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It is a bit out of place, but that really is the London Bridge and it is located at Lake Havasu City, AZ. The bridge, which was originally constructed in 1831 was getting to the point where it was unable to handle traffic so London sold the bridge to an AZ developer who was trying to popularize the remote city of Lake Havasu. It was reconstructed there stone by stone on dry land and then the canal was constructed under it. Work was completed during 1971. Lake Havasu is a popular destination for college Spring Breakers.
Nikon D200
1/800 sec at f/8 20 mm ISO 200
March 13, 2009
For decades, science popularizers have said humans are made of stardust, and now, a new survey of 150,000 stars shows just how true the old cliché is: Humans and their galaxy have about 97 percent of the same kind of atoms, and the elements of life appear to be more prevalent toward the galaxy's center, the research found. (From Science.com) This star is just folded paper with lots of dust accumulated through the years.
When I first saw this Doux Joya hairstyle at the Equal monthly event, I immediately thought of Bo Derek in the movie “10.” During that sexy scene when she ran along the beach, Bo instantly popularized the cornrow hairstyle more than any other actress in history.
According to the star, there no other hairstyles considered for this movie. This cornrow hairstyle's impact created such a life-changing moment for her and women's fashion alike.
Known as Fulani braids, after the Fulani women of East and West Africa, this hairstyle has become one of the greatest iconic statements of all time.
Bo Derek was truly one the most gorgeous and natural beauties of her era. Without a doubt, wearing this Doux Joya Hairstyle will transform your look into the perfect “10.”
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Two Jack Lake was named in 1959 after two influential locals—Jack Stanley and Jack Watters—whose lives shaped early Banff.
Jack Stanley, known as “Captain Jack,” ran boat tours on nearby Lake Minnewanka and helped popularize the area for visitors in the early 1900s. Jack Watters was a prominent figure in the coal mining town of Bankhead, located at the base of Cascade Mountain. Their contributions to tourism and industry earned them a shared legacy in the lake’s name.
Beyond its name, Two Jack Lake is a tranquil arm of Lake Minnewanka, offering postcard views of Mount Rundle and easy access from Banff. It’s a favorite for sunrise photography, kayaking, and winter skating—especially when methane bubbles freeze beneath the surface. The lake’s calm beauty and layered history make it a quiet but meaningful stop in the Rockies.
Sri Sri Ramakrishna said
“The goal of human life is the realization of the Ultimate Reality which alone can give man supreme fulfilment and everlasting peace. This is the essence of all religions.”
Swami Vivekananda has said
“Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.”
But probably his best quote is
"Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached" (Uttisthata Jagrata Prapya Varannibodhata Kshurasanna Dhara Nishita Durataya durgama Pathah tat kavayo Vadanti)is a slogan popularized in the late 19th century by Indian Hindu monk and philosopher Swami Vivekananda, who took inspiration in a sloka of Katha Upanishad. It was his message to the world to get out of their hypnotized state of mind and discover their true nature.
The sloka is inscribed on the main stage of an auditorium of Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, a branch of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. This shloka is also the basis of the title of the book The Razor's Edge and the 1946 film and the 1984 film, and also of various music albums in the west by bands like AC/DC, Dave Holland, etc.
1962 Ford Galaxie 500 XL Convertible
For 1962, the Galaxie name was applied to all of Ford's full size models, as the Fairlane name was moved to a new intermediate model and Custom was temporarily retired. New top-line Galaxie 500 (two-door sedan and hardtop, four-door sedan and hardtop, and "Sunliner" convertible) models offered plusher interiors, more chrome trim outside, and a few additional luxury items over and above what was standard on the plainer Galaxie models. Base Galaxie models were available in two- and four-door sedans as well as the plain Ranch Wagon. In an effort to stimulate midseason sales, Ford introduced a group of sporty cars along with a "Lively Ones" marketing campaign. These models featured the bucket seats and console that were popularized by the Chevrolet Corvair Monza, and included a Fairlane 500 Sports Coupe, and a Falcon Futura. The full-size line was available with new bucket-seats-and-console "Lively One," the Galaxie 500/XL (two-door hardtop and convertible). Ford stated in its sales literature that XL stood for "Xtra Lively."
The Botkin Trail in the Yalta Nature Reserve is one of the most famous hiking trails in the Crimean Mountains. Its length from Kirov Street to the top of Stavri-Kay aMount is 4.5 kilometers.
The Botkin Trail route was created in 1901 for tuberculosis patients. They could take wellness walks here, so it is also called the "Health Trail". In these places, the phytoncides of the coniferous forest are mixed with the sea breeze, which creates a positive effect for the treatment of lung diseases.
Professor Sergey Botkin was one of the most famous physicians in Russia in the second half of the 19th century. He received the title of academician and the position of physician of the royal family. Since 1870, he has been studying the climate of the Southern coast of Crimea and made a huge contribution to the popularization of recreation and the development of sanatoriums in the Crimea. He was the first to note the healing properties of the air on the Southern coast of Crimea for the treatment of lung diseases.
Боткинская тропа проложена по левому берегу реки Учан-Су. Начинаясь у Поляны сказок, она завершается у скалы Ставри-Кая. Правда, завершается условно, поскольку сразу переходит в Штангеевскую тропу, которая заканчивается у водопада Учан-Су. Нередко две тропы объединяют в один маршрут. Это логично, поскольку в противном случае от скалы Ставри-Кая придется возвращаться обратно по уже пройденному пути. Если же идти до водопада, получится круизный маршрут.
Тропу оборудовали в 1901-1902 году силами Крымско-Кавказского горного клуба. В то время активно действовало ее ялтинское отделение. Назвать решили в честь доктора Боткина. Он хоть и жил в Москве, но активно участвовал в исследовании роли Южного берега Крыма как курортологического направления. Получив звание академика, он стал лейб-медиком царской семьи и много времени проводил вместе с ней в Ливадийском дворце.
[ENG] For "Macro Mondays" group, "Redux 2021" teme.
2021 themes revived in this macro shot:
1.- Tradition (December 20). The tradition of building “nativity scene” dates back to Christmas Eve 1223, in which Saint Francis of Assisi celebrated night mass accompanied by a symbolic representation of the nativity scene using a manger (without a child) with an ox and a mule . The representation was popularized by installing nativity scenes in churches during Christmas with figures of terracotta, wax or wood. Through the Franciscan friars, from the fourteenth century the assembly of nativity scenes for Christmas was consolidated as a tradition in the Italian peninsula and was passed to the rest of Europe, and later to Hispanic America. (Wikipedia summary).
2.- Five (December 6). Five figures are the most important of the nativity scene
3.- Damage (October 25). Unfortunately, the donkey's figure suffered a fracture.
4.- Gift (Junuary 4). These figures are a gift from a loved one upon their return from a trip to Peru.
And without rigor:
5.- Star (October 4). The stars that adorn the scene are secondary elements.
6.- Orange (May 31). The orange color stains accessory elements.
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[ESP] Belén peruano
Para el grupo “Macro Mondays”, tema “revivir 2021”
Temas de 2021 recordados en esta fotografía macro:
1.- Tradición (20 de diciembre). La tradición del “Belen” se remonta a la Nochebuena de 1223, en la que san Francisco de Asís celebró la misa nocturna acompañada de una representación simbólica de la escena del nacimiento utilizando un pesebre (sin niño) con un buey y una mula. La representación se popularizó instalando belenes en las iglesias durante la Navidad con figuras de terracota, cera o madera. A través de los frailes franciscanos, a partir del siglo XIV el montaje de los belenes por Navidad se consolidó como tradición en la península itálica y fue pasando al resto de Europa, y posteriormente a Hispanoamérica. (resumen de Wikipedia).
2.- Cinco (6 de diciembre). Cinco figuras son las más importantes del belén.
3.- Rotura (25 de octubre). Desafortunadamente, la figura del asno sufrió una fractura.
4.- Regalo (4 de enero). Estas figuras son un obsequio de un ser querido a su regreso de un viaje a Perú.
Y sin rigor:
5.- Estrella (4 de octubre). Las estrellas que adornan la escena son elementos secundarios.
6.- Naranja (31 de mayo). El color naranja tiñe elementos accesorios.
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Le Chance Vought F4U Corsair est un avion militaire américain, utilisé lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et jusqu'en 1968.
Il est l'un des appareils les plus connus de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, notamment grâce à la série télévisée Les Têtes brûlées (Et le célèbre Gregory "Papy" Boyington), laquelle a popularisé sa silhouette trapue et son aile en W (aile en mouette inversée) qui rendent le Corsair presque immédiatement reconnaissable. Il s'illustra essentiellement dans le Pacifique, servant à la fois au sein de l'US Navy et de l'US Marine Corps.
Le Corsair piloté par les Flying Bulls a une histoire mouvementée derrière lui. Il fut livré en 1945 à la Marine américaine parmi l'un des 12.500 exemplaires fournis mais ne participa jamais à la guerre. L'avion équipé d'un moteur 18 cylindres en double étoile délivre 2.100 chevaux avec une cylindre de 46 litres.
The Chance Vought F4U Corsair is an American military aircraft, used during the Second World War and until 1968.
It is one of the best-known devices of the Second World War, notably thanks to the television series The Burnt Heads (Baa Baa Black Sheep and the famous Gregory "Pappy" Boyington)) , which has popularized its squat silhouette and its wing in W (wing inverted seagull) that make the Corsair almost immediately recognizable. He distinguished himself mainly in the Pacific, serving both in the US Navy and the US Marine Corps.
