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The land that is Denver was part of Arapaho and Cheyenne territory recognized by the Treaty of Fort Laramie, but the discovery of gold in the Rockies led to encroachment by settlers as they moved West in the Gold Rush. The railroad came, Denver began to develop, and the first residential neighborhood was Curtis Park. It was an affluent place, with brick homes built in many architectural styles, but it was also a place where those of different economic status and religions (Christians and Jews) lived together. But it wasn't long before other neighborhoods were built, and residents migrated to newer and "nicer" places, and Curtis Park went into decline, African Americans, who were kept out of other neighborhoods by redlining moved here, and during WWII, Japanese-Americans facing relocation to internment camps came, and the area became more and more Mexican American as well. Neal Cassady, the beat writer (born in 1926), grew up in a boarding house here with his alcoholic father, and later, Jack Kerouac ("On the Road"), Neal Cassady and their gang made the area one of the layovers and temporary residences between restless wanderings to the coasts and Mexico City to the South. The area continued its decline until "gentrification" by young Whites started, initially in the 1990s, only to falter after 2008 Great Recession. More recently, gentrification has taken deep root and houses going for millions are not uncommon. The building above, in a transitional area, is certain to be renovated once the current real estate market drawback is over, if not before.
2021 Texas SandFest.
Texas SandFest is the largest native-sand sculpture competition in the USA. What began as a small local competition in 1997 has grown into an internationally recognized three-day family event that draws renowned sand sculptors and tens of thousands of visitors from around the world each year to Port Aransas. Texas SandFest attendees enjoy amazing sand sculptures, food, live music, kids’ activities and shopping for arts & crafts, apparel, jewelry, furniture, souvenirs and more. Our Mission: To give back to the community by raising funds for local charities and scholarships for high school students.
The universal beautiful Rose. Its many colors and shades are always the hit of the flower and garden show. Thanks for visiting my photo stream and leaving your generous comments. Gratitude and Kindness are also “Recognizable In Any Garden In Any Country.”
I write this tentatively because I know myself too well and recognize that if I start something like this again, I wont let myself leave it unfinished.
I have decided to start another 365 project.
With that said, the series may differ slightly from my last one and I may include photos that simply document the day instead of a self portrait. This may be less conceptual.
I was remembering how I felt throughout the project I completed several years ago and how motivated it made me. I had no idea the simple act of having to take a picture each day for one year, of fully committing myself to a project, would influence other areas of my life. I love that I can look through that series and remember all I went through. I also grew tremendously in skill level and I'd like to grow even further.
As I did when I started the first, I thought about where I will be If I complete this project-I will be a second semester senior in college at the end. That thought is terrifying but all the more reason to give this a shot. Last time I was about to graduate highschool; it was a massive undertaking and now I am once again at a huge stepping stone in my life as I grow closer to the end of my college career. I want to try and capture that process.
On another note, know that I am in a very different place than I was when I last did this. I have grown up in a lot of ways and fallen back in others but I do know that I have become less "enchanted" with the internet world than I once was. That's part of the reason why I chose not to start another 365 project until now-I was simply worn out from spending so much time online as silly as that sounds but it was my life.
Now on the other hand, I have been touched by so many people who follow my work. The amount of stories I have read from people who have been influenced by my photos is priceless. I started taking photos because I wanted to relate to people and that bit hasn't changed. I want to do this as much for me as for those who gain something/anything from my photos. I want to motivate, touch, connect with, help, and relate to as many people as I can and if it means starting another journey like this then so be it.
So here's to an effort.
Here's to project 365 year 2.
Woo!!
Like always: listen.
Ingresso della Chiesa ai piedi del Monte degli Ulivi, in prossimità della Grotta del Tradimento.
La chiesa dell'Assunzione di Maria (più conosciuta come la tomba di Maria o Tomba della Vergine) è una chiesa di Gerusalemme, posta ai piedi del monte degli Ulivi. È proprietà comune dei cristiani greco-ortodossi e armeni, secondo i regolamenti previsti dallo Statu Quo emanato dalla Sublime Porta l'8 febbraio 1852 e confermato dal Trattato di Berlino nel 1878.
Nessun passo biblico parla della morte di Maria: è solo il Transito della Vergine, un testo apocrifo il cui autore raccoglie tradizioni dell'epoca apostolica, che parla della morte e assunzione di Maria in cielo. La tradizione e la devozione popolare hanno sempre riconosciuto, fin dal II secolo, questo luogo come il luogo in cui la madre di Gesù fu assunta in cielo.
Nel IV secolo fu costruita una prima chiesa, scavata nella roccia viva. Nel 395 il breviario di Gerusalemme cita le tomba di Maria come sita nella valle della Basilica di Santa Maria. Gli autori dell'epoca bizantina menzionano anch'essi questo luogo.[1]
Nel secolo seguente il vescovo Giovenale di Gerusalemme consacrò la chiesa alla Madre di Dio. Ciò avvenne dopo il Concilio di Efeso del 431, che proclamò il dogma della Maternità divina di Maria. Nel VI secolo fu costruita una grande basilica a pianta rotonda sopra la chiesa precedente, la quale divenne la cripta del nuovo edificio che custodì il sepolcro della Madonna.
Prima dell'arrivo del Crociati la parte superiore della chiesa era già stata distrutta; i monaci benedettini, negli anni 1112-1130, edificarono sopra la cripta una nuova chiesa con annesso monastero. Nel 1187 anche questo venne distrutto da Saladino; fu risparmiata però la cripta in onore della “beatissima madre del profeta Gesù”.
Di proprietà dei francescani, nel 1757 venne loro tolta ed affidata in comune ai cristiani greco-ortodossi ed armeni.
Di fatto, dunque, a noi è giunta solo la cripta, a cui si accede per una lunga scalinata. Il forte dislivello fra l'entrata e l'ambiente sotterraneo è causa di frequenti inondazioni, l'ultima delle quali risale al 1972.
[Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera.]
Jerusalem: Church of the Assumption of Mary (better known as Tomb of Mary)
Church entrance at the foot of the Mount of Olives, near the Cave of Betrayal.
The Church of the Assumption of Mary (better known as the tomb of Mary or Tomb of the Virgin) is a church in Jerusalem, located at the foot of the Mount of Olives. It is a common property of Greek Orthodox and Armenian Christians, according to the regulations established by the Statu Quo issued by the Sublime Porte on 8 February 1852 and confirmed by the Treaty of Berlin in 1878.
No biblical passage speaks of the death of Mary: it is only the Transit of the Virgin, an apocryphal text whose author collects traditions of the apostolic era, which speaks of the death and assumption of Mary in heaven. Tradition and popular devotion have always recognized, since the second century, this place as the place where the mother of Jesus was taken to heaven.
In the fourth century a first church was built, carved out of the living rock. In 395 the Jerusalem breviary mentions the tomb of Mary as located in the valley of the Basilica of Santa Maria. The authors of the Byzantine era also mention this place. [1]
In the following century the bishop Juvenal of Jerusalem consecrated the church to the Mother of God. This happened after the Council of Ephesus of 431, which proclaimed the dogma of the divine Motherhood of Mary. In the sixth century a large round-shaped basilica was built above the previous church, which became the crypt of the new building that guarded the sepulcher of the Madonna.
Before the arrival of the Crusaders the upper part of the church had already been destroyed; the Benedictine monks, in the years 1112-1130, built a new church with annexed monastery over the crypt. In 1187 this was also destroyed by Saladin; however, the crypt was spared in honor of the "blessed mother of the prophet Jesus".
Owned by the Franciscans, in 1757 it was taken from them and entrusted in common to Greek Orthodox and Armenian Christians.
In fact, therefore, only the crypt has reached us, which is accessed by a long staircase. The steep difference between the entrance and the underground environment is the cause of frequent flooding, the last of which dates back to 1972.
[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.]
The Rivergate Tower is a 454 ft tall skyscraper in downtown Tampa, Florida with 31 floors. It is also known as the Sykes building and commonly referred to as the Beer Can Building.
Building Facts:
The architects of this skyscraper were recognized with an Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in 1993.
The building is one of the tallest limestone structures in the world.
At sunset, the building's limestone facade glows yellow-orange over the Tampa skyline.
The building's cylindrical design was intended to look like a lighthouse on the Tampa skyline.
The building's only exterior lighting are two skyward facing lights, which further the building's lighthouse symbolism.
Concentric circles located in the building's lobby mark distances of time and space.
Despite the building's apparent cylindrical design, a linear grid wraps around the building's facade.
The building's measurements and numerical seaquences are based on the Fibonacci series (where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers).
The building's 1,880 windows and 13 feet from floor to floor resemble the building's mathematical basis on the Fibonacci series.
The building was built as the NCNB state headquarters, which was formerly located in the city of Miami.
At the base of the tower are two 6-story cubes where bank tellers used to work.
The building's top five floors have thin rose-colored glass notches that offer views over the city.
The building has floor to ceiling windows with a thick concrete band horizontally separating them, which gives the appearance of two smaller windows.
The building has a 26-foot high entrance way that faces the park across.
The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, it is the world's tallest arch, the tallest man-made monument in the Western Hemisphere, and Missouri's tallest accessible building. Built as a monument to the westward expansion of the United States, and officially dedicated to "the American people," the Arch, commonly referred to as "The Gateway to the West" is the centerpiece of Gateway Arch National Park and has become an internationally recognized symbol of St. Louis, as well as a popular tourist destination.
