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Another profitable session at Ian Howells' hide in South Wales. Not just the Sparrowhawk but also this Buzzard, that came very close!
WHY ARE YOU TEARING DOWN YOUR BEAUTIFUL HOME?
Because it is profitable.
I can do what I wish with what is mine.
AND WHY ARE YOU TEARING DOWN THE PLANET AS WELL?
Because it is profitable.
I can do what I wish with what is mine.
By Haveit Neox
Nature awaits him with her infinite variety; the discovery of distant lands, or opportunities no less Important or desired for, which may be just around the corner. Enjoyable walks await him, stimulating journeys; the priceless satisfaction whatever may be the outcomes of his photography, of a day well spent.
Camillo Semenzato
HSS! Justice Matters!
coreopsis,' UpTick Red', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
WHY ARE YOU TEARING DOWN / Artist : HaveitNeox
WHY ARE YOU TEARING DOWN YOUR BEAUTIFUL HOME?
Because it is profitable.
I can do what I wish with what is mine.
AND WHY ARE YOU TEARING DOWN THE PLANET AS WELL?
Because it is profitable.
I can do what I wish with what is mine.
By Haveit Neox
The profitable building in Ruse is an architectural masterpiece built on the project of a distinguished Viennese architect. It is located in the town of Ruse and was built in the period 1898-1902 in neoclassic style. Today the building is a cultural monument and a symbol of Ruse. The purpose of the building is to be a center for cultural events, theater productions, cocktails, conferences, exhibitions and other artistic performances. For the convenience of visitors and guests, there are four halls and five elegant lounges.
Should we stay or should we go?
Elephant numbers have dropped by 62% over the last decade, and they could be mostly extinct by the end of the next decade. An estimated 100 African elephants are killed each day by poachers seeking ivory, meat and body parts, leaving only 400,000 remaining.
An insatiable lust for ivory products in the Asian market makes the illegal ivory trade extremely profitable, and has led to the slaughter of tens of thousands of African elephants. Between 2010 and 2014, the price of ivory in China tripled, driving illicit poaching through the roof. If the elephants are to survive, the demand for ivory must be stopped .
As of 2011, the world is losing more elephants than the population can reproduce, threatening the future of African elephants across the continent. Bull elephants with big tusks are the main targets and their numbers have been diminished to less than half of the females. Female African elephants have tusks and are also killed, which has a terrible effect on the stability of elephant societies, leaving an increasing number of orphaned baby elephants.
There are still more African elephants being killed for ivory than are being born . . . elephant populations continue to decline. (worldelephantday.org)
Not a happy day with these statistics ... but have a HBW anyway!
African Elephant / Afrikanischer Elefant (Loxodonta africana)
Zambezi river, Lower Zambezi N.P., Zambia
about the extent of their differences. It is more profitable to think of points of agreement :-)
John Henry Joshua Ellison, c.1907
HBW!!
japanese camellia, 'Rosea Supreme', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
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Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Rotterdam Zuid, Kop van Zuid, J.P. Bakemakade, Binnenhaven, Vessels (slightly cropped from all sides)
The Binnenhaven was very modern for the time, equipped as it was with steam and hydraulic cranes and coal tips. It was realized by the Rotterdamsche Handelsvereeniging (RHV Lodewijk Pincoffs). At the time, the ports (including the Entrepothaven) were avoided by ships if possible because of the quay dues levied by the RHV (which did not occur in the Dutch ports at the time) and the difficult manoeuvring in and out of the harbour. In 1892, the profitable operation was no longer possible and it was taken over by the municipality of Rotterdam.
Adjacent to the harbour was the infamous Loods (Hall) 24. Nowadays the harbour is partly filled in and used as a berth for yachts and houseboats.
This is number 307 from the Rotterdam Harbour and industry album.
WHY ARE YOU TEARING DOWN YOUR BEAUTIFUL HOME?
Because it is profitable.
I can do what I wish with what is mine.
AND WHY ARE YOU TEARING DOWN THE PLANET AS WELL?
Because it is profitable.
I can do what I wish with what is mine.
By Haveit Neox
Taken in Wolverley village on the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal.
