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The Oracle is a large indoor shopping and leisure mall, located on the banks of the River Kennet on the site of a 17th-century workhouse of the same name in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. It was developed by, and is owned by, a joint venture of Hammerson and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
The Oracle takes its name from the 17th century Oracle workhouse built by funds from a local man John Kendrick. This once occupied a small part of the site now occupied by the shopping centre.
In March 1997 Hammerson acquired a 22 acre site of largely derelict and undeveloped land immediately to the south of the town centre. Most of this site was previously occupied by Simond's Brewery (latterly owned by the Courage brewing company) and by the Reading Transport bus depot (formerly the Reading Corporation tram depot). The brewery had earlier relocated to a new site adjoining the M4 motorway, whilst the bus depot was relocated to a location just west of the town centre as one of the first phases of the redevelopment.
Ever since the Batgirl Pullip was announced I planned on getting two, one to keep as Batgirl and one to turn into Oracle. For non-comic fans Oracle is who Barbara Gordon aka. Batgirl becomes after being crippled at the hands of the Joker in the Killing Joke.
As the Oracle, Barbara is indispensable to the superhero community as an information broker where she relies more on her keen intellect and computer skills to fight crime in an increasingly technological world. She eventually goes on to found the Birds of Prey crime fighting team with Dinah Lance aka. Black Canary.
During the recent DC relaunch Barbara Gordon regained her ability to walk in the comics (The Killing Joke still happened but she was eventually rehabilitated and able to walk again).
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I couldn't find the hat I have to match the nurse outfit anywhere T_T
We had our annual week of Bible camp for the ELCA and LCMS churches of southern Arizona. We rented the Triangle Y Ranch Camp in Oracle, and it comes with a built in worship area from the 1940's. Because of HUGE fire danger we didn't even try to light a real fire, but we were able to set some mood with votives around the fire.
Flickr Lounge: (Week 37) ~ Panning/Moving. Another from the Archives.
52 Weeks of Pix: Brand Name. Oracle Out in San Fransisco Bay, the Oracle catamaran, which will be in the America's cup in San Fransisco in 2013. One of the fastest in the world
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison (Larry Ellison) and HP continue to escalate the conflict.
Read more>> techtricksy.blogspot.com/2010/10/oracle-ceo-innovation-by...
Created for the NASA Remix Program, challenge #11 - Through The Looking Glass.
Crystal Formation from NASA, Multimedia.
Vanguard Satellite SLV2 from GRIN Archives.
Priestess of Delphi, by John M. Collier, WIKI, creative commons license.
Many thanks to:
Alfarman, for the stunning model.
Lamerie, for the beautiful Antique Eduardian mirror.
Pareeerica, for the awesome, dreamy texture.
My wife called me the biggest dork she ever meet when I told her "that building looks like a database". Sure enough, its the Oracle building.
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Oracle was built at the Cammell Laird Birkenhead yard and launched in 1961 and was an Oberon class submarine. This class were improvements over the earlier Porpoise class being made of higher grade steel, having a fibre glass conning tower and having a better equipment fit. The class was intended for anti-submarine operations but also carred out may special forces missions..
She was decommissioned in 1993 and broken up at Pounds Yard, Portsmouth between 1997 and 2003