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St Mary, Huntingfield, Suffolk
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It was the first day of the 2019 Easter holidays, and what better way to spend a Monday morning than heading off for a church-exploring bike ride rather than going to work? I caught the train up to Halesworth, and then cycled off out into the hills. The villages and their pretty parish churches come thick and fast around here, and almost all of them are open to pilgrims and strangers daily. There is a good mixture too, round towers, square towers, hardly-any-left towers, reed-thatched roofs, beflinted-porches, and all manner of treasures inside. A fair number of East Anglia's best small churches are in this area. But even given this variety, there is nowhere else in East Anglia quite like Huntingfield church.
This is one of Suffolk's more obscure villages, but the Huntingfield name was that of one of the county's most significant families. Huntingfield is the nearest village to the great pile of Heveningham Hall, with one of the largest Georgian frontages in England. It was rebuilt by the Huntingfields in the 18th Century. Standing on the road and looking across the sheep-scattered lawns to the great building, it is easy to imagine the gulf between the landed gentry and their poor workers in those days. Sandwiched between the traumas of the 17th Century and the energy of the 19th Century, it was the landowners of the 18th Century who had every reason to think that their world was permanent and unchanging, that it would always be as they knew it. Farming sheep, collecting art, patronising musicians, tinkering with primitive science and technology, dispensing benevolent largesse to the poor on their estate - it is a world that is at once attractive and appalling. For them, the Church of England was both an arm of the state dispensing laws, justice and charity, and the setting for the weekly liturgical reinforcement of the puritan-refracted Elizabethan settlement.
But the Industrial Revolution would bring it all to an end, and in more ways than one. In the second half of the latter century, many parish churches were drawn by the excitement of the age into major reconstructions and revisions. Their impulse came from Oxford, where the Tractarians had a vision of the Church of England as a national Church, no longer a protestant sect but restored to the catholicity of its roots, and from Cambridge, where the ecclesiologists decided what a building of the national Church should properly look like. As the young men graduated and were presented to parishes across the country, their ideas spread like wildfire. They had come from their univserities to churches fitted out for protestant worship, with whitewashed walls and box pews focused on the high pulpit, the rarely-used altar gathering dust in the chancel or even discarded. Preaching houses rather than sacramental spaces, and any surviving traces of the building's medieval life survived, perhaps, simply because they were not understood.
Essentially, what happened in England between about 1830 and 1870 was a cultural revolution, a new wave of ideas and the reaction to them. The litugical changes proposed by the Oxford Movement were, at first, objectionable, and then merely controversial. But gradually they seeped into the mainstream, until by about 1890 they had become as natural as the air we breathe. Galvanised by the ferment of ideas and the possibilities of the industrial age, these young men convinced their rich patrons, revolutionised their buildings, and in so doing altered their parishes forever. They often looked to London stars like Scott and Butterfield, or local plodders like Phipson, or else mavericks like Salvin. The demands of the new liturgical arrangements, coupled with a renewed sense of the need to glorify God, led them into what was often a rebuilding rather than a restoration.
Internal decorations were, perhaps, the bespoke work of the architect, Witness Phipson's meticulous attention to detail at St Mary le Tower, Ipswich. Other restorers relied on the big picture, a vision that encompassed walls and floors, but left the fittings to others. By the centenary of the movement in the 1930s, one Anglican clergyman could observe "It is as if the Reformation had never happened". Well, not quite. And now, the pendulum has swung the other way, leaving the ritualists high and dry. But the evidence of the energy of those days survives, especially at Huntingfield, where William Holland, the vicar, drove the Oxford Movement through the heart of the parish, like a motorway through a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
The Hollands were the patrons of the living, which gave them the authority and the money to reimagine Huntingfield church on a grand scale. Oxford and Cambridge universites were exclusively for men, of course, but it so happened that William Holland had an energetic and visionary wife. Between 1859 and 1866, Mrs Mildred Holland planned, designed and executed the most elaborate redecoration of a church this county had seen since the Reformation. For seven years, she lay on her back at the top of scaffolding, first in the chancel (angels) and then in the nave (saints on the ceilure, fine angels on the beam ends), gilding, lettering and painting this most glorious of small church roofs. Her husband kept a journal throughout this period, and there is no suggestion that she had any assistance, beyond that of workmen to raise the scaffolding, and a Mr E.L. Blackburne FSA, who was, apparently, an 'authority on medieval decoration'. J.P. St Aubyn was responsible for the structural restoration of this largely 15th century building, and it is very restrained and merciful. But you come here to see the painted roofs, which are perfectly splendid. You can activate the floodlighting with a pound coin in a box at the west end of the north aisle, and the illuminated work is breath-taking.
What else is there to see? Some 15th Century window borders in the east window of the south aisle depict hares and a little dog with a bell around his neck. And what is that at the bottom, a dragon, or a winged lion? Evidence of the church's continued High Church tradition into the 20th Century is in statues of the Blessed Virgin and child flanked by St Francis and St Dominic in a triple image niche set in a pillar of the north arcade. Was it originally for a rood group, perhaps above an altar? Any church is a palimpsest, history written and rewritten over its skin as a touchstone to changing liturgical imperatives and the long generations of its people. Across this canvas the enthusiasms and Huntingfield in Mildred Holland's time are writ large, and will last long.
