View allAll Photos Tagged Origin
The origins of wing-walking can be traced back to when young flying aces returned from the First World War, totally addicted to the thrill of flying. Flying jobs were few and far between, but after the war surplus aircraft were cheap to buy, and they were purchased by these veteran pilots who would thrill crowds with their aerial antics and sell joy rides. To entertain the crowds further and ensure they returned, the pilots began to persuade their girlfriends and engineers to walk out along their biplanes linen wings. This was the start of wingwalking and flying circus entertainment. The Breitling Wingwalkers recreate the fearless glamour of those pioneering years. The team fly 1940's vintage Boeing Stearman biplanes in a striking Breitling livery.
one of the major public areas in Paris. Here they were preparing for the Bastille Day celebrations
Going past the Place de la Concorde. You can see some of Jacques Ignace Hittorff's statues. The statue on the left is the Statue de la ville de Lyon (Statue de la ville de Marseille is not in my shot here from the coach). The two white statues are at an entrance to the Garden of the Tuileries.
Minor reflection in the window of the coach we were on.
Various tourist coaches parked here.
Dome of the Eglise de l'Assomption (Polski kościół) on the left.
Vestige of the former (ancient)convent of the Girls of the Assumption, this church was built in the XVIIth century according to Charles Errard's drawings, architect of King Louis XIV. Since the middle of the XIXth century, it has been considered as the church of the Parisians of Polish origin.
The azhdarchid gazes upon a selection of fabric rolls at Hancock Fabrics, one of which provided the material used to make its own hide.
Photo taken 10/31/2014.
Costume designed and built by Bryan Bongey. Inspired by the artwork of Mark Witton.
Pinot Noir ferment being hand-plunged during vintage 2012.
The image was captured at Granton Vineyard in southern Tasmania. The 25ha site is home to the wines of fifth-generation winemaker Steve Lubiana. The Lubiana family create cool climate, artisan wines from grape to glass in Australia's picturesque Derwent Valley. Sustainable biodynamic vineyard practices and a state of the art on-site winery ensure complex New World wines of excellence and distinction that merit comparison with those of the Old World.
Log on to vino-review.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/stefano-lubiana-2012-... to read the first in a series of diary entries on vintage 2012 at Stefano Lubiana Wines.
Stefano Lubiana Wines is rated 5 red stars in the James Halliday Australian Wine Companion 2012.
In May 2010, Decanter's Andrew Jefford named Steve Lubiana as one of Australia's ten bravest winemakers: 'their wines accurately, uncompromisingly and sometimes beautifully reflect their origins. They are like nothing else on earth."
Please visit www.slw.com.au or email wine@slw.com.au to join our mailing list.
'Post Pop: East Meets West', Saatchi Gallery, London
The Origin of the Nostalgic Social Realism by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, oil & tempura on canvas, 1982-83
Post Pop: East Meets West
26 November 2014 - 23 February 2015
'The exhibition brings together 250 works by 110 artists from China, the Former Soviet Union, Taiwan, the UK and the USA in a comprehensive survey celebrating Pop Art's legacy. Post Pop: East Meets West examines why of all the twentieth century's art movements, Pop Art has had such a powerful influence over artists from world regions that have had very different and sometimes opposing ideologies.
The exhibition celebrates the art being produced in these four distinct regions since the heyday of Pop, and presents them in relation to each other through the framework of six themes: Habitat; Advertising and Consumerism; Celebrity and Mass Media; Art History; Religion and Ideology; Sex and the Body.
Widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the last century, Pop Art exploited identifiable imagery from mass media and everyday life to reflect on the nature of the world we live in. This exhibition examines the relationship between western Pop Art and its lesser-known eastern counterparts including "Sots Art" in the Soviet Union and "Political-Pop" or "Cynical Realism", which has flourished in Greater China since the turn of the twenty-first century.
Using humour and a vernacular language, and borrowing freely from popular culture, Pop Art gave subsequent generations of artists the licence to exploit popular visual imagery and to connect with the public through the familiarity of the images being referenced. In the Former Soviet Union the abundance of imagery comparable to mass produced commodities and advertising in the West was propaganda images and text, and in Greater China visual iconography of Socialist Realism.
Although from fundamentally different cultures and ideological backgrounds, the artists in this exhibition play with imagery from commercial advertising, propaganda posters, pictures of the famous as well as monetary and patriotic motifs in wry and provocative works that unmistakably reference the Pop Art movement which emerged in America and Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. In the Soviet Union region these works draw attention to state control, conformity, ceremony, pomp and the façade of unanimity amongst the people; in America and the UK they serve as a critique of commodity fetishism, the cult of celebrity and our mass-produced, status-driven man-made world; and in Greater China as commentary on the social dislocation created by a new super power's fascination with wealth and luxury following a period of extreme austerity. '
- from the Saatchi Gallery website
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-studies-support-wu...
New Studies Support Wuhan Market as Pandemic’s Origin Point
The reports’ authors say that the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, jumped from animals sold at the market to people twice in late 2019—but some scientists want more definitive evidence
Scientists have released three studies that reveal intriguing new clues about how the COVID-19 pandemic started. Two of the reports trace the outbreak back to a massive market that sold live animals, among other goods, in Wuhan, China and a third suggests that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spilled over from animals—possibly those sold at the market—into humans at least twice in November or December 2019. Posted on 25 and 26 February, all three are preprints, and so have not been published in a peer-reviewed journal.
These analyses add weight to original suspicions that the pandemic began at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which many of the people who were infected earliest with SARS-CoV-2 had visited. The preprints contain genetic analyses of coronavirus samples collected from the market and from people infected in December 2019 and January 2020, as well as geolocation analyses connecting these samples to a section of the market where live animals were sold. Taken together, these different lines of evidence point towards the market as the source of the outbreak—much like animal markets were ground zero for the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic of 2002–2004—says Kristian Andersen, a virologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and an author on two of the reports. “This is extremely strong evidence,” he says.
