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At the Shrimaal Seth Achalgachha Jain Shwetambar Murtipujak Sangh. A very long name for a Jain temple in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
Aziz Coach Services Turas T900 Mercesdes Benz MR66AZZ seen at Blists Hill Victorian Town Museum Telford
Seen 5/6/19
Two of our tidy Mercedes-Benz Arocs Skip Lorries, (MC14 GBN & BA63 GBN) parked in the all new parking bay's laid out on the floor for extra parking for eight of our Skip Lorries.
Situated on the A45 just south of Daventry. This link to the Daventry Express from 2007 reports on its re-opening as a Texaco filling station (with the fastest diesel pump in Daventry!) -
www.daventryexpress.co.uk/news/petrol-station-set-to-re-o...
What looks to be an abandoned garage in Musgrave Harbour, Newfoundland. You don't see many places left with this style façade anymore. An older place for sure. This is an alder shot I took back in 2011, but it hasn't been posted before.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by the National Art Service Co. Inc. of Washington, D.C. On the divided back in the space for a stamp it states:
'Place One Cent
Stamp Here.'
To see the exterior of the mansion, please search for the tag 24CTM89
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose 639 acres (259 ha) the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as re-interred dead from earlier wars.
The national cemetery was established during the Civil War in the grounds of Arlington House, previously the estate of Mary Anna Custis Lee, a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, and wife of Robert E. Lee.
The Cemetery, along with Arlington House, Memorial Drive, the Hemicycle, and Arlington Memorial Bridge form the Arlington National Cemetery Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in April 2014.
Early History of the Cemetery
George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Washington and adopted grandson of George Washington, acquired the land that now is Arlington National Cemetery in 1802, and began construction of Arlington House, which was named after the village of Arlington, Gloucestershire, England, where his family was originally from.
The estate passed to Custis's daughter, Mary Anna, who had married United States Army officer Robert E. Lee. Custis's will gave a "life inheritance" to Mary Lee, allowing her to live at and run Arlington Estate for the rest of her life but not enabling her to sell any portion of it. Upon her death, the Arlington estate passed to her eldest son, George Washington Custis Lee. The building had previously been known as the Custis-Lee Mansion.
When Virginia seceded from the Union after the start of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter, Robert E. Lee resigned his commission on the 20th. April 1861, and took command of the armed forces of the Commonwealth of Virginia, later becoming commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.
On the 7th. May 1861, troops of the Virginia militia occupied Arlington House. With Confederate forces occupying Arlington's high ground, the capital of the Union was left in an untenable military position.
General Winfield Scott ordered Brigadier General Irvin McDowell to clear Arlington and the city of Alexandria, Virginia, of all troops not loyal to the United States.
Despite not wanting to leave Arlington House, Mary Lee believed that her estate would soon be recaptured by federal soldiers, and so on the 14th. May, she buried many of her family treasures in the grounds and left for her sister's estate at Ravensworth in Fairfax County, Virginia. McDowell occupied Arlington without opposition on the 24th. May 1861.
Arlington House
At the outbreak of the Civil War, most military personnel who died in battle near Washington, D.C. were buried at the United States Soldiers' Cemetery in Washington, D.C., or Alexandria Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia.
However by late 1863 both were nearly full, and so on the 16th. July 1862, Congress passed legislation authorizing the U.S. federal government to purchase land for national cemeteries for military dead, and they put the U.S. Army Quartermaster General in charge of this program.
In May 1864, Union forces suffered large numbers of dead in the Battle of the Wilderness. Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs ordered that an examination of eligible sites be made for the establishment for a large new national military cemetery.
Within weeks, his staff reported that the Arlington Estate was the most suitable property in the area. The property was high and free from floods, it had a view of the District of Columbia, and it was aesthetically pleasing.
It was also the home of the leader of the armed forces of the Confederate States of America, and denying Robert E. Lee use of his home after the war was a valuable political consideration.
The first military burial at Arlington, for William Henry Christman, was made on the 13th. May 1864.
The US Government acquired Arlington at a tax sale in 1864 for $26,800, Mrs. Lee did not appear in person, but rather sent an agent, attempting to pay the $92.07 in property taxes assessed on the estate in a timely manner. However the Government turned him away, refusing to accept the tendered payment.
