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Trick or Treat, the "Spirits " roamed free ; they're on the right side ...
I Believe In the Great Pumpkin,I started carving & went Culture hunting ...
I'm getting this Round - Help yourselves to the Spirits galore !
You don't have to watch me Carving the Great Pumpkin ...
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Acknowledging Festivities of Yesteryears
“At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.” Nicolas Flamel
Folklore is not just fun,I always delve into different layers of depth to learn how spiritual traditions and popular cultures have developed in Anthropology.
How interesting to know that Halloween originates from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain,which lasted for three days and nights and marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. Literally translated,Samhain means "Summer's End".
The Celts recognized only two seasons,summer and winter.
Many of the traditions of Halloween derive from Pagan and Druid customs.Samhain was known in Ireland as the "Lord of Darkness" and the Druid religion was practised by ancient Celtic tribes that populated Ireland and parts of Europe.
Samhain was a time of prophesies,of disguising oneself to avert evil,of performing rites of protection from the dead and Otherworldly spirits.The ancient Druid practice was to circle the tribal Samhain bonfire with the skulls of their ancestors,who would protect the tribe from demons.The veil between this world and the World of the Ancestors was drawn aside on these nights,and for those who were prepared,journeys could be made in safety to the 'other side'. The Druid rites, therefore, were concerned with making contact with the spirits of the departed, who were seen as sources of guidance and inspiration rather than as sources of dread.
Robert Burns - Halloween
Druid dance on Samhain
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKK6XUE2Khs
And,by carving the Pumpkin deeper and deeper,I discovered the Greek connection of Ancient Druids,who were ancient religious leaders, mystics, philosophers and tribal judges of the Celts in Britain, Ireland and Gaul (major part of modern day Western Europe).
There are a number of points that seem to connect Druids with the ancient Greek civilisation.They got their name from the Greek word for the oak tree,which is “driis” (in Greek ΔΡΥΣ).
Since time immemorial, the oak tree was a sacred tree for ancient Greeks.It was the sacred tree of the Greek Royal families of Macedonia.Many of the Macedonian crowns or wreaths found in Royal tombs in Greece depict oak branches and leafs. The oak tree was also the sacred tree of ancient Greek deities Gaia and Zeus.
Also, an oak tree,which was believed that had prophetic powers, stood by the ancient oracle of Dodoni.
Much of the information we have about Druids comes from roman times when the Romans were expanding their empire towards the west.From the Gaellic Wars, a book written in Roman times by Julius Caesar, we can find evidence that Druids used the Greek characters in their public and private transactions.
References to the Druids were also made by the Greek Stoic philosopher Poseidonius,who early in the first century B.C. began an ambitious and dangerous journey into the little-known lands of the Celts. A man of great intellectual curiosity and considerable daring, Posidonius travelled from the Greek island of Rhodes to Rome.From there Posidonius planned to investigate for himself the mysterious Celts.His journey would be one of the great adventures of the ancient world.
Posidonius journeyed deep into the heart of the Celtic lands in Gaul. There he discovered that the Celts were a sophisticated people who studied the stars, composed beautiful poetry, and venerated a priestly caste known as the Druids.They were a highly complex and intellectual group whose influence transcended religion and reached into the realms of secular power and politics.
Reliable sources :
Celtic Lore-keepers, including Druids -
Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 1988
The Celtic Ethnography of Posidonius
Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature
And sources of Other Worlds ...
Lebor Gabála Érenn - The Book of the Taking of Ireland -
It is an ancient Irish collection of poems and narratives, which refers to the Greek Partholon who reached Ireland after the big flood.He was an early invader who cleared forests and diverted rivers and he became a Law maker.He came from Macedonia or central Greece with his wife,his three sons and their wives and three Druids, Fios, Eólas, Fochmarc. The names of the three Druids mean :
Cognition, Knowledge and Inquiry.
What we don’t understand, we ascribe to myth ...
Myths always carry a core of truth ...
My Halloween Pumpkin was deeply carved,then I mashed the pulp and wrote my story ...
We are always learning, always discovering.We are a landscape of all we have seen ...
PS : Omit my long-winded,verbose commentary & enjoy Robert Burns' poem & the mystic Druid dance video
Rumoured to be the busiest intersection in the world (and definitely in Japan), Shibuya Crossing, is like a giant beating heart, sending people in all directions with every pulsing light change. Perhaps nowhere else says ‘Welcome to Tokyo’ better than this. Hundreds of people – and at peak times said to be over 1000 people – cross at a time, coming from all directions at once yet still managing to dodge each other with a practised, nonchalant agility.
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
Muay Thai, which translates to “Thai Boxing”, is the national sport of Thailand. It is a martial art with roots originating from military use dating back to around the 13th century during the time of the Sukhothai Kingdom. This was taken in Khao Lak where the sport is taught on the beach.
Muay Thai is known as the “Art of 8 limbs” because it makes use of 8 points of contact namely, punches, elbows, knees and kicks. This differs it from other stand-up combat sports such as boxing (2 points - fists) and karate (4 points - fists and feet).
Today, Muay Thai is practised and competed not only in Thailand, but also all around the world.
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This photo was taken during Gaura arati which widely practised by Bhakti yoga practitioners especially the devotees of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Who is Lord Krishna Himself.
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Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and, as of 2010, the world's most recent nation to become a republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India. With an area of 147,181 square kilometres (56,827 sq mi) and a population of approximately 30 million, Nepal is the world's 93rd largest country by land mass and the 41st most populous country. Kathmandu is the nation's capital and the country's largest metropolitan city.
Nepal is a country of highly diverse and rich geography, culture, and religions. The mountainous north has eight of the world's ten highest mountains, including the highest, Sagarmatha, known in English as Mount Everest. The fertile and humid south is heavily urbanized. It contains over 240 peaks more than 6,096 metres (20,000 ft) above sea level.
By some measures, Hinduism is practised by a larger majority of people in Nepal than in any other nation. Buddhism, though a minority faith in the country, is linked historically with Nepal as the birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, who as the Gautam Buddha gave birth to the Buddhist tradition.
A monarchy throughout most of its history, Nepal was ruled by the Shah dynasty of kings from 1768, when Prithvi Narayan Shah unified its many small kingdoms. In 2006, however, decade-long People's Revolution by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) along with several weeks of mass protests by all major political parties of Nepal culminated in a peace accord, and the ensuing elections for the constituent assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of the abdication of the last Nepali monarch Gyanendra Shah and the establishment of a federal democratic republic in May 28, 2008. The first President of Nepal, Ram Baran Yadav, was sworn in on 23 July 2008.
The word "Nepal" is believed by scholars to be derived from the word "Nepa:" which refers to the Newar Kingdom, the present day Kathmandu Valley. With Sanskritization, the Newar word Nepa became Nepal. The Newars of present day Nepal, refer to all the inhabitants of Kathmandu valley and its peripheries (called "Nepa:") before the advent of Shah dynasty.
Megalithic burial site at Siruthavur, Near Chennai
Was really excited as a history lover when I first came to know about these at a birding site I frequent. The lack of importance to something as ancient and significant is striking, with not even a board here, mentioning the place's significance.
This particular site has been dated to be between ~330 BCE - 619 CE. Separate graveyards like this, away from the houses, came about with the onset of the Iron age in South India.
These were primarily agrarian societies that settled near perennial water sources (The lake in the previous picture, in this case). Fertile arable lands were not wasted from encroachments by their graves and it was the unproductive foot-hills, rocky/gravelly lands that were used (as can be seen).
