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City night Line Train 418 Pollux Innsbruck to Amsterdam, stopped at Düisberg.
On my way up from Zurich in place of going home to Amsterdam I was heading to Maastricht for the weekend so I changed train for the Eurobahn service. While doing this two other City Night Line Trains came in, one of them 418 Pollux.
Innsbruck Hbf 19:54, Wörgl, Kufstein, München Hbf 22:09-22:50, Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart, (Mannheim Hbf 02:31-02:56), Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf, Koblenz, Bonn, Köln, Düsseldorf, Düisberg, Emmerich, Arnhem, Utrecht C, Amsterdam C 08:56.
You can check the train configuration here: www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/vlak.php?zeme=DB&cislo=418/131...
By the way, Düisberg used to be a steel town but now the steel works have been demolished. Unfortunately someone looks to have forgotten to tell the demolition contractors to stop when they got to the station !
The Temple of Castor and Pollux (Italian: Tempio dei Dioscuri) is an ancient edifice in the Roman Forum, Rome, central Italy. It was originally built in gratitude for victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus (495 BC). Castor and Pollux (Greek Polydeuces) were the Dioscuri, the "twins" of Gemini, the twin sons of Zeus (Jupiter) and Leda. Their cult came to Rome from Greece via Magna Graecia and the Greek culture of Southern Italy.
The last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and his allies, the Latins, waged war on the infant Roman Republic. Before the battle, the Roman dictator Aulus Postumius Albus vowed to build a temple to the Dioscuri if Rome were victorious.
According to legend Castor and Pollux appeared on the battlefield as two able horsemen in aid of the Romans. And, after the battle had been won they again appeared on the Forum in Rome watering their horses at the Spring of Juturna thereby announcing the victory. The temple stands on the supposed spot of their appearance. Postumius’s son finished the temple in 484 BC.
In Republican times the temple served as a meeting place for the Roman Senate, and from the middle of the 2nd century BC the front of the podium served as a speaker's platform. During the imperial period the temple housed the office for weights and measures, and was a depository for the State treasury.
The archaic temple was completely reconstructed and enlarged in 117 BC by Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus after his victory over the Dalmatians. Gaius Verres again restored this second temple in 73 BC.
In 14 BC a fire that ravaged major parts of the forum destroyed the temple, and Tiberius, the son of Augustus by a previous marriage of Livia and the eventual heir to the throne, rebuilt it. Tiberius' temple was dedicated in 6 AD. The remains visible today are from the temple of Tiberius, except the podium, which is from the time of Metellus.
According to Edward Gibbon, the temple of Castor served as a secret meeting place for the Roman Senate. He said the senate was roused to rebellion against Emperor Maximinus Thrax and in favor of future emperor Gordian I at the Temple of Castor in 237 AD.
The temple was still standing intact in the 4th century, but nothing is known of its subsequent history, except that in the 15th century, only three columns of its original structure were still standing. The street running by the building was called via Trium Columnarum.
In 1760, the Conservatori, finding the columns in a state of imminent collapse, erected scaffolding for effecting repairs. Both Piranesi and the young English architect George Dance the Younger were able to climb up and make accurate measurements; Dance had "a Model cast from the finest Example of the Corinthian order perhaps in the whole World", as he reported to his father.
Today the podium survives without the facing, as do the three columns and a piece of the entablature, one of the most famous features in the Forum.
The octostyle temple was peripteral, with eight Corinthian columns at the short sides and eleven on the long sides. There was a single cella paved with mosaics. The podium measures 32×49.5m and 7m in height. The building was constructed in opus caementicium and originally covered with slabs of tuff which were later removed. According to ancient sources the temple had a single central stairway to access the podium, but excavations have identified two side stairs.
Text from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Castor_and_Pollux
City night Line Train 418 Pollux Innsbruck to Amsterdam, stopped at Düisberg.
On my way up from Zurich in place of going home to Amsterdam I was heading to Maastricht for the weekend so I changed train for the Eurobahn service. While doing this two other City Night Line Trains came in, one of them 418 Pollux.
Innsbruck Hbf 19:54, Wörgl, Kufstein, München Hbf 22:09-22:50, Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart, (Mannheim Hbf 02:31-02:56), Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf, Koblenz, Bonn, Köln, Düsseldorf, Düisberg, Emmerich, Arnhem, Utrecht C, Amsterdam C 08:56.
You can check the train configuration here: www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/vlak.php?zeme=DB&cislo=418/131...
By the way, Düisberg used to be a steel town but now the steel works have been demolished. Unfortunately someone looks to have forgotten to tell the demolition contractors to stop when they got to the station !
The full moon was shining bright. So bright actually that it caused a little lens flare! This image was taken handheld since I didn't have my tripod with me, but I had a railing to lean the camera on for stabilization.