And there is something else, and a great curiosity. Ann Owen, the Vicar's wife in the neighbouring parish of Heveningham, is also said to have been responsible for 19th Century work in the church there, this time in the form of stained glass. Visiting Heveningham, I am afraid it is difficult for me to find this convincing, although of course one likes to think it was so, and that the two women artists were friends, or possibly even rivals. But Mildred's story has been brilliantly captured in a recent novel, The Huntingfield Paintress by Pamela Holmes. Pamela tells me that 'it was a comment of yours about Mildred and Ann Owen which sparked my determination to write my first novel' which is very kind of her, although I am sure it was easy to be inspired when one stands here surrounded by Mildred Holland's work.
You might thnk that the towering font cover is also by her, but in fact it is her memorial, placed here by her husband, as is the art nouveau lectern. It is as if her art was a catalyst, inspiring others to acts of beauty. She died in the 1870s, predeceasing her husband by twenty years. They are both now buried by the churchyard gate. How fitting, that they should lie in the graveyard of the church they loved so much, and to which they gave so much of their time, energy and money.
Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine is seen during the plenary session 'The Future of Ukraine' at the congress centre during the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 21, 2015.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/swiss-image.ch/Photo Jolanda Flubacher
I decorated the already embellished cover a bit more and added a journaling card to the kraft envelope pocket.
Read more about this journal here: www.iloveitallwithmonikawright.com/2015/02/30-days-of-lis...
Via San Giovanni in Laterano, 34
very very very very very very very good
nocchi (English pronunciation: /ˈnɒki, ˈnjɒki/; Italian: [ˈɲɔkːi]; N'YO-kee; singular gnocco) are various thick, soft dumplings. They may be made from semolina, ordinary wheat flour, potato, bread crumbs, or similar ingredients. The smaller forms are called gnocchetti.
Gnocchi are eaten as entrées (primi piatti), alternatives to soups (minestre), or pasta. They are widely available dried, frozen, or fresh in vacuum sealed packages in supermarkets and specialty stores. Classic accompaniments of gnocchi include tomato sauces, pesto, and melted butter (sometimes fried butter) with cheese.
While they are often available frozen in specialty grocers, they are typically homemade in European and European-American households.
The word gnocchi means "lumps", and may derive from nocchio, a knot in the wood,[1] or from nocca (knuckle).[2] It has been a traditional Italian pasta type of probably Middle Eastern origin since Roman times.[3] It was introduced by the Roman Legions during the enormous expansion of the empire into the countries of the European continent. In the past 2,000 years, each country developed its own specific type of small dumplings, with the ancient gnocchi as their common ancestor. In Roman times, gnocchi were made from a semolina porridge-like dough mixed with eggs, and are still found in similar forms today, particularly Sardinia's malloreddus (although they do not contain eggs).
The use of potato is a relatively recent innovation, occurring after the introduction of the potato to Europe in the 16th century.
The name is also used in France in the dish known as "gnocchis à la parisienne", a hot dish comprising gnocchi formed of choux pastry, and served with Béchamel sauce.
Wat Pho (the Temple of the Reclining Buddha), or Wat Phra Chetuphon, is one of the largest temple complexes in the city and famed for its giant reclining Buddha that measures 46 metres long and is covered in gold leaf. Wat Pho is often considered the leading school of massage in Thailand, so it is also a great place to get a traditional Thai massage. #watpho #temple #thailand #lyingbuddha #giantstatue
I intended to image C/2010 X1 Elenin just to the west of Pleiades with the lens at full open aperture, but I could not recognize a trace of the comet.
equipment: Leica Apo-Elmarit-R 180mmF2.8 at F2.8 and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2 by Seo san at iso 1,600 on Takahashi EM-200 temma 2Jr, autoguided with hiro-design off-axis guider, StarlightXpress Lodestar autoguider, and PHD Guiding
exposure: 13 times x 8 minutes, 5 x 4 min, 5 x 1 min, and 5 x 15 seconds
location: 1,234m above sea level at 36 14 26.9N 138 36 35.5E in Nagano, Japan
Hajvery University has a good culture of organizing seminars, conferences and workshops for its graduate and postgraduate students and faculty. Maintaining this habit, one day seminar on “Drug Act and Future Health Care Challenges” was organized at euro campus of Hajvery University, Lahore on 21st January 2014. The students and faculty of Pharmacy were actively involved in in organizing and managing this seminar. Stall of alternative medicines was exhibited by BM (private) Ltd. Live coverage of the whole seminar was done by Pharmanews.
Many speakers and guests from Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan and Pharmaceutical Industries were present on that day. Invited speakers of the day include Mr. Saleem Khan (Director, OTC and Health Products), Mr. Abdul Sattar Surani (Deputy Director, OTC and Health Products), Mr. Ayaz Ali Khan (Chief Drug Controller, Lahore), Dr. Zeba Ahmed Shuja (Director Technical, Shazoo Zaka pvt Ltd), Mr. Amanullah Bismil (CEO, BM private Ltd), Mr. Zia Husain (Federal Inspector of Drugs, Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan, Lahore), Mr. Noor Mohammad Mahar (Technical Member, European Nutraceutical Associate Switzerland/Media Secretary Pakistan Pharmacist Association), Mr. Syed Alvi (CEO, Calgan Phytopharma). All these guests were warmly welcomed by the reception team comprising of pharmacy faculty and students.
