A visit to Berrington Hall near Leominster in Herefordshire.The dome was being restored so part of the building was under scaffolding inside and out (including up the main staircase).

Berrington Hall is a country house located about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Leominster, Herefordshire, England. During the 20th century it was the seat of the Cawley family.

It is a neoclassical country house building that Henry Holland designed in 1778-81 for Thomas Harley. It has a somewhat austere exterior, but the interiors are subtle and delicate. Berrington Hall is home to the Elmar Digby furniture collection, paintings by, amongst others, Thomas Luny (1759–1837), and the Charles Paget Wade costume collection from Snowshill, which can be viewed by appointment. The 'below stairs' areas and servants' quarters that are open to the public include a Victorian laundry and Georgian dairy. Berrington has been in the care of the National Trust since 1957 and is, along with its gardens, open to the public.

Berrington features Capability Brown's last landscape design. A notable feature is the ha-ha wall, which was subject to extensive renovation in the late 20th century by local craftsmen. Berrington Pool, a lake and island, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Berrington had been in the possession of the Cornewall family since 1386, but was sold in 1775 to Thomas Harley, a banker and government contractor who in 1767 had been Lord Mayor of London. He commissioned the rebuilding in 1778-1781 of the present Berrington Hall in place of the previous old house. He made it available to his daughter Anne and her new husband George Rodney, the son of Admiral Rodney. After Harley's death the house descended in the Rodney family for 95 years.

In 1901 the Manchester businessman Frederick Cawley MP, later Baron Cawley, purchased the estate. In 1957 the 3rd Lord Cawley transferred it to the Treasury, which passed in on to the National Trust. Lady Crawley was allowed to remain in occupation until her death in 1978.

It was classified as a Grade I listed building in 1959.

Grade I Listed Building

Berrington Hall and Adjoining Outbuildings

Listing Text

EYE, MORETON &

SO 56 SW ASHTON CP

7/2 Berrington Hall and

adjoining outbuildings

11.6.59

GV I

Country house. 1778 - 1781 by Henry Holland for Thomas Harley. Alterations

of c1890 - 1900 involved the addition of a tower at the rear of the house,

this was removed in 1968 and the pediment to this face was reinstated. Set

in parkland laid out by Capability Brown. Brick core, faced with sandstone

ashlar with dressings of the same material, hipped Welsh slate roofs.

Rectangular plan main house with central entrance and stairwell, axial

stacks. Main entrance faces south-west, quadrant walls connect the main

block with the three outbuildings which form a courtyard to the rear (these

adjoining walls have been altered and one has been removed). Main house:

two storeys, attics and basements, south-west entrance front: seven bays

with plinth, dentilled cornice, blocking course and balustraded parapet,

steps up to central projecting tetrastyle Ionic portico; frieze is decorated

only to central part by a floral type design which replaces the original one

of putti, ox heads and garlands, pediment has a lunette window. Dormer windows

to attics with glazing bar sash windows, glazing bar sash windows to first

floor with semi-circular heads and decorative glazing to those flanking the

portico. Square-headed glazing bar sash windows to ground floor, the semi-

circular headed basement windows have rusticated surrounds. Central tall

and narrow semi-circular headed doorway with panelled door has keystone

depicting Roman head flanked by narrow side lights with reliefs depicting

urns above. The north-west front is of five bays with a pediment over the

central three bays. The north-east front to the courtyard entrance is of

2:3:2 bays with central pedimented slightly forward break, semi-circular

headed glazing bar sash windows to upper floor, square-headed windows to

ground floor with central three openings set in semi-circular headed surrounds,

right-hand opening now forms a doorway and has a six-panelled door. The out-

buildings enclosing the courtyard are of two storeys. The range to the north-

east is of nine bays with central pedimented archway flanked by pairs of Doric

pilasters, clock face in pediment, string course to flanking bays with 6-pane

square-headed windows to upper floor and semi-circular headed windows with

decorative glazing to ground floor. The ranges enclosing the courtyard to

the north-west and south-east are also of nine bays, each with similar windows

to the upper and lower floors, the central window to each range having a moulded

architrave, semi-circular headed window and doorway openings to ground floors.

To the outer walls of these flanking ranges (ie facing the gardens) are central

niches with coffered semi-domes with ball cresting above. The south-western

ends of both ranges have a blank semi-circular headed arch flanked by oculi.

Interior: the main house retains many of its original features on both main

floors, with decorative surrounds to doorways, decorative plastered ceilings

and marble fireplaces. The entrance hall has trophies in roundels above the

doors and a central circular ceiling panel is carried to the corners on spandrels,

pedimented surround to doorway opposite the entrance; polychrome marble patterned

floor. The Drawing Room retains original elaborate pelmets above the three

windows, marble fireplace with caryatids and griffon frieze. Delicately patterned

ceiling with painted roundels depicting scenes and characters from classical

mythology and with putti and sea horses; entwined roundels to outer border

which flank central theme. The boudoir has an alcove with segmental arch and

a screen of two blue scagliola columns. The Dining Room has a good marble

fireplace with carved panels to the jambs, decorative plastered and painted

ceiling with central painted roundel and swagged and wreathed plastered

surround. Pedimented bookcases to the library with continuous "greekkey"

type frieze. Decorative painted panels to ceiling depicting authors from

Chaucer to Addison. Central staircase hall is lit by delicately iron ribbed

glass domed lantern, opposite the staircase is a coffered archway; staircase

and landings carried on screens of scagliola columns, decorative dolphin

frieze to the entablature. The staircase has bronze lyre-shaped balustrading.

The outbuilding to the north-west formed the laundry and retains many of its

fittings. A tiled dairy has been restored in the south-east range and the

north-east range contains part stabling. (National Trust, 1986, Berrington Hall:

BoE, p 72).

Listing NGR: SO5093063660

This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.

Heading out of the house after a look around into the courtyard.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.

The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.

Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest, had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents.

All three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the District: Congress (legislative), president (executive), and the U.S. Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments, and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profit, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the Human Rights Campaign, the International Finance Corporation, and the American Red Cross.

A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973. However, Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D.C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, but the District has no representation in the Senate. The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument

The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first President of the United States. Located almost due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial, the monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss, is both the world's tallest predominantly stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing 554 feet 7 11⁄32 inches (169.046 m) tall according to the National Geodetic Survey (measured 2013–14) or 555 feet 5 1⁄8 inches (169.294 m) tall according to the National Park Service (measured 1884). It is the tallest monumental column in the world if all are measured above their pedestrian entrances. It was the tallest structure in the world from 1884 to 1889, when it was overtaken by the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Construction of the monument began in 1848, and was halted from 1854 to 1877 due to a lack of funds, a struggle for control over the Washington National Monument Society, and the intervention of the American Civil War. Although the stone structure was completed in 1884, internal ironwork, the knoll, and other finishing touches were not completed until 1888. A difference in shading of the marble, visible approximately 150 feet (46 m) or 27% up, shows where construction was halted and later resumed with marble from a different source. The original design was by Robert Mills, but he did not include his proposed colonnade due to a lack of funds, proceeding only with a bare obelisk. The cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848; the first stone was laid atop the unfinished stump on August 7, 1880; the capstone was set on December 6, 1884; the completed monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885; and officially opened October 9, 1888.

