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Carlo Bosi as Dr Caius, Lukas Jakobski as Pistol and Ambrogio Maestri as Falstaff in Robert Carsen's Royal Opera production of Falstaff.
www.roh.org.uk/productions/falstaff-by-robert-carsen
Photo by Catherine Ashmore
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.
The municipality (commune) of Bordeaux proper has a population of 243,626 (2012). Together with its suburbs and satellite towns, Bordeaux is the centre of the Bordeaux Métropole. With 749,595 inhabitants (as of 2013) and 1,178,335 in the metropolitan area, it is the fifth largest in France, after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Lille, and before Toulouse.
It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called "Bordelais" (for men) or "Bordelaises" (women). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region. Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Nouvelle-Aquitaine ("New Aquitaine") is the largest administrative region in France, located in the southwest of the country. The region was created by the territorial reform of French Regions in 2014 through the merger of three regions: Aquitaine, Limousin and Poitou-Charentes. It covers 84,061 km2 – or 1⁄8 of the country – and has approximately 5,800,000 inhabitants. (municipal population on 1 January 2012). The new region was established on 1 January 2016, following the regional elections in December 2015.
Larger than French Guiana, it is the largest region in France by area, with a territory slightly larger than that of Austria. Its largest city, Bordeaux, together with its suburbs and satellite cities, forms the 7th-largest metropolitan area of France, with 850,000 inhabitants. The region has 25 major urban areas, among which the most important after Bordeaux are Bayonne (288,000 inhabitants), Limoges (283,000), Poitiers (255,000), Pau (241,000), and La Rochelle (206,000), as well as 11 major clusters. The growth of its population, particularly marked on the coast, makes this one of the most attractive areas economically in France: the new region outperforms the Île-de-France and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in terms of demographic dynamism.
After the Ile-de-France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the premier French region in research and innovation, with five universities (Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Limoges, Poitiers and Pau) and several Grandes Ecoles. The first agricultural region of Europe in terms of turnover, it is the first French region in terms of tourism jobs, as it has three of the four historic resorts on the French Atlantic coast (Arcachon, Biarritz and Royan), as well as several ski resorts (e.g. Gourette), and is the fifth French region in terms of business creation (all sectors). Source: en.wikipedia.org
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
• 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
Im addicted! I love this project! I added some blending effects and am using a halo blurry image instead of a solid fill ellipse. I... had... no... idea...
When I first got my D3100 my friend asked me to help with some pictures (Since I can't cook) for this non profit that she volunteers her time to cook meals for their residents. hyacinths.org These were some of those shots from 2013 that they used on their website.
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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.
www.nyu.edu/projects/aphrodisias/home.ti.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodisias
Climate activists shut down 3rd Avenue in front of Governor Andrew Cuomo's
NYC office calling on him to rise to the climate crisis, 10 were arrested.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. With an estimated 2018 population of 498,044, it is also the 37th most-populous city in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5.9 million people and the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the nation. Atlanta is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia. A small portion of the city extends eastward into neighboring DeKalb County.
Atlanta was originally founded as the terminating stop of a major state-sponsored railroad. With rapid expansion, however, it soon became the convergence point between multiple railroads, spurring its rapid growth. The city's name derives from that of the Western and Atlantic Railroad's local depot, signifying the town's growing reputation as a transportation hub. During the American Civil War, the city was almost entirely burned to the ground in General William T. Sherman's famous March to the Sea. However, the city rose from its ashes and quickly became a national center of commerce and the unofficial capital of the "New South". During the 1950s and 1960s, Atlanta became a major organizing center of the civil rights movement, with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and many other locals playing major roles in the movement's leadership. During the modern era, Atlanta has attained international prominence as a major air transportation hub, with Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport being the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998.