In 1874, Custis Lee, heir under his grandfather's will passing the estate in trust to his mother, sued the United States, claiming ownership of Arlington. On the 9th. December 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Lee's favor, deciding that Arlington had been confiscated without due process.
After that decision, Congress returned the estate to him, and on the 3rd. March 1883, Custis Lee sold it back to the government for $150,000. The land then became a military reservation.
Freedman's Village
Beginning in 1863, the Federal Government used the southern portion of the land now occupied by the cemetery as a settlement for freed slaves, giving the name of "Freedman's Village" to the land.
The Government constructed rental houses that up to 3,000 freed slaves eventually occupied while farming 1,100 acres (450 ha) of the estate. They received schooling and occupational training during the Civil War and after the war ended.
However, after the land became part of a military reservation, the government asked the villagers to leave. When some remained, John A. Commerford, the Superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery, asked the Army's Quartermaster General in 1887 to close the village on the grounds that people living in the Village had been taking trees at night from the cemetery for use as firewood.
The Quartermaster General and the Secretary of War then approved Commerford's request. The last of the village's residents departed after Congress appropriated $75,000 in 1900 to settle the government's debts to them.
Expansion of the Cemetery
With limited space but large numbers of World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and other veterans dying and needing to be buried at Arlington, the requirement for additional burial space at the cemetery became a pressing issue.
In 1991, Cemetery superintendent John C. Metzler Jr. implemented a $1.4 million plan to clear a former 13-acre (5.3 ha) parking lot in order to create space for about 9,000 new graves.
The Cemetery was authorized to transfer 12 acres (4.9 ha) of woodland from the NPS-controlled Arlington House in 1996. Additional parcels of land totalling 59 acres (23.9 ha) were also subsequently acquired between 1999 and 2005, including land from Fort Myer.
In 2007, Metzler implemented the Millennium Project, a $35 million expansion plan to begin utilizing the Arlington woodland, Fort Myer, and Navy Annex land.
The project also included converting 40 acres (16 ha) of unused space and 4 acres (16,000 m2) of maintenance property on the cemetery grounds into burial space in 2006 and 2007 in order to allow an additional 26,000 graves and 5,000 inurnments.
The Millennium Project expanded the cemetery's physical boundaries for the first time since the 1960's, and was the largest expansion of burial space at the site since the American Civil War. Several environmental and historical preservation groups criticized Metzler's plans, as did the NPS and the manager of Arlington House.
Arlington Woods Expansion Controversy
On the 22nd. February 1995, the United States Department of the Interior and the United States Department of the Army signed an agreement to transfer from Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, to the Army a part of Arlington Woods. The property transfer, which involved 12 acres (4.9 ha) of NPS land, was intended to permit Metzler to start expanding the cemetery beyond its existing boundaries.
Environmentalists were concerned that this would result in the partial destruction of the 24-acre (9.7 ha) remnant of a historically important stand of native trees. A historical marker near the woodland notes that, while visiting Arlington House in 1825, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette had warned Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis:
"Cherish these forest trees around
your mansion. Recollect how much
easier it is to cut a tree than to make
one grow."
The marker further notes that the Virginia Native Plant Society has recognized the woodland as being one of the best examples of old growth terraced gravel forest remaining in Virginia.
On the 23rd. September 1996, the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to transfer to the Secretary of the Army all of the land in Section 29 that was within an "Arlington National Cemetery Interment Zone" and some of the land in the Section that was within a "Robert E. Lee Memorial Preservation Zone".
On the 5th. March 1998, the NPS stated that it wanted to transfer only 4 acres (1.6 ha) to the cemetery, rather than the 12 acres (4.9 ha) that the 1995 agreement had described. In response, Metzler stated:
"I was surprised. But we will continue
to work with the Department of Interior
and see what happens."
On July 12, 1999, the NPS issued a notice of an environmental assessment (EA) for the transfer. The EA stated that the Interment Zone contained the oldest and largest tract of eastern hardwood forest in Arlington County.
This forest was the same type that once covered the Arlington estate, and had regenerated from trees that were present historically. A forestry study determined that a representative tree was 258 years old.
The 2010 Mismanagement Controversy
On the 9th. June 2010, United States Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh reprimanded the cemetery's superintendent, John C. Metzler, Jr., and his deputy, Thurman Higgenbotham, after a DOD inspector general's report revealed that cemetery officials had placed the wrong headstones on tombs, buried coffins in shallow graves, and buried bodies on top of one another.
