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Published in 1985 the cover is a little modern for my tastes but I am a fan of Walter Popp's artwork . I love how the light spills from that window!
"Golden sands, deck chairs and boats, a typical beach scene at Bournemouth with Pavilion, Baths and Hotels in the background."
The Pavilion, the Pier Approach baths, and the Pier Entrance, were of a matching style that complimented the earlier shelters. Why, oh why, did we smash this up? We have lost facilities and been given scrappy, mismatched junk in its place.
Colour by H D Keilor for Plastichrome by Colourpicture. Published by Roberts & Wrate, Ltd., Portsmouth.
Postally unused.
"Friends of McMillan Park is a group of community volunteers who support sustainable development and long-term planning for McMillan Park and Washington, DC. We believe that historic preservation and sustainability go hand in hand, and we would love to see McMillan Park set a high standard as a great metropolitan park of the 21st century." - friendsofmcmillan.org/about-us/
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Select photos published in The Future of D.C.'s Abandoned McMillan Park | Architect Magazine | Urban Design, Urban Development, Developers, Development, Mixed-Use Development, Historic Preservation, McMillan Park, Frederick Law Olmsted
Published in ggwash.org/view/61108/a-court-just-halted-dcs-mcmillan-de...
Published Tempus Publishing, Stroud, 30 November 2006, 256 pages, paperback ISBN 0 7524 3882 4. Price £18.99.
This is now the third book in a series Robert Forsythe has written examining shipping services through their publicity. "Eastern Region" indicates a geographical and a business concept: geographical in that the controlling ports run up the East Coast from Tilbury to Tyneside. As a business concept the Eastern Region was a part of British Railways and thereby connected with railway owned shipping at Tilbury, Harwich and in the Humber. The weight of much that is shown reflects this direct railway involvement and considers the heyday of the actual "Eastern Region".
The topic extends beyond the Eastern Region in date and business but retaining the railway connection. Earlier material from the Great Eastern and the London and North Eastern railways appears. The famed Manchester Boat Train to Harwich is described. A wealth of railway issued Harwich material extended far into Europe and this is shown. Likewise, continental issued material for travel into Britain is shown. There will be plenty of items showing Nederlandse Spoorwegen NS (like the Hondekop emu) and Zeeland. A remarkable artistic quality in this material from the 1950s and 1960s is evident. Until 1978, the railway operated Humber services included steam paddle ships which feature.
The railway also connected with other shipping lines. This enables operators as varied as the General Steam Navigation Thames pleasure sailings, the Swedish Lloyd services from Tilbury, and other Scandinavian operators like DFDS, Fred. Olsen and Tor Line to be involved. These partners extend the narrative to the Tyne.
Freight services are not forgotten. The Harwich train ferry, the adoption of containerisation, and the liner services of Associated Humber Lines are represented through their publicity. Harwich was a railway owned port. Its opposite companion was built and is still owned by The Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company (which continued to run its own railway engines in 2000). Services from Felixstowe feature therefore. A leavening of the author's own photography adds visual variety.
What the reviewers say:
No-one does it better than Robert Forsythe. His collection is unsurpassed and of great national importance.......first class work with well-researched narrative...........a superb selection of ferry company advertising material........attractively laid-out. Cruising Monthly February 2007.
Everyone will be fascinated......meticulously researched. Hexham Courant 23rd February 2007.
Lots of human interest as well as design history. Best of British March 2007.
Packed with fascinating scans............Recommended to anyone with an interest in East Coast Ferries. Ships Monthly April 2007.
Shows the reader that there was a special culture which enhanced the travel experience of millions. Thank goodness that Robert Forsythe produced this very fine book. Deserves a place in any collection relating to ferries. Sea Breezes April 2007.
Here, the reality of services springs to life in a way that no boardroom corporate history can match.........copiously illustrated with a very wide range of examples of publicity materials. Andrew Dow in NRM Review Spring 2007.
......well contextualised and explained. The majority of the material is in the author's own collection and speaks volumes to his assiduity.............an entertaining volume, of interest to both transport and advertising enthusiasts and is good value. Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society November 2007.
An easy book to read.........I would recommend the book to anyone with a general interest in shipping histories. Journal of The Transport Ticket Society December 2007.