The canal network of the United Kingdom played a vital role in the Industrial Revolution. The canals permitted the creation of wealth, by industry, that led to the British Empire in the Victorian Era. The UK was the first country to develop a nationwide canal network, which expanded to nearly 4,000 miles (6,400 kilometres) in length. The canals allowed raw materials to be transported to a place of manufacture, and finished goods to be transported to consumers, more quickly and cheaply than via a land based route.
In the post-medieval period, some rivers were canalised for boat traffic. The Exeter Ship Canal was completed in 1567. The Sankey Canal was the first British canal of the Industrial Revolution, opening in 1757. The Bridgewater Canal followed in 1761 and proved to be highly profitable. A "Golden Age" of canals occurred between the 1770s and 1830s, during which the majority of the network was built. From 1840 the canals began to decline, because the growing railway network was a more efficient means of transporting goods. From the beginning of the 20th century the road network became progressively more important, canals became uneconomic and were abandoned. Consequently, in 1948, much of the network was nationalised. Since the second half of the 20th century there has been a growing use of the canals for recreation and tourism.
Different types of boat used the canals, the most common being the traditional narrowboat, that were painted in the Roses and Castles design. At the outset the boats were towed by horses and later they were driven by diesel engines. Restoration projects take place to restore closed canals and canal museums have opened. The network built was extensive and included feats of civil engineering such as the Anderton Boat Lift, the Manchester Ship Canal, the Worsley Navigable Levels and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
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Special Effect's by William Walton & Topaz.
whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas :-)
John Dewey
HPPT! Protest Injustice! Resist! Vote!
echinacea, coneflower, little theater garden, raleigh, north carolina
Normandie (France) - Une image insolite, pour ne pas dire exotique dans ma production habituelle. Ces chevaux ont été photographiés dans le sud du département de la Manche, sur la route qui me mène de Brécey au Mont-Saint-Michel. Une région qui n'a pas sacrifié ses haies centenaires au profit de la rentabilité agricole. Les éleveurs de la région se sont spécialisés dans les chevaux d'agrément pour l'attelage. Ils ont donc peu de chance de finir à la boucherie... Pour l’instant.
Cette photo d’archive est reposante comparée à mes dernières images des manifestations contre la réforme des retraites. C’est aussi la dernière qui sera publiée sur Flickr avant mon départ pour l’Asie du sud-est. A bientôt.
The photographer who blew into horses' nostrils
Normandy (France) - An unusual image, not to say exotic in my usual production. These horses were photographed in the south of the Manche department, on the road that leads me from Brécey to Mont-Saint-Michel. A region that has not sacrificed its hundred-year-old hedges for the benefit of agricultural profitability. Breeders in the region have specialized in pleasure horses for driving. They therefore have little chance of ending up in the butcher's shop... For the moment.
This archive photo is relaxing compared to my latest images of the protests against the pension reform. It is also the last one that will be published on Flickr before my departure for Southeast Asia. See you soon.
No, narcolepsy has nothing to do with narcs surreptitiously stalking you and pouncing on you in the middle of a potentially extremely profitable business transaction between dusk and dawn. It is defined as “a condition characterized by an extreme tendency to fall asleep whenever in relaxing surroundings”. Well, apparently, my buddy Terra (short for Pterodactyl – the “a” in Terra signifies female) must have been in somewhat relaxing surroundings. I suspect it may have had something to do with a party-hardy-previous-night-outing. You can tell by the fact she’s still wearing her party outfit and fancy hat to accessorize same. While I was busy fiddling with my camera settings, all of a sudden my girl seemed sound asleep which gave me more time to make adjustments. This feeder is not really designed for her as shown by how the feeder tilts to the right under her weight. How do I know it’s a she? Since that stripe on her cheek (the one extending from the beak) is dark brownish black and not red, it indicates it’s a female. The male’s red hat would also extend to the top of the beak. As you can see the female’s forehead is on the gray side or at least not red. This female sighting is actually another first for me and the camera.
Since she looks somewhat otherworldly in this pose and with this facial expression, she reminds me somewhat of a vampire that could be encountered after dark. For this reason we are featuring After Dark – Tito y Taruntala as interpreted by Salma Hayek in From dusk till dawn.
