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Originally built in 1855, this structure is one of the oldest houses in Riley County. It was relocated to the grounds of the Riley County Historical Museum in 1974 by the Riley County Historical Society. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019. It stands at 2309 Claflin Road.
The Hartford House is a pre-cut wood-frame house that was salvaged and reconstructed. The house is one of ten prefabricated homes made by Hinkle, Guild and Co. of Cincinnati that accompanied settlers of that city on their trip west to establish a new frontier town. As the city of Manhattan developed, the single-pen one-room house was permanently located at 523 Colorado Street and ultimately enveloped inside a larger two-story home. When that house was scheduled for demolition in 1971, the former additions were painstakingly removed and the original pre-cut house disassembled and stored.
Manhattan, Kansas is the seat of Riley County and home to Kansas State University. It is situated at the junction of the Big Blue and Kansas rivers in a scenic portion of the Flint Hills in the northeast of the state.
External support structure for a large fuel tank that changes size based on how full it is. Guess it was empty that day =)
edit: This no longer exists. To my surprise, it was torn down two weeks after this photo was taken.
Impact breccia in the Precambrian of Ontario, Canada.
This outcrop consists of a clast-rich impact pseudotachylite. This is the Sudbury Breccia, which formed during one of the largest impact events in Earth history. The Sudbury Impact Structure is located in southeastern Ontario. It is ovoid in shape, about 37 miles long by 19 miles wide, but it was originally ~circular, having been laterally compressed by tectonic deformation. Before erosion and structural deformation, the structure may have been between 60 and 120 miles across. The impacting object is estimated to have been about 6 miles in size. The impact event itself occurred at 1.85 billion years ago. At that time, this part of Ontario was ocean. Computer modeling indicates that the splash wave generated by the Sudbury Impact may have reached about 30 miles high and generated a ~300 feet high megatsunami that radiated away from the target area for up to ~1800 miles. The impact punched a hole down into underlying mantle rocks.
Abundant evidence indicates that the Sudbury, Ontario area was indeed the site of an impact long ago. This includes impact breccias, shattercones, and extensive syn-formational sulfide mineralization. The sulfides are rich enough for mining to occur. In fact, the Sudbury Mining District targets the # 1 most productive nickel deposit on Earth.
At this outcrop, the clasts in the Sudbury Breccia are principally pieces of Cartier Granite and gneiss. The Cartier Granite is a 2.6 billion year old igneous intrusion. The dark-colored matrix is cryptocrystalline impact pseudotachylite, which formed by melting and rapid cooling.
Geologic unit: Sudbury Breccia, Paleoproterozoic, 1.85 Ga
Locality: Windy Lake Northwest outcrop - roadcut on the western side of Route 144, northwest of the “town” of Windy Lake, Sudbury Impact Structure, Ontario, southeastern Canada (46° 39’ 46.91" North latitude, 81° 31’ 21.22" West longitude)
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The radar tower on Mount Umunhum is an important artifact of Cold War history, as well as a familiar landmark on the skyline of the southern San Francisco Bay Area.
I took this photo in August 2002 during a tour of the tower with a ranger who has since retired from the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD). This photo shows electric power switching equipment as it looked inside the tower at that time.
The tower is the largest structure built for the former Almaden Air Force Station (AFS) on Mount Umunhum, south of San Jose, California. Built from reinforced concrete, the tower is 84.5 foot (25.8 m) tall. Almaden AFS was operated by the 682nd Radar Squadron, United States Air Force, from 1958 to 1980.
MROSD opened the summit to the public in 2017. The tower is sealed, and its interior is not accessible to visitors. For more information about the summit, see:
www.openspace.org/what-we-do/projects/mount-umunhum-summit
The tower was built to support a very large AN/FPS-24 search radar. This site was one of 12 similar installations built to detect potentially hostile aircraft approaching the United States during the Cold War. These radar sites were integrated into the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense system.
For a view of what this tower looked like when it was operational, see: flic.kr/p/ddnuKL
The tower is an important historic artifact. It serves as a monument to the Air Force personnel who served with vigilance at this site and others, and to all US military personnel who served and sacrificed throughout the Cold War.
Additional information about Mount Umunhum and the Almaden Air Force Station is available on Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Umunhum
AN/FPS-24 Radar (Wikipedia):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FPS-24_radar
SAGE Air Defense System (MIT Lincoln Laboratory):
come heither and start walking, this cylinder shall start revolving, but if you keep a hand on the wall of the building next to you, you should be fine... be careful that the goblins don't see you though, they are alseep in the rooms whose windows you can see. In the porthold is a guard though that will warn if you if he detects them walking up.
