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Excerpt from www.amo.gov.hk/en/historic-buildings/monuments/hong-kong-...:
Tung Wah Coffin Home
Situated on Sandy Bay Road, Tung Wah Coffin Home was established in 1899. It is believed that the predecessor of Tung Wah Coffin Home was a coffin home near the slaughter house in Kennedy Town, which was established in 1875 with funds from the Man Mo Temple in Sheung Wan. Its management was later handed over to Tung Wah Hospital. In 1899, Tung Wah Coffin Home was officially named when a plot of land in Sandy Bay was granted by the Government for rebuilding the coffin home.
Taking advantage of Hong Kong’s entrepot status, its geographic location at the doorway to mainland China, and the close connections of Tung Wah Hospital’s board members with overseas organisations and global business network, the coffin home was able to provide a repatriation service for those deceased abroad by providing a temporary depository at the coffin home, from where the deceased could then be returned to their birth place for burial. This service eventually allowed the coffin home became the centre of a global charity hub during the last century.
Tung Wah Coffin Home now consists two halls, 72 rooms, gateways, pavilion and gardens built in different periods. Its buildings reflect a variety of architectural styles, ranging from traditional Chinese vernacular architecture to modern Western-style elements, and others that are a hybrid of both. Tung Wah Coffin Home underwent a large scale restoration project between 2003 and 2004, with a view to restore the coffin home’s elements to their original architectural styles. The restoration project won the Award of Merit in the 2005 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards and the Award of Honor in the Heritage Preservation and Conservation Awards offered by the Antiquities and Monuments Office in the same year.
Tung Wah Coffin Home was declared a monument in 2020.
Keran, the last Indian village along the border with POK, has ever-smiling peace-loving and hard-working people in Kashmir Himalayas, India
Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
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Looking up inside the inner courtyard of an apartment complex in Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Part of the ongoing fine art series: Stacked - Urban Architecture of Hong Kong
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1973 Jaguar XJ6.
4235cc.
Anglia Car Auctions, King's Lynn -
"V5 Present
MoT Exempt
Chassis number: 2N3417DN
"This desirable short wheel base 4.2 XJ6, fitted with overdrive, is finished in the original period Greensand. It has covered only 120 miles during the vendor's five year ownership and would benefit from some light recommissioning. The vendor advises that he has garage stored the car for the last five years with the very occasional trip out in dry weather. The car is described as solid. Fitted with a later sunroof and the headlining requires attention. It appears to have done little mileage over many years. Comes with the original passport containing fifteen stamps between 1973 and 2002, recent MoTs, current and older V5s, handbook and maintenance chart. The mileage is recorded at 46,011."
Unsold. Estimate: £6000 to £8000.
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:: Nagdhunga // Pokhara // Nepal :: agosto 2013*
:: Jornada en compañía de Priti*
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La fotografía que se usó se tomó durante el desfile del 20 de Julio de 2013 en la Isla de Providencia (Colombia)* - Jornada en compañía de DiseQtiva*
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El 20 de Julio en la Isla de Providencia, temprano en la mañana, comienza la celebración de la proclamación de la supuesta independencia de Colombia (1810). No es un día propiamente de júbilo y orgullo patrio en una Isla con una historia muy lejana de este cuento que se aprende en primaria sobre un florero. El evento del día es la marcha de los colegios y escuelas de la isla junto asus respectivas bandas de guerra a eso de las 2 de la tarde. Niñas y niños marchan durante un par de horas hasta el estadio de beisbol, donde se hacen los "honores" a la patria y se cierra con un concierto de los talentos locales hasta que se hace de noche. Obligados a marchar pero bastante contentos, niños y niñas, lucen sus uniformes impecables, las niñas y las adolescentes llevan en su cabeza impresionantes trenzados (Cangas) hechos con uno o dos días de antelación, diseños simétricos y asimétricos, desde unos muy sencillos hasta otros complejos y en algunos casos extravagantes en contraste con el clásico uniforme de colegio, no hay dos iguales, no hay restricciones ni reglas a seguir, se ven pasar crestas trenzadas, cabezas llenas de pequeños caminos y otras llenas de remates en pequeñas piezas plásticas multicolor (chaquiras). La jornada termina con una cancha de beisbol llena de niñas y niños correteando de un lado a otro alrededor de una tarima forrada con el "tricolor" patrio.
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Photographed 05 March 2019, Doi Lang - West, Doi Pha Hom Pok National Park, Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand
Sono poki attimi, gli animali si zittiscono, il vento si calma all'improvviso prima di riprendere con forza, le persone se ne vanno, tutto intorno sembra scomparire, rimango solo io e la mia foto....tutto questo poki attimi prima del temporale