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Provisional reception of the first building supported by FORETS at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Kisangani.
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 30th of September 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
"The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Leeds own Statue of Liberty - Plastic, covered in Bird droppings and holding a tattered Cross of St George.
Opening night of the national touring production of 'The Phantom of the Opera' in Denver included an up-close look at of Maria Björnson’s award-winning costumes; a peek at crews installing the famous chandelier in the Buell Theatre; and a visit by cast member Kathryn McCreary (The Wild Woman) with members of the DCPA’s Best of Broadway Society. Also making a appearance was Popsicle, the SCFD Bear, who is “popping” up all over town in support of Referendum 4B, which is passed will extend the metro area’s Scientific and Cultural Facilities District for the next 12 years. The penny-per-$10 sales tax generates about $53 million a year, shared between 300 arts and science organizations. Date: Aug. 26, 2016. Photos by John Moore for the DCPA NewsCenter (www.MyDenverCenter.Org).
History of Martha
John Hanify at Wheel of Martha
John Hanify at Wheel of Martha
Built in 1907 for J. R. Hanify and named after his wife, Martha Fitzmaurice Hanify. J. R. Hanify was the Commodore of the San Francisco Yacht Club. Martha is a B. B. Crowninshield design built at W. F. Stone Boat Yard in San Francisco. Martha is 68’ on deck; 84’ sparred, 16’ beam, 8’ draft. Planking is fir and silver bali on oak frames. Interior is Honduran mahogany, graced with leaded glass cabinetry below decks. Martha originally was gaff rigged and is now staysail rigged.
James Cagney owned her from 1934-1943. Edgar Kaiser purchased her in 1968 and brought her to Washington; he later donated her to Four Winds – Westward Ho Camp on Orcas Island. The campers still sing the Martha song and Martha visits the camp each summer.
Martha was in a yard accident in 1976. She was dropped during a routine haul-out and stove in her hull on the port side. She was declared a total loss and was to be scraped. Del Edgbert saved her from the scrap yard. After extensive repairs, he and his wife Paulette lived on board for 20 years. During that time they sailed Martha to San Francisco to race her in the Master Mariners Race, sailed to Alaska for a summer and spent many years sailing her in the San Juan Islands, Puget Sound and Canadian waters.
Teaching youth to sail
Teaching youth to sail
Martha is now owned and operated by The Schooner Martha Foundation whose sole purpose is to maintain and restore Martha and to use Martha to operate sail training programs. Martha has been under their care since 1996. Martha is still considered one of the fastest schooners around. Martha takes both youths and adults on sail training adventures in and around the San Juan Islands and Canadian waters.
Martha is not only the oldest working sailboat here in the state of Washington but she is also the oldest living flagship of the San Francisco Yacht Club.
Found out about this wall in one of my new books about Birmingham (may have seen it before but didn't realise its significance until now).
It was part of the original Great Western Railway - Snow Hill Station.
This was the entrance (now bricked up).
You can see GWR on it, as well as there coat of arms.
It is on Livery Street.
Joins a number of INJAZ youth in an interactive dialogue session where she drew attention to the importance of the broad participation of youth in economic and political development of society
Amman, Jordan/ February 16, 2004
تشارك في جلسة حوارية مع مجموعة من شباب وشابات "إنجاز" حيث أكدت على ضرورة تفعيل مشاركة الشباب في الحياة الإقتصادية والسياسية للنهوض بالمجتمعات
عمان، الأردن/ 16 شباط 2004
© Royal Hashemite Court
As the largest financier of the US coal industry, Bank of America could be renamed the "Bank of Coal". And what better place to do that than at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC, which stands as a giant symbol of everything wrong with BofA's banking practices?
BofA pays big bucks for the naming rights to the stadium because of its enormous marketing value, even while the bank's investments in the coal industry are polluting countless communities like Charlotte around the country. This is perfectly symbolic of BofA's profits-over-people-and-planet mentality. As the bank's annual shareholder meeting is to be held in Charlotte on May 9, we thought we'd point that out.