Metzler, who had already announced his intention to retire on the 2nd. July 2010, admitted some mistakes had been made, but denied allegations of widespread or serious mismanagement.
The investigation also found that:
"Cemetery employees are burdened in their
day-to-day work by dysfunctional management,
lack of established policy and procedures, and
an overall unhealthy organizational climate."
Both Metzler and Higgenbotham retired soon after the investigation commenced.
In March 2011, as a result of the problems discovered, Kathryn Condon, executive director of the Army National Military Cemeteries, announced that the cemetery's staff had been increased from 102 to 159. She added that the cemetery was also acquiring additional equipment because:
"They don't have the proper equipment
to do the job really to the standard they
need to do."
The mismanagement controversy included a limitation on mass media access to funerals, which also proved controversial. Until 2005, the cemetery's administration gave free access, with the family's permission, to the press to cover funerals at the cemetery.
According to The Washington Post in 2008, the cemetery gradually imposed increasing restrictions on media coverage of funerals beginning about 2005.
Wreaths Across America
In 1992, the Worcester Wreath company in Harrington, Maine, had a surplus at the end of the Christmas holiday season. Recalling a boyhood trip to the cemetery, company founder Morrill Worcester donated to the cemetery 5,000 wreaths to honor the cemetery's dead, with the help of volunteers and a local trucking company.
After thirteen years of similar donations, in 2005 a photo of snowy gravestones covered with wreaths at the cemetery received widespread circulation on the internet. Thousands of people called Worcester wanted to replicate the wreath-laying service at their own veteran cemeteries.
In 2014, volunteers were able to place wreaths in all sections of the cemetery for the first time.
150th. Anniversary
During May and June 2014, the cemetery celebrated the 150th. anniversary of its founding with a month-long series of events, tours, and lectures.
During these celebrations, cemetery officials formally re-designated the Old Amphitheater as the James Tanner Amphitheater. James R. Tanner was a Union Army officer who lost both legs during the war.
He later became a War Department stenographer, and recorded much of the early evidence in the investigation into the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He later was active in the Grand Army of the Republic, a Union Army veterans group. Tanner is buried a few yards from the amphitheater.
Sections of the Cemetery
The Cemetery is divided into 70 sections, with some sections in the southeast and western part of the cemetery reserved for future expansion.
Section 60, in the southeast part of the cemetery, is the burial ground for military personnel killed in the "war on terror" since 2001.
Section 21, also known as the Nurses Section, is the burial site for many nurses, and the location of the Spanish–American War Nurses Memorial and the Nurses Memorial.
Another section – Chaplains Hill – includes monuments to Jewish, Protestant, and Roman Catholic military chaplains.
In 1901, Confederate soldiers who had been buried at the Soldiers' Home and various locations within Arlington were re-interred in a Confederate section that was authorized by Congress in 1900.
On the 4th. June 1914, the United Daughters of the Confederacy dedicated the Confederate Memorial designed by Moses Ezekiel. Upon his death in 1917, Ezekiel was buried at the base of the monument as he was a veteran of the Confederate army. All Confederate headstones in this section are peaked rather than rounded.
More than 3,800 formerly enslaved people, called "Contrabands" during the Civil War, are buried in Section 27. Their headstones are designated with the word "Civilian" or "Citizen".
Grave Markers, Niches, and Headstones
Placement of inscriptions and faith emblems are made at no charge to the estate of the deceased, submitted with information provided by the next of kin that is placed on upright marble headstones or columbarium niche covers.
The Department of Veterans Affairs currently offers 63 authorized faith emblems for placement on markers to represent the deceased's faith. Over time this number grew as the result of legal challenges to policy.
Prior to 2007, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) did not allow the use of the pentacle as an "emblem of belief" on tombstones in military cemeteries. This policy was changed following an out-of-court settlement following a legal challenge by the family of Patrick Stewart.
Between 1947 and 2001, privately purchased markers were permitted in the cemetery. The sections in which the cemetery permitted such markers are nearly filled, and the cemetery generally does not allow new burials in these sections.
Nevertheless, the older sections of the cemetery have a wide variety of private markers placed prior to 2001, including an artillery piece.
