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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis
St. Louis is the second-largest city in Missouri, United States. It sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers, on the western bank of the latter. As of 2020, the city proper had a population of around 301,500, while the bi-state metropolitan area, which extends into Illinois, had an estimated population of over 2.8 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in Missouri, the second-largest in Illinois, the seventh-largest in the Great Lakes Megalopolis, and the 20th-largest in the United States.
Before European settlement, the area was a regional center of Native American Mississippian culture. St. Louis was founded on February 14, 1764, by French fur traders Gilbert Antoine de St. Maxent, Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau, who named it for Louis IX of France. In 1764, following France's defeat in the Seven Years' War, the area was ceded to Spain. In 1800, it was retroceded to France, which sold it three years later to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase; the city was then the point of embarkation for the Corps of Discovery on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In the 19th century, St. Louis became a major port on the Mississippi River; from 1870 until the 1920 census, it was the fourth-largest city in the country. It separated from St. Louis County in 1877, becoming an independent city and limiting its own political boundaries. St. Louis had a brief run as a world-class city in the early 20th century. In 1904, it hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the Summer Olympics.
A "Gamma" global city with a metropolitan GDP of more than $160 billion in 2017, metropolitan St. Louis has a diverse economy with strengths in the service, manufacturing, trade, transportation, and tourism industries. It is home to nine of the ten Fortune 500 companies based in Missouri. Major companies headquartered or with significant operations in the city include Ameren Corporation, Peabody Energy, Nestlé Purina PetCare, Anheuser-Busch, Wells Fargo Advisors, Stifel Financial, Spire, Inc., MilliporeSigma, FleishmanHillard, Square, Inc., U.S. Bank, Anthem BlueCross and Blue Shield, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Centene Corporation, and Express Scripts.
Major research universities include Saint Louis University and Washington University in St. Louis. The Washington University Medical Center in the Central West End neighborhood hosts an agglomeration of medical and pharmaceutical institutions, including Barnes-Jewish Hospital.
St. Louis has three professional sports teams: the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball, the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League, and the St. Louis BattleHawks of the newly formed XFL. In 2019, the city was awarded a Major League Soccer franchise, St. Louis City SC, which is expected to begin play upon the completion of a 22,500-seat stadium in the city's Downtown West neighborhood in 2023. Among the city's notable sights is the 630-foot (192 m) Gateway Arch in the downtown area. St. Louis is also home to the St. Louis Zoo and the Missouri Botanical Garden, which has the second-largest herbarium in North America.
Source: saintlouisautoshow.com/show-history/
It’s time to start your engines and gear up for the future at the 2021 St. Louis Auto Show. Whether you consider yourself a car enthusiast or not, this event has something for everyone — including children. As the largest automobile event in the St. Louis area, the Saint Louis Auto Show features more than 500 new cars, pickup trucks and SUVs from over 25 manufacturers all under one roof. The 2021 St. Louis Auto Show lets you preview the latest models, learn about new safety technology and preview some of the world’s most expensive vehicles, all without the pressure of making a vehicle purchase!
2021 STL Auto Show
Images from the 2012 World Premiere of the new Sensation show "Source of Light" in the Amsterdam Arena. Photos were taken for a 14-page EDM special in National Geographic Netherlands-Belgium which was published in September 2012.
Client: National Geographic NL
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At this spot the Zanaqu, flowing from right, joins the Zayaqu. They are the two longest branches of the upper Mekong. In 1994 explorer Michel Peissel claimed the head of the Zanaqu was the source of the Mekong, while a simultaneous Sino-Japanese expedition led by Masayuki Kitamura opted for the Zayaqu. Kitamura was proven right: the Zayaqu is indeed the longer and larger river. So the Mekong's source has to be up the Zayaqu.
The Northern Border of a Crater in Meridiani Planum
There’s lots of nice layering going on here. The crater is a bit over 5 km in diameter.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona (281 km above the surface, less than 5 km across)
Source: www.uahirise.org/ESP_011910_1825
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most-populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second-most-populous county in the US, with a small portion of the northwest side of the city extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the United States.
Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the great fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.
Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. Depending on the particular year, the city's O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked as the world's fifth or sixth busiest airport according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced economies, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. Chicago is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Allstate, Boeing, Caterpillar, Exelon, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Sears, United Airlines Holdings, and Walgreens.
Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second most visited city in the nation, as compared with New York City's 65 million visitors in 2018. The city was ranked first in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park, the Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theatre, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Park
Lincoln Park is a 1,208-acre (489-hectare) park situated along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N) on the south to near Ardmore Avenue (5800 N) on the north, just north of the Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue. Several museums and a zoo are located between North Avenue (1600 N) and Diversey Parkway (2800 N) in the eponymous neighborhood. Further to the north, the park is characterized by parkland, beaches, recreational areas, nature reserves, and harbors. To the south, there is a more narrow strip of beaches east of Lake Shore Drive, almost to downtown. With 20 million visitors per year, Lincoln Park is the second-most-visited city park in the United States, behind Central Park.
The park's recreational facilities include baseball/softball fields, basketball courts, beach volleyball courts, cricket pitches, football/soccer fields, a golf course, lacrosse fields, rugby pitches, tennis courts, volleyball courts, field houses, a target archery field, a skate park, and a driving range.
The park also features several harbors with boating facilities, as well as public beaches for swimming. There are landscaped gardens, public art, bird refuges, a zoo, the Lincoln Park Conservatory, the Chicago History Museum, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool, and a theater on the lake with regular outdoor performances held during the summer.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_History_Museum
Chicago History Museum (formerly known as the Chicago Historical Society (CHS)) was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. It is located in Lincoln Park at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood. The CHS adopted the name, Chicago History Museum, in September 2006 for its public presence.
SE corner of Halsted at 79th Street
*This news stand stands no more.
**2/1/2012 update -- The building behind this news stand has suffered a partial collapse and is in the process of being demolished.
I love these Norwegian oat biscuits, and that is partly because they have freed the recipe on the packet. Think of the possibilities for product development the company can draw from its consumers. A shame they haven't opened for a rich conversation.
Image from the Open Source Skunkworks stand at EHI Live 2012.
Photograph taken at Birmingham NEC on Tuesday 6th November 2012.
For more information about this stand, visit guildfoss.com/pg/ad/gfoss/read/175/the-skunkworks
Country: AUSTRIA
Operator: OBB
Item: STEAM & STATION
Class or Maker: OBB/999.1
Wheel Arrangement or Type: 0-4-2T
Number: 999.102 -7 named 'Enzian'
Place details: ST.WOLFGANG Station
Additional notes: 1000mm cog / rack
St.Wolfgang to Scharfbergspitze line, opened 1893
Length of line 5.85 kms / 3.64 miles
Original source material: Agfa 35mm slide
Photographer: Robert W Bridger
Copyright: Photographer
Library locator reference: RWBR.0448
30937 Transport Photograph Database
1985JUL18RWBR023cs
Title / Titre :
Horse race on the Ottawa River, March 1902 /
Course de chevaux sur la rivière des Outaouais, mars 1902
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Topley Studio
Date(s) : March 1902 / mars 1902
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : ITEM 3387723
central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=3387...
Location / Lieu : Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Topley Studio Fonds. Library and Archives Canada, PA-028209 /
Fonds Studio Topley. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, PA-028209
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 in 2021, within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 square kilometres (15.04 square miles).
Athens is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. According to Greek mythology, the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, but modern scholars generally agree that the goddess took her name after the city. Classical Athens was one of the most powerful city-states in ancient Greece. It was a centre for Hellenistic democracy, the arts, education and philosophy, and was highly influential throughout the European continent, particularly in Ancient Rome. For this reason it is often regarded as the cradle of Western civilisation and the birthplace of democracy in its own right independently from the rest of Greece.
In modern times Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece. It is a Beta (+) – status global city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and is one of the biggest economic centres in Southeast Europe. It also has a large financial sector, and its port Piraeus is both the second-busiest passenger port in Europe and the thirteenth-largest container port in the world. The Athens metropolitan area extends beyond its administrative municipal city limits as well as its urban agglomeration, with a population of 3,638,281 in 2021 over an area of 2,928.717 km2 (1,131 sq mi).