I recently began volunteering as a cam op, for Bison & Prairie Dogs in the grasslands. Thought you'd like to see who I saw today! It's a lot of fun, and I have even more respect for the SNZ cam operators. Thank you for what you do each day. I recognize that it is not very easy!! SNZ cam ops are awesome!!
I have always liked "The Stranger" by Billy Joel. This image , when it came together, made me think of it.
The Stranger
Billy Joel
Well we all have a face
That we hide away forever
And we take them out
And show ourselves
When everyone has gone
Some are satin some are steel
Some are silk and some are leather
They're the faces of the stranger
But we love to try them on
Well we all fall in love
But we disregard the danger
Though we share so many secrets
There are some we never tell
Why were you so surprised
That you never saw the stranger?
Did you ever let your lover see
The stranger in yourself?
Don't be afraid to try again
Everyone goes south
Every now and then
Ooh, Ooh
You've done it, why can't someone else?
You should know by now
You've been there yourself
Once I used to believe
I was such a great romancer
Then I came home to a woman
That I could not recognize
When I pressed her for a reason
She refused to even answer
It was then I felt the stranger
Kick me right between the eyes
Well we all fall in love
But we disregard the danger
Though we share so many secrets
There are some we never tell
Why were you so surprised
That you never saw the stranger?
Did you ever let your lover see
The stranger in yourself?
Don't be afraid to try again
Everyone goes south
Every now and then
Ooh, ooh
You've done it, why can't someone else?
You should know by now
You've been there yourself
You may never understand
How the stranger is inspired
But he isn't always evil
And he is not always wrong
Though you drown in good intentions
You will never quench the fire
You'll give in to your desire
When the stranger comes along
Ooh, Ooh
Ooh, Ooh
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Billy Joel
The Stranger lyrics © Impulsive Music
Young widow Mother and her newborn, in the Lada refugee camp along the south east Bangladesh-Burma coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Quite a common social status for women to be widow regarding the Ethnic cleansing in the Arakhane Burmese state, and the repressive Bangladesh jailing answer to the immigration.
Taken in Lada unregistered Refugee Camp, Teknaf district, South East Bangladesh.
Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh: Limiting the Damage of a Protracted Crisis
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Rohingya Refugee Crisis Explained
www.unrefugees.org/news/rohingya-refugee-crisis-explained/
Six Years of Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh: From Here to Where?
www.spf.org/apbi/news_en/b_240627.html
The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the North Rakhine State in western Burma. Over the past forty years, the Burmese government has systematically stripped over 1 million Rohingya of their citizenship. Recognized as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, the Rohingya are granted few social, economic and civil rights. They are subjected to forced labor, arbitrary land seizure, religious persecution, extortion, the freedom to travel, and the right to marry. Because of the abuse they endure in Burma, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Burma to seek sanctuary in neighboring Bangladesh. In the refugee camps along the south east coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Unwanted and unwelcome, they receive little or no humanitarian assistance and are vulnerable to exploitation and harassment. In recent years, the Rohingya have paid brokers to smuggle them by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia and even beyond to Australia, sparking the attention of governments throughout the region.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has confirmed that the statelessness of the Rohingya is not just a Burma-related problem, but a problem with larger regional implications.
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The old couple don't recognize their station. The station they used to know. When they were young.
Maybe it was outdated. Maybe it was creepy.
But it was the place of their first date.
The place where the boy of the city waited for the train of his lovely girl coming from from her village before their were married.
From here, they were taking the train to go to the sea or the capital city.
Now all this is gone.
Their souvenirs are lost in this brand new alien architecture.
They look so small in this future architecture that overwhelms them.
Le vieux couple ne reconnaît pas leur gare. Celle à laquelle ils étaient habitués depuis des décennies. Celle de leur jeunesse.
L'endroit de leurs premiers rendez-vous.
Là où le jeune homme de la ville attendait, le coeur battant, le train qui emmenait la jeune villageoise.
L'endroit où ils prennaient le train en famille pour aller à la capitale ou à la mer.
Tout cela s'est enfui.
Leurs souvenirs s'égarent dans cette architecture inconnue et étrange.
Ils semblent si petits dans ces structures du futur, qui les enveloppe et les dépasse.
Liege-Guillemins Station, Belgium
Gare de Liège-Guillemins, Belgique
How did I get back here? Somehow, I'm in my bedroom. With my War of Two Moons posters on the wall, and my books all lined up on the bookshelf beside my bed. It was the opening assembly at the Crossroads Academy.. But then, everything went black, and now I'm here, in my room. I look over at the clock, and it reads 6:55 am. My stomach rumbles, as if it's asking me to be fed. Getting off the bed, I scrounge through my dresser, until I find my plain white t-shirt, and jeans. I grab my hoodie off of its hangar in my closet, putting it on. I'm about to open the door, when I notice my sneakers sitting there. "That's strange." I quietly mutter to myself, grabbing them in a hurry. Got to get ready. Don't want to be late for my first day of high-school. I open the door, and there's 4 other doors that I can see on the other side of the room.. This isn't right.. Turning around, I see two doors adjacent to mine. It's perfectly lined up with the doors on the other side of the room. So there's four doors per side.. I don't see anyone else here, though those doors probably lead to other rooms right? The layout is completely different from my house. So where am I?
I look around, noticing a set of stairs that lead down from this set of rooms and goes back up, leading to the other side of the room, like one of those T-shaped stairs that are only really seen in houses of those that are wealthy. As I walk down the stairs, there isn't a distinct squeak sound like I'm used to. I hear the sounds of people talking, and when I reach the bottom of the stairs, I see two guys talking to each other, with one leaning against the nearby wall. The one leaning against the wall seems to have noticed me walking down the stairs, and gives a quick wave, before walking towards me.
"Hey it's nice to see you up and about! The name's Lukas. What's your name?" He seems genuinely interested in talking to me. Not sure why though, as I'm pretty sure we have nothing in common.
"Tristan.." I manage to say in response, as I'm constantly thinking of the right thing to say next.
"Well, it's nice to meet you Tristan! Oh yeah, this is Declyn by the way. We were just trying to figure out what's going on." He reaches out his hand, waiting for me to shake it. I begrudgingly shake his hand, before Declyn speaks up.
"That's me! Yeah, I've already explored the place a little bit, and it's sort of strange. While most of the rooms I checked were unlocked, some were somehow locked."
"Locked? Huh, weird.." My voice still somewhat quiet and timid, I hear my stomach growling. Declyn and Lukas chuckle a bit, as the growl is louder than me talking.
"Guess someone's a little hungry! Let's go get some food.. Pretty sure I saw a cafeteria somewhere during my exploration." Declyn says with a smirk, as he starts walking. Me and Lukas follow behind him, as we have no clue where we are going. The walls are a nice sky blue, with a checkered pattern. I'm assuming we are getting pretty close, as this certain aroma overwhelms my senses. Someone's baking.. Upon entering the room, we see a bunch of tables, with chairs set at each of them. The smell leads us into the kitchen area, upon which, we see someone. If I were to guess, he's about 5 feet tall, give or take, so shorter than the average teenager. He opens the oven door, and pulls out a loaf pan, full of bread. Lukas clears his throat, and the baker turns around, only now noticing that we are in the room.
"Who are you?" There's this harshness to the chefs voice, as he's talking. He glares at us, as though we killed his pet rabbit or something. I'm hoping this doesn't go side ways, as I don't really like conflict.
"I could ask the same for you.." Lukas shoots back, with a look just as intense.
"What? You haven't heard of me? Trevor Irvine, chef prodigy. Guess I shouldn't be too surprised.. Not just anyone gets to experience the fine dining that I offer. Either that, or you've lived under a rock for the last 10 years." While they snap at each other, I take a look around, inside the pantries and fridge looking for food. The inside of both the fridge and the pantry are packed full of food. I grab an apple from the fridge, before shutting it.
"Nope, still doesn't ring a bell!" It's like Lukas is trying his hardest to get a rise out of Trevor.
"Alright guys, let's just take a minute and cool down. Now Trevor, do you know what's going on at all? Maybe where we are to start?" Declyn says, trying to get them to stop fighting.
"People keep asking me, but I DONT KNOW! I woke up in my room, and when I went out of it, I was in a place I don't recognize. I find baking relieves my stress, so I walked through this building until I came upon this room. Almost an endless supply of ingredients to work with." The volume of Trevor's voice changes while he's talking. Much like me, he's not very comfortable in this situation, whatever it truly is.
"Yeah cause that clearly worked.." I manage to hear Lukas say under his breath.
"Wait, there were people here before we came in?" I ask
"Yes quiet one, about 10 minutes ago or so, two girls came in here. One has excellent taste in food, although she did call me a few names I'd rather not say.. As for the other girl, she was kind, even if she doesn't look it." So there are others here besides the four of us.. Hmm.
?????: "Hellooo?? Is this on?" A voice asks, over what sounds like an intercom system.
As Declyn is about to respond to the intercom voice, it keeps speaking.
?????: "Ah just kidding! I know it's on! Don't bother trying to talk to me right now, as this is just a recording. Hello everyone! I know you all must have lots of questions about everything, and I'll be sure to answer all of them in due time! For now, please proceed to the gymnasium for our opening assembly!"
Opening assembly in a gymnasium? So that means we're actually here, at Crossroads Academy. I mean this doesn't look at all like the school I went to yesterday.. But that's the only thing that makes sense. Guess I better get going, and get some answers.