Different burial types were practised in different regions - including urn burials, pits with sarcophagus, dolmenoid cists (partly above the ground and party below) with unhewn stone/ dressed stone assemblage and with/without a stone circle etc. The one in the picture has a dolmenoid cist without a stone assemblage and is bound by a stone circle.
The grave goods collected from these burials include pottery, gold rings, beads, iron implements and food, as indicated by the presence of paddy husk and chaff, and some other cereals.
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
French postcard in the Entr'acte series by Éditions Asphodèle. Mâcon, no. 003/3. Photo: Collection: B. Courte; D.R. W.C. Fields at the set of My Little Chickadee (Edward F. Cline, 1940). Caption: W.C. Fields' humour is as much in his films as in everyday life! At the entrance to the studio where he is shooting his film, he has posted the following sign: "No admittance to this stage (with or without pass). This includes studio employees!"
W. C. Fields (1880-1946) was an American comedian, actor, juggler, and writer, who became known as an entertainer in vaudeville shows and on Broadway at the turn of the century. In the 1920s, he starred in numerous silent film comedies. Fields' comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a sympathetic character despite his supposed contempt for children and dogs. In the 1930s and 1940, he became one of Hollywood's best-known film comedians. Among his recognisable trademarks were his swollen nose, raspy drawl, and grandiloquent vocabulary.
W. C. Fields was born William Claude Dukenfield in the Philadelphia suburb of Darby, Pennsylvania, in 1880. He was the eldest of five children born to Cockney immigrant James Dukenfield and Philadelphia native Kate Felton. He went to school for four years, then quit to work with his father selling vegetables from a horse cart. At eleven, after many fights with his alcoholic father (who hit him on the head with a shovel), he ran away from home. For a while he lived in a hole in the ground, depending on stolen food and clothing. His first regular job was delivering ice. By age thirteen he was a skilled pool player and juggler and began working in vaudeville. At the age of 21, he travelled across North America and Europe with a juggling act. He gradually incorporated comedy into his act. He imagined faking failures and caught the objects with his feet or on the rebound, with leg movements that might themselves appear accidental to the spectator. The difficulty and mastery of his tricks led to unanimous critical acclaim for his juggling skills, which later earned him a place in the juggling hall of fame. The same was true of billiards, which he practised assiduously to the point of creating tricks, such as hitting the ball in such a way that it jumps backwards, high above the table, and then bounces off a part of his body before entering the pocket, with several variations. Deliberately dressed in ragged clothes, extravagant top hats that made him famous, and a fake black moustache (although he was blond), his original tricks brought him international success. At age twenty-three he opened at the Palace in London and played with Sarah Bernhardt at Buckingham Palace. He starred at the Folies-Bergere with young Charles Chaplin and Maurice Chevalier on the program. In 1906, he made his Broadway debut in the comedy 'The Ham Tree'.
In 1915, when he was thirty-five, W.C. Fields moved to New York and made his film debut in the 15-minute short silent film Pool Sharks (Edwin Middleton, 1915), produced by Gaumont. He also participated in the script. On stage, he introduced a few novelties into his cabaret act including a crazy golf game which was seen by impresario Florenz Ziegfeld who contracted him. Fields was a featured comedian in the Ziegfeld Follies from 1915 through 1921. He became a star in the Broadway musical comedy 'Poppy' (1923), about carnival life, in which he played a colourful small-time con man, snake-oil peddler Eustace McGargle. It led to a role in 'George White's Scandals'. His subsequent stage and film roles were often similar scoundrels or henpecked everyman characters. In 1925 D.W. Griffith made a film of 'Poppy, renamed Sally of the Sawdust (1925), starring Fields. He was a sensation in Hollywood and settled into a mansion near Burbank, California. He made several highly popular short films before focusing on features full-time. He made twelve silent films before his first talkie in The Golf Specialist (1930). When sound came W.C. Fields was out as casting agents didn't like his voice. It was only when Paramount was casting Million Dollar Legs (1931) and wanted all the comedians they could get that he got a part. His breakthrough as a film actor came in 1933 with International House directed by A. Edward Sutherland. In the same year, he played Humpty-Dumpty in the commercially unsuccessful Lewis Carroll adaptation Alice in Wonderland, in which numerous other film stars also appeared. On the other hand, the comedy It's a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod, 1934) was a great success. Fields plays a family man who is troubled by nagging wives, bratty Baby Leroy, noisy neighbors, and pesky strangers and seeks his fortune with an orange plantation in California. It contained his famous "sleeping on the back porch" stage sketch. Also in 1934, four more Fields films were released, including You're Telling Me! in which his character - an unsuccessful inventor - receives unexpected help from a princess. The unusual role names Fields bore in his comedies are noteworthy: Professor Eustance McGargle, Elmer Prettywillie, Augustus Q. Winterbottom, J. Effingham Bellweather, Rollo La Rue, Egbert Sousè ("accent grave over the e"), Harold Bissonette ("pronounced Bissonay"), Ambrose Wolfinger, Larson E. Whipsnade, Cuthbert J. Twillie or T. Frothingill Bellows. The names were chosen by himself.
W.C. Fields' most famous role was the good-natured but notoriously profligate Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield (George Cukor, 1935). David was played by Freddie Bartholomew, who was only ten years old. Fields admired the Charles Dickens book and wanted desperately to play Mr. Micawber in the film, so he agreed to forego his usual ad-libs and put aside his distaste at working with child actors. After the film's release, Fields received excellent reviews; the New York Times even saw Fields as a "spiritual descendant" of Mr. Micawber. David Copperfield was the only film in which he acted as the script dictated and he did not improvise spontaneously in front of the camera. In 1936, W.C. Fields was forced to temporarily stop working due to an illness exacerbated by his alcoholism. he even gave up alcohol during this convalescence. His contract expired and was not renewed. He then turned to the radio and appeared in mostly spontaneous dialogues on Charlie McCarthy's radio shows with Edgar Bergen. To his surprise, his trading insults with ventriloquist's dummy Charlie McCarthy made him famous again and in 1938, he returned to the big screen. In 1939 he switched to Universal where he made films written mainly by and for himself. He had two of his biggest film successes at Universal in 1940, one alongside Mae West in the frivolous comedy My little Chickadee (Edward F. Cline, 1940), the other in the title role in The Bank Dick (Edward F. Cline, 1940), one of his best-known films today. But his doctor's pleas for moderation did not help, and Fields persisted in his excessive consumption of alcohol, particularly gin. His last starring role was in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (Edward F. Cline, 1941). After long arguments with Universal, he secured almost complete artistic control over the film. The finished result enraged Universal Pictures and was a comedy full of surreal comedy and critical references to the Hollywood business. After that he largely retired from show business, taking only guest roles in a few feature films and occasional appearances on radio shows. In 1945, suffering from several illnesses (bouts of pneumonia, cirrhosis, etc.), he had to enter a sanatorium. He passed away in Pasadena in 1946. Ironically, W.C. Fields died on the holiday he always said he detested, Christmas Day. W.C. Fields was married in 1901 to Harriet Hughes, his partner in juggling performances at the time, and they had one child, William Jr. (1904). Although Hughes and Fields remained married until his death in 1946, they separated in 1908. He had another son with girlfriend Bessie Poole, named William Rexford Fields Morris (1917). His last mistress, Carlotta Monti, with whom he lived for 14 years, described some amusing and insightful anecdotes in the book 'W.C. Fields and Me'. He is interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA, in the Great Mausoleum, Holly Terrace entrance, Hall of Inspiration. He was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 7004 Hollywood Blvd. and for Radio at 6316 Hollywood Blvd.
