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Many different precipitants can be used. I chose SMB (sodium metabisulfite), available at brewery stores. The solution is no longer yellow. The gold has precipitated as a brown dirt at the bottom of the beaker.
Using a Dremel tool to refine each of the petals of the sunflower before sanding them smooth and then sealing them. I guess my whole body must be vibrating along with the vibrations from the Dremel tool!
Further refining. Adjusted colors a bit, for better contrast, and playbutton has light lines now.
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Title: Atlantic Refining Co.
Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall
Date: July 1957
Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection
Physical Description: 1 negative: film, black and white; 10.5 x 13.3 cm.
File: ag1982_0234_4496_025_atlanticrefiningco_sm_opt.jpg
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Datan siivousta tehokkaasti – Eduskuntavaaliehdokkaiden itse ilmoittamat arvot/ammatit/asemat siivottuna
Google Refine Tutoriaali
Antti Poikola – Otavan Opisto
Kuva: 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak (wikipedia)
An over-pressure event caused this 29-thousand-barrel oil tank to rupture at the Holly Refining and Marketing site in Woods Cross, Utah on August 30, 2012. Roughly 200 barrels escaped as an aerosol, drifting east onto homes, businesses and part of Interstate 15.
A delicious cheesecake with a local touch. A refine palm sugar flavoured baked creamy cheesecake taste amazing beautiful and lovely. When the cake was baking in the oven, the gula melaka aroma was very strong inside the house. To give the cake deep favour & better presentation, I caramelised the raw gula melaka, pandan leaves and cook with fresh coconut with gula melaka until caramelised & dissolved. I dress the cake with both fresh & caramelised coconut and drizzled with gula melaka sweet caramel sauce. A Taste of Heaven.
Title: Wyatt Metal and Boiler Works, at Humble Oil and Refining Co., Tomball refinery
Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall (1908-1984)
Date: June 1940
Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie photograph collection
Place: Tomball, Texas
Physical Description: 1 negative: film, black and white; 12.6 x 10 cm
File Name: ag1982_0234_2162_21_wyattwks_sm_opt.jpg
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This is the part where I use a razor blade and sand paper to make the left side of the face and the right side of the face match. If you look a few pictures back, they really didn't. On one side, the top um... lash thingy was the longest, on the other side the bottom was. And they didn't really even point in the same directions, so...right. Needed fixing.
Title: [Gas processing plant, Atlantic Refining Co.]
Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall
Date: July 1957
Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection
Physical Description: 1 negative: film, black and white; 10.6 x 13.1 cm.
File: ag1982_0234_4496_026_atlanticrefiningco_sm_opt.jpg
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Source:
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John Davison Rockefeller was the first billionaire! Indeed, his estimated $1.4 billion net worth in 1937 was equivalent to 1.5% of U.S. GDP!! According to this metric he was (and still is) the richest individual in American business and economic history.
Nicholas, Tom, and Vasiliki Fouka. "John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World." Harvard Business School Case 815-088, December 2014. (Revised March 2018.)
“John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest Americans of all time and one of the richest people in modern history. Rockefeller was born into a large family in Upstate New York who moved several times before eventually settling in Cleveland, Ohio. He became an assistant bookkeeper at age 16 and went into several business partnerships beginning at age 20, concentrating his business on oil refining. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870. He ran it until 1897 and remained its largest shareholder. In his retirement, he focused his energy and wealth on philanthropy, especially regarding education, medicine, higher education, and modernizing the Southern United States….”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller
An excellent one-page bio can be found here:
blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2020/01/rockefeller-billionaire/
And, if you are so inclined, here’s a 12-minute biography:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=panTYqj5QHE
Finally, here’s a clip of the iconic figure on his 93rd birthday:
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Title: Atlantic Refining Co., Atreco, Texas, Aerial
Creator: Richie, Robert Yarnall
Date: November 1953
Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection
Place: Atreco, Texas
Physical Description: 1 negative: film, black and white; 10.4 x 13.1 cm.
File: ag1982_0234_3906_01_atlanticrefinco_sm_opt.jpg
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This is the best photo I got of all the Refineries. It is like a different world on this side of town.