Atlanta is rated as a "beta(+)" world city that exerts a moderate impact on global commerce, finance, research, technology, education, media, art, and entertainment. It ranks in the top twenty among world cities and 10th in the nation with a gross domestic product (GDP) of $385 billion. Atlanta's economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include transportation, logistics, professional and business services, media operations, medical services, and information technology. Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage, earning it the nickname of "the city in a forest." Revitalization of Atlanta's neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Summer Olympics, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the city's demographics, politics, aesthetics, and culture.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._National_His...
The Martin Luther King (MLK) Jr. National Historical Park consists of several buildings in Atlanta, Georgia, including Martin Luther King (MLK) Jr.'s boyhood home and the original Ebenezer Baptist Church, the church where King was baptized and both his father Martin Luther King Sr. and he were pastors. These places, critical to the interpretation of the life of Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy as a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, were included in the park when it was established on October 10, 1980. Formerly a National Historic Site, the unit was redesignated as a National Historical Park on January 8, 2018 by U.S. President Donald Trump.
In total, the buildings included in the site make up 35 acres (0.14 km²). The visitor center contains a museum that chronicles the American Civil Rights Movement and the path of Martin Luther King Jr. An 1894 firehouse (Fire Station No. 6) served the Sweet Auburn community until 1991, and now contains a gift shop and an exhibit on desegregation in the Atlanta Fire Department. The "I Have a Dream" International World Peace Rose Garden, and a memorial tribute to Mohandas K. Gandhi are part of the site, as is the "International Civil Rights Walk of Fame" which commemorates some of the courageous pioneers who worked for social justice.
Annual events celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January typically draw large crowds. Speakers have included Presidents of the United States, national and local politicians, and civil rights leaders. Remembrances are also held during Black History Month (February), and on the anniversary of King's April 4, 1968, assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Center_for_Nonviolent_Social_C...
The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization founded in 1968 by Coretta Scott King. King started the organization in the basement of the couple's home in the year following the 1968 assassination of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1981, the center's headquarters were moved into the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, a multimillion-dollar facility on Auburn Avenue which includes King's birth home and the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he preached from 1960 until his death.
In 1977, a memorial tomb was dedicated, and the remains of Martin Luther King Jr. were moved from South View Cemetery to the plaza that is nestled between the center and the church. Martin Luther King Jr.'s gravesite and a reflecting pool are also located next to Freedom Hall. Mrs. King was interred with her husband on February 7, 2006.
As of 2012, The King Center's current President and CEO is King's youngest child, Bernice King. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the organization carries out initiatives on both the domestic and international level. The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change is dedicated to research, education and training in the principles, philosophy and methods of Kingian nonviolence.
Iwith.org té durant el mes d'abril els pallapupes a l'aparador de les ONGs.
Com us podeu imaginar, a mi m'encanten! pallapupas
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Ames High School Class of 1976 40-Year Reunion was held Friday and Saturday July 15-16, 2016 in Ames Iowa
Welcome back Class of 1976 Ames Senior High School. Saturday evening dinner event July 16, 2016 at the Memorial Union Iowa State University campus Ames, Iowa.
Ames High School class of 1976 40-year post reunion summary
The 40th reunion was amazing!! Almost 100 of our classmates met on Friday July 15 at Elks Lodge downtown Ames Iowa, which was a nice venue, it provided lots of room and great backgrounds for photos and lots and lots of re-connecting and conversation with friends and classmates. The Friday evening reunion photos are here: Fri eve
Saturday, July 16 we all toured the High School then met again at the Memorial Union for group photos out on the steps and more photos and dinner in the Sun Room and another wonderfully enchanted evening of re-connecting with old friends. It was so much fun to see classmates we had not seen for so long, in some cases not since AHS days 40 years ago. We all have journeyed 40 years to get to this spot in time. It is something ever so special to have friends that span most, if not all of your life, especially after 40 plus years. Saturday evening 40th reunion photos are here: Sat eve
Saturday evening photos courtesy of photobyJasonSturges www.JasonSturges.com
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LUG Showcase Model that was just dropped off at the Roosevelt Field Store.
