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No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Nessuna battaglia può essere vinta senza che le donne partecipino al fianco degli uomini.
(Muhammad Ali Jinnah)
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Biology which has created humans has not succeeded until now. Humans suffer as I wrote before; there are many people in prisons, hospitals, mental health facilities, war zones, etc. The system helping us when we are in troubles is our brain, but not always functioning well. When it functions well, we are not in danger. Our brain is effected by our feelings. The system which helps us when we are in trouble makes us to land to a jail, hospital, etc. Our body doesn’t have luxury to have different systems in our brain for each case, using the same one for saving us and for bringing us in trouble. Our brain is not properly developed.
When we are in a regulated area, say we are doing some calculations, we do well if we know the rules in mathematics. We don’t do well when we are not in regulated area, no rules. In that case, we are effected by our feelings, we are on our own, there are no regulations to lead us out of troubles.
We have, according a research, ten main feelings; fear, anger, shame, contempt, disgust, guilt, distress, interest, surprise and joy. Overall, we have more than 3000 different feelings, these are the mixture of main feelings. More feelings may make us more sophisticated, but it can bring us in trouble too. It is difficult to handle a lot of different feelings. At some ages or/ and at some cases, we are harder hit from feelings, managing of our thoughts will be difficult with critical thinking. At some cases, we are just managed by our feelings, this is not good.
Biology has not succeeded until now, but we might do well millions of years later if we survive. We correct ourself. It looks like it is in that way for now, we have, somewhat, a healthier society in compare with previous centuries. We may get extinct after some years if changing body functions create a not healthy society.
While we get troubled by a big meteorite ( a giant space rock might hit us in the future ), we don’t look elsewhere. Our real enemy is, "maybe “, we are, changing humans, consequently our society.
This remarkable vehicle was for many years Stockton's only single-deck bus. Leyland surprised the market with the Olympic, its first underfloor-engined model. Not only was it of integral construction but the bodywork was by MCW rather than its own bodybuilding department.
Stockton Corporation possibly created as much surprise locally, not only by purchasing a single example of the new model but by specifying a rear entrance and front exit. Delivered in 1951, MPT 858 (fleet number 26) seated 41 passengers rather than the standard 44. It must have been difficult to judge the success of a single vehicle of such unconventional layout in a fleet that was otherwise made up entirely of traditional open-platform double-deckers. The only thing that we can be sure of is that it remained unique, although Stockton returned to the concept of dual door single-deckers in its twilight years - albeit with a front entrance and centre exit.
As far as the home market was concerned, the Olympic was soon succeeded in Leyland's catalogue by the Royal Tiger, marking a return to conventional body-on-chassis construction (16-Jan-10).
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Felix succeeded his brother, Jean-Baptiste, as commandant just before the United States took possession of Louisiana. You can find this house on the adjacent photo of the diorama in the visitor center.
This home is a state historic site and not part of the national historic site. It has been part of the national historic landmark since 1960, however.
Nutt succeeded her friend Arthur Lismer at the helm of the Victoria School of Art ( Now NSCAD University ) in 1919, a post she held for twenty-five years. The support she gave to women artists was instrumental in the development of the art of the region, while her ability to capture the distinctive light of Atlantic sea and sky secured her a special place in the art history of the Maritimes.
As winter sets in, our will bends a little; still, hats off to those who try, wether they succeed or not - La volonté s'effrite au cours de l'hiver; J'admire tous ceux qui essaient, qu'ils persistent ou non
Nope, I don't have a super-large telescope at home for observing the galaxies - not yet ;-)
So I have to help myself in the kitchen: It is an m&m's candy melting in water while being rotated (with a fidget-spinner and black surface below tha glass).
Two flashes flat from the side with a little soft-box each.
The m&m's has been removed in post (respectively swallowed by the black hole). The little bright dots are air bubbles which are enhanced with clarity.
It was an orange candy, I changed the color with white balance.
Actually I wanted to achieve an effect whith looks like a "Cyclone" (rhyming to "Stone" for Macro Mondays), but I didn't really succeed with that.