Built in 1895-1896, this Chicago School-style thirteen-story skyscraper was designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler for the Guaranty Construction Company. It was initially commissioned by Hascal L. Taylor, whom approached Dankmar Adler to build "the largest and best office building in the city,” but Taylor, whom wanted to name the building after himself, died in 1894, just before the building was announced. Having already had the building designed and ready for construction, the Guaranty Construction Company of Chicago, which already had resources lined up to build the project, bought the property and had the building constructed, with the building instead being named after them. In 1898, the building was renamed after the Prudential Insurance Company, which had refinanced the project and became a major tenant in the building after it was completed. Prudential had the terra cotta panels above the main entrances to the building modified to display the company’s name in 1898, upon their acquisition of a partial share in the ownership of the tower. The building became the tallest building in Buffalo upon its completion, and was a further refinement of the ideas that Sullivan had developed with the Wainwright Building in St. Louis, which was built in 1890-92, and featured a design with more Classical overtones, which were dropped with the design of the Guaranty Building in favor of a more purified Art Nouveau and Chicago School aesthetic, and with more intricate visual detail, with the ornate terra cotta panels cladding the entire structure, leaving very few areas with sparse detail. The building is an early skyscraper with a steel frame supporting the terra cotta panel facade, a departure from earlier load bearing masonry structures that had previously been predominant in many of the same applications, and expresses this through large window openings at the base and a consistent wall thickness, as there was no need to make the exterior walls thicker at the base to support the load from the structure above. The building also contrasts with the more rigid historically-influenced Classical revivalism that was growing in popularity at the time, and follows Sullivan’s mantra of “form ever follows function” despite having a lot of unnecessary detail on the exterior cladding and interior elements. The building’s facade also emphasizes its verticality through continual vertical bands of windows separated by pilasters that are wider on the first two floors, with narrower pilasters above, with the entire composition of the building following the tripartite form influenced by classical columns, with distinct sections comprising the base, shaft, and capital, though being a radical and bold abstraction of the form compared to the historical literalism expressed by most of its contemporaries, more directly displaying the underlying steel structure of the building.
The building is clad in rusty terra cotta panels which feature extensive Sullivanesque ornament inspired by the Art Nouveau movement, which clad the entirety of the building’s facades along Church Street and Pearl Street, with simpler red brick and painted brick cladding on the facades that do not front public right-of-ways, which are visible when the building is viewed from the south and west. The white painted brick cladding on the south elevation marks the former location of the building’s light well, which was about 30 feet wide and 68 feet deep, and was infilled during a 1980s rehabilitation project, adding an additional 1,400 square feet of office space, and necessitating an artificial light source to be installed above the stained glass ceiling of the building’s lobby. The building’s windows are mostly one-over-one double-hung windows in vertical columns, with one window per bay, though this pattern is broken at the painted portions of the non-principal facades, which feature paired one-over-one windows, on the second floor of the principal facades, which features Chicago-style tripartite windows and arched transoms over the building’s two main entry doors, on the thirteenth floor of the principal facades, which features circular oxeye windows, and at the base, which features large storefront windows that include cantilevered sections with shed glass roofs that wrap around the columns at the base of the building. The building’s terra cotta panels feature many natural and geometric motifs based on plants and crystalline structures, the most common being a “seed pod” motif that symbolizes growth, with a wide variation of patterns, giving the facade a dynamic appearance, which is almost overwhelming, but helps to further grant the building a dignified and monumental appearance, and is a signature element of many of the significant works of Adler and Sullivan, as well as Sullivan’s later independent work. The building’s pilasters halve in number but double in thickness towards the base, with wide window openings underneath pairs of window bays above on the first and second floors, with the pilasters terminating at circular columns with large, decorative, ornate terra cotta capitals in the central bays, and thick rectilinear pilasters at the corners and flanking the entry door openings. The circular columns penetrate the extruded storefront windows and shed glass roofs below, which formed display cases for shops in the ground floor of the building when it first opened, and feature decorative copper trim and mullions framing the large expanses of plate glass. The base of the building is clad in medina sandstone panels, as well as medina sandstone bases on the circular columns. The major entry doors feature decorative copper trim surrounds, a