Vienna's Ringstrasse) opened. The ring road was indeed opened by emperor Franz Joseph I in 1865, but still long not completed in the area of the coffee house: The city hall was under construction since 1872, but was only opened in 1883. The university main building was built 1877-1884, the Burgtheater from 1874 to 1888. The coffee was thus in his early years surrounded mainly by large construction sites.
1881 sold Landtmann his coffeehouse to the brothers Wilhelm and Rudolf Kerrl who continued it under the name Landtmann and extended it in the direction of Oppolzergasse. Rudolf soon retired from active business life, Wilhelm Kerrl led on the café alone until 1916 and then sold it, worn down by the economy of scarcity of the First World War, to Karl Anton Kraus, previously a butcher and innkeeper. He led the coffee for only five years, because in 1921 it was operated by a Hokare Ges.mbH (unlimited company) (the name stands for hotel, coffee and restoration companies). This company had to be liquidated 1925/1926.
The Café Landtmann was now bought in the fall of 1926 by Mr. and Mrs. Conrad and Angela Zauner. The new owners had it in 1929 after a design by Ernst Meller, experienced in the establishment of coffee houses, fully restored: with the preserved to this day interior which is under preservation order. Particularly striking are four wooden pillars at the entrance, which were created by Hans Scheibner and their decoration representing premiere scenes of the Burgtheater. With this elaborate interior design Landtmann consolidated its position as the most elegant café in town. In 1949, Konrad Zauner's son Erwin took the management of the café and led it on with great success.
In 1974 the company received the National Award and since then it is allowed to use the Federal coat of arms in commercial transactions. In 1976, the present owner family took the local and renovated it in 1980 again.
In the café was Robert Böck, on duty only called Mr. Robert, working for 28 years, many years as head waiter in a tuxedo, and he knew all the important guests personally. On his last working day, on 23 December 2003, many celebrities came to his departure from the cafe. Mayor Michael Häupl served Mr. Robert, who had so often served him a "little brown". To this end, he handed him the "Golden Rathausmann" "for the most famous, most discreet and most accommodating waiter of Vienna".
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Small stage
In the basement below the coffee was after Czeike already 1936-1938 the Cabaret 'Merry Landtmann" for the dancer Cilli Wang set up by her husband. 1953 in the basement the small stage "The Tribune" was established (since 2002: "The new stand", directed by Karl Heinz Wukow). It is one of the numerous small Viennese theaters that operate with modest public support and which offer authors, actors and directors fields of application.
Winter Garden
2007 was built a conservatory on the facade towards the castle theater, designed by Manfred Wehdorn by 1.5 million euros (Bernd Querfeld). With 87 square meters and 29 tables, the conservatory is almost as spacious as the great hall of the café; thus the capacity of the premises has been extended by a quarter.
Landtmann's Bel-Etage
2012 were opened above the café three function rooms, which are referred to as "Landtmann's Bel-Etage". One of the rooms is named after Berta Zuckerkandl, which in the house (entrance Oppolzergasse 6) from 1917 to 1938 run her famous salon, meeting place of artists, scientists and politicians.
Price of water
2013 got the coffee into media because guests who instead of ordering other beverages only want drink tap water this service no longer receive free. The scheme has been criticized partly violently. The glass of water for ordered coffee, as it corresponds to the Viennese coffee house tradition, still is served free.
Miscellaneous
In the Café Landtmann are according to indications of the owner family on average held 2.8 press conferences per day.
Since 2003, the café is every summer venue of the coffee house theater ink & coffee.
In March 2009, was opened in Tokyo in the central district of Minato-ku, in fact, in the district Kitaaoyama in the Aoyama Street, a "Café Landtmann" called local opened.
Guests
The coffee house was according to Czeike visited, among others, by the artists Attila Hörbiger, Paul Hörbiger, Oskar Kokoschka, Hans Moser, Max Reinhardt, Oskar Werner and Paula Wessely. Among the politicians he names Julius German, Robert Dannenberg and Karl Seitz, who were part of the "Red Vienna", and in the postwar period the then very popular Chancellor Julius Raab. Gustav Mahler was encountering here with Karl Goldmark, Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich were among the "by-trotting" guests, the authors Jura Soyfer, Felix Salten, Thomas Mann and John Boynton Priestley also frequented the Landtmann. The owners themselves mention over and above Peter Altenberg, Sigmund Freud, Emmerich Kálmán, Curd Jürgens, Otto Preminger and Romy Schneider as regulars.
Personal comment in view of recent events.....
Firstly, how are they going to enforce this new ruling as many look so convincing. Secondly, where do we go to ‘powder our noses’? Thirdly, how are they going to know that a trans woman isn’t a woman from birth? This has all been created by radical cis women, outspoken trans activists and a small minority of men, claiming to be trans, using it to their own devices! It’s not over by a long shot!
I'm no threat to anyone....... I just enjoy being me and presenting as such. x
Collection of post boxes at the Hughes-Trigg Student Center at SMU.
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UPDATE: This photo was selected as the Art & Seek Flickr Photo of the Week for January 11, 2012.
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