I had a very profitable day yesterday finding two pairs of Ray Ban sunglasses on my hike. Sure hope it wasn’t the same person who lost their sunglasses AND their backup sunglasses 😆
Lear Macaws or Indigo Macaws(Anodorhynchus leari) early in the morning on the cliffs of Raso da Catarina, Canudos, Bahia, where they nest. The place is a protected reserve monitored by a non profitable organisation www.biodiversitas.org.br/arara
Better seen large.
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At one time, this was probably a healthy and profitable commercial fishing operation on the shores of Lake Superior near Paradise, Michigan. Because fish populations in the lake have been depleted, the business sits in disrepair.
fishing operation
once a center of activity
now in decline
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
With global warming and cycles of a lot of rain and drought this method of farming may become more sustainable and profitable than big flat fields with a lot of tiling to drain water and lots of chemicals.
He was born 30 December 1869 at Swanmore, county of Hampshire, England.
In 1876 he emigrated to Canada with his family and settled on a farm near the hamlet of Egypt, south of Sibbald Point on Lake Simcoe.
Leacock was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto. He completed a degree in modern languages at the University of Toronto in 1891.
Inspired by Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, receiving a Ph.D. in political economy and political science under Veblen in 1903.
Concurrently he joined the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University, Montreal.
In 1906 he published his first and most profitable book: Elements of Political Science, a university textbook. Twenty-seven other books of non-fiction followed.
In 1908 he became head of his department at McGill, helped found the University Club and began developing Old Brewery
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“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
Attributed to Frank Zappa
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Rentabler, praktischer, staubiger Straßenfeger, China.
Profitable, practical, dusty street sweeper, China.
A pair of Sandersville RR jobs are hard at work shuttling various South Georgia commodities around adjacent to the railroad's yard in Tennille, GA on a warm fall morning. The railroad's nickname, "The Kaolin Road", tells you exactly what commodity rules this shortline and has made this venture extremely profitable for many decades.
„Mushrooms like a picture book can be found abound this year. It seems to be a profitable mushroom year.
Here are two beautiful specimens from the genus of parasol. A considerable number of these small giants have already formed a clearly pronounced fairy ring around the trunk of a fruit tree. However, as a layman, I cannot clearly determine exactly which ones they are. In any case, it is one of the smaller subspecies, probably one of the shaggy parasol..."
„Pilze wie aus dem Bilderbuch sind dieses Jahr zuhauf zu finden. Es scheint ein ertragreiches Pilzjahr zu werden.
Hier zwei wunderschöne Exemplare aus der Gattung der Riesenschirmlinge. Eine beträchtliche Anzahl dieser kleinen Riesen hat um den Stamm eines Obstbaumes bereits einen deutlich ausgeprägten Hexenring gebildet. Welche es genau sind kann ich als Laie jedoch nicht eindeutig bestimmen. Auf jeden Fall ist es eine der kleineren Unterarten, vermutlich einer der Safranschirmlinge…“
„I would like to take this opportunity to thank all followers, all new followers, and all those who just stop by. I say thank you for all previous and for all the new fav's and comments. 🙏“
„Ich danke an dieser Stelle allen Followern, allen neuen Followern, und all jenen die einfach so mal vorbeischauen. Ich sage Danke für alle bisherigen und für Sie all die neu hinzukommenden Fav‘s und Kommentare. 🙏“
My personal challenge for 2022 - I'll try - and do my very best...
Meine persönliche Herausforderung für 2022 - ich werd's versuchen - und mein Bestes geben…
B/W HDR
"Pineapple juice doesn’t come in a can—it comes in a hard, spiky shell called a pineapple. Pineapples are great and all, but of all things to grow, up is the most profitable.” - Jarod Kintz
"Business should be finding profitable solutions to the problems facing people and the planet, not making a profit by creating problems."
Colin Mayer CBE, Oxford Professor
Apparently March is B-Corp month - so I had to look it up...
Rather than being driven solely by profits, every B Corp has a vision that's grounded in moral and social good. Certified B Corp status is awarded to those businesses that meet very high standards in social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability.
