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Bank of Valletta has bought rare coins of the Knights of Malta which were on sale at an auction in London.
The coins are an outstanding example of fine 16th, 17th and 18th century coinage that will enhance the local numismatic collection, the bank said.
www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20081013/local/bov-buy...
Paralyzed Veterans of America's Mid-America Chapter sharing information during Awareness Month!
During April 2013, Paralyzed Veterans of America celebrates 67 years of changing lives and building futures for all veterans. And we’re encouraging everyone this month to take a stand and make helping veterans part of your life’s mission. To learn more, please visit www.pva.org/pam.
Governor Kay Ivey gave opening remarks to the Battle of Goat Hill Softball Game at the Riverwalk Stadium Wednesday April 19, 2023 in Montgomery, Ala. (Governor’s Office /Hal Yeager)
This weekend saw the churches in the eastern part of West Lindsey open to visitors and for the first time Holy Rood Catholic Church took part. And what treasures they have - medieval embroidery, two incunables, a first editon of the King James Bible (albeit slightly incomplete and needing some serious conservation) and other early books. It was the highlight of the weekend for me! Nest weekend it is the turn of the churches on the western side of the district to open.
For further information on these images of medieval embroidery see The Revd. Dr. Allan Barton's blog to be found here:
www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2018/05/the-pre-reformation...
Taken during a tour of the Port of Portland's Headquarters.
Tours occur randomly. To find out the next one, see this page on the Port of Portland website. www.portofportland.com/Community_Affairs_Calendar.aspx
Young members of the climbers' new generation, in Shimshal. This village is situated at an altitude of 3100mt, in Upper Hunza region.
Over 50% of its population is involved in the mountaineering tourism.
Pakistan, Shimshal Valley, on Thursday August 21 2008.///
August 1st 2008. The tragedy occurred on the K2 in which 11 climbers were killed has turned the media lights on the Shimshal Valley… but not on it’s people.
Nearly 1 month after that tragic date, no international authority, or climbing association, or specialized media has, in fact, paid homage to the families, to the young wives and little sons of the two local climbers, Jahan Beig e Meherban Karim, killed in the same deadly expedition.
This was the case also with a German climber who died in early august on a track right above Shimshal after deliberately ignoring the advises of the locals who had declared his attempt "suicidal".
A concerned warning comes from the older guides and climbers of this pakistan valley, who are witnessing more and more expeditions,lead by competitive young local guides and foreign team leader, underestimate dangers and disrespect the environment just to claim a peak.
William McGregor Paxton
The House Maid, 1910
West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 70
A young woman with pale skin, dressed in a black and white servant’s uniform, stands reading a book behind a collection of urns, a figurine, and a stationary box arrayed on a tabletop in this vertical painting. Seen from about the hips up, the woman faces our left in profile as she gazes down at the open book in her hands. She has a turned up nose, smooth skin, and her lips are slightly parted over a rounded chin. Her blond hair is pulled up in a bun, and she wears a black dress with a wide, white collar and a white apron tied around her waist. A feather duster with a black handle is tucked under her left arm, closer to us, so the dark feathers fan out behind her. She stands in the corner of a room with light tan walls. Between us and the woman and running parallel to the bottom edge of the canvas, a wooden gaming table inlaid with a black and white checkerboard pattern on its top holds five objects. To our left, the hinged lid of a white rectangular box has been opened to reveal white note cards and envelopes. The inside of the box lid is painted cobalt blue. Next to the box is a white ceramic jar with a rounded body and a flat, dark lid. At the middle of the table and a little closer to us, a brown vase with a tall, inward curving neck sits next to a figurine of a person wearing a blue and pink kimono. Lastly, a white lidded jar painted in blue with a person and a landscape sits to our right. The artist signed and dated the painting in dark, capital letters near the upper left corner: “PAXTON” and “1910.”
William McGregor Paxton, along with his Boston School colleagues Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, and Joseph DeCamp, achieved institutional recognition and popular acclaim for paintings based on a single theme: a refined interior inhabited by a young woman as decorative as the still-life objects that surround her. The House Maid depicts a uniformed servant engrossed in a book and standing behind a table on which a group of still-life objects is displayed.
With the exception of the open stationery box on the far left, most of the items represented in The House Maid are East Asian: a white Chinese lidded jar, a vessel, a porcelain figure, and a Qing dynasty blue-and-white porcelain pot. All are reminders of New England's long history of trade with Asia.
The juxtaposition of Asian objects and a lovely woman was a typical motif in American turn-of-the-century painting. Reading was likewise a familiar and repeated subject: Paxton was unusual, however, in representing a servant rather than the usual lady of leisure. The items on the table are the housemaid's responsibility but are not her property.