5 climbers scaled Bank of America Stadium on May 2, 2012 and dropped a 25x70 ft. banner reading "Bank of America Coal".
We need you to stand with these activists. Sign the petition calling on BofA to stop bankrolling the coal industry.
Photo: Nell Redmond / RAN
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SUMMER READING COAST-TO-COAST ICE CREAM TRUCK TOUR
August 3rd-29th
Note: Jeff Kinney will not be making in-person appearances and will not be signing books at any appearance.
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Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Philadelphia :Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia,1817-1918.
Donnerbrunnen
The Donner-Fountain in the center of New Market
Close-up view of the Providentia
Donnerbrunnen is the popular name for the by Georg Raphael Donner designed and 1737-1739 built Providentia-Fountain on the Neuer Markt in the first Viennese district Innere Stadt. The Viennese people but could not do much with the term providentia (Latin for Providence ), which is why they named it after its builder. Art historical often is also used the terminus flour market well (Mehlmarktbrunnen), as the New Market in the 18 Century still was a flour market.
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Architecture
In the middle of the fountain, Providentia, the allegory of foresight or good government, not least also refers to the good water supply of Vienna. It is surrounded by four allegorical figures representing the rivers of the Archduchy of Austria. Such a scheme is in the Mannerist and early Baroque quite popular, a well-known example is the Fountain of the Four Rivers by Bernini in Rome. The representation of flows in the form of allegorical persons was to the 19th Century an example, about the Austriabrunnen on Freyung or at the Albertina ramp.
The four flow figures represent the four ages and temperaments. The tow male figures are representing the rivers of Upper Austria, the two female ones from Lower Austria.
Traun is a youthful figure who stands with a trident for a fish at the bottom of the basin. The figure is constructed in a very dynamic manner and offers no frontal view - it looks directly into the water.
Enns is an old ferryman leaning of a rock with an oar and so symbolising the Enns as important transportation route in the Alps.
Ybbs is a standing figure of a girl with a water providing vessel.
March is a female character who is leaning against a relief (possibly the Romans against the Marcomanni) representing a battle and thus accentuating the character of the Morava River as a border.
The pedestal surrounded by four cherubs spouting water fish (pike, carp, catfish, and salmon), which serves as the actual water dispenser of the well and the Danube symbolizing. The pelvis and the base of the fountain made of Mauthausen granite.
History
New Market overlooking the Donnerbrunnen (Carl Wenzel Zajicek, 1913)
In 1737 negotiations between the City of Vienna and Donner are documented (and with Lorenzo Mattielli ). The city of Vienna appears here as the owner, which in artistic determined by the imperial family and nobility rather baroque period is exceptional.
The figures for them Georg Raphael Donner only the models created were cast by Johann Nikolaus Moll in a lead-zinc alloy and 1739, on the feast of Emperor Charles VI. positioned. Under the reign of Maria Theresa , the nudity of the figures was seen as offensive and they were in 1773 allegedly removed at the behest of chastity Commission. The sculptor Johann Martin Fischer was commissioned to melt them down but recognized their artistic value and restored it. In 1801 they were put back in their original place. 1873, the figures were replaced by bronze copies of the originals now forming the center of the baroque section of the Austrian Gallery Belvedere. During the Second World War, the Donnerbrunnen was removed and only on 30 April 1947 re-erected.
In the 1980s, the thunder fountain (Donner-Brunnen) was a popular meeting place for Viennese subculture, especially the Mod movement.
21 May 2019 - OECD Forum: Megacities-shortdocs: Exploring Change through the Eye of Citizens
Christian Ginisty, Head of Media Dissemination
Didier Bonnet, President & Founder, Megacities-ShortDocs.
OECD Headquarters, Paris, France
Photo : OECD / Maud Bernos
Chris Hanson of Ledgemont Country Club hits a chip on No. 18 (par 4, 375 yards) during a #RIAmateur Qualifier at Cranston Country Club (par 71, 6,493 yards).
I had planned to do something nice & Christmas-y for the December theme of "Red" but you know what they say about plans! So here are three of my Reds on the last day of December, looking for 2012! HAPPY NEW YEAR, DEAR FRIENDS!