Morning at Shark Valley in the Everglades with Tropical Audubon Society proved profitable. We saw many birds, including this White Eyed Vireo.
A view of the former rice fields along the Ashley River of the Magnolia Plantation. Rice was a major crop during the mid 1700's to 1800's in this area of South Carolina. Slaves were used to sew and harvest this labor intensive crop and when slavery ended, so did large scale production. Also growing competition from overseas countries made US rice production less profitable. Rice hasn't been grown in scale in this area for over 100 years....
C-FJJA, serial number 4001, first flew on January 31, 1998 - 22 years ago. Since then, more than 600 have been produced at the Downsview Airport plant in Toronto, Ontario.
The prototype is seen here wearing the livery that it was given after Bombardier changed the DHC-8-400's brand name from "Dash 8 Series 400" to "Q400".
The registration was a nod to Jackson "Jock" Aitken, who had been a DHC flight test engineer for 34 years and had passed away seven months prior to this aircraft's first flight.
Rentabler, praktischer, staubiger Straßenfeger, China.
Profitable, practical, dusty street sweeper, China.
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
(1st Timothy 4:8)
This place has long been occupied by the Athanasius Ravine - a dumping ground where homeless women lived. In the 1910s, the slopes of the ravine were partially filled in, profitable houses were built for the "middle class" of Kyivans, and the square was demolished.
Ву́лиця В'ячеслава Липинського пролягає від вулиці Івана Франка до вулиці Михайла Коцюбинського. На світлині погляд з вулиці Івана Франка в бік вулиці Михайла Коцюбинського. Вулиця прокладена наприкінці 90-х років XIX століття під назвою Святославська, на честь київського князя Святослава Ігоровича.
Сучасна назва вулиці на честь українського політичного діяча, історика та публіциста В'ячеслава Липинського — з вересня 2015 року.
На світлині з правої соторони буд. № 2/16 — житловий будинок 1902 року, зведений архітектором Володимиром Ніколаєвим у стилі історизм.
Це місце здавна займав Афанасіївський яр - звалище, де мешкали безхатченки. В 1910-х роках схили яру частково засипали, звели прибуткові будинки для "середнього класу" киян, розбили сквер.
Землю звозили з величезної садиби Мерінга, яка була у центрі міста. Наприкінці XIX століття спадкоємці Мерінга продали садибу під забудову і на цій локації грандіозними темпами почалося прокладання вулиць та їх забудова. Були прокладені нові вулиці - (сучасні вулиці Городецького, Заньковецької, площа Івана Франка).
Володимир Ніколаєв (1847-1911) – український архітектор російського походження, педагог, громадський діяч. Закінчив Імператорську академію мистецтв у Санкт-Петербурзі. З 1872 року жив і працював у Києві. Був київським міським (1873 – 1887) та єпархіальним (1875 – 1898) архітектором, а також архітектором Києво-Печерської лаври (1893 – 1899).
Помер у 64 роки, був похований на Аскольдовій Могилі. ((надгробіє не збереглося).
Серед споруд архітектора:
будинок Купецького зібрання з концертною залою (1882 р.; нині – Національна філармонія України);
Трапезна палата з церквою Антонія та Феодосія в Печерській лаврі (1893 – 1895 рр.);
Вознесенська церква на Байковому кладовищі, 1884-1888;
Особняк Федора Терещенка (нині — Київська національна картинна галерея), 1877-1884;
Особняк Лібермана (нині — будинок Спілки Письменників України, 1898;
Зміст поняття Історизму в архітектурі ХІХ століття зводиться до позначення прагнення художників до відтворення духу і форми так званих історичних стилів. Виступає як поєднання різних «минулих», «історичних» стилів, що набувають нової сучасності та життя в якійсь «історично неправильній» єдності, оскільки в цій єдності представлені уламки різних часів (ці часи репрезентуються як стилі).
Removing all my restricted and moderate content. Seven years of content and I have to strip out all the nudes. I understand flickr's need to be profitable, etc etc.