The seminar was started by the hosts Miss Hira Seerat and Saira Sami Khan by welcoming all the respected speakers and guests. Recitation of Holy Quran was done by Hafiz Hafeez Ullah. Prof. Then, Prof. Dr. Khaild Pervaiz, Rector of Hajvery University has formally welcomed all the speakers and guests in his address. Then the hosts, Tayyaba Riaz and Hina Khalid invited and introduced the respected speakers on the stage one by one. The first speaker of the day was Mr. Saleem Khan and delivered his presentation addressing the topic Alternative System of Medicines. The hosts thanked him and invited Dr. Zeba Ahmed Shuja, she told about The Active Ingredients. The next speaker, Mr. Amanullah Bismil came and told the audience about Quality Assurance Parameters for Manufacturing. After him, Mr. Abdul Sattar Surani came and shared his data related to Drug Control then Mr. Zia Husnain came and done his presentation on Use of Complementary and Alternative Medication. The next speaker was Mr. Noor Muhammad Mahar and told the listeners about Pharma Business Future and Health Laws. After him, Mr. Ayaz Ali Khan came and shared his awareness and discussed about Drug Control Management in Punjab while he was delivering his knowledge, the Chief Guest of the day, Mr. Rana Iqbal (Speaker of Punjab Assembly) came. All the students, teachers and guests warmly welcomed him and give standing ovation. Rector of Hajvery University gave the short introduction of speaker of Punjab Assembly and welcomed him. After that, Speaker Assembly was invited on the stage to say few words related to the seminar and efforts of Hajvery University. He thanked and was very happy for having him on the seminar. He gave very powerful and devotional speech on the pharmacist’s role and future. Then the souvenir were represented to the sespected speakers of the seminar by the Chief Guest. Chairman, Board of Governors, Mr. Atif Mushtaq has offered memento to the honor able chief guest. In last Director Foreign Affairs and Planning, Mr. Fahad Sheikh gave a speech thanking all the guests and chief guest and shared the importance of Drug Act. In the last, a group photo was taken and the seminar was ended with that. We really appreciate the efforts of our management and faculty for organizing such an informative session for students.
The nameplate attached to British Rail Class 90 25kV electric locomotive 90003 'Rædwald of East Anglia'.
Rædwald was a 7th century Saxon King of East Anglia.
90003 entered service on July 12th 1988 with the 13:46 Blackpool North to London Euston (loco from Preston) which was the first ever Class 90 passenger revenue earning diagram.
Rædwald is currently serving time on London Liverpool Street- Norwich Abellio Greater Anglia services.
My Class 90 album flic.kr/s/aHsjD3YY7s
Samosely or "self-settlers" are illegal residents of the 30 kilometer Zone of Alienation surrounding the most heavily contaminated areas near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus and Ukraine.
We visited the village of Kupuvate, 18 miles from Chernobyl Power Plant, home to Maira and Ivan Ilchenko. They have lived there for almost 80 years. Before the disaster in 1986, the population of this village was just over 300. Now it is 2. They welcomed us into their little house. They greeted us with Vodka and Pig Fat. Of course it custom to eat and drink what you are given :)
Maria showed us her crops, she is growing watermelon and potatoes. She also makes amazing fruit juice and showed us her pantry deep down in the ground. We filled several buckets of water for them from their well and listened to their stories. Maria makes vodka 60% proof and gave us a special batch she made over 30 years ago. She wouldn't let us leave until we had finished the bottle. An experience I will never ever forget.
We were dazzled by the beauty and design of this gorgeous coat of arms–applied to a house wall in the Ehrenfeld neighborhood–so I just had to post this.
More about its history, according to KölnTourismus, the tourist promotion entity:
"The Cologne coat of arms shows three crowns on a red field and eleven black drops on a white one. Each displayed component has its own meaning, which partially refers to legends.
The crowns symbolise the Three Kings or biblical Magi, the supposed relics of whom are housed in a golden shrine, which is named after them, in the Cologne Cathedral. In 1154, Frederick I Barbarossa Holy Roman Emperor gave them as a gift to Cologne.
According to different understandings, the drops may be interpreted as flames. Locals call them “tears” which derive from ermine tails on the historic Breton heraldry. Brittany was the mother country of Cologne’s Patron Saint Holy Ursula. Together with ten virgins she is said to have been martyred by the Huns. The “tears” commemorate her fate.
Finally, red and white are the colours used by the Hanseatic League which determined the economic development of wide parts of medieval Europe. Together with Lübeck, Cologne is considered as founding city of this alliance."