Still, none of the studies contain definitive evidence about what type of animal might have harbored the virus before it spread to humans. Andersen speculates that the culprits could be raccoon dogs, a squat dog-like mammal used for food and for their fur in China. One of the studies he coauthored suggests that raccoon dogs were sold in a section of the market where several positive samples were collected. And reports show that the animals are capable of harboring other types of coronaviruses.
Some virologists say that the new evidence pointing to the Huanan market doesn’t rule out an alternative hypothesis. Namely, they say that the market could have just been the location of a massive amplifying event, in which an infected person spread the virus to many other people, rather than the place of the original spillover.
“Analysis-wise, this is excellent work, but it remains open to interpretation,” says Vincent Munster, a virologist at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a division of the National Institutes of Health, in Hamilton, Montana. He says searching for SARS-CoV-2 and antibodies against it in blood samples collected from animals sold at the market, and from people who sold animals at the market, could provide more definitive evidence of COVID-19’s origins. The number of positive samples from the market suggests an animal source, Munster says. But he is frustrated that more thorough investigations haven’t already been conducted: “We are talking about a pandemic that has upended the lives of so many people.”
GROUND ZERO?
In early January 2020, Chinese authorities identified the Huanan market as a potential source of a viral outbreak because the majority of people infected with COVID-19 at that time had been there in the days before they began to show symptoms, or were in contact with people who had. Hoping to stem the outbreak, Chinese authorities shuttered the market. Then researchers collected samples from poultry, snakes, badgers, giant salamanders, Siamese crocodiles and other animals sold there. They also swabbed drains, cages, toilets and vendor stalls in search of the pathogen. Following an investigation led by the World Health Organization (WHO), researchers released a report in March 2021 showing that all of the nearly 200 samples collected directly from animals were negative, but that more than 1,000 environmental samples from the stalls and other areas were positive.
A research team from China including the head of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has now genetically sequenced those positive samples, releasing the results in a preprint posted on 25 February. The scientists confirm that the samples contain SARS-CoV-2 sequences nearly identical to those that have been circulating in humans. Further, they show that the two original virus lineages circulating at the start of the pandemic, called A and B, were both present at the market.
“It’s a nice piece of work,” says Ray Yip, an epidemiologist who is a former director of the China branch of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “They’ve confirmed that the Huanan market was indeed a very important spreading location.”
As soon as the report from China posted online, Andersen and his colleagues rushed to post the manuscripts they had been working on for weeks.
In one, the team zeroed in on the southwestern section of the Huanan market, where live animals were sold as recently as 2019, as being the potential epicentre of the outbreak. They arrived at this conclusion by compiling information on the first known COVID-19 cases in China, as reported in various places, including the WHO investigation, newspaper articles, and from audio and video recordings of doctors and patients in Wuhan. This geospatial analysis found that 156 cases in December 2019 clustered tightly around the market and then gradually became more dispersed around Wuhan in January and February 2020.
They also examined the locations of the positive samples collected in the market, as reported in the WHO study, and fleshed out information about their potential surroundings by collecting business registration information, photographs of the market before it closed, and scientific reports that have emerged since the WHO’s investigation. For example, one paper published last year documented some 47,000 animals—including 31 protected species—sold in Wuhan markets between 2017 and 2019.
In one major finding in the new preprint, Andersen and colleagues mapped five positive samples from the market to a single stall that sold live animals, and more specifically to a metal cage, to carts used to move animals, and to a machine used to remove bird feathers. One of the coauthors on the report, virologist Eddie Holmes at the University of Sydney in Australia, had been to this stall in 2014 and snapped photographs—included in this study—of a live raccoon dog in a metal cage, stacked above crates of poultry, with the whole assembly sitting atop sewer drains. Notably, in the study from the China CDC, sewage at the market tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.
In a second report, Andersen and colleagues concluded that lineage A and lineage B of SARS-CoV-2 are too different from one another on a genetic level for one to have evolved into the other quickly in humans. Therefore, they suggest that the coronavirus must have evolved within non-human animals and that the two different lineages spread to humans separately. Because lineage B was the far more prevalent variety in January 2020, among other reasons, the authors suggest that it spilled over into humans before lineage A. Other outbreaks of coronaviruses, such as the SARS and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) epidemics, also resulted from repeated introductions from wildlife, the paper notes.
Taking all of the new data together, and adding a degree of speculation, Andersen suggests that raccoon dogs could have been infected on a farm that then sold the animals at the markets in Wuhan in November or December 2019, and that the virus might have jumped to people handling them, or to buyers. At least twice, those infections could have spread from an index case to other people, he says.
‘AS GOOD AS IT GETS’
Over the past year, Michael Worobey, a virologist at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, and an author on the papers with Andersen says that his thinking on the origins of COVID-19 has shifted. Back in May 2021, he led a letter published in Science in which he and other researchers pressed the scientific community to keep an open mind about whether the pandemic stemmed from a laboratory, a controversial hypothesis suggesting that SARS-CoV-2 was either created in a lab, or was accidentally or intentionally released by researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. “You want to take this kind of thing seriously,” he explains.
But since May, additional evidence has come to light that supports a zoonotic origin story similar to that of HIV, Zika virus, Ebola virus and multiple influenza viruses, he says. “When you look at all of the evidence, it is clear that this started at the market,” he says. Separate lines of analysis point to it, he says, and it’s extremely improbable that two distinct lineages of SARS-CoV-2 could have been derived from a laboratory and then coincidentally ended up at the market.