The Washington Monument is a hollow Egyptian style stone obelisk with a 500-foot (152.4 m) tall column and a 55-foot (16.8 m) tall pyramidion. Its walls are 15 feet (4.6 m) thick at its base and 1 1⁄2 feet (0.46 m) thick at their top. The marble pyramidion has thin walls only 7 inches (18 cm) thick supported by six arches, two between opposite walls that cross at the center of the pyramidion and four smaller corner arches. The top of the pyramidion is a large marble capstone with a small aluminum pyramid at its apex with inscriptions on all four sides. The lowest 150 feet (45.7 m) of the walls, constructed during the first phase 1848–1854, are composed of a pile of bluestone gneiss rubble stones (not finished stones) held together by a large amount of mortar with a facade of semi-finished marble stones about 1 1⁄4 feet (0.4 m) thick. The upper 350 feet (106.7 m) of the walls, constructed during the second phase 1880–1884, are composed of finished marble surface stones, half of which project into the walls, partially backed by finished granite stones.

The interior is occupied by iron stairs that spiral up the walls, with an elevator in the center, each supported by four iron columns, which do not support the stone structure. The stairs contain fifty sections, most on the north and south walls, with many long landings stretching between them along the east and west walls. These landings allowed many inscribed memorial stones of various materials and sizes to be easily viewed while the stairs were accessible (until 1976), plus one memorial stone between stairs that is difficult to view. The pyramidion has eight observation windows, two per side, and eight red aircraft warning lights, two per side. Two aluminum lightning rods connected via the elevator support columns to ground water protect the monument. The monument's present foundation is 37 feet (11.3 m) thick, consisting of half of its original bluestone gneiss rubble encased in concrete. At the northeast corner of the foundation, 21 feet (6.4 m) below ground, is the marble cornerstone, including a zinc case filled with memorabilia. Fifty American flags fly 24 hours a day on a large circle of flag poles centered on the monument. In 2001, a temporary screening facility was added to the entrance to prevent a terrorist attack. In 2011, an earthquake slightly damaged the monument, mostly the pyramidion.

Mother Daughter Tea

The children's ministry of First Baptist Church Dublin, GA (First Kids) hosted the Mother Daughter Tea. www.firstbaptistdublin.org

Buy More Stuff takes to the streets for it's 5th year on November 26th, 2010. These photos were shot on Black Friday in Westlake Park in Seattle. You can read about the Buy More Stuff movement and even buy some Buy More Stuff stuff at BuyMoreStuff.org -- Email justbuymorestuff@gmail.com with questions about what these folks are doing.

More pics on my site at www.michaelholden.com -- ping me at michael@superpod.com if you have any questions about the photos.

Useful birds and their protection

Boston, Mass.,1913

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14466251

From treesforlife.org:

Think of any fairy tale illustration of elves or goblins sitting on or under a toadstool, and most likely the cap of such a fungus will be bright red with white spots. The autumnal abundance and vibrant colours of the fly agaric mushroom make it probably the most widely recognised of our fungi. As the name suggests it was formerly used as an insecticide, with pieces often floated in milk, to intoxicate and kill flies attracted by its aroma. Similarly most people will be wary of its poisonous reputation (though fatal reactions are rare), and appreciation of this mushroom will mostly be limited to the aesthetic. It has been suggested that northern Europeans' wariness of mushrooms may stem from long-established taboos relating to the use of mushrooms containing mind expanding substances. These would originally have been reserved for those shamans or priests who served as intermediaries between the common folk and the unseen worlds of spirit.

The fly agaric may have been the earliest source of entheogens, that is hallucinogenic substances used for religious or shamanic purposes, the use of which date back possibly over 10,000 years. Fly agaric has been put forward as the most likely candidate for the mysterious Soma, mentioned in around 150 hymns of the Hindu Rig-Veda, which was written between 1500 - 500 BC by Aryans in the Indus valley. Soma was a moon god, as well as a related plant and a holy brew which were also worshipped. Though there have been many suggestions as to the identity of the plant, fly agaric fits many of the Vedic references as a substance with which to contact the gods.

Fly agaric contains two toxins, ibotenic acid and muscimol, which are responsible for its psychoactive and hallucinogenic effects. To minimise its toxic side effects fly agaric would be processed in some way eg. dried, made into a drink, smoked or made into ointments. Care in its preparation and ritual were paramount. The Celtic Druids, for example, purified themselves by fasting and meditating for three days, drinking only water. Amongst the Koryak people of north-eastern Siberia the ceremonial use of fly agaric involved the shaman ingesting the mushroom, after which others would drink his urine to partake of its entheogenic effects. Though this sounds distinctly unpleasant to modern ears, if the shaman had been fasting, the urine would have been mainly water containing the hallucinogenic compounds. The body absorbs the fly agaric's hallucinogens first, and then expels the toxins from the stomach. The hallucinogenic chemicals then exert their influence on the body and are expelled unaltered in the urine. Reindeer in northern Europe are also attracted to the fly agaric's euphoric effects and Siberian people would notice the drunken behaviour of such animals and slaughter them to get the same effects from eating the meat.

Modern research has also shown that the two active ingredients' effect on the brain can inhibit fear and the startle reflex. This would corroborate theories that the ferocious Viking Berserker warriors used fly agaric prior to going into battle, bringing on the uncontrolled rage and fearlessness for which they were renowned.

Fly agaric has been a popular icon for the Midwinter and Christmas festivities in central Europe for a long time and is found on Christmas cards and as replica decorations for tree and wreath. Our current concept of Santa Claus can be traced back as an amalgamation of several characters of popular European folklore, such as a more pagan Scandinavian house goblin who offered protection from malevolent spirits in return for a feast at midwinter, and the fourth century Byzantine archbishop who became St Nicolas and was renowned for his kindness to children. More recently it has been suggested that the Siberian use of fly agaric may have played a part in the development of the legend of Santa Claus too. At midwinter festivals the shaman would enter the yurt through the smoke hole and down the central supporting birch pole, bringing with him a bag of dried fly agaric. After conducting his ceremonies he would leave the same way he had come. Ordinary people would have believed the shaman could fly himself, or with the aid of reindeer which they also knew to have a taste for fly agaric. Santa is now dressed in the same colours as the fly agaric, carries a sack with special gifts, comes and goes via the chimney, can fly with reindeer and lives in the 'Far North'.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,731,571 in 2016, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,245,438 people (as of 2016) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) proper had a 2016 population of 6,417,516. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

People have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops. York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto. It was designated as the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867 during Canadian Confederation. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km2 (243.3 sq mi).