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Published by B. Kočí in Pague. Circa 1907.
Animated gif generated with StereoPhotoMaker, a freeware program by Masuji Suto & David Sykes.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 9th of November 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Fiber Art Now magazine (US) Summer issue in the pages of 'Flora and Fauna' as a result of a call for entries. ; )
Paper foxing on the endpaper of a book published in 1964.
Foxing is a brown or yellowish stain on paper that starts out with a snowflake pattern, quickly spreading to areas of the paper exposed to humidity, light and air.
Impurities in the wood pulp, and additives in the paper manufacturing process, are the cause of this paper defect in antiquarian books and rare manuscripts. Find out more about paper defects and grading systems for works of art on paper, and collecting posters.
The Postwar Mittens by Mary Ann Stephens, first published in the Winter 2008 edition of Twist Collective. The mittens are sized to fit the average adult female hand (8" circumference. ) The knitting pattern PDF is still available from Twist Collective. The knitting kit, with both a printout of the pattern and the Dale of Norway Baby Ull yarn used to make any of the colorways shown, is available through the Mary Ann's main site, Kidsknits.com.
Published May 4th 2013
- As part of 'Courageous Mayhem'
A graphic comic compendium that showcased several comic artists and their stories. Edited by Gar Shanley.
(Prints available)
(Original size A3 - In ink on paper and post production colour created on computer.)
My original Inked A3 Cartoon pages could be Art Exhibited interestingly with the colouring overlaid in Acetate sheets.
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The comic story is an expression of characters heroic personal revolt against austerity and urban imprisonment, it echoes the story of Alexander the Great who is also seen as a Don Quixote. Escaping capitalist mono rationalism Alexander discovers nature is still there alive and full of wonder!
Confronting Darius the local Scrapyard King of Ireland he abducts his daughter a young traveller woman to be his bride Roxanne! Together on the road they joust with the pursuing police and farmers tractors (Quixote's windmills) and Alexander even promises to lead all the animals in a grand revolt!
Until suddenly time and space fall away and the Poet of our Cosmos, interested, arrives to talk with them….
Alexander's search for something lost now ends up on life's cliff and limit where his escape can go no further. But as our hero's mask falls away and now completely naked he discovers he is loved by Roxanne, at last they make love and riding together upon Alexander's loyal bicycle stead Buce Phalus, returning them back to the city to bring their discoveries of love, empathy and a revolution in human values home!
About a year ago, I got a message from someone at Mercedes-Benz. They wanted to make a book with photos of their cars taken by “real people” and with the stories behind these photos, and an old test shot of mine had made it into their selection.
To cut a long story short: I made a proper scan of the negative, signed an agreement, and some time later I got some cash (quite a lot for a test shot actually) and a copy of the book. It has a fancy lenticular cover featuring two different sets of 25 thumbnail images each. Actually I didn’t even notice that my photo was also on the cover until today when I started figuring out how to document this “milestone” photographically.
The book, titled “Through the eyes of the world”, contains short forewords from Dieter Zetsche (the CEO of Daimler AG), Stewart Butterfield (one of the Flickr co-founders), and Uwe Düttmann (a renowned photographer who directed many campaigns for Mercedes-Benz).
Unfortunately, “published” is not the whole truth in that the book is not really available for purchase—instead, they are giving it away to a selection of Mercedes-Benz customers. But there is a Flickr group (“Mercedes-Benz—Through the Eyes of the World”) which aims at putting all the photos from the book in one place.
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Venerdì 16 settembre, parte dall’Arena di Verona con “10 + 1 straordinari show” il “Black Cat World Tour 2016” di Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari.
Negli 11 e unici suoi concerti in Italia del 2016, Zucchero presenta live in anteprima mondiale il suo ultimo progetto discografico, “Black Cat”, oltre ai suoi più grandi successi, portando in scena uno spettacolo ricco di intense e vibranti emozioni.
