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Hair Ice associated with the fungus Exidiopsis effusa on the South Downs, South Downs National Park, West Sussex England
Focus Stacked Image, 14 image files, f8.0, iso100
Event attendee Blanca Rosa Rodriguez and author/speaker Philippa Strum with the new book, Mendez V. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights (http://bbpbooks.teachingforchange.org/book/9780700617197). Photo by Raisa Camargo, Hispanic Link www.hispaniclink.org
Macon, Bibb County GA. Built by Charles Douglass, the son of an ex-slave, this historic African-American theatre hosted some of the most famous black performers of the twentieth century. Otis Redding first came to attention here in 1958 on Hamp Swain's radio talent show, "The Teenage Hour".
This was the mansion of Robert Augustus Toombs (1810-1885), American Southern antebellum politician, an ardent secessionist who served the Confederacy as Secretary of State and as a general. During Reconstruction, the "unreconstructed rebel" sought to restore white supremacy in Georgia.
Locations and landmarks named after Robert Toombs:
Toombs County, Georgia: Established in 1905, this county is named to honor Toombs' contributions as a politician and Confederate leader.
Toomsboro, Georgia: A town with a name derived from Toombs, reflecting his influence in the region.
Wilkin County, Minnesota: Originally named Toombs County before its renaming in 1858, it reflects Toombs' early prominence.
Toombs Judicial Circuit: This judicial circuit includes several counties in Georgia (Glascock, Lincoln, McDuffie, Taliaferro, Warren, and Wilkes) and is named after him.
Robert Toombs House State Historic Site: Located in Washington, Georgia, this historic site was Toombs' home and is now a museum that showcases his life and contributions. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated as a National Historic Landmark.
Camp Toombs: A military training base in Toccoa, Georgia, used during World War II by Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Regiment.
Robert Toombs Christian Academy: A private school in Lyons, Georgia, established during the era of segregation and named after him.
SS Robert Toombs: A Liberty Ship launched in 1943 that served during World War II before being scrapped. Another vessel was renamed SS Robert Toombs after being sold out of federal service.
The Robert Toombs Mansion
Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia USA
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© 2024 Mike McCall
The Booker T. Motel was determined to be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (MRHP) under criterion A for its significance in African-American history and commerce in Humboldt, Tennessee. The period of significance for the Booker T. Motel (also known as the Booker T. "Colored" Motel and Restaurant) extends from 1954, the year the motel was constructed, through 1970, when ownership changed hands from Mr. Alfred Pulliam to Mr. Ollie Armour. During the period of significance, accommodations for traveling African-Americans were few and far between. Strategically, the motel was located near the intersection of U.S. Highways 79 and 70A just blocks from Humboldt’s business district and in the heart of the historically African-American community. The establishment became one of the few places African-Americans could stop and stay while traveling between Memphis and Nashville. The motel had the distinction of being advertised in the Green Book (The Negro Travelers Green Book originated in New York by mail carrier Victor H. Green in 1937 to give African-American’s direction on where they could stop or stay along their route to avoid unwanted dangers) and was featured in Ebony magazine article in 1955 titled “Hotels on the Highway”. The motel’s barbeque restaurant was also one of the only places in the area where African-American guests did not have to enter through a segregated back door and is an important example of a Black-owned barbeque restaurant.
An October 8, 1953 Jackson Sun (Jackson, TN newspaper) article announced that Humboldt “will shortly have the only Negro tourist court between Memphis and Nashville.” The article said that the motel would be “for the accommodation of colored people only”, would be located “on lower Main Street, and attributed the “unique name of this latest addition to the local business institutions is in honor, of course, of the founder and first president of the Tuskegee Institute, Dr. Booker T. Washington.” The motel opened with a formal dedication ceremony on January 31, 1954. According to an announcement in the Jackson Sun, the “general public, white and Negro,” were invited to attend the event which marked “another ‘first’ for Humboldt and probably also a first for the entire state.” The Green Book documents that there were other at least eighteen hotels throughout the state that served African-American visitors, but none were described as a motel. An original Booker T. Motel advertising sign is in the National Museum of African American History and Culture to tell the story of African-American travel in the mid-twentieth century. And, there are no other known African-American motels in Tennessee, rendering the Booker T. Motel a rare surviving monument to the struggle African-Americans endured during segregation and a historically significant, vital commercial enterprise in Tennessee’s African American history.