The fantastic phenomenon of "melting" m&m's can better be seen here, without rotation:
Sometimes you have to push yourself past that point when you feel like giving up. Often, when you think "It's over," "I'm finished," "There's no way," “It won’t work,” but you decide to hang in there anyway and give every last drop of your full potential, you are rewarded.
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One fine day in April, I got up before sunrise and went out with a specific plan to create an image of a certain subject. After many hours of hard work and effort, I did not succeed. I took a break during the harsh midday sun, and then went out again, at a different location, when the light got better. Again, after much trying, it seemed that I would not succeed.
Still, I refused to give up until I had given 110% effort on every possible opportunity. As the last minutes of light approached, and all seemed hopeless, a sudden turn of events resulted in "the stars aligning.” The light, the subject, and everything else, came together just right, and I gave my final push, physically and mentally, to obtain the image you see here.
I'd like to point out that, after 12 hours of physically and mentally exhausting effort, at two locations, when all seemed hopeless, I used my last reserves of patience and physical energy to push myself to 110% effort, at which point I was finally rewarded with a few awesome images.
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Nippori was a fantastic area that my wife wanted to go to to get some cool fabrics. She succeeded in her goal and I found some fun shots. I saw this cute little scene and it was perfect. I had to take this photo. The yellow car and street colors were perfect and I wanted to see how it looked on E100. I have to say, I love how the yellow pops on this film, even more than any other color I feel.
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succeeded at last !!!
It is best to discard the fruit as well as the sprouted seeds. The sprouts of tomato seeds are toxic, so you should not eat the fruit. And since tomatoes purchased at the grocery are likely to be hybrid in origin, the plants grown from their seeds would be of unpredictable quality.
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Dusk Silhouette Shot of a Man doing Fishing as Hobby at dusk against Rough Tides near Cherai Beach,Cochin.Fishing as Hobby is common among People of Cochin as they stand in Rocks along the Sea shore and having their time of life.
I was looking for butterflies on some of my flowers on my deck yesterday when I spotted this Chalcicoid wasp making all sorts of weird gyrations. After taking several pictures and doing some googling, seems she was try to lay some eggs! I don't think she succeeded because I didn't see her drilling a hole in the mason bee nest. Maybe she just didn't like having her picture taken during such a private moment.....Lol I have flipped the pictures in this series to make it a little easier to see what's going on. Note the ovipositor sticking up on her behind.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Per quanto difficile possa sembrare la vita, c’è sempre qualcosa che puoi fare e avere successo.
(Stephen Hawking)
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If at first you don't succeed...
As I mentioned yesterday, I wasn't satisfied with the look of my first tulip and mist picture. Here is my second attempt. I am much happier with the overall look of this one.
Setup Info: Basically the same setup as yesterday's shot, except I moved the camera back and I changed out the blue gels for a single green gel. For lighting, you have an SB-600 flash through a 24"x24" softbox camera left and high lighting the flower. For the background, you have empty space behind the flower to create a "black" environment. Then, I placed an SB-600 flash with a green gel on it on the floor pointed straight up. Standing on a ladder to camera right, I sprayed a mist of water into the air before the shot and then hit the remote, which lit the water mist with green light. I took a setup shot that I'll post this afternoon.
Here's the setup shot: www.flickr.com/photos/lighthack/4521773160/
As Olga noticed, I did go with a "mirror" effect mirroring the image horizontally. It looked fine without doing this, but doing the mirror effect, with it's symmetry, really finished off the image for me. Other than the mirror, this is close to being straight out of the camera -- the lights really did the work on this one.
One of my favorite details in this image is the refraction of the light through the bottom "bulb" portion of the vase.
Detailed macro photograph of cutting a millimetre small mustard seed with a small sharp scalpel blade.
“cut the mustard” This expression meaning “to succeed; to come up to expectations; reach the required standard”
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Something was out of control.
Don't rejoice for future views, I intervened it.
One last/or latest post.
All the best.
Not many things can succeed in defying gravity for very long. For some of us who are bad at it. There is a place to go when physics wins.
Znamensky Monastery, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia.
The Znamensky Monastery in Irkutsk dates from 1689 and was built by Vlas Sidorov. It was originally built of wood, which led to its deterioration over time, requiring some major reconstruction. For five years its congregation struggled to pick up the stone work and succeeded in 1772. Since then, to the Znamensky Monastery were added the cells of the Saints Apostles of Trifon and Dimitrios, the Kazan and the Transfiguration chapel, gradually reaching the for of the wonderful sacred assembly that we can admire today.
