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ENA Ofnir Strategic bomber
The ENA Ofnir is a Mach 3 long-range strategic bomber, operated by the Imperial Lego Air Force. It’s a modified Gerifalte bomber, with a larger wing, 4 engines, longer range and bomb-load. The Imperial Lego Air Force needed a new high speed, long-range Strategic Bomber capable of carrying twenty four conventional 2000kg bombs internally as well as being able to perform a certain number of tactical bombing missions, like low altitude strike and precision bombing with guided bombs.
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Since a new bomber would require at least two years to develop and build, the ENA (Empresa Nacional de Armamento) factory modified the already operational Gerifalte bomber for the new role. The result is a highly capable bomber; capable of both high and low altitude high speed bombing missions to avoid detection or interception. The bomber can also operate almost all the guided bombs and missiles used by the Lego Empire, as well as termo-nuclear stealth cruise missiles and it can also be air-refuelled. There is a 3-man crew seated on tandem in a very large cockpit, the pilot, bombardier/missile operator and the gunner/electronic warfare officer. All aircraft are equipped with numerous electronic systems including a comprehensive electronic countermeasures (ECM) suite as well as systems for “Wild Weasel” missions (anti-radar missions). Radar Absorbing materials were also added to reduce radar signature as well as many electronic radar blocker systems. Although not fully stealth, the Ofnir is extremely difficult to detect even for the most recent and advanced radars.
The Imperial Naval Aviation also operates a slightly modified version; the Ofnir is highly effective when used for ocean surveillance as well as anti-ship missions and can assist carrier-based aircrafts in both anti-ship and mine-laying operations.The Ofnir has demonstrated its flexibility in every mission in which it has participated, for example the colossal Lego Invasion of Antártida. The long-range bomber performed many “Interdictor” and “Wild Weasel” missions as well as tactical bombing missions. During the Invasion, the Ofnirs struck targets ranging from wide-area troop concentrations, through fixed installations to leadership bunkers, and the sheer power of its attacks totally destroyed the morale of the Antilegos Armed forces. The Ofnir has been the backbone of the manned strategic bomber force for the Lego Empire for the last 10 years and it will remain on that role for many more years, according to pilots.
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Since the Ofnir is a highly modified Gerifalte, the bomber keeps the rear 20mm defensive gun turret (which is aimed and fired by the gunner/electronic warfare officer located on the cockpit) and the two forward firing 37mm guns (which are useful during low altitude missions). The use of defensive gun turrets, capable of firing both explosive shells and flares against incoming missiles or fighters is a fashion, still in use in the Imperial Navy Aviation (essentially a last resort defensive mechanism).Two large hard-points under the wings can also carry extra bombs, external fuel tanks or guided missiles like the D.D.N. anti-ship missile; two other smaller hard-points are also sometimes carried (mainly for Air-to-air missiles or electronic warfare systems).
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Coimbra, called Aeminium in Roman times, was strategically situated at the confluence of the north–south traffic that connected the Roman Bracara Augusta (later Braga) and Olisipo (later Lisbon). The limestone table on which the settlement grew was circled by fertile lands irrigated by the waters of Mondego river.
After the Romans, Coimbra was dominated by Sueves, Visigoths, and Muslims, until the Christian "Reconquista" forced the Muslims to abandon the region temporarely. Successively the Moors retook it in 987–1064 and again in 1116, capturing two castles constructed to protect the territory. The reconquest of the territory was finally attained in 1064 by King Ferdinand I of León and Castile. The County of Portucale and the County of Coimbra were later integrated into one dominion.
In the 15th and 16th centuries, during the Age of Discovery, Coimbra was again one of the main artistic centres of Portugal thanks to both local and royal patronage. Coimbra bishops, religious orders and King Manuel I supported artists who left important Manueline and Renaissance works in the town.
Although it ceased in the 13th century to serve as the capital of Portugal, Coimbra retains considerable importance as the centre of the former Beira province, now designated the Centro region. It is considered alongside Braga one of the two most important regional centres in Portugal outside the Lisbon and Portos metropoles, the centre for the whole middle region of the country. With a dense urban grid, the municipality is known primarily for the city of Coimbra, itself famous for its monuments, churches, libraries, museums, parks, nightlife, healthcare and shopping facilities. Above all, its cultural life, oriented around the University of Coimbra, has historically attracted the nation's notable writers, artists, academics and aristocracy, securing its reputation as the Lusa-Atenas (Lusitanian Athens).