Selects of Anime Expo 2015 at the Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, CA
07/04/15
Highlights:
Medical University of South Carolina aerial view
in Charleston, South Carolina - © MMXXI David Oppenheimer - Performance Impressions Photography Archives
mountain , mist .
Tales of dawn is a new series . Somehow connected to an old american indian legend ...from outer space they came .
It was dark and silent , then .
They made such a fine silky web ...that it captured ...the light...for the third planet in the system of a minor exploding star .
This planet itself appears to be another stupid legend making the round of the main galaxies .
Still images of it , colourful , strange , magic seems to exist.....been seen...
Be what you wish....I lov the legend of the spiders of light....the lost third planet , and the makers of the images....why they made it ?.....:-)
Two C-47's that are part of the collection from the museum "Wings of Liberation" in Best, The Netherlands.
A third one was damaged beyond repair while it was transported. It was to be used as a background prop for a WWII based musical. Some schmuck had not calculated the width exactly and while crossing an underpass it became wedged.
Much of the carving work was already with the mold. However, some of the areas that were blank, I filled with my own custom carvings.
Using flat paint and stain enhanced the hull area. The topsides were gold leafed with small additional accents of metallic gold.
Oldrids Of Boston liveried Realtoy Leyland Titan. I love these Matchbox copies which are still available cheaply from Tesco. It's probably one of the Realtoy castings ill never stop buying. Mint and boxed.
Campers and coaches at The Camp of Champions Summer snowboard Camp in Whistler. If you want the most fun week of your life, come to COC this year and ride with the pros. www.campofchampions.com
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - NOVEMBER 16: Choi "Zeus" Woo-je of T1 at the League of Legends World Championship 2023 Finals Features Day on November 16, 2023 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
Dawei Zhatsang - Shamba Langkor monastery - sunning the Buddha
The Sunning of the Buddha Festival is the day when Tibetan people worship Buddha. It usually falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Tibetan people will gather together in the temples to celebrate this festival.
Tibetan people in festive costumes gather in the local temples on the morning of the Sunning of Buddha Festival for the Sunning Buddha ceremony.
Accompanying Buddhist music played by lamas, Tibetan men carry the Buddhist tapestry from the temple to a clean and well-lit hillside. The tapestry is then unfolded along the hillside by the lamas, starting the Sunning of Buddha Festival.
Pious Buddhists kowtow and chant sutras beneath the giant Buddha spreading out before them, praying to the Buddha for blessings.
The Sunning of Buddha ceremony lasts for several hours, after which the lamas will fold the Buddha tapestry in awe. They will walk around the temple three times with the folded tapestry on their shoulders and then put it back where it is kept.
from:
www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/gansu/2013-10/10/content_17021362...
Sogwo in southeastern Qinghai is a Mongolian Autonomous County, although it is located in the heart of the Amdo region of Tibet. The population is made up predominantly of Mongol yak and sheep herders, though they speak the Amdo dialect of Tibetan. In fact, little of the culture in this area is Mongolian. In addition to the language, the customs, dress and religion are all the same as the native Tibetans who live in this region.
kekexili.typepad.com/life_on_the_tibetan_plate/2009/06/so...
University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Engineering graduates were honored at the college's convocation ceremony on May 16, 2014 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa Campus Center. For more photos go to www.flickr.com/photos/eaauh/sets/72157644709831944/
All graduations are special, some more than others. Ruby Van Meter School was opened in Des Moines nearly 50 years ago to serve secondary students with intellectual disabilities. I stopped by to take some snaps for work as the school celebrated their members of the Class of 2021, the first of a half dozen commencements to capture on Memorial Day weekend.
Photo from Jefferson Lab, where engineers prepare a cryomodule. Linked together and chilled to nearly absolute zero, 37 segments of superconducting particle accelerator called cryomodules will accelerate electrons to almost the speed of light and power an upgrade to the nation’s only X-ray free-electron laser facility.
Credit: Jefferson Lab
Angels of Change benefit for Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, September 29, 2008.
