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Digital ID: 832989. The supreme triumph of a popular song -- its hand-organ appearance on the East side.. 1898
Notes: Written on border: 'Nov. 1898'
Source: Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection / Music -- street organ (more info)
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This is not one of the acrobatic scenes from the Matrix trilogy or any other action film. It's a scene from a sepak takraw match, a particularly popular sport in Southeast Asia. Essentially a net game played with feet, sepak takraw is a hybrid of football soccer and volleyball with a bit of gymnastics and kung fu thrown in. Countless variations of the game are played throughout the region, but the basic objective of each is to keep the hollow, grapefruit-sized ball from touching the ground by keeping it airborne with the feet, knees, head, shoulders, elbows - or almost every part of the body, except the hands. Sepak takraw or kick volleyball is a sport native to Southeast Asia, resembling volleyball, except that it uses a rattan ball and only allows players to use their feet, knee, chest and head to touch the ball. It is a popular sport in Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines and Indonesia. In Lao the call it twine and kick while in Thailand it is called takraw. Similar games include footbag net, footvolley, football tennis, Bossaball, jianzi and sipa. Sepak is the Malay word for kick Takraw is the Thai word for the hand-woven ball originally used in the game. So the game is essentially kick ball.
Amateurs in Old Bagan - Myanmar play a fun game of sepak takaraw on the street. In Myanmar sepak takraw is known as Chin Lone, and is considered more of an art as there is often no opposing team, and the point is to keep the ball aloft gracefully and interestingly.
Sepak takraw is een traditionele balsport uit Zuidoost-Azië. In Myanmar wordt het Chin Lone genoemd. Sepak Takraw wordt beschreven als voetbal-volleybal op een badmintonveld. In tegenstelling tot volleybal mag je bij deze sport de bal niet met je handen aanraken maar alleen met je hoofd, schouder, knie en voet. Het net hangt op ongeveer anderhalve meter hoogte en de deelnemers kunnen scoren door de bal op het veld van de tegenstander te laten stuiteren. In tegenstelling tot volleybal wordt Sepak Takraw met slechts drie spelers per team gespeeld. Een team van drie spelers wordt “Regu” genoemd. De naam sepak takraw komt van: “sepak” is “schop” in het Maleis en “takraw” betekent “gevlochten bal” in het Thais. Sepak takraw wordt erkend als officiële sporttak op verschillende Aziatische spelen. Er wordt gespeeld met een rotan bal van ca. 170 gram die voorzien is van 12 gaten. Sinds Sepak Takraw in juni 1992 door Indonesische topsporters werd gedemonstreerd op het internationaal festival sportculturen uit de hele wereld te Bonn, heeft de sport zeer snel aan populariteit gewonnen. Over doelpunten met een omhaal wordt nog vaak gesproken. Balletje hooghouden is een favoriete oefening van voetballers. Meestal wordt dit dan ook gebruikt om hun balvaardigheid te tonen. Vooral de technische spelers zijn hier goed in. In ZuidOost Azië wordt al eeuwen een spel gespeeld waar baltechniek en acrobatiek worden gecombineerd.
Car: Ford Popular.
Year of manufacture: 1953.
Date of first registration in the UK: 1st December 1987.
Region of registration: Kincardineshire.
Latest recorded mileage: 5,214 (MOT 13th June 2012).
Date of last V5 issued: 2nd September 2020.
Date taken: 8th February 2015.
Location: Queen Square, Bristol, UK.
A 197cc Villiers powered machine from the early 1950s. Seen on the Isle of Man during the TT festival in 1995. From a 35mm negative scan.
This is probably the most photographed cove at Watson Lake, but from the Peavine Trail high above behind me. This morning, several ducks invited me down to water level, but then swam away before I could snap them. I realized then the cove appears much wider from this angle...and more peaceful.
People manifest their religiosity in different ways around the world.
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East Midlands Railway Class 222 Meridian No. 222015 arrives at Nottingham with 1D48, the 14:35 from London St Pancras on 27 November 2024.
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Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine - Kyoto, Japan. Also known as “O-inari-san”, Inari shrines are the most familiar shrines to Japanese people. There are said to be some thirty thousand throughout the country, frequented by people of all ages.
Fushimi Inari Taisha is the head shrine with which all the others are affiliated. In the 1300 years since its establishment in 711AD, people have gathered here to pray for bountiful harvests, business prosperity, the safety of their home and family and the fulfillment of all kinds of other wishes.
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St. Anthony is known as a marriage saint, because legend has him as one who conciliated couples. His feast day, June 13, is Lisbon's municipal holiday, celebrated with parades and marriages of humble couples.
It is a popular costum to make St. Anthony Thrones (shown in the image up) and put them on entrance doors outside during the night of his holiday and persons passing by left some coins to his feets and making a wish for each coin. It is said that he always give an answer to this prayers. In old quarters of Lisbon you can find lots of these Thrones of St. Anthony during the month of June, every year and since ancient times..
Car: Ford Escort Popular Plus.
Date of first registration: 17th September 1980.
Registration region: Reading.
Latest recorded mileage: 95,521 (MOT 20th June 2019).
Date taken: 21st April 2019.
Location: Weston-Super-Mare, UK.