Exposed stitching is very pretty and could be decorated with beads or charms. This is a longstitch with kettle stitches at top and bottom.
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Former NC&StL Railway depot at Paris, TN remains in good shape in July of 2021 along the four blocks of street trackage in use under the operations of the Kentucky West Tennessee Railway. The tracks were originally part of the NC&StL’s line from Bruceton, TN to Paducah, KY.
Other title: Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli, Italy)
Date: 118-134
Current location: Tivoli, Italy
Description of work: Overview of Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli model. photo G. Vaux "The summer palace of the emperor Hadrian, built between ad 118 and 134 and situated on an elevated plateau south-west of Tivoli. Its unusual architecture and wealth of sculpture and mosaics have fascinated artists and scholars since the Renaissance." – Sear, Grove Art Online
Work type: Architecture and Landscape
Culture: Roman
Source: Society of Architectural Historians, Image Exchange (http://www.sah.org/imagex.html); Photographer: Vaux, G.
Resource type: image
File format: JPG
Image size: 294x600 pixels
Permitted uses: This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightssah.htm
Collection: Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename: 00675b.jpg
Record ID: WB3651
Sub collection: garden structures
gardens
Impact breccia (weathered surface) in the Precambrian of Ontario, Canada.
This outcrop consists of a clast-rich impact pseudotachylite. This is the Sudbury Breccia, which formed during one of the largest impact events in Earth history. The Sudbury Impact Structure is located in southeastern Ontario. It is ovoid in shape, about 37 miles long by 19 miles wide, but it was originally ~circular, having been laterally compressed by tectonic deformation. Before erosion and structural deformation, the structure may have been between 60 and 120 miles across. The impacting object is estimated to have been about 6 miles in size. The impact event itself occurred at 1.85 billion years ago. At that time, this part of Ontario was ocean. Computer modeling indicates that the splash wave generated by the Sudbury Impact may have reached about 30 miles high and generated a ~300 feet high megatsunami that radiated away from the target area for up to ~1800 miles. The impact punched a hole down into underlying mantle rocks.
Abundant evidence indicates that the Sudbury, Ontario area was indeed the site of an impact long ago. This includes impact breccias, shattercones, and extensive syn-formational sulfide mineralization. The sulfides are rich enough for mining to occur. In fact, the Sudbury Mining District targets the # 1 most productive nickel deposit on Earth.
At this outcrop, the clasts in the Sudbury Breccia are principally pieces of Cartier Granite and gneiss. The Cartier Granite is a 2.6 billion year old igneous intrusion. The dark-colored matrix is cryptocrystalline impact pseudotachylite, which formed by melting and rapid cooling.
Geologic unit: Sudbury Breccia, Paleoproterozoic, 1.85 Ga
Locality: Windy Lake Northwest outcrop - roadcut on the western side of Route 144, northwest of the “town” of Windy Lake, Sudbury Impact Structure, Ontario, southeastern Canada (46° 39’ 46.91" North latitude, 81° 31’ 21.22" West longitude)
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These bronze structures (There are 2 of them) "guard" the needle on either side. The bottom of this structure still contains damage that was sustained during the aerial raids of WWI. Each sphinx bears the hieroglyphic inscription 'is netjer nefer men-kheper-re di ankh' [ the good god, Thuthmosis III given life ] (Feb 3, 2007)
On Scene with the Bridgeport Fire Department with a structure fire at 88 Horace St. Crews were called for a fire in the upper floors of a 2.5 story OMD. The first due engine and truck found the second floor and attic well involved with heavy fire coming out of the second floor porch. A special call was put in for addional engines and the safety officer due to the extent of the fire and the summer heat. The fire was knocked down in about 30 minutes but the structure required extensive overhaul to be sure all of the fire was extinguished. Representatives of the City's Fire Investigation Unit responded to process the scene and interview any and all witnesses to the fire. Though several families and thier pets were displaced no injuries were reported as a result of this fire.
The zip on my coat that's managed to keep me warm this winter, it's presumably not supposed to be that silver colour and is actually just brass that is coated for looks.
Shot using my Sigma 30mm f/1.4 attached to my Canon 400D backwards using a cheap filter converter (it screws into the filter thread on the front of the lens).
Focus was set to infinity, and was lighted using the on board flash; which didn't go so bad!