Nonetheless, Munster says he is not completely convinced of two spillover events because, alternatively, the virus might have evolved from one lineage into the other within a person who was immunocompromised. He adds that more data collected from people and animals is needed to answer this question, and to show that the first spillover occurred at the Huanan market. David Relman, a microbiologist at Stanford University in California, agrees that the preprints are not definitive, and that they exclude the possibility that people were infected prior to the outbreak at the market, but went undiagnosed.
Holmes fears that additional samples from early human cases and from animals might never materialize. Last July, for example, Chinese officials said that they planned to analyse patient blood samples from 2019, stored at the Wuhan Blood Centre—but if that study has been conducted, it has yet to be made public. “This is as good as it gets,” Holmes says. “What we should focus on now is trying to keep these events from happening again.”
Amy Maxmen is a senior reporter at Nature based in Oakland California.
The origins of the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children can be traced to 1866 when a house in Royal Fort Road, Clifton, was set aside for "sick children and for the outdoor treatment of women". The hospital was established by Liberal politician Mark Whitwell, who laid down the principle that any child, no matter how poor, would be admitted provided there was room.
Within 20 years, the hospital was treating 900 women and 2,000 children annually. The hospital moved to a new site on St Michael's Hill in 1885, providing 88 beds and cots and seven beds for women. The hospital was granted its Royal status by Queen Victoria in 1897.
The hospital survived bomb damage during the Bristol Blitz to become incorporated into the newly-formed National Health Service in 1948. By the end of the last century, the building had become outdated, with advances in technology and rising demand for services. A major public fund-raising campaign was launched to build a purpose-built, exciting and child-friendly new building. The new hospital, adjacent to the BRI, was opened by HRH Prince Charles in 2001. A dynamic arts programme continues to enhance the environment and help young patients' recovery.
Hi everyone...
I prepared this for the contest:
#9 Leave It To Me, 16th - 23rd of April in "The World Through My Eyes"....group..
www.flickr.com/groups/the_world_through_my_eyes/discuss/7...
The photo credit for the "stone bunny 1" goes to: Kim Denise"
www.flickr.com/photos/kimdenise/239795195/
Thanks for having a look....have a great Sunday....
On our "day off" we had a morning in Herculaneum (near the modern Ercolano).
It is a site similar to Pompeii, but much smaller.
We had a guide who took us around the ruins of this Roman town (with audio guide and ear piece to listen to her).
Herculaneum was founded by Hercules according to mythological tradition, but actually had Greek origins.
The Greeks of Neopolis and Cumae ruled Herculaneum from the 6th century BC, while in the 5th century BC the Samnites gained control. Between the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, Herculaneum took part in the allie's war against Rome, but in 89 BC it was conquered and transformed into a municpium.
In 63 AD the town was hit by an earthquake. And by 79 AD Vesuvius erupted engulfing it an a huge river of boiling mud and debris which totally covered it.
A walk around the streets of Herculaneum.
On Decumano Massimo.
Decumanus Maximum.
Some kind of bath I think.
Comme elle était belle et fière dans sa jeunesse ! Mais la vieillesse survient fatalement, si on a la chance de vivre jusqu'à elle, et alors elle est plus ou moins cruelle . Mais la coquette aïeule vient de se faire ravaler la façade !
Extrait de « Petite histoire des rues de Valenciennes » par André Gauvin :
« L'église Notre-Dame du Saint-Cordon fut construite de 1852 à 1865 sur les plans d'un architecte arrageois, M Grigny, qui s'était inspiré du style gothique du XIIIième siècle . Elle était destinée à servir de lieu de culte aux paroissiens de Notre-Dame privés de sanctuaire après la disparition de l'église Notre-Dame-la-Grande* au lendemain de la révolution, et fut édifiée au moyen de fonds recueillis par souscription et d'une subvention de 600 000 francs accordée par la ville, en 1862, qui permit son achèvement .
Elle fut consacrée le 4 mai 1864 .
Son clocher, achevé seulement en 1865, mesure 82 m de hauteur . Il abrite la cloche municipale ou « bancloque » appelée Jehanne de Flandre, qui se trouvait dans l'ancien beffroi de la cité, et qui sonne à l'occasion des événements importants et de la fête patronale . Elle a été fondue en 1358 et est l'œuvre de Guillaume de Saint-Omer .
L'église Notre-Dame du Saint-Cordon élevée au rang de basilique mineure en 1922 par le pape Pie XI abrite la dévotion particulière accordée à la Vierge par les Valenciennois depuis l'an 1008 où se produisit le prodige apporté par la tradition et qui fut à l'origine de la procession dite « Tour du saint-Cordon » qui a lieu chaque année le second dimanche de septembre .
La statue de N-D du Saint-Cordon, exposée dans une chapelle, qui est portée lors de la procession, est de 1804 et a été exécutée par un sculpteur valenciennois, Pierre Gilet .
La basilique possède un certain nombre d'œuvres d'art et des vitraux intéressants** .
Elle est depuis quelques années l'objet de travaux de restauration extérieurs, les pierres ayant servi à sa construction ayant subi les attaques des intempéries*** . »
Elle est inscrite à l'inventaire supplémentaire des Monuments Historiques . Une demande de classement a été rejetée en juin 2012 sous le prétexte que la présence d'échafaudages nuit à la lisibilité du bâtiment, motif dont la logique m'échappe .
* : N-D-la-Grande était un joyau de l'architecture gothique . Elle avait déjà subi les déprédations des « iconoclastes » au XVIième siècle, était mal entretenue, avait été endommagée lors du siège de 1793 . On préféra la détruire .