2024 UPDATE: Nudes are back - now at Primfeed www.primfeed.com/ebenezer.pixel
Saint Petersburg formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924), then Leningrad (1924–1991), is a city situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. It is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow. With over 5.3 million inhabitants as of 2018, it is the fourth-most populous city in Europe, as well as being the northernmost city with over one million people. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject (a federal city).
In modern times, Saint Petersburg is considered the Northern Capital and serves as a home to some federal government bodies such as the Constitutional Court of Russia and the Heraldic Council of the President of the Russian Federation. It is also a seat for the National Library of Russia and a planned location for the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments constitute a UNESCO World Heritage Site, so it's also referred to as Russia's Culture Capital. Saint Petersburg is home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world.
unless it is kept under control ;-)
Don Marquis
Climate Change Matters! Resist the Ignorant Orange Clown!
acer, green lace leaf japanese maple, 'Waterfall', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina
Scottish Creel Fishing
Creel fishing is a profitable, species-selective and environmentally sustainable form of fishing with very little by-catch. Target species are brought to the surface alive and undamaged, meaning that egg bearing ‘berried’ females or undersized animals can be returned to the sea. The carbon footprint (in particular fuel consumption) is minimal compared to other methods of fishing as the majority of boats are small and fish relatively close to shore.
Creel fishing takes place around Scotland’s coast. Creeling, and the many shore based services that rely on it, are often the main source of employment in fragile rural communities. The boats that make up the inshore creel fishery are small - usually under 10 metres long- which means that engine size and weather dictate how far from shore, and how often they can fish. One or two people normally crew a creel boat, one of whom is usually the owner. There were 1042 active creel fishing boats in Scotland in 2011. The main markets for the shellfish caught are on the European continent.
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He was born 30 December 1869 at Swanmore, county of Hampshire, England.
In 1876 he emigrated to Canada with his family and settled on a farm near the hamlet of Egypt, south of Sibbald Point on Lake Simcoe.
Leacock was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto. He completed a degree in modern languages at the University of Toronto in 1891.
Inspired by Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, receiving a Ph.D. in political economy and political science under Veblen in 1903.
Concurrently he joined the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University, Montreal.
In 1906 he published his first and most profitable book: Elements of Political Science, a university textbook. Twenty-seven other books of non-fiction followed.
In 1908 he became head of his department at McGill, helped found the University Club and began developing Old Brewery Bay.
The first of his thirty-five books of humour, Literary Lapses was published in 1910. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town followed in 1912 and in 1914 Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich.
Leacock was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1919 and in 1921 made an extensive lecture tour of the United Kingdom. In 1935 he received the Mark Twain Medal. He retired from McGill in 1936.
Stephen Butler Leacock died 28 March 1944 at Toronto from throat cancer and was buried, across the lake from Old Brewery Bay, in the Leacock family plot at St. George’s Church, Sibbald Point.
Our walk in the woods proved to be profitable...I chose this capture above as my main shot (more below in comments) because I loved that the mushrooms had pushed the bark aside to emerge... it's pure poetry!
If you have not had the chance to view the mushroom article please go take a look, I think Patrick Robinson did a wonderful job and the mushrooms finally get the due respect that they deserve! I had a great time being interviewed by him too...(: Thank you so much to my wonderful contacts who have left comments under the article itself, it's greatly appreciated...HUGS!! m-
The profitable house belonging to the architect N.P. Basin was built in 1878-1879 according to his own project with the participation of architect N.N. Nikonov. The style of the building is defined as Neo-Russian or pseudo-Russian. The five-story building stands out against the background of the strict architectural ensemble of Ostrovsky Square, the tone to which is set by the Alexandrinsky Theater erected in the era of classicism.
Basin's house, copying the motifs of medieval Russian architecture and folk arts and crafts, is distinguished by its splendor of decor. The facades are made with a lot of details and are generously decorated with stucco, reproducing the decorative motifs of Russian wooden carvings and embroideries. Bay windows are crowned with turrets, various in the design windows are decorated with carved "towels", kokoshniks crowning the cornice and spatterdock pillars.