The Corsair piloted by the Flying Bulls has a turbulent history behind him. It was delivered in 1945 to the US Navy among one of the 12,500 copies provided but never participated in the war. The aircraft equipped with a twin-cylinder 18-cylinder engine delivers 2,100 horsepower with a 46-liter cylinder.
I was given a delightful panettone for Christmas. It came in this tin which I am now using to store biscuits.
The expression, "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without" was first popularized by President Calvin Coolidge, itself being adapted from the English expression, "Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without". It became a popular saying during WWI, the Depression, WWII ... and now we call it upcycling, re-purposing, etc.
I just think this tin is too nice to throw away.
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This wedding-dress was worn in 1854 by Svea Beata Myhrman (who lived 1819-1910). That means she was 35 when she got married in this white silk dress (and yes, it was her first marriage). Generally speaking it is not completely correct to call this dress Victorian, since it's Swedish, but this dress was on display at Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, in their "British så in i Norden" exhibition. The name is an untranslatable pun, but the theme was the British influence on Swedish and Nordic fashion, and this dress shows the popularizing from queen Victoria's wedding to get married in white even up here in the North - though black was popular too all through the 19th century.
And yes, the dress IS white, but the lighting was low and soft to protect the garment.
**dear flickr friends a nasty desert bug has me down and out -damsure not in beverly hills! Ill be back among you real soon**
xo
View majamom's mapTaken in (See more photos here)Roadrunners are ground cuckoos, are any of about 15 species of birds constituting the subfamily Neomorphinae of the Cuckoo Family (Cuculidae), noted for terrestrial habits. There are 11 New World species, 3 of which lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.
Other ground cuckoos include the Morococcyx erythropygus, a species widespread in Central America and 5 species of Neomorphus, found from Costa Rica to Bolivia.Three species of the very large Carpococcyx, are found in Southeast Asia and acquire a length of 24 inches.
Comparisons
The two species of Roadrunners include the Lesser Roadrunner (G. velox) a slightly smaller, buffier and less streaky bird, of Mexico and Central America, which grows to a length of 18 inches.
Description
The legendary Roadrunner is famous for its distinctive appearance, its ability to eat rattlesnakes and its preference for scooting across the American deserts, as popularized in Warner Bros. cartoons.
The Roadrunner is a large, black-and-white, mottled ground bird with a distinctive head crest. It has strong feet, a long, white-tipped tail and an oversized bill.
It ranges in length from 20 to 24 inches from the tip of its tail to the end of its beak. It is a member of the Cuckoo Family (Cuculidae), characterized by feet with 2 forward toes and 2 behind.
When the Roadrunner senses danger or is traveling downhill, it flies, revealing short, rounded wings with a white crescent. But it cannot keep its large body airborne for more than a few seconds, and so prefers walking or running (up to 17 miles per hour) usually with a clownish gait.
Vocalization
The Roadrunner makes a series of 6 to 8, low, dovelike coos dropping in pitch, as well as a clattering sound by rolling mandibles together.
Tail
The Roadrunner has a long, graduated tail carried at an upward angle.
Legs
The Roadrunner has long stout legs.
Behavior
The Roadrunner is uniquely suited to a desert environment by a number of physiological and behavioral adaptations
Its carnivorous habits offer it a large supply of very moist food
It reabsorbs water from its feces before excretion
A nasal gland eliminates excess salt, instead of using the urinary tract like most birds
It reduces its activity 50% during the heat of midday
Its extreme quickness allows it to snatch a humming bird or dragonfly from midair.
Habitat
The Roadrunner inhabits open, flat or rolling terrain with scattered cover of dry brush, chaparral or other desert scrub.
Food & Hunting
The Roadrunner feeds almost exclusively on other animals, including insects, scorpions, lizards, snakes, rodents and other birds. Up to 10 % of its winter diet may consist of plant material due to the scarcity of desert animals at that time of the year.
Because of its lightening quickness, the Roadrunner is one of the few animals that preys upon rattlesnakes. Using its wings like a matador's cape, it snaps up a coiled rattlesnake by the tail, cracks it like a whip and repeatedly slams its head against the ground till dead.
It then swallows its prey whole, but is often unable to swallow the entire length at one time. This does not stop the Roadrunner from its normal routine. It will continue to meander about with the snake dangling from its mouth, consuming another inch or two as the snake slowly digests.
Breeding
When spring arrives, the male Roadrunner, in addition to acquiring food for himself, offers choice morsels to a female as an inducement to mating. He usually dances around her while she begs for food, then gives her the morsel after breeding briefly.
Both parents collect the small sticks used for building a shallow, saucer-like nest, but the female actually constructs it in a bush, cactus or small tree. She then lays from 2 to 12 white eggs over a period of 3 days, which results in staggered hatching. . Incubation is from 18-20 days and is done by either parent, though preferably the male, because the nocturnally incubating males maintain normal body temperature.
The first to hatch often crowd out the late-arriving runts, which are sometimes eaten by the parents. Usually only 3 or 4 young are finally fledged from the nest after about 18 days. These remain near the adults for up to 2 more weeks before dispersing to the surrounding desert.
In the Sonoran and Mojave deserts of California where there is only one rainy season, Roadrunners nest in Spring, the only time there is abundant prey to raise a brood. In the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, they breed again in August or September after summer rains increase their food sources
“Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.” Guy Kawasaki.
In County Antrim, in the north of the island of Ireland, we can found one of the most famous roads in the world nowadays. "The Dark Hedges" has been popularized by its appearance in a well-known television series, but its origin dates back to the construction of a mansion by James Stuart in 1775, who ordered the placement of these trees to provide an imposing entrance to his new home.
Two days before taking this photograph, I had visited this place for the first time with my wife at dawn. Despite the cold and rain, we were able to create together my image "Unknown Paths", which I shared a few months ago. However, I decided to go back again at dawn to see if I had better luck with the weather conditions and thus photograph the famous road from the other side. On this occasion, my wife decided to stay at the B&B, so I went alone to try my luck. When I arrived it was still night, and the trees seemed to be giants waiting to pounce with their gigantic branches on whoever dared to cross that enchanted road. Luckily, I didn't let the spell of the place affect me, I composed calmly with the longest focal length I had, and I waited patiently for the sun to rise. Although the sky ended up getting covered by clouds, there were moments in which the sunlight filtered slightly, transforming the scene completely. The horror tale ended up looking more like a fairy tale.
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"Déjate encantar de pequeñas formas”. Guy Kawasaki.
En el Condado de Antrim, al norte de la isla de Irlanda, se encuentra una de las carreteras más famosas del mundo hoy en día. "The Dark Hedges" ha sido popularizada por su aparición en una conocida serie de televisión, pero su origen se remonta a la construcción de una mansión por parte de James Stuart en 1775, quien ordenó la colocación de los árboles para dotar de una entrada imponente a su nueva casa.
Dos días antes de realizar esta fotografía, había visitado por primera vez este lugar con mi mujer al amanecer. A pesar del frío y de la lluvia, fuimos capaces de crear juntos la imagen "Caminos Desconocidos", que compartí hace unos meses. No obstante, decidí volver de nuevo al amanecer para ver si tenía más suerte con las condiciones climáticas y fotografiar así la famosa carretera desde el otro lado. En esta ocasión, mi mujer decidió quedarse en el B&B, así que me dirigí en solitario a probar suerte. Cuando llegué era de noche aún, y los árboles parecían ser gigantes esperando a abalanzarse con sus gigantescas ramas sobre quien osara cruzar aquella carretera encantada. Por suerte, no dejé que el hechizo del lugar me afectara, compuse con calma con la mayor distancia focal que contaba, y esperé pacientemente a que el sol saliera. Aunque el cielo se acabó nublando, hubo unos instantes en los que la luz solar se filtro ligeramente transformando la escena totalmente. El cuento de terror acabó pareciendo más un cuento de hadas.
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, immortalized in this life-sized statue giving a thumbs-up beside a pinstriped Ford F-100 truck, was a revolutionary artist and custom car builder who defined Southern California's Kustom Kulture movement in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Born in 1932, Roth blended hot rod engineering with grotesque cartoon aesthetics, creating iconic vehicles like the Beatnik Bandit and popularizing the Rat Fink character—a snarling, anti-Mickey Mouse rodent that symbolized rebellious counterculture.
His pinstriping techniques, evident on the truck in the image, and outlandish designs influenced generations of customizers, artists, and even the broader pop culture landscape, leaving a lasting legacy in automotive art until his death in 2001.
"Every day of the year where the water is 76, day and night, and the waves roll high, I take my sled, without runners, and coast down the face of the big waves that roll in at Waikiki."
-- Duke Kahanamoku (Native Hawaiian competition swimmer who popularized the sport of surfing; his full name being Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku)
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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1930_Deusenberg J. Legrande Torpedo Phaeton.
Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company, Inc. was an American racing and luxury automobile manufacturer founded in Indianapolis, Indiana, by brothers Fred and August Duesenberg in 1920. The company is known for popularizing the straight-eight engine and four-wheel hydraulic brakes. A Duesenberg car was the first American car to win a Grand Prix race, winning the 1921 French Grand Prix. Duesenbergs won the Indianapolis 500 in 1922, 1924, 1925 and 1927. Transportation executive Errett Lobban Cord acquired the Duesenberg corporation in 1926. The company was sold and dissolved in 1937.
(From Wikipedia.)