Sources: Ed Stephan (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch, French, and English), and IMDb.
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This particular block of flats was erected during the late 1933 - early 1934 period for the owner of the land, Ernest Manchester. While the exact date of purchase was not evident on the Title Deed it is likely that Manchester originally purchased the land in circa 1912 - 1913.
The allotment was two roods in size with the dwelling, Werribal, being located on the elevated rear of the section, close to the boundary of Roche Avenue, which runs parallel with Jordan Terrace. The location of the residence allowed development of the front of the allotment. Evidence indicates that Manchester remained at Werribal after the flats were erected.
An application was submitted to Brisbane City Council in November 1933 for the erection of the flats at an estimated cost of £2,223/-/-. The contractor is given as G. Mitchell of Eagle Farm and the Architect as W. Shardlow.
Shardlow had his own practice at Kedron between 1931 - 1932. Prior to this he practised in Mackay and was employed by Cavanagh and Cavanagh in Brisbane from 1926 - 1931. From 1932 he was employed by the Commonwealth Government until retirement in 1957. Shardlow commenced practice during the depression and thus only accomplished a small number of residences before seeking the security of income the public service would provide. However, using the date of the application to the Brisbane City Council (1933), it appears Shardlow undertook the commission while in the employment of the public service. The commission of this flat block would have been impressive given the impact of the depression on building at this time.
Jordan Street is named after Robert Alfred Jordan, the manager of Hunter’s boot factory, who purchased land on the southern side of the street in 1876 and resided in the street during the 1880s. However, during the interwar period many of the inner city residential areas of Brisbane were subject to the introduction of flats, apartments, and house conversions to flats in order to meet the accommodation demand.
After Manchester’s death in 1951 the property passed onto Queensland Trustees Limited to administer. In 1961 Olsen & Bell purchased the property and in 1965 the flats and the house were issued separate titles.
Source: Brisbane City Council Heritage Register.
Museum École de Nancy, France
Entirely dedicated to the Nancy Art nouveau movement, this villa houses some of the most beautiful examples of work by Gallé, Majorelle, Vallin, etc., recreating the atmosphere of a residential home from 1900. the collection give a good idea of the diversity of techniques practised by Ecole de Nancy artists: furniture, glassware, stained glass, leatherwork, ceramics. The garden contains the plants favoured by the Ecole de Nancy artists and its pavillon.
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Apologies
First of all I would like to apologize to all of you that would perhaps appreciate a visit from me in their stream. It is not that I'm not interested in your images - far from it !
Time is a very scarce resource for me and at this moment in my life I feel tired most
of the time. Apart from Ella who is sometimes disturbing my sleep, I have more than the normal bad sleeping issue mainly due to the stress I get from the construction of our new home; to top it off I'm reading a book to learn myself new IT technologies and trying to absorb all these technical things while my memory is a mess due to the sleeping disorder, I still have to maintain several programs in older technologies as well. Part of the fun of IT is that you keep on learning, but sometimes this is a burden as well. I just don't get enough time to relax any more.
This troublesome situation is likely to last a few more months, perhaps even until the summer of 2010.
To make it up to you all, I have cleaned up some old tutorial text I have written a long time ago and I will present that to you down below.
About
A tutorial about photoshop layers, masks, selections and channels.
I get many questions about photoshop, I'm always trying to answer the question as good as I can, but I can't keep repeating myself and I thought it would be better to write out this little tutorial about what people ask most or what I think they would most benefit from - because many people don't ask the right questions because they just have no idea yet about the possibilities of photoshop.
This tutorial will perhaps look complicated at first, but I'm sure you'll get it if you just practise the things laid out before you, after all without practise you will never get there.
This tutorial is made for photoshop CS3, but most of it will apply to many other version of photoshop.
Read this tutorial from top to bottom, to be sure you don't miss anything and will can confused in the end.
Since flickr has changed it's way of working, you now need to click on 'View xx more comments' until you have reached the beginning of the tutorial ...
Goal
After you've read the tutorial AND practised a bit lot you'll be able to produce
better images and you'll understand better what I'm taking about in all my photo descriptions.
Me
I'm not pretending to be a photoshop guru, there are plenty of people that are far better than me, I'm just happy to share with you the things I know and perhaps get back something from :
You
If you have any tips on improving this tutorial, be it on the technical side or anything else, a typo or even a comma, feel free to mention this, I'm no native English speaker, I'm sure my English is good enough to understand but I will not be offended if you point out a mistake.
You can still ask me any questions about anything photoshop and I will try to answer them.
I would prefer it you ask your question here and not in a private mail, I will respond to your question here, so that the information is shared for everyone.
Music
We should take the future in our own hands, we are our own 'gods', only science can make us really immortal, we are nearly there: Spiral out !
"Stay with me
Let's just breathe
Practised on our sins
Never gonna let me win
Under everything
Just another human being
I don't want to hurt
There's so much in this world
To make me believe
Stay with me
All I see"
(20171028 272_pp_cr16_9)
Don't try this at home!
It has been going on for longer than you might think:--
In the Ebers Papyrus from ancient Egypt dating to 1550 BC, a section is devoted to eye diseases.
Celsus the Greek philosopher of the second century AD gave a detailed description of cataract surgery by the couching method.
Couching is the earliest documented form of cataract surgery. As a cataract is a clouding in the lens of the eye, couching is a technique whereby the lens is dislodged, thus removing the opacity. Although couching is nowadays routinely practised only in remote areas, it was a precursor to modern cataract surgery
Maybe DIY Orthopaedic surgery next.
When you are taking shots of the ceiling with the camera flat on the floor it is often difficult to know exactly what you are getting. In this case I managed to get the alignment, angle, and exposure spot-on without much effort. Compared with the effort six years ago when I managed to miss bits out all over the place. Must be getting well practised!
(Description from Tyneham website) Tyneham school was built in 1856. It wasn’t just the village children who were taught in Tyneham school. Children from the outlying farms and villages and also attended the school. They had to walk in, sometimes from great distances, so if the weather was bad, the attendance would be poor.
In those times, outbreaks of influenza as well as other infectious diseases kept many from attending school. During busy times on the farms attendance would also suffer. This was because many of the children had to help with the harvest and other work, such as hedging and ditching.
Children of all ages were educated at Tyneham school with children from 4 to 14 being taught in the same room. The younger children would sit on the stage behind the drawn curtain. They would practice their counting using beads on strings or drawing with blunt crayons. It was recorder that children as young as three would often wander in to join their elder siblings.
In those times, schools in England were very strict and Tyneham school was no different. There was a very strict regime under Mrs. Pritchard, who was the head teacher from 1921 to 1928. There was no talking, and knuckles were rapped when the pen was held incorrectly for handwriting. Joined-up writing was practised from the start, with careful attention to spacing of letters. Like in all schools at that time, the Union Flag was saluted on entering school in the mornings.
Although Tyneham shcool was originally designed to able to house up to sixty children, it never reached its full attendance. When the Coastguard station at Worbarrow eventually closed in 1912, nearly half the pupils left.
The schools attendance remained low throughout the 1920s. In 1932, when the total number of students had fallen to only 9 children, Tyneham school was forced to close. The school was then used as the village hall. The remaining students were taken to Corfe castle school by bus.
Today, Tyneham school has been fully restored, both inside and out and gives a good idea of what school life would have been like for those attending.
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
Seen here a hammer mill powered by hydropower.