The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. More than 50 percent of residents belong to a visible minority population group, and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, over 160 languages are spoken in the city.

Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Its varied cultural institutions, which include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites, and sports activities, attract over 43 million tourists each year. Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, the CN Tower.

The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations. Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_Hall_of_Fame

The Hockey Hall of Fame (French: Temple de la renommée du hockey) is a museum and hall of fame located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dedicated to the history of ice hockey, it holds exhibits about players, teams, National Hockey League (NHL) records, memorabilia and NHL trophies, including the Stanley Cup. Founded in Kingston, Ontario, the Hockey Hall of Fame was established in 1943 under the leadership of James T. Sutherland. The first class of honoured members was inducted in 1945, before the Hall of Fame had a permanent location. It moved to Toronto in 1958 after the NHL withdrew its support for the International Hockey Hall of Fame in Kingston, Ontario, due to funding issues. Its first permanent building opened at Exhibition Place in 1961. The hall was relocated in 1993, and is now in Downtown Toronto, inside Brookfield Place, and a historic Bank of Montreal building. The Hockey Hall of Fame has hosted International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) exhibits and the IIHF Hall of Fame since 1998.

An 18-person committee of players, coaches and others meets annually in June to select new honourees, who are inducted as players, builders or on-ice officials. In 2010, a subcategory was established for female players. The builders' category includes coaches, general managers, commentators, team owners and others who have helped build the game. Honoured members are inducted into the Hall of Fame in an annual ceremony held at the Hall of Fame building in November, which is followed by a special "Hockey Hall of Fame Game" between the Toronto Maple Leafs and a visiting team. As of 2019, 284 players (including six women), 111 builders and 16 on-ice officials have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame has been criticized for focusing mainly on players from the National Hockey League and largely ignoring players from other North American and international leagues.

Some wireframes of the object I had 3d printed for the cover design. Read the interview here:

www.printmag.com/design_articles/building_the_cover/tabid...

And the "Different Strokes" article here:

www.printmag.com/design_articles/different_strokes/tabid/...

Making-of story over here: postspectacular.com/process/20080702_printmagcover

Iconographie et histoire naturelle des chenilles

Paris :G. Baillière;1849.

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10139316

Mededeelingen uit 's Lands Plantentuin

Batavia :G. Kolff & Co.

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13965194

Mother Daughter Tea

The children's ministry of First Baptist Church Dublin, GA (First Kids) hosted the Mother Daughter Tea. www.firstbaptistdublin.org

Phycologia barbadensis

Paris :Librairie des sciences naturelles P. Klincksieck,1908.

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49841981

pretty interested to see where this goes....the simulation is pretty slow so we won't know for many hours

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starting from a flat surface

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most-populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second-most-populous county in the US, with a small portion of the northwest side of the city extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the United States.

Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the great fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.

Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. Depending on the particular year, the city's O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked as the world's fifth or sixth busiest airport according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced economies, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. Chicago is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Allstate, Boeing, Caterpillar, Exelon, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Sears, United Airlines Holdings, and Walgreens.

Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second most visited city in the nation, as compared with New York City's 65 million visitors in 2018. The city was ranked first in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park, the Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theatre, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Park

Lincoln Park is a 1,208-acre (489-hectare) park situated along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N) on the south to near Ardmore Avenue (5800 N) on the north, just north of the Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue. Several museums and a zoo are located between North Avenue (1600 N) and Diversey Parkway (2800 N) in the eponymous neighborhood. Further to the north, the park is characterized by parkland, beaches, recreational areas, nature reserves, and harbors. To the south, there is a more narrow strip of beaches east of Lake Shore Drive, almost to downtown. With 20 million visitors per year, Lincoln Park is the second-most-visited city park in the United States, behind Central Park.

The park's recreational facilities include baseball/softball fields, basketball courts, beach volleyball courts, cricket pitches, football/soccer fields, a golf course, lacrosse fields, rugby pitches, tennis courts, volleyball courts, field houses, a target archery field, a skate park, and a driving range.

The park also features several harbors with boating facilities, as well as public beaches for swimming. There are landscaped gardens, public art, bird refuges, a zoo, the Lincoln Park Conservatory, the Chicago History Museum, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool, and a theater on the lake with regular outdoor performances held during the summer.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_History_Museum

Chicago History Museum (formerly known as the Chicago Historical Society (CHS)) was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. It is located in Lincoln Park at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood. The CHS adopted the name, Chicago History Museum, in September 2006 for its public presence.

By Catedrales e Iglesias Album

www.catedraleseiglesias.com

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Arquidiócesis de Tlalnepantla

Sitio Oficial de la Arquidiócesis de Tlalnepantla

www.arqtlalnepantla.org

Ntra. Sra. de los Remedios es elevado a la

dignidad de BASÍLICA MENOR, por Decreto de la Congregación para el Culto Divino y la Disciplina de los Sacramentos.

El jueves 22 de octubre de 1998, a las 5:00 p.m. Justo Mullor García, Nuncio Apostólico en México, con Ricardo Guizar Díaz Arzobispo de Tlalnepantla,

acompañados de cuatro Obispos de México

Rectores de Santuarios de México,

200 Presbíteros,

Diáconos y Religiosos de la Arquidiócesis de Tlalnepantla,

proclama ante el pueblo de Dios,

en Solemnísima Liturgia, el Decreto y el Breve por el que S.S. Juan Pablo II

eleva el Santuario de Ntra. Sra. de los Remedios a la dignidad de Basilica

Versión del historiador Alejandro Rosas en su libro Mitos de la Historia de México: de Hidalgo a Zedillo. Editorial Planeta

La Virgen de los Remedios

La aparición de la Virgen de los Remedios.

Cuando inició la guerra de independencia , la Virgen de los Remedios tenía una clara ventaja sobre la Guadalupana: experiencia en combates; su historia era épica. Según cuenta la tradición , Juan Rodríguez de Villafuerte, uno de los hombres de Hernán Cortés, trajo a territorio americano una imagen de la Virgen de los Remedios “para su consuelo” ; era un regalo de su hermano que al entregársela le había dicho que tuviera mucha confianza porque a él le habría librado de los peligros de las batallas en que se había hallado y esperaba que le sucediera lo mismo en el Nuevo Mundo .

Al llegar a la capital del Imperio Azteca , Cortés ordenó a Villafuerte que colocara la imagen de la Virgen de los Remedios en un altar del Templo Mayor , donde solían efectuarse los sacrificios humanos, allí fue expuesta por unas semanas hasta que estallara la guerra y no se supo nada mas de la pequeña imagen labrada de madera.