I tried to convey a feeling of drama in this image--I'm not sure if I succeeded (?) I was a little torn between the vast colour shift between the rushing water and the sky but decided to upload regardless and try and get some input/constructive comments on the overall presentation.
At the end of the day, almost every image I create has great meaning to me. But, I’m not in this just for myself. I desire to speak for those who feel they don’t have a voice, to empower those who choose not to speak yet, and to relate to people no matter how distant or different. I am an introvert, ridden with anxiety and fairly anti-social. Art is my way of connecting. It is my way of skipping the cheap talk to get to what matters most; to have conversations with people that mean something. To look back and know that I spent my time trying. Not necessarily succeeding, but who cares about that, anyway?
My life will not be defined by if I succeeded, but by if I tried. This is me trying, reaching out to you and showing you who I am; not the more superficial version of myself that you might bump into on the street, who says “how are you” but really wants to ask “what is your passion?”, but the one who dives straight into those questions without worry.
Are you trapped?
Are you being torn apart?
Are you being held together?
Those are the questions I desire to know answers to, so this is my art, asking those questions.
December 21, 2015
"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves." - Andre Gide
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It's been a very busy and jam packed sort of day so I didn't have a lot of time for photos or Flickr.
It's to be expected this time of year I suppose.
But Nard and I got together and went for "Christmas" sushi, then exchanged gifts. He and Jo got me some delicious chocolates and a 1.8 ND filter for my primary lens! I'm so excited to hit the woods and try that out!
One of Nard's gifts was this little Doc Brown figurine, and of course being cramped for time, I borrowed the Doc for a minute to get a festive shot in!
Anyway, hope everyone has had a good day. If I don't get a chance to visit your stream or return a comment this evening, have no fear, tomorrow is a brand new day.
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G'day everyone, I'm finished! I'm succeeded on a beautiful 1 bedroom, 2 lounge, 1 bathroom, 1 kitchen home. A fierce, Modern* & masculine Interior incorporating solid wooden trims, natural grain cemented brick walls, steel beam supports around the Exterior, surrounded by nature on the edge of an island! - More photo's to come soon!
I appreciate it so much that you've really given me this opportunity, I'm so grateful - Thank you Todd & Mikey, I'm just absolutely astonished with the credibility from the very beginning of the first rock foundation, and building up a home, I am just lost for words I can't see the keyboard, I've been balling my eyes out majority of this journey, my eyes are stinging! lol
It just means so much to me, to make people smile & get the best quality homes, exteriors & interiors that they possibly can, to makes someone's day is enough ♥
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The first instalment from my recent trip to Venice.
When I visited Venice last year before hosting a workshop with Rohan, the weather gods were not my friend. This has probably been mentioned on more than once in my previous posts (of probably all my images to be fair) so it gave me the opportunity to scout around looking for subjects to shoot and I found this spot on Giudecca.
When Rohan arrived, he seemed to bring the aforementioned weather gods with him for the duration of the workshop and then when I got the opportunity to shoot again for myself, they fled (I think the moral of the story is... go with Rohan ;-)
Suffice to say, I didn't come away with the shot I was looking for despite visiting this location probably 5 times alone last year and thankfully only once this year.
However, my plans for this year for Venice were different. The plan was to go back and shoot Venice itself rather than a continuation of my minimal work, but my intentions were short lived as the visibility was shocking, therefore, I re-visited some already covered ground to see if I could succeed where I'd failed before.
To turn a negative in to a positive, when I arrived here the conditions were exactly what I had been wanting from this location the year before. The tide was perfect, the light was good and there was just enough fog to provide good clarity, but mask the land in the distance.
Just to make sure I didn't walk away from this location for the 6th time empty handed, I shot this at: 24mm, 35mm, 45mm and 70mm... as I knew from my previous encounters it was a difficult one to compose because of some foreground that had no place in the image.
This image is the 35mm version, which is a 3 shot stitched image taken as portrait images on my 17-40mm. Normally I provide the EXIF data at the bottom of my posts, but although I know this was 77s with the LEE Big Stopper, that's about as far as it goes, I was working fast and was changing grads left, right and centre.