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Site description The site is a National Park covering 36,000 ha of the High Atlas, including the highest mountain in Morocco, Jbel Toubkal (4,167 m). Located only 60 km south of the town of Marrakech, the dramatic mountain scenery attracts thousands of visitors each year, many of whom climb Jbel Toubkal or trek elsewhere in the park. The mountain summits are often only slightly above the level of their surrounding high plateaus, which are separated by deep valleys. The park extends from 1,000 m upwards and therefore encompasses a range of vegetation-types, from forest to alpine meadow. Forest only covers 15% of the park, and consists mainly of the oldest Quercus rotundifolia stands in the High Atlas and Juniperus thurifera. Along the valleys, irrigated agriculture is practised and most of the park is used for extensive livestock-grazing.
More than 95 breeding species have been recorded, among them nine species of the Mediterranean North Africa biome. Thirteen raptors are recorded, among them Gypaetus barbatus, which definitely bred in the park until 1980. The Parc National de Toubkal is one of only two areas in Morocco where Apus caffer has been recorded breeding, and also holds several species with quite localized distributions in Africa, such as Rhodopechys sanguinea and Eremophila alpestris.
Conservation issues The National Park was created by 'Arrête viziriel' on 19 January 1942. Despite its protected status, the park has been facing growing pressures since the 1960s. Poaching has wiped out some species and overgrazing has destroyed or degraded much of the natural vegetation. Tourism has mushroomed and led to erosion of footpaths—on some days 30-40 tourists may be found together at one time on the summit of Jbel Toubkal, in spite of the long and arduous trek required to reach it. To counter these threats and safeguard wildlife, in the 1950s AEFCS created a reserve for Ammotragus lervia adjacent to the park, and in 1994 enclosed an area of 1,000 ha for the reintroduction of Gazella cuvieri. Both these measures have resulted in the protection of areas of forest habitat which are important for breeding birds. In 1994, a management plan for the park was drawn up under the auspices of AEFCS. Further conservation measures required include the training of local guides; the protection of nest-sites of the rarer bird species, particularly raptors; maintenance of trails to prevent erosion; and the establishment of grazing enclosures to protect endemic plant species.
This shot is from a time ago, but i couldn't figure out how to edit inside shots.
But now i have practised with it and i think it looks verry good!
Taken at 'The Pool', Melbourne, South Derbyshire.
Lovely bright morning so decided to visit here to get some better shots of the goosanders we saw last week.
Typical feeding technique in shallow water, practised by Divers (Loons) and occasionally some larger grebe species.
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
The stone chapel at Old Bishopsbourne (St Francis' Theological College) was erected in 1912, replacing an earlier timber building of exposed studs designed by diocesan architect Richard George Suter and constructed about 1870.
Archbishop Donaldson, arriving at Bishopsbourne in December 1904, recognised the need to replace the original chapel, which had fallen into disrepair.
In 1912 Donaldson commissioned diocesan architects Hall and Dods to design a chapel which would harmonise with the house and grounds. Robin Smith Dods produced the design, and the chapel was constructed under his supervision by builders Hall and Meyers. It was dedicated in 1912.
Dods practised in Brisbane from 1896 to 1916. With this chapel he displayed a mastery of materials and form, proving that simplicity of construction and design can be as powerful as more elaborate structures.
Since 1936 the chapel has been carefully maintained by generations of St Francis' Theological College students. A loft and restored pipe organ, which were donated from a neighbouring church, were installed at the western end of the chapel in 1971.
While Anglican schools in Queensland generally have a chapel, few would be as old as St Francis', and even less would be of local stone.
Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
Back to winter with a vengeance! Too cold to go out so I practised some focus work with a bunch of tulips & my 35mm lens which doesn`t come out very often.
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
Looking towards Folly Bridge which crosses the River Thames and Grandpont Island, in Oxford, Oxfordshire.
The Folly Bridge is Grade II Listed and was erected in 1825–27 of stone, to designs of architect, Ebenezer Perry, who practised in London. The bridge is in two parts separated by an island. The origin of the name is uncertain although it has been suggested that it originated about 1650 after a tenant of Bacon's study.
The bridge apparently stands at the site of the ford over which oxen could be driven across the Isis, the ancient name of the reach of the Thames between Folly Bridge and Iffley Lock. The first known stone bridge on the site was built by Robert d'Oilli in around 1085, but there was believed to be a wooden bridge in the time of Ethelred of Wessex. Remains of the Saxon structure may still be seen beneath the present bridge.
Until the late 17th century the bridge was known as South Bridge, and formed part of a long causeway known as Grandpont, which stretched along most of the line of Abingdon Road. In the 13th century, the alchemist Roger Bacon lived and worked at "Friar Bacon's Study" which stood across the north end of the bridge until 1779, when it was removed to widen the road.
A toll-booth gateway tower used to straddle the approach to the bridge, which was on the Abingdon to Banbury turnpike. The former bridge and "Bacon's Tower" were drawn by many artists, including the twelve-year-old Joseph Mallord William Turner.
There was also a weir underneath the bridge which had a flash lock and later a "pen" lock. At the beginning of the 19th century this and the poor state of the bridge itself constituted a problem to navigation. Surveys discovered that the foundations were in a very bad state and in 1815 an Act of Parliament was obtained to rebuild the bridge and remove the "Tackle and Works" underneath. The new bridge works were begun in 1824 and completed in 1827. A pound lock was established nearby in about 1832, which was removed in 1884.
The toll house was rebuilt in 1844 and is now, along with the bridge, also Grade II listed; tolls on the bridge were abolished in 1850. A scheme for a public footbridge next to the bridge was designed by Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners but was not built.
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For WAH (of course) who are visiting the band of the same name in celebration.
Rafael had practised hard with his ninja skills and succeeded in taking down the giant human
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
A water wheel is a machine for converting the energy of free-flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill. A water wheel consists of a large wooden or metal wheel, with a number of blades or buckets arranged on the outside rim forming the driving surface. Most commonly, the wheel is mounted vertically on a horizontal axle, but the tub or Norse wheel is mounted horizontally on a vertical shaft. Vertical wheels can transmit power either through the axle or via a ring gear and typically drive belts or gears; horizontal wheels usually directly drive their load.
Water wheels were still in commercial use well into the 20th century, but they are no longer in common use. Prior uses of water wheels include milling flour in gristmills and grinding wood into pulp for papermaking, but other uses include hammering wrought iron, machining, ore crushing and pounding fiber for use in the manufacture of cloth.
Some water wheels are fed by water from a mill pond, which is formed when a flowing stream is dammed. A channel for the water flowing to or from a water wheel is called a mill race (also spelled millrace) or simply a "race", and is customarily divided into sections. The race bringing water from the mill pond to the water wheel is a headrace; the one carrying water after it has left the wheel is commonly referred to as a tailrace.
John Smeaton's scientific investigation of the water wheel led to significant increases in efficiency in the mid to late 18th century and supplying much needed power for the Industrial Revolution.
Water wheels began being displaced by the smaller, less expensive and more efficient turbine developed by Benoît Fourneyron, beginning with his first model in 1827.[3] Turbines are capable of handling high heads, or elevations, that exceed the capability of practical-sized waterwheels.
The main difficulty of water wheels is their dependence on flowing water, which limits where they can be located. Modern hydroelectric dams can be viewed as the descendants of the water wheel, as they too take advantage of the movement of water downhill.