Abstract long exposure during performance.
This event organized by the Huckleberry Fund benefits Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Transgender Harm Reduction Program. The Huckleberry Fund is part of the Division of Adolescent Medicine.
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is a 501(c)3 organization with Tax ID 95-1690977.
Prepared For Offensive or Defensive Warfare.
FRENCH THROWER OF GRENADES, PROTECTED BY SANDBAGS, LOOKING THROUGH HIS PERISCOPE IN ORDER TO GET AN ACCURATE AIM.
GERMAN HAND - GRENADE THROWERS CLOTHED IN STEEL ARMOR, WHICH MAKES THEM RESEMBLE SOLDIERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUN, THAT THROWS A VAST NUMBER OF PROJECTILES WITH AMAZING RAPIDITY, BEING OPERATED IN A REGION THAT IS INFESTED WITH POISON GAS.
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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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Our shared narratives as Americans are preserved through the highest caliber of ongoing scholarship and advocacy. On Saturday, May 14, 2016, the Jay Heritage Center (JHC) held its second John Jay Medal Dinner and recognized two individuals whose exemplary efforts have helped elevate and strengthen the legacy of native New Yorker, John Jay.
JHC's first honoree was Prof. Joseph J. Ellis, one of our nation's leading historians and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation. Ellis' exhaustive and illuminating research for his newest book The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789 restores John Jay to the pantheon of nation-builders alongside Washington, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. JHC's second honoree was Prof. Nicholas A. Robinson, a founder of the Pace Environmental Law School newly renamed for the tireless environmentalist and philanthropist Elisabeth Haub. Robinson, together with JHC's original founders, helped preserve and landmark the 23 acre Jay Estate on Long Island Sound in 1993. Today this touchstone in Jay's life is protected parkland and a must see destination on New York State's Path Through History.
Warm weather rewarded 125 dinner attendees including many Jay descendants and the editors of The Selected Papers of John Jay at Columbia University. An appreciative crowd enjoyed cocktails on the veranda and toured the landscape. They viewed rare manuscripts and artwork including a 1786 drawing of Spain's flag generously donated by Mrs. Paul Hughes and her family. Afterwards Prof. Ellis gave a mesmerizing talk about John Jay's peacemaking skills and his pivotal role in shaping our new nation's foreign policy with Britain, France and particularly Spain.
According to Ellis "[Jay] is the greatest diplomat of the revolutionary generation." Both honorees received standing ovations.
Samuel W. Croll III, Prof. Shelby D. Green, Charlene Laughlin and Thomas R. Mercein were Dinner Co-Chairs. Previous Jay Medal honorees were Catherine "Kitty" Aresty and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel.
(Photos by Cutty McGill)
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1933-1945
The outer castle gate was 1933/1934 converted into a war memorial. In the 30s it became common practice to use the space for mass events, the speakers most of the time speaking from the balcony of the New Castle to the crowd of people (1932 rally during the visit of Hermann Goring, 1934 rally of the Fatherland Front, 1938 Nazi rally for Adolf Hitler [whereby the Heroe's square internationally became the synonym for Annexation; the play "Heldenplatz" by Thomas Bernhard (premiere November 4, 1988 at the Burgtheater) in this context before and after the premiere caused heated discussions]). During the Second World War at Heldenplatz were held outdoor exhibitions (for example, "The victory in the West", 1940).