Durante la derrota de la Noche Triste el 30 de junio de 1520, Cortés tuvo que retirarse precipitadamente de México- Tenochtitlan . La escena según cuentan los cronistas, fue espantosa : mientras intentaban huir por la calzada de Tlacopan (Tacuba) muchos de los españoles habían caído prisioneros y podían divisarse como eran sacrificados por los aztecas . Exhausto y desmoralizado, el conquistador y sus hombres llegaron a un pequeño monte delante del pueblo de Tlacopan y decidieron pernoctar en ese lugar. La virgen se apareció acompañada, según se refiere, por Santiago- Patrón de España- y los abatidos conquistadores encontraron un remanso de paz, confiando en que la madre de Dios los conduciría a la victoria definitiva. Un año después caía México-Tenochtitlan.

Hacia 1540, un indio cacique, de nombre Juan de Águila caminaba por los parajes cercanos al pueblo de Tacuba y vio a la señora en el cielo “que con voz sensible le decía, hijo, búscame en ese pueblo” poco tiempo después , debajo de un maguey, Juan de Águila encontró la vieja estatuilla de madera que había desaparecido desde 1520.

Hacia 1575 ya estaba concluído su templo , en el actual municipio de Naucalpan , al cual se le otorgó la distinción de basilica por el Papa Juan Pablo II.

La gente recurría a la Virgen de los Remedios “en las faltas de lluvias a su tiempo, las epidemias de tabardillos, sarampiones y otras semejantes” . Durante años su imagen recorrió la Calzada México-Tacuba para proteger al pueblo de las terribles epidemias, inundaciones o temblores que de vez en cuando recordaban a los habitantes de la ciudad que la naturaleza no tenía credo religioso . En las vistosas y multitudinarias procesiones, las autoridades eclesiásticas y civiles incluyendo al propio virrey, trasladaban a la Virgen desde su santuario en las afueras de la ciudad para colocarla durante meses en la catedral de la Ciudad de México.

Cuando las calamidades no cedían, ni siquiera con la intercesión de la Virgen de los Remedios, las autoridades recurrían a la imagen guadalupana como último recurso, lo cual no dejaba de causar cierto malestar en el pueblo , pues era un insulto recurrir a la Virgen morena como segunda opción aunque finalmente imperaba la alegría cuando la gente podía observar muy de cerca a la Guadalupana al frente de una procesión.

Alexander von Humboldt percibió la rivalidad entre ambos grupos de fieles:

…………El espíritu de partido, que reina entre los criollos y los gachupines, da un matiz particular a la devoción. La gente común, criollos e indios, ve con sentimiento que, en las épocas de grandes sequedades, el Arzobispo haga traer con preferencia a México la imagen de la Virgen de los Remedios. De ahí aquel proverbio que tan bien caracteriza el odio mutuo de las castas:”hasta el agua nos debe venir de la gachupina”. Si, a pesar de la intercesión de la Virgen de los Remedios, continúa la sequía……el Arzobispo permite a los indios vayan a buscar la imagen de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe…………...

La Morena y la Generala

Cuando el cura Hidalgo decidió tomar el estandarte de l Virgen de Guadalupe como bandera de la lucha que emprendía en septiembre de 1810, le dio un sentido religioso a la guerra de independencia. No era imposible imaginar la respuesta popular: el cura fue visto entonces como un hombre ungido por la divinidad para liberar al pueblo oprimido.

Durante los 11 años que duró la guerra, la Guadalupana ocupó un lugar fundamental para la causa insurgente. Al tomar este estandarte , Hidalgo le otorgó a la lucha un carácter sagrado. Cargaba siempre consigo, entre sus ropas, una imagen de la Virgen morena.

En los “Sentimientos de la Nación”, Morelos propuso que la celebración oficial de la “patrona de nuestra libertad” fuera el 12 de diciembre. Los miembros de una sociedad secreta que trabajaba a favor de la independencia desde la Ciudad de México, adoptaron el nombre de los Guadalupes. Los guerrilleros de Pedro Moreno portaban en sus sombreros estampas de la señora del Tepeyac.

La respuesta española fue inmediata. De poder a poder, el virrey Francisco Xavier Venegas mandó traer la imagen de l Virgen de los Remedios para resguardarla de los insurgentes, pero sobretodo, para enarbolarla como bandera de los ejércitos realistas. El virrey se veía a sí mismo como Cortés siglos atrás: ante una situación que parecía irremediable, la Virgen de los Remedios había acompañado al conquistador hasta el triunfo.

Tres siglos después, ¿sucedería lo mismo?

Las medidas del virrey llegaron demasiado lejos . A la Virgen de los Remedios se le dio grado militar y desde entonces se le conoce como “La Generala” . Las monjas del convento de San Jerónimo la vistieron con los blasones y la banda correspondiente, y el niño Jesús—que cargaba en sus brazos--- también fue vestido según la usanza. En procesión, la madre de Dios, recorrió la Ciudad de México, mostrando su bastón de mando en una de sus manos, y podía observarse a su pequeño hijo portando un sable. La Virgen y su hijo, Jesucristo, en pie de guerra.

Una vez finalizados los actos públicos, la Virgen fue colocada en el altar principal de la Ciudad de México. En aquel santo lugar su función era doble: una espiritual , dar consuelo a los fieles, recibir ofrendas, ex votos o limosnas; la otra, muy humana, delatar al insurgente. De todos era sabido que los revolucionarios eran guadalupanos: Aquellas personas que, luego de escuchar misa en la catedral, no hicieran la reverencia correspondiente ante la Virgen de los Remedios, seguramente lo hacían ante la Guadalupana, por tanto eran insurgentes. De ese modo, mucha gente fue falsamente acusada de rebeldía. Las autoridades no repararon que, mas allá de la banalidad de las cosas del mundo terrenal, había gente que de buena fé mostraba su devoción a una u otra virgen sin tomar partido por alguna causa politica.

Al final, triunfó la causa insurgente y la Virgen de Guadalupe. No en términos religiosos, ni porque fuera mayor el la devocion del pueblo por ella; venció porque era un símbolo de unidad; un elemento que conjuntaba a todos aquellos que consideraban pertenecientes al mismo terruño; aquéllos que veían la historia de 1521 como algo común a todos. La Guadalupana era una Virgen innegablemente mexicana. Con la consumación de la independencia, en 1821, llegó la reconciliación de ambas advocaciones a los ojos de los mexicanos: La Morena y la Generala compartían un futuro común en un país que iniciaba su andar en la historia.

The botanical cabinet

London :John & Arthur Arch ...,1817-1833.

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overlook of golf course from lanai

Sunday 06 May 2012: Antalya - Istanbul (tour ends)

Au revoir Antalya, Hello Istanbul!

For those on the group flight, breakfast in the courtyard was so early that we had to leave before the kitchen staff started for the day, but - brilliant to the last - Mike provided pastry goodies, sweet and savoury, from the bakery down the street.