The company, created by Mario Vietti at the beginning of the last century, received a new impetus thanks to the efforts of his partner Alfredo Currado, who back in 1952 was one of the first in Piedmont to rely on the creation of wines from individual vineyards (such cru as Brunate, Rocche, Lazzarito); he is also responsible for the discovery and popularization of the Arneis variety, a white specialty of the Roero region.
In the early 1990s, the company joined the company's son, oenologist Lucca Currado, who completed an internship in California (Opus One, Simi Winery) and Bordeaux (Ch. Mouton-Rotschild). Not without difficulty, he managed to convince his father to modernize some of the technological methods, thanks to which Barolo under the Vietti brand acquired that purity of style and expressive terroir character, for which they are appreciated by experts and consumers.
Labels that Alfreddo Currado began to order from familiar artists back in the 1970s deserve special mention; drawings of fruits, flowers, insects, birds convey the characteristics of a particular wine associated with a bouquet, aging or style. The complete collection of Vietti labels is on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Alfredo Currado told how the idea came about: “The idea was born around a bottle of Barolo Rocche. One winter evening, in the company of friends, among whom were artists, we drank several bottles of barolo; when they saw the color of the wine in the glass, they were delighted and said that these wines deserve to be ennobled in a different way than usual: that is, they deserve artist labels. In the euphoria of the moment, we made a list and the next day this wonderful idea took shape.”
Alfredo is also called the "father of Arneis", since in 1967 he devoted a lot of time to researching and understanding this almost forgotten variety. Today Arneis produces the most famous white wine from the Roero region. Now this variety is grown even on the west coast of the United States.
Компанія, створена Маріо Вієтті на початку минулого століття, отримала новий імпульс завдяки старанням його затя Альфредо Куррадо, який ще в 1952 році одним з перших у П'ємонті зробив ставку на створення вин окремих виноградників (таких cru, як Brunate, Rocche, Lazzarito); йому також належить заслуга у відкритті та популяризації сорту Арнейс, спеціалізованого білого області Роеро.
На початку 1990-х до компанії увійшов син, енолог Лукка Куррадо, який пройшов стажування в Каліфорнії (Opus One, Simi Winery) та Бордо (Ch. Mouton-Rotschild). Не легко, але йому вдалося переконати батька модернізувати деякі технологічні прийоми, завдяки яким Бароло під маркою Vietti набули тієї чистоти стилю і виразного терруарного характеру, за які їх цінують експерти і споживачі.
На окрему згадку заслуговують етикетки, які Альфреддо Куррадо став замовляти у знайомих художників ще у 1970-х роках; малюнки плодів, квітів, комах, птахів передають особливості конкретного вина, пов'язані з букетом, витримкою або стилем. Повна колекція етикеток Vietti виставлена у Музеї сучасного мистецтва у Нью-Йорку.
Альфредо Куррадо розповів, як виникла ідея: «Ідея народилася навколо пляшки Barolo Rocche. Якось зимового вечора в компанії друзів, серед яких були й художники, ми розпивали кілька пляшок бароло; але побачивши колір вина в келиху, вони були в захваті і сказали, що ці вина заслуговують на те, щоб їх ушляхетнювали іншим виглядом, ніж зазвичай: тобто вони заслужили етикетки художників. В ейфорії моменту ми склали список і наступного дня ця чудова ідея набула форми».
Альфредо також називають "батьком Арнеїса", тому що в 1967 році він присвятив багато часу на те, щоб дослідити і зрозуміти цей майже забутий сорт. Сьогодні з Арнеїса виробляється найвідоміше біле вино з регіону Роеро. Наразі цей сорт вирощується навіть на західному узбережжі Сполучених Штатів.
Лацкович-Кроата Іван (Lackovic Croata Ivan, 01 січня 1932 - 29 серпня 2004) - хорватський графік, художник. Представник наївного мистецтва. Основні техніки - естамп, акварель, гравюра, темпера, олія на склі. Автор картин на теми сільського життя, біблійних та міфологічних сюжетів, натюрмортів, деталізованих пейзажів, портретів, ілюстрацій до книг, абстрактних та фігуративних композицій з ліричними та сюрреалістичними мотивами. Брав участь у виставках із кінця 1950-х років. Персональні виставки – у Загребі (1964), Києві (1998), Копривниця (2014 – посмертна). Ініціатор експозицій сучасного українського мистецтва у Хорватії. Через товариство «Україна-Хорватія» передав колекцію своїх робіт Україні (1992).
This is Evolution Lake looking toward Mt Spencer on the John Muir Trail in Kings Canyon National Park. Mt Darwin (not shown) towers over the lake's east side. Hiding behind Mt Spencer is Mt Haeckel. Beyond the lake to the right, the headwaters of Evolution Creek begin below Muir Pass, then flow from Wanda Lake out of Evolution Basin into this lake. Evolution Creek continues from the outlet down through McClure Meadow on its way to Evolution Valley where it joins the South Fork of the San Joaquin River. Photo scanned from 35mm slide taken July 1987.
Our group approached the area via McClure Meadow from Florence Lake. After we fished McGee Lakes and I climbed the backside of The Hermit, I went beyond the group to see this lake. A backpacking couple is visible at lower left. Click the "evolutionvalley" tag for more photos from this trip, including The Hermit and McGee Lakes.
It is regrettable that Theodore Solomons in the mid 1890s named the features in this area for certain evolutionists he admired. Little did he know that in subsequent decades Spencer's doctrine of "survival of the fittest" and Darwin's Descent of Man would be popularized by Ernst Haeckel in Germany, contributing to German militarism. American and European scientists and intellectuals also embraced these doctrines, which contributed to decades of scientific racism and eugenics culminating in two world wars. Solomons lived to see that era before he died in 1947.
The names we are stuck with in this beautiful wilderness can be reminders that ideas have consequences.
Auto Italia is an annual showcase of Italian automotive design. Hundreds of exceptional cars, motorbikes and scooters gather each year nationwide, in celebration of Italian motoring history and the ongoing, cultural influence it has on the international landscape. If you own one of these beautiful pieces of art on wheels, are considering doing so, or just love to admire and talk about them, this is where you need to be.
The Lamborghini Countach (/ˈkuːntɑːʃ/) is a rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive sports car produced by the Italian automobile manufacturer Lamborghini from 1974 to 1990. It is one of the many exotic designs developed by Italian design house Bertone, which pioneered and popularized the sharply angled "Italian Wedge" shape. A second generation limited edition Countach, the Lamborghini Countach LPI 800-4 was launched in 2021. The style was introduced to the public in 1970 as the Lancia Stratos Zero concept car. The first showing of the Countach prototype was at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show, as the Lamborghini LP500 concept.
The first production cars used a 3.9-litre engine as durability issues with the new 5-litre engine could not be resolved in time. As equipped to the 1974 Countach LP400, the engine was rated at 276 kW (375 PS; 370 hp) at 8,000 rpm. The stated power output was less than that of the Miura SV, which was blamed on the use of side-draft Weber 45 DCOE carburetors instead of the down-draft carburetors used on the Miura. Later engine development eventually increased the engine displacement to 4,754 cc (4.8 L) in the 1982 LP500S, and then to 5,167 cc (5.2 L) with four valves per cylinder in the 1985 LP5000 Quattrovalvole. All variants of the Countach were equipped with six Weber carburetors until the arrival of the LP5000 QV model, some of which used Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection to meet US emissions regulations. European-specification cars continued to use carburetors until the arrival of the succeeding Diablo. S20N_630
Soixante-six stalles formant le chœur des chanoines: vingt-huit salles basses et trente-huit stalles hautes auxquelles on accède soit par les extrémités, soit par les coupées nord et sud. L'entrée principale, au fond, est surmontée par la chaire du jubé. Au-dessus des dossiers des stalles hautes court un baldaquin formé d'une succession d'arcs en plein cintre portant un entablement. Il est décoré d'une frise de motifs de style "grotesque" très prisé de la Renaissance. Au-dessus de l'entablement, une série de frontons triangulaires s'orne de cartouches, de têtes d'anges, de trophées, de feuillages stylisés.
Mais l'essentiel de la verve décorative des artistes semble s'être concentré tout spécialement dans la sculpture des parcloses - séparations - et des miséricordes - tablettes rajoutées, par miséricorde, au dos des stalles pour permettre au chanoines de se reposer. Ils ont mélangé dans la plus vive fantaisie les animaux fabuleux ou mythologiques, les êtres humains dans leurs formes les plus caricaturales, retrouvant, par-dessus la sculpture gothique, la meilleure veine créatrice de l'art roman réinterprétée en termes italianisants de la Renaissance. En effet, les artistes de Saint-Bertrand de Comminges semblent avoir puisé leur répertoire dans des sources d'inspiration très diverses, vulgarisées par la multiplication des gravures religieuses, bibliques, profanes, populaires, moralisatrices, historiques ou épiques et la redécouverte de l'art antique.
Sixty-six stalls forming the choir of the canons: twenty-eight lower rooms and thirty-eight upper stalls which are accessed either from the ends or from the north and south sections. The main entrance, at the back, is surmounted by the pulpit of the rood screen. Above the backs of the high stalls runs a baldachin formed by a succession of semicircular arches bearing an entablature. It is decorated with a frieze of "grotesque" style motifs that were very popular in the Renaissance. Above the entablature, a series of triangular pediments are adorned with cartouches, heads of angels, trophies and stylized foliage.