The heritage of the Classical Era is still evident in the city, represented by ancient monuments, and works of art, the most famous of these being the Parthenon, considered a key landmark of early Western culture. Athens retains Roman, Byzantine and a smaller number of Ottoman monuments, while its historical urban core features elements of continuity through its millennia of history. Athens contains two World Heritage Sites recognised by UNESCO: the Acropolis of Athens and the medieval Daphni Monastery. Athens is home to several museums and cultural institutions, such as the National Archeological Museum, featuring the world's largest collection of ancient Greek antiquities, the Acropolis Museum, the Museum of Cycladic Art, the Benaki Museum and the Byzantine and Christian Museum. Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896, and 108 years later it hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics, making it one of five cities to have hosted the Summer Olympics on more than one occasion.
Additional Foreign Language Tags:
(Greece) "اليونان" "希腊" "Grèce" "Griechenland" "יוון" "ग्रीस" "ギリシャ" "그리스" "Греция" "Grecia" "Hellenic Republic" "Ελληνική Δημοκρατία"
(Athens) "أثينا" "雅典" "Athènes" "Athen" "אתונה" "एथेंस" "アテネ" "아테네" "Афины" "Atenas"
(Europe) Europa "European Union" "أوروبا" "欧洲" "אירופה" "यूरोप" "ヨーロッパ" "유럽" "Европа"
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Edited Chandra Space Telescope image (overlaid on a Hubble Space Telescope image) of x-ray sources in and around the Eagle Nebula.
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/36636
This image was scanned from an item in the Williamson Collection of some 450 photographic glass slides and other items, which was acquired by the archives section of the Auchmuty Library. The collection was assembled by Archdeacon A. N. Williamson, who served for many years in the Diocese of Newcastle, as well as travelling extensively in the South Pacific area. The collection vividly portrays town and country life in Australia, particularly in Sydney and the Hunter Valley, soon after the turn of the century. The collection also illustrates life in Japan, Papua New Guinea, Nauru and Fiji, from the turn of the century until the mid-1930s.
Please contact Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle Library, NSW, Australia, if you are the subject of the image, or know the subject of the image, and have cultural or other reservations about the image being displayed on this website and would like to discuss this with us.
Photos all taken at the old swimming pool in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. This pool has been shut down for about ten years.
Catalyst Open Source Academy, 6-15 January 2015; catalyst.net.nz/academy
Part of Day 1: Learning about the file system, files and what they contain
It is the first ornamental public fountain in Madrid from which water flowed from the Lozoya River. The wall fountain, made of stone and brick, was the artistic face attached to the side wall of the First Reservoir of the Canal de Isabel II (former Campo de Guardias), designed to bring water to Madrid. It is almost hidden behind a fence inside the Canal de Isabel II facilities, on Calle de Bravo Murillo, 49.
The Canal de Isabel II, which guaranteed Madrid the supply of water from the Lozoya River, was designed in 1848 by the engineers Juan de Ribera and Juan Rafo, following a commission from the Minister of Instruction and Public Works, Juan Bravo Murillo. It took about 10 years to build, and on June 24, 1858 it was inaugurated by Queen Elizabeth II in style, on Calle Ancha de San Bernardo.
THE FOUNTAIN
It is a sculptural ensemble conceived in the image of the classic triumphal arch. Made of granite stone with brick panels, with a central apse in which the main figure is housed, it is a monumental personification of the Lozoya River (a slender male figure of a young man who steps on a vessel seated on a set of rocks), carved by the Madrid sculptor Sabino de Medina Peñas; flanked on the left by another limestone sculpture, an allegory of Agriculture, by the Compostela sculptor Andrés Rodríguez, and on the right by another of Industry, by Madrid-born José Pagniucci Zúmel.
The pylon is made of limestone and has a semicircular geometry, with a straight profile towards the inside and a curved silhouette towards the outside. It has a depth of 70 centimeters, and a diameter of about 10 meters. The main fountain springs from the jar at the foot of the central figure, and cascades down the rocks carved in the style of European Baroque fountains.
MADRID AND THE WATER
In the first half of the 19th century, Madrid had some 200,000 inhabitants, and very few enjoyed water in their homes. The rest took water from one of the 54 sources scattered around the city. Inseparable from the pumps lived the water carriers, who at that time numbered about 920, dedicated themselves to the itinerant sale of water, which they transported to the cisterns of the houses. The guild had reserved a number of fountains in the city for their use.