Farewells in the lobby, as Jay and Fiona were staying for a couple more days and Nick was on a Monarch flight back to the UK, then quiet minibus ride to the airport for Jean and Brian, Helen, Hazel and me. Sad farewell to Mike, then a speedy check in for Turkish Airlines TK2409 to Istanbul, and not long to wait once through security.

Once back on the ground, it was final, hectic farewells at Istanbul as Helen, Jean and Brian headed off to the International Terminal, and Hazel and I went out to find our driver... who was ready and waiting for us at the arrivals gate.

Easy journey into Sultanahmet, where we were deposited at the lovely Turkoman Hotel - another Thelma tip, it's a restored, Ottoman era town house. Great location, amazing view of the Blue Mosque, roof top dining room and terrace and lovely staff - what more could you want (a larger bathroom, apparently, if you're American).

Refreshed by a complimentary turkish coffee on the roof terrace, we headed out to see some sights, starting with the Hippodrome and the columns within it, then straight into the grounds and courtyard of the amazing Blue Mosque. We'd arrived during one of the day's closed periods (which only means you can't go inside, and there's plenty to see on the outside), so we continued out exploration round the back of the mosque, and worked our way round to the Hagia Sophia, where the queues were ginormous. We spotted 3 massive cruise liners docked at Karaköy, which probably contributed to the volume of people and the length of the queues, as we passed lots of tagged tour groups.

Continuing on, we passed the beautiful Fountain of Ahmed III, strolled through the grounds of the Topkapı Palace, and then dropped down towards the waterfront at Eminönü and crossed the Galata bridge to Karaköy. A lot of uphill brought us to the Galata Tower, again with a long queue.

Back over the bridge, we explored the Spice Market, the Egyptian Bazaar and the streets around the New Mosque, but our attempts to return to our hotel via the Grand Bazaar were thwarted by key streets being cordoned off for filming... the new James Bond film, apparently. No sign of Daniel Craig though, sadly.

Once we did make it back to the hotel, it was time for a beer on the roof terrace, and to admire the minarets and domes of the Blue Mosque in the afternoon light - beautiful blue sky, grey architecture and green leaves/trees. So, no surprise that we headed back to take some more photos en route to dinner at the Doy-Doy Restaurant, where we sat on its roof terrace with views over the Marmara Sea and the Blue Mosque. Food was so-so, but not pricey and - unlike the restaurant streets we'd walked through earlier - there was no hustle/hassle from the waiters.

Back to the hotel via Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque in their night time guise.

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Sprengel Museum Hannover

PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING!

09. October 2011 – 15. January 2012

Sprengel Museum HannoverSprengel Museum Hannover

IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE

LOWER SAXONY SAVINGS BANK FOUNDATION

PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING! is an exhibition of the works of 31 photographers on a floor area of over 2,000 square metres. Since HOW YOU LOOK AT IT in 2000, this exhibition is the first and only one to provide an all-embracing overview of artistic photography from the 1960s to the present day. The exhibition has been organized by the Sprengel Museum Hannover in collaboration with the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation. Starting out from the Foundation’s collection of large groups of works by both American and European photographers, the only collection of its kind in Europe, the exhibition explores the history and perspectives of the ‘documentary style’ of photography.

PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING! constitutes yet a further step towards establishing Hanover as an important centre for artistic photography in the north of Germany.

The starting points of the exhibition are the works of Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, John Gossage, Nicholas Nixon, Martin Parr and Michael Schmidt. The artist photographers Rineke Dijkstra, Paul Graham, Thomas Struth and the photographers of the generations that followed, such as Jitka Hanzlová, Stephen Gill, Jochen Lempert, Elisabeth Neudörfl, Heidi Specker and Tobias Zielony, visualize the world with a style of photography that adheres strictly to the medium and yet is highly subjective. Max Baumann, Boris Mikhailov, Rita Ostrowskaja and Helga Paris extend the perspective with experiences of their own confrontations with different political systems, while Laura Bielau, Thomas Demand, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Wolfgang Tillmans and Jeff Wall use the documentary style of photography as a means of exemplifying the phenomena of visual perception. Many of the works are being exhibited for the very first time.

Integrated into the exhibition are three successive Project Rooms organized by three guest curators and each taking place for the duration of one month. They thematize three different methods of collecting and three different ways of using photography.

From 9.10. until 30.10.2011 the artist Thierry Geoffroy will investigate the idea behind the title of the exhibition – PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING! – and ask: Who calls whom and what, and for what purpose, and out of what interests? On 1.11.2011 Markus Schaden will be setting up a study room devoted to the photography book as a ‘storage medium’ and collector’s item. From 6.12.2011 until 15.1.2012 Wilhelm Schürmann will be exposing the obsessions that can be the driving force behind a private collection of photographs, graphics, paintings and sculptures.

In the run-up to the exhibition HOW YOU LOOK AT IT at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, which was curated by Thomas Weski and Heinz Liesbrock on the occasion of EXPO 2000, the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation began to purchase comprehensive groups of works by selected American and European photographers. Since then, the collecting activity of the Foundation has been focused on those works of photography that may be understood to be in the tradition of the ‘documentary style’ (Walker Evans, 1903-1975) and have been exercising a strong influence on photography since the end of the 1960s. Thus it has been possible – thanks not least to the recommendations of a high-calibre advisory board – to build up a photographic collection distinguished by its concentration on groups of works. In this regard the collection is unique in Europe.

The Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation’s collection and its perspective are now to be the subject of the present exhibition, which is being mounted jointly with the Sprengel Museum Hannover and also in the context of the Museum’s own well-cultivated photography tradition, which began in 1979 and can boast exhibitions of such great exponents of photography as Karl Blossfeldt, El Lissitzky, Judith Joy Ross and Michael Schmidt, to name only a few of many, or the “SPECTRUM” International Prize for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony. ‘Collecting’ manifests itself here as an open system that operates self-reflexively in the aforementioned Project Rooms and is future-oriented and discussion-friendly in the exhibition’s supplementary events.

PHOTOGRAPHY CALLING! is accompanied by a copious publication (Steidl, Göttingen). Visitors will also be offered a comprehensive information programme.

The exhibition has been curated by Inka Schube, Curator for Photography and Media Art, Sprengel Museum Hannover, and Thomas Weski, Professor of “Curatorial Cultures”, Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig.

One of the many parts of the studio re-org.

All the wider Washi Tapes on my gifted custom multi-tape dispenser from my father-out-law :D who so kindly used almost all scrap materials in his workshop (only the side screws were new), including a few antique pieces (I'm very honored) and blunted saw blades….

2-sided, carrying handle, bottom can hold extras

(see previous pic here of the first of many washi-tape re-orgs since I received it :D

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Florida Gulf Coast University students show that breaking up with fossil fuels is easy!

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Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.

The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.

Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest, had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents.

All three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the District: Congress (legislative), president (executive), and the U.S. Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments, and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profit, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the Human Rights Campaign, the International Finance Corporation, and the American Red Cross.

