British WWII Air raid shelters
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An abandoned Stanton Air Raid Shelter in young woodland near Alford, Lincolnshire, UK. This was probably part of the Air Base RAF Strubby during World War II.
Esztergom was the capital of Hungary from the 10th till the mid-13th century when King Béla IV of Hungary moved the royal seat to Buda. During the same period, the castle of Esztergom was built on the site of ancient Roman castrum. It served not only as the royal residence until the 1241 (the Mongol invasion), but also as the center of the Hungarian state, religion, and Esztergom county.
After changing his residence to Budapest, Béla IV gave the palace and castle to the archbishop. Following these events, the castle was built and decorated by the bishops. The center of the king’s town, which was surrounded by walls, was still under royal authority. A number of different monasteries did return or settle in the religious center.
Meanwhile, the citizenry had been fighting to maintain and reclaim the rights of towns against the expansion of the church within the royal town. In the chaotic years after the fall of the House of Árpád, Esztergom suffered another calamity: in 1304, the forces of Wenceslaus II, the Czech king occupied and raided the castle. In the years to come, the castle was owned by several individuals: Róbert Károly and then Louis the Great patronized the town.
The Ottoman conquest of Mohács in 1526 brought a decline to the previously flourishing Esztergom as well. In the Battle of Mohács, the archbishop of Esztergom died. In the period between 1526 and 1543, when two rival kings reigned in Hungary, Esztergom was besieged six times. At times it was the forces of Ferdinand I or John Zápolya, at other times the Ottomans attacked. Finally, in 1530, Ferdinand I occupied the castle. He put foreign mercenaries in the castle, and sent the chapter and the bishopric to Nagyszombat and Pozsony.
However, in 1543 Sultan Suleiman I attacked the castle and took it. Esztergom became the centre of an Ottoman sanjak controlling several counties, and also a significant castle on the northwest border of the Ottoman Empire. In the 17th century Esztergom was besieged and conquered several times during the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars. Most of the buildings in the castle and the town that had been built in the Middle Ages were destroyed during this period, and there were only uninhabitable, smothered ruins to welcome the liberators.
In 1761 the bishopric regained control over the castle, where they started the preliminary processes of the reconstruction of the new religious center: the middle of the Várhegy (Castle Hill), the remains of Saint Stephen and Saint Adalbert churches were carried away to provide room for the new cathedral.
Le anatre si sono accalcate per accaparrarsi la loro parte del cibo che viene buttato in acqua da volenterosi pensionati. Improvvisamente ecco un attacco dal cielo da parte di decine di gabbiani pronti ad inserirsi nella spartizione.
I wanted the dinosaurs to be holding the food/drinks that they raided but without glue I couldn't make it work. So, for today you can imagine them with their plunder.
It seems like the wrong vibe because today we will lay my cousin to rest and comfort one another. I have witnessed amazing support for the family from around the world. Her story is tragic and has touched many hearts prompting them to send prayers, gifts or donations. I'm grateful that her son will be loved and well cared for. We stop to mourn but we still must carry on and being silly helps ease the pain.
I watched a jay raiding the nest of a blackbird. It systematically removed the moss that was hiding their chick...it then got the chick and went off with it. Fascinating to watch & it was being harassed by the blackbird parents throughout. Nature in all it's gory glory.
Grackle getting ready to raid the bird food... Look at those beady yellow eyes... he's up to no good I tell you!
August 2nd, 1675
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The Siege of Brookfield was a major engagement during King Philip's War in the mid 17th century. The war itself was fought between Metacomet of the Pokanoket (known as King Philip) and Plymouth colonists over settlement disagreements, killings of Native Americans, and Native raids on villages. The war would last from June of 1675 to April of 1678, and is known as the bloodiest war per capita in American history, with nearly 5,000 casualties combined. The war lost momentum when King Philip was hunted and killed at Mount Hope on August 12, 1676.
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The Siege of Brookfield lasted for two days and was the culmination of Wheeler's Surprise, where militia under Thomas Wheeler were ambushed and driven to the town of Brookfield by Nipmuc Indians. Muttawmp, the leader of the Nimpuc, is said to have used a flaming hay wagon in effort to set a "garrison" house ablaze. A "garrison" house acted as a fortified stronghold to protect settlers and colonial militia from Native attackers. Settlers would have evacuated their homes and fled to this fortified structure to outlast the siege. The siege was broken when a relief force of 350 militia and allied Mohegan warriors arrived, which led Muttawmp to withdraw - not after looting and destroying many homes in the settlement.
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This build depicts the initial Nipmuc assault on the town, with a number of Wheeler's retreating militiamen aiding the retreat to the "garrison" house. Muttawmp and his flaming hay wagon are visible atop the hill, and Wheeler himself can be seen commanding his troops in the village.
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I urge anyone interested in this conflict to check out Atun-Shei Films and his series on King Philip's War. This was built immediately after BFVA so I could have something to post before I go back to school. The houses are inspired by @neighborhoodbricks and @spikyguy 's houses from their La Campagne build this year. The majority of the militia troops are @ktownbricks figures and heads.