spandrel panel with ornate cast copper detailing above and the name “Guaranty” emblazoned on the face of each of the two panels at the two entrances, decorative transoms above with decorative copper panels as headers, and arched transoms on the second floor with decorative terra cotta trim surrounds. Each of the two major entrance doors is flanked by two ornate Art Nouveau-style wall-mounted sconces mounted on the large pilasters, with smaller, partially recessed pilasters on either side. The building features two cornices with arched recesses, with the smaller cornice running as a belt around the transition between the base and the shaft portions of the building, with lightbulbs in each archway, and the larger cornice, which extends further out from the face of the building, running around the top of the building’s Swan Street and Pearl Street facades, with a circular oxeye window in each archway. The lower corner recessed into the facade at the ends, while the upper cornice runs around the entire top of the facade above, with geometric motifs in the central portions and a large cluster of leaves in a pattern that is often repeated in Sullivan’s other work at the corners. The spandrel panels between the windows on the shaft portion of the building feature a cluster of leaves at the base and geometric patterns above, with a repeat of the same recessed arch detail as the cornice at the sill line of each window. The pilasters feature almost strictly geometric motifs, with a few floral motifs thrown in at key points to balance the composition of the facade with the windows. A small and often overlooked feature of the ground floor is a set of stone steps up to an entrance at the northwest corner of the building, which features a decorative copper railing with Sullivanesque and Art Nouveau-inspired ornament, which sits next to a staircase to the building’s basement, which features a more utilitarian modern safety railing in the middle.
The interior of the building was heavily renovated over the years before being partially restored in 1980, with the lobby being reverted back to its circa 1896 appearance. The Swan Street vestibule has been fully restored, featuring a marble ceiling, decorative mosaics around the top of the walls, a decorative antique brass light fixture with Art Nouveau detailing and a ring of lightbulbs in the center, the remnant bronze stringer of a now-removed staircase to the second floor in a circular glass wall at the north end of the space, and a terazzo floor. The main lobby, located immediately to the west, features a Tiffany-esque stained glass ceiling with ellipsoid and circular panels set into a bronze frame that once sat below a skylight at the base of the building’s filled-in light well, marble cladding on the walls, mosaics on the ceiling and around the top of the walls, a bronze staircase with ornate railing at the west end of the space, which features a semi-circular landing, a basement staircase with a brass railing, a terrazzo floor, and multiple historic three-bulb wall sconces, as well as brass ceiling fixtures matching those in the vestibule. The building’s elevators, located in an alcove near the base of the staircase, features a decorative richly detailed brass screen on the exterior, with additional decorative screens above, with the elevator since having been enclosed with glass to accommodate modern safety standards and equipment, while preserving the visibility of the original details. Originally, when the building was built, the elevators descended open shafts into a screen wall in the lobby, with the elevators originally being manufactured by the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company, with these being exchanged in 1903 for water hydraulic elevators that remained until a renovation in the 1960s. Sadly, most of the historic interior detailing of the upper floors was lost during a series of renovations in the 20th Century, which led to them being fully modernized during the renovation in the 1980s, with multiple tenant finish projects since then further modifying the interiors of the upper floors.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975, owing to its architectural significance, and to help save the building, which had suffered a major fire in 1974 that led to the city of Buffalo seeking to demolish it. A renovation in the early 1980s managed to modernize the building while restoring the lobby and the exterior, which was carried out under the direction of the firm CannonDesign, and partial funding from federal historic tax credits. The building was purchased in 2002 by Hodgson Russ, a law firm, which subsequently further renovated the building to suit their needs, converting the building into their headquarters in 2008. This renovation was carried out under the direction of Gensler Architects and the local firm Flynn Battaglia Architects. The building today houses offices on the upper floors, with a visitor center, known as the Guaranty Interpretative Center, on the first floor, with historic tours offered of some of the building’s exterior and interior spaces run by Preservation Buffalo Niagara. The building was one of the most significant early skyscrapers, and set a precedent for the modern skyscrapers that began to be built half a century later.
Keynote: "Refine and PathText, which combines text Mining with Pathways" (Junichi Tsujii, NaCTeM, Manchester, UK and University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
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Ex. Stanlow Oil Refining Plant diesel shunter locomotive "Stanlow No.4" at Preston Riverside railway station, Ribble Steam Railway, Preston. Saturday 01 October 2011.