Con Zucchero sul palco una super band internazionale composta da 13 elementi: Polo Jones (Musical director, bass), Kat Dyson (guitars, dobro, mandolin, bvs), Brian Auger (hammond organ C3), Doug Pettibone (Pedal Steel Guitar, dobro, lap steel, banjo, guitar), Queen Cora Dunham (drums), Nicola Peruch (keyboards), Adriano Molinari (drums), Mario Schilirò (guitars), Andrea Whitt (violin, mandolin, pedal steel guitar), Tonya Boyd Cannon (backing vocals), James Thompson (sax tenor, sax baritone, flute, harmonica), Lazaro Amauri Oviedo Dilout (trumpet, flugelhorn, french horn) e Carlos Minoso (trombone, tuba)
Il disco “Black Cat” è prodotto da tre grandi nomi del panorama internazionale, T Bone Burnett (Elvis Costello, Elton John, Tony Bennett e altri), Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan e altri) e Don Was (The Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan e altri), e si compone di 13 brani dalle nervature rock-blues. L’album annovera, anche, la collaborazione artistica di Bono, che in seguito alla tragedia avvenuta al Bataclan di Parigi ha scritto con Zucchero il brano “Streets Of Surrender (S.O.S.)”, la partecipazione alle chitarre di Mark Knopfler, che suona sia nel brano “Streets Of Surrender (S.O.S.)” sia nel brano “Ci si arrende” e il contributo artistico di Elvis Costello che ha scritto la versione inglese del brano "Love Again", dal titolo "Turn the world down" (canzone presente solo nelle versioni estere di “Black Cat”).
Tra i maggiori interpreti del blues in Italia, Zucchero (all’anagrafe Adelmo Fornaciari) nella sua carriera ha venduto oltre 60 milioni di dischi, di cui 8 milioni con l’album “Oro, incenso & birra”. Oltre ad essere il primo artista occidentale a essersi esibito al Cremlino dopo la caduta del muro di Berlino, Zucchero è anche l’unico artista italiano ad aver partecipato al Festival di Woodstock nel 1994, al Freddie Mercury Tribute nel 1992 e a tutti gli eventi del 46664 per Nelson Mandela. È inoltre l’unico artista italiano nominato ai Grammy con Billy Preston ed Eric Clapton come best "R&B Traditional Vocal Collaboration”. Il suo concerto nel dicembre 2012 all'Istituto Superiore di Arte di L'Avana è ritenuto il più grande live mai tenuto da un cantante straniero a Cuba sotto embargo. La sua musica si è estesa oltre i confini nazionali grazie anche alle numerose collaborazioni con artisti internazionali del calibro di Bryan Adams, The Blues Brothers, Bono, Jeff Beck, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker, Elvis Costello, Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Mark Knopfler, Brian May, Luciano Pavarotti, Iggy Pop, Alejandro Sanz, Sting e molti altri.
Published by Offset Press, Waterloo, Sydney. The book has 14 pages and the cover shows the Victorian Railways' S class # 302 at the head of the "Spirit of Progress".
Steven Haby collection
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 23rd of December 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
This photograph was published online in an aricle in GARDENINGetc entitled:
'' Want to keep foxes away from your garden? You need this expert tip - The one thing you need to know about deterring foxes from your backyard '', by Anna K. Cottrell.
Gardeningetc is a UK based magazine under the Future Publishing Limited group based in Bath.
It had previously been selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on June 20th 2021
CREATIVE RF gty.im/1324337152 MOMENT ROYALTY FREE COLLECTION It became my 5,092nd frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection
I'm standing in my kitchen on a cold, wet summer afternoon making a Tassimo Costa L'or double shot Latte whilst taking a quick break from watching Sweden versus Slovakia (I've seen more action in a chess match!), on TV in the Euros football tournament when a rain soaked fox enters my garden!
My camera is upstairs still with the Lee SW150 filter holder and circular polarizer attached, and round here, foxes normally do not surface much in daylight nor spend long before scampering away, so I rush up and grab it, hastily tampering with the settings, forgetting to set the vibration control to the on position....
I'm skulking in the corner of the kitchen, shooting through closed, rain splattered windows and the fox can sense my presence and every movement. Far from ideal, but such a joy to have a few brief moments in the presence of such a magnificent animal.
And they say any shot is better than NO shot, don't they......
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty one metres at 15:36pm on a cold morning on Friday 18th June 2021, off Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent.