But most of the decorative verve of the artists seems to have been concentrated especially in the sculpture of the glazing beads - separations - and the misericords - tablets added, out of mercy, to the back of the stalls to allow the canons to rest. They mixed in the liveliest fantasy fabulous or mythological animals, human beings in their most caricatural forms, rediscovering, above Gothic sculpture, the best creative vein of Romanesque art reinterpreted in Italianate terms of the Renaissance. Indeed, the artists of Saint-Bertrand de Comminges seem to have drawn their repertoire from very diverse sources of inspiration, popularized by the proliferation of religious, biblical, secular, popular, moralizing, historical or epic engravings and the rediscovery of ancient art.
Quote by Carl Sagan.
Carl Edward Sagan ( was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science popularizer and science communicator in the space and natural sciences.
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“Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”
-Coco Chanel
The moment you say the word Chanel a picture comes to mind: of a square, stoppered perfume bottle, a little suit, a white camellia. Coco Chanel, credited with being the person who invented modern clothes, stamped her adamant, distinctive personality on everything she touched. Coco not only popularized the bob haircut and the tan, but introduced us to the now ubiquitous little black dress (1926), costume jewelery, which she cleverly mixed with real jewels, man-style dressing, and the first perfume to be marketed as a brand extension. In 1922 Chanel introduced a perfume, Chanel No. 5, which became and remained popular, and remains a profitable product of Chanel's company. The fragrance that bears her name was created in 1987, after her death and is still a popular fragrance today.
The very first LBD, was designed to be democratic; any woman could wear one. The original design shows a long-sleeved, slim-hipped dress, gathered low at the waist and reaching to just below the knee. Its only adornments are two pleated Vs dropping from the shoulders and rising from the hem, meeting in the middle to further create the illusion of slimness. You could step out in it today and no one would notice that you were wearing something designed more than 80 years ago. Her modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her arguably the most important figure in the history of 20th-century fashion. Her influence on haute couture was such that she was the only person in the field to be named on TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
DoodlewashNovember2025 prompts: Chestnuts, Cocoa, Sweater. A Chestnut with Chestnuts and Cocoa!
Did you know the ‘cardigan’ sweater was originally a vest-like garment made for soldiers to wear under their uniforms, and it was popularized by James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, best known for leading the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War?
Hand-drawn with Sharpie Permanent Pen & painted with Da Vinci Sketching Stuff watercolor on Hahnemühle Collection Cold Press.
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You have to be of a certain age to know who Gomer was, what show he was in and how much of his vernacular entered the hip folks of our society at that time.
One phrase he popularized was "surprise, surprise, surprise". A few mornings ago on a quiet country road this pheasant must have been day dreaming as he was in the ditch scratching around trying to make a living.
As my wife and I slowly approached in our vehicle, he must have heard us as he stuck his head up from a distance away of less than 10 yards.
I am not sure who was the most surprised but I had the advantage as I already had my camera hoisted outside of my car window and was able to get this shot off before he took off running like an obese hippo in a nightmare.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
O painel de azulejos de padrão camélia, datado de 1660-1680 e proveniente do Convento de Nossa Senhora da Esperança, em Lisboa, integra a coleção do Museu Nacional do Azulejo. Este padrão modular, catalogado por Santos Simões, apresenta motivos florais estilizados, com camélias ou peónias centrais, rodeadas por elementos vegetalistas e volutas. A paleta policromática, com predominância do azul, amarelo e verde sobre fundo branco, reflete a influência da porcelana chinesa e da cerâmica italiana renascentista, adaptada à tradição portuguesa. Este exemplar ilustra o papel estruturante da azulejaria na arquitetura do século XVII, nomeadamente em edifícios religiosos, e representa a produção azulejar lisboeta anterior à popularização do azul e branco, demonstrando a criatividade dos ceramistas portugueses na fusão de influências e na afirmação de uma identidade própria.
The camellia pattern tile panel, dating from 1660-1680 and from the Convent of Nossa Senhora da Esperança in Lisbon, is part of the National Tile Museum's collection. This modular pattern, catalogued by Santos Simões, features stylized floral motifs, with central camellias or peonies, surrounded by plant elements and volutes. The polychromatic palette, with a predominance of blue, yellow and green on a white background, reflects the influence of Chinese porcelain and Italian Renaissance ceramics, adapted to the Portuguese tradition. This example illustrates the structuring role of tiles in 17th century architecture, particularly in religious buildings, and represents Lisbon's tile production prior to the popularization of blue and white, demonstrating the creativity of Portuguese ceramists in fusing influences and asserting their own identity.
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For those of you who may not have caught the play on words suggested by the title........
Wikipedia:
A breadbox (chiefly American) or a bread bin (chiefly British)[1] is a container for storing bread and other baked goods to keep them fresh. They were a common household kitchen item until bread started being made commercially with food preservatives and wrapped in plastic. Breadboxes are still used, especially by people who bake bread at home. Newer ones are usually made of metal. In the past they were often made of wood or sometimes pottery (pottery breadboxes are also called bread crocks). Old breadboxes can be collectible antiques.
The lid or door to a breadbox is usually hinged, opening from the front or top, or a fully removable top. Most breadboxes are fairly tightly sealed when closed, helping to trap moisture and prevent their contents from drying out and going stale. They protect their contents from mice and other pests.
[edit] As a saying
The most common reference to breadboxes is the phrase "Is it bigger than a breadbox?" when trying to guess what some surprise object may be.[1] This question was popularized by Steve Allen on the American game show What's My Line? and remains a popular question in the parlor game 20 Questions. Breadboxes are most commonly big enough to fit one or two average size loaves of bread — about 12 inches wide by 6 inches high and deep (30 cm x 15 cm x 15 cm).
Porta Nuova is one of the main business districts of Milan, Italy in terms of economy, and part of the Zone 2 administrative division. Named after the well-preserved Neoclassic gate built in 1810 on this site, it is now one of Italy's most high-tech and international districts, containing the country's tallest skyscraper: the Unicredit Tower
Porta Nuova has a 2017 city GDP of €400 billion, which makes it Europe's richest district within any city. A concentration of companies are based in Porta Nuova, with 4% of all institutions and conglomerates found in Italy, while Milan has 40% of all these business, and Milan's Lombardy Region has 53% of it.
Industrialization is also profusely increasing within the district. A total of three Fortune 500 companies are located in it, namely AlfaRomeo, Pirelli and Techint, with a lot of other significant companies, including luxury fashion house Versace and italian football giants Internazionale. Geographical Porta Nuova was the main engine of the global invention of "polypropylene" by Giulio Natta, or in other terms, plastic, popularized by several companies within the city during the 1950s. Porta Nuova began manufacturing trams, buses, and trains, as part of Milan's public transport system which now gave Milan Europe's most advanced light rail system.
In 2019, Milan is in course to have several tax-free or flat tax services, as part of attracting domestic and international businesses which will be initiated in the area of Porta Nuova. It is also an integrated response to gain several European Union agencies from United Kingdom following Brexit and to prevent a possible economic fallout.
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The Chevrolet Bel Air was a full-size car produced by Chevrolet for the 1950–1975 model years. Initially, only the two-door hardtops in the Chevrolet model range were designated with the Bel Air name from 1950 to 1952.
With the 1953 model year, the Bel Air name was changed from a designation for a unique body shape to a premium level of trim applied across a number of body styles.
The Bel Air continued with various other trim level designations, and it went from a mid-level trim car to a budget fleet sedan when U.S. production ceased in 1975. Production continued in Canada, for its home market only, through the 1981 model year.
The Chevrolet Bel Air, especially its second generation design, has been considered an icon of the 1950s. Well-maintained and preserved examples are highly sought after by car collectors and enthusiasts.
The 1956 Bel Air received a face-lift with a more conventional full-width grille, pleasing those customers who didn't favor the Ferrari-inspired '55 front end. Two-tone bodyside treatments and front and rear wheel openings completed the "speedline" restyling. Single housings incorporated the taillight, stoplight, and backup light, and the left one held the gas filler - an idea popularized on Cadillacs.
Among the seven Bel Air models was a new Sport Sedan, a pillarless four-door hardtop that looked handsome with all the windows rolled down and allowed easy entry into the back seat. Production exceeded 103,000, compared to 128,000 two-door hardtops. Shapely two-door Nomad wagons topped the price chart at $2,608, but now carried the same interior and rear-wheel sheet metal as other Bel Airs, lacking the original's unique trim. Only 7,886 were built. The least costly Bel Air, at $2,025, was the two-door sedan. Seatbelts, shoulder harnesses, and a padded dashboard were available, and full-size cars could even get the hot Corvette 225-horsepower engine.
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The Botkin Trail in the Yalta Nature Reserve is one of the most famous hiking trails in the Crimean Mountains. Its length from Kirov Street to the top of Stavri-Kay aMount is 4.5 kilometers.
The Botkin Trail route was created in 1901 for tuberculosis patients. They could take wellness walks here, so it is also called the "Health Trail". In these places, the phytoncides of the coniferous forest are mixed with the sea breeze, which creates a positive effect for the treatment of lung diseases.
Professor Sergey Botkin was one of the most famous physicians in Russia in the second half of the 19th century. He received the title of academician and the position of physician of the royal family. Since 1870, he has been studying the climate of the Southern coast of Crimea and made a huge contribution to the popularization of recreation and the development of sanatoriums in the Crimea. He was the first to note the healing properties of the air on the Southern coast of Crimea for the treatment of lung diseases.