As for the title, these posts actually mark where the telephone lines go, but they remind me of, "matchstick men" and seeing as there is a, "little family" of them I thought, "Kin" was quite suitable.
The Penguins have succeeded in finding the secrets of flight! The Penguin Viper is a Multi-role aircraft for the nation that is capable of full air superiority. The two man and one penguin fitter hosts two devastating missiles and four wing mounted cannons, not to mention the penguin turret. Two retractable landing gear are also provided with hatches. The main wings of the fighter can fold at the ends and air flaps are situated behind the main wings. Three robust engine are equipped to gain superiority over other aircraft.
I had a lot of fun building this one. The whole model ended up twice as long as I originally intended, but I think it turned out really well!
If you want to see more penguin builds, click here:
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I’ve scared myself into starting a 365.
I have the biggest worry of not actually succeeding.
But, I’ll try my best.
I have a fear that my pictures will become chaotic and meaningless.
But, I’ll try my hardest.
I have a fear that the lack of time I have, and the added pressure this gives will diminish anything I try to do.
And, I hope that that won’t happen.
And, with that, I will try.
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And, this picture traumatized me because of all the mosquitos that ate my body. They were nearly a blanket covering me and I actually had to edit them all out because they were distracting. But, the fact that I had to stay completely still for the picture while I let them eat me is what disgruntled me the most. :\
Bare trees shrouded in fog stand in a field of dried grass.
Just reading these words quickly creates a dreary and gloomy autumn vision.
But we haven't taken a teammate into account yet. A powerful player, the sun, which suddenly transforms this scene into a magical golden landscape.
There are often only a few aspects in life that turn a problem into a challenge or a setback into an opportunity for further development.
The difference is sometimes marginal (and is often just a matter of how we think about ourselves), but the effect it has on us is even greater.
The only question is whether we can see these small but crucial aspects, whether we even want to see them.
I too sometimes only manage to do this with some distance and sometimes not at all. But I have learned that every time I succeed, I take a big step forward.
This experience gives me the energy and conviction I need to at least try again and again.
Kahle Bäume in Nebel gehüllt stehen auf einem Feld aus vertrocknetem Gras.
Wenn man nur diese Worte liest entsteht ganz schnell eine triste und düstere Herbst Vision.
Doch da haben wir einen Mitspieler noch nicht mit einberechnet. Einen mächtigen Mitspieler, die Sonne, welche diese Szene mit einem mal in eine magisch goldene Landschaft verwandelt.
Häufig sind es auch im Leben nur wenige Aspekte, die ein Problem zu einer Herausforderung oder einen Rückschlag zu einer Chance zur Weiterentwicklung werden lassen.
Der Unterschied ist manchmal marginal (und liegt häufig nur darin begründet, wie wir über uns selbst denken), die Wirkung, die es in uns auslöst ist dafür um so größer.
Die Frage ist eben nur, ob wir diese kleinen aber entscheidenden Aspekte sehen können, ob wir sie überhaupt sehen wollen.
Auch mir gelingt dies manchmal nur mit etwas Abstand und manchmal auch garnicht. Doch ich habe gelernt, dass es mich jedes Mal, wenn es mir gelingt um einen großen Schritt nach vorne bewege.
Diese Erfahrung gibt mir die nötige Energie und Überzeugung es zumindest immer wieder zu versuchen.
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Nutt succeeded her friend Arthur Lismer at the helm of the Victoria School of Art ( Now NSCAD University ) in 1919, a post she held for twenty-five years. The support she gave to women artists was instrumental in the development of the art of the region, while her ability to capture the distinctive light of Atlantic sea and sky secured her a special place in the art history of the Maritimes.
Tweaked it a bit with sharpening.
Friday night's Quarter Moon. The luminosity was a bit dim. But succeeded to capture some detail.
Real Name: Richard Grayson
Occupation: Hero
Gender: Male
Height: 5'10
Weight: 175lbs (79kg)
Dick Grayson is a vigilante in the Batman Family and the original hero known as Robin. Eventually, he outgrew this position and was inspired by Superman to become Nightwing, while Jason Todd and Tim Drake succeeded him as Robin.