Norwich Cathedral has the largest monastic cloister in England. It was constructed as a covered walkway enclosing an open quadrangle, or garth, and connected the Cathedral with the various monastic buildings. To the north the cloister is bounded by the Cathedral nave, into which there are two doors, one from each of the cloister's northern corners. To the east was the Chapter House, long since demolished, the entrance to which now leads out into the Cathedral Close. A doorway, now bricked up, led to the stairs to the monks' dormitory above. On the south side were the refectory and the infirmary. Nothing remains of the latter, but a stunning new Refectory, opened in 2004 and combining medieval and modern architecture, now stands on the site of the former. Open seven days a week it serves refreshments and light lunches, and is well worth a visit. From the west walk a door led into the priory's guest hall, or hostry, and now leads into the new Hostry building, partly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and completed in 2009.
The original Norman cloister was mostly destroyed during the riot of 1272, which was the culmination of a period of unrest over what the townspeople perceived as the unfair granting of landholding rights to the priory. Some of the land involved fell outside the Cathedral precincts, yet citizens living within these areas were expected to pay taxes and tithes to the priory. By the summer of 1272 things had come to a head and a state of siege existed. Efforts to reach a peaceful settlement failed when the Prior brought in armed mercenaries from Yarmouth who arrived by boat directly into the Cathedral precincts. They subsequently sallied forth into Norwich at night, burning and looting as they went. Several citizens were wounded and one was killed. The next day the city authorities called for a muster of men, and a raid on the priory ensued, and it is said that flaming arrows were fired from the nearby tower of the church of St George Tombland. One of the Cathedral gates was burned down to gain access, and several buildings within the precinct, including the church of St Ethelbert and the priory's bell tower, were ransacked and burned. Most of the monastic buildings, including the cloister, were destroyed and the fire spread to the Cathedral itself.
Evidence of this can still be seen inside the
Cathedral in places where the stonework has
taken on a pinkish discolouration caused by the
extreme heat.
every morning these guys come in and raid the peanuts left out for the Jay. There are three and they do nothing but bicker with each other. They used to take the peanuts away to stash them now they just bury them where they find them.
Reeuwijk Raid 2011 (sailing race on the 'Reeuwijkse plassen', The Netherlands).
This image was taken by a camera lofted by a kite. The weather was difficult: frequent strong wind gusts and heavy showers. The weather changed for the better at the end of the race, allowing this shot where the participants are moored to a small yellow buoy.
Best viewed large. The rest of this series can be viewed on www.fotovlieger.nl
A post-collapse Black Ops team is performing a raid on a rundown modern villa. While seemingly abandoned, the building was recently claimed by an armed civilian.
This was most notably inspired by diegoboy and modern architecture as a whole. While I have done damaged buildings multiple times already, it was definitely a fun experience to focus on a certain kind of architecture and to create a small modern villa.
Witches and warriors stop a group of skeleton raiders at Trout's Crossing, during the Nocturnus Civil War.
Overview: flickr.com/photos/133320869@N05/50866472188/
Eurobricks topic: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/192362-n...
This display is Brick to the Past's "Raid on Maracaibo" diorama detailing one of the events in the life of famed pirate/privateer Henry Morgan. It was shown at Bricktastic 2018 in Manchester.
The builders were James Pegrum, Dan Harris, Simon Pickard and myself.
Raid boats are a leisure pursuit combining sailing and rowing boat.
Powered by sail and oar (no use of engines allowed!) raiding allows you to enjoy a bit of light competition over a set course.
Big gun in front, guy with carbine and lightsaber, I guess it's some space mercenary or assassin or something equally edgetastic.
meh
Cattle egret-Bubulcus ibis
Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) and Little egret (Egretta garzetta)
The cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a cosmopolitan species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Bubulcus, although some authorities regard two of its subspecies as full species, the western cattle egret and the eastern cattle egret. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea. Originally native to parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, it has undergone a rapid expansion in its distribution and successfully colonised much of the rest of the world in the last century.
It is a white bird adorned with buff plumes in the breeding season. It nests in colonies, usually near bodies of water and often with other wading birds. The nest is a platform of sticks in trees or shrubs. Cattle egrets exploit drier and open habitats more than other heron species. Their feeding habitats include seasonally inundated grasslands, pastures, farmlands, wetlands and rice paddies. They often accompany cattle or other large mammals, catching insect and small vertebrate prey disturbed by these animals. Some populations of the cattle egret are migratory and others show post-breeding dispersal.
The adult cattle egret has few predators, but birds or mammals may raid its nests, and chicks may be lost to starvation, calcium deficiency or disturbance from other large birds. This species maintains a special relationship with cattle, which extends to other large grazing mammals; wider human farming is believed to be a major cause of their suddenly expanded range. The cattle egret removes ticks and flies from cattle and consumes them. This benefits both species, but it has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_egret
An example of an air-raid siren at Bristol's Aerospace Museum in Filton. The sound of this going off would send factory workers rushing for the air-raid shelter, I assume only during a war!