Collaborative ILUGNY build with Brian, Rick, Tim and myself. Really pleased with how it ended up, and it was quite a bit of fun.
Arbeitsplatz kann während der Backzeit aufgeräumt werden ;-))
180 C ca 15-20 Min --> schöne Bräunung und das Ei muss gestockt sein.
Our tour group was taken to Buckfast Abbey in the morning.
The first Abbey was founded on this site in 1018 and absorbed into the Cistercian order in 1147. It grew throughout the middle ages until it's closure in 1539 by King Henry VIII.
The buildings were converted and allowed to fall into ruin, but in 1882 a group of Benedictine monks, exiled from France, settled at Buckfast and eventually set about rebuilding the Abbey.
It is incredible that a team of no more than 6 monks completed the work in 30 years, and only one - Brother Peter had any experience as a builder.
Today Buckfast Abbey is the only English medieval monastery to have been regranted and used again for it's original purpose.
Going into the abbey church I was told to take my baseball cap off, which I did.
Grade II* Listed Building
Church of St Mary (Buckfast Abbey)
Description
BUCKFASTLEIGH
SX7467 BUCKFAST ROAD, Buckfast
1011-1/5/29 Abbey Church Of St Mary
10/01/51
(Formerly Listed as:
BUCKFAST ROAD, Buckfast
St Mary's Church, Buckfast Abbey)
GV II*
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).
Listing NGR: SX7414767411
Seen from the Physic Garden.
En Biodiversidad virtual y también en Twiter
Con este aspecto feroz y esas patas como cuchillos, es probable que nadie se atreva a cruzaerse en su camino y es que el ciliado Histriculus se ha convertido en el guardián de la gota de agua, una gota de agua, que trajo el viento del sur empapándose en la niebla y que junto a otras se han ido destilando en los Llanos del Juncal junto a un bosque húmedo que es selva y que da cobijo a numerosas algas que Histriculus guarda como un tesoro, son su alimento y al mismo tiempo las joyas que adornan su cuerpo en el que se dibujan como broches de un tesoro que se va dorando con el tiempo.
Histriculus pertenece a ese grupo de ciliados de la clase "Stichotricha" en la que los cilios se han soldado para convertirse en estas afiladas espinas como dagas flexibles, amenanzantes e inofensivas, que ayudan a caminar a estos organismos por los fondos del agua con la agilidad de cualquier artrópodo acuático, milpiés o saltamontes, cangrejo o pulga saltarina.
El género Histriculus incluye a ciliados hervíboros de aspecto muy similar a Stylonychia y a otros géneros de apariencia feroz, pero completamente pacíficos y de hábitos vegetarianos. Ese aspecto arisco y agresivo lo dan los gruesos cirros que poseen tanto alrededor, como en la parte dorsal y ventral de su aplanado cuerpo. Son cilios fundidos de apariencia áspera y espinosa y que actúan como remos elásticos, impulsando como un resorte al cuerpo de estos organismos. En otras ocasiones, estos cirros se convierten en patas y hacen del desplazamiento de estos protozoos un paseo como el que podría tener cualquier insecto subacuático.
Los cirros en este grupo de ciliados se colocan exactamente y en número fijo en cada una de las porciones del cuerpo y constituyen una seña de identidad única. En Histriculus los cirros del contorno son pequeños y bordean como un fleco continuo los costados de este protozoo, en otros géneros es frecuente que falten en la parte de la cola y que en ella se sitúen otros tres muy largos con aspecto de antena tal y como ocurre en Stylonychia .
Parece que el comportamiento de Histriculus es muy territorial, se mueven siempre alrededor de una zona no muy extensa, unas veces permanecen inmóviles mientras baten las membranas de cirros situadas en la abertura de su boca -cistostoma-, de este modo atraen hacia sí a partículas vegetales y pequeñas algas a las que arremolinan antes de ingerir. En otras ocasiones, se mueven inquietos hacia delante y hacia atrás en saltos cortos e imprevisibles mostrando su temperamento inquieto. Posiblemente este modo de actuar junto a las defensas que le proporcionan los gruesos y amenazantes cirros, sean una protección frente a sus depredadores…no debemos olvidar que estos ciliados son los pequeños corderos de los pastos subacuáticos, corderos con púas de erizo.