Here we see a young Red fox (Vulpes vulpes), the largest of the true foxes (a genus of the sub-family Caninae which form a proper clade or monophyletic or natural group). Red foxes are the largest of the worldwide foxes, and also the most commonly widespread across the Northern hemisphere, Europe and North Africa.
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Nikon D850 Focal length 420mm Shutter speed: 1/400s Aperture f/6.3 iso1000 Hand held with no VC Image area FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L (14 bit uncompressed) Size L (8256 x 5504) Focus mode: AF-C AF-Area mode: 3D-tracking Priority Selection: Release. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1 (5190k) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: Neutral (Sharpening +2)
Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Lee SW150 MKII filter holder. Lee SW150 95mm screw in adapter ring. Lee SW150 circular polariser glass filter.Lee SW150 Filters field pouch. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup.My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag.
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HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit Version 1.4.1 (18/02/2020). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.13.5. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
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Dopo il fantastico tour tutto esaurito della scorsa estate The Kolors tornano sul palco per “OK LIVE 2016”. L’appuntamento con Stash e la sua band è per lunedì 16 maggio all’Alcatraz di Milano.
I The Kolors sono una band italiana formata da Stash Fiordispino (voce, chitarra), Alex Fiordispino (batteria) e Daniele Mona (synth). Appassionati di rock e musica elettronica, il trio inizia a collaborare a Milano nel 2010, quando arriva anche il primo ingaggio professionale, che li porta a diventare la resident band di uno dei locali più longevi della città: Le Scimmie.
Il loro nome inizia a crescere all’interno della scena milanese dei club undeground e nel 2011 producono l’inedito ‘I Don’t Give A Funk’. MTV New Generation programma il video di ‘I Don’t Give A Funk’ , al quale partecipa l’amico Andy dei Bluvertigo. Dopo alcuni concerti all’estero tra Stoccolma (Middag), Berlino (White Trash) e Londra (Runway), i Kolors aprono così i concerti italiani di Paolo Nutini (luglio 2012), Gossip (novembre 2012), Hurts (marzo 2013) e sono tra gli special guest della data romana di Atoms For Peace (giugno 2013).
I The Kolors partecipano all’edizione 2015 i “Amici”, programma condotto da Maria De Filippi su Canale 5 aggiudicandosi la vittoria e anche il premio della critica.
Il 19 maggio 2015 pubblicano il nuovo album “Out” che, trainato dalla hit Everytime, raggiunge subito la certificazione di “disco d’oro” nella prima settimana di pubblicazione mantenendo anche per la seconda settimana il primo posto nella classifica degli album più venduti in Italia.
Stash Fiordispino (Vox/Guitar)
Alex Fiordispino (Drums)
Daniele Mona (Synth)
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by Neurdein et Cie of Paris.
The card was posted in Streatham, London SW16 on Wednesday the 30th. March 1921 to:
Mrs. Lewis,
19, Princess Street,
Chapel,
Southampton.
There is a brief pencilled message written in a childish hand on the left of the divided back of the card:
"Dear Auntie,
Thank you for my
postel order.
Jeanne.
xxxxxx"
l'Église du Saint-Sépulcre
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, situated in the heart of the old town centre of Abbeville, is a collegiate Gothic church from the 11th. century.
The church was classified as an historical monument in 1907.
During the Great War, the church's stained-glass windows were blown out. In May 1924, the municipality decided to repair the damage.
However, incendiary bombardments in WW2 on the 20th. May 1940 hit the church very hard. The vaults and some of the walls collapsed, with the windows again being destroyed by the blast from the bombs.
The church's restoration did not begin until 1970.
In 1982, the inspector of Historic Monuments proposed to Alfred Mannessier, a painter born in 1911 in Saint-Ouen in the Somme, to design 31 replacement windows for the church.
On the 2nd. April 1989, Alfred Mannessier inaugurated the first three stained-glass windows of the choir. The windows were made in Chartres.
In 2012, the bell tower of the church was endowed with its definitive roof, replacing the temporary one put in place after 1945.
Abbeville
Abbeville is located on the Somme River, 45 km north west of Amiens.
In medieval times, it was the lowest crossing point on the river, and it was nearby that Edward III's army crossed shortly before the Battle of Crécy in 1346.