A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973. However, Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D.C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, but the District has no representation in the Senate. The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961.

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The Washington Metro, or locally simply Metro, is the common name of Metrorail, the rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area of the United States. It is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), which also operates the Metrobus service under the Metro name. Opened in 1976, the network now includes six lines, 91 stations, and 117 miles (188 km) of route.

Metro serves the District of Columbia, as well as several jurisdictions in the states of Maryland and Virginia. In Maryland, Metro provides service to Montgomery and Prince George's counties; in Virginia, to Arlington and Fairfax counties and to the independent city of Alexandria. Combined with its ridership in the independent Virginia cities of Falls Church and Fairfax, the Metro service area is largely coextensive with the inner ring of the Washington metropolitan area. The system is currently being expanded to reach Dulles International Airport and Loudoun County, Virginia. It operates mostly as a deep-level subway in more densely populated parts of the D.C. metropolitan area (including most of the District itself), while most of the suburban tracks are at surface level or elevated. The longest single-tier escalator in the Western Hemisphere, spanning 230 feet (70 m), is located at Metro's deep-level Wheaton station.

Metro is the third-busiest rapid transit system in the United States in number of passenger trips, after the New York City Subway and Chicago "L". There were 179.7 million trips on Metro in fiscal year 2016. In June 2008, Metro set a monthly ridership record with 19,729,641 trips, or 798,456 per weekday. Fares vary based on the distance traveled, the time of day, and the type of card used by the passenger. Riders enter and exit the system using a proximity card called SmarTrip.

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L'Enfant Plaza is an intermodal transit station located at L'Enfant Plaza in the Southwest Federal Center neighborhood of Washington, D.C.. It consists of an underground Washington Metro rapid transit station and an elevated Virginia Railway Express commuter rail station.

The Metro station, which opened on July 1, 1977, is one of three major interchange stations on the Metro system. It serves five of the six Metro lines: the Green Line and Yellow Line with two side platforms on the upper level; and the Blue Line, Orange Line, and Silver Line with one island platform on the lower level.

The VRE station, which has a single side platform serving the northernmost of the three tracks of the RF&P Subdivision, is served by the Manassas Line and Fredericksburg Line.

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Aphrodisias lies in southwestern Turkey, in the fertile valley of the Dandalas River, a tributary of the Meander, about 150 kilometres east (inland) of the Aegean Sea. It is situated at the base of the Babadag mountain range, at 500 m above sea level. The city was the capital of the ancient Roman province of Caria.

The ancient city of Aphrodisias is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Greek and Roman periods in Turkey. Famous in antiquity for its sanctuary of Aphrodite, the city's patron goddess, Aphrodisias enjoyed a long and prosperous existence from the second century B.C. through the sixth century A.D. Today, many of the city's ancient monuments remain standing, and excavations have unearthed numerous fine marble statues and other artifacts. The great beauty and extraordinary preservation of this site combine to bring the civic culture of the Greco-Roman world vividly to life.

Aphrodisias was founded on the site of an ancient local sanctuary in the second century B.C., according to the date of the earliest coins and inscriptions found in the site. In the late first century B.C., the city came under the personal protection of the Roman emperor Augustus, and a long period of growth and good fortune ensued. The first several centuries A.D. were especially prosperous, and most of the surviving buildings of the city date to this period. In the fourth century, Aphrodisias became the capital of the Roman province of Caria. The cosmopolitan character of the age is demonstrated by the presence in this city of an active Jewish community, attested in a famous inscription listing benefactors of the local Synagogue.

The first systematic excavations at the site were begun in 1961 under the aegis of New York University, and yielded many remains of the city's central monuments. In addition to the Temple of Aphrodite, major areas of investigation included the Bouleuterion or Council House, and the Sebasteion. The Sebasteion, a religious sanctuary dedicated to Aphrodite and the Roman emperors, is one of the most remarkable discoveries of Roman archaeology. It is one of the best-preserved examples of a Roman imperial cult complex, and is decorated with an extraordinary series of life-size marble reliefs (originally almost 200), which depict Roman emperors and imperial family members from ca. A.D. 20 to 60, as well as, personifications of the subject peoples of the Roman empire, and mythological heroes and gods. The reliefs provide an unparalleled insight into how Roman imperial power was understood from a local perspective. Other important public buildings are the Theatre, the Hadrianic Baths, and the Stadium; the latter seated 30,000 people, and is the best-preserved of all ancient stadiums. The buildings of the site are remarkable not only for the preservation of their architecture, but also for the many inscriptions, statues, reliefs, and other objects associated with them.

Aphrodisias is well-known for its fine sculpture. Good marble quarries are located only a few kilometres away from the city, and by the Late Hellenistic period, a strong local tradition of marble sculpture had already taken root. In later generations, Aphrodisian sculptors are known to have worked abroad on prestigious commissions, for example, at Hadrian's villa at Tivoli. The sculpture from the site is characterized by virtuosity and variety. Excavation has uncovered statues of, for example, gods, heroes, emperors, orators, philosophers, and boxers, as well as a great range of ornamental and figured relief. The finds range from grave reliefs of the second century B.C. to statues of the last Roman governors of the sixth century A.D. Many sculptures from the site already occupy key positions in the history of ancient art.

The studies for a site management plan were started according to a protocol between the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Geyre Foundation dated to 08.11.2007.

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A monograph of the Trochilidæ, or family of humming-birds /.

London :Printed by Taylor and Francis ;1861 [i.e. 1849-1861].

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Atlas der baumarten von Java :

Lieden :Buch- und Steindruckerei,1913-18.

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The Tibetan Nuns Project

Educating and Supporting Nuns in Exile

www.TNP.org

About Us

The Tibetan Nuns Project was established under the auspices of the Tibetan Women's Association and the Department of Religion and Culture of H. H. the Dalai Lama and is dedicated to educating and supporting nuns in India from all Tibetan Buddhist lineages.

The Beginning

In the mid 1980s, with the strong encouragement of H.H. the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Women's Association began to work on behalf of nuns of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Initial efforts focused on small projects within the two existing nunneries in the Dharamsala area, and the women also worked to start a new nunnery in South India.

In early 1991, a group of 66 refugee nuns appeared overnight on the streets of Dharamsala, India. They had been on a two-year pilgrimage from eastern Tibet that had ended in a journey over the Himalayas. Ill and exhausted, they had nowhere to go. The Tibetan Women's Association organized emergency assistance to meet their basic needs, and set in motion the Tibetan Nuns Project to work exclusively on behalf of the nuns. The Project immediately began to find long-term solutions to the problems of securing housing, medical care and most importantly, education for refugee nuns. The Project created a sponsorship program, reaching out to individuals around the world.