Day 276 - 365 Toy Project
Do you play chess? I don't. Because I don't know how! LOL.
These chess pieces look amazingly luminous under daylight.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hosts Pakistani Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz for the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on February 29, 2016. [State Department Photo/Public Domain]
Makes me want to watch the movie with Jimmy Stewart again!
Boeing EB-47E Stratojet
S/N: 53-2135
Pima Air & Space Museum
In a war where railroads moved troops and transport, the rails were always of strategic value. These Russians died defending or trying to capture this railroad.
Tu-95 "Bear" is a strategic bomber. Plane's not new but some are still in service in Russian Air Force.
Melanie Zanona, Transportation Reporter, The Hill, Franco Amalfi, Director, Strategic Government Programs, Oracle Public Sector North America, Bob Bennett, Chief Innovation Officer, Kansas City, Missouri, David Wilson, Chief Innovation Officer, Bechtel, and Brian Pallasch, Managing Director, Government Relations and Infrastructure Initiatives, American Society of Civil Engineers participate in the future of infrastructure patients in control during a policy briefing entitled “Digitalizing Infrastructure: Building a Smart Future” sponsored by ABB and The Hill at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, November 14, 2017.
Strategically overlooking the town and the plains to North, the Citadel is part of Brasov's outer fortification system. At first some wooden protective walls were erected here, later, in 1529, destroyed by Petru Rares. On the same spot they built a stone citadel called Cetatuia (1553), destroyed by fire in 1618 and re-built in 1625. For protective purposes the inhabitants added to the initial building four massive stone bastions in 1630. The citadel was abandoned later, after technological innovations made cannons stronger than the building. It served as a prison for a while.
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" A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity,
the only person with the keys to one's unfettered,
more fundamental self. "
..........Marian Sandmaier.
.....American writer, editor.
The photograph is the silo footprint of Atlas F Launch Site Dyess S-8 near Winter, Texas. The U. S. Air Force deployed Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) from 1959 to 1965. The 578th Strategic Missile Squadron based at Dyess Air Force Base operated twelve Atlas F launch sites starting in 1962, The Atlas F, the most advanced of the Atlas series, was designed to be stored in underground "silo" sites about 180-feet deep and 52-feet in diameter. Within the silo the missile and its support system were supported by a steel framework called the crib, which hung from the walls of the silo on four sets of huge springs. During the firing sequence, the missile would be fueled, lifted by an elevator to the mouth of the silo, then fired. They could strike deep into the Soviet Union, The site was built to withstand a nuclear blast (Source: Various)
the 578th Strategic Missile Squadron was deactivated on March 25, 1965. Launch Site Dyess S-8 was decommissioned an demilitarized. The silo footprint is the only structure remaining at the former Atlas F Missile Site S-8 near Winters, Texas.
Strategic Intelligence Outlook 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland, 19/11/2025, World Economic Forum Headquarters. Copyright: World Economic Forum / Kamal Kimaoui
Elena Cherney, Global Energy Editor and Canada Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal, Canada at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 17, 2017
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A man sits at the intersection of three alleyways in Trikeri, Pelion, Greece. Trikeri, a small town of about 1000 people, lies at the westernmost point of the Pelion Peninsula on the Pagasetic Gulf and was, until the 70s, only accessible by sea.