Along with other members of the Boston School, Paxton was known to admire the paintings of Johannes Vermeer. In The House Maid, the stable triangular composition, muted palette, precisely rendered textures, meticulous arrangement, and sense of quiet absorption all have parallels in Vermeer's work.
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art
Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
www.doaks.org/resources/cultural-philanthropy/national-ga...
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President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, arrives at the Commonwealth Secretariat for the second consultative session of the Commonwealth mini summit on 'Reforming International Institutions', Marlborough House, London, 10 June 2008
Hell Hole rocks, Heptonstall
Do you see a face on the right? Reminds me a bit of the Easter Island heads! Or is it Ted Hughes' Iron Man?
Headquarters of Respect Political Party, Club Row, Shoreditch.
My earlier prediction about Respect being a spent political force were correct - at the May 2010 General Election the party lost Bethnal Green & Bow to Labour (it was Labour's only gain of the election), George Galloway failed to take Poplar & Limehouse, and Respect only kept one seat on Tower Hamlets Council. A far cry from 2005 when Respect won Bethnal Green & Bow and had their sights on taking the Council in 2006.
Feb 15, 2017 — Sep 10, 2017
A native of the South Carolina lowcountry, Carew Rice (1899 – 1971) was the son of James Henry Rice, Jr., a noted conservationist and newspaper columnist. As a student in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Carew Rice discovered the art of cutting silhouettes and worked from the Depression era up until 1970, when he cut silhouettes for South Carolina’s Tricentennial celebration.
Rice subtly challenged viewers with reductive renditions of Old South nostalgia. His cautionary tales were grounded in conservative values, but he liberally embraced the field hands, chain gangs, and working-class lifestyles of marginalized minorities. His black subjects, sometimes peppered with Gullah dialect, were love letters to people he lived among and respected.
Being an artist of practicality as well as of principles, Rice also cut picturesque lowcountry landscapes, church architecture, wildfowl, and Charleston’s intricate wrought iron gates to produce commercially viable merchandise. Some of these scenes were applied to drinking glasses and stationery; some of his characters became templates for stuffed dolls for children. He traveled the world creating silhouettes of politicians, royalty, and ordinary folks, and he became well known throughout the South for portraiture, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life meticulously rendered in this unusual and exacting medium.
Accelerated Breeding of Better Banana (ABBB) Annual Meeting from 23 - 25 May, 2022 in ARUSHA, Tanzania. This unique project seeks to improve the production and productivity of banana in Tanzania and Uganda through the development and delivery of hybrid banana varieties that are expected to have 30% higher yield compared to the current varieties grown by the farmers under the same conditions. Photo by Gloriana Ndibalema/IITA Tanzania.
Minerva of Homel.
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Inventory no.: 002348-MI1992 .
Object: transistor radio with tape-recorder .
Manufactured: France .
Manu./Type: Minerva / MT 3711 (H) .
Power: 50 W .
Weight: 2.8 kg .
Found: Homel, Belarus 1992 .
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This tape recorder is suitable for the reception of medium- ,short and ultrashort- waved radio programmes, works with batteries and line-power az well. The radio is equipped with transistors made of silicium, ones transponed, super heterodin systemed. It has built in telescopic and ferrit antenna as well. The frequency of the reception can be seen on the linear scale on the front part. The box of the machine is made of plastic, it is brown on the loudspeakers , vertically sampled and occasionally has aluminium cover.
Members of a coalition of healthcare advocacy community organizations in New York including ACT UP/New York, Center for Popular Democracy Action; Health Global Access Project (Health GAP); Housing Works; Metro New York Health Care for All; New York Trade Justice Coalition; Physicians for a National Health Program, NY Metro Chapter; Right to Health Action; Rise and Resist; and Showing Up for Racial Justice NYC gathered outside the New York Stock Exchange, a citadel of world capitalism , demanding world leaders end the international pharmaceutical industry’s monopoly grip on COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments needed to save lives and prevent the next viral variant. March 11, 2022 marks two years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, activists held die-ins and rallies around the world. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
The East Chancel window uses antique glass given by Robert, 2nd Earl of Roden, and was installed in 1812. There is no information as to how Lord Roden became possessed of this ancient stained glass. The pieces are of all sizes and shapes and of different ages, styles and painting. The glass is from the Netherlands and the oldest dates from c. 1475.
The Remembrance Image Project is focused on photographing First World War sites at the time of the centenary of the conflict. In this talk at Guildhall Library, photographer Simon Gregor showed some of the images from the poignant locations he has visited, and shared the stories behind them.