Боткинская тропа проложена по левому берегу реки Учан-Су. Начинаясь у Поляны сказок, она завершается у скалы Ставри-Кая. Правда, завершается условно, поскольку сразу переходит в Штангеевскую тропу, которая заканчивается у водопада Учан-Су. Нередко две тропы объединяют в один маршрут. Это логично, поскольку в противном случае от скалы Ставри-Кая придется возвращаться обратно по уже пройденному пути. Если же идти до водопада, получится круизный маршрут.
Тропу оборудовали в 1901-1902 году силами Крымско-Кавказского горного клуба. В то время активно действовало ее ялтинское отделение. Назвать решили в честь доктора Боткина. Он хоть и жил в Москве, но активно участвовал в исследовании роли Южного берега Крыма как курортологического направления. Получив звание академика, он стал лейб-медиком царской семьи и много времени проводил вместе с ней в Ливадийском дворце.
The South Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River is best known by the name popularized in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. View to the north from W. 35th Street, just west of S. Racine Avenue. The former Albert Pick Company warehouse - now the Bridgeport Art Center and other entities - is on the east bank.
This studio portrait, taken by the female photographer Berta Hallgren, in the early 20th century (ca 1910), is to me a bit enigmatic. There are two girls, dressed in rather fashionable outwear - not high fashion, might possibly even be home made, but with the times. And at the same time they are wearing shawls over their heads and the backdrop (painting) to set the mood is very rustic and seems to imply a country kitchen or something like that. Which is not very common. Shawls as headwear were very common in 19th century Sweden, but it fell increasingly out of fashion, being replaced by hats for everyone, not just high society, in the 20th century. Well, I can't actually say exactly when this shift occurred, but I can say it is very uncommon to see them in photographs - this is the only one I myself own. So of course I can't say why these young women chose this, but I will venture a guess and I base it on the place the photo is taken: Mora, Dalarna. At this time this area was world-renowned for two painters: Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn, who, though in rather different ways, depicted the world around them and popularized it - including in the rest of Sweden. This area of Sweden was (and still is) very proud of their folk costumes, which can include shawls looking like the ones in the photo.
I do believe they were aiming to be regional and modern in one, in a time when their part of Sweden were quite in vogue.
Seen in Paris, France.
This is a "natural" photograph. No editing, no color enhancing.
Wikipedia says:
"Notre Dame de Paris is a Gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west. It is the cathedral of Paris and the seat of the Archbishop of that city. Notre Dame de Paris is widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture. It was restored and saved from destruction by Viollet-le-Duc, one of France's most famous architects. The name Notre Dame means "Our Lady" in French. Notre Dame de Paris was one of the first Gothic cathedrals, and its construction spanned the Gothic period. Its sculptures and stained glass show the heavy influence of naturalism, giving them a more secular look that was lacking from earlier Romanesque architecture.
Notre Dame de Paris was among the first buildings in the world to use the flying buttress [arched exterior supports]. The building was not originally designed to include the flying buttresses around the choir and nave. After the construction began and the thinner walls (popularized in the Gothic style) grew ever higher, stress fractures began to occur as the walls pushed outward. In response, the cathedral's architects built supports around the outside walls, and later additions continued as such.
The cathedral suffered desecration during the radical phase of the French Revolution in the 1790s, when much of its religious imagery was damaged or destroyed. During the 19th century, an extensive restoration project was completed, returning the cathedral to its previous state."
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For the theme, "Reflection in a Knife," I thought it would be appropriate to have a reflection of a piece by M.C. Escher (1898-1972) in which his left hand (below) is drawing the sleeve of his right hand which is drawing the sleeve of the left hand!
This piece is named, "Drawing Hands" (Tekenen; Zeichnen; Dessiner). Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who brought 3 dimensional-like drawings to 2 dimensional surfaces.
He is famously known for popularizing an "impossible" triangle
(Penrose triangle) with 3 right angles, the principle of which he uses in some of his graphics.
Many of his graphics reflect an illusionary and impossible-like quality which begs the viewer to study them carefully and timelessly.
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For Smile on Saturday
Theme: Reflection in a Knife
Fremont Canyon lies south of Casper in Central Wyoming. It was carved by the North Platte River through Pre-Cambrian granitic rocks.
In 1842, Lieutenant John Charles Fremont explored the canyon during his first expedition to the American West. He was tasked with mapping the fur-trade route along the Platte, North Platte, and Sweetwater Rivers. With the guidance of mountain man Kit Carson, who was not yet famous at the time, Fremont's group crossed South Pass and ventured into the Oregon Territory, west of the Wind River Mountains, which lay beyond the then-US borders.
On their return journey, Fremont and a small group attempted to navigate Fremont Canyon in an inflatable boat while Carson led the rest of the party overland. On August 24, 1842, the boat struck a rock, capsized, and deflated, resulting in the loss of most of their supplies and equipment. Despite the setback, the entire group survived and reunited with Carson downstream. They all made it safely to Fort Laramie by August 31, 1842. Fremont would go on to lead more expeditions and eventually rise to the rank of general. Kit Carson's exploits would later be popularized in the dime novels of the era.
Today, this section of Fremont Canyon lies between the Pathfinder Dam, named after Fremont who is known as the "Pathfinder of the West", and the Alcova Reservoir, which submerges part of the canyon. The canyon walls here are over 200 feet high, and they reach up to 500 feet further downstream toward Alcova. The Pathfinder Dam was constructed between 1905 and 1909, while the Alcova Dam was completed in 1936. Between these two reservoirs, the North Platte River still flows through the canyon but its flowrate is controlled by the Pathfinder Dam. On this day, the river had a relatively low flow. The rapids did not "roar" as they did when Fremont attempted his passage through the canyon..
This photograph is a result of an experiment in low light photography. When I first looked at the photo, the colored 'blob' in the middle of the frame reminded me of ectoplasm.
Ectoplasm is a term first coined by 19th century spiritualists and was later popularized by the film 'Ghostbusters'. It is used to describe "spiritual energy" that has been "exteriorized" - that is, given visible or physical form.
To set the record straight, there is nothing supernatural about this blob - it was created by me walking in front of the camera while carrying a laptop. Nevertheless, it still makes a pretty picture and I hope you enjoy it.
Lorelei est le nom d’un rocher qui culmine à 132 mètres au-dessus du Rhin à proximité de Sankt Goarshausen en Allemagne. C’est l’endroit le plus étroit du fleuve entre la Suisse et la mer du Nord.
Lorelei est aussi le nom d’une nixe (nymphe de la mythologie germanique) qui attire les navigateurs du Rhin jusqu'à leur perdition par ses chants, comme les sirènes de la mythologie grecque ancienne.
Cette légende de la Lorelei sur son rocher a inspiré de nombreux artistes, dont le poète allemand Heinrich Heine qui écrivit en 1824 l’histoire Die Lore-Ley plus tard mise en musique et popularisée par le compositeur Friedrich Silcher. Le rocher de la Lorelei est maintenant un site touristique très fréquenté, tant pour la beauté des lieux que pour la légende qui l’entoure.
Lorelei is the name of a rock which rises to 132 meters above the Rhine near Sankt Goar, Germany. This is the narrowest point of the river between Switzerland and the North Sea.
Lorelei is also the name of a nymph (nymph Germanic mythology) that attracts sailors of the Rhine to their perdition by its songs, like the sirens of ancient Greek mythology.
This legend of the Lorelei on his rock inspired many artists, including the German poet Heinrich Heine, who wrote the story in 1824 Die Lore-Ley later set to music and popularized by the composer Friedrich Silcher. The Loreley rock is now a popular tourist site, both for the beauty of the places for the legend that surrounds it.
“We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.” ~ Carl Sagan.
Sunrise in Maranjab Desert, Isfahan Province, Iran
Maranjab desert, One of the ancient desert and a part of historic Silk Road located at the North of Aran and Bidgol town and also close to Kashan city in Isfahan province.
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The Maranjab Desert :
It is located by the city of Aran va Bidgol, one of the ancient desert cities of Isfahan province. It was once composed of two separate cities, Aran and Bidgol.
The Maranjab Desert is also close to Kashan. The city is surrounded by the desert on the north and east, and thus it has a typical climate of hot and dry in summer, cold and dry in winter, and very little rainfall during the year.
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Dr. Carl Edward Sagan ( November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996)
Astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy.
*for efforts Carl on the way access to the Red Planet.
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Great Director Ridley Scott - The Martian, 2015
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with the science-fiction horror film Alien (1979), his better-known works are the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner (1982), crime drama Thelma & Louise (1991), historical drama and Best Picture Oscar winner Gladiator (2000), war film Black Hawk Down (2001), crime thriller Hannibal (2001), biographical film American Gangster (2007), and science fiction films Prometheus (2012) and The Martian (2015).
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The Mars One Project
Mars One is a nonprofit organization based in the Netherlands that has proposed to land the first humans on Mars and establish a permanent human colony there by 2027. The private spaceflight project is led by Dutch entrepreneur "Bas Lansdorp", who announced the Mars One project in May 2012. The project's schedule, technical and financial feasibility, as well as ethics have been criticized by scientists, engineers and those in the aerospace industry.
Mars One's original concept included launching a robotic lander and orbiter as early as 2016 to be followed by a human crew of four in 2022. Organizers plan for the crew to be selected from applicants who paid an administrative fee, to become the first permanent residents of Mars with no plan of returning to Earth. Partial funding options include a proposed reality television program documenting the journey. In February 2015, the primary contractors on the first robotic mission had completed all studies paid for by Mars One.