Runkel is a town on the Lahn River in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
The town’s first documentary mention came in 1159 in an enfeoffment document in which a nobleman named Siegfried von Runkel had his name appear as a witness. It is believed that this Siegfried was the one who built Runkel Castle.
In 1191 Siegfried married a countess of Katzenelnbogen. This high noble family forced Dietrich of Runkel to open his castles Runkel and Dehrn. No later than 1230, the castle had a chapel, thereby giving Runkel its first church building. In 1288, after years of family disputes, the Lords of Runkel and those of Westerburg sundered into two lines. In 1440, building work began on the Lahn bridge, but owing to the rift between the Runkels and the Westerburgs, the work took until 1448. In 1447 Count Philipp of Katzenelnbogen was the liege lord.
In 1543, Count Johann IV of Wied had Philipp Melanchthon as a guest at Runkel Castle. In 1568, the Reformation was introduced. In 1622, there was yet another family rift when Count Hermann II at Wied drove his younger brother Philipp Ludwig out of the leadership and indeed from the castle. In 1634, the town and the castle were largely destroyed by Count Johann Ludwig Hektor von Isolani’s troops in the Thirty Years' War. In 1649, the castle’s dwelling buildings were newly built as a residential castle.
In the early 18th century, continued French invasions combined with a record cold winter led many people from the Palatinate, including Runkel an Lahn, to emigrate down the Rhine River, then to England in 1709. There were so many refugees from the German Palatine region that the English government set up a tent city for the winter outside the London walls. In 1710 ten English ships carried nearly 3,000 Germans to the colony of New York. The people worked off their passage in camps on the Hudson River. In 1723 and later they were finally allowed to acquire land in New York's Mohawk Valley, where they established towns such as German Flatts and Palatine Bridge, New York.
In 1791, Friedrich Ludwig, the last of the Wied-Runkel line, was made a prince. In 1796, fighting in Runkel’s streets broke out as troops of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt drove French revolutionary occupying soldiers out of town.
In 1806, the Runkel holdings on the Lahn’s right bank, and thereby the part of the town of Runkel lying there, passed to the Duchy of Berg. In 1824, the Wied-Runkel line died out with Prince Friedrich Ludwig’s death, putting the lordly domain, along with the town of Runkel, in Wied-Neuwied’s hands.
Winegrowing is known to have been practised in Runkel by 1270. In 1929, however, it was given up after the phylloxera infestation and a cold winter. In the end, the vinicultural area amounted to 35 hectares.
In 1860, the first savings and loan association (Sparkasse) in Runkel was founded under the name Vorschuss-Verein (“Credit Club”). Since 1914 there has been a central water supply in the town.
In the course of administrative reform in Hesse, the formerly autonomous communities of Steeden, Ennerich and Schadeck merged on 1 December 1970, as did likewise Arfurt, Eschenau, Hofen and Wirbelau on 31 December 1970, with the town of Runkel. The community of Dehrn was only amalgamated on 1 July 1974 by state law.
The outlying centre with the earliest documentary mention is Ennerich, which can prove its existence in 790.
This seemingly gravity defying shot is another taken during the recent #Nikon100 London #Nikonmeetups.
Having been selected as one of 100 photographers to take part in the Nikon Centenary celebrations the day involved five seperate themed shoots around different locations in London. All in all it was a superbly organised event and I captured a wide variety of shots, my favourite of which I'll upload over the new few days.
This shot is a black and white version of one of my favourites from the Action Photography workshop with Tom Miles ( www.tmphoto.co.uk/ ) and three parkour experts.
Click here to see my other shots from the days workshops : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157686756184653
From Wikipedia : "Parkour (French pronunciation: [paʁkuʁ]) is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. Practitioners aim to get from one point to another in a complex environment, without assistive equipment and in the fastest and most efficient way possible. Parkour includes running, climbing, swinging, vaulting, jumping, rolling, quadrupedal movement, and other movements as deemed most suitable for the situation. Parkour's development from military training gives it some aspects of a non-combative martial art.
Parkour is an activity that can be practised alone or with others and is usually—but not exclusively—carried out in urban spaces. Parkour involves seeing one's environment in a new way, and imagining the potential for navigating it by movement around, across, through, over and under its features.
Parkour was developed in France, primarily by Raymond Belle, and further by his son David and the latter's group of friends, the self-styled Yamakasi, during the late 1980s. The discipline was popularised in the late 1990s and 2000s through films, documentaries, and advertisements featuring the Yamakasi."
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The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
Seen here a hammer mill powered by hydropower.
Bagan, Mandalay Region, Burma (Myanmar)
Buddhism in Burma is predominantly of the Theravada tradition, practised by about 89% of the country's population. Burma is the most religious Buddhist country in terms of the proportion of monks in the population and proportion of income spent on religion. Many Burmese boys enter the monastery for a short time as a novice monk to embrace the legacy of the Buddha and become immersed in the teachings of the Buddha at least for a short time.
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Nikon D800E
Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G VR II
No filters
Handheld
Developed in LR4.3 and PS CS5
Ghoulia wanted to be a dancer and so she looked up to all the Senior Dances at her school, she practised all the time getting ready for her big showcase at the end of that year
Kolams are a symbol of auspiciousness. It is Hindu belief that that the geometrical patterns & designs applied with rice flour at the entrance to a home, invites Goddess lakshmi into the household, and drives away the evil spirits. It is mostly a South Indian tradition, practised widely in Tamilnadu. Kolams are also applied daily in the pooja room near the lamps. There are specific kolams attributed to the various deities.
The Hagen Open-air Museum (LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen – Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Handwerk und Technik; English: "LWL Open-air Museum Hagen – Westphalian State Museum for Craft and Technics") is a museum at Hagen in the southeastern Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded, together with the Detmold Open-air Museum, in 1960, and was first opened to the public in the early 1970s. The museum is run by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL, regional authority for Westphalia and Lippe within North Rhine-Westphalia). It lies in the Hagen neighbourhood of Selbecke south of Eilpe in the Mäckingerbach valley.
The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach. On its grounds stretching for about 42 ha, not only are urban and rural trades simply "displayed" along with their workshops and tools, but in more than twenty of the nearly sixty rebuilt workshops, they are still practised, and interested visitors can, sometimes by themselves, take part in the production.
As early as the 1920s, there were efforts by a group of engineers and historical preservationists to preserve technological monuments for posterity. The initiator, Wilhelm Claas, even suggested the Mäckingerbach valley as a good place for a museum to that end. The narrow valley was chosen, as wind, water and wood were the three most important location factors for industry in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1960, the Westphalian Open-Air Museum was founded, and thirteen years later, the gates opened to the public. Unlike most open-air museums, which show everyday life on the farm or in the country as it was in days gone by, the Hagen Open-Air Museum puts the history of these activities in Westphalia in the fore. From the late 18th century through the early years of the Industrial Revolution to the highly industrialized society emerging in the early 20th century, the visitor can experience the development of these trades and the industry in the region.
Crafts and trades demonstrated at the Westphalian Open-Air Museum include ropemaking, smithing, brewing, baking, tanning, printing, milling, papermaking, and much more. A favourite attraction is the triphammer workshop shown in the image above. Once the hammer is engaged, a craftsman goes to work noisily forging a scythe, passing it between the hammer and the anvil underneath in a process called peening.
The Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum is open from March or April until October.
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I've been tagged (It was bound to happen)
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So let's play that tag game, too many things you don't wanna know :
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1. I'm 41 years old.
2. I work for the Belgian national gas company as a computer programmer.
I've been programming for 18 years now, currently developing in C#.