The Destruction of Abbeville
The city was very picturesque until the 19th. August 1942 when it was bombed mostly to rubble in a single night by the Germans. Unexploded ordnance is still being found in the soil around Abbeville.
The town is now mainly modern and rebuilt.
The Saint Firmin Tower, at the rear corner of the church of St.-Vulfran, still exists, but it no longer has its very decorative top - presumably it fell victim to one or other of the two world wars that raged around the city.
Sean C. Finn
So what else happened on the day that Jeanne posted the card?
Well, the 30th. March 1921 was not a good day for Sean Finn, because he died on that day.
Sean C. Finn (born Michael John Finn; 1889, Rathkeale, County Limerick, was a commander of multiple units in the IRA's Irish War of Independence in the early 20th. century.
He led many attacks on the Black and Tans and the heavily-armed RIC patrols, with his brigade usually armed only with shotguns.
Training first with the scouting organisation Fianna Éireann and then being appointed a captain in the Irish Volunteers in 1914 when Ernest Blythe went to Limerick to organise there, Finn organised his west Limerick area.
He made contacts ranging from impoverished farmers in single-room cottages to the nationalist Anglo-Irish activist Mary Spring Rice, whose boat was at the disposal of his flying columns to cross the River Shannon.
He and his flying columns made west Limerick untenable for the British. By Spring 1917 he had 80 men in his brigade, and he continued to form companies in surrounding areas. In 1918 the area's Volunteers were organised into a battalion of the new Irish Republican Army, and Finn was soon appointed Brigade O/C. He brought the strength of the brigade up to 2,000 men.
Volunteers from the brigade guarded ballot boxes to prevent interference by the RIC; they sheltered various members after the Soloheadbeg Ambush. They attacked RIC plainclothesmen guarding men buying cattle from boycotted farms.
On the 13th. July 1920, a mixed RIC and Black and Tan patrol was attacked by the IRA under the command of Finn, and RIC Constable Patrick Fahey was killed.
Finn smuggled the British General Cuthbert Lucas, O/C of the British forces in the huge garrison of Fermoy, County Cork to the Shannon River while the British were searching for Lucas. After he handed Lucas over to the East Limerick IRA, the general either escaped or was released to Pallaskenry Barracks on the 30th. July 1920.)
The Death of Sean C. Finn
On the 30th. March 1921, Finn was killed in action during a three-hour engagement the Ballyhahill/Athea area near Foynes in Co. Limerick when his flying column was attacked late at night by three lorry-loads of Black and Tans.
In this battle, Tom Howard (who was later killed at an ambush at Lakelly) shot dead a Black and Tan who was about to shoot the dying Finn.
Format: Monochrome Photograph.
Northamptonshire Regiment who were at the siege of Namur, 1695. Aldershot Tattoo 1934
Rights info: Non commercial use accepted. Please credit to "e; Northampton Museums Service;. Please also respect copyright by contacting the Northampton Museums Service if you wish to publish this picture.
Location of collection: Northampton Museum & Art Gallery www.northampton.gov.uk/museums
Part of: Northamptonshire Regiment Collection
Reference number: 1919-1953 /8
Dozens of computers, all awaiting your elected officials.
Published on Kenneth Cole's Awearness blog.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by Penrose & Palmer of Oxford. The card, which has a divided back, was printed by The Vandyck Printers Ltd. of Bristol.
Queen's College Oxford
Queen's College Oxford was founded in 1341 by Robert de Eglesfield in honour of Queen Philippa of Hainaut (wife of King Edward III of England). The college is distinguished by its predominantly neoclassical architecture, which includes buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor.
In 2015, the college had an endowment of £265 million, making it the fifth wealthiest college (after St. John's, Christ Church, All Souls and Merton).
In April 2012, as part of the celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, a series of commemorative stamps were released featuring A-Z pictures of famous British landmarks. Queen's College's front quad was used on the Q stamp, alongside other landmarks such as the Angel of the North on A and the Old Bailey on O.
The most famous feast of the College is the Boar's Head Gaudy, which originally was the Christmas Dinner for members of the College who were unable to return home over the Christmas break between terms, but is now a feast for old members of the College on the Saturday before Christmas.