The concept for Mars One began in 2011 with discussions between the two founders, Bas Lansdorp and Arno Wielders. The Mars One organization is the controlling stockholder of the for-profit Interplanetary Media Group.
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Mississauga City Hall, designed by Edward Jones and Michael Kirkland (in partnership as Jones & Kirkland), opened in 1987 as the civic centre for the new City of Mississauga, Ont, a merger of the towns of Mississauga, Port Credit and Streetsville.
Mississauga City Hall, designed by Edward Jones and Michael Kirkland (in partnership as Jones & Kirkland), opened in 1987 as the civic centre for the new City of Mississauga, Ont, a merger of the towns of Mississauga, Port Credit and Streetsville. Instantly acclaimed as a success for the postmodern movement in architecture, the 37 280-square-metre landmark garnered prizes at home and abroad, including a 1990 Governor General's Award of Merit.
Postmodern architects use modern construction techniques but rely on traditional architectural forms and decoration. At Mississauga City Hall, Jones & Kirkland achieved a deft combination of European urban civic design and rural Ontario building types, merging local traditions and the grand symbols of western architectural history. They planned a narrow, 10-metre-wide building to frame a civic square with gardens, amphitheatre and fountains. Inside, the Great Hall connects on one side to the Grand Stair that leads citizens up to city offices, and on the other to the cylindrical, wood-lined council chamber. The project was designed as a "building for two seasons": the Great Hall was to be used in winter for public gatherings, the square in summer. The interiors were finished in marble and granite, while the exteriors were covered in precast concrete (which was less expensive than stone). The design also acknowledged the suburban habits of the new city's inhabitants: the complex rests on a plinth 1.5 metres above street level, on top of a 1000-car parking garage.
Jones & Kirkland won the commission in a national architectural competition held in 1982. With 246 competitors, it was one of the most important architectural events in Canada since the 1958 international competition won by Viljo Revell for TORONTO CITY HALL. The competition received widespread attention from architects worldwide, partly due to the presence of innovative British architect James Stirling on the jury. In turn, the competition's high profile helped bolster the prestige of Canadian jury members, including George BAIRD, architect and professor at the University of Toronto, and Phyllis LAMBERT, founder of the CANADIAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE.
Mississauga City Hall can also be seen as a composition of geometric shapes laid out like models for a drawing study: cylinder (the council chamber), rectangular prism (office building), obelisk (clock tower) and pyramid (the glass roof of the Great Hall). Indeed, the drawings Jones & Kirkland prepared for the competition were widely published. They made a significant Canadian contribution to an international revival of architectural draughtsmanship. This trend, popularized by postmodern architects such as Michael Graves and Aldo Rossi, focused on the communication of architectural ideas through drawing rather than building.
The lush tapestries, glimmering metalwork, and contemplative warrior in this picture illustrate William Merritt Chase’s imagined view of daily life in the Middle East. To create this picture for a German patron, the American-born, Munich-trained Chase embraced Realist techniques popularized in Europe, as evidenced by his careful treatment of texture and light. Chase never traveled to the Middle East and instead fabricated the entire scene in the studio using a model and props.
This image and others nearby reveal a tendency in nineteenth-century Western art to project Eurocentric fictitious and exoticizing views onto Middle Eastern subject matter.
A good recipe for brightening a rainy and dreary day, this 1 inch (2.54 cm) wildflower is yet another European "escapee" now considered an invasive weed in much of its wide range.
Medicinally, one can theoretically use butter and egg plants for a laxative tea or to cure drowsiness. (It would seem the first property would serve to resolve the second rather quickly.)
Among many other common names popularized for this plant, I found that of "impudent lawyer" particularly interesting in that I thought the adjective in this case a bit redundant.
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If you want to move to Oxford, North Carolina and have money to play with, you can pick this one up for about $200,000. It has about 11 rooms, including a glass-enclosed porch. The house has apparently been bought.
Built in 1880, the Hundley-Cannady Home exhibits the features of Stick-style popularized by English architect Charles L. Eastlake. Sometimes this style is referred to as Eastlake. It’s characterized by the breaking up of wall surfaces with bands of wood (stickwork) dividing the building into planes for decorative effects. It’s been described as an architectural style between Gothic Revival and Queen Anne.
Clad in wood, the 2-story home rests on a brick foundation and has an ample attic. There is no tower, but two truncated areas with bay windows on 1st and 2nd stories are evident. The roof is steep pitched, accommodating the cross gables and the area above the bay windows. Under the prominent eaves are scroll-sawn brackets, breaking up an ornamental band of crosses in circles in groups of five. The windows throughout are 2 over 2 double-sash with a line of smaller panes at the top of each window. The widows in the gables show great variation, arched or curved, the panes divided ornamentally by large and small panes of different designs.
The surface of the house becomes a textured decorative element with a motif of circles on a band of wood bordered by bands of diagonal bands slanting to both right and left. At various places shingling is used on the walls. The porch is wraparound, characterized by the “gingerbread” effect of three-dimensional scrollwork. Abundant braces are used ornamentally on the porch; the millwork here is in spindles, turned posts, and balusters. It's part of the Oxford Historic District and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places April 28, 1988 with ID number 88000403.
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Glitter eyeshadow has had several phases of popularity over the years! It first became mainstream in the 1960s and 1970s with the rise of glam rock. Icons like David Bowie and Cher popularized glitter as part of their bold, otherworldly looks.
The 1980s disco era took glitter to new heights, with shimmering outfits and makeup becoming a must-have for party-goers.
Indeed this shrub does look to be sprouting already - not sure if that is a good or a bad sign !!
Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 01.01,2022 - Something New for the New Year .
Had a couple of ideas ( check first comment box for an alternative idea ) , and here is a shrub showing signs of new growth as we go into the new year - can't remember what the name of the plant is other than it has serrated leaves and cones of tiny white flowers .
Now having trawled back through old photos for three quarters of an hour and found a shot to put through " PlantNett " I think it might be a Spirea .
Another take on NEW is " NWOBHM "
British journalist Geoff Barton attended a concert on May 8, 1979 featuring Iron Maiden, Samson and Angel Witch at London’s Bandwagon Heavy Metal Soundhouse – a modest venue that hosted semi-weekly gatherings for a few hundred regulars to bang their heads together along to unsigned bands and assorted records spun by emcee and radio DJ Neal Kay.
Barton’s review of this particular show, which emerged in the next issue of weekly music paper Sounds, carried the first known printed reference to the - New Wave of British Heavy Metal - . The term is believed to have been coined by the magazine's editor Alan Lewis, but which Barton himself would take a lead role in popularizing – first via his ongoing coverage of the scene, and then as the founding editor of Kerrang! magazine, the '80s heavy-metal bible.
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So here is one of those NWOBHM groups with an Aldous Huxley themed tune ----
Man playing Ravanahatha in Mehrangarh, Jodhpur, India
The ravanahatha is an ancient musical instrument, popular in western part of India.
It is composed of a sound box made of either a gourd, a halved coconut shell or hollowed-out cylinder of wood, with a membrane of stretched goat or other hide connected to a neck of wood or bamboo, carrying between one and four or more peg-tuned strings of gut, hair or steel, strung over a bridge.
The bow is usually of horsehair; examples vary in length.
The ravanahatha is particularly popular among street musicians in Rajasthan, North India. In Rajasthan and Gujarat, it was the first musical instrument to be learned by princes. The Sangit tradition of Rajasthan further helped in popularizing ravanhatta among women.
Some sources claim that between the seventh and tenth centuries AD, Arab traders brought the ravanastron from India to the Near East, where it provided the basic model for the Arab rebab, and other early ancestors of the violin family.
4/12/11 NOTES FROM GM HIP-HOP SURVEY SESSION 3 of 3
(also included at bottom is session 1) [ To see the rest of this, if it gets cut off, go to hearingtheword2.posterous.com/41211-notes-from-hip-hop-su... ] HIP-hop session #3 of 3 (B. Santelli leading) : [he's reviewing some books as I arrive] ...Tricia rose, hop hop wars..I took her place at rutgers....another..written colloquial....book..new history of.."big payback"...also nelson George..fellow journalist..jersey,,opinionated, but well-written.I was a rollng stone writer..
'500 greatest albums"..not many hip hop..very white..mtv did a series on greatest hop hop..wanted to go over greatest emcees. 10) ll cool j, 9 eminem, 8) ice cube 7) big daddy kane 6) krx-1 5) nas 4) rakim (william griffin, aka ra) 3) notorious b.I.g, aka biggie, 2) tupac
1) jayzee [conversation]..rock roll hall fame..they put us rolling stone writers..together..sppsd to pick 500..sppsd to be fun, but..by wed we were @ eachothers throats..who's missing? No females. Lauren hill? ..[what about lil wayne?]
...& the albums? 10) pub enemy, nation of millions 9) tupac 8) 7) nwa 6)jayzee 5)run dmc raising hell 4) biggie, ready to die, 3). ..2)? 1)paid in full (eric b. & rakim [spare, stripped down..rhyming, flawless,..his fav, raising hell ..6 of 10 from gangsta rap era ..[has this guy abandoned anglos..has he caved? Or is he speaking to his primary audience ? Only a handful of whites in the room of maybe 50]...hip hop orig was new york centric..like 50's in memphis & orleans..but now things changing..begin. here in L.A. large af am pop in late 80's..lot of kids rapping , deejaying..public enemy (long island), ..why so amazing..first class..am bl roots of hip hop ..we mentioned gil scott herron..changing..g.master flash.. some dies..pub enemy brings it back.chuck d. Knows his ...pub enemy makes a political mess. ..from a white perspective..bob dylan...Fear of a black planet..nation of millions..huge..brought over to white...white intells..get more intrsted..then nwa and tupac..gangsta rap..west coast..using what pub enemy doing back east..more outrageous & angry than pub enemy..