The Leaning Tower, Cathedral and Baptistery of Pisa - the most recognizable monuments of Pisa, and one of the famouns landmarks.
Pisa Cathedral - a medieval Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in the Piazza dei Miracoli.
Pisa Baptistery - a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical building. It became the second building, in chronological order, in the Piazza dei Miracoli, near the Duomo di Pisa and the cathedral's free-standing campanile, the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Leaning Tower of Pisa - the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral, known worldwide for its unintended tilt.
You may recognize that line from the Wizard of Oz. Now, if you were in Dorothy's ruby slippers, the Wizard of Oz would sound not just magical, but also high and mighty. Who is this grand Wizard of Oz? He must be amazing, right?
It turns out the wonderful Wizard of Oz is anything but. Having completed the task he had set for them, Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the Scarecrow confront the Wizard. All they get for their trouble is a voice booming with godlike authority all around them, telling them to come back another time.
Toto, Dorothy's little dog with the big dog heart, discovers that the Wizard is no god. He's just an ordinary guy operating a bunch of controls behind a green curtain. When Toto pulls the curtain back, the Wizard of Oz realizes he's been exposed, and tries to cover it up by shouting over his loudspeaker, "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" There was much more to be said for their heroic character than that of the great and powerful Wizard. “Heroic,” you ask? Let’s see how you stand up to a horde of flying monkeys!
It was predicted to be a rain-out yesterday in our mountains. Yet, it had been on our agenda to go to the Red Barn Tree Farm in Linville Falls for our Christmas tree… and we got a pretty fir with perfect size and shape, as well as the great fragrance you expect at Christmas. It rained greatly early on, but by late morning, clouds were clearing leaving a crystal blue sky overhead. Mission complete, we decided to take the Blue Ridge Parkway from Highway 221 to Highway 421 as our route home. I thought perhaps clouds moving through the high places there might justify having the camera along.
It's the end of November and the glory of autumn has passed in the mountains. There are few oaks still holding leaves, brown and dry, refusing to let go. The rest is sleepy woods. Someone remarked earlier that day about the dreariness of the rain. I answered her: “Even so, beauty can be found in it, if you know where to look.” Here, just north of the Linn Cove Viaduct, I found such a place. As the curtain of clouds parted for an instant, the beauty of seemingly lifeless woods shined through, revealing a ridge along Grandfather Mountain behind it. It reminded me of the Wizard of Oz, though this bit of God’s handiwork is every bit grand and wonderful. Knowing the camera was a little heavier with some great shots, the drive back to Durham was quite satisfying, even on the crowded interstate. I hope everyone made it home safe after dosing on tryptophan at Thanksgiving.
I am almost finished with the book on Italy for my friend.
I think I will include the wonkies and see if they recognize this street in Sienna.
In my world
Langley, BC Canada
Derby Reach is recognized as the site of the first contact between people of the Stó:lõ First Nation and Europeans working for the Hudson’s Bay Company.
The Hudson Bay Company built a fort here. One of BC’s first townsites was laid out in the park and later, a pioneer named Alex Houston built his house
on land that is now part of the regional park. Houston is credited with starting the Cariboo Gold Rush and is suspected of claiming the fortune of Billy Miner, BC’s most infamous train robber.
DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC PLACE
The Alex Houston Residence consists of a modest 1 1/2 storey wood-frame house on a country lot. It is within view of the Fraser River and is located in the Greater Vancouver Regional District's Derby Reach Park in NW Langley, British Columbia.
HERITAGE VALUE
Built in 1909 by Alexander Houston, the Houston Residence is important for its historic significance in terms of its association with the Houston family, its location, and the period in which it was built. It is also an important example of a community-led restoration that combined the resources of the Langley Heritage Society and the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
The Houstons were an important family in British Columbia's history. Alex's father, James, is credited for being the first European to discover gold along the Fraser River, the first independent farmer in the Fraser Valley, one of 33 men to petition the government for an incorporation of the district, and one of the first councillors when Langley was incorporated as a District in 1873.
Alex took over the family cattle and dairy farming business in 1902 (after the death of his father). He was the only son of James and was himself an important pioneer in the Derby area. His family was very active in the community until the 1950's, having established and hosted the community May Day celebrations and donating land for a commemorative cairn across the street from his house, marking the site of the first Fort Langley.
The farm site stands on what was originally land occupied by the first Hudson's Bay Company Fort (1827) and later by the Townsite of Derby (1859). It is a focal point for Derby historical interpretations.
Sources: Derby/Edgewater Bar Guide; Langley Centennial Museum Heritage Files; HistoricPlaces.ca
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Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States. It is about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe, and 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8,379 feet (2554 m). Bodie became a boom town in 1876 (146 years ago) after the discovery of a profitable line of gold; by 1879 it had a population of 7,000–10,000.
The town went into decline in the subsequent decades and came to be described as a ghost town by 1915 (107 years ago). The U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes the designated Bodie Historic District as a National Historic Landmark.
Also registered as a California Historical Landmark, the ghost town officially was established as Bodie State Historic Park in 1962. It receives about 200,000 visitors yearly. Bodie State Historic Park is partly supported by the Bodie Foundation.
Bodie began as a mining camp of little note following the discovery of gold in 1859 by a group of prospectors, including W. S. Bodey. Bodey died in a blizzard the following November while making a supply trip to Monoville (near present-day Mono City), never getting to see the rise of the town that was named after him. According to area pioneer Judge J. G. McClinton, the district's name was changed from "Bodey," "Body," and a few other phonetic variations, to "Bodie," after a painter in the nearby boomtown of Aurora, lettered a sign "Bodie Stables".
Gold discovered at Bodie coincided with the discovery of silver at nearby Aurora (thought to be in California, later found to be Nevada), and the distant Comstock Lode beneath Virginia City, Nevada. But while these two towns boomed, interest in Bodie remained lackluster. By 1868 only two companies had built stamp mills at Bodie, and both had failed.
In 1876, the Standard Company discovered a profitable deposit of gold-bearing ore, which transformed Bodie from an isolated mining camp comprising a few prospectors and company employees to a Wild West boomtown. Rich discoveries in the adjacent Bodie Mine during 1878 attracted even more hopeful people. By 1879, Bodie had a population of approximately 7,000–10,000 people and around 2,000 buildings. One legend says that in 1880, Bodie was California's second or third largest city. but the U.S. Census of that year disproves this. Over the years 1860-1941 Bodie's mines produced gold and silver valued at an estimated US$34 million (in 1986 dollars, or $85 million in 2021).
Bodie boomed from late 1877 through mid– to late 1880. The first newspaper, The Standard Pioneer Journal of Mono County, published its first edition on October 10, 1877. Starting as a weekly, it soon expanded publication to three times a week. It was also during this time that a telegraph line was built which connected Bodie with Bridgeport and Genoa, Nevada. California and Nevada newspapers predicted Bodie would become the next Comstock Lode. Men from both states were lured to Bodie by the prospect of another bonanza.
Gold bullion from the town's nine stamp mills was shipped to Carson City, Nevada, by way of Aurora, Wellington and Gardnerville. Most shipments were accompanied by armed guards. After the bullion reached Carson City, it was delivered to the mint there, or sent by rail to the mint in San Francisco.
As a bustling gold mining center, Bodie had the amenities of larger towns, including a Wells Fargo Bank, four volunteer fire companies, a brass band, railroad, miners' and mechanics' union, several daily newspapers, and a jail. At its peak, 65 saloons lined Main Street, which was a mile long. Murders, shootouts, barroom brawls, and stagecoach holdups were regular occurrences.
As with other remote mining towns, Bodie had a popular, though clandestine, red light district on the north end of town. There is an unsubstantiated story of Rosa May, a prostitute who, in the style of Florence Nightingale, came to the aid of the town menfolk when a serious epidemic struck the town at the height of its boom. She is credited with giving life-saving care to many, but after she died, was buried outside the cemetery fence.
Bodie had a Chinatown, the main street of which ran at a right angle to Bodie's Main Street. At one point it had several hundred Chinese residents and a Taoist temple. Opium dens were plentiful in this area.
Bodie also had a cemetery on the outskirts of town and a nearby mortuary. It is the only building in the town built of red brick three courses thick, most likely for insulation to keep the air temperature steady during the cold winters and hot summers. The cemetery includes a Miners Union section, and a cenotaph erected to honor President James A. Garfield. The Bodie Boot Hill was located outside of the official city cemetery.
On Main Street stands the Miners Union Hall, which was the meeting place for labor unions. It also served as an entertainment center that hosted dances, concerts, plays, and school recitals. It now serves as a museum.
The first signs of decline appeared in 1880 and became obvious toward the end of the year. Promising mining booms in Butte, Montana; Tombstone, Arizona; and Utah lured men away from Bodie. The get-rich-quick, single miners who came to the town in the 1870s moved on to these other booms, and Bodie developed into a family-oriented community. In 1882 residents built the Methodist Church (which still stands) and the Roman Catholic Church (burned 1928). Despite the population decline, the mines were flourishing, and in 1881 Bodie's ore production was recorded at a high of $3.1 million. Also in 1881, a narrow-gauge railroad was built called the Bodie Railway & Lumber Company, bringing lumber, cordwood, and mine timbers to the mining district from Mono Mills south of Mono Lake.
