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A new piece of art, ‘ Split Decision’, has been unveiled on the plinth at Liverpool Parish Church on the waterfront and will be there for the next 12 months. Created by award-winning Egyptian-born, North Yorkshire-based artist Sam Shendi the 4.5 metre sculpture explores themes of mental health and depression.
Brought to the city by Liverpool BID Company, in partnership with the church, and city gallery and art organisation, dot-art, Split Decision uses colours to express a multitude of emotions and fears that a depressed individual experiences when having to make a decision. Represented by the outstretched legs, the artist also hopes to convey the positive opportunities that sit on the horizon for those who are struggling to overcome their mental anguish.
Split is also one of the oldest cities in the area. While it is traditionally considered just over 1,700 years old counting from the construction of Diocletian's Palace in AD 305, archaeological research relating to the original founding of the city as the Greek colony of Aspálathos (Aσπάλαθος) in the 4th century BC establishes the urban tradition of the area as being several centuries older.
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Split Rock Lighthouse was built in response to the great loss of ships during the famous Mataafa Storm of 1905, in which 29 ships were lost on Lake Superior.[3] One of these shipwrecks, the Madeira, is located just north of the lighthouse.
It is built on a 130-foot (40 m) sheer cliff eroded by wave action from a diabase sill containing inclusions of anorthosite.[4] The octagonal building is a steel-framed brick structure with concrete trim on a concrete foundation set into the rock of the cliff.[3] It is topped with a large, steel lantern which features a third order, bi-valve type Fresnel lens manufactured by Barbier, Bernard and Turenne Company in Paris, France. The tower was built for a second order lens, but when construction went over budget, there was only enough funding remaining for the smaller third order lens. The lens floats on a bearing surface of liquid mercury which allows near frictionless operation. The lens is rotated by an elaborate clockwork mechanism that is powered by weights running down the center of the tower which are then reset by cranking them back to the top.[5] When completed, the lighthouse was lit with an incandescent oil vapor lamp that burned kerosene.
At the time of its construction, there were no roads to the area and all building materials and supplies arrived by water and lifted to the top of the cliff by crane. The light was first lit on July 31, 1910. Thanks to its dramatic location, the lighthouse soon became a tourist attraction for sailors and excursion boats. So much so, that in 1924 a road (now Minnesota State Highway 61) was built to allow land access.
In 1940, the station was electrified and the lamp was replaced with a 1000 watt electric bulb, and the incandescent oil vapor lamp was moved to Au Sable Point Lighthouse in Northern Michigan. Split Rock was outfitted with a fog signal housed in a building next to the light tower. The original signal was a pair of sirens driven by two Franklin 30 hp (22 kW) gasoline-driven air compressors manufactured by Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company. In 1932 the gasoline engines were replaced with diesel engines. The steam sirens were replaced with a Type F-2-T diaphone (be-you) type signal in 1936. The station and the fog signal were electrified four years later, but was discontinued in 1961.
The light was retired in 1969 by the U. S. Coast Guard. The lighthouse is now part of the Split Rock Lighthouse State Park and is operated by the Minnesota Historical Society. The site includes the original tower and lens, the fog signal building, the oil house, and the three keepers' houses. It is restored to appear as it did in the late 1920s. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. Notwithstanding that the light has been retired, every November 10 the lighthouse emits a light in memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald which sank on that date in 1975. On June 30, 2011, the lighthouse was designated as a National Historic Landmark.[6]
the distinctive octaganol tower of Split Rock Lighthouse situated on the cliffs of the north shore of Lake Superior
Size 9.5... purchased in 1994 and still in GREAT shape.....Super rare only seen one other pair of light blues on flickr
Schizophyllum commune is a species of fungus in the genus Schizophyllum. The mushroom resembles undulating waves of tightly packed corals or loose Chinese fan. "Gillies" or "split gills" vary from creamy yellow to pale white in colour. The cap is small, 1–4 cm wide with a dense yet spongey body texture. It is known as the split-gill mushroom because of the unique longitudinally divided nature of the "gills" on the underside of the cap. This mushroom is found throughout the world.
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Split-rail fence and log fence is a type of fence constructed out of timber logs, usually split lengthwise into and typically used for agricultural or decorative fencing. Such fences require much more timber than other types of fences, and so are not common in areas where wood is scarce or expensive. However, they are very simple in their construction, and can be assembled with few tools even on hard or rocky ground. They also can be built without using any nails or other hardware; such hardware was often scarce in frontier locations. They can even be partially or wholly disassembled if the fence needs to be moved or the wood becomes more useful for other purposes. During the Civil War, these split rail fences were a major source of firewood for both the Union and Confederate armies.
Log fence with double posts.
Split rail fences were made of easy to split, rot resistant wood. Traditionally American chestnut was the tree of choice until wire fencing became cheaper and the chestnut blight eliminated this tree. Currently, most split rails are made from cedar logs. Whether of chestnut or cedar, these logs were cut to a length of 10 to 12 feet (3.7 m) and split down the length of the log. Each half was then split into quarters, then eighths and so on until the rails were of a usable size. Depending on the diameter of the log, you could get 4 rails from an 8-inch (200 mm) log to over a dozen from larger logs. The pieces, called "rails," were stacked on top of one another. Most split rail fences had the rails stacked in an interlocking zig-zag fashion that is self-supporting, easy to create, easy to repair, and easy to disassemble.
A split-rail fence with supports.Some timber fences had the rails stacked directly on top of each other and secured them with double fence posts (one on either side of the rails). This made a more permanent and compact fence but remained easy to repair.
The length of a zig zag fence was such that the distance between either the zigs or the zags was 16½ feet or one rod. A landowner could then count the zigs or the zags along the side and end of his field and determine the number of square rods in a field which in turn told him how many acres the field contained. One hundred sixty square rods is 1-acre (4,000 m2), so a field ten rods times sixteen rods was an acre.
A split-rail fence in suburban America with wire fence cover, built 1999.A variation on the traditional split-rail fence has become common in suburban America in the late 20th century. This variation is not free-standing but consists of vertical posts with holes into which the ends of rough hewn horizontal pieces are placed. A common addition to this, particular where pets or children are involved, is a wire fence affixed to the inner or outer face of the split-rail fence.
Famous rail-splitters
Abraham Lincoln did a lot of rail splitting in his youth, as he needed the money. He was glad to get better work.
Some of his politician friends wanted to use Lincoln the rail-splitter as an election slogan.