On July, 25, 2018, the Booker T. Motel was officially added to the NRHP. All of the information above (and much more) was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/aa7208e2-5716-4c26-9f7...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
This is a simple image of an Icelandic river, well of a part of it where the sediments of the glacial water leave impressive stains in the volcanic soil.
But this is also the cover image of a world gone mad. Of a world facing global warming. Of a world losing its morals and political turmoil. Of a world with segregation and racism. Of a world fighting a pandemic. Of a world, yet so beautiful and so precious, and the only one we have. Hope!
The first name that came into my mind for this image was ‘Sauron’ (in a 3x2 crop the bottom part resembled an iris, but ultimately I decided to simplify the composition and put more emphasis on the fire like upper part. Hence the name and reference to the legendary Billy Joel song.
By Kai Hornung
May 17, 1954
Brown v. Board of Ed
The Supreme Court rules that racial segregation in public educational facilities is unconstitutional.
As promised, a sheep rainbow. :D
Alternate titles- Lucky Sheep
Grass Isnt Always Greener
Roy the Super-Sheep
He beaa-t me to the punch
Sheep Segregation
March 5th, 2009
© Jennifer Mulkerrin
Copyright Protected.
The Jackson Rooming House, also known as Jackson House, is a historic building constructed in 1901 as a boarding house in the city of Tampa, in the U.S. state of Florida. It provided accommodations to African-Americans and other travelers of African descent during the era of racial segregation. It is located on the north end of downtown at 851 Zack Street, approximately one block west of Tampa Union Station. On March 7, 2007, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
The Jackson Rooming House was one of the only places in Tampa where black travelers could find lodging, as they were not accepted in standard hotels of the day. The 24-room establishment began as a six-room cottage built by Moses and Sarah Jackson in 1901. Soon after, they added bedrooms and a second story in order to operate the rooming house, which remained in business until 1989. The Jacksons' children inherited the business and the home remains in the possession of one of the Jacksons' grandchildren.
During its time the Jackson House played host to several prominent entertainers, including Count Basie, Cab Calloway, James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ray Charles. Acts such as these would come to play the nightclubs of Tampa's black business district, which thrived nearby along Central Avenue until the 1960s.
During the urban renewal of the 1970s most of the neighborhood surrounding the house was razed. By 2007, when the house was added to the NRHP, the Jackson House was believed to be the last free-standing residential dwelling in downtown Tampa.
In 2013, the Jackson House was deemed too damaged to be restored and faced likely demolition. In 2013, efforts were being made to save the historic Rooming House from demolition by the City of Tampa. As of January 13, 2014, Todd Alan Clem, commonly known as Bubba the Love Sponge, planned to purchase this property and begin the restoration of the house. Soon afterwards, Clem withdrew plans blaming mayor Bob Buckhorn and city officials. The Jackson House Foundation estimates that it will cost about a million dollars to restore the building.
NRHP 07000112
(Wikipedia)
This weekend it’s Carnival in Hammarkullen. Hammarkullen is a surburb of Göteborg with a majority of immigrants. The Carnival of Hammarkullen has been a yearly event since 1974. It has become a huge arrangement with thousands of participants in the carnival, and 40 000 to 50 000 spectators not only from Göteborg but also from other parts of the country. For many people in Hammarkullen, particulary young women, this is the most important event of the year, and they spend the long dark swedish winter making up their carnival costumes and practise the dances. Hammarkullen is a surburb that's often associated with segregation, unemployment, youth criminality and social problems. But the Carnival is a vibrant and vivid proof of the vigour, creativity and overwhelming abundance of human cultural capital in this surburb with inhabitants from 126 countries in the world. The pictures here are from yesterday.
The glass ceiling is a barrier "so subtle that it is transparent, yet so strong that it prevents women from moving up the corporate hierarchy." From their vantage point on the corporate ladder, women can see the high-level corporate positions but are kept from "reaching the top".
I'm posting this on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the USA 2019 in celebration of this great man's life. Dr. King spent his life leading the struggle to destroy the system of segregation as represented in this photo. I marched with Martin Luther King back in the 60s so this is my personal tribute.
I photographed this reproduction sign found at a flea market In Wilmington, Vermont, demonstrating the racism and bigotry of the Jim Crow era in America.
Photo shot with the Olympus E-300.
Medgar Evers was an American civil rights activist born on July 2, 1925, in Decatur, Mississippi.
After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he returned to his home state determined to fight the racial injustice that still ruled the South.