3. I love cooking and people say I'm very good at it.
Love Italian and Thai cuisine the most.
My style of cooking could be describe as very spicey, not in the sense of hot but
with plenty of herbs, packed with flavour.
I never follow a recipe, only read it, put it away and just give it a personal twist.
I cook dinner almost every evening.
4. I have 2 vertebrae discs which are too flat giving me backpains every single day.
Some days are worse than others, I don't take painkillers for it (yet).
5. I'm addicted to music, love all kinds of music, but not all music, I think most commercial music is crap.
Some of the styles I love:
° psychedelic
° space rock
° rock
° psychedelic rock
° jazz ( the slow kind )
° blues ( the very rudimentary Mississipi Delta kind )
° Electronic.
° Classical music ( instrumental only ).
° Lounge
° Dub
° Industrial Metal (like Tool)
Most people don't understand my music choice, because they stick to one category only.
6. I love walking but sometimes my one of my knees blocks and I can barely walk.
The problem goes away by given the knee enough rest.
7. I used to be a very shy boy when I was young.
8. I've been wearing glasses since the age of 7.
9. I've practised shotokan karate for 8 years but had to stop because of 4, the problem
with the knee could be a consequence of this as well.
I had a brown belt and only needed to succeed in 2 more exams for a black belt.
10. I started drawing at the age of 17 and although I never had any art lessons was good
at it from the start.
I do some oilpainting as well.
I make cut outs in MDF.
I make logos for companies.
I have my own company and website for all my artistic stuff : www.erroba.be.
11. I was a good skier 27 years ago ;) Never did it since.
12. I bought my first digital camera in june 2007 just before my second marriage.
13. Started really serious taking snaps (no not Schnapps ) when I discovered HDR in december 2007.
14. Joined flickr on january the 22th 2008.
16. I've just sold my first two images.
It's about time ;)
I've just been published with 6 photos in our local 'Mechelen Infogids 2009-2010'
a local bi-annual info guide of Mechelen city which is freely distributed to all
homes in Mechelen and surrounding communities.
I hope this will boost my sales a bit ;)
17. I think 16 points is way too few to actually tell much about one self.
Sorry, I'll make it a bit more funny.
18. I regularly suffer from sinus infections, I had an operation to straigthen the
inside of my nose in order to get rid of the reoccuring problem, it only gave
me improvement for the first two years.
The post operation days were a bit traumatic :
° Felt like suffocating when falling as sleep : The body has the natural reflex of breathing through the nose, but that was all closed with bandages...
° Sometimes you'll have to sneeze, you get medicine to avoid this, but they don't seem to be 100% full prove, guess what happens next... I'll spare you the details, please !
° It's only good for one thing, you loose 5 kilos in 5 days ! Can't be healthy.
Everything taste the same : like nothing at all ! I have this theory
about people that will eat almost anything, they sure don't taste much ... ROFL.
° Fifth day the bandages come off, guess what happens, I'll spare you the details again, please !
° First time you wipe your nose when you're back home, guess what happens, a plastic support frame comes out of your nose and it looks way too big to fit back in ! Sorry for those details, so please don't ask me about the previous ones, LOL !
19. I have a sleeping disorder. Catch about 3 to 4 hours of sleep every night.
Guess what? I'm a bit weary from time to time.
Sometimes I catch some good sleep and wake up like a different person.
20. I'm a zombie in the morning due to 19 and despite of this I think my morning
photoshoots have been the most productive ones.
21. I love a good glass of wine or a single malt wishky.
Stopped drinking wine in the evening since it is most likely the cause of 19.
22. I don't care if you're white, black, yellow, red or blue, gay or lesbian,
religious or not (*)
(*) Everything is ok with me as long as you don't cause any harm,
which can be very debateable...
23. I like a good discussion which is based on descent sane arguments.
24. I'm over emotional and can shed a tear real quick.
Really troublesome sometimes.
25. I am way to honest ;)
Also see 41.
26. 19 is caused by my overactive brain, can't make it stop to think.
Giving me plenty of difficult tasks is the key, I'll have them done
in no time and I actually sleep at night.
Can only work under pressure, only photography and art I do in a very
relaxed way, hell I need more !-)
27. I am a day-dreamer.
28. I have a short attention span due to 27 and 26.
29. I have a permenant ear damage due to too loud music in concerts nowadays.
I always have custom made earplugs with me to ensure this will not get worse.
I have a constant peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep noise in my left ear which will never stop.
30. I am not afraid of what comes after my death, since I'm quite sure that will be nothing and at last I will no longer hear that peeeeeeeeeep noise again and have a good amount of 'sleep' ;)
Feels like heaven already !
31. I love absurd humor.
32. I love a good movie, a good book, Sci-fi and fantasy, art & science.
Don't watch much TV, only documentaries and an occasional exception, I rarther
process a photo, masturbate, spend some time on flickr.
° note 1 : Masturbation doesn't make you blind, my eyes improved after the age of 7
and no I wasn't masturbating before that age, ROFL and no I didn't start at 7
° note 2 : when the word 'flickr' is pronounced in Dutch is means gay guy, yes read it loud and clear: H-O-M-O-S-E-X-U-A-L so be aware dear flickr friends ( pun intended ) next time you give your business card to a man wearing a pink shirt, ROFL.
Note : I'm not gay.
° note to myself : You can not be that honest !
33. Who is reading this shit, should fave my shot, ROFL !
I want my number 1 (Cries like a baby ;) )
34.I can be sarcastic from time to time.
35. There are a few things I hate about myself : If I get real angry I can shout real hard,
sorry I can't help it. I can be very stubborn.
36. I have a very good visual memory but a lousy one in every other respect.
Due to this, I can't usual remember what I was angry about in the first place ;)
Memory is mainly built up during sleep, give me complex tasks and I get better while
doing them, because my memory gets better too.
I've written programs that write programs for me, because the complex tasks get boring too, so the next thing I'll do is invent hard stuff for myself. Remember that all
my tools speed up my work and I have plenty of time.
You can hire me ;)
37. I believe in Zeus, Apollo, Ra, Thor, Baäl, Allah, God, Vaneshu...
No seriously, I believe in one God less than you do, so I'm an Atheist.
I'm sure I've already lost a few contacts, comments and faves because of that,
some people have already blocked me because of this, I can only say one thing 'How religious of you !-)'
There I lost some more perhaps.
40. I think we still live in the middle ages.
In a civilized world there is no place for :
° War
° Poverty
° Racism
° Sexism
° Corruption
° Child abuse
° Animal abuse
° Borders
° Organized religions
° Royalty
° Insurrance which is over expensive (also see my next point).
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In a civilized world we would try to strive towards a single language.
All these things create groups, separation, friction, us and them, etc
People must play games and don't watch so much TV: it makes you sick.
41. Note for my insurrance : I'm a pathetical liar !
42. Is the answer to life and everything.
° For the people who read binary that's 101010, true false true false true false.
° For all other people, there are 10 people who can read binary :
Those who can and those who can't.
I'm 41 !
Go to 42.
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The above may be all untrue.
Dish of the day
Lamb chops with oven roasted apples with Marrocan herbs, lemon and honey, served with rösti.
If you wish to have a full recipe, only thing I need is a comment from you asking it ;)
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This is the original version of the image with which I made my Aquaphobia image.
I upload this now, since Lamot is interested in buying the shot, something is moving here...
The shot
Standard 3 exposure HDR [-2,0,+2EV] at f/14 using the Sigma 10-20mm lens, on a tripod.
