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Another shot from Jemaa el-Fna, the main square in the old city of Marrakech.
"During the day it is predominantly occupied by orange juice stalls, water sellers with traditional leather water-bags and brass cups, youths with chained Barbary apes and snake charmers despite the protected status of these species under Moroccan law.
As the day progresses, the entertainment on offer changes: the snake charmers depart, and late in the day the square becomes more crowded, with Chleuh dancing-boys (it would be against custom for girls to provide such entertainment), story-tellers (telling their tales in Berber or Arabic, to an audience of locals), magicians, and peddlers of traditional medicines. As darkness falls, the square fills with dozens of food-stalls as the number of people on the square peaks."
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Shot for Iron Photographer 292
1 - A colourless object
2 - A mainly white background
3 - Shot in colour
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(from - Wrigley's 1918 British Columbia Directory) - RAFT RIVER - a post office, at Clearwater Crossing flag station on the C.N. Railway, 70 miles north of Kamloops, in Kamloops Provincial Electoral District. Is served by the C.N.R. to Birch Island, the nearest station, 3 1/2 miles, by river boats on the North Thompson from Kamloops, and by auto stage from Kamloops. Nearest G. N. W. telegraph office is at Burch Island. Has Anglican church. The population in 1918 was 46. Local resources: Mining and ranching, especially sheep; centre for best trapping grounds in Interior; water power at Raft River Falls; excellent game district, especially bear and mountain goat.
RAFT RIVER - One can speculate that the North Thompson Overlanders had trouble with a raft here; more probably it marks a site of raft construction during CPR surveys; they had a supply depot here.
CLEARWATER - This was early known as the Clear Water for the contrast of its water with opacity from glacial silt in the North Thompson.
The RAFT RIVER Post Office opened - 16 June 1910. Name changed to Clearwater Station Post Office - 1 February 1925 in association with CNR's station which had opened c. 1921-23. Name changed to Clearwater Post Office - 11 October 1961.
LINKS to a list of the Postmasters who served at the RAFT RIVER Post Office - central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=posoffposmas&id=1... and the CLEARWATER STATION Post Office - central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=posoffposmas&id=1...
The above water heights card signed by - Arthur Harby
John Arthur Patrick Harby
(b. 18 March 1878 in England - d. 23 May 1948 at age 70 in Kamloops, B.C. / Clearwater, B.C.) - his occupation - Fire Ranger / Provincial Government Forestry Service & Water Heights observer for Clearwater River. LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/53...
The old man by Dutch Lake - Clearwater retiree enjoys his roots to the area and life by the lake - A little bit of Clearwater history - “My grandparents moved to Clearwater in the early 1900s,” says Ken Grant. “First, my grandfather Arthur Harby (Forest Ranger and signer of this water card) came from Scotland, soon followed by his brother Bill (Raft River / Clearwater Postmaster & Ferryman).” They discovered that the soil around Dutch Lake allows for excellent berry growing – strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, etc. and so they started a successful berry farm. They shipped their produce by train to Edmonton. LINK to the complete article - www.barrierestarjournal.com/life/the-old-man-by-dutch-lake/
Forest Ranger Arthur Harby acquired the now MacMillan property in 1934 with the idea of operating fishing camps along the Clearwater River, and he also built a cabin at White Horse Bluff.
His wife: Margaret (nee Laird) Harby
(b. 6 August 1879 in Scotland - d. 17 February 1978 at age 98 in Kelowna, B.C.) - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/a7...
Mrs. Margaret Harby, a pioneer of Clearwater, passed away in Kelowna at the age of 98. Born in Govan, Scotland, she had come to Clearwater with her family in 1920. The next year they established a mixed strawberry, raspberry and small fruits farm next to Dutch Lake.
His brother - William "Bill" George Harby
(b. 10 October 1881 in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland - d. 6 September 1970 at age 88 in Kamloops, B.C.) - his occupations - Ferryman and Postmaster at RAFT RIVER, serving as postmaster from - 19 June 1920 to 1924. He never married. LINK to his Personnel Records from the First World War - www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-wo... LINK to his death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/cf...