He became the first field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi, traveling across dangerous territory to organize voter registration drives, investigate racial crimes, and support Black communities suffering under segregation.
Evers was a man of deep conviction and calm strength. He believed that justice could be achieved through courage, truth, and persistence.
Despite constant threats and violence against him and his family, he continued his work, becoming one of the most visible and respected figures in the American civil rights movement.
On the night of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers was shot in the back in front of his own home by a white supremacist.
He died in the arms of his wife, Myrlie, while his three children watched helplessly.
His assassination shocked the nation and revealed to the world the brutality of racism in America.
It came just hours after President John F. Kennedy had given a historic speech in support of civil rights.
Evers’s death became a turning point in the struggle for equality.
His courage inspired countless others to continue the fight for justice and freedom.
Today, Medgar Evers stands as a symbol of dignity, sacrifice, and the relentless pursuit of human rights.
His name reminds us that true change always demands courage — and that silence, in the face of injustice, is never an option.
This portrait is part of the REMEMBER series — a visual tribute to men and women who gave their lives for justice, truth, and human dignity.
Each image carries the same message: REMEMBER — they did it for you, so that hatred and injustice would not have the last word.
Through these portraits, I want to awaken awareness and memory.
Each of these people stood up when silence was easier.
They believed that one voice, one action, could still make a difference in a world where power and fear try to erase humanity.
The REMEMBER series is not about mourning; it is about conscience.
It is a call to remember that the struggles they faced — against oppression, corruption, violence, and inequality — are still alive today.
By keeping their stories alive, we keep alive the hope that courage and compassion can still change the course of the world.
One could be forgiven for thinking that the photo represents a specimen of P. x 'Buzios' . Indeed, I rescued the seedling as a volunteer from my asparagus bed at the allotment. I noticed as it grew that the leaves displayed marginal leaf glands like P. mucronata and this bloom significantly has yellow not white pollen unlike the P. racemosa side of its pedigree.
Little India is commonly known as Tekka in the Indian Singaporean community. Little India is distinct from the Chulia Kampong area, which, under the Raffles Plan of Singapore, was originally a division of colonial Singapore where ethnic Indian immigrants would reside under the British policy of ethnic segregation. However, as Chulia Kampong became more crowded and competition for land escalated, many ethnic Indians moved into what is now known as Little India.
Latomia of paradise today is a charming and delightful place; originally it was an immense stone quarry mostly covered and subterranean. According to the story of the ancient historians the latomie were also used as a place of segregation.
The greater curiosity for this place obtained by digging a pre-existing aqueduct, 65 meters long, from 5 to 11 meters wide and 23 meters high, is the bizarre artificial cave with surprising acoustic effects. The slightest hiss echoes inside the cave and it is repeated so often and blown out of proportion. These phenomena, the similarity to the ear canal of the human ear and the room that you see at the top right in the entrance of the cave have given rise to the legend that the cavern was dug from the tyrant Dionysius that there locked up political opponents and dissidents, so he could overhear, not see, all their speeches.
The cave was generically called “Cave that speeches“; the name Ear of Dionysius was given by the painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who in 1608 visited the Syracuse latomia led by the learned Vincenzo Mirabella. Inside the latomia, still covered, there is the Rope Makers Cave which, for centuries, thanks to its length and the presence of water, has hosted the art of manufacturers of ropes, the “Cordari”.
E X P L O R E
From brown to green
Chameleon changes his colour
To suit the cause
To embrace the rainbow nation
He can fit in with all
After segregation
After hibernation
Chameleon walks free
Down the roads
Up the hills
In between robots
Chameleon walks free
The wind howls furiously
Gusts blows him away
Papers fly across the streets
And chameleon walks free
Returning home
To the planks of dirt
Cockroaches observe him with haunted eyes
Chameleon changes colour
Chameleon is free!
~ Lee John Siebritz ~
Little India is commonly known as Tekka in the Indian Singaporean community. Little India is distinct from the Chulia Kampong area, which, under the Raffles Plan of Singapore, was originally a division of colonial Singapore where ethnic Indian immigrants would reside under the British policy of ethnic segregation. However, as Chulia Kampong became more crowded and competition for land escalated, many ethnic Indians moved into what is now known as Little India.
"You're as violent as they come. I know this, because I'm as violent as they come. If the constraints of society were lifted, and I was all that stood between you and a meal, you would crack my skull with a rock and eat my meaty parts. Wouldn't you?"
The school was the site of forced desegregation in 1957 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional
511 Weathers St.
A Quonset hut with a brick facade.
