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Carte de visite by John A. Beard of Boston, Mass. A musician poses with his over-the-shoulder saxhorn and his cap, upon which is a wreath insignia with 3 and BAND in the center, and a silver cross—the symbol of the hard-fighting 6th Corps commanded by Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, and following his death, Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright.
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A beauty dresses up for the Dia De Los Muertos Festival hosted by MECA in Houston's Sixth ward near downtown. This is one of the many celebrations that mark the day Texas.
Under the Sixth Street cable-stayed bridge, something of a modern-day Brew City landmark that mirrors the nearby Santiago Calatrava-designed expansion to the city's lakefront art museum, a Canadian Pacific GEVO leads coke empties on the ex-MILW "cut-off" under the tangle of the Marquette Interchange and through what is now Milwaukee Intermodal Station, a newish facility whose size cries out loudly for more passenger train service than its five tracks (six if you count the stub for private varnish, on which Iowa Pacific's observation-lounge 'Caritas' is currently parked) suggest it receives. On a light pole on the Track 1 platform, forlorn remnants of Christmas holiday decorations flutter in the breeze- fitting, somehow.
The Sixth Street Bridge, with its long 544 foot length excellent physical condition, is a fitting tribute to its builder, the Massillon Bridge Company of Massillon Ohio. Constructed in 1886, this bridge is made of wrought iron. This bridge is one of the most important historic bridges in the entire state of Michigan, since it is the longest pin-connected highway truss in the state. Also, Michigan only has a few truss bridges that are more than one span in length, and most of those are two spans. A four span bridge in Michigan is thus extremely rare for its unusually long length, for Michigan. The bridge is also significant for the length of its individual spans. The bridge has three spans that are 154 feet in length. This is a very long span length for a pin-connected Pratt truss, and is among the longest in Michigan. Any longer, and the bridge might have employed a Whipple, Baltimore, or Pennsylvania truss. Image by MattsLens, [Information courtesy of Historical Bridges]: www.historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=tr...
620 Sixth Avenue, New York
The six-story Siegel-Cooper store was located at 616-632 Sixth Avenue between West 18th and 19th Streets, and was built between 1895 and 1897, then expanded in 1899. The steel-framed building, the first department store in New York to be so constructed, was the largest store in the world at the time, and was designed in Beaux-Arts style by DeLemos & Cordes.
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Sony a6400, 135mm Pentax-M
Little Hagia Sophia (Turkish: Küçük Ayasofya Camii), formerly the Church of the Saints Sergius and Bacchus (Greek: Ἐκκλησία τῶν Ἁγίων Σεργίου καὶ Βάκχου ἐν τοῖς Ὁρμίσδου, Ekklēsía tôn Hagíōn Sergíou kaì Bákchou en toîs Hormísdou), is a former Eastern Orthodox church dedicated to Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople, converted into a mosque during the Ottoman Empire.
This Byzantine building with a central dome plan was erected in the sixth century by Justinian, likely was a model for Hagia Sophia ("Holy Wisdom"), and is one of the most important early Byzantine buildings in Istanbul. It was recognized at the time as an adornment to the entire city, and a modern historian of the East Roman Empire has written that the church, "by the originality of its architecture and the sumptuousness of its carved decoration, ranks in Constantinople second only to St. Sophia itself".
Owing to the hazy season of Singapore right now, the sunset borders between epic burn of a mere seconds to a sunset more dull than a politician's speech. Coupled with the fact that I'm rushing to this location during my previous 5 trips here, and you perhaps can understand my delight when I finally caught hold of something more, upload-worthy.
I have walked through this area more than a thousand times (I live here), but I never took the time to look up and appreciate the unique structure of our vertical houses.
For some reason or so, I decided to explore this block and felt this framing was worth a go.
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The pigment for the gold chain and pin (?) have bled over time. At first I thought it was tarnish but the same bleeding occurs at a brooch on another dag from the same family.
The two young gentlemen may be brothers. In any event, they are dressed identically.
I think the one on the right resembles John Travolta a bit.
Singapore, Air Force (RSAF), Airbus A330-243MRTT, msn 188, MRTT038, tempo reg EC-332, ex F-WWYX, future RSAF 765, landing at Getafe (LEGT) factory wearing final livery (except reg marks). Was painted at Manchester Air Livery but had to take some days al MAD/LEMD for repair of some little wing damage.
Sixth Avenue | Herald Square 02/05/2015 09h36
Sixth Avenue as seen from Herald Square and the corner of the West 34th Street.
Sixth Avenue
Sixth Avenue – officially Avenue of the Americas, although this name is seldom used by New Yorkers – is a major thoroughfare in New York City's borough of Manhattan, on which traffic runs northbound, or "uptown". It is commercial for much of its length.
Sixth Avenue begins four blocks below Canal Street, at Franklin Street in TriBeCa, where the northbound Church Street divides into Sixth Avenue to the left and the local continuation of Church Street to the right, which then ends at Canal Street. From this beginning, Sixth Avenue traverses SoHo and Greenwich Village, roughly divides Chelsea from the Flatiron District and NoMad, passes through the Garment District and skirts the edge of the Theater District while passing through Midtown Manhattan.
Sixth Avenue's northern end is at Central Park South, adjacent to the Artists Gate traffic entrance to Central Park at Center Drive. Historically, Sixth Avenue continued north of Central Park, but that segment was renamed Lenox Avenue in 1887 and co-named Malcolm X Boulevard in 1987.
The avenue's official name was changed to Avenue of the Americas in 1945 by the City Council, at the behest of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, who signed the bill into law on October 2, 1945. The intent was to honor "Pan-American ideals and principles" and the nations of Central and South America, and to encourage those countries to build consulates along the avenue. It was felt at the time that the name would provide greater grandeur to a shabby street, and to promote trade with the Western Hemisphere.
After the name change, round signs were attached to streetlights on the avenue, showing the national seals of the nations honored. However, New Yorkers seldom used the avenue's newer name, and the street has been labelled as both "Avenue of the Americas" and "Sixth Avenue" in recent years. Most of the old round signs with country emblems were gone by the late 1990s, and the ones remaining were showing signs of age.
[ Source & more Info: Wikipedia - Sixth Avenue Manhattan ]
While visiting Auburn, Indiana with my brother Doug on September 4 and 5, 2015 during the ACD Festival, we had lunch and twice had ice cream at the Cranberry Cottage Cafe. The cafe is connected with Savvy Avenue Consignment, a charming repurposing of an old church.
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