At that time, the fountains in Madrid were classified as: neighborhood fountains (for the neighbors), neighborhood fountains (at least one spout exclusively for the neighbors and the rest was reserved for the water carriers), water carrier fountains, flying fountains (whose use could vary according to needs) and ornamental fountains.
LOZOYA RIVER SOURCE
Neoclassical wall fountain
Year 1858
C/ Bravo Murillo, 49
Vallehermoso neighborhood
Architect: Juan de Ribera Piferrer
Construction Engineer: Juan Rafo
Sculptors: Sabino de Medina Peñas, Andrés Rodríguez and José Pagniucci Zúmel
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/9162
This photograph is from an album created by Lt Thomas Gerald George Fahey who served in the Australian Light Horse in the Middle East during World War 1. Our thanks to Mr Tom Robinson for allowing us to scan and upload this photograph.
If you wish to use it for anything other than private study or research, please contact us.
Image Source: www.archivessearch.qld.gov.au/items/ITM299142
Australia was approaching its bicentennial celebrations, and after Brisbane’s success hosting the 1982 Commonwealth Games, Brisbane City Council and the Queensland State Government were confident they could win the bid to hold the next World Exhibition.
Brisbane won the right to hold the event and Expo 88 was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 30 April 1988. By the time it closed, it had changed the way the world saw Brisbane and helped shaped the city as we know it today.
Starting with an estimated budget of $645 million, the Queensland State Government developed a World Expo that would recoup and support its own costs and promote international investment in Queensland, both during and after the event. South Bank, badly damaged in the 1973–74 floods, was chosen and the site acquired for $150 million. Developers completed construction on time and within budget. The targets set for ticket sales were reached 11 weeks before Expo 88 had even opened. It was off to a smashing start.
Celebrating ‘Leisure in the age of technology’, there was an incredible range of pavilions, performances, parades, comedy and artwork on show. Guests could experience over 50 restaurants filled with flavours from around the globe. Hosted over six months, it drew more than 18 million people to the renewed South Bank parklands district. An average of 100,000 people a day entered the gates.
An influx of royalty, celebrities and international visitors came to Brisbane for the exhibition, but it was Queensland residents who attended the most often, purchasing 500,000 season tickets. Expo 88 provided something the city needed: an easy-to-access recreational facility with exciting things to do, see and experience. Brisbanites returned again and again to socialise and enjoy the festival atmosphere.
The monorail was one of the most popular attractions. Giving travellers a view of the entertainments from above, it operated along a 2.3-kilometre track during Expo 88, taking up to 44,000 visitors a day from one side of Expo to the other, along the Brisbane River. Built by Swedish manufacturer Von Roll, the monorail cost $12 million and comprised four MkII trains with nine carriages each. The idea of keeping the monorail operating after Expo and extending it into the Brisbane CBD was discussed. Ultimately, the existing monorail wasn’t a feasible long-term people-moving solution and it was disbursed. Three trains were sold back to Von Roll and were used in Germany’s Europa-Park. The remaining train and some tracks were incorporated into the Sea World theme park on the Gold Coast.
Some of the most significant installations, exhibitions and artworks from Expo 88 were relocated and continue to be enjoyed today. Ken Done AM, a prominent Australian artist and designer, was commissioned to produce the entry and exit statement art pieces for the Australia Pavilion. Using the word ‘Australia’, Done produced a sign nearly six metres tall that could not be missed by anyone who attended Expo 88. The letters have since been restored and are on display at the Caboolture Heritage Village. The Nepal Peace Pagoda was the only international pavilion that remained on-site, after a petition asking that it remain attracted about 70,000 signatures. The Japan Garden and Pond were gifted to the city of Brisbane and moved to the Botanic Gardens at Mt Coot-Tha.
The buzz of activity, the investment in South Bank’s infrastructure and the spotlight on Brisbane transformed the city. The physical legacy left by Expo 88 turned South Bank into a thriving social space and prominent cultural hotspot: 42 hectares was dedicated to the construction of the South Bank Parklands.
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