This diesel locomotive was built by Thomas Hill at their Vanguard Works, Kilnhurst, Yorkshire in 1966 and spent all its working life at Stanlow.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
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Accession Number: UN.964.30
Summary: Plate 18, “Spermaceti Refining. Vat for boiling spermaceti and removing sediment.”
Taken in area K, the candle house, first floor, from the middle of the south side looking northeast at the south side of the boilers.
The boilers consisted of iron kettles or vats set in brick, cooling or waste tanks, and a hearth and chimney. In this kettle the thick oil or “black cake” from the second pressing was heated by steam, refined with alkali, and poured into molds, like that at lower left, to harden into forty pound cakes. The gentleman here is using a hand pump to move impurities - “sediment” that settled to the bottom - to the adjoining tank. The vertical pipe probably takes steam to the steam coils; a waste pipe runs across the floor, and tools rest in the rack above. The chimney is directly behind the gentleman (originally the boilers were heated with coal or wood).
Publisher: [U. S. Fish Commission/Stevenson, 1901]
An expert meeting to refine the TechFit tool. ILRI Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 12-13 March 2013 (photo credit: ILRI\Zerihun Sewunet).
The Colonial Sugar Refining Company issued its own currency in remote regions of Australia. South Pacific Enterprise 1956.
The history of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (CSR Co.)
This Centenary commemorative book was issued to shareholders listed on the share Register in 1955.
An Australian enterprise founded 1855 by Edward Knox, a Danish immigrant, from earlier origins as the Australasian Sugar Company ( 1842), which Knox managed. The company established sugar operations in Australia, Fiji, New Zealand and over the next 150 years diversified into building materials, chemicals etc.
Published by Angus & Robertson, Sydney. Cloth boards, 500 pages 16cm x 24cm.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKbpQfWik4k Angela Bennett Ashburn Virginia free report on home mortgage financing solution features
A U.S. Army Soldier assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, prepares a CH-47 Chinook for an air assault during Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Complex-Alaska 23-02 at Ladd Army Airfield, Ft. Wainwright, Alaska, April 3, 2023. JPMRC-AK 23-02 helps Soldiers and leaders develop and refine the tactics, techniques, and procedures necessary to successfully operate in remote and extreme Arctic winter conditions and overcome environmental and military challenges. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Patrick Sullivan)
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Here is my redesigned Fort Iron Cactus! ideas.lego.com/s/p:3e48fd3e9c7e4ac09f887e74f56a5e80 It is my interpretation of an Old Wild West Fort. Inspiration for this comes from a mix of the Lego Western theme, Ninja theme, and some Ninjago.
I incorporated feedback and suggestions from my original submission last year. The base is 64 x 64 studs, and has been built up one block thick to accommodate hinges to allow the fort to open up. The fort itself is now 26 x 25 studs. The original digital build had around 2,100 pieces, not including minifigures or the two horses, this submitted version has slightly fewer as some pieces were removed during the refining of this design.
The fort is three stories tall and made with a modular technique to allow it to separate into 8 different sections plus the base. The base is hinged to allow it to swing open. The top level has four panels that are hinged to allow an opening for four cannons. The top level also has a lookout tower with a rotary stud shooter and the fort's commander's office/living quarters. The second level contains the bunkhouse for the officers and a walkway that wraps around the fort. The ground level contains the armory, jail cell, chow hall, and the bunkhouse for the enlisted.
There are three groups of minifigs in this project: enlisted in the light blue uniforms, officers in the dark blue uniforms, and of course three bandits.
Title: Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., Cable: on Humble Oil & Refining Co. rig #102, Friendswood, driller operating draw works
Creator: Robert Yarnall Richie
Date: March 1939
Place: Friendswood, Texas
Part Of: Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection
Physical Description: 1 negative film: black and white; 17.8 x 12.7 cm.
File: ag1982_0234_1987_039_joneslaughlinsteel_sm_opt.jpg
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Dry fit of first three pieces of sternsheets (the darker pieces) and refine fit of remaining three pieces of the pattern. A store bought hatch goes in the large opening in the center of the of the pattern.
