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Quaint card game from 1947 based on making up a train by collecting the necessary 5 cards and moving it out of the station by the use of signal cards. Four sets of cards covering the LMS, GWR, LNER and SR plus a 'wild' or 'Pool' set. Illustrations are a curious mixture of pictures of full size locomotives and wagons and others based on Gauge '0' Hornby. Believed to have been published by Pepys (Castell).
There were further editions of the game, but this is the one which includes "fold out stations". The blue and white box / packet is long gone but the 'stuck on' card' with the illustration of the little girl and the puppy is still with the set.
Strobist info: 1 Vivitar 285hv 1/2 power with beauty dish camera left
1 bare Vivitar 285hv 1/16 power camara right
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Nefta is considered by most Sufis to be the spiritual home of Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam; many religious buildings are located in the district El Bayadha. 10 miles past Nefta, towards Algeria, is a daily market that sells Tunisian "desert roses", crystalline formations of rock that resemble roses in shape.
Nefta is a pilgrimage center to which pilgrims travel throughout the year. There is a Folk Festival in April and a Date Festival in November/December.
Nefta is the religious center of the Bled el Djerid, the "Land of Palms", with more than 24 mosques and 100 marabouts. The marabouts still attract pilgrims from all over southern Tunisia and even from Algeria. This great veneration of the marabouts reflects the continuing vigor of Sufism, the movement which grew up in the 12th century around Sufi Abu Madian (d. 1197). The name of the Sufis came from the simple woolen garment (suf) they wore. They believed that the adherents of Islam, a religion of the desert, should show particular modesty of behavior and asceticism, and were much given to mysticism, the veneration of holy men, spiritual contemplation and meditation. Sufism is also marked by religious forms taken over from the pre-Islamic, animistic religions of the Berber population which orthodox Islam seeks to repress - belief in spirits, witchcraft, fortune-telling, the efficacy of amulets, etc. Regional variants of Sufism were propagated by holy men, who frequently founded their own brotherhoods, with centers for the teaching of disciples. They are credited with numerous miracles and revered for their holiness, and their tombs (marabouts) are places of pilgrimage, attracting varying numbers of pilgrims according to their reputation. In the past these holy men were also appealed to as judges in the conflicts which frequently occurred between the nomadic tribes and the settled population of the oases. Nefta is the last stronghold of this Sufism, and is sometimes called, with some justification, the "Kairouan of the South". The marabouts venerated here are scattered about throughout the old town of Nefta and the oasis.
The beauty of the time difference: Evan gets to play later in MI, and we get to enjoy the cooler weather near sunset. Luckily, there weren't many mosquitoes this year.
Hay una conexión con la madre, que no existe con ningún otro ser sobre la tierra. En esta foto, creo haberla capturado.
En esta Semana Santa, ¡CAPTURE TODOS LOS RECUERDOS!.
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No os afanéis por el dÃa de mañana, porque el dÃa de mañana traerá su afán.
Tarlair Swimming Pool opened in 1931 at the base of a sea cliff just outside Macduff in Banffshire (now Aberdeenshire) in Scotland. This outdoor swimming complex was built in an Art Deco style with a main building backing onto the cliffs and changing rooms to its left hand side. It was commissioned by Macduff Burgh Council in 1929, with the architect being John C Miller, the Burgh Surveyor of MacDuff. The contractor for the project was Robert Morrison & Son of Macduff. Since 2007 it has been protected as a category A listed building. It is considered by Historic Scotland to be the best example of only three surviving outdoor seaside pools in Scotland, the others being at Stonehaven and Gourock.
The design of the pool was a clever use of pumped sea water to fill the pools, and flooding of the main pool at high tide to flush out the old water. The main pool had a diving board at the deep end and a child’s chute at the shallow end, though both are now missing. The second-largest pool was a boating pool with the two remaining pools being paddling pools.
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