Strategic Intelligence Outlook 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland, 19/11/2025, World Economic Forum Headquarters. Copyright: World Economic Forum / Kamal Kimaoui
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Visita a Xcaret Eco Park, Quintana Roo, México
Viaje a Riviera Maya
Día 5
11.3.2016
"Xcaret" significa en maya pequeña caleta, pues cuenta con una ensenada de extraordinaria belleza. - de Wikipedia bit.ly/1SfcUSM
Xcaret means "small inlet" in Mayan. Its name comes from its situation next to a small inlet that in the past served as a strategic location for navigation and commerce for the Maya. - from Wikipedia bit.ly/1UnpZiR
Francesco Starace, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager, Enel, Italy, Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency, Paris, Kenneth A. Hersh, Co-Founder and Chairman, NGP Energy Capital Management, USA, Amin H. Nasser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia, Qiao Baoping, Chairman, China Guodian Corporation, People's Republic of China, Elena Cherney, Global Energy Editor and Canada Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal, Canada and Anthony Scaramucci, Assistant to the President and Director of Public Liaison at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 17, 2017
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STRATEGIC SYNCHRONICITY
FUTURA - Pioneer of the American Urban Art Movement
Comes to LA for First Ever Solo Show
When: Thursday September 18th 2008 – Sunday September 21st, 2008
Where: Phantom Galleries LA at the Pacific Electric Lofts 610 S. Main St. Downtown LA, 90014
Preview for the Downtown LA Art Walk 6-10pm September 11, 2008
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KRUNK presents, Strategic Synchronicity – an incredibly rare four-day event featuring the first ever LA solo-show by the internationally acclaimed graffiti artist & true pioneer of the American Urban Art movement – Futura. This once in a lifetime event starts on Thursday September 18th and will only continue until Sunday September 21st (in a secret location in Downtown LA). Then it's gone.
This, as perhaps Futura's most anticipated body of work ever, will showcase his extraordinary talent with a range of original canvases and drawings. Fans and art collectors will have a narrow window of opportunity to purchase original Futura art, with prices starting from $1,500 and upwards. The exhibition will not only showcase his new work but will also take a genuinely evolving organic form - a work in progress. This will be a truly historic occasion for fine art and street culture in the U.S. and should not be missed.
"LA was an obvious destination for me to showcase this collection. The city has so many incredible creatives who I consider as friends and whose work I respect enormously. It's about time I hit LA particularly with this collection. Above all, I'm looking forward to having some fun presenting AND creating this new work in LA." Futura
What to expect: Futura's past experience merges with his vision of the future, combining his tendency towards meticulous precision with his trademark free-flowing spraycan techniques. His art appears effortless in its abstraction with commentary on themes such as 'space' and 'the future' and his interpretation of 'the present'. Those lucky enough to be present might spot an 'old friend' in his work (perhaps for the last time?) as well as some incredible advancements and developments of his art form:
Futura has always had a keen interest and somewhat of an obsession with the latest technologies, so expect to see canvases stretched onto aluminium (in order to prevent warping due to environmental factors), pieces complemented by specifically devised music scores and film trials and much more.
"I consider this collection my best work yet, when I started on it I could feel myself about to explode. All these years of development and it reflects my growth and evolution. I want this work considered on its merits….and in that sense, I'm going right back to the beginning." Futura
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Tel: (323) 424-3778
Phantom Galleries LA
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Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency, Paris at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 17, 2017
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Belvedere
Belvedere Castle. Garden Front of the Lower Belvedere.
Belvedere Palace stands supposedly on the foundations of a Roman camp that had been erected here for strategic reasons. In 1693 Prince Eugene of Savoy acquired field and vineyard grounds between today's Rennweg and today's Gürtel. In 1700 Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt began with the construction of a palace garden (Lower Belvedere), whose in French-style layed out park was equipped with large water basins, an orangery with precious foreign plants and a menagerie. Prince Eugene was a great animal lover, and some animals in his collection could be fed exclusively by himself.
1720 the Prince conceived the plan the summer palace to supplement by a another palace building on the hill of the garden.
The 1721 by Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt begun works had been completed in 1724. The Upper Belvedere served in contrast to the Lower only representative purposes and was never meant to live.
The Prince and his architect managed a perfect symbiosis between architecture and garden. After the death of the Savoy (1736) inherited his niece Victoria of Savoy-Soisson, nee Princess Hildburghausen, all his possessions. From her the Habsburgs beginning of 1752 acquired the Belvedere. From 1755 Empress Maria Theresa moved the Arcierenleibgarde (Royal Company of the Archers) and the Galician Guard in the annex of the Belvedere. Besides, the castle stood almost empty.
Belvedere Castle. Engraving by Salomon Kleiner 1731/40 (left).
Vienna from the Belvedere. Coloured copper engraving by Carl Schütz, 1784 (right).