Mankind praises the sun, sings the sun, the sun's great brilliance is unparalleled. Human beings are inseparable from the sun. The sun's shining nurtures billions of life species and human beings. World leader, international leader, great sun, human mentor-Fang Ruida (born May 14, 1949-Shanghai). Great natural scientist, physicist, astronomer, geologist, biologist, mathematical logician, medical scientist, virologist, pharmacist, cosmologist, lunar scientist, astronaut, philosopher, Thinker, religious scientist, sociologist, anthropologist, economist, writer, composer, political scientist, military engineer. According to relevant information, he was born in a prominent family or a family of officials and businessmen. Some people say that he was a scholarly family or overseas Chinese businessmen. Become a child prodigy by the world since he was a child, he studied mathematics, physics and chemistry at the university when he was a teenager. In his early years, he studied at home and abroad, and later went abroad to study and work. He studied and studied in Europe, the United States, Russia, Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, India, Pakistan, South Africa, and other countries. This has added wings to his rapid development and leaps. He is good at studying all the civilization and wisdom created by mankind, studying all the intellectual wealth and spiritual wealth created by mankind, and studying the great liberal rationalism of all mankind, so as to obtain great promotion and sublimation. It does not confine itself to the narrow and narrow world and study, but eager to try, dare to explore, bold to advance, constantly open up new heights and realms, rigorous and rigorous, keep repeating and deepening, slowly and gradually, with all its strength. Going to conquer the important Tianjin, has become a big Yan. He is good at learning all the research results of his predecessors. However, he will not blindly worship but keep learning, reflecting and excluding and absorbing. Finally, integrate the big device and try to diverge after convergence. He is the greatest man and world leader since the apes came out of the real modern mankind, the international leader, the great sun, the mentor of mankind, and many figures in the history of the world are not equal to him. Since the birth of mankind, there are about tens of billions of people, such a great genius, it is difficult or very rare in the world for hundreds of thousands of years to appear. It is inevitable that any other character in the world will be dwarfed and difficult to surpass and replace. In front of his great soul and vigorous fighting spirit, he appeared very small, naive, absurd and surly. How can you reach such a height that is beyond the reach of others? With the sun and the moon, coexist with the mountains and seas. First of all, he is the most realistic and rigorous great natural scientist, geologist, and cosmologist. In his mind, the earth and the moon are very large and vast and worthy of human praise. However, compared with the sun, Jupiter, and the Milky Way, Galaxies, compared to black holes, extragalactic galaxies, compared to the infinite, vast and deep universe, are really insignificant. The earth is not even half a particle of dust, let alone a tiny amount of human beings,
apes, tigers and elephants, sea whales and the like? Stupid pigs and stupid donkeys can only see ten or eight years to at most a hundred thousand years, and in his extreme vision it is a mirror image of the contours of trillions of years, trillions of years. Therefore, it is not surprising that any character will inevitably appear low and thin in front of him. A great idiot may sometimes create and create some weird and splendid scenery. In fact, he is just a short-lived mirage. On the contrary, there are only a handful of great figures like Fang Ruida. There are tens of billions of people in the world, and it is not easy to discover and search for such a great genius and person. Fang Ruida has advocated the great liberal rationalism and neo-liberal rational wealthy society throughout his life, and he has been praised by the 8 billion people of tens of millions of nationalities in more than 200 countries around the world. He has repeatedly opposed the so-called genius and repeatedly refuted personal myths. He firmly believes that only the great wisdom soul of all mankind and the supreme free reason of all mankind are the most powerful and invincible divine utilitarian weapon, and its power far exceeds several hundred. Thousands of atomic bombs. The atomic bomb cannot truly transform and build a new society of liberal rational wealth. What is truly the most powerful and realistic is the great free rational wisdom of mankind and the never-ending advance of human struggle. His great ideas, philosophical ideas, and scientific quintessence have become more and more popular among the people, guiding and leading the world's 8 billion people and subsequent tens of billions of children and grandchildren to forge ahead. Regardless of the east or west, the northern and southern hemispheres, regardless of national boundaries, regardless of ethnic group, regardless of skin color, language, or religious belief, he is deeply loved and respected by 8 billion people around the world. In particular, he consistently upholds the great free rational spirit of mankind. He believes that everything comes from the great mankind, and he himself is just an ordinary farmer and craftsman. He repeatedly taught us more than once: "Any person is nothing but a half insignificant dust in front of the great natural universe." "Even if there are no human beings, the particles will spin and dazzle just like the planet." This is the voice and call from his heart. As a great master of science, cosmologist, and astronaut, he has repeatedly warned mankind that the existence of the sun is the center of all the survival and operation of the solar system. Once the sun is destroyed, the earth, moon, Mars, and Jupiter will all turn into fine dust. Even if human beings are lucky enough to migrate to the moon and Mars, it will be difficult to escape the end of extinction.
Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler of Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 4 (VMAQ-4) “Seahawks” out of MCAS Cherry Point participating in Red Flag 17-2 exercises at Nellis AFB.
(L-R) Portugal’s Minister of Finance Vitor Gaspar; George Soros, Chairman Soros Fund Management; Wolfgang Münchau, Associate Editor, FT; IMF Deputy Managing Director Nemat Shafik; Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, European Commission Olli Rehn; and China Investment Corporation Gao Xiqing participate in the IMF Seminar: Charting a New Growth Path for the Euro Zone on September 24, 2011 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. during the 2011 World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings
The IMF/World Bank Meetings are being held in Washington, DC this week which will host Finance Ministers and Bank Governors from 187 countries.
IMF Staff Photograph
Next event is September 18th at Mayfair Mall & goes from 10am - 4pm. Come down to meet a Super Hero & get your photo taken with them for a donation to the BC Children's Hospital Foundation.
Every person who donates & gets their photo taken is eligible to win the Super Hero pack filled with awesome items for the whole family AND a custom made Super Hero costume made for them by Mark Ashfield in time for Halloween! This is a one of a kind prize and the costume will be of top Hollywood grade - not a cheap costume!