During the early 1890s, Bodie enjoyed a short revival from technological advancements in the mines that continued to support the town. In 1890, the recently invented cyanide process promised to recover gold and silver from discarded mill tailings and from low-grade ore bodies that had been passed over. In 1892, the Standard Company built its own hydroelectric plant approximately 13 miles (20.9 km) away at Dynamo Pond. The plant developed a maximum of 130 horsepower (97 kW) and 3,530 volts alternating current (AC) to power the company's 20-stamp mill. This pioneering installation marked the country's first transmissions of electricity over a long distance.
In 1910, the population was recorded at 698 people, which were predominantly families who decided to stay in Bodie instead of moving on to other prosperous strikes.
The first signs of an official decline occurred in 1912 with the printing of the last Bodie newspaper, The Bodie Miner. In a 1913 book titled California Tourist Guide and Handbook: Authentic Description of Routes of Travel and Points of Interest in California, the authors, Wells and Aubrey Drury, described Bodie as a "mining town, which is the center of a large mineral region". They referred to two hotels and a railroad operating there. In 1913, the Standard Consolidated Mine closed.
Mining profits in 1914 were at a low of $6,821. James S. Cain bought everything from the town lots to the mining claims, and reopened the Standard mill to former employees, which resulted in an over $100,000 profit in 1915. However, this financial growth was not in time to stop the town's decline. In 1917, the Bodie Railway was abandoned and its iron tracks were scrapped.
The last mine closed in 1942, due to War Production Board order L-208, shutting down all non-essential gold mines in the United States during World War II. Mining never resumed after the war.
Bodie was first described as a "ghost town" in 1915. In a time when auto travel was on the rise, many travelers reached Bodie via automobiles. The San Francisco Chronicle published an article in 1919 to dispute the "ghost town" label.
By 1920, Bodie's population was recorded by the US Federal Census at a total of 120 people. Despite the decline and a severe fire in the business district in 1932, Bodie had permanent residents through nearly half of the 20th century. A post office operated at Bodie from 1877 to 1942
In the 1940s, the threat of vandalism faced the ghost town. The Cain family, who owned much of the land, hired caretakers to protect and to maintain the town's structures. Martin Gianettoni, one of the last three people living in Bodie in 1943, was a caretaker.
Bodie is now an authentic Wild West ghost town.
The town was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and in 1962 the state legislature authorized creation of Bodie State Historic Park. A total of 170 buildings remained. Bodie has been named as California's official state gold rush ghost town.
Visitors arrive mainly via SR 270, which runs from US 395 near Bridgeport to the west; the last three miles of it is a dirt road. There is also a road to SR 167 near Mono Lake in the south, but this road is extremely rough, with more than 10 miles of dirt track in a bad state of repair. Due to heavy snowfall, the roads to Bodie are usually closed in winter .
Today, Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survived, with about 110 structures still standing, including one of many once operational gold mills. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town that once was a bustling area of activity. Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods. Littered throughout the park, one can find small shards of china dishes, square nails and an occasional bottle, but removing these items is against the rules of the park.
The California State Parks' ranger station is located in one of the original homes on Green Street.
In 2009 and again in 2010, Bodie was scheduled to be closed. The California state legislature worked out a budget compromise that enabled the state's Parks Closure Commission to keep it open. As of 2022, the park is still operating, now administered by the Bodie Foundation.
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2 million residents across a total area of approximately 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2), it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the most populated subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7 million residents and the latter having over 9.6 million. Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the most populous city in the state and the second most populous city in the country. San Francisco is the second most densely populated major city in the country. Los Angeles County is the country's most populous, while San Bernardino County is the largest county by area in the country. California borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, the Mexican state of Baja California to the south; and has a coastline along the Pacific Ocean to the west.
The economy of the state of California is the largest in the United States, with a $3.4 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2022. It is the largest sub-national economy in the world. If California were a sovereign nation, it would rank as the world's fifth-largest economy as of 2022, behind Germany and ahead of India, as well as the 37th most populous. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and third-largest urban economies ($1.0 trillion and $0.5 trillion respectively as of 2020). The San Francisco Bay Area Combined Statistical Area had the nation's highest gross domestic product per capita ($106,757) among large primary statistical areas in 2018, and is home to five of the world's ten largest companies by market capitalization and four of the world's ten richest people.
Prior to European colonization, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America and contained the highest Native American population density north of what is now Mexico. European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization of California by the Spanish Empire. In 1804, it was included in Alta California province within the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, following its successful war for independence, but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. The California Gold Rush started in 1848 and led to dramatic social and demographic changes, including large-scale immigration into California, a worldwide economic boom, and the California genocide of indigenous people. The western portion of Alta California was then organized and admitted as the 31st state on September 9, 1850, following the Compromise of 1850.
Notable contributions to popular culture, for example in entertainment and sports, have their origins in California. The state also has made noteworthy contributions in the fields of communication, information, innovation, environmentalism, economics, and politics. It is the home of Hollywood, the oldest and one of the largest film industries in the world, which has had a profound influence upon global entertainment. It is considered the origin of the hippie counterculture, beach and car culture, and the personal computer, among other innovations. The San Francisco Bay Area and the Greater Los Angeles Area are widely seen as the centers of the global technology and film industries, respectively. California's economy is very diverse: 58% of it is based on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific, and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5% of the state's economy, California's agriculture industry has the highest output of any U.S. state. California's ports and harbors handle about a third of all U.S. imports, most originating in Pacific Rim international trade.
The state's extremely diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast and metropolitan areas in the west to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east, and from the redwood and Douglas fir forests in the northwest to the Mojave Desert in the southeast. The Central Valley, a major agricultural area, dominates the state's center. California is well known for its warm Mediterranean climate and monsoon seasonal weather. The large size of the state results in climates that vary from moist temperate rainforest in the north to arid desert in the interior, as well as snowy alpine in the mountains.
Settled by successive waves of arrivals during at least the last 13,000 years, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America. Various estimates of the native population have ranged from 100,000 to 300,000. The indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct ethnic groups, inhabiting environments from mountains and deserts to islands and redwood forests. These groups were also diverse in their political organization, with bands, tribes, villages, and on the resource-rich coasts, large chiefdoms, such as the Chumash, Pomo and Salinan. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered social and economic relationships between many groups.
The first Europeans to explore the coast of California were the members of a Spanish maritime expedition led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo in 1542. Cabrillo was commissioned by Antonio de Mendoza, the Viceroy of New Spain, to lead an expedition up the Pacific coast in search of trade opportunities; they entered San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542, and reached at least as far north as San Miguel Island. Privateer and explorer Francis Drake explored and claimed an undefined portion of the California coast in 1579, landing north of the future city of San Francisco. Sebastián Vizcaíno explored and mapped the coast of California in 1602 for New Spain, putting ashore in Monterey. Despite the on-the-ground explorations of California in the 16th century, Rodríguez's idea of California as an island persisted. Such depictions appeared on many European maps well into the 18th century.
The Portolá expedition of 1769-70 was a pivotal event in the Spanish colonization of California, resulting in the establishment of numerous missions, presidios, and pueblos. The military and civil contingent of the expedition was led by Gaspar de Portolá, who traveled over land from Sonora into California, while the religious component was headed by Junípero Serra, who came by sea from Baja California. In 1769, Portolá and Serra established Mission San Diego de Alcalá and the Presidio of San Diego, the first religious and military settlements founded by the Spanish in California. By the end of the expedition in 1770, they would establish the Presidio of Monterey and Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo on Monterey Bay.
After the Portolà expedition, Spanish missionaries led by Father-President Serra set out to establish 21 Spanish missions of California along El Camino Real ("The Royal Road") and along the Californian coast, 16 sites of which having been chosen during the Portolá expedition. Numerous major cities in California grew out of missions, including San Francisco (Mission San Francisco de Asís), San Diego (Mission San Diego de Alcalá), Ventura (Mission San Buenaventura), or Santa Barbara (Mission Santa Barbara), among others.
Juan Bautista de Anza led a similarly important expedition throughout California in 1775–76, which would extend deeper into the interior and north of California. The Anza expedition selected numerous sites for missions, presidios, and pueblos, which subsequently would be established by settlers. Gabriel Moraga, a member of the expedition, would also christen many of California's prominent rivers with their names in 1775–1776, such as the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River. After the expedition, Gabriel's son, José Joaquín Moraga, would found the pueblo of San Jose in 1777, making it the first civilian-established city in California.
The Spanish founded Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1776, the third to be established of the Californian missions.
During this same period, sailors from the Russian Empire explored along the northern coast of California. In 1812, the Russian-American Company established a trading post and small fortification at Fort Ross on the North Coast. Fort Ross was primarily used to supply Russia's Alaskan colonies with food supplies. The settlement did not meet much success, failing to attract settlers or establish long term trade viability, and was abandoned by 1841.
During the War of Mexican Independence, Alta California was largely unaffected and uninvolved in the revolution, though many Californios supported independence from Spain, which many believed had neglected California and limited its development. Spain's trade monopoly on California had limited the trade prospects of Californians. Following Mexican independence, Californian ports were freely able to trade with foreign merchants. Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá presided over the transition from Spanish colonial rule to independent.
In 1821, the Mexican War of Independence gave the Mexican Empire (which included California) independence from Spain. For the next 25 years, Alta California remained a remote, sparsely populated, northwestern administrative district of the newly independent country of Mexico, which shortly after independence became a republic. The missions, which controlled most of the best land in the state, were secularized by 1834 and became the property of the Mexican government. The governor granted many square leagues of land to others with political influence. These huge ranchos or cattle ranches emerged as the dominant institutions of Mexican California. The ranchos developed under ownership by Californios (Hispanics native of California) who traded cowhides and tallow with Boston merchants. Beef did not become a commodity until the 1849 California Gold Rush.