...What we hear..chuck D....at rock of fame..had him come & lecture ..he said it was a refl of blues..language previously couched..in blues..now able to scream it..listen to tupac, ... in harlem..best pedigree..black panther..he was deep into it..early life a mess..what tupac ... shakur.this man had a..he was a 5 tool player....genuine anger..he was intelligent..bitter but intelligent..most important..listen to cadence of words..anyone can rhyme..but cadence.....Eminem..too many words..don't apprec his stuff as much..tupac best ever..right in middle..perfect storm..east west..1990's..mid 90's..bitter rivalry east v west ..ironic ...and tupac ...then ----- killed..neither murder solved..//Why a feud ? East jealous? Tupac..death row l.a..; bad boy east..so 2 diff schools forming..
Then puff daddy..sean combs (aka diddy, p diddy, puff daddy, p daddy) .west... tupac....2 "m words" .1) MEDIA..hip hop mags..source..vibe..'88 mtv raps ..2) MONEY ..early 90's..can make money..on radio...mtv..also white element..beastie boys..middle class white kids in suburbs..
...Bold personalities..incendiary..tupac murdered..later biggie (notorious B.I.G, Real name Christopher Wallace, aka biggie smalls) killed..media gets hold of it ..society says its out of control....when Biggie dies..album..double platinum..
Also the tree..acid jazz, socially conscious hip hop, funk jazz, trip hop, some from england ..england didn't embrace hip hop at first ....Arrested development..? Hip hop? Some music lost relevancy..blues, big band ..glenn miller..ragtime..some become "historical"..mid-90's..hip hop not dying, but branching out..moody blues..I hated it...but difference between hating versus respecting [I actually liked moody blues & saw them @ hollywood bowl]...Who else ? Outcasts, wootang, lords of underground, onyx,.[several others shouted out] .hip hop 90's taking over...Now beyond nyc & LA..master P...new orleans..tree exploding..geographic connections..diff sound..good businessman..he also played b-ball..also atlanta...in south, but northern sensib.,,,also houston..health..multi-billion $ business..mainstreaming of hip hop,,,gangsta rap dies out...invention, re-invention.....also, rise of detroit..eminem..major figure...brings detroit to forefront..making detroit hip..and then kid rock ..real..metal..fringe genres..coming together w/ hop hop..limp biscit, korn,...Today? Hip hop becoming irrelevant? ..making lots of money..stop changing..less experimentation..less bold, ..fashion from hip hop ...u know u become mainstream when grammy recognizes u..heresy for me to say but....Recording academy..being in biz..producer, writer, ....[Plays vid eminem & elton jon..given hip hop's homophobic culture..this was seminal] [ was it a seminal moment as the beginning of the END of hip-hop, as it lost its verve?] ..2006 nas comes out saying hip hop dead..didn't want to stay stuck in rut...had nas here....rock hall of fame brings in hip hop, grammy awards..world knows hip hop
...After we did whitehouse thing..state dept..calls..cultural diplomacy..obama revived it.. they asked me to organize hop hop to go to muslim countries.[hip hop to muslim countries as a form of diplomacy ?! Please explain how that would appease muslims or appeal to muslims who already think of America as godless] .as did armstrong & ellington 50 yrs ago ...I couldn't run it....Where is hop hop now ? Ring tone..commercialize..sound same..its on life support now..homogenized..mentions nicky menaj opening for britney spears in upcoming tour..360 degrees ..piracy..economy ....Country music still buys cd's ..loyalty..not download..not w/ hip hop....need audience with means to support act ..when economy of art form goes away..trouble ..younger gen doesn't feel the concept of spportin.."////BELOW are the NOTES from SESSION 1 of 3
(I missed session 2 )
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3/29/11 NOTES FROM HIP-HOP SURVEY COURSE (1 of 3) taught by Bob @ GM: "...learn more abt music forums....like hip hop..whats a middle age white guy teaching hip hop..I'm a musical historian...af am music my specialty..not hip hop.this class not like the elvis class.this is a survey course..3 periods as an overview..will have other courses..hip hop america's pop music now last quarter century..its a survey class..people who live this culture..if u want to add, embellish..can never learn too much..my expertise. Af am music..also reggae..after hip hop comes bob marley exhibit..a hip hop museum ready to launch..in bronx..I'm on board...maybe russel simmons on board..anybody see him here a few weeks ago....others coming chris blackwell, ..pbs special..kate..@ whitehouse..kate did this exhibit..don't need to agree..its interpretive..subjectivity..otherwise just read in book ..used to teach @ rutgers..this is not academia..try to do this in colloquial way..not preach to u..meant to be entertaining..some here b/c I asked u to come..I didn't come quickly to hip hop..even tho I was there in the early 70's...think of 20th century..america's century..come to age as superpower..after fall of comm ..also musically, no country can touch what we have given to the world musically in 20th century..separate bl & wh culture..look @ af am contribs..as to amt..# of new forms..brilliant artists..overall impact.entire world..not all clear cut..jazz black music form..but dig down.others contrib too ..but in general..louis armstrong et al..blues blues jazz, soul, funk, r & b, disco, hip hop, bee bop swing, cool, fusion,,of all these forms..all given due..endorsed exported..except hip hop until now...revol music..challenges..polit..most recent..hasn't gotten its due.celeb gospel blues...maybe too controversial to get credit..still...what made it so..give & take of african cult..also anglo irish..also racism..extra tension..in nutshell..bl & wh celbr..where r we now..first time..af ams bouncing ...haven't had major music..lately..last was grunge..late 80's, 90's..music slowed down ?ess imp..25% decrease in concert att...here to ..soul music..motown..also...and atlantic..golden age..also rock roll..then 1970's..chronolog..musically '63 to '73..that's the 60's music era..hip hop..not 60's ..bronx..how go from soul ..then..to funk...I don't know re hip hop in '73 ..have to wait 6 years..before recorded artifact..rappers delight ..sugar hill gang..why in this ? .69 71 motown losing lustre..stevie wonder..migrated..motown leaves detroit comes here..but not like it used to be..sly & family stone..loses sensib as..couple key bands & artists..2 huge..gil scott herron ..last poets..black..music...."when revol comes.."..gangsta rap..not on radio..last poets..many blacks didn't even know of this music..marvin gaye..more known..cnsdrd greatest of all times..70-73 ..clip.."far too many of u dying.."...[red hat]..also "sounds of philadelphia"..the oj's..signed in cleve but rcrded in phillie.."love train" ....revolution vs love..this is backdrop to bronx ..no q..rock surfaces memphis ..why hip hop fr bronx..music to be created & sustained..not just artist but audience..in bronx..it was like beirut or baghdad..suffered incredibly..ny in bad condition..bronx pushed aside..gangs ..drugs..south bronx..maybe mother cabrini projrcts chicago..maybe south l.a....become so isolated..create in a vacum w/o outside interference or ack..seattle..grunge..a seam..pearl jam, nirvana..already formed b/f world knew..a lot carribeans settled nyc ..jamaicans..brooklyn..1962 jamaica indep..many got out..s. bronx...late 60's..kid campbell..clive ..from jamaica..brings..reggae..sound systems..everything outdoors ..disc jockey....toast over dub plates..jamaicans come to usa with this..clive campbell..longs for jamaica..wonders what he's doing in bronx..sound system..he didn't know he was creating history...invit..come to dj cool hercs party set up jamaica style..earliest hip hop...rap..part of af am cult..verbal battles..here at herks party..af ams and jamaicans together..'73..sudden concept of spinning records..unique way, art form..74 75..another frm..also hispanic & gay..disco..gets no respect...but it was important..w/o disco no m. Jackson, no usher..in manhattan..records..disc spun..if white grate dead, almond bros,..underground movement, black hispanic gay..dance again..mixing..never leave dance floor..77 sat night fever..mst imp of all time..j. travolta..exported disco cult..drugs..all this happ.. bee gees..trammpps...burn baby burn..disco inferno..red & white outfits..early hip hop would borrow from.some day will do disco shoe exhibit....or rush..sex pistols.springsteen..u had to select what u would embrace....people dressed their music..
Then bob marley..new sensib..lively up yourself..all this happening..rappers delight..sugarhill gang....soul train on tv..imp for black..this was seminal..just happened to catch it on camera..not the best
Three main entities..curtis blow..then up to run dmc ..hip hop is developing a consc style.that will explode...grand wizard theatre..scratching..then grand master flash. Popularized it..then .barbada (?)..flash a seminal giant..
Dj & mc..back then dj..was the guy..age of mc in future..dancing why they're spinning records..bee boy bee girl..bboy break dancing..some of best break dancers were latino ..
Tagging..grafitti..becomes part..cey dams..tagging did a piece here ..been dodging cops for 3 decades...there's a f you mentality in bronx..didn't want to be part of discos..taggers..socs & psys studied.. I was in zurich..most expensive place in world..cab..graffitti wall..
[He periodically makes some of his prejudices obvious..re "conservative zurich"..wouldn't apprec it in des moines iowa.."no offense to des moines"..let's "rock n roll"..(it was a term for sexual icourse)..he's talking to white christians....jazz also fr black culture ..means sex icourse.."