Some of the organizations we'd like to help are:
- BC Children's Hospital Foundation (all funds from this year's Justice League FUNdraiser will go to this charity)
- Ending Child Abuse
- KidSport Canada
- Children's Wish Foundation
Mushrooms and fungi on a fallen tree near Mazinaw lake , Bon Echo Provincial Park , Martin’s photography’s , Cloyne , Ontario , Canada , September 6. 2019
Blue jay
Blue jay feather
Bluejay feathers
Eikel
Acorn
Boletus Subtomentosus mushroom
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Cloyne
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Large Oak tree
Rod iron railings
boat launch
canoe
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March 2020
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River
Simcoe Point Pioneer Cemetery
Beaver
Beavers having a swim
North of Lake Ontario
December 2019
Lake Ontario
Duffins Trail
cloudy sky
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Mazinaw Lake
Bon Echo Provincial Park
Bon Echo
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HWY. ON. 41 , Cloyne
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DOUGLAS HARBOUR LIGHTHOUSE (BATTERY PIER) WAS BUILT IN THE EARLY 1960S AND HAS AN ACTIVE FOCAL PLANE 12 M (39 FT) WITH A QUICK FLASHING RED LIGHT. THE LIGHTHOUSE IS 10 M (33 FT) TALL WITH A ROUND TAPERED STONE TOWER WITH LANTERN AND GALLERY. THE LIGHTHOUSE IS PAINTED WHITE WITH A SINGLE RED HORIZONTAL BAND AND THE LANTERN IS SILVERY METALLIC. LOCATED AT THE END OF BATTERY PIER ON THE EAST SIDE OF DOUGLAS HARBOUR, AND IS ACCESSIBLE BY WALKING THE PIER. OPERATOR: ISLE OF MAN HARBOURS.
This memorial
of his untimely fate
has been erected by the
Vicar and two friends
who accompanied him
in a visit to Paris
as a tribute of respect to that
Brave and Generous Nation
Once our foes but now our
allies and brethren
Ainsi Soit il
A.D
1857
Napoleonic Conflict
In the late 1700s Dereham church's bell tower was used as a prison for French prisoners of war being transferred from Great Yarmouth to Norman Cross under the charge of the East Norfolk Militia. On 6 October 1799 a French officer, Jean de Narde, managed to escape from the tower and, being unable to escape from the church yard due to guards being present, hid in a tree. The Frenchman was spotted and shot when he refused to come down and surrender. Jean is buried in the church yard, and his grave is marked by a memorial stone erected in 1858, which includes the following statement: "Once our foes but now our allies and brethren."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dereham
Source: eastscapes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/once-our-foe-grave-of-j...
The East North Militia have one “battle honour” to its “credit” Whilst escorting French prisoners of war from Yarmouth to Norman Cross, The Militia locked up their prisoners for the night in the bell tower of Dereham church – for safe keeping. In spite of this, an officer by the name of Jean De Narde, the 28 year son of a notary from St. Malo, managed to escape from the church. Finding that the Militia had set piquets around the perimeter of the Church he climbed an oak hoping that his absence would go unnoticed and that the party would leave without him thus allowing him to make good his escape. Unfortunately for De Narde, the Militia, realizing that they were missing a prisoner conducted a search of the locality and the Frenchman was spotted on account of him leaving his legs dangling from the tree. The Sergeant was told to get the Frenchman down. The prisoner was called on to surrender. Whether De Narde did not understand English that was yelled at him or perhaps he did not even realise that he had been discovered, De Narde kept to his tree. The Sergeant thereupon shot the Frenchman from the tree, killing him instantly. The local population were apparently ashamed by this action and thought this deed to be one of unnecessary cruelty, according to the Parish Priest, the Reverend Benjamin John Armstrong . Eventually a monument was raised to the unfortunate De Narde and the family in St Malo informed of his fate.
Source: eastnorfolkmilitia.webs.com/themilitia.htm
Jean de Narde was a French prisoner of war who had been landed at Yarmouth, and was on his way to Norman Cross prison in 1799. His party was lodged in the Bell Tower of East Dereham church overnight, and he attempted to escape by climbing down the wall but was shot by one of the guards. He was buried in the cemetery and later in the 19th century a headstone was placed above his grave. There is a plaque on the tower wall that relates this story. A contemporary account of prisoners marching through the area records the frequent passage of such prisoners, with East Dereham being one of the halts for the night:
Columns of prisoners often 1,000 strong were marched from Yarmouth to Norwich and lodged in the castle. From Yarmouth they were marched to Lynn halting at Costessey, East Dereham and thence to Lynn. Here the captives were lodged temporarily in an old warehouse on the north side of the King Staith.
The Norman Cross brochure has this text on the front of its folder:
In 1797 the Transport Board of the Admiralty decided that a new prison establishment was required in the east of England, to house the many thousands of French and Dutch prisoners of war arriving in this country. The site had to be inland to hinder escape attempts although within easy access of the coast so that captives could be landed at Kings Lynn and Yarmouth and conveyed to the depot at minimal cost; in a fertile area where the local produce could supply the depot; and on a site that possessed a good water supply. Norman Cross possessed all these attributes and was on the Great North Road so that troops, prisoners and supplies could be conveyed along this route easily. Construction work began in December 1796 and by the following April the prison was ready for the reception of prisoners.
The depot was in use from 1797 to 1814 and housed not only French but Dutch, German, Italian and Polish POWs. These men were captured at the naval battles of Camperduin and Trafalgar and during the Peninsular War. Prisoners also came from enemy privateers and merchant vessels, the capture of the French colonies in the West Indies and from battles such as Maida in 1806 in Italy and the Walcheren campaign of 1809.
Source: www.napoleonicwarsforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2167
The " Bell Tower" (to adopt loyally the indigenous name) stands, not on the church, like most of its contemporaries, but beside it. It was also used as a lock-up or temporary prison in the days when French captives were marched from Yarmouth to Norman Cross, and passed a night at Norwich and Dereham on their way.