** : Possède des vitraux contemporains et surtout des orgues historiques restaurées et mises en péril par la prolifération des pigeons dans la nef depuis les désordres induits par la restauration .
*** : Elle a été construite avec des pierres tendres et gélives, qui plus est, stratifiées . Et certaines de ces pierres ont été posées les strates à la verticale, aggravant leur imprégnation par l'eau .
J'ai connu trois campagnes de restauration . Une dans les années 60, une autre dans les années 70, bien plus importante, et enfin celle de 2008 .
Hélas en 2008, lors des travaux, le clocher se mit à pencher et se désolidarisa de la nef, causant de très graves désordres . La cause n'est pas connue, l'expert ne donnant aucun signe de vie trois ans après sa désignation . On peut néanmoins supposer que c'est lié à l'hygrométrie du sol . En effet, Valenciennes a été bâtie sur un marais, le sol est détrempé . Les édifices sont souvent ( toujours ? ) construits sur des pieux de chêne . Dans ce cas un desséchement peut avoir de graves conséquences .
Merci à l'auteur de la police . Sur www.dafont.com/fr/ .
Hainaut, Nord, France .
Photographie J-P Leroy, droits réservés .
Hoffmannscher Ringofen - Ofen Nr. 3
El Parque de las fábricas de ladrillos - Mildenberg
es un monumento industrial cerca del pueblo Mildenberg en Zehdenick ( Brandenburgo ).
Es en los locales dos fábricas de ladrillos adyacentes, que hasta 1991 estaban en funcionamiento.
( actual un Museo )
Cocción . . . realiza en hornos, que en casos pueden llegar donde
la temperatura de la zona de cocción oscila entre 900 °C y 1000 °C.
En el interior del horno, la temperatura varía de forma continua y uniforme.
Es durante la cocción donde se produce la sinterización, de manera que la cocción resulta
una de las instancias cruciales del proceso en lo que a la resistencia del ladrillo respecta.
.
_________________________________________
Historia
Los ladrillos son utilizados como elemento para la construcción desde hace unos 11.000 años. Los primeros en utilizarlos fueron quizá los mesopotámicos y los palestinos, ya que en las áreas donde levantaron sus ciudades apenas existía la madera y la piedra.
Los sumerios y babilonios secaban sus ladrillos al sol; sin embargo, para reforzar sus muros y murallas, en las partes externas, los recubrían con ladrillos cocidos, por ser estos más resistentes.
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladrillo
_________________
.
El Parque de las fábricas de ladrillos - Mildenberg
es un monumento industrial cerca del pueblo Mildenberg en Zehdenick ( Brandenburgo ). Es en los locales dos fábricas de ladrillos adyacentes, que hasta 1991 estaban en funcionamiento. ( actual un Museo )
El inicio de la producción de ladrillos en la región se remonta a 1887, la construcción de la línea ferroviaria Loewenberg-Templin se descubrieron ricos yacimientos de arcilla. Allí estaban los depósitos de arcilla en Glindow ( Werder / Havel ) está casi agotada, se originó en el inicio de la 20ª Siglo en Mildenberg, dentro de un corto período de tiempo, una de las mayores áreas contiguas de ladrillo en Europa.
Promueve el desarrollo fue el hecho de que las canteras de arcilla se encontraban en las proximidades del río Havel y así pasa a través del transporte barato en barcaza fluvial. Tenía sólo por la inmigración que crecen rápidamente en Berlín una enorme demanda de materiales de construcción, esto ha sido cubierto. Así que en estos tiempos llegó el dicho "Berlín fue construido a partir de la barcaza".
En 1910, el pico de la producción alcanzó
625 million piezas de ladrillo, disparó en 57 hornos.
Berlín y sus vecinos, Charlottenburg y Schöneberg, se registra sus tasas de crecimiento más rápido antes de la Primera Guerra Mundial.
Durante la Gran Depresión fue 1929 / 1930 se encuentra en la producción de ladrillos de grandes pérdidas, varias fábricas de ladrillo fueron abandonados.
Después de 1945, la industria del ladrillo desarrollado en la zona de ocupación soviética. La reconstrucción requiere volver a las masas de material. En la RDA, fue el área alrededor de Mildenberg el más grande, ahora de propiedad pública, fabricante de ladrillos y tejas, hasta la introducción de tecnologías de pantalla desde la década de 1960, una vez más llevó a una disminución en el significado.
Después de la caída del Muro, . . . en 1991 la planta fue cerrada , los posibles inversores no veían futuro aquí en la continuación de la producción.
Hoy el sitio es un parque museo con varios edificios industriales.
entre otros, son a visitar:
el ferrocarril de trocha angosta con un circuito y
la exposición de caros de ferrocarril de trocha angosta
la preparación de la arcilla
tres hornos tradicionales en el diseño del anillo
una producción de ladrillo de los tiempos modernos
la casa de máquina de vapor
la fragua y talleres
el molino de bolas / Hoy Galería de Arte
la instalación portuaria y barcazas
complementa el terreno
desde un punto de vista
un zoológico de mascotas
una pista separada por "Dresinas a pedales", que se conducen solos
un prado de picnic
y comedores
.
_________________________________
.
Europäische Route der Industriekultur
.
Der Ziegeleipark Mildenberg
ist ein Industriedenkmal in der Nähe des Dorfes Mildenberg bei Zehdenick ( Landkreis Oberhavel ) in Brandenburg. Er befindet sich auf dem Betriebsgelände zweier benachbarter Ziegeleien, die noch bis 1991 in Betrieb waren.
