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Potato and onion storage is a difficult job. They are root vegetables and therefore grow underground. Potatoes are damaged during the mechanical harvest because they are removed from the ground with some 'violence'. And that's not all: both onions and potatoes are often very wet during the harvest.
The spillway of the Yaciretá dam
A spillway is a structure used to provide for the controlled release of flood flows from a dam into a downstream area, typically being the river that was dammed. Spillways release floods so that the water does not overtop and damage or even destroy the dam.
O vertedouro da usina de Yaciretá
Um vertedouro é uma estrutura usada para controlar a vazão de um reservatório para uma região a jusante, geralmente o rio que foi represado. O vertedouro libera uma vazão de maneira a que a água não ultrapasse, danifique ou até mesmo destrua a barragem.
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Heroes a side elevation view of the Taftsville Covered Bridge looking up the Ottauquechee River toward the dam. Note the bridge structure. This is reportedly unique in covered bridge design.
Watchtower in Nine Mile Canyon. This structure was built by Native Americans of the Fremont culture on ledge about 100 feet above the bottom of the canyon. BLM Nine Mile Canyon area. Duchesne Co., Utah.
Engineers working on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have successfully folded and packed its sunshield for its upcoming million-mile (roughly 1.5 million kilometer) journey, which begins later this year.
The sunshield — a five-layer, diamond-shaped structure the size of a tennis court — was specially engineered to fold up around the two sides of the telescope and fit within the confines of its launch vehicle, the Ariane 5 rocket. Now that folding has been completed at Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California, the sunshield will remain in this compact form through launch and the first few days the observatory will spend in space.
Designed to protect the telescope’s optics from any heat sources that could interfere with its sight, the sunshield is one of Webb’s most critical and complex components. Because Webb is an infrared telescope, its mirrors and sensors need to be kept at extremely cold temperatures to detect faint heat signals from distant objects in the universe.
Read the whole feature: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/nasa-s-webb-telescope-p...
This image: Both sides of the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield were lifted vertically in preparation for the folding of the sunshield layers.
Credits: NASA/Chris Gunn
Hidimbi Devi Temple, also known variously as the Hadimba Temple,is located in Manāli,a hill station in the State of Himāchal Pradesh in north India.It is an ancient cave temple dedicated to Hidimbi Devi, sister of Hidimba,who was a character in the Indian epic, Mahābhārata.The temple is surrounded by a cedar forest at the foot of the Himālayas. The sanctuary is built over a huge rock jutting out of the ground, which was worshiped as an image of the deity. The structure was built in 1553.
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The Hidimba Devi temple is built around a cave where Hidimba performed mediatation. Hidimba was supposed to live here with her brother Hidimb, and not much is known about their parents. Born in the Rakshas family, Hidimba vowed to marry one who would defeat her brother Hidimb, who was supposed to be very brave and fearless. During the Pandava's en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandava exile, when they visited Manali Bhima, one of the five Pandvas, killed Hidimb. Thus, Hidimba married Bhima, and gave birth to their son Ghatotkacha.
The Hidimbi Devi Temple has intricately carved wooden doors and a 24 meters tall wooden "shikhar" or tower above the sanctuary. The tower consists of three square roofs covered with timber tiles and a fourth brass cone-shaped roof at the top. The earth goddess Durga forms the theme of the main door carvings. The temple base is made out of whitewashed, mud-covered stonework. An enormous rock occupies the inside of the temple, only a 7.5 cm (3 inch) tall brass image representing goddess Hidimbi Devi. A rope hangs down in front of the rock,and according to a legend,in bygone days religious zealots would tie the hands of "sinners" by the rope and then swing them against the rock.
About 70 metres away from the temple,there is a shrine dedicated to Goddess Hidimbi's son, Ghatotkacha who was born after she married Bhima. The most surprising feature of the temple or what believers could call the most reassuring feature of the temple is the fact that inside the temple the imprint of the feet of the Goddess carved on a block of stone are worshipped and if you goto Google Satellite and zoom into the area where the temple is located, you can clearly see the imprint of a giant foot spanning across the valley in the area near the temple.
The Indian epic Mahabharata narrates that Pāndavas stayed in Himachal during their exile. In Manali, a strongest person named Hidimba,a brother of Hidimdi, attacked them, and in the ensuing fight,Bhima,the strongest Pandav, killed him. Bhima and Hidimba's sister, Hidimbi, then got married and had a son, Ghatotkacha, (who later proved to be a great warrior in the war against Kauravas).When Bhima and his brothers returned from exile, Hidimbi did not accompany him,but stayed back and did tapasyā (a combination of meditation, prayer, and penance) so as to eventually attain the status of a goddess.
Brick-built Victorian structure, I believe originally part of T.E.Dingwall's Timber Yard. Opened as Dingwalls Dancehall in 1973 and often thereafter has been a live music venue. London Borough of Camden.
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This tree structure was built for Yun Zi, Xiao Liwu's older brother. Mr Wu has taken to sitting here while he is on the look out for the keepers to bring his lunch or dinner.
Not sure what this one was. Great lighting coming from the right. Lot's of detail in these sand structures.
An Easter Sunday treat in the form of 37175 propelling the structure gauging train past Lea Marston.
The tractor was working 3Z01- 1000 Tonbridge West Yard to Derby R.T.C.(Network Rail).
Thanks to my little bro for the heads up ;)
One of the light structures in the centre of Bristol due to be illuminated from the 6th march www.facebook.com/BristolLightFestival
This is one small section of the internal trusses that I designed. Using all my shop class, bridge building knowledge to create two sets of roughly 6 feet of double sided trusses. I reused the 32mm pegs from the first failed modular design to connect all the centers together. It was a rather flimsy very bendable design, which made me doubt weather or not it was even going to do it's job in supporting the middle. But vertically it was super strong, just bent in all directions because the beams were not connected to one another. I figured that this problem would correct it self once it was connected to the super structure, and it did.
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The Villa Poppaea is an ancient Roman seaside villa (villa maritima) situated between Naples and Sorrento, in southern Italy. It is also referred to as the Villa Oplontis, or more precisely as Villa A by modern archaeologists. The villa itself is a large structure situated in the ancient Roman town of Oplontis (the modern Torre Annunziata), about ten meters below the modern ground level. Evidence suggests that it was owned by the Emperor Nero, and believed to have been used by his second and rather notorious wife, Poppaea Sabina, as her main residence when she was not in Rome.
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The Manali-Leh highway
One of the highest and most rugged highways in the world, the journey on the Manali - Leh highway is one that leaves the traveller gasping for breath on all accounts...dream like landscapes taking your breath away at almost every turn and sheer breathlessness from the lack of oxygen as you cross some of the highest roads and mountain passes in the world.
It connects the Manali valley to Kullu valley, Lahaul and Spiti and Ladakh and is open only between June and mid-September when snow is cleared from the road. Prominent passes that one crosses include Rohtang La (3,978m), Baralacha La (5,045m), Lachulung La (5,059m) and Tanglang La (5,325m). Between Lachlung La and Taglang La the road crosses the More plains, a vast desert like expanse at an altitude in excess of 4,500mts.
The journey along the road normally takes two days and many travellers make overnight stops at Jispa and tented camps such as Sarchu. Alternately, overnight stops can be made at Keylong. Owing to the high altitudes and the low-oxygen air, many travelers experience breathlessness, headaches and nausea or in some cases even acute mountain sickness.
The highway was designed, built, constructed and is maintained in its entirety by the Indian Army and is capable of supporting the heaviest of their vehicles. This journey is often referred to as the ultimate challenge for riding and off-roading enthusiansts and attracts bikers from all over the world.