I'd love to hear what you think.
Not a wet paeony :)
What is reality? Is it an image? A reflection of an image? Or is it what we see?
Well... no to all of these. So the question remains an intriguing one. And the more I read about human perception the more intriguing it becomes: our minds don't see what our eyes do…
(And if, perchance, you find your curiosity piqued, ask yourself the question why are tiger and zebra stripes vertical and not horizontal. It’s not an accident and nor a creative whim, and the answer is relevant to photography too….)
This is for the Smile on Saturday group’s Reflection on Black theme.
It’s a visual tease of course. There are three questions in the puzzle:
What is it?
Which way is what?
Where’s the mirror?
All easy to answer, but if your eyes pause even for a moment as they work it out I will feel I have succeeded in my objective.
Curiously, for me, I found it much more obvious looking at the thumbnail than at the full-screen version. And that itself is a comment on our perception I think....
I read somewhere, and it’s true for me, that a photograph that takes the mind a little while to work out generally will be perceived as a more interesting one. And that is why we find record shots and clichéd images less engaging than the creative ones - sometimes just changing the viewpoint makes capture interesting (we all take our images at head height don’t we lol.)
This is part of a set I took 18 months ago, though I only processed this particular perspective today. If you want confirmation of what it is you can rummage through my photostream to find out...
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Smile on Saturday :)
[Tripod mount; delayed-release. Black background on black glazed ceramic tile, side-lit with LED torch.
Processed in Capture One using levels to make things blacker and then balancing the light to give some detail in the reflection. Enhanceds colours, particularly the blue and the orange. Because I like them :)
Used a gradient masked layer to brighten the reflection part to decrease the disparity in lightness against the source.
Nik Color Efex Pro for a Classic Soft Focus effect to introduce a glow to the highlights. This was a bit over the top so I blended the effect layer back into the original using Darken mode.
Flipped vertically. For fun.
Then we were done :)]
A whiteblade devoted to healing, Kiyoshi strives to secure peace in the kingdom. To serve the realm, he makes concessions to the lords, surrendering much of the blades' power. When he sentences a nightblade to death at a lord's request over a simple misunderstanding, the Council of Blades sends a nightblade to monitor him.
As the king’s health deteriorates, Kiyoshi struggles to save his closest friend and prevent the kingdom from descending into chaos. Will he succeed, or will his efforts unravel everything?"
Nightblade's Vengeance (Blades of the Fallen Book 1) by Ryan Kirk
She looked so shy and fragile ... but I succeeded to interview her about the history of the village.
- Experiment did not succeed 100%
- I tried to take a photo studio to be factually
- I worked about 3 hours
- I have not completed because the difficulty of dealing with birds
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Aperture f/2.2
SS 1/250
2 Flashes
Workshop
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1958 Pontiac Star Chief Golden Jubilee.
1958 was General Motors 50th Anniversary, called the "Golden Milestone."
The '58 GM cars were dubbed "The Golden Jubilee." GM, the world's largest industrial corporation, had succeeded in eliminating much of its weaker competition with such important names as Packard, Hudson, and Nash either gone or fading fast by 1958. 1955 had been a record year for all automobile manufacturers, and '58 would likely be another big year when those three year old 55's were traded in for Detroit's latest fashion statements. GM was ready in 1958 to offer eager customers the most outlandish creations their stylists could envision.
The first Mughal Emperor, Babur, was succeeded by his son, Humayun, who ruled in India for a decade but was expelled. Eventually he took refuge with the Safavid shah of Persia, who helped him regain Delhi in 1555, the year before his death. Humayun's Persian wife, Hamida Begum, supervised the construction from 1562-1572 of her husband's tomb in Delhi. The architect, Mirak Mirza Ghiyuath, was Persian and had previously designed buildings in Herat (now northwest Afghanistan), Bukhara (now Uzbekistan), and elsewhere in India. The location chosen for the building on the bank of the Yamuna river adjoins the shrine of an important Sufi Chistiyya order saint, Nizam al-Din Awliya. The Chistiyya was particularly venerated by the Mughals; Humayun's son, Akbar, would build his new palace at Fatehpur Sikri next to the shrine of another saint of the Chistiyya order.