With the moon in the sky, only the brightest stars are visible. You can just about make out the Orion constellation to the lower right of the moon. Above the moon, you can see Taurus, and Gemini to the lower left of the moon. I'm not an astronomer, so don't quote me on the names of the stars, but I did my best trying to identify them. The big bright overexposed blob is the moon, of course. ;-)
The Temple of Castor and Pollux (Italian: Tempio dei Dioscuri) is an ancient edifice in the Roman Forum, Rome, central Italy. It was originally built in gratitude for victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus (495 BC). Castor and Pollux (Greek Polydeuces) were the Dioscuri, the "twins" of Gemini, the twin sons of Zeus (Jupiter) and Leda. Their cult came to Rome from Greece via Magna Graecia and the Greek culture of Southern Italy.
The last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and his allies, the Latins, waged war on the infant Roman Republic. Before the battle, the Roman dictator Aulus Postumius Albus vowed to build a temple to the Dioscuri if Rome were victorious.
According to legend Castor and Pollux appeared on the battlefield as two able horsemen in aid of the Romans. And, after the battle had been won they again appeared on the Forum in Rome watering their horses at the Spring of Juturna thereby announcing the victory. The temple stands on the supposed spot of their appearance. Postumius’s son finished the temple in 484 BC.
In Republican times the temple served as a meeting place for the Roman Senate, and from the middle of the 2nd century BC the front of the podium served as a speaker's platform. During the imperial period the temple housed the office for weights and measures, and was a depository for the State treasury.
The archaic temple was completely reconstructed and enlarged in 117 BC by Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus after his victory over the Dalmatians. Gaius Verres again restored this second temple in 73 BC.
In 14 BC a fire that ravaged major parts of the forum destroyed the temple, and Tiberius, the son of Augustus by a previous marriage of Livia and the eventual heir to the throne, rebuilt it. Tiberius' temple was dedicated in 6 AD. The remains visible today are from the temple of Tiberius, except the podium, which is from the time of Metellus.
According to Edward Gibbon, the temple of Castor served as a secret meeting place for the Roman Senate. He said the senate was roused to rebellion against Emperor Maximinus Thrax and in favor of future emperor Gordian I at the Temple of Castor in 237 AD.
The temple was still standing intact in the 4th century, but nothing is known of its subsequent history, except that in the 15th century, only three columns of its original structure were still standing. The street running by the building was called via Trium Columnarum.
In 1760, the Conservatori, finding the columns in a state of imminent collapse, erected scaffolding for effecting repairs. Both Piranesi and the young English architect George Dance the Younger were able to climb up and make accurate measurements; Dance had "a Model cast from the finest Example of the Corinthian order perhaps in the whole World", as he reported to his father.
Today the podium survives without the facing, as do the three columns and a piece of the entablature, one of the most famous features in the Forum.
The octostyle temple was peripteral, with eight Corinthian columns at the short sides and eleven on the long sides. There was a single cella paved with mosaics. The podium measures 32×49.5m and 7m in height. The building was constructed in opus caementicium and originally covered with slabs of tuff which were later removed. According to ancient sources the temple had a single central stairway to access the podium, but excavations have identified two side stairs.
Text from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Castor_and_Pollux
City night Line Train 418 Pollux Innsbruck to Amsterdam, stopped at Düisberg.
On my way up from Zurich in place of going home to Amsterdam I was heading to Maastricht for the weekend so I changed train for the Eurobahn service. While doing this two other City Night Line Trains came in, one of them 418 Pollux.
Innsbruck Hbf 19:54, Wörgl, Kufstein, München Hbf 22:09-22:50, Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart, (Mannheim Hbf 02:31-02:56), Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf, Koblenz, Bonn, Köln, Düsseldorf, Düisberg, Emmerich, Arnhem, Utrecht C, Amsterdam C 08:56.
You can check the train configuration here: www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/vlak.php?zeme=DB&cislo=418/131...
By the way, Düisberg used to be a steel town but now the steel works have been demolished. Unfortunately someone looks to have forgotten to tell the demolition contractors to stop when they got to the station !
This is my new "Pollux" watch from Puma. I like it a lot, although it's a little hard to tell the time at a glance -- I have to think about it.
The odd thing is the seconds disk: it's annotated 05, 10, 15, 19, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 48, 55, 60. What happened to 20 and 50?
I emailed customer support and asked if it was a mistake (seems unlikely) or some kind of design cuteness. I only got a canned reply :-(
City night Line Train 418 Pollux Innsbruck to Amsterdam, stopped at Düisberg.
On my way up from Zurich in place of going home to Amsterdam I was heading to Maastricht for the weekend so I changed train for the Eurobahn service. While doing this two other City Night Line Trains came in, one of them 418 Pollux.