There are 32 British Commonwealth war dead burials, 11 from the Great War and 19 from World War II, and some headstones are Commonwealth War Graves Commission style.
Arlington Memorial Amphitheater
The Tomb of the Unknowns is part of the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater. The Memorial Amphitheater has hosted state funerals and Memorial Day and Veterans Day ceremonies. Ceremonies are also held for Easter. About 5,000 people attend these holiday ceremonies each year.
The structure is mostly built of Imperial Danby marble from Vermont. The Memorial Display room, between the amphitheater and the Tomb of the Unknowns, uses Botticino stone, imported from Italy.
The amphitheater was the result of a campaign by Ivory Kimball to construct a place to honor America's servicemen/women. Congress authorized the structure on the 4th. March 1913. Woodrow Wilson laid the cornerstone for the building on the 15th. October 1915. The cornerstone contains 15 items, including a Bible and a copy of the Constitution.
Before the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater was completed in 1921, important ceremonies were held at what is now known as the "Old Amphitheater." This structure sits where Robert E. Lee once had his gardens.
The amphitheater has an encircling colonnade with a latticed roof that once supported a web of vines. The amphitheater has a marble dais, known as "the rostrum", which is inscribed with the U.S. national motto found on the Great Seal of the United States, E pluribus unum ("Out of many, one").
The rostrum was designed by General Montgomery C. Meigs, then Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army. The amphitheater seats 1,500 people.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier stands on top of a hill overlooking Washington, D.C. The tomb is made from Yule marble quarried in Colorado. It consists of seven pieces, with a total weight of 79 short tons. The tomb was completed and opened to the public on the 9th. April 1932, at a cost of $48,000.
Other unknown servicemen were later placed in crypts there, and it also became known as the Tomb of the Unknowns, though it has never been officially named. The soldiers entombed there are:
-- Unknown Soldier of World War I, entombed 11th. November 1921; President Warren G. Harding presided
-- Unknown Soldier of World War II, interred 30th. May 1958; President Dwight D. Eisenhower presided
-- Unknown Soldier of the Korean War, also interred 30th. May 1958; President Dwight Eisenhower presided again, Vice President Richard Nixon acted as next of kin
-- Unknown Soldier of the Vietnam War, interred 28th. May 1984; President Ronald Reagan presided. The remains of the Vietnam Unknown were disinterred, under the authority of President Bill Clinton, on the 14th. May 1998, and were identified as those of Air Force 1st. Lt. Michael J. Blassie, whose family had them reinterred near their home in St. Louis, Missouri. It has been determined that the crypt at the Tomb of the Unknowns that contained the remains of the Vietnam Unknown will remain empty.
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has been perpetually guarded since the 2nd. July 1937, by the U.S. Army. There is a meticulous routine that the guard follows when watching over the graves. The Tomb Guard:
-- Marches 21 steps southward down the black mat behind the Tomb
-- Turns left, facing east for 21 seconds
-- Turns left, facing north for 21 seconds
-- Takes 21 steps down the mat
-- Repeats the routine until the soldier is relieved of duty at the changing of the guard
-- After each turn, the Guard executes a sharp "shoulder-arms" movement to place the weapon on the shoulder closest to the visitors to signify that the Guard stands between the Tomb and any possible threat.
Twenty-one was chosen because it symbolizes the highest military honor that can be bestowed – the 21-gun salute.
At each turn, the guard makes precise movements followed by a loud click of the heels as the soldier snaps them together. The guard is changed every half-hour during daylight in the summer, and every hour during daylight in the winter and every two hours at night (when the cemetery is closed to the public), regardless of weather conditions.
The USS Maine Mast Memorial
Near the Tomb of the Unknowns stands the USS Maine Mast Memorial, which commemorates the 266 men who lost their lives aboard the USS Maine. The memorial is built around a mast salvaged from the ship's wreckage.
The Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial
The Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial was dedicated on the 20th. May 1986, in memory of the crew of flight STS-51-L, who died during launch on the 28th. January 1986.
Transcribed on the back of the stone is the text of the John Gillespie Magee, Jr. poem High Flight, which was quoted by then President Ronald Reagan when he addressed the disaster.
Although many remains were identified and returned to the families for private burial, some were not, and were laid to rest under the marker. Two crew members, Dick Scobee and Michael Smith, are buried in Arlington.