From the 1820s, trappers and settlers from the United States and Canada began to arrive in Northern California. These new arrivals used the Siskiyou Trail, California Trail, Oregon Trail and Old Spanish Trail to cross the rugged mountains and harsh deserts in and surrounding California. The early government of the newly independent Mexico was highly unstable, and in a reflection of this, from 1831 onwards, California also experienced a series of armed disputes, both internal and with the central Mexican government. During this tumultuous political period Juan Bautista Alvarado was able to secure the governorship during 1836–1842. The military action which first brought Alvarado to power had momentarily declared California to be an independent state, and had been aided by Anglo-American residents of California, including Isaac Graham. In 1840, one hundred of those residents who did not have passports were arrested, leading to the Graham Affair, which was resolved in part with the intercession of Royal Navy officials.
One of the largest ranchers in California was John Marsh. After failing to obtain justice against squatters on his land from the Mexican courts, he determined that California should become part of the United States. Marsh conducted a letter-writing campaign espousing the California climate, the soil, and other reasons to settle there, as well as the best route to follow, which became known as "Marsh's route". His letters were read, reread, passed around, and printed in newspapers throughout the country, and started the first wagon trains rolling to California. He invited immigrants to stay on his ranch until they could get settled, and assisted in their obtaining passports.
After ushering in the period of organized emigration to California, Marsh became involved in a military battle between the much-hated Mexican general, Manuel Micheltorena and the California governor he had replaced, Juan Bautista Alvarado. The armies of each met at the Battle of Providencia near Los Angeles. Marsh had been forced against his will to join Micheltorena's army. Ignoring his superiors, during the battle, he signaled the other side for a parley. There were many settlers from the United States fighting on both sides. He convinced these men that they had no reason to be fighting each other. As a result of Marsh's actions, they abandoned the fight, Micheltorena was defeated, and California-born Pio Pico was returned to the governorship. This paved the way to California's ultimate acquisition by the United States.
In 1846, a group of American settlers in and around Sonoma rebelled against Mexican rule during the Bear Flag Revolt. Afterward, rebels raised the Bear Flag (featuring a bear, a star, a red stripe and the words "California Republic") at Sonoma. The Republic's only president was William B. Ide,[65] who played a pivotal role during the Bear Flag Revolt. This revolt by American settlers served as a prelude to the later American military invasion of California and was closely coordinated with nearby American military commanders.
The California Republic was short-lived; the same year marked the outbreak of the Mexican–American War (1846–48).
Commodore John D. Sloat of the United States Navy sailed into Monterey Bay in 1846 and began the U.S. military invasion of California, with Northern California capitulating in less than a month to the United States forces. In Southern California, Californios continued to resist American forces. Notable military engagements of the conquest include the Battle of San Pasqual and the Battle of Dominguez Rancho in Southern California, as well as the Battle of Olómpali and the Battle of Santa Clara in Northern California. After a series of defensive battles in the south, the Treaty of Cahuenga was signed by the Californios on January 13, 1847, securing a censure and establishing de facto American control in California.
Following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 2, 1848) that ended the war, the westernmost portion of the annexed Mexican territory of Alta California soon became the American state of California, and the remainder of the old territory was then subdivided into the new American Territories of Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Utah. The even more lightly populated and arid lower region of old Baja California remained as a part of Mexico. In 1846, the total settler population of the western part of the old Alta California had been estimated to be no more than 8,000, plus about 100,000 Native Americans, down from about 300,000 before Hispanic settlement in 1769.
In 1848, only one week before the official American annexation of the area, gold was discovered in California, this being an event which was to forever alter both the state's demographics and its finances. Soon afterward, a massive influx of immigration into the area resulted, as prospectors and miners arrived by the thousands. The population burgeoned with United States citizens, Europeans, Chinese and other immigrants during the great California Gold Rush. By the time of California's application for statehood in 1850, the settler population of California had multiplied to 100,000. By 1854, more than 300,000 settlers had come. Between 1847 and 1870, the population of San Francisco increased from 500 to 150,000.
The seat of government for California under Spanish and later Mexican rule had been located in Monterey from 1777 until 1845. Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of Alta California, had briefly moved the capital to Los Angeles in 1845. The United States consulate had also been located in Monterey, under consul Thomas O. Larkin.
In 1849, a state Constitutional Convention was first held in Monterey. Among the first tasks of the convention was a decision on a location for the new state capital. The first full legislative sessions were held in San Jose (1850–1851). Subsequent locations included Vallejo (1852–1853), and nearby Benicia (1853–1854); these locations eventually proved to be inadequate as well. The capital has been located in Sacramento since 1854 with only a short break in 1862 when legislative sessions were held in San Francisco due to flooding in Sacramento. Once the state's Constitutional Convention had finalized its state constitution, it applied to the U.S. Congress for admission to statehood. On September 9, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850, California became a free state and September 9 a state holiday.
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), California sent gold shipments eastward to Washington in support of the Union. However, due to the existence of a large contingent of pro-South sympathizers within the state, the state was not able to muster any full military regiments to send eastwards to officially serve in the Union war effort. Still, several smaller military units within the Union army were unofficially associated with the state of California, such as the "California 100 Company", due to a majority of their members being from California.
At the time of California's admission into the Union, travel between California and the rest of the continental United States had been a time-consuming and dangerous feat. Nineteen years later, and seven years after it was greenlighted by President Lincoln, the First transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. California was then reachable from the eastern States in a week's time.
Much of the state was extremely well suited to fruit cultivation and agriculture in general. Vast expanses of wheat, other cereal crops, vegetable crops, cotton, and nut and fruit trees were grown (including oranges in Southern California), and the foundation was laid for the state's prodigious agricultural production in the Central Valley and elsewhere.
In the nineteenth century, a large number of migrants from China traveled to the state as part of the Gold Rush or to seek work. Even though the Chinese proved indispensable in building the transcontinental railroad from California to Utah, perceived job competition with the Chinese led to anti-Chinese riots in the state, and eventually the US ended migration from China partially as a response to pressure from California with the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
Under earlier Spanish and Mexican rule, California's original native population had precipitously declined, above all, from Eurasian diseases to which the indigenous people of California had not yet developed a natural immunity. Under its new American administration, California's harsh governmental policies towards its own indigenous people did not improve. As in other American states, many of the native inhabitants were soon forcibly removed from their lands by incoming American settlers such as miners, ranchers, and farmers. Although California had entered the American union as a free state, the "loitering or orphaned Indians" were de facto enslaved by their new Anglo-American masters under the 1853 Act for the Government and Protection of Indians. There were also massacres in which hundreds of indigenous people were killed.
Between 1850 and 1860, the California state government paid around 1.5 million dollars (some 250,000 of which was reimbursed by the federal government) to hire militias whose purpose was to protect settlers from the indigenous populations. In later decades, the native population was placed in reservations and rancherias, which were often small and isolated and without enough natural resources or funding from the government to sustain the populations living on them. As a result, the rise of California was a calamity for the native inhabitants. Several scholars and Native American activists, including Benjamin Madley and Ed Castillo, have described the actions of the California government as a genocide.
In the twentieth century, thousands of Japanese people migrated to the US and California specifically to attempt to purchase and own land in the state. However, the state in 1913 passed the Alien Land Act, excluding Asian immigrants from owning land. During World War II, Japanese Americans in California were interned in concentration camps such as at Tule Lake and Manzanar. In 2020, California officially apologized for this internment.
Migration to California accelerated during the early 20th century with the completion of major transcontinental highways like the Lincoln Highway and Route 66. In the period from 1900 to 1965, the population grew from fewer than one million to the greatest in the Union. In 1940, the Census Bureau reported California's population as 6.0% Hispanic, 2.4% Asian, and 89.5% non-Hispanic white.
To meet the population's needs, major engineering feats like the California and Los Angeles Aqueducts; the Oroville and Shasta Dams; and the Bay and Golden Gate Bridges were built across the state. The state government also adopted the California Master Plan for Higher Education in 1960 to develop a highly efficient system of public education.
Meanwhile, attracted to the mild Mediterranean climate, cheap land, and the state's wide variety of geography, filmmakers established the studio system in Hollywood in the 1920s. California manufactured 8.7 percent of total United States military armaments produced during World War II, ranking third (behind New York and Michigan) among the 48 states. California however easily ranked first in production of military ships during the war (transport, cargo, [merchant ships] such as Liberty ships, Victory ships, and warships) at drydock facilities in San Diego, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area. After World War II, California's economy greatly expanded due to strong aerospace and defense industries, whose size decreased following the end of the Cold War. Stanford University and its Dean of Engineering Frederick Terman began encouraging faculty and graduates to stay in California instead of leaving the state, and develop a high-tech region in the area now known as Silicon Valley. As a result of these efforts, California is regarded as a world center of the entertainment and music industries, of technology, engineering, and the aerospace industry, and as the United States center of agricultural production. Just before the Dot Com Bust, California had the fifth-largest economy in the world among nations.
