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Ce monument commémore l’une des dernières figures importantes des Lumières écossaises, le philosophe et professeur de philosophie morale à l’Université d’Édimbourg (de 1786 jusqu’à sa mort en 1828) : Dugald Stewart (1753-1828). Considéré comme l’un des plus grands philosophes de son temps, il a également enseigné l’économie, la philosophie naturelle, le grec et la logique et a été l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages de philosophie, dont la philosophie de l’esprit humain. En 1792, Stewart publia Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, un traité qui commence par une discussion sur la vue. Stewart, comme le philosophe David Hume (1711-76) avant lui, s’intéressait particulièrement à la perception comme moyen de comprendre le monde, croyant que l’on ne pouvait pas se concentrer sur tout mais se limitait à des détails spécifiques. Il était un disciple de l’école de philosophie scottish Common Sense fondée par Thomas Reid, dont il avait assisté aux conférences à l’Université de Glagow. Parmi les étudiants bien connus de Stewart, on compte Lord Palmerston, le futur premier ministre, James Mill, le philosophe, et Sir Walter Scott, le romancier et poète.
La Royal Society of Edinburgh a commandé le monument et choisi son site en 1830. Ce dernier a été achevé en Septembre 1831, trois ans après la mort de Stewart. Il a été conçu par l'architecte écossais William Henry Playfair. Le mémorial est basé sur le monument choragique de Lysicrate à Athènes. Il s’agit d’un temple circulaire de neuf colonnes corinthiennes cannelées autour d’une urne surélevée sur un podium circulaire et dispose d’un toit en forme de dôme peu profond, surmonté au centre d’une urne ouverte à plumes. Il dispose d’une clôture polygonale en fonte restaurée avec des piliers en pierre, ornés de couronnes. La forme du monument choragique d’Athènes était devenue plus largement connue grâce à son illustration dans les Antiquités d’Athènes de Stuart et Revett, publiées en 1762. Une version contemporaine du monument, le monument Burns de Thomas Hamilton (1830-32) peut être vu à proximité sur Regent Road.
This monument commemorates one of the last important figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, the philosopher and professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh (from 1786 until his death in 1828): Dugald Stewart (1753-1828). Considered one of the greatest philosophers of his time, he also taught economics, natural philosophy, Greek and logic and was the author of several philosophical works, including The Philosophy of the Human Mind . In 1792 Stewart published Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, a treatise that begins with a discussion of sight. Stewart, like the philosopher David Hume (1711-76) before him, was particularly interested in perception as a means of understanding the world, believing that one could not focus on everything but was limited to specific details. He was a disciple of the Scottish Common Sense school of philosophy founded by Thomas Reid, whose lectures he had attended at the University of Glagow. Well-known students of Stewart include Lord Palmerston, the future Prime Minister, James Mill, the philosopher, and Sir Walter Scott, the novelist and poet.
The Royal Society of Edinburgh commissioned the monument and chose its site in 1830. It was completed in September 1831, three years after Stewart's death. It was designed by Scottish architect William Henry Playfair. The memorial is based on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens. It is a circular temple of nine fluted Corinthian columns around a raised urn on a circular podium and has a shallow domed roof, surmounted in the center by an open feathered urn. It has a restored cast iron polygonal fence with stone pillars, adorned with crowns. The form of the Choragic Monument at Athens had become more widely known through its illustration in Stuart and Revett's Antiquities of Athens, published in 1762. A contemporary version of the monument, Thomas Hamilton's Burns Monument (1830-32) may be seen nearby on Regent Road.
Marquette. A recent restoration by the Iron Ore Heritage Trail. The kilns were used to turn wood into charcoal, which burns hotter than wood. The charcoal was then used in blast furnaces to smelt iron ore into pig iron for shipping. More about the U.P. kilns here. www.fs.usda.gov/generalinfo/hiawatha/recreation/naturevie...