Innsbruck Hbf 19:54, Wörgl, Kufstein, München Hbf 22:09-22:50, Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart, (Mannheim Hbf 02:31-02:56), Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf, Koblenz, Bonn, Köln, Düsseldorf, Düisberg, Emmerich, Arnhem, Utrecht C, Amsterdam C 08:56.
You can check the train configuration here: www.vagonweb.cz/razeni/vlak.php?zeme=DB&cislo=418/131...
By the way, Düisberg used to be a steel town but now the steel works have been demolished. Unfortunately someone looks to have forgotten to tell the demolition contractors to stop when they got to the station !
Pollux
Valais, Switzerland
The lone peak of Pollux (4092m) rises out of the swirling Alpine storm clouds and into the evening sunlight.
Am erhöhten Mainufer steht über Weinbergen das Pompejanum, eine vom sogenannten Haus der Dioskuren Castor und Pollux (Söhne des Zeus und der Leda) in Pompeji inspirierte Villa.
Der Architekt Friedrich von Gärtner errichtet das Gebäude von 1840 - 1848 entsprechend den Wünschen des Königs Ludwig I. von Bayern als zweigeschossige Villa, obwohl dies nicht der antiken Bauweise entspricht. Für die Innenausstattung, die 1850 fertiggestellt war, zeichnete Johann Martin von Wagner verantwortlich, während die Wandmalereien von Johann Schwarzmann und Christoph Nilson ausgeführt wurden. Die Villa war nie als königlicher Wohnsitz gedacht, sondern sollte als Anschauungsobjekt für Interessenten der antiken Kunst dienen.
Das Pompejanum wurde in 2. Weltkrieg stark beschädigt und ist seit einigen Jahren nach langen und aufwändigen Rekonstruktionsarbeiten wieder zu besichtigen. Seit 1994 bereichern neben Kopien auch einige römische Original-Kunstwerke aus den Beständen der Staatlichen Antikensammlungen und der Glyptothek in München die Räume des Pompejanum.
The newest Parasol Doll!
She arrived today and I promptly deboxed her, washed her hair and sewed her a dress. Sheer love!
4th style fresco depicting a nude male standing next to a horse, in the classic pose of one of the Dioncuri, Castor or Pollux. Both subjects are extremely pale, and one has to wonder if this is meant to depict a statue, bare of pigments. The painterly technique is extraordinarily advanced and looks almost like it belongs in the Italian Renaissance.
From the Villa Moregine, near Pompeii - middle triclinium (B)
Neronian age (54-68 CE)
City night Line Train 418 Pollux Innsbruck to Amsterdam, stopped at Düisberg.
On my way up from Zurich in place of going home to Amsterdam I was heading to Maastricht for the weekend so I changed train for the Eurobahn service. While do this two other City Night Line Trains came in, one of them 418 Pollux.
Innsbruck Hbf 19:54, Wörgl, Kufstein, München Hbf 22:09-22:50, Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart, (Mannheim Hbf 02:31-02:56), Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf, Koblenz, Bonn, Köln, Düsseldorf, Düisberg, Emmerich, Arnhem, Utrecht C, Amsterdam C 08:56.
By the way, Düisberg used to be a steel town but now the steel works have been demolished. Unfortunately someone looks to have forgotten to tell the demolition contractors to stop when they got to the station !
Type - General cargo vessel
I.M.O. - 9135731
Call sign - V2EL8
Flag - Antigua & Barbuda
Registered - St.Johns
Gross tons - 2844t
Deadweight - 4250t
D.O.B. - 1997
Yard - Damen Shipyard,Galatai Romania
Length - 89.77M
Breadth - 13.7m
Owned/managed by Fehn Ships Management,Leer Germany
[The large tower on the bows measuring 18m high and 3m diameter is a Flettner rotary wind turbine used to supplement fuel usage and reduce polution]
The Temple of Castor & Pollux is one of the oldest structures in the Forum, finished in 484 BC.
The temple was erected to honor Castor and Pollux, the twins of Gemini, who supposedly appeared during the possibly-fictional Battle of Lake Regillus to inspire the soldiers of the Roman Republic to defeat either the Etruscans or the Latin League, depending on who you ask.
The Roman Forum. The Temple of Castor and Pollux (495 BC).
The Temple of Castor and Pollux (Italian: Tempio dei Dioscuri) is an ancient temple in the Roman Forum. It was originally built in gratitude for victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus (495 BC). Castor and Pollux (Greek Polydeuces) were the Dioscuri, the "twins" of Gemini, the twin sons of Zeus (Jupiter) and Leda.
The last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and his allies, the Latins, waged war on the infant Roman Republic. Before the battle, the Roman dictator Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis vowed to build a temple to the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) if the Republic were victorious.