1770 Belvedere Palace was venue of brilliant festivities:
In castle and park the marriage of Archduchess Maria Antonia (Marie Antoinette) with the Dauphin of France by proxy (per procura) was celebrated. About 2,000 people were invited, more than 1,500 bottles of champagne, which was far from home in Vienna at that time,
were emptied. For hospitality of the guests, there were round tables, which were covered with silver. However, the Court of Vienna had a large part of the silver service to rent of nobles, because the stocks of the silver chamber were not sufficient. Finished was the festival by a magnificent fireworks.
1776, the imperial picture gallery from the Stallburg (home of the famous Lipizzan stallions) was transferred to the Upper Belvedere, the animals of the menagerie came to Schönbrunn. Shortly before the Congress of Vienna in 1814 in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection was exposed. During the war against Napoleon (1805-1809), much of the collection of paintings had to be outsourced. The Corsican claimed 400 masterpieces for himself, but which after his defeat at Waterloo to the Habsburgs have been restituted. The after the French wars completely neglected building has been restored 1850-1866.
Castle Park with Upper Belvedere. Photograph, around 1890.
1819 Emperor Franz II (I) the Institute of Botany, University of Vienna, had given spacious grounds for enlargement of the Botanical Garden at Rennweg. Franz was very interested in botany and in accordance with a Habsburg House bill - every Archduke must learn a civilian job - has been educated for gardener. In an adjoining garden of Schloß Belvedere he had from his private funds laid out a botanical garden ("Flora Austriaca") which was left to the Institute of Botany for use.
During the cholera epidemic of 1831, the Belvedere served as well as Schönbrunn Palace the imperial family as a refuge; supposedly one was there protected from the bad air, which was attributed to the onset of the disease. Both castles lay in the "countryside", the air was much better here than in the densely populated city. During wartime, a hospital was set up in the castle.
As the space for the imperial collections became too small, it was thought to expand the Upper Belvedere by wing buildings. This plan was dropped for aesthetic reasons, however. After the expansion of the city (razing of the bastions and glacis) arose on the ring road the newly created Court Museums; moved there in 1891 the major part of the paintings.
Archduke-Heir to the Throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este at folk and children's party in the park of the Belvedere Palace. Photograph, 1905.
To 1893/94 it is likely that Archduke Franz Ferdinand has chosen the Upper Belvedere to his residence in Vienna. Other sources say that it had been assigned to him by the Emperor Franz Joseph as a place to stay in Vienna. The rooms have been restored, adapted for residential purposes and supplemented with neo-Baroque furniture. The heir of the Este collections furnished his residence with numerous works of art. He had envisaged the castle for the accommodation of his collections; in 1893 were numerous boxes from India and Singapore in Belvedere stored. 1894 Emperor Franz Joseph could see the collection: "Yesterday I went to the Belvedere, where Franzi showed me his now quite and very nicely prepared collections. The same are as imposing as interesting by the incredible amount of objects and by the rarity and beauty of them. I believe that this exhibition would be interesting for you", wrote the monarch to his wife, Empress Elisabeth. That same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand showed his collections his future wife, Sophie Chotková,
"Where I unaware of your fatigue with particular brutality you dragged from box to box" as he apologetically from Budweis wrote to the Countess.
Then the collections moved one the one hand to the Palais Modena in the Beatrixgasse, on the other hand to Konopischt. Only in 1898, Franz Ferdinand was granted by Emperor Franz Joseph to move into the Belvedere as Vienna Residence. More revitalization works were carried out and were also necessary. Technical modernization and preservation of the original building condition had priority - as always with the projects of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. As furnishings served still preserved furnitures from Schloss Hof, which were supplemented by new ones in old style. The private rooms in addition to electric lighting were equipped with central heating.
Belvedere Castle. Staircase in the Upper Belvedere (left).
Marble plastic "Apotheosis of Prince Eugene" by Balthasar Permoser in Gold Cabinet of the Lower Belvedere (right).
If his presence was needed in Vienna, Franz Ferdinand here could lead a normal family life and escape the pressures of court ceremonial, in which the to him in morganatic marriage affiliated wife was exposed to the evils of the courtiers. When the heir to the throne invited guests to the Belvedere, he was sitting opposite his wife as a hostess while she was ranked in the Hofburg always after the latest unmarried Archduchess. About the cozy family life at Belvedere reported Prince von Clary-Aldringens:
"Aunt Sophie invited us ... to snack into a Belvedere, unexpectedly, suddenly appeared the Archduke - we literally froze in our Hab-Acht-position (stand at attention). He greeted us warmly ... [I got to know] the Archduke as a friendly landlord, who was playing and laughing with his Children..."