Buses are one of the best ways to see the countryside as they traverse roads that wind through the hills and towns, such as this one between Cuenca and Cañar. There are always people waiting for a bus coming from the other direction, both those dressed in indigenous clothing and popular brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch. Another common sight is the churches that stand proudly on a hill or among houses that seem to cluster around as though listening to a sermon. The churches lie testament to the strong catholic roots in this country that date back to the arrival of the Spanish, even as the indigenous and mestizo women standing side-by side help illustrate the social realities that even today are shaped by that same conquest.
The Obelisk of Theodosius (Turkish: Dikilitaş) is the Ancient Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Tutmoses III re-erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople (known today as At Meydanı or Sultanahmet Meydanı, in the modern city of Istanbul, Turkey) by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in the 4th century AD.
Thousands of people participated in the Women’s March North County San Diego in conjunction with marches held around the country and around the world reacting to fears about what may happen with the Trump administration, his new cabinet and the Republican congress. They expressed concerns about women’s reproductive rights, healthcare, immigrants’ rights, the environment and more. The march went from the San Marcos Civic Center to the Palomar College campus where there was a rally with speakers as well as booths for various political organizations. January 21, 2017. Joe Dusel Photographer.
Students traveled to an orphanage, a day care facility and a nursing home in El Salvador with the Division of Volunteer Efforts, (DOVE).
From Wikipedia
1.The Church of St. Leodegar is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland. It was built in parts from 1633 to 1639 on the foundation of the Roman basilica which had burnt in 1633. This church was one of the few built north of the Alps during the Thirty Years War and one of the largest and art history rich churches of the German late renaissance period. In the 8th century there was already an abbey consecrated to Saint Maurice on the current site of the church, which had been donated by Pepin the Short, and was known at the time as the Monastarium Luciaria. By the 12th century the abbey was under the jurisdiction of the Murbach Abbey, whose patron saint was St. Leodegar. In 1291 the abbey was sold to the Habsburgs. In 1433 the city of Lucerne, no longer a member of the Eidgenossenschaft, took control of the abbey, and in 1455 it was converted from Benedictine to a “universal order” church. The monastery experienced a heyday during the time of the reformation due to Luzern being a prominent city for the Swiss Catholic cantons. The papal nuncio, resident in Luzern, used the church as his cathedral during this time. In 1874 the parish church of St. Leodegar was founded and with that the church became simultaneously a monastery church and parish church, as it is today.
Here are the first flowers of Woolly Paintbrush (Castilleja foliolosa) in the Orobanchaceae plant family that I've seen this year, but they've obviously already been flowering for a while. I first found them last year on February 18, and before that on November 16, so they are quite variable. This is a small woody sub-shrub, usually just a foot high or less, that grows in dry rocky areas in the mountains. This one was growing up a steep embankment so I couldn't get any closer. I assume there are real tubular flowers on it, but it's the brilliant red bracts that first catch your eye. It's a time of year when I can find old summer flowers like the buckwheat in my [Previous] photo as well as new flowers like this. (East Camino Cielo, Santa Ynez Mountains, 22 December 2018)
Orthros and Divine Liturgy Officiated by H.E. Archbishop Elpidophoros today at The Archdiocesan Cathedral of The Holy Trinity on The Feast of St. Elpidophoros. His Eminence Ordained Ioannis Capones to the Holy Diaconate.
Photos: © GOA/Dimitrios Panagos
photo: Bjørn Christiansen - www.bj0rn.net
The winter of 2011 I went with my class from Norsk Fotofagskole on a trip to Morocco, Marrakech by the river Tensift, and Essaouira by the Atlantic Ocean.
A portrait of a man on the corner of Rue Bin Lafnadek and Avenu Bab El Khemis in Marrakech.