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Every Sufi Dargah is incomplete without Qawwals and their quintessential Qawwali..be it Makhdoom Shah Baba at Mahim,or Khwajah Garib Nawaz at Ajmer or Nizamuddin Aulia in Delhi.
Qawwali is the staple diet of the devotees who come to pay their salutations to the Dargahs during the annual Urus..
No Urus is complete without Qawwali rendition in music and vocal praising the Holy Saint and his Holy Shrine.
And the qawwals get handsomely paid by the crowds , but more than money the Qawwals to seek the blessiings of the Holy Saint to achieve success in Bollywood or shows all over the world.
Indians and Pakistanis love Qawwalis..
Qawwali sourced from wikipedia.
Qawwali (Urdu/Persian: قوٌالی; Punjabi/Multani: ਖ਼ਵ੍ਵਾਲੀ, قوٌالی; Brajbhasha/Hindi: क़व्वाली) is a form of Sufi devotional music popular on the Indian subcontinent. It's a vibrant musical tradition that stretches back more than 700 years. Originally performed mainly at Sunni Sufi shrines throughout the subcontinent, it has also gained mainstream popularity. Qawwali music received international exposure through the work of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, largely due to several releases on the Real World label, followed by live appearances at WOMAD festivals. Often listeners, and even artists themselves, are transported to a state of wajad, a trance-like state where they feel at one with God, generally considered to be the height of spiritual ecstasy in Sufism. Although famous throughout the world, its economic and spiritual hub remains the Punjab province of Pakistan from where it gained entry into the mainstream commercial music industry and international fame.
[edit] Song content
The songs which constitute the qawwali repertoire are mostly in Urdu and Punjabi (almost equally divided between the two), although there are several songs in Persian, Brajbhasha and Siraiki.[1][2] There is also qawwali in some regional languages (e.g., Chhote Babu Qawwal sings in Bengali), but the regional language tradition is relatively obscure. Also, the sound of the regional language qawwali can be totally different from that of mainstream qawwali. This is certainly true of Chhote Babu Qawwal, whose sound is much closer to Baul music than to the qawwali of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, for example.
The poetry is implicitly understood to be spiritual in its meaning, even though the lyrics can sometimes sound wildly secular, or outright hedonistic. The central themes of qawwali are love, devotion and longing (of man for the Divine).
Qawwalis are classified by their content into several categories:
A hamd is a song in praise of Allah. Traditionally, a qawwali performance starts with a hamd.
A naat is a song in praise of the Prophet Muhammad. The opening hamd is traditionally followed by a naat.
A manqabat is a song in praise of either Imam Ali or one of the Sufi saints. Interestingly, manqabats in praise of Ali are sung at both Sunni and Shi'a gatherings. If one is sung, it will follow right after the naat. There is usually at least one manqabat in a traditional programme.
A marsiya is a lamentation over the death of much of Imam Husayn's family in the Battle of Karbala. Once again, this would typically be sung only at a Shi'a concert.
A ghazal is a song that sounds secular on the face of it. There are two extended metaphors that run through ghazals -- the joys of drinking and the agony of separation from the beloved. These songs feature exquisite poetry, and can certainly be taken at face value, and enjoyed at that level. In fact, in India and Pakistan, ghazal is also a separate, distinct musical genre in which many of the same songs are performed in a different musical style, and in a secular context. In the context of that genre, the songs are usually taken at face value, and no deeper meaning is necessarily implied. But in the context of qawwali, these songs of intoxication and yearning use secular metaphors to poignantly express the soul's longing for union with the Divine, and its joy in loving the Divine. In the songs of intoxication, "Wine" represents "knowledge of the Divine", the "Cupbearer" (saaqi) is God or a spiritual guide, the "Tavern" is the metaphorical place where the soul may (or may not) be fortunate enough to attain spiritual enlightenment. (The "Tavern" is emphatically not a conventional house of worship. Rather, it is taken to be the spiritual context within which the soul exists) Intoxication is attaining spiritual knowledge, or being filled with the joy of loving the Divine. In the songs of yearning, the soul, having been abandoned in this world by that cruel and cavalier lover, God, sings of the agony of separation, and the depth of its yearning for reunion.
A kafi is a song in Punjabi, which is in the unique style of poets such as Shah Hussain and Baba Bulleh Shah. Two of the more popular Kafis include Ni Main Jana Jogi De Naal and Mera Piya Ghar Aaya.
A munadjaat is a song where the singer displays his thanks to Allah through a variety of linguistic techniques. It is often sung in Persian, with Mawlana Jalāl-ad-Dīn Rumi credited as its inventor.
[edit] Composition of a qawwali party
A group of qawwali musicians, called a party, typically consists of eight or nine men — women are, for all intents and purposes, excluded from traditional Muslim music as respectable women are traditionally prohibited from singing in the presence of men, though these traditions are changing — including a lead singer, one or two side singers, one or two harmoniums (which may be played by lead singer, side singer or someone else), and percussion. If there is only one percussionist, he plays the tabla and dholak, usually the tabla with the left hand and the dholak with the right. Often there will be two percussionists, in which case one might play the tabla and the other the dholak. There is also a chorus of four or five men who repeat key verses, and who aid and abet percussion by hand-clapping.
The performers sit in two rows — the lead singer, side singers and harmonium players in the front row, and the chorus and percussionists in the back row.
Before the fairly recent introduction of the harmonium, qawwalis were usually accompanied by the sarangi. The sarangi had to be retuned between songs; the harmonium didn't, and was soon preferred.
[edit] Musical structure
Songs are usually between 15 to 30 minutes long. However, the longest commercially released qawwali runs slightly over 115 minutes (Hashr Ke Roz Yeh Poochhunga by Aziz Mian Qawwal). The qawwali maestro Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan has at least two songs that are more than 60 minutes long.
Qawwalis tend to begin gently and build steadily to a very high energy level in order to induce hypnotic states both among the musicians and within the audience. Songs are usually arranged as follows:
They start with an instrumental prelude where the main melody is played on the harmonium, accompanied by the tabla, and which may include improvised variations of the melody.
Then comes the alap, a long tonal improvised melody during which the singers intone different long notes, in the raag of the song to be played.
The lead singer begins to sing some preamble verses which are typically not part of the main song, although thematically related to it. These are sung unrhythmically, improvised following the raag, and accompanied only by the harmonium. After the lead singer sings a verse, one of the side singers will repeat the verse, perhaps with his own improvisation. A few or many verses will be sung in this way, leading into the main song.
As the main song begins, the tabla, dholak and clapping begin. All members join in the singing of the verses that constitute the refrain. Normally neither the lyrics of the main verses nor the melodies that go with them are improvised; in fact, these are often traditional songs sung by many groups, especially within the same lineage. As the song proceeds, the lead singer or one of the side singers may break out into an alap. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan also popularized the interjection of sargam singing at this point. The song usually builds in tempo and passion, with each singer trying to outdo the other in terms of vocal acrobatics. Some singers may do long periods of sargam improvisation, especially alternating improvisations with a student singer. The songs usually end suddenly.
The singing style of qawwali is different from Western singing styles in many ways. For example, in words beginning with an "m", Western singers are apt to stress the vowel following the "m" rather than the "m" itself, whereas in qawwali, the "m" will usually be held, producing a muted tone. Also in qawwali, there is no distinction between what is known as the chest voice and the neck voice (the different areas that sound will resonate in depending on the frequency sung). Rather, qawwals sing very loudly and forcefully, which allows them to extend their chest voice to much higher frequencies than those used in Western singing, even though this usually causes a more noisy or strained sound than would be acceptable in the West.
[edit] Singing Order in Chistiya
Instrumental: This is supposed to be the announcement of the arrival of Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti's, as Sufi believes their saints are free of time-space. Also that Nabi, Siddique, Shaheed, and Saleh category of faithfuls are never dead, just gone into some other state from where they visit whenever they are mentioned, especially if there is a function in their honor.
Hamd
Naat
Manqabat Ali
Manqabat Ghous: Praise of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jelani
Manqabat Khwaja: Praise of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti
Manqabat Shaikh: Praise of the Shaikh/Pir if it is his anniversary
Rang or Badhawa: If it is the death anniversary of the Pir, then it is usually Rang, a poem by Amir Khusro. If it is the Shaikh's birthday, it is usually the Badhawa.
[edit] Legendary Qawwals of the Past
Aziz Ahmed Warsi
Aziz Mian Qawwal
Badar Ali Khan (aka Badar Miandad)
Bahauddin Qutbuddin
Fateh Ali Khan Mubarik Ali Khan
Jafar Husain Khan Badauni
Muhammed Saeed Chishti
Munshi Raziuddin
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Sabri Brothers
[edit] Well-known Qawwals of Today
Abida Parveen
Amjad Sabri
Aziz Nazan
Bakshi Javed Salamat
Chhote Aziz Nazan
Faiz Ali Faiz
Fareed Ayaz
Ghulam Sabir Nizami and Ghulam Waris Nizami
Mehr Ali Sher Ali
Najmuddin Saifuddin
Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Sher Miandad Khan
Waheed and Naveed Chishti
The BSA Gold Star has a few nicknames, the most popular of which is "The Star". Additionally, due to its racing success at Daytona, particularly with the Daytona model, it's sometimes referred to as the "Daytona Star". These nicknames reflect the motorcycle's iconic status and its association with speed and racing heritage. It cherished by the "Cafe Bike" culture in England and the U.S, modified for Production road racing. It was further popularized in the U.S. by WERA (Western Eastern Roadracers' Association) in the 70s.