Wakehurst Place. The house is completely wrapped in fireproof cladding so that work can be undertaken in repairing the roof. The public were able to access a viewing platform to see the work and to have a view over the gardens.
81/123 pictures in 2023: Preservation of a building
This is the town where George Washington crossed the Delaware River on his March to his victory over the Hessian troops Christmas Eve 1776.
LMS 5MT 4-6-0 No 45321 heads south through the yard at Quorn & Woodhouse Station with the 1015 Santa Special from Loughborough to Leicester North on the Great Central Railway on 19th December 2004.
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Retired and restored RNLI boat 37-34 Horace Clarkson sits high and dry on the sand bank at Wells-next-the-Sea in Norfolk.
Taken along US Route 66 somewhere a little East of Carthage, Missouri.
If I see a COE semi pretty much anywhere these days, I'm going to make an effort to get a shot of it. I'm surprised I even noticed this one. I think we stopped because we saw some other old wrecks and then spotted this KW in among them. Unfortunately it was so packed in among the growth that this is the best I could do from any angle.
From the little I can see, it doesn't look to be in all that bad condition, but would probably be better served with the window closed. My guess is that it could be restored by the proper person. I always wonder what the story is when I find these things.
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VIA 6309 was cosmetically restored last year and entered the Angus Pavillion (Exporail's main building) last fall.
My project today. Using the "piggyback" method to diagnose which RAM chip is faulty in a very old computer.
A beautiful house begging to be restored.
Getsemani Neighborhood, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
Back in the 2000s, Getsemani was considered a dangerous area, but its historic streets have transformed over time into the city’s official backpacker quarter. Hip hostels and artsy cafés have popped up to serve those who are not traveling on the luxury budget that the Old City demands. Getsemani also now has its own raging nightlife scene, much of it fuelled by its homegrown but African-rooted Champeta music, and houses some of the city’s top restaurants.
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These seven photos continue my documentation of our camping trip.
We took a side trip to the airport in Dubois, Idaho to see the recently restored 1920's airmail beacon, arrow, and control shack. It turned out beautiful. You can see pre-restoration photos in my Giant Concrete Arrows album.
The church was built in 1654 in dedication to Saint Peter over a medieval citadel that was erected by Frederick I and restored by Louis IX of France at the beginning of the second half of the thirteenth century. However, in the late eighteenth century the church was twice destroyed and consequently twice rebuilt. The current structure was built between 1888 and 1894 and most recently renovated in 1903. The church was constructed on its present location because of the significance Jaffa has to Christianity. It was in Jaffa that Saint Peter raised Tabitha, one of Jesus' disciples, from the dead according to the Acts of the Apostles, Acts 9:36-43, Acts 10:1-4. The church is dedicated to him. Since the large church is located on a hill near the shore, the building has historically dominated the view of Jaffa from the sea, thus serving as a beacon to pilgrims, signaling that the Holy Land is near.
Five more photos documenting the Elkhorn, Montana portion of our summer camping trip.
There is a short row of buildings that have survived along the main street at Elkhorn, Montana. Most are abandoned, but a few have been preserved or restored.
Semi-finished state. The policromía was literally falling off the image. The restorer has taken almost 7 months of filling in the mising parts and stabilizing them. This Cristo belongs to the Calvario tableau.
This nice Escort, whose previous colour was white, was first registered in 12/1972. It is seen here on the A683 Egdale Lane, at the Fat Lamb Country Inn, Crossbank, Ravenstonedale, when attending the Cumbria Easter Rally, on 08/04/2023. © Peter Steel 2023.
2 ... return to the LORD your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 then the LORD your God lwill restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will mgather you again from all the peoples where the LORD your God has scattered you
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton: Standard Bible Society, 2001), Dt 30:2–3.