Queen's College Alumni
Alumni of Queen's include:
- Tony Abbott, 28th Prime Minister of Australia
- Rowan Atkinson, actor and comedian, known for Blackadder and Mr. Bean
- Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher, and legal and social reformer
- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
- Cory Booker, United States Senator from New Jersey
- Eric Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles
- Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, English jurist and judge
- Edmund Halley, English astronomer
- King Henry V of England
- Edwin Powell Hubble, American astronomer
- Sir John Peel, gynaecologist to H.M. Queen Elizabeth II
- Leopold Stokowski, conductor.
'Oxford in War-Time'
During the Great War, a man named W. Snow was inspired to write a poem called 'Oxford in War-Time'.
Snow prefaces his poem with the following:
'The Boat Race will not be held this year (1915).
The whole of last year's Oxford eight and the
great majority of the cricket and football teams
are serving the King'.
The poem is as follows:
'Under the tow-path past the barges
Never an eight goes flashing by;
Never a blatant coach on the marge is
Urging his crew to do or die;
Never the critic we knew enlarges,
Fluent, on How and Why!
Once by the Iffley Road November
Welcomed the Football men aglow,
Covered with mud, as you'll remember,
Eager to vanquish Oxford's foe.
Where are the teams of last December?
Gone - where they had to go!
Where are her sons who waged at cricket
Warfare against the foeman-friend?
Far from the Parks, on a harder wicket,
Still they attack and still defend;
Playing a greater game, they'll stick it,
Fearless until the end!
Oxford's goodliest children leave her,
Hastily thrusting books aside;
Still the hurrying weeks bereave her,
Filling her heart with joy and pride;
Only the thought of you can grieve her,
You who have fought and died'.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS RDI FRSA DFBCS FREng was born on the 8th. June 1955. Also known as TimBL, he is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.
He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford, and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on the 12th. March 1989, and implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November.
He devised and implemented the first Web browser and Web server, and helped foster the Web's subsequent explosive development. He is the founder and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web.
Tim co-founded (with Rosemary Leith) the World Wide Web Foundation. In April 2009, he was elected as Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
Berners-Lee is a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com founder's chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is a director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), and a member of the advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence.
In 2011, he was named as a member of the board of trustees of the Ford Foundation. He is a founder and president of the Open Data Institute, and is currently an advisor at social network MeWe.
In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his pioneering work. He received the 2016 Turing Award:
"... for inventing the World Wide Web, the first
web browser, and the fundamental protocols
and algorithms allowing the Web to scale".
He was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th. century, and has received many other accolades for his invention.
-- Tim Berners-Lee - The Early Years
Tim Berners-Lee was born in London, the son of mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019). His parents were both from Birmingham, and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially-built computer.
He has three younger siblings; his brother, Mike, is a professor of ecology and climate change management.
Berners-Lee attended Sheen Mount Primary School, then attended Emanuel School (a direct grant grammar school at the time) from 1969 to 1973. A keen trainspotter as a child, he learnt about electronics from tinkering with a model railway.
From 1973 to 1976, he studied at The Queen's College, Oxford, where he received a first-class BA in physics. While there, he made a computer out of an old television set he had purchased from a repair shop.
-- Tim Berners-Lee's Career and Research
After graduation, Berners-Lee worked as an engineer at the telecommunications company Plessey in Poole, Dorset.
In 1978, he joined D. G. Nash in Ferndown, Dorset, where he helped create typesetting software for printers.
Berners-Lee worked as an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980. While in Geneva, he proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers.
To demonstrate it, he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE.
After leaving CERN in late 1980, Tim went to work at John Poole's Image Computer Systems Ltd. in Bournemouth, Dorset, where he ran the company's technical side for three years.
The project he worked on was a "real-time remote procedure call" which gave him experience in computer networking. In 1984, he returned to CERN as a fellow.
In 1989, CERN was the largest Internet node in Europe, and Berners-Lee saw an opportunity to join hypertext with the Internet:
"I just had to take the hypertext idea and
connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and—
ta-da!—the World Wide Web."
Tim also recalled:
"Creating the web was really an act of desperation,
because the situation without it was very difficult
when I was working at CERN later.