Der Beginn der Ziegelproduktion in der Gegend geht auf das Jahr 1887 zurück, als beim Bau der Eisenbahnstrecke Löwenberg–Templin reiche Vorkommen an Ton entdeckt wurden. Da zu der Zeit die Tonvorkommen in Glindow ( bei Werder ( Havel )) fast erschöpft waren, entstand zu Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts innerhalb kurzer Zeit bei Mildenberg eines der größten zusammenhängenden Ziegeleigebiete Europas. Begünstigt wurde die Entwicklung dadurch, dass die Tonstiche in unmittelbarer Nähe zur Havel lagen und so über den Wasserweg günstige Transportmöglichkeiten per Lastkahn bestanden. Das sich gerade durch Zuwanderung rasant vergrößernde Berlin hatte einen enormen Bedarf an Baumaterial, der nun gedeckt werden konnte. So entstand in diesen Zeiten auch der Ausspruch "Berlin wurde aus dem Lastkahn erbaut".
Im Jahr 1910 ist der Höhepunkt in der Produktion erreicht,
mit 625 Millionen Stück Mauerziegel, gebrannt in 57 Ringöfen.
Berlin und seine Nachbarstädte Charlottenburg und Schöneberg verzeichneten damals ihre größten Wachstumsraten vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg.
Während der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1929 / 1930 gab es in der Ziegelproduktion starke Einbußen, mehrere Ziegeleien wurden aufgegeben.
Nach 1945 entwickelte sich die Ziegelindustrie in der damaligen Sowjetischen Besatzungszone. Der Wiederaufbau erforderte erneut Massen an Baumaterial. In der DDR war die Gegend um Mildenberg der größte, nun volkseigene, Hersteller von Ziegelsteinen und Dachziegeln, bis die Einführung der Plattenbautechnologie seit den 1960er Jahren erneut zu einem Rückgang in der Bedeutung führte.
Nach der Wende, . . . 1991 wurde der Betrieb eingestellt,
westliche Investoren sahen hier keine Zukunft.
Heute ist das Gelände ein Museumspark mit diversen Industriegebäuden.
unter anderem sind zu besichtigen:
die Ziegeleibahn und Feldbahnausstellung
die Tonanlieferung und die Tonaufbereitung
drei Ringbrennöfen
eine Ziegelproduktion der Neuzeit
das Dampfmaschinenhaus
die Schmiede und Werkstätten
die Kugelmühle / heute Kunstgallerie
die Hafenanlage und Lastkähne
ergänzt wird das Gelände
durch einen Aussichtspunkt
einen Kleintierzoo
ein separates Gleis für Fahrad-Draisinen, zum selbst fahren
eine Piknikwiese
und gastronomische Einrichtungen
Le Colisée, à l'origine amphithéâtre Flavien (Colosseo en italien), est un immense amphithéâtre ovoïde situé dans le centre de la ville de Rome, entre l'Esquilin et le Cælius, le plus grand jamais construit dans l'empire romain. Il est l'une des plus grandes œuvres de l'architecture et de l'ingénierie romaines.
Sa construction, juste à l'est du Forum Romain, a commencé entre 70 et 72 ap. J.-C., sous l'empereur Vespasien, et s'est achevée en 80 sous Titus.
Pouvant accueillir entre 50 000 et 75 000 spectateurs2, le Colisée a été utilisé pour les venationes (combats d'animaux sauvages), les munera (combats de gladiateurs) et autres spectacles publics, tels que des exécutions de condamnés à mort, des reconstitutions de batailles célèbres et des drames basés sur la mythologie romaine. Il est resté en service pendant près de 500 ans, les derniers jeux se prolongeant jusqu'au vie siècle.
The first letter on the serial number of Euro banknotes show the their origin.
K Sweden
L Finland
M Portugal
N Austria
P Holland
R Luxenbourg
S Italy
T Ireland
U France
V Spain
W Denmark
X Germany
Y Grece
Z Belgium
Maze Runner Origins / give-away
Verlag: BOOM Studios (Deutschland; 2018)
Copyright: Twentieth Century Fox
ex libris MTP
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_Runner_%E2%80%93_Die_Auserw%C3...
The exact origins of the Star Of David symbol's relation to Jewish identity are unknown. Though several theories have been put forward. According to one hypothesis, the Star of David comprises two of the three letters in the name David. In its Hebrew spelling , it contains only three characters, two of which are "D" (or "Dalet", in Hebrew). In the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, the standard alphabet for writing Hebrew before the Babylonian captivity, this letter was written in a form much like a triangle, similar to the Greek letter Delta (Δ), with which it shares a sound and the same (4th) position in their respective alphabets, as it does with Latin. The symbol may have been a simple family crest formed by flipping and juxtaposing the two most prominent letters in the name.
The earliest archaeological magen David national symbol is on a Babylonian bas relief carving, in the 6th century BCE. The Babylonian king historically recorded his conquest of the King and population of Judah. Both kings are shown standing facing each other. The King of Babylon stands on the right. A winged sun disk is above the King of Babylon. The encircled six-legged star pattern magen David is above the King of Judah.
A popular folk tale etymology has it that the Star of David is literally modeled after the shield of the young Israelite warrior David, who would later become King David. In order to save metal, the shield was not made of metal but of leather spanned across the simplest metal frame that would hold the round shield: two interlocking triangles. No reliable historical evidence for this etymology exists.
One belief is that the Star of David is the flattened view of a three dimensional tetratetrahedron, made up of two interlocking four sided triangles.
THE STAR OF DAVID POSTERS IN MANDALA FORMATION
www.sriyantras.com/star-of-david.html
The exact origins of the Star Of David symbol's relation to Jewish identity are unknown. Though several theories have been put forward. According to one hypothesis, the Star of David comprises two of the three letters in the name David. In its Hebrew spelling , it contains only three characters, two of which are "D" (or "Dalet", in Hebrew). In the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, the standard alphabet for writing Hebrew before the Babylonian captivity, this letter was written in a form much like a triangle, similar to the Greek letter Delta (Δ), with which it shares a sound and the same (4th) position in their respective alphabets, as it does with Latin. The symbol may have been a simple family crest formed by flipping and juxtaposing the two most prominent letters in the name.