In the mid and late twentieth century, a number of race-related incidents occurred in the state. Tensions between police and African Americans, combined with unemployment and poverty in inner cities, led to violent riots, such as the 1965 Watts riots and 1992 Rodney King riots. California was also the hub of the Black Panther Party, a group known for arming African Americans to defend against racial injustice and for organizing free breakfast programs for schoolchildren. Additionally, Mexican, Filipino, and other migrant farm workers rallied in the state around Cesar Chavez for better pay in the 1960s and 1970s.
During the 20th century, two great disasters happened in California. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and 1928 St. Francis Dam flood remain the deadliest in U.S. history.
Although air pollution problems have been reduced, health problems associated with pollution have continued. The brown haze known as "smog" has been substantially abated after the passage of federal and state restrictions on automobile exhaust.
An energy crisis in 2001 led to rolling blackouts, soaring power rates, and the importation of electricity from neighboring states. Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric Company came under heavy criticism.
Housing prices in urban areas continued to increase; a modest home which in the 1960s cost $25,000 would cost half a million dollars or more in urban areas by 2005. More people commuted longer hours to afford a home in more rural areas while earning larger salaries in the urban areas. Speculators bought houses they never intended to live in, expecting to make a huge profit in a matter of months, then rolling it over by buying more properties. Mortgage companies were compliant, as everyone assumed the prices would keep rising. The bubble burst in 2007–8 as housing prices began to crash and the boom years ended. Hundreds of billions in property values vanished and foreclosures soared as many financial institutions and investors were badly hurt.
In the twenty-first century, droughts and frequent wildfires attributed to climate change have occurred in the state. From 2011 to 2017, a persistent drought was the worst in its recorded history. The 2018 wildfire season was the state's deadliest and most destructive, most notably Camp Fire.
Although air pollution problems have been reduced, health problems associated with pollution have continued. The brown haze that is known as "smog" has been substantially abated thanks to federal and state restrictions on automobile exhaust.
One of the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States that occurred in California was first of which was confirmed on January 26, 2020. Meaning, all of the early confirmed cases were persons who had recently travelled to China in Asia, as testing was restricted to this group. On this January 29, 2020, as disease containment protocols were still being developed, the U.S. Department of State evacuated 195 persons from Wuhan, China aboard a chartered flight to March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, and in this process, it may have granted and conferred to escalated within the land and the US at cosmic. On February 5, 2020, the U.S. evacuated 345 more citizens from Hubei Province to two military bases in California, Travis Air Force Base in Solano County and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, where they were quarantined for 14 days. A state of emergency was largely declared in this state of the nation on March 4, 2020, and as of February 24, 2021, remains in effect. A mandatory statewide stay-at-home order was issued on March 19, 2020, due to increase, which was ended on January 25, 2021, allowing citizens to return to normal life. On April 6, 2021, the state announced plans to fully reopen the economy by June 15, 2021.
Decided to ink a commission for my Patreon supporter, Nightstalker, for today's Inktober drawing. I'm sure my LEGO fans will recognize the helmet he's wearing!
Widely recognized as one the finest organists of his day, but sadly more often remembered for having taken his own life.
Mr. Thayer was also the dedicatee of one of Dudley Buck's (1839-1909) most famous compositions for the organ: Concert Variations on "The Star-Spangled Banner", Op. 23, which you can listen to here (www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/56492) in a courageous performance (considering his current struggles with health and hearing) by David Lamb using the Hereford Cathedral Willis organ (via Hauptwerk).
Given the precarious state of American politics and the unrestrained epidemic of gun violence that threatens every citizen's pursuit of happiness, it's difficult to muster much unalloyed patriotic feeling on this our nation's birthday. Still, the national anthem does have a great tune and it is delightfully transformed in this set of variations. About 45 years ago I learned this work and presented it in a Fourth of July concert -- I'll have to see later today, how much of it I can still creditably play--this will be our musical fireworks celebration of the holiday, since it is far too hot to attend outdoor pyrotechnics displays, not to mention the risk of initiating wild fires.
Meet button-
A small Land hermit crab using plastic as a protective home
(Coenobita cavipes)
* All Coenobita species in Okinawa are recognized as a Living Natural Monument.
"Crabs with beach trash homes"
Found by Dave Orr on a local beach in Onna village ,Okinawa.
TEDX OIST talk on subject by Shawn Miller www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6FWCyVQcNA
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She is the unique female of this Lilly's litter and has a great personality and has to be like a real Serena Williams!
She is a Lagotto Romagnolo dog.
This is the only breed of dog that is officially recognized as specialized in truffle hunting.
I'm taking advantage of the temperature bearable for post some photos and trying to catch up on the comments.
Or, so she likes to believe. You might recognize the title as a line from Billy Joel's "She's always a woman." and you'd be correct.
Work was ok today. Very busy, but I was ok with it. If I look at my life right now, it's pretty good too. Kids are healthy and happy and everything seems to be in place.
I'm not complaining. About anything! I am having a struggle though... same as always. Trying not to put up the walls and hide, but finding that it's only barely in my control. I'm also not trying to be cryptic. How do I relate something that I have a hard time understanding myself?
She can kill with a smile
She can wound with her eyes
She can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child,
But she's always a woman to me
She can lead you to love
She can take you or leave you
She can ask for the truth
But she'll never believe you
And she'll take what you give her, as long as it's free
Yeah, she steals like a thief
But she's always a woman to me
Oh--she takes care of herself
She can wait if she wants
She's ahead of her time
Oh--and she never gives out
And she never gives in
She just changes her mind
And she'll promise you more
Than the Garden of Eden
Then she'll carelessly cut you
And laugh while you're bleedin'
But she'll bring out the best
And the worst you can be
Blame it all on yourself
Cause she's always a woman to me
--Mhmm--
Oh--she takes care of herself
She can wait if she wants
She's ahead of her time
Oh--and she never gives out
And she never gives in
She just changes her mind
She is frequently kind
And she's suddenly cruel
She can do as she pleases
She's nobody's fool
And she can't be convicted
She's earned her degree
And the most she will do
Is throw shadows at you
But she's always a woman to me
--Mhmm--
I've always felt this could have been written about me, word for word... except for the fact that no one knows me that well.
When the Muslims conquered the area in 714, they recognized the value of this strategic location and built a fortress between two ravines.
In 1076, Cuenca was unsuccessfully besieged by Sancho Ramírez of Aragon. In 1080 there was a treaty between King Yahya al-Qadir and Alfonso VI. of León and Castile, through which some fortresses were ceded in exchange for military aid.
Cuenca was then conquered by Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad in 1086. However, when his country was attacked by the Almoravids, he again offered Cuenca to Alfonso in return for military support. The first Christian troops entered the city in 1093. However, the Almoravids conquered it in 1108. As part of the Reconquista, King Alfonso VIII conquered the city from the Moors in 1177 after a nine-month siege. The Diocese of Cuenca was founded in 1183. Alfonso X gave Cuenca the title “ciudad” in 1257.
Cuenca is divided into two different areas, the Old Town and the New Town. The first is located on a rocky hill bordered on the north by the gorges of the Júcar River and on the south by its tributary, the Huécar River. Cuenca is a vibrant city with a population of about 55.000.
The Cathedral, inspired by the early Gothic architecture of Central Europe (Soissons, Laon...), was built between 1196 and 1257, but many changes were made repeatedly in the following centuries. The entire choir area was renovated in the 15th century, and the decor of the apse were only created in the 17th/18th century.
In 1902, the bell tower collapsed after a lightning strike and damaged the facade, whose reconstruction in the neo-Gothic style, which was not true to the original, began eight years later. The current appearance shows that the structure remains unfinished.
The San Francisco Seals were a minor league baseball team in San Francisco, California, that played in the Pacific Coast League from 1903 until 1957 before transferring to Phoenix, Arizona. They were named for the abundant California sea lion and harbor seal populations in the Bay Area. The 1909, 1922, 1925, and 1928 Seals were recognized as being among the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time.
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Harry Richard "Rube" Suter (b. September 15, 1887 in Independence, Missouri – d. July 24, 1971 at age 83 in Topeka, Kansas) was a professional baseball pitcher from 1906 to 1912. He played one season in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox. Suter was 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighed 190 pounds (86 kg). He started his baseball career in 1906 with the South Texas League's Austin Senators and had a win–loss record of 15–9. The following season, he was 23–13. Suter then joined the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League and became one of the top pitchers in the circuit. In 1908, pitching a league-leading 415 innings, he went 27–20 with a 2.00 earned run average. Suter's contract was purchased by the Chicago White Sox in August 1908. He was on the White Sox roster throughout 1909, and he made seven starts, relieved in 11 other games, and went 2–3 with a 2.47 ERA. His contract was then sold back to San Francisco after the season, and he never played in the majors again. Returning to his old club in 1910, Suter picked up where he left off, going 16–14 with a 1.95 ERA. The following season, his ERA rose to 2.67, but he struck out 339 batters to set a Seals team record. He also threw a no-hitter on April 25 to beat Oakland, 1–0. In 1912, Suter joined the Portland Beavers. He set a Pacific Coast League record on October 12, when he struck out 16 batters in a game against San Francisco. Suter pitched in 20 games that year and won only 5. His playing career ended after the season. In 1938, Suter was the manager of the Western Association's Salina Millers.
(Clipped from - The Topeka State Journal newspaper - Topeka, Kansas - 8 Jun 1905) - Sedalia has a new pitcher by the name of Harry Suter, son of George Suter of Fulton. He is a home-guard, but promises In great shape. He formerly pitched for the Westminster College team.