According to legend, Castor and Pollux appeared on the battlefield as two able horsemen in aid of the Republic; and after the battle had been won they again appeared on the Forum in Rome watering their horses at the Spring of Juturna thereby announcing the victory. The temple stands on the supposed spot of their appearance.
The archaic temple was completely reconstructed and enlarged in 117 BC.
If still in use by the 4th century, the temple would have been closed during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire. The temple was possibly already falling apart in the 4th century, when a wall in front of the Lacus Juturnae was erected from reused material. Nothing is known of its subsequent history, except that in the 15th century, only three columns of its original structure were still standing.
In the 18th century English architect Dance had "a Model cast from the finest Example of the Corinthian order perhaps in the whole World", as he reported to his father.
Today the podium survives without the facing, as do the three columns and a piece of the entablature, one of the most famous features in the Forum.
The octastyle temple was peripteral, with eight Corinthian columns at the short sides and eleven on the long sides.
Left: Santa Maria Antiqua, 5th century, Byzantine style.
Rome. 2007
981019-A-6207H-519. SS Pollux off-loads vehicles and equipment for Exercise Foal Eagle '98 while anchored in the harbor of Pusan, Republic of Korea, on Oct. 19, 1998. Attached to the starboard side of the Pollux is a temporary roll-on, roll-off discharge facility which provides a causeway for vehicles to move from the Pollux to lighter craft for transportation to the shore. Foal Eagle '98 is a combined, joint exercise supported by forces from the U.S. and Republic of Korea. In addition to providing hands-on field experience for forces of both nations, Foal Eagle '98 was designed to test rear area protection operations and major command, control and communications systems. Pollux is one of eight Fast Sealift Ships belonging to the Military Sealift Command that have special features allowing them to load and off-load cargo in places lacking normal port facilities. DoD photo by Spc. Christina Ann Horne, U.S. Army.
"Pollux" (as well as it's twin design "Castor" was made from a gorgeous and oh so beautiful knit fabric with silver threaded pattern. My favorite piece from the new collection and Gigi's too -I had to make an extra for her own closet ; ).
It looks very lovely on the little ladies as well, such as Barbie and Poppy.
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Dear flickr friends,
this has been an amazing year so far (and it went by so fast, too ; )) – thank you very much for your lovely comments and support! You are true levitationistas!
My latest collection will be the last collection for year 2018. It’s not as big as my other collections when it comes to the numbers of pieces, but it’s BIG in shimmer and glitter and sparkle *lol*.
Perfect for the festive season to come, my collection “The Stars” brings you gorgeous fabrics and lovely designs.
May you all have a wonderful Christmas time and enjoy the magical moments it offers : )!
He usually slips away as soon as he hears that camera. Unless he just got a meal ;) I fiiinally found the trick to get him to STAY!
In one version of the legend, after Castor was killed by Lynceus, Pollux, in accordance with the classical tradition that one of every set of twins is the son of a god and thus immortal, begged Zeus to allow his brother to share his immortality with him.
The Roman Forum. The Temple of Castor and Pollux (495 BC).
The Temple of Castor and Pollux (Italian: Tempio dei Dioscuri) is an ancient temple in the Roman Forum. It was originally built in gratitude for victory at the Battle of Lake Regillus (495 BC). Castor and Pollux (Greek Polydeuces) were the Dioscuri, the "twins" of Gemini, the twin sons of Zeus (Jupiter) and Leda.
The last king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, and his allies, the Latins, waged war on the infant Roman Republic. Before the battle, the Roman dictator Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis vowed to build a temple to the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) if the Republic were victorious.
According to legend, Castor and Pollux appeared on the battlefield as two able horsemen in aid of the Republic; and after the battle had been won they again appeared on the Forum in Rome watering their horses at the Spring of Juturna thereby announcing the victory. The temple stands on the supposed spot of their appearance.
The archaic temple was completely reconstructed and enlarged in 117 BC.
If still in use by the 4th century, the temple would have been closed during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire. The temple was possibly already falling apart in the 4th century, when a wall in front of the Lacus Juturnae was erected from reused material. Nothing is known of its subsequent history, except that in the 15th century, only three columns of its original structure were still standing.
In the 18th century English architect Dance had "a Model cast from the finest Example of the Corinthian order perhaps in the whole World", as he reported to his father.
Today the podium survives without the facing, as do the three columns and a piece of the entablature, one of the most famous features in the Forum.
The octastyle temple was peripteral, with eight Corinthian columns at the short sides and eleven on the long sides.
Left: Santa Maria Antiqua, 5th century, Byzantine style.
Rome. 2007
IMO: 9135731
MMSI: 305443000
Anropssignal: V2EI8
Flagga: Antigua Barbuda [AG]
AIS Vessel Type: Cargo
Gross Tonnage: 2844
Dödvikt: 4250 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 89.77m × 13.17m
Byggnadsår: 1997
Status: Active
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