The earliest archaeological magen David national symbol is on a Babylonian bas relief carving, in the 6th century BCE. The Babylonian king historically recorded his conquest of the King and population of Judah. Both kings are shown standing facing each other. The King of Babylon stands on the right. A winged sun disk is above the King of Babylon. The encircled six-legged star pattern magen David is above the King of Judah.
A popular folk tale etymology has it that the Star of David is literally modeled after the shield of the young Israelite warrior David, who would later become King David. In order to save metal, the shield was not made of metal but of leather spanned across the simplest metal frame that would hold the round shield: two interlocking triangles. No reliable historical evidence for this etymology exists.
One belief is that the Star of David is the flattened view of a three dimensional tetratetrahedron, made up of two interlocking four sided triangles.
THE STAR OF DAVID POSTERS IN MANDALA FORMATION
On Friday, August 7, 2015, a few lucky tweeters joined @amhistorymuseum and @SILibraries to tour "Object Project," "Fantastic Worlds," and the Dibner Library.
Shot it at Kumbha Mela,Allahabad,Uttar Pradesh,India,which is considered the biggest show on Earth.
In Hindu mythology, its origin is found in one of the popular creation myths and the Hindu theories on evolution, the Samudra manthan episode (Churning of the ocean of milk), which finds mention in the Bhagavata Purana, Vishnu Purana, the Mahabharata, and the Ramayana.
The Gods had lost their strength, and to regain it, they thought of churning the Ksheera Sagara (primordial ocean of milk) for amrit (the nectar of immortality), this required them to make a temporary agreement with their arch enemies, the demons or Asuras, to work together with a promise of sharing the nectar equally thereafter. However, when the Kumbha (urn) containing the amrita appeared, a fight ensued. For twelve days and twelve nights (equivalent to twelve human years) the gods and demons fought in the sky for the pot of amrita. It is believed that during the battle, Lord Vishnu flew away with the Kumbha of elixir, and that is when drops of amrita fell at four places on earth: Prayag, Haridwar, Ujjain and Nashik, and that is where the Kumbh Mela is observed every twelve years.
First written evidence of the Kumbha Mela can be found in the accounts of Chinese traveller, Huan Tsang or Xuanzang (602 - 664 A.D.) who visited India in 629 -645 CE, during the reign of King Harshavardhana.
Source:-Wikipedia.
For more photos,click MY SITE subirbasak.orgfree.com.....
P.S."Copyright © – Subir Basak.
The reproduction, publication, modification, transmission or exploitation of any work contained herein for any use, personal or commercial, without my prior written permission is strictly prohibited. All rights reserved."
Papel machê
(palavra originada do francês papier mâché, que significa papel picado, amassado e esmagado) é uma massa feita com papel picado embebido na água, coado e depois misturado com cola e gesso. Com esta massa é possível moldar objetos em diferentes formatos, utilitários ou decorativos.
A massa deve ser usada no máximo de um dia para outro mas, guardada em um pote plástico na geladeira, ela pode ser conservada por meses.
A arte do papel machê se desenvolveu na China, por volta de dois séculos antes de Cristo, e também em regiões das antigas Pérsia e Índia.
Na Europa, o papel machê foi utilizado para criar objetos decorativos primeiramente na França e depois na Inglaterra. Na Itália, a massa era utilizada na e execução das famosas máscaras do Carnaval, em Veneza. Na Noruega foi construída uma igreja toda feita em papel machê, e que durou 37 anos em ótimas condições, tendo sido demolida posteriormente.
Receita da massa:
Meio balde de papel picado;
Água;
Bacia e balde;
Peneira ou escorredor;
Liquidificador ou pilão;
200 g de cola branca;
2 e meia colheres de sopa de gesso de secagem lenta;
1 colher de sopa de gesso comum;
2 colheres de sopa de farinha de trigo;
1 tampa de vinagre.
O papel deve ser picado e deixado de molho até amolecer. No dia seguinte, encher o liquidificador de água e colocar um pouco do papel, na proporção de mais ou menos três partes de água para uma parte de papel. Bater por dez segundos, desligar, esperar um minuto e bater novamente por mais dez segundos. Depois, despejar a massa numa peneira e espremer até sair todo o excesso de água. Esfarelar a massa e espalhar numa bacia, misturar a cola branca, o vinagre, o gesso de secagem lenta e o gesso comum, até ficar uma massa homogênea. Finalmente, juntar à massa duas colheres de sopa de cola de farinha de trigo, para que ela não fique partindo.
A cola de farinha é feita cozinhando numa panela, em fogo baixo, duas colheres de sopa de farinha de trigo com dois dedos de água, até engrossar como mingau.
(WIKIPEDIA : tinyurl.com/psh9ur )
Heal your soul with art. Soulful prints available at
www.zazzle.com/soul7visual For home,
Office, Salon, Lobby, Spa, Massage....inspire your guest/clients with Visual Soul.
It takes a village to raise a child. ~ African proverb
There are many explanations of the origin of the word "jeep," all of which have proven difficult to verify. One notion holds that the vehicle bore the designation "GP" (for "Government Purposes" or "General Purpose"), which was phonetically slurred into the word jeep. However, R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, and was never referred to as "General Purpose" and it is highly unlikely that the average jeep-driving GI would have been familiar with this designation. The Ford GPW abbreviation actually meant (G for government use, P to designate its 80-inch (2,000 mm) wheelbase and W to indicate its Willys-Overland designed engine).