Photoshop.
° A small rotation and a crop.
° Shadows and highlights.
° Changed the hue of the clouds - which looked over blue - by using a hue/saturation/value adjustment layer and the luminosity
mask as a base for this layers' mask.
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All comments, criticism and tips for improvements are ( as always ) welcome.
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Bocan Stone Circle - Heritage Trail, Must Sees, See & Do, Trail Guides
Directions: 2km from Culdaff in the direction of Moville. Take the first left past the Parochial House. Stands atop of a hill in a field beside the Parochial House at Bocan.
Description: Bocan Stone Circle when seen from afar appears insignificant, lost behind trees and dwarfed by more modern structures, but it is only when viewed right up close that its full glory comes to life. Situated on the hill of Bocan with magnificent views from Sliabh Sneacht to Trawbreaga Bay right to Glengad which are impressive especially if seen at sunrise or sunset. It is suggested that stone circles were original sun temples. Many of the stones (originally numbering 30 in all) were removed during indiscriminate land development so that one has to imagine partially the circular form. The remaining stones are up to 7ft tall and it is easy to imagine sacred rites being performed, and wonder as to what type of religion was being practised. What people built this structure for is unclear but dates of its construction have been suggested as between 1500 – 3000 BC.
www.birdlife.org/datazone/sites/index.html?action=SitHTMD...
Site description The site is a National Park covering 36,000 ha of the High Atlas, including the highest mountain in Morocco, Jbel Toubkal (4,167 m). Located only 60 km south of the town of Marrakech, the dramatic mountain scenery attracts thousands of visitors each year, many of whom climb Jbel Toubkal or trek elsewhere in the park. The mountain summits are often only slightly above the level of their surrounding high plateaus, which are separated by deep valleys. The park extends from 1,000 m upwards and therefore encompasses a range of vegetation-types, from forest to alpine meadow. Forest only covers 15% of the park, and consists mainly of the oldest Quercus rotundifolia stands in the High Atlas and Juniperus thurifera. Along the valleys, irrigated agriculture is practised and most of the park is used for extensive livestock-grazing.
More than 95 breeding species have been recorded, among them nine species of the Mediterranean North Africa biome. Thirteen raptors are recorded, among them Gypaetus barbatus, which definitely bred in the park until 1980. The Parc National de Toubkal is one of only two areas in Morocco where Apus caffer has been recorded breeding, and also holds several species with quite localized distributions in Africa, such as Rhodopechys sanguinea and Eremophila alpestris.
Conservation issues The National Park was created by 'Arrête viziriel' on 19 January 1942. Despite its protected status, the park has been facing growing pressures since the 1960s. Poaching has wiped out some species and overgrazing has destroyed or degraded much of the natural vegetation. Tourism has mushroomed and led to erosion of footpaths—on some days 30-40 tourists may be found together at one time on the summit of Jbel Toubkal, in spite of the long and arduous trek required to reach it. To counter these threats and safeguard wildlife, in the 1950s AEFCS created a reserve for Ammotragus lervia adjacent to the park, and in 1994 enclosed an area of 1,000 ha for the reintroduction of Gazella cuvieri. Both these measures have resulted in the protection of areas of forest habitat which are important for breeding birds. In 1994, a management plan for the park was drawn up under the auspices of AEFCS. Further conservation measures required include the training of local guides; the protection of nest-sites of the rarer bird species, particularly raptors; maintenance of trails to prevent erosion; and the establishment of grazing enclosures to protect endemic plant species.
www.birdlife.org/datazone/sites/index.html?action=SitHTMD...
Site description The site is a National Park covering 36,000 ha of the High Atlas, including the highest mountain in Morocco, Jbel Toubkal (4,167 m). Located only 60 km south of the town of Marrakech, the dramatic mountain scenery attracts thousands of visitors each year, many of whom climb Jbel Toubkal or trek elsewhere in the park. The mountain summits are often only slightly above the level of their surrounding high plateaus, which are separated by deep valleys. The park extends from 1,000 m upwards and therefore encompasses a range of vegetation-types, from forest to alpine meadow. Forest only covers 15% of the park, and consists mainly of the oldest Quercus rotundifolia stands in the High Atlas and Juniperus thurifera. Along the valleys, irrigated agriculture is practised and most of the park is used for extensive livestock-grazing.
More than 95 breeding species have been recorded, among them nine species of the Mediterranean North Africa biome. Thirteen raptors are recorded, among them Gypaetus barbatus, which definitely bred in the park until 1980. The Parc National de Toubkal is one of only two areas in Morocco where Apus caffer has been recorded breeding, and also holds several species with quite localized distributions in Africa, such as Rhodopechys sanguinea and Eremophila alpestris.
Conservation issues The National Park was created by 'Arrête viziriel' on 19 January 1942. Despite its protected status, the park has been facing growing pressures since the 1960s. Poaching has wiped out some species and overgrazing has destroyed or degraded much of the natural vegetation. Tourism has mushroomed and led to erosion of footpaths—on some days 30-40 tourists may be found together at one time on the summit of Jbel Toubkal, in spite of the long and arduous trek required to reach it. To counter these threats and safeguard wildlife, in the 1950s AEFCS created a reserve for Ammotragus lervia adjacent to the park, and in 1994 enclosed an area of 1,000 ha for the reintroduction of Gazella cuvieri. Both these measures have resulted in the protection of areas of forest habitat which are important for breeding birds. In 1994, a management plan for the park was drawn up under the auspices of AEFCS. Further conservation measures required include the training of local guides; the protection of nest-sites of the rarer bird species, particularly raptors; maintenance of trails to prevent erosion; and the establishment of grazing enclosures to protect endemic plant species.
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Hintertux is one of the most popular summer skiing regions in Austria it lies furthest up the valley at the foot of the Hintertux Glacier, and is surrounded by mountains and glaciers. At the Tuxer Ferner glacier is an all-season skiing area with a large number of lifts. The place is the base for many walks and high Alpine tours. The Hintertux Glacier Ski Region belongs to the Zillertal 3000 meter ski region and is a popular with skiers in summer as well as winter. The Tuxer valley was first mentioned in the records in 1280. The Tuxer valley was discovered in prehistoric times as evinced by various finds from the middle Stone Age. Shepherds and miners also settled the valley, migrating over the Tuxer Joch from the Schmirn valley and cultivating it by clearing forests. The meadows and alpine pastures in the Tux valley continue to be cultivated even today, albeit most farms only provide a secondary source of income.
Tux is accessible from Mayrhofen by road. From Mayrhofen station on the Ziller Valley Railway there is a bus service. Within the Tux valley there is a free bus service. Yes there is some lovely views and walks from the first stage of the Hintertux cable car. It is above the tree line in the mountains and is used for summer pasture. Seasonal migration to high pastures is still practised in Austria. Cattle are taken care of by local farmer families who move to higher places. Austria has over 12 000 sites where 70 000 farmers take care of about 500 000 cattle.
Hintertux is een plaatsje in de Oostenrijkse deelstaat Tirol. De kabelbanen van de Hintertuxer Gletscher beginnen helemaal zuidelijk van het dorpje. Deze voeren van 1500 meter, naar een maximale hoogte van 3250 meter. Het skigebied op de Hintertuxer Gletscher gaat 365 dagen per jaar door, omdat er het gehele jaar kan worden geskiëd op de Hintertuxer Gletscher. De Tuxer Joch kan per kabelbaan worden bereikt. Het speciale aan deze berg is dat er hier een aantal opgravingen zijn gedaan. Deze opgravingen gaan terug tot de bronstijd. Dit toont aan dat het Zillertal al heel lang als bergpas werd gebruikt. De boeren zorgen in de zomer nog steeds voor verplaatsing van vee naar hoger gelegen weiden en lager gelegen dalen in de winter. De boeren wonen in principe permanent in dalen, in vaste huizen. Alleen de kudden en hun directe verzorgers verplaatsen zich. Oostenrijk heeft meer dan 12 000 boerderijen waar 70 000 landbouwers zorg dragen voor ongeveer 500 000 runderen.