Dark Times Group Raid on Imperial Outstations
Story to be added soon
Little imperial base build to showcase the Dark Times figures I've had on my desk for months now. Essentially rebel and imperial special forces types. Done in collab with some gentlemen in the group.
In celebration of the anniversary of the Lindisfarne Raid in 793, I proudly present to y'all, "Raid!".
Last night Ned* & Dougal* & I went in search of the infamous Inverclyde WW2 air-raid shelter that was built for the workers of the local rope factory. After about 2yrs of wondering where on earth it was we recieved an unexpected tip-off as to its whereabouts. (*names changed to protect anonymity...)
Unbelievably we discovered another likely looking tunnel candidate in the vicinity 1st before Ned struck lucky and found the shelter...
At 600' long, 10' wide & 7' high it was considered the largest shelter in the UK when it was built in 1939. It was tunneled into the rock 45' below the surface- the government required shelters be 25' below surface so this one was considered literally bomb-proof...
Great info here about the Greenock Blitz in 1941
On Monday 3rd January 2022 members of the Bath Tub Club drove from Warminster to Imber across Salisbury Plain.
Imber is an uninhabited village within the British Army's training area on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. It remains under the control of the Ministry of Defence and non-military access is limited to several open days a year.
There is plenty for everybody...See the friend higher up behind the leaves.
Platycercus Elegans faveolus
P1140030
Explore #172 Feb 5....2009
A post-collapse Black Ops team is performing a raid on a rundown modern villa. While seemingly abandoned, the building was recently claimed by an armed civilian.
This was most notably inspired by diegoboy and modern architecture as a whole. While I have done damaged buildings multiple times already, it was definitely a fun experience to focus on a certain kind of architecture and to create a small modern villa.
BODY//
Lelutka Head- EvoX GAIA
REBORN - Waifus - Addon
REBORN by eBODY
[Ebody, Smaller] Phatpussy
[The DeadBoy] Morus Tongue
[The DeadBoy] Shisa Teeths (Lelutka)
^^Swallow^^ Pixie Gauged S Ears
SOMEONE - Pixie Eyes - Yellow
L'Emporio&PL::*Damned Claws*::BENTO-eBody Reborn
UNHOLY_Poppy Icy_No Brows
Picasso Babe Skin for Ebody Reborn (MODELESQUE/ICY) S
^^Swallow^^ Velour Icy Gauged Ears (f)
::Static:: Taffeta Horns {No Ribbon}
[HAIR]DURA-B133 -ALL COLORS
Core&Gore :: Fluff Eyebrows
MAKEUP-TATTOOS//
Tear-Pandora Evox HD lip
Eternia - Abyss Liner 3
Lilithe'// Sjora Tattoos - Faded
Lilithe'// Hecate Tattoos - Faint
[MR] Mysterious Ear Tattoo compatible with Swallow Gauged s [1]
CLOTHING-DECO//
[Kottr] Raid Tier set w/ Waifu&PhatPussy
^^Swallow^^ Earrings Pixie Gauged S02 (f)
^^Swallow^^ Earrings Pixie Gauged S06 (f)
Clover - Celestial piercings: gaia
Environment
/VaeV\ - 'Ragnarok Shard' Jotunn Sword
/Vae Victis\ - "Eilune" - Pastoralist Crook
/VaeV\ 'Aristo's Vow' blood tube
/Vae Victis\ - "Aza'Telos" - Starforged Monolith
Robotsystem 77 (RBS 77) is a medium ranged surface to air missile system used by the Nordic Union. After suffering from a cowardly attack by the Nordasnk Federation's aircraft that killed hundreds of unarmed civilians, the Union began developing a means of defending against a future air raids agianst its capital.
RBS 77 can be transported via Tgb 40 trucks and are often set up in combination with Giraffe mobile radars to defend military bases and major population centers.
Specs:
Speed: Mach 2.4
Operational range: 40km
Maximum Altitude: 20km
Warhead Weight:75 kg
Hadn't worn this skirt for ages, so time for it to see the light of day.
Aiming for smart casual look with this one. Just wish it was real leather rather than fake.
La luz ciega el mañana.
Los rayos, antes de que los atrape,
vencen su brillo.
La oscuridad acaricia
en los albores de mi capitulación
su danza y sus tambores.
¡Oh sombras
penetradme
hacedme vuestra carroña!
Para que pueda ser
nada y nadie;
el curvado doblón
el escudo ajado del abatido
el ahogo del chillido
el eco de quien aventura las dunas
y los desiertos y fondas de la locura
bajo una luna manchada.
¡Oh sombras
penetradme
hacedme vuestra carroña!
Para que pueda ser
nada y nadie;
el apostado en el tembloroso suelo
el llanto que la distancia acalla
el sudor febril y gélido
el poema en el papel raído, perdido de las manos, escrito en el olvido.
By: Victor Atobas
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