(Clipped from - The Topeka State Journal newspaper - Topeka, Kansas - 17 Jun 1905) - Sedalia - Harry Suter, the home guard kid phenom, who showed up so well in the box, refused to go along on the present trip. He only wants to play at home. In July he pitched for the Nevada Elks baseball team.
(Clipped from - The Sedalia Democrat newspaper - Sedalia, Missouri - 23 Feb 1906) - Sedalian Signed As Pitcher - Harry Suter, the young man who pitched such phenomenal ball for the Nevada Elks last summer, has signed with the Austin, Tex., ball team, says the Nevada Mall. Suter will make good in the Texas league, and If no accidents happen to him he will be In professional company before the passing of many seasons. He is a real “box-artist" of the strikeout order.
(Clipped from - The Sedalia Democrat newspaper - Sedalia, Missouri - 5 Nov 1906) - SEDALIA BALL PLAYER - Austin, He Will Likely Be Sold by Austin, Texas to St. Paul. Harry Suter, the plumber and baseball pitcher, who played last season with the Austin, Texas, baseball team in the Southern Texas league, is in receipt of a letter from W. P. Allen, secretary of the league, in which he states that Suter will very likely be sold to the St. Paul, Minn. American association club the coming season. (he ended up staying one more year with the Austin baseball team).
(Clipped from - The Morning Union newspaper - Grass Valley, California - 18 February 1908) - LONG SIGNS GOOD MAN FROM TEXAS - SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 17. - Danny Long announced today that he had all but signed Harry Suter, who helped to pitch Austin into the championship in the Texas League last year. Suter was drafted by Washington. When Long sold Street to Cantillon the understanding was that the latter should send him a player in addition to the money that was passed. Now if Washington can secure waivers on Suter he will be turned over to the Seals. "Suter is a left-handed pitcher", said Long, "and was one of the best men in the Texas League last year. His side-kicker, Bailey, was tried out by the St. Louis American Club last fail and made good, and from all accounts Suter is as good a man. I am told that he has a lot of speed and for a left-hander and is remarkably steady. We need a good southpaw and I look for Suter to fill the bill."
(Clipped from - The Sedalia Democrat newspaper - Sedalia, Missouri - 2 April 1908) - A SEDALIA BALL PLAYER WHO HAS MADE GOOD WITH THE SAN FRANCISCO TEAM IN COAST LEAGUE. HARRY SUTER IS A FIXTURE THERE - Washington Drafted Him From Texas, but Turned Him Adrift Without a Trial and Is Sure to Regret It. Harry Suter, son of George Suter, the plumber of this city, has made good with the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast Baseball League. Suter has something up his sleeve that no other pitcher is working on. Suter’s new junk is the “knuckle ball.” it is a combination of the slow ball and the spitter. In making the delivery, Suter grasps the ball firmly of course, against the knuckles of the pitching hand. It is delivered with the same motion that sends the swift ball across the plate. And that is where the deception lies. While the swing is that of a fast ball the knuckle sphere is in reality a slow ball, it comes to the batter looming up as large as a balloon and then suddenly drops, just like the “saliva special.’
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T212 Obaks were to the West Coast what T206’s were to the rest of the country. While little of the players are known, their images endure...trade cards from the "Obak Baseball Players" series (T212), distributed by the California branch of the American Tobacco Company to promote their Obak Mouthpiece Cigarettes brand. The set was released in three separate subsets, one per year from 1909 through 1911.
While the players may not be well known to fans today—and most probably weren't to fans in the eastern half of the country even in 1910—the cards are appreciated for their stunning good looks. The artwork on these is sensational, transporting you back in time to a period when the game was beginning to grow up in California, Oregon and Washington, where these players toiled in hopes of getting noticed by a big league club in the east.
Link to - Obak Cards Were West Coast’s Version of T206 - www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/obak-cards-were-west-coasts...
All three Obak sets feature the same front design. The design has a brightly-colored lithograph of a player, surrounded by a white border. At the bottom are the player's last name and team city, and the specific league is added for the 1910 and '11 sets. Collectors can identify which year the card was issued by its back design. 1909 cards feature an Obak advertisement in Old English script. 1910 had the Obak wording in block type, along with a mention of either 150 or 175 subjects. There are a total of 35 different slogans available on the 1910 card backs. Finally, the 1911 cards are printed in red ink, with a biography of the player and a few lines of statistics. There are 426 total cards in the three sets.
Many 1909 Obaks were obviously hand-cut at the factory and were issued exactly in this manner; these cards are encapsulated as "Authentic" due to their very slight irregular cut but are definitely not trimmed. There were 10 horizontal cards issued in the 1909 set (Boyce, Brackenridge, Brown, Dillion, W. Hogan, Martinke, Mohler, Nelson, Reidy and Wiggs).
1911 Obak - The final year of production for the original Obak baseball card brand. The 1911 Obak Baseball set featured players from the six PCL teams and the four NWL teams. These teams included professional clubs from Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Vernon, and Seattle. This year is noticeably different from the previous two years as the backs are printed in red ink and contain a bio and statistics. The stats are a first for minor league cards.
Link to - Finding 5 Gems In The T212 Obak Minor League Set - www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/t212-obak-set/
The OBAK (T212) cards were printed in San Francisco at the Schmidt Lithography Co. Judging from the 76-card
uncut sheet shown in Post #8, Schmidt Lithography used a 30-inch wide press track to print 19 cards across the
sheet.
Links to 1911 T212-3 Obak Cigarettes (179 cards) complete sheet (printed by the Schmidt lithography company in San Francisco, sold for $16,000) - www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cct-worth-...
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This piece has been seen on Flickr before, but it was scarcely recognizable then.
On May 24, 2020, almost six months ago as of this writing, I found it on the beach where the tide had deposited it. At 80 inches (2.03 meters) in length, it wasn't something I could tuck into the ziplock baggie I use for my finds.
It was at the far end of the beach from our place. Dragging it all the way home seemed impossible. With much regret, I pulled it into the water and said goodbye.
To my delight, when we went for a beach walk the next morning, I discovered that the currents had carried it south overnight. It was directly in line with our beach path.
Pledging to bring it home, I set off northward with Frank. True to my word, when we returned I stopped to figure out my next move. Frank shook his head in disbelief and continued on to the house.
At that point the mat was a mess. Not only was it covered in sand, below the sand was a layer of slimy algae. The side that had been submerged was encrusted with tiny marine shells. It wasn't ready for my trophy shelf.
That day I only dragged it far enough so I could hide it behind one of the foredunes. Delighted that no one had swiped it overnight, I pulled it up the foredune the next day, down the other side, along the trail through the beach grass and into the first forest.
I continued down the forest path until I reached a sunny spot on a slope. There I left it exposed to the sun and rain for many weeks. During that time the shells fell off and the algae dried out.
Once the mat had lost the distinctive aroma of a tide flat, I dragged it the rest of the way through the first forest, across the beach-grass clearing, through the second forest and up the hill to the house.
What followed was several months of cleaning. First I scoured it with a large scrub brush of the kind used on floors. Then I got to work on it with a tooth brush. The algae was everywhere, but it was particularly hard to remove wherever the ropes crossed and inside the many nooks and crannies of the countless knots. I found that hot water softened the algae and made it easier to remove.
Soon I set to work on it with a needle, which I used to pry out the algae that concealed the beauty of the yellow and blue nylon rope.
Though the odor of dead fish was long gone, a disagreeable smell of mildew remained. I discovered that sunlight was the best remedy, so I laid it over the plastic Adirondack chairs in the sun when I wasn't working on it.
Not all my methods of cleaning were successful. The Water Pik® was a great disappointment. The breakthrough came when the double-ended stainless steel dental tool arrived. There was no bit of encrusted algae that could not be reached and removed.
Finally the day came when I could declare the cleaning complete. I had already decided to hang it in an unused doorway. The loose weave made it easy to run a dowel through the first row of knots at one end. Using a level, I made sure the row of holes for the heavy-duty hooks wasn't sloping in either direction.
When the moment of truth came and I hung the mat, the dowel slipped easily into the hooks' embrace. But when I stepped back a few yards to admire it, I saw immediately that the bottom was puckered and the loose knotting allowed it to be pinched in the middle. Two more dowels solved those problems.
Today I discovered a Reddit beachcombing group. I wasted no time posting this photo to the group and asking whether anyone knew the mat's origin and purpose.
I will update if and when any new information comes in.
Ocean Park, Washington.
Instantly recognizable by the shape of the leaves. This tree is in full fruit, which tells me it is happy to be here.
so much inspiration here...I just started putting up mail from art friends on this inspiration board. I have more and will work on again tomorrow. Thank you to all my fabulous art friends. You So inspire me!!
Smug Since recognizing his passion for Graffiti, He has quickly become one of the most talented street artists around.
Sam Bates known as Smug has high-quality murals demonstrate a photo-realistic style, and a careful and precise attitude to his work. Smug is inspired by the people he knows and whomever comes into contact with, creating thoroughly unique pieces that have been exhibited globally.
This mural took about a week to paint and thought to represent Mungo in modern-day clothes. Mungo is Glasgow’s patron saint, born in the 6th century. The story goes that when he was young, some boys from his village started throwing stones at robins that were pecking on the ground for scraps.One bird was hit and fell to the ground. The boys ran away. Mungo ran, too, but he ran to the fallen bird. Picking it up he smoothed and caressed its feathers and prayed over it. After a little while it revived and flew away. Perhaps it was only stunned. The villagers called it a miracle and so it was that a small boy should want to help a fallen bird in trouble.