Second Republic
1945-1953 the Heldenplatz by the Soviet Element of the Allied Council (which had housed his "officers' house" and other facilities in the Hofburg) was used for events which one wanted to give a military context. From 31 October 1953 followed on Heldenplatz the ceremony for the handover of the command of the Vienna Inter Allied Command, taking place monthly; until its dissolution this practice was continued. Furthermore, the space has been used for large gatherings and events (for example, 1983 rally to mark the visit of Pope John Paul II, 1984 rally against the construction of the Danube power plant Hainburg, 1993 final rally of the campaign "SOS Fellow Human Being" ["Sea of Light"]). - Military Celebration of the Armed Forces (compilation of Martin Senekowitsch [according to Guard Chronicle of Guard Battalion]): The Heldenplatz was in the Second Republic often the scene of military celebrations. From November 2, 1955 every year: Heroes ceremony for the fallen soldiers of both World Wars at the crypt of the Castle gate. March 13, 1963: commemoration of the "Anschluss" of Austria in 1938. 18 October 1963: 300th anniversary of Prince Eugene. February 12, 1964: commemoration of February 1934. April 27, 1965: commemoration of the victims of the Nazi regime. 16 May 1965, 14 May 1966, 15 May, 1967 to 1970: Big Tattoo. 8 July 1974 and 8 July 1980: Swearing-in of Federal President Dr Rudolf Kirchschläger. September 6, 1975: Big tattoo (20 years Garrison Wien). April 27, 1981: Republic Celebration. July 7, 1986: Big Tattoo (departure of President Rudolf Kirchschläger). July 8, 1986 respectively July 6, 1992: Big Tattoo (swearing-in respectively departure of Federal President Dr Kurt Waldheim). July 8, 1992: Swearing-in of Federal President Dr Thomas Klestil.
Symbolic meaning
The Heroes Square already by the Habsburgs was laid out as a place of political representation. In the First Republic it served the Nazis before being banned as a symbolic parade ground. This was opposed by the Dolfuss-Schuschnigg regime holding the pan-German Catholics Day 1933 and other celebrations. However, a particular importance gained the Heldenplatz on March 15, 1938 after the Nazi takeover. On this day, Adolf Hitler as part of a mass event announced "the entry of my homeland into the German Reich". Due to this symbolic charging, the Heldenplatz also in the Second Republic in the collective memory remained connected with the "Annexation", although there was no lack of attempts of a new symbolic connotation. Artistic expression this found in the play by Thomas Bernhard entitled "Heldenplatz" and premiered in 1988 and in a poem by Ernst Jandl. From the 1990s, however, events as the Sea of Light of the action "Fellow Human Being" on January 23, 1993 as well as the demonstration against the new government of ÖVP (Austrian People's Party) and FPÖ (Freedom Party of Austria) on February 19, 2000 increased who saw themselves as counterpoints to March 15, 1938.
1933-1945
Das Äußere Burgtor wurde 1933/1934 zu einem Heldendenkmal umgestaltet. In den 30er Jahren begann es sich einzubürgern, den Platz für Massenveranstaltungen zu benutzen, wobei die Redner meist vom Balkon der Neuen Burg zur Menge sprachen (1932 Kundgebung beim Hermann-Göring-Besuch, 1934 Kundgebung der Vaterländischen Front, 1938 nationalsozialistische Kundgebung für Adolf Hitler [wodurch der Heldenplatz international zu einem Synonym für den "Anschluss" wurde; das Stück "Heldenplatz" von Thomas Bernhard (Uraufführung 4. November 1988 im Burgtheater) sorgte in diesem Zusammenhang vor und nach der Premiere für erregte Diskussionen]). Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs wurden auf dem Heldenplatz Freiluftausstellungen veranstaltet (beispielsweise "Der Sieg im Westen", 1940).