Most of the technology involved in the web, like the
hypertext, like the Internet, multifont text objects,
had all been designed already.
I just had to put them together. It was a step of
generalising, going to a higher level of abstraction,
thinking about all the documentation systems out
there as being possibly part of a larger imaginary
documentation system."
Berners-Lee wrote his proposal in March 1989 and, in 1990, redistributed it. It was accepted by his manager, Mike Sendall, who called his proposals:
"Vague, but exciting."
Robert Cailliau had independently proposed a project to develop a hypertext system at CERN, and joined Berners-Lee as a partner in his efforts to get the web off the ground. They used similar ideas to those underlying the ENQUIRE system to create the World Wide Web, for which Berners-Lee designed and built the first web browser.
Tim's software also functioned as an editor (called WorldWideWeb, running on the NeXTSTEP operating system), and the first Web server, CERN HTTPd (short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon).
Berners-Lee published the first web site, which described the project itself, on the 20th. December 1990; it was available to the Internet from the CERN network.
The site provided an explanation of what the World Wide Web was, and how people could use a browser and set up a web server, as well as how to get started with your own website.
On the 6th. August 1991, Berners-Lee first posted, on Usenet, a public invitation for collaboration with the WorldWideWeb project.
In a list of 80 cultural moments that shaped the world, chosen by a panel of 25 eminent scientists, academics, writers and world leaders, the invention of the World Wide Web was ranked number one, with the entry stating:
"The fastest growing communications medium
of all time, the Internet has changed the shape
of modern life forever. We can connect with
each other instantly, all over the world."
In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the W3C at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It comprised various companies that were willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web.
Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The World Wide Web Consortium decided that its standards should be based on royalty-free technology, so that they easily could be adopted by anyone.
In 2001, Berners-Lee became a patron of the East Dorset Heritage Trust, having previously lived in Colehill in Wimborne, East Dorset. In December 2004, he accepted a chair in computer science at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Hampshire, to work on the Semantic Web.
In a Times article in October 2009, Berners-Lee admitted that the initial pair of slashes ("//") in a web address were "unnecessary". He told the newspaper that he easily could have designed web addresses without the slashes. In his lighthearted apology he said:
"There you go, it seemed like
a good idea at the time."
-- Tim Berners-Lee's Policy Work
In June 2009, then-British prime minister Gordon Brown announced that Berners-Lee would work with the UK government in order to help make data more open and accessible on the Web, building on the work of the Power of Information Task Force.
Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt are the two key figures behind data.gov.uk, a UK government project to open up almost all data acquired for official purposes for free re-use.
Commenting on the opening up of Ordnance Survey data in April 2010, Berners-Lee said:
"The changes signal a wider cultural change
in government, based on an assumption that
information should be in the public domain
unless there is a good reason not to — not
the other way around."
He went on to say:
"Greater openness, accountability and
transparency in Government will give
people greater choice and make it
easier for individuals to get more
directly involved in issues that matter
to them."
In November 2009, Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web Foundation (WWWF) in order to campaign:
"To advance the Web to empower humanity
by launching transformative programs that
build local capacity to leverage the Web as
a medium for positive change".
Berners-Lee is one of the pioneer voices in favour of net neutrality, and has expressed the view that:
"ISPs should supply connectivity with no strings
attached, and should neither control nor monitor
the browsing activities of customers without their
expressed consent."
Tim advocates the idea that net neutrality is a kind of human network right:
"Threats to the Internet, such as companies
or governments that interfere with or snoop
on Internet traffic, compromise basic human
network rights."
As of May 2012, Tim is president of the Open Data Institute, which he co-founded with Nigel Shadbolt in 2012.
The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) was launched in October 2013, and Berners-Lee is leading the coalition of public and private organisations that includes Google, Facebook, Intel and Microsoft.
The A4AI seeks to make Internet access more affordable, so that access is broadened in the developing world, where only 31% of people are online. Berners-Lee is working with those aiming to decrease Internet access prices so that they fall below the UN Broadband Commission's worldwide target of 5% of monthly income.
Berners-Lee holds the founders chair in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he heads the Decentralized Information Group and is leading Solid, a joint project with the Qatar Computing Research Institute that aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy.