Many, including Ermey, suggest that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicles that they informally named it after Eugene the Jeep, a character in the Popeye cartoons created by E. C. Segar. Eugene the Jeep was Popeye's "jungle pet" and was "small, able to move between dimensions and could solve seemingly impossible problems."[1]
Words of the Fighting Forces by Clinton A. Sanders, a dictionary of military slang, published in 1942, in the library at The Pentagon gives this definition:
Jeep: A four-wheel drive vehicle of one-half- to one-and-one-half-ton capacity for reconnaissance or other army duty. A term applied to the bantam-cars, and occasionally to other motor vehicles (U.S.A.) in the Air Corps, the Link Trainer; in the armored forces, the ½-ton command vehicle. Also referred to as "any small plane, helicopter, or gadget."
This definition is supported by the use of the term "jeep carrier" to refer to the Navy's small escort carriers.
Early in 1941, Willys-Overland demonstrated the vehicle's off-road capability by having it drive up the steps of the United States Capitol, driven by Willy's test driver Irving "Red" Haussman, who had recently heard soldiers at Fort Holabird calling it a "jeep." When asked by syndicated columnist Katherine Hillyer for the Washington Daily News (or by a bystander, according to another account) what it was called, Irving answered, "It's a jeep."
Katherine Hillyer's article was published nationally on February 20, 1941, and included a picture of the vehicle with the caption:
LAWMAKERS TAKE A RIDE- With Senator Meade, of New York, at the wheel, and Representative Thomas, of New Jersey, sitting beside him, one of the Army's new scout cars, known as "jeeps" or "quads", climbs up the Capitol steps in a demonstration yesterday. Soldiers in the rear seat for gunners were unperturbed.
This exposure caused all other jeep references to fade, leaving the 4x4 with the name. The term was also in military slang use to mean vehicles that were untried, or untested. The word certainly existed as slang for several decades prior to the invention of the military vehicle.
In 1950 Willys-Overland Inc. was granted the privilege of owning the name "Jeep" as a registered trademark however they certainly did not invent the name nor design the original vehicle.
À l’origine, ce fut le cabinet octogone de l’appartement des Bains de Louis XIV, l’une des créations les plus originales du Roi-Soleil, dont la richesse en marbres, sculptures et peintures, surpassait celle du Grand Appartement. En 1763, Mesdames obtinrent que son décor démodé fût remplacé ; de cette transformation subsistent la corniche, les boiseries aux angles de la pièce, ainsi que la belle cheminée. Un clavecin de Blanchet rappelle que Mme Victoire jouait admirablement de cet instrument, et que Mozart lui dédia ses six premières sonates pour clavecin.
www.chateauversailles.fr/decouvrir-domaine/chateau/le-cha...
The origin of the Café Prückel lies in the time when the Ring Road was created. At the former Stubentor (gate), a particularly splendid Gründerzeit building was built on the ground floor of which the former European cycling champion Lurion founded a café of the same name, Café Lurion. The huge eatery was Makart-style (in reference to artist Hans Markart) equipped with precious materials, rich stucco decoration and other decorative elements. The café had special features such as technical novelties and attracted a wide audience.
From 1905 the coffee house was already called Prückel, presumably it had been taken over by the café owner Wenzel Prückel (1838-1917), the first operator of Café Central. After World War II, the magnificent features in the front part were unfortunately removed and refurbished in the style of the 50s. A loss on the one hand, an attractive feature on the other hand, because to this day all tables, chairs, lamps and benches are original and unchanged. Weather permitting, the Café Prückel offers a large Schanigarten (Schanigarten: "Schanigarten" is the Austro-Bavarian term for tables and chairs set up on the sidewalk in front of eating and drinking places, Linguee) with probably one of the oldest sun blinds in Vienna. The very popular and always well-attended eatery offers an excellent menu and is known for its excellent pastries.
The Prückel is a place where people like to linger and watch people. The audience ranges from older people to young and young at heart ones, students, members of the alternative scene, literary figures, intellectuals to the "nerd". The service is fast and friendly. Absolutely must be tasted: poppy seed cake.
Criticism of the Prückel: Negative headlines made the Prückel as in spring 2005 two lesbian women were expelled from the local because they kissed. This rightly caused media outrage and protests. In January 2015, another incident of this kind occurred, to be read here. The opinion of Planet-Vienna is that one has to wonder a little bit about how something like this can still happen in the enlightened western world in the 21st century. From the previous recommendation for the Café Prückel Planet Vienna meanwhile is refraining. Old-fashioned coffee house tradition in honor - but where it smells of homophobia and oppression, one should not go.
Der Ursprung des Café Prückel liegt in der Zeit, als die Ringstrasse angelegt wurde. Beim ehemaligen Stubentor entstand ein besonders prachtvoller Gründerzeitbau, in dessen Parterre der damalige Radrenneuropameister Lurion ein gleichnamiges Kaffeehaus gründete, das Café Lurion. Das riesige Lokal war im Makart-Stil ausgestattet mit wertvollen Materialien, reicher Stuckdekoration und anderen Zierelementen. Das Café wartete mit Besonderheiten wie technischen Neuheiten auf und lockte daher ein breites Publikum an.
Ab 1905 hiess das Kaffeehaus bereits Prückel, vermutlich war es vom Cafétier Wenzel Prückel (1838-1917), dem ersten Betreiber des Café Central, übernommen worden. Nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg wurde die prachtvolle Ausstattung im vorderen Teil leider entfernt und im Stil der 50er Jahre neu eingerichtet. Ein Verlust einerseits, eine attraktive Besonderheit andererseits, denn bis zum heutigen Tag sind alle Tische, Stühle, Lampen und Bänke original und unverändert. Bei schönem Wetter wartet das Café Prückel mit einem grossen Schanigarten auf mit wohl einer der ältesten Sonnenstoren Wiens. Das sehr beliebte und stets überaus gut besuchte Lokal bietet eine hervorragende Speisekarte und ist bekannt für seine ausgezeichneten Mehlspeisen.