Funding

The Project is primarily funded by generous donations from individuals and organizations. Institutional funding has come from the Heinrich Boell Foundation of Germany; the Norwegian Tibet Committee Women's Group and the Norwegian organizations Fokus and Norad; the Swedish foundation Soir-IM; the American Himalayan Foundation; Rigpa Foundation of London; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Hershey Family Foundation, and the Betsy Gordon Foundation. Money is also produced by the nuns' numerous income-generating projects.

Our Leadership

Director Rinchen Khando Choegyal, is a former Minister of Education in the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, founding President of the Women's Tibetan Association, and sister-in-law of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She resides in Dharamsala.

Co-Director Elizabeth Napper, PhD., a scholar of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, is author of Dependent-Arising and Emptiness, translator and editor of Mind in Tibetan Buddhism, and co-editor of Kindness, Clarity and Insight, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. She divides her time between Dharamsala and the U.S.

Co-Director Venerable Lobsang Dechen, received her B.A. from St. Bedes in Shimla and her B. of Ed. from Punjab University in Chandigarh, and previously taught at the Tibetan Children's Village School in Lower Dharamsala. She resides in Dharamsala.

Board of Directors

The Tibetan Nuns Project is comprised of two sister organizations. All of our program work takes place in northern India, where our office is located within the Dolma Ling complex. Our program work is governed by our Board of Directors in India. In the U.S., the Tibetan Nuns Project is a registered non-profit with 501(c) tax status that conducts fundraising and outreach work in North America and operates under the governance of its own Board of Directors.

India

Rinchen Khando Choegyal, President

Ven. Lobsang Dechen, Secretary

Tenzin Choegyal, Member

Ven. Tashi Namygyal, Member

Dolkar Lhamo, Treasurer (current President of the Tibetan Women's Association)

Gonpa Phuntsog, Member (current Secretary of the Department of Religion and Culture of the Central Tibetan Administration)

Tenzin Gyeche, Member

Chhime R. Chhoekyapa, Member (current Secretary of the Private Office of H.H. the Dalai Lama)

U.S.

Elizabeth Napper, President

Tseten Phanucharas, Secretary

Elizabeth Goldblatt, Treasurer

Ven. Lobsang Dechen, Member

Judyth Weaver, Member

Debra Goldman, Member

Steve Wilhelm, Member

Our Staff

Our India office is staffed largely by lay Tibetans who are increasingly assisted by the nuns. It is our vision that, after completion of the educational programs currently underway, all of the administration of the Tibetan Nuns Project will one day be carried out by the nuns. In the U.S. we have a small administrative and fundraising office in Seattle, Washington which is staffed by two employees assisted by a number of committed volunteers.

Web site credits

Photography Credits

Tibetan nuns and staff & teachers at Dolma Ling Nunnery, Dharamsala, India

ALBA Lactancia Materna - Barcelona

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sound visualizer toy.

Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of Captain George S. Nares ...

Edinburgh :Neill,1880-1895.

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St. Francis Church of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star, Old Town Bridge Tower (Staroměstská mostecká věž), Charles Bridge (Karlův most), Old Water Tower and National Theatre (Národní divadlo) in the Old Town (Staré Město) of Prague (Praha), Czech Republic.

Charles Bridge (formerly called Stone Bridge or just Prague Bridge) crosses the Vltava river and connects the quarters Old Town (Staré Město) and Lesser Town (Malá Strana). It is protected by three bridge towers (one on the Old Town side, the others on the Lesser Town side) and is decorated by an alley of 30 statues and statuaries, most of them in baroque style. Charles Bridge is one of the most famous sites of Prague.

Seen from Mánesův most (Mánes bridge).

The Historic Centre of Prague is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.

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Built between the 11th and 18th centuries, the Old Town, the Lesser Town and the New Town speak of the great architectural and cultural influence enjoyed by this city since the Middle Ages. The many magnificent monuments, such as Hradcani Castle, St Vitus Cathedral, Charles Bridge and numerous churches and palaces, built mostly in the 14th century under the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV.

Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe in terms of its setting on both banks of the Vltava River, its townscape of burger houses and palaces punctuated by towers, and its individual buildings.

The Historic Centre represents a supreme manifestation of Medieval urbanism (the New Town of Emperor Charles IV built as the New Jerusalem). The Prague architectural works of the Gothic Period (14th and 15th centuries), of the High Baroque of the 1st half of the 18th century and of the rising modernism after the year 1900, influenced the development of Central Europe, perhaps even all European architecture. Prague represents one of the most prominent world centres of creative life in the field of urbanism and architecture across generations, human mentality and beliefs.

Prague belongs to the group of historic cities which have preserved the structure of their development until the present times. Within the core of Prague, successive stages of growth and changes have respected the original grand-scale urban structure of the Early Middle Ages. This structure was essentially and greatly enlarged with urban activities in the High Gothic period with more additions during the High Baroque period and in the 19th century. It has been saved from any large-scale urban renewal or massive demolitions and thus preserves its overall configuration, pattern and spatial composition.

In the course of the 1100 years of its existence, Prague’s development can be documented in the architectural expression of many historical periods and their styles. The city is rich in outstanding monuments from all periods of its history. Of particular importance are Prague Castle, the Cathedral of St Vitus, Hradćany Square in front of the Castle, the Valdgtejn Palace on the left bank of the river, the Gothic Charles Bridge, the Romanesque Rotunda of the Holy Rood, the Gothic arcaded houses round the Old Town Square, the High Gothic Minorite Church of St James in the Stark Mĕsto, the late 19th century buildings and town plan of the Nave Mĕsto.

As early as the Middle Ages, Prague became one of the leading cultural centres of Christian Europe. The Prague University, founded in 1348, is one of the earliest in Europe. The milieu of the University in the last quarter of the 14th century and the first years of the 15th century contributed among other things to the formation of ideas of the Hussite Movement which represented in fact the first steps of the European Reformation. As a metropolis of culture, Prague is connected with prominent names in art, science and politics, such as Charles IV, Petr Parléř, Jan Hus, Johannes Kepler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Kafka, Antonín Dvořák, Albert Einstein, Edvard Beneš (co-founder of the League of Nations) and Václav Havel.

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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas

Las Vegas, often known simply as Vegas, is the 26th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area and is the largest city within the greater Mojave Desert. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city, known primarily for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment, and nightlife. The Las Vegas Valley as a whole serves as the leading financial, commercial, and cultural center for Nevada.

The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous for its mega casino-hotels and associated activities. It is a top three destination in the United States for business conventions and a global leader in the hospitality industry, claiming more AAA Five Diamond hotels than any other city in the world. Today, Las Vegas annually ranks as one of the world's most visited tourist destinations. The city's tolerance for numerous forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of "Sin City", and has made Las Vegas a popular setting for literature, films, television programs, and music videos.