Official list entry
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1209774
Date first listed: 10-Jan-1951
Statutory Address 1: CHURCH OF ST MARY, BUCKFAST ABBEY, BUCKFAST ROAD
Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY, BUCKFAST ABBEY, BUCKFAST ROAD
County: Devon
District: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish: Buckfastleigh
National Park: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference: SX 74147 67411
Details
Abbey church. Built 1907-1932, on the foundations of the medieval Cistercian abbey church (except the east end). FA Walters. For the Benedictine monks who established a house here in 1882. Most of the building work was carried out by a small group of monks working under a master mason. Snecked local grey limestone with Ham Hill dressings; copper roof. Style "mixture of English Cistercian and French early Gothic" (Pevsner). 1965 east end Blessed Sacrament chapel to the designs of Paul Pearn. Plan: church with 8-bay lean-to aisles plus galleried western bay; central crossing tower; transepts with chapels; 3-bay choir with choir aisles; east end Blessed Sacrament chapel with undercroft. EXTERIOR: west end of nave with flanking projecting buttresses containing stairs to gallery, rising as pinnacles with broach spire roofs, bases and pinnacles decorated with blind arcading. Round-headed west doorway with shafts, left and right shafts with cushion capitals and carved gable. Doorway has 3 orders of zigzag, billet and chevron moulding on engaged shafts; 2-leaf door with elaborate ironwork. Above the doorway a recessed 3-centred blind moulded arch containing 2 round-headed windows with shafts and a roundel window above. Above the archway blind arcading decorates the gable. West ends of lean-to aisles have smaller versions of the buttresses flanking the nave and paired round-headed openings (one blind) with roundels above. North side of 9-bay nave has pilasters and a corbelled parapet. Round-headed triforium windows linked by string rising as continuous hoodmould. Nave with parapet and round-headed windows, the hoodmould string interrupted by the pilasters. Small gabled porch in second bay from the west with set-back buttresses, parapet and round-headed outer doorway with shafts and chevron-carved arch. Easternmost 2 bays of aisle with taller roof and blind arcading above the windows. North end of north transept with tall paired arches containing 4 tiers of glazed blind and glazed windows, either round-headed or roundels. East side of transept has one-bay chapel. The choir continues in the same style with lean-to choir aisle roofs. 1965 concrete east end chapel on 4 columns with shallow gabled roof. Tower with 3 stages above nave roof. Clasping pilasters; corner pinnacles with 2 tiers of blind arcading and broach spires, crow-stepped parapet. Lower stage has lancet windows in round-headed recesses, middle stage has small lancet windows in moulded arched recesses; 2-light plate-traceried louvred belfry windows. INTERIOR: Stone-vaulted, the aisles with transverse vaults. Arcades with piers with engaged shafts and chamfred and moulded arches. Nave rib vault with red sandstone infill. Triforium has a pair of 2-light pointed arches to each bay with super-ordinate round-headed blind arch. Aisle walls decorated with blind round-headed recesses containing triple round-headed arches on shafts with moulded bases and carved capitals. Stone-vaulted west end gallery on piers with canted bays to parapet. Tower arches on short paired shafts with moulded bases and carved capitals. Crossing has corbelled stone gallery; transepts have simple galleries on moulded corbels with cast-iron railings. Choir has similar detail to nave but carved, not moulded capitals and stone infill to the vaulting of choir and choir aisles. East end of sanctuary has 2 round-headed arches and 2 round-headed windows above the triforium with a central shaft rising to a carving of the Coronation of the Virgin. The furnishings, floors, painted decoration and stained glass are unexpectedly lavish, particularly the outstanding metalwork, which is mostly 1928-1932 by Bernhard Witte of Aachen, inspired by German Romanesque metalwork and described in some detail in Pevsner. The stained glass is a remarkable collection, mostly still in the medievalising Victorian tradition and of the highest quality. In addition the church contains a C16 ivory crucifix donated by the Clifford family of Ugbrooke, the leading Roman Catholic family in Devon. 1965 Blessed Sacrament chapel by Paul Pearn conceived as a setting for ambitious mosaic stained glass designed by Father Charles Norris, one of the Buckfast Abbey monks. Historical note: the rebuilding of the abbey church by the Buckfast monks was well-publicised in the national and local press and one of the monks with an interest in photography recorded much of the work: the archive is held by the abbey. Buckfast Abbey became an important focus for Roman Catholicism in Devon in the late C19 and C20 with the monks serving private chapels in the area, including Ugbrooke in Chudleigh for the Clifford family and Dundridge in Harberton for the wife of Sir John Harvey. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 222-226).
© Historic England 2022
A close-up view of an eastbound Wheeling & Lake Erie train just outside of Bellevue, Ohio, on the Hartland Subdivision passing a no-longer used Nickel Plate-style signal mast. The signals were removed when the centralized traffic control system was removed. The signal mast has since been taken down. (Scanned from a slide)
On December 16, 2014, Kyle Lowry of the Toronto Raptors treated 35 students from Our Lady of Victory to great surprise - a morning meal and a shopping trip to Toys R Us
Pictures of the Coney Island Lighthouse from on board the Celebrity Summit at the beginning of our ten-day cruise. The Coney Island Lighthouse is a steel pile light that was first lit in 1890. I was able to see a number of lighthouses in New York Harbor this trip. On board the Celebrity Summit for the Ten Night Bermuda & Charleston, SC Cruise (May 15 through May 25, 2023). The cruise embarks from Cape Liberty (Bayonne, NJ) with an additional stop at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
December 2016.
Visit to Kensington Palace.
Kensington Palace has been a residence of the British Royal Family since the 17th century. The original Jacobean mansion was built in 1605 and became known as Nottingham House. It was purchased in 1689 by William and Mary as a residence outside the 'bad air' of London (William III was asthmatic).
The building was then upgraded as a royal residence. Further changes were made for the first 2 Hanoverian Kings.