- sent from - / RAFT RIVER / FE 10 / 23 / B.C. / - split ring cancel - this split ring hammer (A1-1) was proofed - 16 April 1910 - (RF D).
Water Card was addressed to: Division Engineer / Dominion Water Power Branch / Box 429 / Kamloops, B.C.
Water card observation card signed on the back by the observer A. Harby. He did water height observations on the Clearwater River, British Columbia.
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The 1885 built railway station at Young in southern NSW in now in use as the visitor information centre. The railway from Cowra through Young is currently out of service.
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This limousine was once used to bring patrons to a local upscale restaurant and now sits at a junkyard.
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WEEK 41 – Southaven Malco (Feature Presentation)
Wrapping up today with one final, stylized look at the lobby concession stand marquee. Like I’ve said, this is all normal/regular to me, so I have to remind myself it’s entirely new for y’all; and to that end, I sure hope you like the décor! As a matter of fact, that’s very much the impetus behind my engagement in this hobby: to see and explore how the same types of venues can look radically different in other parts of the country, state, or even locality. That’s a two-sided goal, also, in that I get to explore new places through y’all’s photos, and then hopefully (if I’m doing my job right!), you guys get to do the same through my own photos.
Even places that look the same décor-wise – such as, say, any given Walmart – can be different architecturally, or vice versa. There are lots of other interior intricacies as well, ranging from ceiling height to flooring to layout… Bottom line, it’s kinda ironic for me to be saying this on one of the arguably least retail-centric photos in my stream; but this ability to find, capture, and experience the differences of mundane, otherwise-similar-on-the-surface places – minute though those unicities may be – is part of what I majorly find cool about this hobby.
(There are other bits too, of course, such as the abilities to document stores for posterity, discover dated décor holdouts, and my particular interest in the graphic design side of things… but I think I’ve bored y’all enough already, haha!)
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
When I was in my early thirties living and loving my life in South Florida. WPB has been a huge partying hub. After clubbing all night, I was always at a Taco Bell afterwards. Dancing and sweating in clubs, churned up an appetite. I once had a nickname, my friends called me Taco Bella! Lol TS. (true story).
Sydney, NSW, Australia; Light rail is one of the four major public transport modes serving the city of Sydney, Australia, the others being train, bus and ferry. The network presently consists of a single 12.8-kilometre (8 mi) line of 23 stations. Early works have commenced on a second line.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Sydney developed an extensive tram network, which grew to be one of the largest in the world. The increasing rate of private car ownership and the perception that trams contributed to traffic congestion led to the progressive replacement of tram services with buses, with the final section of the tram network closing in February 1961.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the inner city areas of Darling Harbour and Pyrmont were the subject of an urban renewal program. In 1988 the Sydney Monorail opened, connecting Darling Harbour to the Central Business District. With poor integration between the monorail and other transport modes, and the increasing redevelopment of the Pyrmont peninsula - including the establishment of Sydney's first legal casino - it was decided to convert a disused section of the Metropolitan Goods railway line into a light rail line. A section of track between Pyrmont and Haymarket was upgraded and a new on-street section constructed to link the line to Central railway station. The line opened in August 1997 as the Sydney Light Rail.
OSR's St Thomas local w/ OSR 182 RS18u, finishing up the industry work and then running around and heading back up towards Woodstock
The Stridsvagn 104 is a modernized version of the long-serving STRV-81/101/102 series of first-generation MBTs. It featured numerous improvements over the older models such as the addition of explosive reactive armor on the hull and turret, night vision, laser rangefinders, and improve fire control and gun stabilization. All these features allowed the Stridsvagn 104 to be much more effective in combat than its predecessors and extended their usefulness until the acquirement of the 3rd generation Stridsvagn 121.
Stridsvagn 104 MBT (1.2 cost addition)
Category: 1st Generation Tank
Armament: 105mm gun +0
Armor: M48/T-54 level +1
Speed: 35kph -2
Autoloader +0
Advanced Optics +1
Reactive Armor: +1
IR Sight +1
Plus Size -1
Uncomfy -1
Total: 0
The men (and lizards) of the 373rd Reptilian Infantry Squad, serving in the European Theatre of Operations during WWII.