Further refining of my custom "photomosaic" software.
Placement of tiles is done based only on intensity of target image (i.e., grayscale). Hence the pseudorandom colorization.
Experimental photomosaic created with custom software. Images can be arbitrarily rotated, scaled, and placed.
Code and description of the algorithm can be found at Fractal-Mosaics Github repo
Fuel transport tanker seen at Super America at Ford and Snelling making a fuel delivery.
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This is a westbound Norfolk Southern Railway freight train in the late morning of 10 May 2016 at Horseshoe Curve, west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA. It was headed by two NS engines - # 9693, a General Electric CW40-9, and # 7211, a General Motors Electro-Motive Division SD80MAC.
These are Deep Rock Refining Company tank cars, marked DPRX. They were built in the 2010s and are used to transport petroleum (crude oil).
The famous Salt Museum of Trapani is located in the middle of the Saline Nature Reserve of Trapani. It is situated along the route known as the Salt Road, a tourist and cultural project created with the intent of enhancing the coastal area of West Sicily, with its particular moist environment, salt pits and mills.
The museum is located inside a former farm of the Seventeenth century, which was used for the grinding of salt, thanks to its large windmill. It collects and preserves the ancient tools used by people working there.
Among the most characteristic objects you can find in the Salt Museum of Trapani, there are the old machineries used to compact the bottom of the salt marshes, the "cattedri" or baskets to carry the salt, the wooden paddles of the old mills otherwise called "ntinni," the spiral or Archimedes’ screw ("fridda") to suck the water out of the tank, the wooden strips or "tagghia" to measure salt, and also jute bags. Then there is the wagon-barrel, which was attached to a mule and used to carry water to the workers from one tank to another. Other objects include the heavy millstone used in the refining process, and even nets and traps, since quality fishes such as sea breams and sea basses are breed in these salt pools.
The Postcard
A carte postale published by L.L. The card was printed at l'Imprimerie Nouvelle Photographique of Paris.
The card was posted in Tilbury on Friday the 22nd. December 1905 to:
Miss Enid Fryer,
'Dunkeld',
Sydenham Park Road,
Sydenham,
Kent.
The message on divided the back of the card was as follows:
"23/12/05.
Hope you will have a
Merry Xmas and a very
Happy New Year.
Aunt Alice".
Note that Aunt Alice got the date wrong.
Porte d'Aix
The Royal triumphal arch of the Porte d'Aix is in Marseille, in the south of France, marking the old entry point to the city on the road from Aix-en-Provence.
The classical design by Michel-Robert Penchaud was inspired by the triumphal arches of the Roman Empire.
The Porte d’Aix was initially conceived in 1784 to honour Louis XIV, and to commemorate the Peace of Paris (1783) that ended the American Revolutionary War.
Following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1814-15, the project was resumed in 1823, now to commemorate French victories in the Spanish Expedition, notably at the Battle of Trocadero on the 31st. August 1823. It was eventually completed in 1839, with a more general theme of victory.
History of the Porte d'Aix
In 1660 Louis XIV descended on Marseille to bring order to a city in political turmoil. His troops blasted a hole in the old thirteenth century ramparts that ran the length of the rue d'Aix between the city gates of "Porte Royale" and "Porte d'Aix".
Part of the subsequent reorganisation of Marseille involved not only an increased military presence, demolition of the old ramparts, new royal shipyards and seaward fortifications, but also a new governing body drawn from the merchant class, charged with making plans to expand and beautify the city.
From an early stage these plans included the reconstruction of the Porte Royale and the removal of the unsightly aqueduct (Aqueduc de l'Huveaune) in the Place d'Aix at the end of the Rue d'Aix. The original porte d'Aix was formed by the arches of this aqueduct.
Numerous projects for city plans were proposed, including one by Pierre Puget, placing a ceremonial Porte Royale in the Place d'Aix.
Eventually in 1784 the city of Marseille decided to use the profits generated by the sale of the royal shipyards to erect a royal triumphal arch in the place d'Aix:
"To the glory of Louis XIV and to commemorate
the peace gloriously achieved, putting an end to
the war of independence in America".