"Originally constructed in the late 1940s by two white men from Shelby, the Washington Theater quickly cemented itself as a staple of the community in east Shelby. Ownership transitioned to the Dillingham family, the Washington Theater was the only theater in Cleveland County to allow all seating to African Americans during segregation. This entertainment center regularly put on shows featuring musicians and singers, often regionally or nationally known.
"In the late 1940s it had become apparent that African Americans in Shelby lived a life that was more or less isolated from that of the white community. Segregation had an effect on every aspect of African American life at the time. This was somewhat most apparent when it came to recreation. In 1949 Holly Oak Park was built as a recreation space for the African American community of Shelby. Around this same time the Washington Theater was constructed which marked the first and only theater dedicated to the African American community. The other theaters in Shelby were segregated to where African Americans were confined to balcony seating which wasn't the case in the Washington Theater. The theater would go on to serve the community until the late 1960s when integration had begun in Shelby."
Dressel, Zachary. "The Washington Theater." Clio: Your Guide to History. January 12, 2021. Accessed January 2, 2024. theclio.com/entry/124716
Kalk Bay is a picturesque fishing village nestled along the False Bay coast of South Africa, known for its layered history and enduring maritime spirit. Its name, derived from the Dutch word for lime (“kalk”) reflects the early practice of burning seashells to produce lime for construction.
While the Dutch East India Company played a role in regional development, Kalk Bay itself was not formally established by them but grew organically as a coastal settlement.
By the late 1600s, False Bay’s rich marine life had drawn attention, and Kalk Bay became a hub for fishing and lime production.
The community’s roots are deeply multicultural. Enslaved people from Bengal, Indonesia, and East Africa were brought to the Cape during the colonial era, and many settled in Kalk Bay after emancipation in the early 19th century. Their descendants helped shape the village’s cultural and fishing traditions.
Whaling did occur in False Bay, but fortunately was a relatively short-lived industry, fading by the early 20th century as fishing became the dominant livelihood.
A lesser-known but historically significant detail is the presence of Filipino fishermen in Kalk Bay. In the late 1800s, a small group of Filipinos — fleeing colonial unrest — settled in the area and contributed to the local fishing economy. Their legacy remains part of the village’s diverse heritage.
The arrival of the railway in 1883 was transformative, connecting Kalk Bay to Cape Town and enabling the rapid transport of fresh fish to urban markets. To support the growing industry, a harbour was constructed between 1913 and 1919, providing shelter for fishing vessels and anchoring the village’s economy.
Despite the harsh realities of apartheid, which imposed racial segregation and economic hardship, Kalk Bay’s fishing community remained resilient and tightly knit.
Today, Kalk Bay is one of the few remaining active fishing harbours on the Cape Peninsula. Local fishers still head out into False Bay to catch snoek, yellowtail, and calamari, maintaining traditions passed down through generations.
The community faces modern pressures—rising living costs, gentrification, and limited fishing quotas challenge the sustainability of this way of life.
Efforts are underway to preserve Kalk Bay’s fishing heritage, including infrastructure upgrades and cultural exhibitions designed to pay tribute to its indigenous and seafaring past.
Latomia of paradise today is a charming and delightful place; originally it was an immense stone quarry mostly covered and subterranean. According to the story of the ancient historians the latomie were also used as a place of segregation.
The greater curiosity for this place obtained by digging a pre-existing aqueduct, 65 meters long, from 5 to 11 meters wide and 23 meters high, is the bizarre artificial cave with surprising acoustic effects. The slightest hiss echoes inside the cave and it is repeated so often and blown out of proportion. These phenomena, the similarity to the ear canal of the human ear and the room that you see at the top right in the entrance of the cave have given rise to the legend that the cavern was dug from the tyrant Dionysius that there locked up political opponents and dissidents, so he could overhear, not see, all their speeches.
The cave was generically called “Cave that speeches“; the name Ear of Dionysius was given by the painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who in 1608 visited the Syracuse latomia led by the learned Vincenzo Mirabella. Inside the latomia, still covered, there is the Rope Makers Cave which, for centuries, thanks to its length and the presence of water, has hosted the art of manufacturers of ropes, the “Cordari”.
Latomia of paradise today is a charming and delightful place; originally it was an immense stone quarry mostly covered and subterranean. According to the story of the ancient historians the latomie were also used as a place of segregation.