Las Vegas was settled in 1905 and officially incorporated in 1911. At the close of the 20th century, it was the most populated North American city founded within that century (a similar distinction was earned by Chicago in the 19th century). Population growth has accelerated since the 1960s, and between 1990 and 2000 the population nearly doubled, increasing by 85.2%. Rapid growth has continued into the 21st century, and according to the United States Census Bureau, the city had 641,903 residents in 2020, with a metropolitan population of 2,227,053.

As with most major metropolitan areas, the name of the primary city ("Las Vegas" in this case) is often used to describe areas beyond official city limits. In the case of Las Vegas, this especially applies to the areas on and near the Las Vegas Strip, which are actually located within the unincorporated communities of Paradise and Winchester.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Strip

The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about 4.2 mi (6.8 km) long, and is immediately south of the Las Vegas city limits in the unincorporated towns of Paradise and Winchester, but is often referred to simply as "Las Vegas".

Many of the largest hotel, casino, and resort properties in the world are on the Strip, known for its contemporary architecture, lights, and wide variety of attractions. Its hotels, casinos, restaurants, residential high-rises, entertainment offerings, and skyline have established the Strip as one of the most popular and iconic tourist destinations in the world and is one of the driving forces for Las Vegas' economy. Most of the Strip has been designated as an All-American Road, and the North and South Las Vegas Strip routes are classified as Nevada Scenic Byways and National Scenic Byways.

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Happy Global Divestment Day from Boston University Students for a Just and

Stable Future!

Huraaaaaa, In the globe Tajikistan conected the new Dot. It`s Dot connected

with vital for Tajikistan Eco challenge like glaciers melting. That is why

our slogan, our motto it`s* I`m melting*. Our volunteers and youth activist

from eco and non-ecological youth activist joint with us today in Dushanbe

city, Tajikistan and presented a huge black dot on poster and ice, lots of

ice, dozen kilos, the bright symbol of glaciers` melting in the globe and

tajikistan as well

Hope our colleagues and friends around the world did or doing now something

very spectacular and amasing

Y. , I send some photos choose the best one only

The photos by Farangiz Umed-Zade

Aziz, from Youth ecology centre, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

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REIGN ad lib

April 28-30, 2011

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Peter B. Lewis Theater

1071 Fifth Avenue

New York City

Dood Paard, an Amsterdam-based theater collective without a director or set designer, performed REIGEN ad lib, a verbatim and uniquely contemporary staging of playwright Arthur Schnitzler’s Der Reigen (1897). Scandalous during its time, Der Reigen was banned for more than 20 years, with only one unauthorized performance in Budapest in 1912. Performing on vintage mattresses, Dood Paard members were costumed in underwear and gaudy attire while sexual acts were intimated through stroboscopic projections of artist Marco Brambilla’s video Sync from Destricted (2006), a collection of short erotic films by various artists.

Photo: Enid Alvarez

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Mexico City est. 1521, pop. 21.2MM • the preceding Aztec city of Tenochtilan est. 1325, pop. (estimated) 200K • the Centro Historico district of Mexico City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site • oldest known map of Mexico City

• the Templo Mayor (Great Temple) was one of the main Aztec (Mexica) temples in capital city Tenochtitlan • after destruction by Spanish army under conquistador Hernan Cortés (1485-1547), ruins covered over by Mexico City • location eventually forgotten • scale model of temple & digital illustration of Tenochtitlan as it appeared when Spaniards arrived

• part of temple discovered, early 20th c. but no excavation because site covered with upscale neighborhood • temple rediscovered by electric co. workers, 25 Feb, 1978 • site excavation, 1978-1982 headed by archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma • Templo Mayor Project authorized by presidential decree • 13 bldgs. from 19th-20th c. demolished to clear site • 7,000 artifacts recovered, now housed in Museo del Templo Mayor (Templo Mayor Museum)

• Sacred Precinct surrounding temple reported to have 78 bldgs. • all that remains of temple is a platform & a section of paving in south courtyard

Hernán Cortés letter to King Carlos V, 1520:

"Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. Around the interior of the enclosure there are handsome edifices, containing large halls and corridors, in which the religious persons attached to the temple reside. There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville."

"Three halls are in this grand temple, which contain the principal idols... leading from the halls are chapels with very small doors, to which the light is not admitted, nor are any persons except the priests, and not all of them. In these chapels are the images of idols... The principal ones, in which the people have greatest faith and confidence, I precipitated from their pedestals, and cast them down the steps of the temple, purifying the chapels in which they had stood, as they were all polluted with human blood, shed ill the sacrifices. In the place of these I put images of Our Lady and the Saints, which excited not a little feeling in Moctezuma and the inhabitants, who at first remonstrated, declaring that if my proceedings were known throughout the country, the people would rise against me..."

"I answered, through the interpreters, that they were deceived in expecting any favors from idols, the work of their own hands, formed of unclean things; and that they must learn there was but one God, the universal Lord of all, who had created the heavens and earth, and all things else, and had made them and us; that He was without beginning and immortal, and they were bound to adore and believe Him, and no other creature or thing."

• after the conquest, Cortés directed the destruction & leveling of the city • A place for human sacrifices -BBC • Templo Mayor & Its Symbolism -Guggehneim • Unburying the Aztec -National Geographic • Khan Academy

Kruzenshtern leaving Trave river in heavy rain at the windjammer parade of the festival "100 Jahre Passat" (100 Years Passat) in Lübeck-Travemünde, Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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The Kruzenshtern or Krusenstern (Russian: Барк Крузенштерн) is a four masted barque and tall ship that was built in 1926 at Geestemünde in Bremerhaven, Germany as the Padua (named after the Italian city). She was surrendered to the USSR in 1946 as war reparation and renamed after the early 19th century Baltic German explorer in Russian service, Adam Johann Krusenstern (1770–1846). She is now a Russian Navy sail training ship.

Of the four remaining Flying P-Liners, the former Padua is the only one still in use, mainly for training purposes, with her home ports in Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg) and Murmansk. After the Sedov, another former German ship, she is the largest traditional sailing vessel still in operation.

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The "birthday child" Passat (Link in German!) is a four-masted steel barque and one of the Flying P-Liners of the shipping company F. Laeisz of Hamburg, Germany, launched in 1911 by Blohm & Voss shipyard. Today it is a museum ship, a venue and a landmark of Lübeck-Travemünde.

May 2011

Consciousness/Source >> Spirit World >> Higher Dimensional Positive Extraterrestrials.

Consciousness uses various experiences as contact modalities and as invitations to higher consciousness: Out-of-Body Experiences, Near-death experiences, mystical/meditational experiences, ET contacts, shamanic journes, Spirits (e.g. of died loved ones), certain types of positive channelings (like The Jeshua Channelings), remote viewing (which is a certain out-of-body experience).

See the survey results of a 5000 participant survey made by FREE Foundation (co-founded by Mary Rodwell) on experiencer.org

A variation on the hexagon sketch.

De uitlandsche kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen, Asia, Africa en America,.

Amsteldam,Chez S. J. Baalde;1779-1782..

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