Güzelcekemer (Turkish “Beautiful Aqueduct”) is an Ottoman aqueduct bridge of the Kırkçeşme Supply System completed in 1563. It is one of several aqueduct bridges made by Mimar Sinan. He tapered this structure from the foundations upwards and its piers have been reinforced with buttresses. It suffered extensive water damage from a flood in 1563, after which it was restored.
It is a monumental aqueduct bridge that passes over the Cebeciköy Stream. It is 165 meters long and 29.5 meters high. It has two tiers of arches – eleven on its upper tier and 8 on its lower tier.
Patti picked up around 20 old pics when she was in MN. I took this one and cleaned it up. It had a good amount of damage. I am not very good at it but I enjoy restoring old pics.
If you feel tired of your life, just come to Kyoto and see trees of green,
hear the sounds of wind, and take a deep breath with smell of fresh leaves.
That's enough to restoring your soul.
St Swithun was an Anglo Saxon saint, born in Winchester and Bishop of Winchester from his consecration on 30 October 852 until his death on 2 July 863. However, he is scarcely mentioned in any document of his own time. He died in 863 when King Alfred the Great was still a young man. It is possible that St Swithun was tutor to the young king and accompanied him on a pilgrimage to Rome. His death is entered in the Canterbury manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS F) under the year 861. He is recorded as a witness to nine charters, the earliest of which (S 308) is dated 854.
More than a hundred years later, when Dunstan and Æthelwold of Winchester were inaugurating their church reform, Swithun was adopted as patron of the restored church at Winchester, formerly dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. His body was transferred from its almost forgotten grave to Æthelwold's new basilica on 15 July 971; according to contemporary writers, numerous miracles preceded and followed the move.
According to legend, St Swithun has a special association with the English weather, a legend which dates from July 971 when the bones of the saint were moved from outside the old Saxon cathedral and brought inside the building, apparently causing a great thunderstorm:
"On St Swithun's Day, if then dost rain,
For forty days it will remain:
St Swithun's Day, if then be fair,
For forty days 'twill rain nae mair."
A Buckinghamshire variation has
“If on St Swithun's day it really pours
You're better off to stay indoors.”
Swithun was initially buried out of doors, rather than in his cathedral, apparently at his own request. William of Malmesbury recorded that the bishop left instructions that his body should be buried outside the church, ubi et pedibus praetereuntium et stillicidiis ex alto rorantibus esset obnoxius [where it might be subject to the feet of passers-by and to the raindrops pouring from on high], which has been taken as indicating that the legend was already well known in the 12th century.
In 971 it was decided to move his body to a new indoor shrine, and one theory traces the origin of the legend to a heavy shower by which, on the day of the move, the saint marked his displeasure towards those who were removing his remains. This story, however, cannot be traced further back than the 17th or 18th century. Also, it is at variance with the 10th century writers, who all agreed that the move took place in accordance with the saint's desire expressed in a vision. James Raine suggested that the legend was derived from the tremendous downpour of rain that occurred, according to the Durham chroniclers, on St. Swithun's Day, 1315.
John Earle suggests that the legend comes from a pagan or possibly prehistoric day of augury. In France, St. Medard (8 June), Urban of Langres, and St. Gervase and St. Protais (19 June) are credited with an influence on the weather almost identical with that attributed to St Swithun in England. In Flanders, there is St Godelieve (6 July) and in Germany the Seven Sleepers' Day (27 June). There is a scientific basis to the weather pattern behind the legend of St Swithun's day. Around the middle of July, the jet stream settles into a pattern which, in the majority of years, holds reasonably steady until the end of August. When the jet stream lies north of the British Isles then continental high pressure is able to move in; when it lies across or south of the British Isles, Arctic air and Atlantic weather systems predominate.
The most false that the prediction has been, according to the Guinness Book of Records, were 1924 when 13.5 hours of sunshine in London were followed by 30 of the next 40 days being wet, and 1913 when a 15-hour rainstorm was followed by 30 dry days of 40.
St Swithun's Day is celebrated on 15 July. Wikipedia