One October evening in 1799, a batch of these poor fellows were lodged in the hospitable precincts of this Bell Tower. A prisoner of war by the name of Jean de la Narde, twenty-eight years of age, the son of a notary of St. Malo, thought he would try to escape during the night. He was discovered, however, by the sentry, pursued by the guard just as he had succeeded in climbing into a large tree, and was there shot dead. A neat stone was erected over his remains by the kind-hearted vicar and renewed by the Rev. B. J. Armstrong in 1856.
Page 29 “Life, writings and correspondence of George Borrow (1803-1881) based on official and other authentic sources”
Source: archive.org/stream/lifewritingsandc01knapuoft/lifewriting...
Passages from the diary of the Rev. Benjamin John Armstrong M.A. (Cantab) Vicar of Dereham. 1850 – 88
Feb. 17 1858. Today another cross was set up in the churchyard, the inscription under which will speak for itself. 'In memory of Jean de Narde, son of a Notary Public of St. Malo. A French prisoner of war, who, having escaped from the Bell tower of this church, was pursued and shot by a soldier. October 6th, 1799, aged 28 years.
Source: www.coxresearcher.com/history/norfolkdiary.htm
Source: godsacre.blogspot.co.uk/2011/12/jean-de-narde-norfolk-dia...
6. (March 1858)*—“Within the last few days a stone has been placed in the churchyard at East Dereham, in memory of Jean de Narde, a French prisoner of war, who, in the year 1796 while en route from Yarmouth to Norman Cross prison, was lodged in the lower chamber of the bell tower of the church, and escaped therefrom. He was pursued by the guard, and, after some search, was espied in a tree on the Scarning Road, and when summoned by a soldier to descend and surrender he did not comply. His non-compliance forfeited his life, for he was shot off it like a crow. The stone was erected by the vicar and two other gentlemen.”
From Norfolk Annals, A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the ineteenth Century, Vol 2 by Charles Mackie.
Source: www.hellenicaworld.com/UK/Literature/CharlesMackie/en/Nor...
(I’m leaning towards discounting this version – not only is the year wrong but it’s the only version that implies he managed to get further than the churchyard).
So lots of slight variations on the circumstances of Jeans’ death throughout all those. I believe this headstone was a replacement for one put in place contemporaneously by the then incumbent Vicar.
A colorful close-up shot of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's element assembly wheel. It appears like a collection of small reflective circles held in a circular metal frame divided into segments like slices of pie, with a silvery, star-like conical center. Each small circle sits within a slice of the frame, and each has a black rim with silver bolts and a black center connected to the rim by narrow supports like the spokes of a wheel. The frame is angled away from the viewer and partly out of view. At the top of the image, one circle does not have the black rim, and is simply a reflective disk bolted down. Photo Credit: Ball Aerospace
The Green-and-white Hummingbird cam is a collaboration between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Inkaterra Asociación. Very little has been published about this small species of hummingbird endemic to the eastern Andean slopes of central Peru.
Watch live anytime at allaboutbirds.org/gwhummers
Green-and-white Hummingbirds are locally common through their range and inhabit the canopy of humid forests, forest borders, clearings, and second growth. Its breeding biology is thought to be similar to other Amazilia hummingbirds, with an incubation period of 15-16 days followed by fledging at 18-22 days. Only the female adult cares for the nestlings, and she feeds them a steady diet of insects and nectar gathered from nearby the nest site.
Unfortunately, rates of nest predation for open-cup nesters in the tropics are very high—only around 18% survive to fledge. Eggs hatched around December 3 or 4, and if the chicks make it, they should fledge around 22-25 December, 2016.
The cam situated on the expansive grounds of the Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel in Aguas Calientes, Peru, near Machu Picchu. The hotel sits on 12 acres of protected cloud forest where 214 species of birds – including such rarities as the Golden-headed Quetzal and the Andean Cock-of-the-rock – have been seen. In addition to the avifauna, the hotel hosts the world’s largest native orchid collection (372 species) and the Andean Bear Rescue Center, where 5 endangered Andean Bears are being rehabilitated following bouts in captivity.
The hummingbird nest is near the Rescue Center, and from time to time you may see a bear walking by in the background. The “tick”-ing that you hear on the audio is the sound of the electric fence surrounding the Rescue Center.
Inkaterra Asociación (www.inkaterra.com/inkaterra-as...) is a non-profit institution that started research in 1978 to promote the conservation of Peru’s biodiversity and cultural resources. Committed to sustainable development, its core objectives are the encouragement of scientific research and the promotion of responsible business models to benefit local communities.
Determined to improve the quality of life for every living being, ITA has been able to protect over 15,000 hectares of Amazon rainforest in the low basin of Madre de Dios river (capturing 3,400,000 tons of carbon emissions), as well as ecosystems in Cuzco’s cloud forests. These activities are supported by partnerships with National Geographic Society, Global Environment Facility (United Nations), Conservation International, World Bank, International Game Fish Association, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and other influential organizations.
As intended by the founder of Inkaterra Hotels, José Koechlin von Stein, ITA’s research program is self-funded through its ecotourism activities, which have provided 21 new species for science among orchids, amphibians, insects and liana. An Andean (Spectacled) Bear conservation program in Machu Picchu; bird and orchid studies; and a marine reserve at Cabo Blanco (Northern Peru) stand out among ITA’s current projects.
Devastation Left in the Wake of German Armies.
MILL AT COURCELLES, FRANCE, WITH BOILERS BLOWN BY DYNAMITE INTO A MASS OF SCRAP AND TWISTED METAL.
THIS IS TYPICAL OF HUNDREDS OF SIMILAR CASES DESTRUCTION IN THE INVADED DISTRICTS OF FRANCE.