Already delayed by local officialdom, the project was abandoned during the French Revolution and Napoleonic rule. Following the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, the project was resumed in 1823 by the mayor of Marseille, the Marquis de Montgrand, under royal charter from Louis XVIII.
This time it was intended to commemorate the victory of Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, son of the future King Charles X, at the Battle of Trocadero that resulted in the restoration of Ferdinand VII as King of Spain.
The first stone was laid in 1825 by the Marquis de Montgrand, with a dedication to the royal family. The aqueduct was demolished three years later to clear the place d'Aix.
The project, however, was to suffer yet again from changes in regime in France. Although the main construction work started under Charles X, it was only completed under Louis-Philippe in 1839; and, with the intervening political changes in France, the monument could no longer just celebrate the campaign of the Duke of Angoulême, but instead the more general theme of French victories.
The Architecture of the Porte d'Aix
Michel-Robert Penchaud, the architect of the monument, probably took as his model the Arch of Titus on the Via Sacra in Rome, although elements are present from other Roman triumphal arches such as the Arches of Trajan and the Arch of Constantine.
Responsibility for the stonework was put in the hands of the Italian mason Gaétan Cantini. The ornamental sculpture was entrusted to the Parisian sculptor Antoine-André Marneuf who took his inspiration from the Roman triumphal arch at Orange; the statuary and bas-reliefs were commissioned from David d'Angers and Etienne-Jules Ramey.
The main facades depict the battles of Fleurus, Héliopolis, Marengo and Austerlitz. The two bas-reliefs under the portico depict the call to the defence of liberty (David d'Angers) and the return of the victorious heroes (Ramey).
Eight giant allegorical statues, almost 3m high, were placed in the attic representing the Virtues. On the north façade David d'Angers completed Devotion, Prudence, Resignation and Fortitude in 1835; Ramey only finished Vigilance, Clemency, Energy and Temperance on the south façade in 1839.
Unfortunately, because the stone was not properly weather-proof, the statues started to erode. In 1921 they were repaired using reinforced concrete; nevertheless in 1937 six of the heads rolled off onto the street below. In a later restoration of the arch in 2003, only four of the statues were kept, those of David d'Angers, on the north façade.
Probably because of its location, the Porte d'Aix is a monument that is often undeservedly overlooked. Composed of a single arch and an attic supported by four Corinthian columns, its harmony is inspired by the monuments of antiquity.
Its height and width are identical, just under 18m, fitting it precisely with a square, one of the "perfect" geometric forms.
Marseille
Marseille (English: Marseilles) is a city in southern France, capital of the Bouches-du-Rhône department.
Marseille is, with 859,543 inhabitants, the second most populous city in the country after Paris. It is the main economic center and the largest metropolis in the French South, and brings together nearly 1,605,000 inhabitants in its urban area, the third largest in the country, after Paris and Lyon.
It is the most important commercial port in the French Mediterranean and in the whole of France. It is a center of industrial activity specializing in petrochemicals and oil refining, shipbuilding and various industries.
Marseille is also a communications hub where the routes between Paris, Italy, Switzerland and Spain converge. Marseille is the seat of an archdiocese and of the University of Aix-Marseille, founded in 1409.
Marseille developed under the name of Massalia as a trading colony founded by Phocaean sailors around 600 BC., preserving the oldest remains of viticulture in France introduced in the fourth century BC.
It was incorporated into the French crown in 1481, and took advantage of its strategic alliance with the Ottoman Empire during the Renaissance and the Ancien Régime for its growth.
After the Revolution the city was the scene of the so-called White Terror, and during the 19th. century , the scene of rapid progress with French colonial expansion into Algeria and the opening of the Suez Canal.
It was partially destroyed during World War II, and one of the objectives of Operation Dragoon. It was a traditional place of passage for the migratory flows that increased the multicultural character of the city.
However the economic crisis of the 1970's, caused a notable decrease in the population, the loss of purchasing power and the accentuation of social conflicts in the last quarter of the 20th. century. Nevertheless Marseille has recovered to become one of the most important cities in the Euro-Mediterranean region.
Thomas Flowers
So what else happened on the day that Aunt Alice posted the card?
Well, on the 22nd. December 1905, Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, BSc, DSc, MBE was born.
He was an English engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.
Thomas died on the 28th. October 1998.
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