Zweite Republik
1945-1953 wurde der Heldenplatz vom sowjetrussischen Element des Alliierten Rats (das in der Hofburg sein "Offiziershaus" und andere Einrichtungen untergebracht hatte) für Veranstaltungen genutzt, denen man einen militärischen Rahmen geben wollte. Ab 31. Oktober 1953 erfolgte auf dem Heldenplatz die monatlich stattfindende Zeremonie der Kommandoübergabe der Wiener Interalliierten Kommandantur; bis zu deren Auflösung wurde an dieser Praxis festgehalten. Weiterhin wurde der Platz für große Versammlungen und Veranstaltungen genutzt (beispielsweise 1983 Kundgebung anlässlich des Besuchs Papst Johannes Pauls II., 1984 Kundgebung gegen den Bau des Donaukraftwerks Hainburg, 1993 Abschlusskundgebung der Aktion "SOS Mitmensch" ["Lichtermeer"]). - Militärische Feiern des Bundesheeres (Zusammenstellung von Martin Senekowitsch [laut Gardechronik des Gardebataillons]): Der Heldenplatz war in der Zweiten Republik oftmals Schauplatz militärischer Feierlichkeiten. Ab 2. November 1955 jedes Jahr: Heldenehrung für die Gefallenen beider Weltkriege bei der Krypta des Äußeren Burgtors. 13. März 1963: Gedenkfeier anlässlich des "Anschlusses" Österreichs 1938. 18. Oktober 1963: 300. Geburtstag des Prinzen Eugen. 12. Februar 1964: Gedenken an den Februar 1934. 27. April 1965: Gedenken an die Opfer des NS-Regimes. 16. Mai 1965, 14. Mai 1966, 15. Mai 1967-1970: Großer Zapfenstreich. 8. Juli 1974 und 8. Juli 1980: Angelobung von Bundespräsident Dr. Rudolf Kirchschläger. 6. September 1975: Großer Zapfenstreich (20 Jahre Garnison Wien). 27. April 1981: Republikfeier. 7. Juli 1986: Großer Zapfenstreich (Verabschiedung von Bundespräsident Rudolf Kirchschläger). 8. Juli 1986 beziehungsweise 6. Juli 1992: Großer Zapfenstreich (Angelobung beziehungsweise Verabschiedung von Bundespräsident Dr. Kurt Waldheim). 8. Juli 1992: Angelobung von Bundespräsident Dr. Thomas Klestil.
Symbolische Bedeutung
Der Heldenplatz wurde schon von den Habsburgern als Ort der politischen Repräsentation angelegt. In der Ersten Republik diente er vor deren Verbot den Nationalsozialisten als symbolischer Aufmarschplatz. Dem setzte das Dolfuss-Schuschnigg-Regime die Abhaltung des gesamtdeutschen Katholikentages 1933 und andere Feiern dagegen. Eine besondere Bedeutung erhielt der Heldenplatz jedoch am 15.3.1938 nach der NS-Machtübernahme. An diesem Tag verkündete Adolf Hitler im Rahmen einer Massenveranstaltung "den Eintritt meiner Heimat in das Deutsche Reich". Auf Grund dieser symbolischen Aufladung blieb der Heldenplatz auch in der Zweiten Republik im kollektiven Gedächtnis mit dem "Anschluss" verbunden, obwohl es nicht an Versuchen einer symbolischen Neubestzung des Ortes fehlte. Künstlerischen Ausdruck fand dies auch im 1988 uraufgeführten Theaterstück Thomas Bernhards mit dem Titel "Heldenplatz" und in einem Gedicht von Ernst Jandl. Ab den 1990er Jahren mehrten sich allerdings Veranstaltungen wie das Lichtermeer der Aktion Mitmensch" am 23.1.1993 sowie die Demonstration gegen die Regierungsbildung von ÖVP und FPÖ am 19.2.2000 die sich als Kontrapunkte zum 15.3.1938 verstanden haben.
Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr. attends a reunion at Quincy, Mass., Aug. 27, 2015. Marines, Sailors and family members from Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines held a reunion with Dunford as their guest of honor. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Gabriela Garcia)
Mitgardian Mythology:
This sign represents the directions, North, South, East and West. So far does the power of the gods go. And the golden dots represents the eyes of the gods, they see everything. The wooden staffs in all directions represents the grandness of the gods.
The Day after the birth and the two older siblings get to being exploring this strange new creature....
I'm actually in this shot - I'm the lump on the far side of the bed. I guess this is my mother's photo.
Film photos digitised: See album description for details.
An early morning dawn shot of a passing ferry gliding silently past in the Solent emerging from the mist, rain and fog.
Very poor visibility under such bad weather conditions.
Only the lights gave any clue that the ship was there.
It was almost impossible to tell where the sky met the sea on the horizon. The sea is just a shade darker than the early dawn sky but it's hard to tell.
It could be occasionally glimpsed through the rolling fog but it kept disappearing totally in the bad weather at the time.
I only noticed it because of the lights drifting silently through the fog