On the 1st. February 2004, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe dedicated a similar memorial to those who died when the Shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry on the 1st. February 2003. Astronauts Laurel Clark, David Brown, and Michael Anderson, who were killed in the Columbia disaster, are also buried in Arlington.
The Lockerbie Cairn
The Lockerbie Cairn is a memorial to the 270 killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The memorial is constructed of 270 stones, one for each person killed in the disaster.
The Pentagon Memorial
In section 64, a memorial to the 184 victims of the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon was dedicated on the 11th. September 2002. The memorial takes the shape of a pentagon, and lists the names of all the victims that were killed. Unidentified remains from the victims are buried beneath it.
The Commonwealth Cross of Sacrifice
On the 25th. June 1925, President Calvin Coolidge approved a request to erect a Commonwealth Cross of Sacrifice with the names of all the citizens of the United States who lost their lives fighting in the Canadian forces during the Great War. The monument was dedicated on the 11th. November 1927, and after the Korean War and World War II, the names of US citizens who died in those conflicts were added.
The Laos Memorial
The Laos Memorial, or Lao Veterans of America memorial, dedicated to Lao and Hmong veterans who served with US Special Forces and CIA advisors during the Vietnam War, to defend the Royal Kingdom of Laos from the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos, is located on Grant Avenue near the eternal flame memorial to U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
Burial Procedures
The flags in the cemetery (including the one at Arlington House) are flown at half-staff from a half-hour before the first funeral until a half hour after the last funeral each day. Funerals are normally conducted five days a week, excluding weekends.
Funerals, including interments and inurnments, average between 27 and 30 per day. The cemetery conducts approximately 6,900 burials each year.
With more than 400,000 interments, the cemetery has the second-largest number of burials of any national cemetery in the United States. The largest of the 130 national cemeteries is the Calverton National Cemetery, on Long Island, near Riverhead, New York, which conducts more than 7,000 burials each year.
In addition to in-ground burial, the cemetery also has one of the largest columbaria for cremated remains in the country. Four courts are currently in use, each with 5,000 niches. When construction is complete, there will be nine courts with a total of 50,000 niches, giving a capacity for 100,000 remains. Any honorably discharged veteran is eligible for inurnment in the columbarium, if they served on active duty at some point in their career.
Burial Criteria
Due to limited space, the criteria for ground burial eligibility are more restrictive than at other national cemeteries, as well as more restrictive than for inurnment in the columbarium.
The persons specified below are eligible for ground burial in the cemetery, unless otherwise prohibited. The last period of active duty of former members of the armed forces must have ended honorably. Interment may be of casketed or cremated remains:
-- Any active-duty member of the armed forces (except those members serving on active duty for training only)
-- Any veteran who is retired and eligible for retirement pay from service in the armed forces, including service members retired from a reserve component who served a period of active duty (other than for training)
-- Any former member of the armed forces separated honorably prior to October 1, 1949, for medical reasons and who was rated at 30% or greater disabled effective on the day of discharge
-- Any former member of the armed forces who has been awarded one of the following decorations:
---- Medal of Honor
---- Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, or Air Force Cross
---- Silver Star
---- Purple Heart
-- Any former member of the armed forces who served on active duty (other than for training) and who held any of the following positions:
---- An elective office of the U.S. Government (such as a term in Congress)
---- Office of the Chief Justice of the United States or of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
---- An office listed, at the time the person held the position, in 5 USC 5312 or 5313
-- Any former prisoner of war who, while a prisoner of war, served honorably in the active military, naval, or air service, whose last period of military, naval or air service terminated honorably and who died on or after November 30, 1993
-- The spouse, widow or widower, minor child, or permanently dependent child, and certain unmarried adult children of any of the above eligible veterans
-- The widow or widower of:
---- A member of the armed forces who was lost or buried at sea or fell out of a plane or officially determined to be permanently absent with a status of either missing or missing in action
---- A member of the armed forces who is interred in a US military cemetery overseas that is maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission
-- The spouse, minor child, or permanently dependent child of any person already buried in Arlington National Cemetery
-- The parents of a minor child, or permanently dependent child whose remains, based on the eligibility of a parent, are already buried at Arlington.