Histriculus vive en zonas de aguas limpias aunque en ellas abunden los restos vegetales. El de hoy lo hemos encontrado entre las algas y la vegetación acuática de los Llanos del Juncal sobre el precioso bosque húmedo de Alcornoques que mira hacia otro continente y se abre hacia el mar sin fronteras. La fotografía tomada con la técnica de contraste de interferencia a 400 aumentos procede de una muestra recogida el junto a Lechu, Elena y Cristina, el 24 de febrero de 2018 entre Algerciras y Tarifa donde Histriculus se ha convertido en guardian de sus bosques de niebla.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_Valley
Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. The most famous butte formations are located in northeastern Arizona along the Utah–Arizona state line. The valley is considered sacred by the Navajo Nation, the Native American people within whose reservation it lies.
Monument Valley has been featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Famed director John Ford used the location for a number of his Westerns. Film critic Keith Phipps wrote that "its five square miles [13 km2] have defined what decades of moviegoers think of when they imagine the American West".
Sourc: navajonationparks.org/navajo-tribal-parks/monument-valley/
History
Before human existence, the Park was once a lowland basin. For hundreds of millions of years, materials that eroded from the early Rock Mountains deposited layer upon layer of sediment which cemented a slow and gentle uplift, generated by ceaseless pressure from below the surface, elevating these horizontal strata quite uniformly one to three miles above sea level. What was once a basin became a plateau.
Natural forces of wind and water that eroded the land spent the last 50 million years cutting into and peeling away at the surface of the plateau. The simple wearing down of altering layers of soft and hard rock slowly revealed the natural wonders of Monument Valley today.
From the visitor center, you see the world-famous panorama of the Mitten Buttes and Merrick Butte. You can also purchase guided tours from Navajo tour operators, who take you down into the valley in Jeeps for a narrated cruise through these mythical formations. Places such as Ear of the Wind and other landmarks can only be accessed via guided tours. During the summer months, the visitor center also features Haskenneini Restaurant, which specializes in both native Navajo and American cuisines, and a film/snack/souvenir shop. There are year-round restroom facilities. One mile before the center, numerous Navajo vendors sell arts, crafts, native food, and souvenirs at roadside stands.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(United States) "الولايات المتحدة" "Vereinigte Staaten" "アメリカ" "米国" "美国" "미국" "Estados Unidos" "États-Unis" "ארצות הברית" "संयुक्त राज्य" "США"
(Arizona) "أريزونا" "亚利桑那州" "אריזונה" "एरिजोना" "アリゾナ州" "애리조나" "Аризона"
(Utah) "يوتا" "犹他州" "יוטה" "यूटा" "ユタ州" "유타" "Юта"
(Monument Valley) "وادي النصب التذكاري" "纪念碑谷" "Vallée des monuments" "מוניומנט ואלי" "स्मारक घाटी" "モニュメントバレー" "모뉴먼트 밸리" "Долина Монументов" "Valle de los Monumentos"
AHS Ames High School Alumni Assoc - Ames, IA.
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The Ames High School Class of 1977 40-Year Reunion was held Friday, Saturday and Sunday September 22 23 and 24th, 2017 in Ames Iowa, and it was FUN!!
ALL AHS class of 1977 photos. Click here
1977 AHS 40th reunion photos from Sep 2017 are here
AHS 1977 40th reunion info on AmesHigh.org
Welcome back Class of 1977 Ames Senior High School !!
Ames High School class of 1977 40-year post reunion summary
The 40th reunion was amazing!! The class of 1977 always has one of the strongest most connected classes out of all the Alumni classes at AHS, and this was no exception as approximately 100 1977 classmates met and re-connected on Friday Sep 22 2017 first at an AHS football game and later at Buford's Restaurant in the Quality Inn.
