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UNITED STATES - 01-12-2019: Riders with the Piedmont hunt jump into a wooded lot from Quaker Lane during a Saturday morning hunt. The oldest fox hunting club in the United States is the Piedmont Hunt, which is located along Newline Mill Road near the Village of Unison. It was founded in 1840. Early settlers brought hounds of various types from Britain, France and Ireland, and, by 1900, the American foxhound was a breed of it's own. (Photo By Douglas Graham/WLP)
The Palace of Venaria (Italian: Reggia di Venaria Reale) is a former royal residence located in Venaria Reale, near Turin, in Piedmont, northern Italy. It is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, included in the UNESCO Heritage List in 1997, and one of the largest royal residences in the world, comparable in size and structures to those of Versailles and Caserta (though the latter's park is far larger).
The Palace was designed and built from 1675 by Amedeo di Castellamonte, commissioned by duke Charles Emmanuel II, who needed a base for his hunting expeditions in the heathy hill country north of Turin. The name itself derives from Latin, Venatio Regia meaning "Royal Hunt".
Flash Flooding occurred in Piedmont, South Dakota from a slow-moving supercell thunderstorm on June 1, 2015.
This was taken a couple weeks ago at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, GA. Taken with a Holga 120N on Portra 400VC film.
Stresa is an Italian municipality of 4,639 inhabitants in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in Piedmont .
Thanks to its position on the western coast of the Borromean Gulf, opposite the islands of the same name , part of the municipal territory, and to the elegant lakeside hosting luxurious hotels and historic residences, Stresa is a famous lakeside tourist resort and is one of the most visited places in the whole of Piedmont.
The territory of Stresa is divided into four parts: it is partly coastal, partly insular, partly hilly and partly mountainous. The coastal part, overlooking Lake Maggiore , includes the historic centre of Stresa and the hamlet of Carciano; the insular part includes three of the four Borromean Islands ( Madre , Bella , Pescatori ); the hilly part includes a series of hamlets overlooking Lake Maggiore (Levo, Binda, Campino, Passera, Someraro, Vedasco, Brisino and Magognino); the mountainous part includes the popular ski resort of Mottarone , the mountain pastures below the eastern side of the mountain and the Alpinia Botanical Garden
In Roman times , the Via Severiana Augusta passed through Stresa , a Roman consular road that connected Mediolanum (modern Milan ) with Verbannus Lacus (Lake Verbano, or Lake Maggiore ), and from here to the Simplon Pass ( lat. Summo Plano). ).
The first historical source that mentions the existence of Stresa is a parchment from 998 , in which the place is called Strixia , a form confirmed by a source from 1249 ; in 1220 it appears as Strexia . In 1014 the emperor Henry II donated Stresa to the nuns of the monastery of San Felice di Pavia.
In this location, in 1935 , a political and military agreement was established between Italy, France and the United Kingdom , called the Stresa Front . In 1958, the summit of European ministers was held in the city, which laid the foundations of the common agricultural policy (CAP). From 3 to 6 June 2004, Stresa hosted the fifty-second meeting of the Bilderberg Group .
From 1926 to 1946 the name of the municipality was Stresa Borromeo .
In 1927 the former municipalities of Chignolo Verbano, Brisino and in 1928 Magognino became part of the municipality.
On 16 September 1943, four of the 57 victims of the Holocaust of Lake Maggiore (22 September 1943) were rounded up in Stresa. Their names are today remembered in a monument together with the 11 other victims (civilians, soldiers and partisans) of the Nazi concentration camps. Most of the Jews in the area managed to save themselves thanks to the support received from the local population.
One hundred new CWA stewards from 42 different Piedmont Airlines stations attended their first training last week.
Over the course of four days, stewards each attended a day-long training class in Charlotte, where they learned more about the new contract, which went into effect on Monday, and their new role in the workplace. They focused on how to solve problems, union building and signing up coworkers. There are 3,700 CWA-represented agents at Piedmont Airlines.
The group included one employee who was hired just nine months ago, but also agents who have spent the last decade fighting for a union voice. Agents flew in from as far as Arizona and New Mexico.
The training was led by Kate Shaughnessy, CWA education staff representative; Jimmy Tarlau, assistant to the vice president for District 2-13; and Abdur Bilal, a Piedmont agent and longtime activist who helped organize the agents.
"It was quite exhausting — 6 hours a day for 4 days — but I must say it is some of the most rewarding work that I've been involved in doing movement work over the last forty years," said Tarlau.