Runkel is a town on the Lahn River in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany.
The town’s first documentary mention came in 1159 in an enfeoffment document in which a nobleman named Siegfried von Runkel had his name appear as a witness. It is believed that this Siegfried was the one who built Runkel Castle.
In 1191 Siegfried married a countess of Katzenelnbogen. This high noble family forced Dietrich of Runkel to open his castles Runkel and Dehrn. No later than 1230, the castle had a chapel, thereby giving Runkel its first church building. In 1288, after years of family disputes, the Lords of Runkel and those of Westerburg sundered into two lines. In 1440, building work began on the Lahn bridge, but owing to the rift between the Runkels and the Westerburgs, the work took until 1448. In 1447 Count Philipp of Katzenelnbogen was the liege lord.
In 1543, Count Johann IV of Wied had Philipp Melanchthon as a guest at Runkel Castle. In 1568, the Reformation was introduced. In 1622, there was yet another family rift when Count Hermann II at Wied drove his younger brother Philipp Ludwig out of the leadership and indeed from the castle. In 1634, the town and the castle were largely destroyed by Count Johann Ludwig Hektor von Isolani’s troops in the Thirty Years' War. In 1649, the castle’s dwelling buildings were newly built as a residential castle.
In the early 18th century, continued French invasions combined with a record cold winter led many people from the Palatinate, including Runkel an Lahn, to emigrate down the Rhine River, then to England in 1709. There were so many refugees from the German Palatine region that the English government set up a tent city for the winter outside the London walls. In 1710 ten English ships carried nearly 3,000 Germans to the colony of New York. The people worked off their passage in camps on the Hudson River. In 1723 and later they were finally allowed to acquire land in New York's Mohawk Valley, where they established towns such as German Flatts and Palatine Bridge, New York.
In 1791, Friedrich Ludwig, the last of the Wied-Runkel line, was made a prince. In 1796, fighting in Runkel’s streets broke out as troops of the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt drove French revolutionary occupying soldiers out of town.
In 1806, the Runkel holdings on the Lahn’s right bank, and thereby the part of the town of Runkel lying there, passed to the Duchy of Berg. In 1824, the Wied-Runkel line died out with Prince Friedrich Ludwig’s death, putting the lordly domain, along with the town of Runkel, in Wied-Neuwied’s hands.
Winegrowing is known to have been practised in Runkel by 1270. In 1929, however, it was given up after the phylloxera infestation and a cold winter. In the end, the vinicultural area amounted to 35 hectares.
In 1860, the first savings and loan association (Sparkasse) in Runkel was founded under the name Vorschuss-Verein (“Credit Club”). Since 1914 there has been a central water supply in the town.
In the course of administrative reform in Hesse, the formerly autonomous communities of Steeden, Ennerich and Schadeck merged on 1 December 1970, as did likewise Arfurt, Eschenau, Hofen and Wirbelau on 31 December 1970, with the town of Runkel. The community of Dehrn was only amalgamated on 1 July 1974 by state law.
The outlying centre with the earliest documentary mention is Ennerich, which can prove its existence in 790.
Like many other castles, there is also a legend about Runkel Castle.
One of the knights of Charlemagne is said to have decided to build a castle on the rock ridge in 778. Now, of course, a name had to come up. So he named it after the area of Roncesvalles (Roncevaux) in the Pyrenees, in memory of the struggle against the Moors that took place there. The name Ronkeval later became Runkel. Therefore, the name has nothing to do with the (ger. Runkel) turnip.
another one from the Kushti wrestling ground in Varanasi, a wrestler training with large clubs. This ancient Indian style of wrestling called Kushti or Pehlwani is practised in a ring or gym called Akhada, here Tulsi Akhada in Varanasi old town.
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A indian classical dance performed by Kavya. Baratham has to be practised very well it was dedicated to Lord Nataraja.
Winkworth Arboretum exhibits large collections of azalea, rhododendron, and holly on slopes leading down to landscaped garden lakes. Gertrude Jekyll explored the woods in the early 20th century. The exotic trees were planted from 1938 by Wilfrid Fox.
Wilfrid Fox (1875–May 22, 1962[1]) was a dermatologist in the United Kingdom.[2] He practised at St George's Hospital, London.
He became passionately interested in the environment.[citation needed] He founded the Roads Beautifying Association in 1928. wikipedia
He lived at Winkworth Farm, Busbridge, Surrey. In 1937, he acquired part of the adjoining Thorncombe Estate, and proceeded to create an arboretum.[citation needed]
In 1948, he was awarded the highest honour of the Royal Horticultural Society, the Victoria Medal of Honour. He gave part of the arboretum to the National Trust in 1952, and the trust later acquired more of the land. This is now open to the public as Winkworth Arboretum.[
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Table des Marchands
Table des Marchands.
The Table des Marchands is a large dolmen containing a number of decorations. The main capstone of the chamber includes a large carving on its underside depicting an axe, and part of a carved depiction of a plough, apparently pulled by oxen. This fragment indicates that the capstone was originally part of the broken menhir, since the design matches up with carvings on the broken remains across the breaks. Other parts were used in the tumulus and in the nearby dolmen of Gavrinis, on a nearby island. The stone at the back of the chamber contained an engraved stele with whorls and arched decorations which may represent fields of crops.
The dolmen was fully exposed and above ground until it was excavated and rebuilt inside a cairn in 1993, reconstructing its original appearance and protecting its contents.
TABLE DES MARCHANDS
Major site of the Armorican Neolithic gathering three monuments.
Three iconic megalithic monuments dated between 4700 and 3800 BC stand at the entrance of the Gulf of Morbihan. The Grand Menhir Brisé (Great Broken Menhir), an enormous 280 tonnes block that stood 20,60 metres tall is the biggest stele known in Europe. With the Er Grah Tumulus and the Table des Marchand Dolmen, they are exceptional accounts of the funerary rites in Brittany during the Neolithic period.
The Grand Menhir Brisé is the tallest standing stone erected by men in those days. The Table des Marchand Dolmen is one of the gallery graves and houses two stunning engraved slabs. The Er Grah Tumulus belongs to the category of individual closed burial chambers. A visit to the Megalith site will initiate you to the megalithic civilization and architecture whilst enjoying its exceptional location overlooking the Gulf of Morbihan.
This Neolithic site features three large megaliths which have become symbols of Brittany: the Grand Menhir brisé, the Dolmen de la Table des Marchands and the Tumulus d’Er Grah de Locmariaquer, dating back to between 4700 and 3800 BC. The Grand Menhir Brisé is a huge, broken granite block and is the largest known stele in Europe. The Tumulus d’Er-Grah and the Dolmen de la Table des Marchands provide an exceptional insight into the ancient funeral rites practised in Brittany at the time. A gallery leads to the underground burial chamber and some of the walls have been engraved with hieroglyphics. The tour is an ideal introduction to the architecture and civilisation of the megalithic
age, in a stunning natural environment with superb views of the Golfe du Morbihan.
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