The base of the display is in the shape of a Tyrannosaurus Rex footprint.
This was mostly inspired by both Andrew Becraft's Great Leaders on Terrible Lizards and the upcoming documentary America's Fighting Dinosaur.
Built for MocAthalon 2013 on MOCPages.
The Pear Tree public house and its fascinating 1899 extension. Built at Collins Green adjacent to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, replacing an adjacent public house of the same name. more than likely to serve, not only the locals but, the weary traveller who would have alighted from the station which 2F34 13.47 Liverpool Lime Street to Warrington Bank Quay is passing through. The station had opened by 1831,and the original Pear Tree is clearly marked on the 1846 six inch map. The pub has out lasted the station which was closed, pre Beeching, on 2 April 1951, mid point in the many B.R. closures seen in the north west during 1951.
President George Washington thought political parties were self-serving tyrants that exacerbated tribal and regional differences for their own benefit at the expense of the country, e.g. North or South, city or rural. In his farewell address, America's first outgoing President asked Americans to step outside the hypnotic spell, which he called the "awe", of political parties and party leaders in order to serve the greater good of the country and its citizen government. "Unawed" would mean carefully deliberated, uninfluenced by party hyperbole and seduction. Washington declared to his fellow countrymen:
"This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.
However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
–Declared President George Washington in his Farewell Address to the nation in 1796.
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The groom's table has special items during the wedding. Also, an overdose of waiters serve him to earn some extra tip!
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. Born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, Lincoln grew up on the western frontier in Kentucky and Indiana. Largely self-educated, he became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, where he served from 1834 to 1846. Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1846, Lincoln promoted rapid modernization of the economy through banks, tariffs, and railroads. Because he had originally agreed not to run for a second term in Congress, and because his opposition to the Mexican–American War was unpopular among Illinois voters, Lincoln returned to Springfield and resumed his successful law practice. Reentering politics in 1854, he became a leader in building the new Republican Party, which had a statewide majority in Illinois. In 1858, while taking part in a series of highly publicized debates with his opponent and rival, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln spoke out against the expansion of slavery, but lost the U.S. Senate race to Douglas.
In 1860, Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state. With very little support in the slaveholding states of the South, he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. His victory prompted seven southern slave states to form the Confederate States of America before he moved into the White House - no compromise or reconciliation was found regarding slavery and secession. Subsequently, on April 12, 1861, a Confederate attack on Fort Sumter inspired the North to enthusiastically rally behind the Union in a declaration of war. As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican Party, Lincoln confronted Radical Republicans, who demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats, who called for more compromise, anti-war Democrats (called Copperheads), who despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists, who plotted his assassination. Politically, Lincoln fought back by pitting his opponents against each other, by carefully planned political patronage, and by appealing to the American people with his powers of oratory.[3] His Gettysburg Address became an iconic endorsement of the principles of nationalism, republicanism, equal rights, liberty, and democracy.
Lincoln initially concentrated on the military and political dimensions of the war. His primary goal was to reunite the nation. He suspended habeas corpus, leading to the controversial ex parte Merryman decision, and he averted potential British intervention in the war by defusing the Trent Affair in late 1861. Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including his most successful general, Ulysses S. Grant. He also made major decisions on Union war strategy, including a naval blockade that shut down the South's normal trade, moves to take control of Kentucky and Tennessee, and using gunboats to gain control of the southern river system. Lincoln tried repeatedly to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond; each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another, until finally Grant succeeded. As the war progressed, his complex moves toward ending slavery began with the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863; subsequently, Lincoln used the U.S. Army to protect escaped slaves, encouraged the border states to outlaw slavery, and pushed through Congress the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which permanently outlawed slavery.
An exceptionally astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, Lincoln reached out to the War Democrats and managed his own re-election campaign in the 1864 presidential election. Anticipating the war's conclusion, Lincoln pushed a moderate view of Reconstruction, seeking to reunite the nation speedily through a policy of generous reconciliation in the face of lingering and bitter divisiveness. On April 14, 1865, five days after the April 9th surrender of Confederate commanding general Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer.