Graceland is a mansion on a 13.8-acre (5.6-hectare) estate in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, once owned by American singer Elvis Presley. Presley is buried there, as are his parents Vernon and Gladys, paternal grandmother Minnie Mae, grandson Benjamin, and daughter Lisa Marie.
Graceland is located at 3764 Elvis Presley Boulevard (a segment of U.S. Route 51) in the Whitehaven neighborhood, about nine miles (14 kilometres) south of central Memphis and fewer than four miles (6.4 km) north of the Mississippi border. It was opened to the public as a house museum on June 7, 1982, and attracts more than 650,000 visitors annually.
Graceland was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1991, becoming the first site recognized for significance related to rock music. It was declared a National Historic Landmark on March 27, 2006, also a first for such a site.
Constantine, (The Great) born on March 17th 2014.
He is a Lagotto Romagnolo dog.
This is the only breed of dog that is officially recognized as specialized in truffle hunting.
This Class B building is one of the most recognized on the West Palm Beach skyline," said Ron Kent, senior vice president of Jack Lupo. "It displays architectural charm from another era and is an extremely valuable and prestigious property."
At 93,000-square-feet, the building boasts a roster of more than 100 tenants, said Tom Robertson, director, and co-broker at Jack Lupo. "Due to its proximity to the courthouse, it is home to numerous law firms, as well as brokerages and other professional services companies.
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The Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building - The relationship
Probably the two most recognizable buildings in the world, the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building, are often confused by new visitors to New York City.
It is a common occurrence on many private tours of the Best New York Sightseeing, when a guest will see the Chrysler Building for the first time and proclaim that it is the Empire State Building.
It is not so surprising that the two buildings can be confused since
The Chrysler building was built in 1930 and the Empire State Building was completed only 11 months later, both designed with a unique art deco style in the early 1930s.
The Chrysler Building, unlike the Empire State Building, was privately built by Walter P. Chrysler who wanted to boast of having a New York City-based building despite the fact that his corporation was primarily based in Detroit and its surroundings.
The Empire State Building, on the other hand, was built as a consortium between the New York State government and private industry in an attempt to economically rejuvenate a part of downtown Manhattan that had never really taken off, and was an attempt to attract Private industry to build more buildings in and around the new tower that breaks records.
Walter P. Chrysler, although he certainly had the influence of having his company pay for the construction of the Chrysler building, chose to pay for the incredible Chrysler building with his own money. When asked why he paid the bill for the construction of the Chrysler building directly, Walter P. Chrysler responded "... I would like my children to inherit the building ..."
The Empire State Building, completed less than a year later, in 1931, was for many years a kind of government's misguided effort to play with the generally natural way that real estate and buildings are usually built in American cities like New York. , that is, it depends on supply and demand.
Although it may be hard to believe for some, the Empire State Building was essentially a failure for many years after its completion in 1931. As little research was done in advance to determine if New York City needed another giant office tower in a time when the Great Depression was deepening, not to mention that at that moment, the location of 34th Street was a kind of no-man's land. very north of the downtown financial district and too far south of the new downtown core, which was rapidly becoming the area between 42nd Street and 50th Street.
Indeed, just a year after the Empire State Building opened to tenants of commercial offices, the vaunted New York Times sent a reporter to visit the tallest building in the world and a story appeared in the New York Times shortly after proclaiming the Empire State Building as the "Empty State Building". Virtually no tenants occupied this already iconic structure.
The management of the Empire State Building, incredibly embarrassed by the sincere but painful history of the New York Times, quickly hired a few dozen employees to raise and lower the elevators of the buildings during the evenings and nights to turn the lights on and off at Several empty offices on different floors to essentially "cheat" the public by seeing this giant structure from all parts of the city and make believe that the building had "tenants" everywhere.
This time Lena gave birth to only one puppy.
Yes, only one. This female puppy was born last night.
The previous Lena's litters were 7/8/9/5 puppies and this year just 1 pup.
Both are doing well.
They are Lagotto Romagnolo dogs.
This is the only breed of dog that is officially recognized as specialized in truffle hunting.
She is Anita Garibaldi.
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♰ update: Lena crossed the Rainbow Bridge on March 6, 2019
gospel movies "Knocking at the Door" (4) - The Lord Is Knocking at the Door: Can You Recognize His Voice? (1)
Introduction
The Lord Jesus said, "My sheep hear my voice" (Jhn 10:27). Clearly, the Lord is speaking to search for His sheep upon His return. The most crucial thing for Christians to do as they await the coming of the Lord is to seek to hear the voice of the Lord. How is one able to recognize the voice of the Lord, though? What is the difference between the voice of God and the voice of humans?
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Recognizable features:
Large head with strong beak Brown wings with white spots Light belly and throat Distinctive dark stripe through the eye Brown, banded tail feathers The kookaburra is known for its loud call, reminiscent of human laughter, and is originally from Australia. In Germany, this bird does not occur in the wild, but can only be seen in zoos or bird parks.
Metamorphoses Book I: Zeus and Io
The fresco shows Io, recognizable by the small horns painted on her forehead, welcomed by the goddess Isis. Io is supported by a character identified as the god Nile. The goddess Isis is seated. The snake wrapped in her left arm and the crocodile on which she is resting her feet evoke her magical and therapeutic powers. The little boy at the left of the goddess is Harpocrat, god of silence, secrets and confidentiality. On her right side, two priests wrapped in white robes.
The location of this scene are the banks of the Nile river, where Io regained her human aspect. When she reached the river, she fell forward onto her knees and turning back her long neck with her face upwards, in the only way she could, looked to the sky, and with groans and tears and sad lowing seemed to reproach Jupiter and beg him to end her troubles. Jupiter threw his arms round his wife’s neck and pleaded for an end to vengeance. Appeased the wrath of Hera, so Ovid describes the return of the heifer Io to her previous human forms [Met. I, 736 -746] :
Ut lenita dea est, vultus capit illa priores
fitque, quod ante fuit: fugiunt e corpore saetae,
cornua decrescunt, fit luminis artior orbis,
contrahitur rictus, redeunt umerique manusque
ungulaque in quinos dilapsa absumitur ungues:
de bove nil superest formae nisi candor in illa;
officioque pedum nymphe contenta duorum
erigitur metuitque loqui, ne more iuvencae
mugiat, et timide verba intermissa retemptat.
“The wrath of the goddess [Hera] is soothed ; lo gams back her former looks, and becomes what she was before. The rough hair falls away from her body, her horns disappear, her great round eyes grow smaller, her gaping mouth is narrowed, her shoulders and her hands come back, and the hoofs are gone, being changed each into five nails. No trace of the heifer is left in her save only the fair whiteness of her body. And now the nymph, able at last to stand upon two feet, stands erect; yet fears to speak, lest she moo in the heifer's way, and with fear and trembling she resumes her long-abandoned speech.”
Translation: Frank Justus Miller, “Ovid - Metamorphoses”
Source: exhibition note
Fresco From Pompeii, Duke of Aumale house
Late 1st century BC Early Ad 1st ventury (3rd style)
Naples, “Museo Archeologico Nazionale”
Exhibition: “Ovidio: Loves, Myths & Other Stories”
Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
The recognizable profile of the Pelican Nebula soars nearly 2,000 light-years away in the high flying constellation Cygnus, the Swan. Also known as IC 5070, this interstellar cloud of gas and dust is appropriately found just off the "east coast" of the North America Nebula (NGC 7000), another surprisingly familiar looking emission nebula in Cygnus. Both Pelican and North America nebulae are part of the same large and complex star forming region, almost as nearby as the better-known Orion Nebula. From our vantage point, dark dust clouds (upper left) help define the Pelican's eye and long bill, while a bright front of ionized gas suggests the curved shape of the head and neck. This striking synthesized color view utilizes narrowband image data recording the emission of hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the cosmic cloud. The scene spans some 30 light-years at the estimated distance of the Pelican Nebula. via NASA ift.tt/2frkU7N
Spago by Wolfgang Puck
Wolfgang Puck’s legendary flagship fine dining restaurant Spago is recognized for igniting Las Vegas’s dining scene into a culinary epicenter. Puck’s revolutionary Las Vegas Strip restaurant debuts with an entirely new look and menu and the exceptional level of service for which the restaurant is best known. The restaurant is beautifully situated for al fresco dining in front of the Bellagio Fountains. Spago’s re-imagined menu features Puck’s signature California fare paired with modern technique and inspiration from his chef’s weekly trips to the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market. At lunch and dinner, the market-driven menus feature handmade pastas, wood-oven pizzas, fresh seafood, all-natural meats and prime steaks, alongside handcrafted cocktails and a robust wine list. To complete the meal, dessert complements the menu with an array of seasonal delights sure to make your experience the Best Las Vegas Restaurant. Design and collaboration by Gelila Puck and Italian architects Massimiliano Locatelli and Annamaria Scevola of CLS Architetti, and inspired by Spago’s original flagship location in Beverly Hills, the new venue has a sleek look and warm feel. In the main dining room, beautiful floor-to-ceiling floating glass windows surround the space, imparting picturesque views of Bellagio’s famed lake. Two exquisite chandeliers highlight the room’s modern art pieces, while bold accents featuring rich hues of black iron, velvet walnut and polished grey express a contemporary aesthetic. The next era of Vegas dining begins here.