The tomb established some of the important norms for later Mughal mausolea. It is set in a geometrically arranged garden criscrossed by numerous water channels and probably representing symbolically a paradise setting. Such typical Persian gardens had been introduced into India by Babur; later they would be found in the Red Fort in Delhi and at the Taj Mahal in Agra. The architectural form of the building is Persian and especially in its main chamber shows some familiarity with the tomb of the Mongol Ilkhanid ruler of Persia, Oljeytu, at Sultaniyya. It is one of a long line of Mughal buildings influenced by Timurid architecture, notably the tomb of Timur (Tamerlane) in Samarkand. Babur was proud of his Timurid heritage and deeply regretted his inability to hold Samarkand. His successors continued to dream of regaining Samarkand and would interrogate visitors about Timur's tomb. Humayun's tomb is the first Indian building to use the Persian double dome; it is noteworthy for its harmonious proportions. As with later Mughal tombs, that of Humayun is set upon a podium or platform (see another example in the Taj Mahal). The most obvious Indian features of the architecture are the small kiosks or chhatris on the roof. The building is also noteworthy for its inlaid tile work, carving embodying both Indian and Persian decorative elements, and its carved stone screens.
This tomb, built in 1570, is of particular cultural significance as it was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent. It inspired several major architectural innovations, culminating in the construction of the Taj Mahal.
Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi is the first of the grand dynastic mausoleums that were to become synonyms of Mughal architecture with the architectural style reaching its zenith 80 years later at the later Taj Mahal. Humayun’s Tomb stands within a complex of 21.60 ha. that includes other contemporary, 16th century Mughal garden-tombs such as Nila Gumbad, Isa Khan, Bu Halima, Afsarwala, Barber’s Tomb and the complex where the craftsmen employed for the Building of Humayun’s Tomb stayed, the Arab Serai.
Humayun’s Tomb was built in the 1560’s, with the patronage of Humayun’s son, the great Emperor Akbar. Persian and Indian craftsmen worked together to build the garden-tomb, far grander than any tomb built before in the Islamic world. Humayun’s garden-tomb is an example of the charbagh (a four quadrant garden with the four rivers of Quranic paradise represented), with pools joined by channels. The garden is entered from lofty gateways on the south and from the west with pavilions located in the centre of the eastern and northern walls.
The mausoleum itself stands on a high, wide terraced platform with two bay deep vaulted cells on all four sides. It has an irregular octagon plan with four long sides and chamfered edges. It is surmounted by a 42.5 m high double dome clad with marble flanked by pillared kiosks (chhatris) and the domes of the central chhatris are adorned with glazed ceramic tiles. The middle of each side is deeply recessed by large arched vaults with a series of smaller ones set into the facade.
The interior is a large octagonal chamber with vaulted roof compartments interconnected by galleries or corridors. This octagonal plan is repeated on the second storey. The structure is of dressed stone clad in red sandstone with white and black inlaid marble borders.
Humayun’s garden-tomb is also called the ‘dormitory of the Mughals’ as in the cells are buried over 150 Mughal family members.
The tomb stands in an extremely significant archaeological setting, centred at the Shrine of the 14th century Sufi Saint, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya. Since it is considered auspicious to be buried near a saint’s grave, seven centuries of tomb building has led to the area becoming the densest ensemble of medieval Islamic buildings in India.
Irlanda - Blarney - Castillo
ENGLISH:
Blarney Castle is a medieval stronghold in Blarney, near Cork, Ireland, and the River Martin. Though earlier fortifications were built on the same spot, the current keep was built by the MacCarthy of Muskerry dynasty, a cadet branch of the Kings of Desmond, and dates from 1446. The Blarney Stone is among the machicolations of the castle.
The castle originally dates from before 1200, when a timber house was believed to have been built on the site, although no evidence remains of this. Around 1210 this was replaced by a stone fortification. It was destroyed in 1446, but subsequently rebuilt by Cormac Laidir MacCarthy, Lord of Muscry, who also built castles at Kilcrea and Carrignamuck.
The castle was besieged during the Irish Confederate Wars and was seized in 1646 by Parliamentarian forces under Lord Broghill. However, after the Restoration the castle was restored to Donough MacCarty, who was made 1st Earl of Clancarty.