Lincoln has been consistently ranked both by scholars and the public as one of the three greatest U.S. presidents.
The gondola is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian lagoon. For centuries gondolas were the chief means of transportation and most common watercraft within Venice. In modern times the iconic boats still have a role in public transport in the city, serving as traghetti (ferries) over the Grand Canal. They are also used in special regattas (rowing races) held amongst gondoliers. The gondola is propelled like punting, except an oar is used instead of a pole.[1] Their primary role today, however, is to carry tourists on rides at fixed rates.
History of the Gondola:
The gondola is propelled by a person (the gondolier) who stands facing the bow and rows with a forward stroke, followed by a compensating backward stroke. Contrary to popular belief, the gondola is never poled like a punt as the waters of Venice are too deep. Until the early 20th century, as many photographs attest, gondolas were often fitted with a "felze", a small cabin, to protect the passengers from the weather or from onlookers. Its windows could be closed with louvered shutters—the original "venetian blinds". After the elimination of the traditional felze—possibly in response to tourists complaining that it blocked the view—there survived for some decades a kind of vestigial summer awning, known as the "tendalin" (these can be seen on gondolas as late as the mid-1950s, in the film Summertime). While in previous centuries gondolas could be many different colors, a sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.
It is estimated that there were eight to ten thousand gondolas during the 17th and 18th century. There are just over four hundred in active service today, virtually all of them used for hire by tourists. Those few that are in private ownership are either hired out to Venetians for weddings or used for racing.[3] Even though the Gondola by now has become a widely publicized icon of Venice, in the times of the Republic of Venice it was by far not the only means of transportation: on the map of Venice created by Jacopo de' Barbari in 1500 only a fraction of the boats are gondolas, the majority of boats are batellas, caorlinas, galleys and other boats - by now only a handful of batellas survive, and caorlinas are used for racing only.
During their heyday as a means of public transports, teams of four men—three oarsmen and a fourth person, primarily shore-based and responsible for the booking and administration of the gondola (Il Rosso Riserva)—would share ownership of a gondola. However as the gondolas became more of a tourist attraction than a mode of public transport all but one of these cooperatives and their offices have closed. The category is now protected by the Institution for the Protection and Conservation of Gondolas and Gondoliers,[4] headquartered in the historical center of Venice.
The historical gondola was quite different from its modern evolution- the paintings of Canaletto and others show a much lower prow, a higher "ferro", and usually two rowers. The banana-shaped modern gondola was developed only in the 19th century by the boat-builder Tramontin, whose heirs still run the Tramontin boatyard. The construction of the gondola continued to evolve until the mid-20th century, when the city government prohibited any further modifications.
The oar or rèmo is held in an oar lock known as a fórcola. The forcola is of a complicated shape, allowing several positions of the oar for slow forward rowing, powerful forward rowing, turning, slowing down, rowing backwards, and stopping. The ornament on the front of the boat is called the fèrro (meaning iron) and can be made from brass, stainless steel, or aluminium. It serves as decoration and as counterweight for the gondolier standing near the stern.
Gondolas are handmade using 8 different types of wood (fir, oak, cherry, walnut, elm, mahogany, larch and lime) and are composed of 280 pieces.[5][unreliable source?] The oars are made of beech wood. The left side of the gondola is made longer than the right side. This asymmetry causes the gondola to resist the tendency to turn toward the left at the forward stroke. It is a common misconception that the gondola is a paddled vessel when the correct term is rowed i.e. "I rowed my gondola to work".
The profession of gondolier is controlled by a guild, which issues a limited number of licenses granted after periods of training and apprenticeship, and a major comprehensive exam[6] which tests knowledge of Venetian history and landmarks, foreign language skills, and practical skills in handling the gondola[7] typically necessary in the tight spaces of Venetian canals.
The gondola is also one of the vessels typically used in both ceremonial and competitive regattas, rowing races held amongst gondoliers using the technique of Voga alla Veneta.
The origin of the word "gondola" has never been satisfactorily established, despite many theories.[8]
In August 2010, Giorgia Boscolo became Venice's first female gondolier.