Das Prückel ist ein Ort, an dem man gerne verweilt und Menschen beobachten kann. Das Publikum reicht von älteren Leuten über junge und jung gebliebene, Studenten, Alternative, Literaten, Intellektuelle bis hin zum "Sonderling". Der Service ist flott und freundlich. Unbedingt kosten: Mohnkuchen.
Kritik am Prückel: Negative Schlagzeilen hat das Prückel gemacht, als im Frühjahr 2005 zwei lesbische Frauen des Lokales verwiesen wurden, weil sie sich geküsst haben. Das sorgte zurecht für mediale Empörung und Protesten. Im Jänner 2015 kam es zu einem neuerlichen Vorfall dieser Art, nachzulesen hier. Die Meinung von Planet-Vienna ist, dass man sich schon etwas wundern muss, wie sowas im 21. Jahrhundert in der aufgeklärten westlichen Welt noch vorkommen kann. Von der bisherigen Empfehlung fürs Café Prückel sieht Planet-Vienna mittlerweile ab. Althergebrachte Kaffeehaus-Tradition in Ehren - aber wo es nach Homofeindlichkeit und Unterdrückung riecht, sollte man nicht hingehen.
www.planet-vienna.com/spots/prueckel/prueckel.htm
This prestigious, detached on three sides späthistoristische (late historicist) building was built in 1902-1903 by Jakob Gartner. Downstairs is Café Pruckel whose part has at Beaver Street an
Art Nouveau facility in the interior. The house is a listed building and is located at the main address, Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Platz 6
Like most of us, Transportation Systems Analysis Engineer Chi Mai admits that when she was in high school, she didn’t know what she wanted to do for a career. So when she saw an ad for a high school engineering internship at ODOT, she applied – and had such an amazing experience, she decided to become an engineer! After college, she came back to ODOT… and three decades later, she’s still here.
Learn more with our Origin Stories: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6mL7JnVXhpg5c6HO1j2BIAXs2Q9C4zmb
The exact origins of the Star Of David symbol's relation to Jewish identity are unknown. Though several theories have been put forward. According to one hypothesis, the Star of David comprises two of the three letters in the name David. In its Hebrew spelling , it contains only three characters, two of which are "D" (or "Dalet", in Hebrew). In the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, the standard alphabet for writing Hebrew before the Babylonian captivity, this letter was written in a form much like a triangle, similar to the Greek letter Delta (Δ), with which it shares a sound and the same (4th) position in their respective alphabets, as it does with Latin. The symbol may have been a simple family crest formed by flipping and juxtaposing the two most prominent letters in the name.
The earliest archaeological magen David national symbol is on a Babylonian bas relief carving, in the 6th century BCE. The Babylonian king historically recorded his conquest of the King and population of Judah. Both kings are shown standing facing each other. The King of Babylon stands on the right. A winged sun disk is above the King of Babylon. The encircled six-legged star pattern magen David is above the King of Judah.
A popular folk tale etymology has it that the Star of David is literally modeled after the shield of the young Israelite warrior David, who would later become King David. In order to save metal, the shield was not made of metal but of leather spanned across the simplest metal frame that would hold the round shield: two interlocking triangles. No reliable historical evidence for this etymology exists.
One belief is that the Star of David is the flattened view of a three dimensional tetratetrahedron, made up of two interlocking four sided triangles.
THE STAR OF DAVID POSTERS IN MANDALA FORMATION
www.sriyantras.com/star-of-david.html
The exact origins of the Star Of David symbol's relation to Jewish identity are unknown. Though several theories have been put forward. According to one hypothesis, the Star of David comprises two of the three letters in the name David. In its Hebrew spelling , it contains only three characters, two of which are "D" (or "Dalet", in Hebrew). In the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet, the standard alphabet for writing Hebrew before the Babylonian captivity, this letter was written in a form much like a triangle, similar to the Greek letter Delta (Δ), with which it shares a sound and the same (4th) position in their respective alphabets, as it does with Latin. The symbol may have been a simple family crest formed by flipping and juxtaposing the two most prominent letters in the name.
The earliest archaeological magen David national symbol is on a Babylonian bas relief carving, in the 6th century BCE. The Babylonian king historically recorded his conquest of the King and population of Judah. Both kings are shown standing facing each other. The King of Babylon stands on the right. A winged sun disk is above the King of Babylon. The encircled six-legged star pattern magen David is above the King of Judah.
A popular folk tale etymology has it that the Star of David is literally modeled after the shield of the young Israelite warrior David, who would later become King David. In order to save metal, the shield was not made of metal but of leather spanned across the simplest metal frame that would hold the round shield: two interlocking triangles. No reliable historical evidence for this etymology exists.
One belief is that the Star of David is the flattened view of a three dimensional tetratetrahedron, made up of two interlocking four sided triangles.
THE STAR OF DAVID POSTERS IN MANDALA FORMATION
Proyecto de autorretratos hecho mientras estudiaba fotografía, sobre conectar con las raíces aborígenes canarias (Islas Canarias). Inspirado por el concepto de "repatriación espiritual" de Christian Thompson, de su proyecto "We bury our own". / Project of self-portraits made while studying photography about connecting through photography with Canarian aboriginal roots. Inspired by Christian Thompson's concept "spiritual repatriation" from his We Bury Our Own project.