Saturday, September 23 we all toured the High School then 110+ classmates met again later that day at the Quality Inn for a banquet, group photos, a short program and then another wonderfully enchanted evening of re-connecting with old friends. It was so much fun to see classmates we had not seen for so long, in some cases not since AHS days 40 years ago. We all have journeyed 40 years to get to this spot in time. It is something ever so special to have friends that span most, if not all of your life, especially after 40 plus years. Sunday was an awesome picnic at Brookside Park with another fun group photo, then we shed a tear and said our goodbyes and we hope to see you again soon.
1977 40th reunion photo album
Saturday evening photos courtesy #photobyEdHendricksonJr
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Phaselis Research
Phaselis
When compared with the previous period of research on the history of the city over the past quarter century it has undergone radical changes. While modern scientists follow the path of their predecessors in collecting data through systematic processes and methodically analysing them, they change the route whereby they approach the city as a context- and a process-oriented structure, having economic, social, cultural, political and environmental dimensions which come together at different levels.
This considerably more inclusive definition expands the discipline concerning the city’s historical research, which consists of archaeology, epigraphy, ancient history and the other ancillary sciences and it encourages scientists from the natural and health sciences to participate within these studies. This is because in the course of the exploration of an ancient settlement the study of both the environment and the ecological setting which make human life possible; together with health issues, such as diet and epidemics, form the context within which human beings live, and which are thereby as important as the human actors.
Within the context of the planned Phaselis Research, even certain knowledge such as the settlement’s appearing on the stage of history as a favorite break-point with its three natural harbours, it being famous for its roses, the frequent seismic upheavals at sea and on its shores and its citizens leaving their homes because of a devastating malaria epidemic suggest the necessity of the application of this multi-dimensional research methodology in order to understand more fully the historical adventure of this city.
By presenting this research project, we aim to implement and realize this multi-dimensional research method, which as yet lacks widespread application in the field in our country, however conceptually and practically with a multi-disciplinary research team consisting of both national and international scientists, we intend to register systematically every kind of data/information regarding all contexts of the city employing modern methods and to present the results to the scientific world in the form of regular reports and monographic studies, thus forming a strong tie between past and future research.
Phaselis Territorium
The boundaries of the ancient city of Phaselis’ territorium are today within the administrative borders of the township of Tekirova, in Kemer District, determined from the archaeological, epigraphic and historical-geographical evidence, reaching the Gökdere valley to the north, continue on a line drawn from Üç Adalar to Mount Tahtalı to the south and extend along the Çandır valley to the west.
Phaselis was discovered in 1811-1812 by Captain F. Beaufort during his work of charting the southern coastline of Asia Minor for the British Royal Navy. Beaufort drew Phaselis’ plan and in the course of conducting his cartographic studies, he saw the word Φασηλίτης ethnikon on the inscriptions and consequently identified these ruins with Phaselis. C. R. Cockerell, the English architect, archaeologist and author came to Phaselis by ship and met Beaufort there. Then in 1838 C. Fellows, the English archaeologist visited the city. He found the fragments of the dedicatory inscription over the monumental gate built in honour of the Emperor Hadrianus and mistakenly thought the Imperial Period main street was the stadion due to the seats-steps on either side of the street. In 1842 Lt. T. A. B. Spratt, the English hydrographer and geographer, and the Rev. E. Forbes, the naturalist came to Phaselis via the Olympos and Khimaira routes. Due to the fact that they all came by sea and they only stayed for a short time, their descriptions of the topography inland are without detailed and there are serious errors in orientation.
