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Aruba is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, located about 1,600 kilometres west of the Lesser Antilles and 29 kilometres north of the coast of Venezuela. It measures 32 kilometres (20 mi) long from its northwestern to its southeastern end and 10 kilometres across at its widest point. Together with Bonaire and Curaçao, Aruba forms a group referred to as the ABC islands. Collectively, Aruba and the other Dutch islands in the Caribbean are often called the Netherlands Antilles or the Dutch Caribbean.
From 1499 Aruba was colonized by Spain for over a century. Simas, the Cacique or chief in Aruba, welcomed the first Catholic priests in Aruba, who gave him a wooden cross as a gift. In 1508, the Spanish Crown appointed Alonso de Ojeda as its first Governor of Aruba, as part of Nueva Andalucía.
Due to the hostile climate and lack of any material resources the Spanish eventually left and the Netherlands colonised it in 1629 and since 1636, Aruba has been under Dutch administration.The island was included under the Dutch West India Company (W.I.C.) administration, as "New Netherland and Curaçao," from 1648 to 1664. In 1667 the Dutch administration appointed an Irishman as "Commandeur" in Aruba.
The Dutch took control 135 years after the Spanish, leaving the Arawaks to farm and graze livestock, and used the island as a source of meat for other Dutch possessions in the Caribbean.
It now serves as a popular tourist destination.
the famous super yacht "DILBAR".Dilbar is a 110m (360.89ft) motor yacht, custom built in 2008 by Lurssen Yachts in Bremen (Germany). The yacht's interior has been designed by Alberto Pinto and has exterior styling by Tim Heywood Design. She was last refitted in 2009.
"U.P. milepost detector, 3-4-5-point-6, no defects, no defects". Anyone who has traveled aboard Amtrak has probably heard words similar to that coming from the conductor's two-way radio as he or she walks through the cars. That occurs when the train passes certain checkpoints which look the train over for certain malfunctions. One such checkpoint is a "hot box detector" which scans each and every wheel as the train passes, measuring the temperature of each one. If it detects an overheated wheel, the voice on the radio will identify the location on the train where it has occurred and then tell the conductor, "Stop the train! Stop the train!" The gizmo we are looking at here in the foreground which goes across the tracks in a perpendicular manor is a "dragging load detector". In case something has come loose from the train and is being dragged down the tracks, it will strike this device triggering similar action as just described.
Seen parked on the sidetrack in the distance is a row of maintenance equipment.
Two transport cops stopped and questioned me a couple of minutes after I shot this.
They wanted to know what I was doing. I showed them what I had shot, and one cop asked skeptically, and rather patronizingly, "Why would anyone take a picture of a blue light? That's a pretty weird thing to do."
"I guess you're not a photographer," I replied.
The dick head then tried to claim that I shouldn't be shooting because it was dangerous. I pointed out, though, that at no time while I was shooting had I stepped off the platform or even so much as put a toe over the "stand behind this line" line.
I could tolerate the cops asking what I was doing, I suppose, but the dick head cop was just stupid about it.
They took my name. And I left.
boston, massachusetts
september 1959
thompson square, charlestown
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Aruba is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, located about 1,600 kilometres west of the Lesser Antilles and 29 kilometres north of the coast of Venezuela. It measures 32 kilometres (20 mi) long from its northwestern to its southeastern end and 10 kilometres across at its widest point. Together with Bonaire and Curaçao, Aruba forms a group referred to as the ABC islands. Collectively, Aruba and the other Dutch islands in the Caribbean are often called the Netherlands Antilles or the Dutch Caribbean.
From 1499 Aruba was colonized by Spain for over a century. Simas, the Cacique or chief in Aruba, welcomed the first Catholic priests in Aruba, who gave him a wooden cross as a gift. In 1508, the Spanish Crown appointed Alonso de Ojeda as its first Governor of Aruba, as part of Nueva Andalucía.
Due to the hostile climate and lack of any material resources the Spanish eventually left and the Netherlands colonised it in 1629 and since 1636, Aruba has been under Dutch administration.The island was included under the Dutch West India Company (W.I.C.) administration, as "New Netherland and Curaçao," from 1648 to 1664. In 1667 the Dutch administration appointed an Irishman as "Commandeur" in Aruba.
The Dutch took control 135 years after the Spanish, leaving the Arawaks to farm and graze livestock, and used the island as a source of meat for other Dutch possessions in the Caribbean.
It now serves as a popular tourist destination.