AN ORGY OF DESTRUCTIVE RAGE IS INDICATED BY THIS RUIN OF THE EXTENSIVE WORKS OF THE COAL PITS AT DOURGES, FRANCE.
NO MILITARY END WAS SERVED BY THIS, AND IT WAS WHOLLY OUTSIDE THE SANCTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
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The war of the nations: portfolio in rotogravure etchings: compiled from the Mid-week pictorial. New York: New York Times, Co, 1919. Book.
Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/19013740/. (Accessed November 08, 2016.)
Images from "The War of the Nations : Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings : Compiled from the Mid-Week Pictorial" (New York : New York Times, Co., 1919)
Notes: Selected from "The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings," published by the New York Times shortly after the 1919 armistice. This portfolio compiled selected images from their "Mid-Week Pictorial" newspaper supplements of 1914-19. 528 p. : chiefly ill. ; 42 cm.; hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 --Pictorial works.
New York--New York
Format: Rotogravures --1910-1920.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction
Repository: Library of Congress, Serials and Government Publications Division, Washington, D.C. 20540
Part Of: Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 (DLC) sgpwar 19191231
General information about the Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 digital collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037
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Detainees of Gao Prison and Corrections house, who benefited from the QIP Rapid Impact Project initiated by MINUSMA.
Photo: UN/Harandane Dicko
Justice for Grenfell: the Grenfell Tower community one month after the June 14 2017 fire and the death of at least 80 people: North Kensington, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC), West London, London, U.K., Saturday, July 14, 2017.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- Monterey Road Child Development Center staff, children, parents & volunteers participate in a parade April 1 to celebrate the Month of the Military Child.
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PHOTO by Tonya Townsell, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
The University of Massachusetts women's basketball team took down Saint Bonaventure University with a final score of 72-54 during their first game of the 2020 A10 tournament in the Mullins Center on March 3.
Photo by Nina Walat
Novovoronezh (Russian: Нововоро́неж) is a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Don River 55 kilometers (34 mi) south of Voronezh. Population: 30,658 (2021 Census); 32,635 (2010 Census); 36,961 (2002 Census); 35,666 (1989 Soviet census).
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Novovoronezh Urban Okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, this administrative unit also has urban okrug status.
The Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant is located in the town.
Novovoronezh was established along with the start of the future nuclear power plant construction works in 1957. It was then called the urban settlement of Novo-Graessovsky, but renamed its current name later the same year.
The first unit of 210 MW of the Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Plant was put into power on September 30, 1964/
From 1959 to 1963 Novovoronezh was the center of the Novovoronezh district, and its administrative status was upgraded from the urban settlement to a town in 1987.
In 2020, an ambiguous monument was erected in the city to the legendary founder of the city Alyonka, who, according to legend, found a good place and brought her fellow villagers there. Thanks to this monument, Novovoronezh became famous throughout Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The forged sculptural composition, which cost the city a million rubles and caused negative feedback from citizens, was dismantled three days after installation and later sold at auction for 2.6 million rubles. with a starting price of 1 million rubles. The updated monument to Alyonka, but already made of bronze, was opened on July 1, 2022.
Day of the Dead Face Painting in Plaza Valladolid.
Throughout the Day of the Dead celebrations, people paint their faces to look like skulls, adding decorations to represent a loved one who has passed on.
It's common to see a specific image depicted through costume and face painting during Dia de los Muertos including a candle crown.
Rivers Of America --- Frontierland, Disneyland, Anaheim, California - - - Mark Twain Riverboat in background
Planking is an activity consisting of lying face down with arms to the side & touching the body (like a plank) in an unusual and public location.
Also called:
Playing dead --- 시체놀이 --- South Korea, 2003
On one’s belly --- à plat ventre --- France, 2004
Extreme lying down --- Australasia, 2008
Facedowns --- USA & Ireland, 2010
Planking --- Australia, New Zealand, worldwide, 2011
the above from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_down_game
A front nearside view of Metroline's New Bus for London LT 799 in the queue of heavy traffic on the eastern side of Russell Square in central London in its newly applied 2019 Visit Florida pink & light grey all-over advertising vinyls. The pink of the main base colour of the advert combined with the graphics of the beach and the sea on the upper deck of the vehicle makes for quite a striking and visually compactive combination.
Nikon D4 photos of a surf goddess!
Here Lakey Peterson is getting one of her high 9's! A near perfect heat! Lakey's 19.76 was the highest heat score at the 2012 US Open in Huntington Beach, for both men's and woman's!
Nikon D4 Shots of Beautiful Pro Women's Surfers with 600mm Nikkor Prime!
In Huntington Beach at the Huntington Pier! The US Nike Hurley Open!
First time out with the Nikon D4 & the AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4G ED VR with Nikon’s VR image stabilization and Nano Crystal Coat! & a video camera! Here're some pictures of my rig: www.flickr.com/photos/herosjourneymythology45surf/7688611...
The video camera I had mounted on the rig is the amazing image-stabilized Panasonic X900MK 3MOS 3D Full HD SD Camcorder. Will get the slow-motion video up tomorrow!
Rock on Surf City USA!
The Nikon D4 is amazing! It never misses a shot! And the 600mm nikkor prime was amazingly fast! I shot at ISO 200 fully open at F4 and many of these photos were shot at 1/4000 s or 1/5000 s! Amazingly sharp & detailed!
She was wearing a white Nike Wetsuit & a red singlet!
Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/259989
Local call number: TD00075A
Title: Unidentified oystermen at work in Apalachicola, Florida
Date: 1953
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 60 mm.
Series Title: Tallahassee Democrat Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL, 32399-0250 USA, Contact: 850.245.6700, Archives@dos.myflorida.com
One of the most successful light rail systems in the whole of Europe, the Nottingham Express Transit system which opened in 2004 after 16 years of development and planning has become a vital part of the city's public transport system, being able to clear away the cars from the narrow streets of the city, opening up the area to have on-street restaurants and cafes to give the place an all the more European feel.
The NET system was originally conceived in 1988, in an attempt to win back the crowded and congested city from the grip of poorly designed urban road networks that had ended up becoming huge car parks full of smog. £268 million and several retreads with the Department for Transport, resulted in the 8.7 mile, 23 stop system opening on the 9th March 2004. The original route was built between Hucknall and Nottingham Station, with 2.8 miles of track built for street-running. From Wilkinson Street northward, the line runs parallel to the Robin Hood Railway line, which runs from Nottingham to Worksop on the Sheffield/Lincoln line. In addition to the Hucknall route, a small 1 mile branch to Phoenix Park diverges near the north end of the route to allow for Park & Ride connections with the M1 Motorway, with trams operating between the two termini alternating on a 10 minute headway, meaning services into the city run every 5 minutes.
However, more recently the route has garnered acclaim for the construction of its new Phase 2 scheme, which has seen the route extended beyond its elevated terminus at Nottingham Station and onwards to Clifton and Toton, extending the route to 14.8 miles and serving areas to the south of the city. The most prominent part of this route's construction was the gradual movement of a 170ft long bridge over the active Nottingham train station, taking the completed structure and pushing it wholesale over the tracks and trains below, with the result that no trains were disrupted by this inch-by-inch operation. Services began in September 2015.
Trams currently used on the route are the original fifteen Incentro AT6/5 units built by Bombardier Transportation at Derby Litchurch Lane, but have since been complimented in 2014 by Citadis 302 tramcars built by Alstom, with 22 units constructed to coincide with the opening of Phase 2. Between them, these units have an annual ridership of 7.9 million people, an average of 21,000 per day.
The October 25, 2012 performance of Disney on Ice: 100 Years of Magic at HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.
Campers and Coaches at The Camp of Champions Ski Camp 2013. Want to have the most fun this summer? Come to COC.
Tru2U empowers young girls to face challenges of adolescence
By Joyce Coronel | May 21, 2009 | The Catholic Sun
Decked out in pale pink T-shirts emblazoned with the Tru2U logo, 42 eighth-grade girls from St. Thomas the Apostle listened to Amy Aker tell them how she found her prince.
You could have heard a pin drop.
Aker, an attractive young mother of three, went on to describe how she learned that only God could fulfill all of her needs and be the man of her dreams.
Parents have long worried about the “boy crazy” phase girls go through in the formative years of adolescence. A group of moms from St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School got together and came up with a way to reach and empower young ladies with a message of faith and purity.
Laura Westfall, a nurse practitioner and mother of an eighth-grade daughter, often sees young female patients who must deal with the unanticipated consequences of poor decision-making.
It was while she was on a sunrise hike and reflecting on her daughter’s upcoming graduation that the idea of a retreat for girls came to her. She turned to six other moms at the school who in a short amount of time were able to organize the retreat, held at Mount Claret May 7.
The day began at 6 a.m. with a team-building activity involving ropes and an obstacle course. Then the girls were off to hear a slate of speakers their mothers had arranged.
They learned about the role nutrition plays from fitness expert Tricia Leach who counseled them to make wise choices about food, but most of all, to know who they were before God.
After asking the girls to rate themselves as daughters and students on a scale from 1 to 10, she surprised them by letting them know that no matter how they saw themselves, God considers each one of them to be a “perfect 10.”
More: www.catholicsun.org
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Untitled, 1981
Ink on paper
Courtesy of Keith Haring Foundation
Keith Haring: 1978–1982, on display from March 16 to July 8, 2012 in the Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing of the Brooklyn Museum, was the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of the artist. Curated by Raphaela Platow, the exhibition includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos, and over 150 archival objects, including rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers, posters, subway drawings, and documentary photographs.
Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990), a Pennsylvania native, moved to New York in 1978 and with his trademark creations across a variety of media, quickly made his mark in the thriving alternative art community that was developing outside the gallery and museum system. Haring was known for his subway graffiti, but instead of painting subway cars with spraypaint, he mostly drew with white chalk on the black paper pasted on unused advertising spaces. His distinctive style became widely known by those who never knew his identity. In his later years, he took on a more activist role, contributing works to hospitals and charities. In 1989, after being diagnosed with AIDS, he founded the Keith Haring Foundation, which supports organizations involved in AIDS education and outreach.
The Brooklyn Museum, sitting at the border of Prospect Heights and Crown Heights near Prospect Park, is the second largest art museum in New York City. Opened in 1897 under the leadership of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences president John B. Woodward, the 560,000-square foot, Beaux-Arts building houses a permanent collection including more than one-and-a-half million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art.
Vale of Rheidol Railway Number 8 takes water at Aberffrwd - November 1988 on the last day of British Railways operation. This was the last day of BR steam over 20 years after the 15 Guinea Special!
For more pictures of this railway in the 1970s and 80s click here: www.jhluxton.com/The-35mm-Film-Archive/Railways/Vale-of-R...