PhaselisThose researchers who visited Phaselis between the late 19th and the early 20th centuries concentrated primarily upon the discovery of inscriptions. In 1881-1882 while the Austrian archaeologist and the epigraphist O. Benndorf, the founder of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, and his team were conducting research in southwestern Asia Minor, they examined Phaselis. In the winter of 1883 and 1884 F. von Luschan from the Austrian team took the first photographs which provide information concerning the regional features of Phaselis’ shoreline. In the same year the French scientist V. Bérard also visited Phaselis. In 1892 the members of the Austrian research team, O. Benndorf, E. Kalinka and their colleagues continued their architectural, archaeological and epigraphical studies in Phaselis. In 1904 they were followed by D. G. Hogarth, R. Norton and A. W. van Buren from the British research team. In 1908 the Austrian classical philologist E. Kalinka visited the settlement again, collected epigraphic documents and conducted research on the history of city (published in TAM II in 1944). The Italian researchers R. Paribeni and P. Romanelli visited Phaselis in1913 and C. Anti in 1921. Anti returned to Antalya overland and in consequence discovered several epigraphs and the ruins of structures within the territorium of Phaselis.
Further archaeological, epigraphical and historical-geographical studies of Phaselis were conducted by the English researchers F. M. Stark and G. Bean, who came to the region after World War II. In 1968 H. Schläger, the German architect and underwater archaeologist began exploring the topographical and architectural structures of Phaselis’s harbours. After Schläger’s death in 1969, the research was conducted under the leadership of the archaeologist J. Schäfer in 1970. H. Schläger, J. Schäfer and their colleagues obtained important data concerning the architecture and history of Phaselis through the surface exploration of the city and its periphery. Following the excavations conducted along the main axial street of the city, in 1980 under the direction of Kayhan Dörtlük, the then Director of the Antalya Museum and between 1981-1985 under the leadership of the archaeologist Cevdet Bayburtluoğlu; underwater exploration was carried out in the South Harbour under the direction of Metin Pehlivaner, the then Director of the Antalya Museum.
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English
is the capital of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million (2.3 million within the metropolitan area more than 25% of Austria's population), and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 10th largest city by population in the European Union. Vienna is host to many major international organizations such as the United Nations and OPEC.
Vienna lies in the east of Austria and is close to Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. These regions work together in a European Centrope border region. With the close by Bratislava, Vienna forms a metropolitan region of 3 million inhabitants, referred to as Twin City. In 2001, the city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site
In an objective study, 2005 an Economist Intelligence Unit study of 127 world cities ranked the city tied with Vancouver for first for the quality of life. This assessment was mirrored by the Mercer Survey in 2009 and 2010. Analytically, the city was ranked 1st globally for a culture of innovation in 2007 and 2008, and 2nd globally after Boston in 2009 from 256 cities on an analysis of 162 indicators in the Innovation Cities Index on a 3 factor score covering culture, infrastructure and markets As a city, Vienna regularly hosts urban planning conferences and is often used as a case study by urban planners.
The city rates highly in popular opinion-based journalistic rankings from magazines such as Monocle, where it rated 5th in 2010.
Português
Viena (em alemão Wien) é a capital da Áustria, centro cultural e político do país. É também um dos nove estados (Bundesland Wien); com 1.681.469 habitantes, era em 2008 o mais populoso deles, ainda que seus 414 km² façam dele o menor, sendo também a maior cidade sobre o rio Danúbio. Viena é cercada pelo Estado da Baixa Áustria. A sua aglomeração urbana tem 2,3 milhões de habitantes. Segundo a pesquisa "Qualidade de Vida no Mundo 2007", realizada pela consultoria de recursos humanos Mercer, Viena é a melhor cidade do mundo para viver-se, seguida por: Zurique, Genebra, Vancouver e Auckland.
Stills from VJ projects performed last night at the Mighty Gallery to Bitshifter's gameboy-driven audio.
All visuals were run as Processing-exported OSX applications controlled live with an M-Audio Trigger Finger. Someone buy me a Lemur so I can do this properly.
Textures courtesy of Filter Forge.
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Title: Aircraft Accident
Additional Information: Mcdonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom
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