The greater curiosity for this place obtained by digging a pre-existing aqueduct, 65 meters long, from 5 to 11 meters wide and 23 meters high, is the bizarre artificial cave with surprising acoustic effects. The slightest hiss echoes inside the cave and it is repeated so often and blown out of proportion. These phenomena, the similarity to the ear canal of the human ear and the room that you see at the top right in the entrance of the cave have given rise to the legend that the cavern was dug from the tyrant Dionysius that there locked up political opponents and dissidents, so he could overhear, not see, all their speeches.
The cave was generically called “Cave that speeches“; the name Ear of Dionysius was given by the painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who in 1608 visited the Syracuse latomia led by the learned Vincenzo Mirabella. Inside the latomia, still covered, there is the Rope Makers Cave which, for centuries, thanks to its length and the presence of water, has hosted the art of manufacturers of ropes, the “Cordari”.
This is a famous poster from a strike of black sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968 that the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was leading when he was assassinated in a Memphis motel.
1894
Alabama
Freedmen built this school to educate the children of exslaves.
Besides being taught regular public school subjects, females were instructed in sewing and cooking, while male students were given manual training in connection with the upkeep of buildings and helping in the gardens. Emphasis was also placed on Christian ideals, thrift, and industry.
Teachers were paid small salaries and were required to purchase their own supplies. Parents had to purchase schoolbooks for the children. In the 1950s the school did receive some money from the county.
The interior is quite intact and consists of a large, central auditorium that runs the length of the main block and is flanked by two narrow classrooms on each side. Photographs of graduating classes adorn the walls in the
auditorium.
Each classroom was divided into a few more classrooms with the use of folding divider screens. And yet, at the time this school was one of the finest, if not the finest in the area.
It is the Distinguished Company at the Bijou Planks!
Today we see Martin Luther King, Jr. Born January 15, 1929, King was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.
King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As president of the SCLC, he led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.
Martin Luther King, Jr. A distinguished individual!
__________________________
A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
National Historical Society
Martin Luther King Jr.
Fine Pewter
1980
Europe, Netherlands, Rotterdam, Centre, Pompenburg, Luchtsingel, Schieblok, Shell gebouw (Laatbloeien) (uncut)
The Luchtsingel and the adjacent Schieblock projects are interesting strategies that counteract the detrimental effects that the combination of modernist urban planning - with its rigorous segregation of work, living and commercial functions - and chronic high levels of vacancy of office buildings have on the liveability and vitality of the city centre. The Luchtsingel was desgned by ZUS (Sister) architects.
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Check out the previous post for more information.
Shown here is almost the whole of the Luchtsingel, consult the notes (with photo links) for the specific locations. A new element is the access to the former Shellgebouw redeveloped into ‘Laatbloeien’ . Next to it is the Shell tower, currently the HQ of Unilever (transformation: Mecanoo) .
Behind me is the access to the former Hofplein station.
Shot with the 7Artisans 7,5mm f/2,8 fisheye, check out the new album.
This is number 9 of the Luchtsingel album and 244 of
I found this photograph in an abandoned plantation house. Labeled, "little girl and her mammie"
It's mementos such as this that really bring a place to life...the good, the bad, the ugly, it's our history.
Vanaf de vliegende schotel bovenop de Nieuwe Brug over de Donau is goed te zien hoe een stadsautoweg het centrum doorklieft via de voormalige vestinggracht. De Neolog synagoge die in de weg stond werd gesloopt.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty-six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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You're the devil in me I brought in from the cold
You said your body was young but your mind was very old
Youre coming on strong and I like the way
The visions we had have faded away
You're part of a life Ive never had
I'll tell you that its just too bad
(x5)
You're coming on strong
You're showing your colour
Like a setting sun
Where do I begin?
Sunday morning I'm waking up
Can't even focus on a coffee cup
Don't even know whose bed I'm in
Where do I start?
Where do I begin?
(x2)
Where do I start?
Where do I begin?
(x4)
Sunday morning I'm waking up
Can't even focus on a coffee cup
Don't even know whos bed Im in
Where do I start?
Where do I begin?
Where do I start?
Where do I begin?
(x12)
Chemical Brothers "Setting Sun"
The field with most sheep is occupied by the pregnant ewes and the one in the foreground has only a few tups in it (rams to non Scots).
On a sunny winter afternoon near Auchengray
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Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty-six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
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Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 28 miles (45 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty-six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
floridayimby.com/2021/08/bank-of-america-provides-84-mill...
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