Between 1899 and 1914 in the Lower Belvedere the military bureau of the heir to the throne was housed. Other well-known Residents - but of outbuildings - were Anton Bruckner, who in 1896 died in the Kustodenwohnung (guardian house), and Richard Strauss, who lived here from 1925 to 1944.
After the assassination of the Archduke and his wife in Sarajevo, the Belvedere should serve as the residence of the new heir to the throne, Archduke Karl and his family. This, however, preferred living in Schönbrunn and especially in the villa Wartholz. In 1917, Charles' brother Archduke Maximilian moved with his family into the Belvedere.
During World War II the castle was badly damaged by bombs, but rebuilt after the war ended immediately. On 15 May 1955 was the Marble Hall venue of the signing of the Austrian State Treaty. Today, the Upper Belvedere houses important art collections.
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Denomination of the summer residence which Prince Eugene of Savoy himself had erected btw Rennweg and Swiss Garden. The term which refers to the unique view over Vienna dates from the time of Maria Theresa. Prinz Eugen bought in 1697 a plot of land at the Rennweg, which he extended to 1721 in four stages to the current area. Between 1714 and 1716 emerged the Lower Belvedere It is an elongated ground floor building, designed of a 7-axes central projection, two wings and two corner pavilions. The 3-axis central pavilion houses the Marble Hall. The castle the only rarely in Vienna sojourning builder served during the summer months as a pleasure palace.
Only in 1720 commenced construction works for the Upper Belvedere, first drawings for this existed already in 1717. The in it extent and form language compared to the Lower Belvedere especially magnificent Upper Belvedere served primarily as a representative setting for grand receptions and festivities. The architectural history of the example due to the loss of the Eugenianischen Bauarchivs (construction archiv of Prince Eugene) cannot be explored in detail without any gaps. 1723 (according to Rizzi 1721/22) the Upper Belvedere s is considered complete. The architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, who repeatedly worked for Prince Eugen, with the construction of the Belvedere has created his main work. It counts in its multiform architectonic as well as sculptural structure to the most important baroque buildings of the 18th century. The to the ensemble belonging, btw Upper and Lower Belvedere laying garden has been created by the Bavarian horticultural engineer D. Girard and today only in broad terms is original. The designs for the interior of the castle stem from C. le Fort du Plessy.
After the death of the prince the belvedere went into the possession of his sole heiress, Victoria Duchess of Saxe-Hildburghausen. She sold it in 1752 to Maria Theresa. At the behest of Joseph II from 1775 the imperial picture gallery was transferred here, which in 1781 for the first time was open to the public. had. Since 1806 was located in the Lower Belvedere the Ambras Collection. Both collections were in 1890 in the Museum of Art History transferred. In 1894, the palace became residence for the heir to the throne Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
After the first World War I the Republic of Austria in Belvedere installed the Austrian Gallery. 1945 suffered the Belvedere severe war damage. In 1950, the "Gold Cabinet" in the north-eastern corner pavilion of the Upper Belvedere was destroyed by fire and replaced by a copy. The since 1988 ongoing general renovation should have been completed in 1996.
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Austrian Gallery Belvedere
The in the center of Vienna situated Belvedere palaces with their extensive parks form an impressive baroque Gesamtkunstwerk. The Museum in the Upper and Lower Castle provides an excellent overview of the Austrian Art from the Middle Ages to the present. the collections of the 19th and 20th Century also include an exquisite inventory of international art. World Famous works by Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Renoir and Monet you can see in the upper
Belvedere, from where you can enjoy a spectacular view to the center of Vienna. In the historic rooms of the Lower Belvedere are shown works of art from the Middle Ages and Baroque.
Austrian Gallery Belvedere
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
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Fax +43 / (0) 1/79 84 337
Upper Belvedere
Collections of the 19th and 20th century
Prinz Eugen -Strasse 27 , A - 1037 Wien
Lower Belvedere
Baroque Museum, and Museum of Medieval Art
Rennweg 6a, A - 1030 Vienna