A spouse divorced from the primary eligible, or widowed and remarried, is not eligible for interment
Provided certain conditions are met, a former member of the armed forces may be buried in the same grave with a close relative who is already buried and is the primary eligible
Inurnment criteria for columbarium
Notable Burials at Arlington National Cemetery
Five state funerals have been held at Arlington: those of Presidents William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy, his two brothers, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy, as well as General of the Armies John J. Pershing.
Whether or not they were wartime service members, U.S. presidents are eligible to be buried at Arlington, since they oversaw the armed forces as commanders-in-chief.
Among the most frequently visited sites in the cemetery is the grave of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, who is buried nearby along with their son Patrick and their stillborn daughter Arabella.
Kennedy's remains were interred there on the 14th. March 1967, a re-interment from his original Arlington burial site, some 20 feet (6.1 m) away. The grave is marked with an eternal flame.
The remains of his brothers, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, are buried nearby. The latter two graves are marked with simple crosses and footstones. On the 1st. December 1971, Robert Kennedy's body was re-interred 100 feet (30 m) from its original burial site.
Two of the astronauts who were killed on the 27th. January 1967 by a flash fire inside the Apollo 1 Command Module, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, are buried at the cemetery. John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and a longtime U.S. Senator from Ohio, was buried at the cemetery in April 2017.
British diplomat and Field Marshal Sir John Dill was buried at the cemetery when he died in Washington D.C. during World War II. The equestrian statue on Dill's grave is one of only two such statues at the cemetery
Lauri Törni, known for having served in the Finnish army during the Winter War, the German army during World War II, and the US army during the Vietnam War, is buried at Arlington. He is the only former member of the Waffen-SS to be interred there.
Security Procedures
In September 2016, acting superintendent of the cemetery Hallinan announced that the cemetery was increasing security measures for its visitors.
In addition to random identification checks and other security measures already in place, the cemetery would require pedestrians to enter at set access points: the main entrance on Memorial Avenue, the Ord and Weitzel gate, and the Old Post Chapel gate.
Before entering the cemetery through its main entrance, all pedestrians are now screened through the Welcome Center. All vehicle access requires presenting valid, government-issued photo identification, such as a driver's license or passport, when entering the cemetery. Vehicles are also subject to random inspections.
Saint Joseph's University freshman, class of 2014, volunteer at the Saint Francis Inn in Kensington, PA as a part of the Philadelphia Service Immersion Program (PSIP). PSIP is a four day optional pre-orientation experience of community service, intellectual discovery, and urban exploration.
The crew module adapter, which connects Orion's crew module with the European Service module is lifted in preparation for mate with the Artemis II service module which recently arrived from Airbus in Bremen.
Photo: NASA/Radislav Sinyak
Black and white photo of the Milky Way and a constellation of stars over snow-capped Wheeler Peak at Great Basin National Park. NPS photo.
After not finding any cat soup conveniently placed on the floor, Bonkers wanders back from the kitchen to sit in his chigura and await better room service.
Pieces from a dinner service in the "Dulong" pattern made by the Meissen Manufactory in Germany between 1743 and 1765.
A simulated incident aboard a Western Ferries car ferry at their Hunters Quay terminal.
Attended by Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Police Scotland, Scottish Ambulance Service & HM Coastguard.
Here, we have to understand the difference between regular internet connectivity and the one that is achieved through a proxy service.
This somewhat unusual Plaxton Paramount bodied Bedford YNV was photographed in the fleet of Simonds of Norfolk. It had bus seats and opening windows and I believe was built to this spec from new. It seemed strange to use Bedford's top of the range air sprung 'Venturer' chassis instead of the simpler YNT version when using it only as a bus.
Yelloway Motor Services XNE188S AEC Re 6U3ZR36513, Pn 7812ACM019, C49F, 5/1978,. Photographed at Morecambe`s old Euston Road Bus Station.
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It's a team effort during the fitting of a new prosthetic leg for Veteran John Peck Aug. 19. From left, Konrad Walz, Jessica Smith-Armstrong and William(Bill) Lovegreen coordinate placement, marking and posittioning the liner for the prosthetic which creates a vacuum seal and requires a perfect fit. Walz, has a personal stake in his daily work. "My father was a combat Vet, and my twin brother is still in the Navy after 20 years and fortunately they have all their limbs," said Walz. "I cannot think of a patient population more deserving of the best possible care available as well as our thanks. It is very rewarding." (VA photo by Steve Goetsch/Released)