Growing asparagus, strawberries and hops is profitable. However, for all of these plants, special "devices" are needed to grow them in Lower Bavaria. Here, I have portrayed three of them, namely foil tunnels, foil greenhouses and rod assemblies needed to grow hops. These are some examples of the way of farming I see nearby and I am often thinking about my objectives of taking pictures. I decided, not to ignore these kinds of landscapes and to develop a special kind of poesy. Definitely, these images are not as "nice" as sunsets, but part of our life.
Just a few miles away from Quebec, 305 snakes its way through the s-curve at Lac Baker proper. Having planned to only chase as far west as Edmundston, I considered it to be quite the profitable day to get numerous shots all the way to Lac Baker. Patrick and I broke off from the chase here and headed back to Eddy in search of 306...which was long gone, so we turned our attention to the local.
Just to the east of Glasgow Cathedral, beyond the course of the (now culverted) Molindinar Burn stands a rocky hill. In 1651 this was purchased by Glasgow's Merchants' House (a powerful grouping of the city's merchants) and, after being planted with fir trees, became known as Fir Park. In 1831 the Merchants' House agreed that the land would be more profitably used as Glasgow's version of the world-famous Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Fir Park therefore became the Glasgow Necropolis.
Over the years since then, some 50,000 people have been buried at the Necropolis, in around 3,500 tombs that extend anything up to 14 feet below the ground and which, on the rocky upper parts of the Necropolis, had to be excavated with the aid of blasting powder.
The monuments that mark these tombs, especially in the upper parts of the Necropolis, are a tribute to the disposable wealth available - at least to some - in Victorian Glasgow, many being built on a vast scale. The result is an outdoor museum of the work of most of the leading Scottish architects of the day, as monuments compete for attention with their intricate detail and in many cases, sheer size.
Extensions to the area of the Necropolis in the latter half of the 1800s led to it reaching an overall size of 37 acres or 15 hectares (rather under a third of the size of the Père Lachaise Cemetery). In 1966 the Merchants' House gave the Necropolis to Glasgow City Council. The council cleared it of many grave surrounds and ornamental benches that both cluttered the Necropolis and made maintenance and upkeep more difficult.
Today the Necropolis is partrolled by Park Rangers, guided tours are available, and Glasgow Necropolis is high on the list of "must visit" attractions in central Glasgow, both as an object of interest in its own right, and as a viewpoint over much of the rest of the city: the views of Glasgow Cathedral are especially good from here.
The hilly and heavily vegetated landscape, and the city centre location, must make maintenance and upkeep of the Necropolis quite a challenge: and it is true that some monuments sprout vegetation; a few bear graffiti; and some have either collapsed or sport "Danger, Keep Out" signs. But despite this, the overall feel of the Necropolis is intriguing and, though it may sound odd to say it, welcoming. You have to remember that the monuments placed here were intended to be looked at and appreciated: it was always intended that visitors should come to marvel at the architectural splendour of the monuments (and the wealth of those who paid for them).
Glasgow Necropolis was always intended to be a multi-denominational burial ground, and one of its oddities is that while some of its monuments relate to multiple burials, others are in memory of people who are not buried here at all. The most striking example of the latter category is the tallest monument in the Necropolis, to John Knox. This was actually placed here in 1825, when the area was still a park. A massive column is topped off with a 12ft high statue of John Knox himself. To modern eyes the location seems a little ironic: Knox is facing west, overlooking Glasgow Cathedral, one of the few medieval churches in Scotland not destroyed during the Reformation in which he played such a leading role.
It's a pity about this plane. A plane like this will never fly again. It is not economically profitable to build such plane
Red Kelpies with an super bike.
Victory Motorcycles is an American motorcycle manufacturer with its final assembly facility in Spirit Lake, Dickinson County, northern Iowa, United States. It began production of its vehicles in 1998.
Its parent company, Polaris Industries, created the firm following the modern success of Harley-Davidson. Victory's motorcycles are designed to compete directly with Harley-Davidson and similar American-style motorcycle brands, with V-twin engines and touring, sport-touring, and cruiser configurations. The first Victory, the V92C, was announced in 1997 and began selling in 1998. Victory has been profitable since 2002.[1]