In October 2016, he joined the Department of Computer Science at Oxford University as a professorial research fellow, and as a fellow of Christ Church, one of the Oxford colleges.
From the mid-2010's Berners-Lee initially remained neutral on the emerging Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) proposal with its controversial digital rights management (DRM) implications.
In March 2017 he felt he had to take a position which was to support the EME proposal. He reasoned EME's virtues whilst noting DRM was inevitable. As W3C director, he went on to approve the finalised specification in July 2017.
Tim's stance was opposed by some, including Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the anti-DRM campaign, Defective by Design, and the Free Software Foundation. Varied concerns raised included being not supportive of the Internet's open philosophy against commercial interests, and risks of users being forced to use a particular web browser to view specific DRM content.
The EFF raised a formal appeal which did not succeed, and the EME specification became a formal W3C recommendation in September 2017.
On the 30th. September 2018, Berners-Lee announced his new open-source startup Inrupt to fuel a commercial ecosystem around the Solid project, which aims to give users more control over their personal data and lets them choose where the data goes, who's allowed to see certain elements and which apps are allowed to see that data.
In November 2019 at the Internet Governance Forum in Berlin Berners-Lee and the WWWF launched Contract for the Web, a campaign initiative to persuade governments, companies and citizens to commit to nine principles to stop "misuse", with the warning that:
"Ff we don't act now – and act together –
to prevent the web being misused by
those who want to exploit, divide and
undermine, we are at risk of squandering
its potential for good."
-- Tim Berners-Lee's Awards and Honours
Tim Berners-Lee's entry in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century (March 1999) reads as follows:
"He wove the World Wide Web and created a mass
medium for the 21st century. The World Wide Web
is Berners-Lee's alone. He designed it. He loosed it
on the world. And he more than anyone else has
fought to keep it open, nonproprietary and free."
Berners-Lee has received many awards and honours. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2004 New Year Honours:
"For services to the global development
of the Internet."
On the 13th. June 2007, he was appointed to the Order of Merit (OM), an order restricted to 24 living members, plus any honorary members. Bestowing membership of the Order of Merit is within the personal purview of the Sovereign, and does not require recommendation by ministers or the Prime Minister.
Tim was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2001. He was also elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2004 and the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
He has been conferred honorary degrees from a number of universities around the world, including Manchester (his parents worked on the Manchester Mark 1 in the 1940's), Harvard and Yale.
In 2012, Berners-Lee was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life that he most admires to mark his 80th. birthday.
In 2013, he was awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. On the 4th. April 2017, Tim received the 2016 Association for Computing Machinery's Turing Award for his invention of the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and their fundamental protocols and algorithms.
-- Tim Berners-Lee's Personal Life
Berners-Lee has said
"I like to keep work and
personal life separate."
Berners-Lee married Nancy Carlson, an American computer programmer, in 1990. She was also working in Switzerland at the World Health Organization. They had two children and divorced in 2011.
In 2014, he married Rosemary Leith at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace in London. Leith is a Canadian Internet and banking entrepreneur, and a founding director of Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation. The couple also collaborate on venture capital to support artificial intelligence companies.
Berners-Lee was raised as an Anglican, but he turned away from religion in his youth. After he became a parent, he became a Unitarian Universalist (UU). When asked whether he believes in God, he stated:
"Not in the sense of most people, I'm
atheist and Unitarian Universalist."
The web's source code was auctioned by Sotheby's in London in 2021, as a non-fungible token (NFT) by TimBL. Selling for US$5,434,500, it was reported the proceeds would be used to fund initiatives by TimBL and Leith.
I know, it's not Universal Studios or Time Magazine, but my name and pic are in a Zen Buddhist journal. They sent me the article that my pic is in. Not the whole journal. How cool is that??
No, I didn't get paid for it and I'm A-OK with that.
My first publication ever in a specialized photo magazine.
Thanks to the Better Photography team for selecting my photo.
My first magazine cover! Woot! This is for the Greater Houston Partnership magazine Here is Houston. For someone who lives mostly in the digital world (even with her film) it's so wonderful to see my work in print and especially on a cover. Makes me almost feel like a real photographer. You can see the original photo here.