During the Williamite War in Ireland in the 1690s, the then 4th Earl of Clancarty (also named Donough MacCarty) was captured and his lands (including Blarney Castle) were confiscated by the Williamites.
The castle was sold and changed hands a number of times — Sir Richard Pyne, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, owned it briefly — before being purchased in the early 1700s by Sir James St John Jefferyes, then governor of Cork City.
Members of the Jefferyes family would later build a mansion near the keep. This house was destroyed by fire, and in 1874 a replacement baronial mansion, known as Blarney House, was built overlooking the nearby lake.
In the mid 19th century the Jefferyes and Colthurst families were joined by marriage, and the Colthurst family still occupy the demesne. In May 2008, the present estate owner, Sir Charles St John Colthurst, Baronet, succeeded in a court action to eject a man who had lived on his land for 44 years. The man's great-grandfather had been the first to occupy the estate cottage.
The castle is now a partial ruin with some accessible rooms and battlements. At the top of the castle lies the Stone of Eloquence, better known as the Blarney Stone. Tourists visiting Blarney Castle may hang upside-down over a sheer drop to kiss the stone, which is said to give the gift of eloquence. There are many versions of the origin of the stone, including a claim that it was the Lia Fáil — a numinous stone upon which Irish kings were crowned.
Surrounding the castle are extensive gardens. There are paths touring the grounds with signs pointing out the various attractions such as several natural rock formations with fanciful names such as Druid's Circle, Witch's Cave and the Wishing Steps. The grounds include a poison garden with a number of poisonous plants, including wolfsbane, mandrake, ricin and opium, as well as cannabis. Blarney House, also open to the public and within the estate grounds, is a Scottish baronial-style mansion that was built in 1874.
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El castillo de Blarney es una fortaleza medieval situada en la localidad de Blarney, cerca de Cork, en Irlanda. En la ribera del río Martin.
El castillo fue fundado a principios del siglo XIII, destruido en 1446, y posteriormente reconstruido por Dermot McCarthy, rey de Munster. Está parcialmente destruido quedando la torre del homenaje y algunas habitaciones. En la parte superior de se encuentra la piedra de la elocuencia o piedra de Blarney. Los visitantes deben besar la piedra por la parte de abajo estando suspendido en el vacío y obtendrán el don de la elocuencia.
Rodeando el castillo se encuentran los jardines que contienen diferentes puntos interesantes como Druid's Circle, Witch's Cave y las Wishing Steps. En los alrededores se encuentra la Blarney House, una mansión reformada en 1874 en estilo señorial escocés residencia de la familia Colthurst desde el siglo XV.
The first phase of the ambush had succeeded - Albornian forces were forced to retreat from the swamps down the forest path and attempted to find a way around the muddy obstacle. Their attempt, however, was futile. No sooner had they emerged from the swamp then they were met by another force of our soldiers, pushing them back to the border.
The element of surprise and our knowledge of the terrain really made a large difference - if not for those two factors, I'm sure our casualties would have been much larger.
I was stationed with the other archers, who were to stand at a distance from the thick of the battle and pick off Albornian soldiers. I would have much rather been stationed as a Caeliadon rider, but I suppose with little to none experience on riding the winged animals was, I was not the best candidate for that position. Dalayor was to be paired with a rather hostile elf under the name of Kiirion Fensys - I couldn't help but think that he would have been safer in the hands of someone who didn't scare young cadets for fun.
Once the battle had begun, I became aware of just how important archers could be in a battle. Whenever I spotted someone in immediate danger I would single out his attacker and do my best to help him out.
After about 15 minutes of the battle I heard someone call;
"Cowards!"
I turned to see an Albornian soldier who had snuck behind our lines. I raised my bow to shoot him, but as I did he whipped out his sword and challenged me to a duel.
I accepted and brandished my dirk. The soldier was not very skilled and I soon dispatched of him. Once I had finished dueling him I noticed my garrison had moved on. With any luck, we'll have pushed Alborne back to the border by now.
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As well he should: in a few short weeks, he nearly succeeded in bringing the Empire back from the depths Commodus had plunged it.
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