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A giant leap from my five year old Nikon D300 to my brand new Nikon D600. I am happy I made the move to full frame.
Come to my show! New Drawings. Opens this Thursday, April 8th, 8:00pm.
Allied Works, 15th and SW Morrison.
Body of a Woman
Body of woman, white hills, white thighs,
you look yourself like a world in your attitude of surrender.
My rough peasant's body digs in you
and makes the son leap from the depths of the earth.
I was alone like a tunnel. The birds fled from me
and the night enveloped me with its crushing invasion.
To survive myself I forged to you like a weapon,
like an arrow in my bow, like a stone in my sling.
But the hour of vengeance falls, and I love you.
Body of skin, of moss, of eager and firm milk.
Ah those goblets of the chest! Ah those eyes of absence!
Ah the roses of the pubis! Ah your voice slow and sad!
Body of my woman, I will persist in your grace.
My thirst, my unbounded desire, my uncertain road!
Dark river-beds where the eternal thirst follows,
and tiredness follows, and the infinite ache.
~Pablo Neruda~
"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them."
-Franz Marc
Elizabeth O'Farrell was an Irish nurse and member of Cumann na mBan, best known for delivering the surrender in the Easter Rising of 1916.
O'Farrell acted as a dispatcher before and during the Rising, delivering bulletins and instructions to the rebel outposts around Dublin. She was one of three women, including Winifred Carney, who remained in the G.P.O. until the end of the Rising. Along with her lifelong friend and fellow nurse, Julia Grenan, she cared for the wounded including James Connolly. At 12.45 pm on Saturday 29 April O'Farrell was handed a Red Cross insignia and a white flag and asked to deliver the surrender to the British military. She emerged into heavy fire on Moore Street which abated when her white flag was recognised.
O'Farrell was taken to Brigadier General W. H. M. Lowe who sent her back to Pearse at number 16 Moore Street with a demand for unconditional surrender. Pearse agreed and, accompanied by O'Farrell, surrendered in person to General Lowe. Though partly obscured by Pearse, she may be seen in a press photograph taken at the moment of the surrender. The apparent removal of her figure in many subsequent versions of the photograph has given rise to much speculation.
Accompanied by a priest and three soldiers she brought the order to surrender to the insurgent positions throughout the city.
O’Farrell spent several months in prison after the Rising. General Lowe petitioned that clemency be shown towards her for "great assistance" she had given in managing the final hours of the Rising.
She died in Fatima House in Bray, Co. Wicklow on 25 June 1957. She remained active in Republican politics until her death and she is buried in the Republican Plot in Glasnevin Cemetery alongside Julia Grenan.
In 1967 the Nurse Elizabeth O'Farrell Foundation was established resulting in the unveiling of a memorial plaque in Holles Street Hospital and a foundation to support postgraduate studies in the field of nursing. In 2003 a further plaque was unveiled in City Quay Park.
She has been depicted in several plays and TV dramas, including RTE's Insurrection. She was, however, omitted from Neil Jordan's Michael Collins where the surrender is delivered by a man.
Surrender yourself to more than you can SEE
Surrender yourself to more than you can TOUCH
Surrender yourself to more than you
can SMELL
Surrender yourself to more than you can TASTE
Surrender yourself to more than you can HEAR
Surrender yourself to GOD
General Grant National Memorial, better known as Grant's Tomb, dramatically situated at the north end of Riverside Park at 122nd Street, is a mausoleum containing the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant(April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885), an American Civil War General and the 18th President of the United States, and his wife, Julia Dent Grant (1826–1902).
Ohio-born Hiram Ulysses Grant, trained at West Point, served in the Mexican-American War as a Lieutenant before achieiving fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. He first reached national prominence by by taking Forts Henry and Donelson in 1862--the first Union victories. The following year, his campaign ending in the surrender of Vicksburg secured control of the Mississippi and, with the victory at Gettysburg, turned the tide of the war. Named commanding general of the Federal armies in 1864, he accepted the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House in 1865.
Grant was elected president in 1868 and became the first to serve two full terms since Andrew Jackson. Leading Radical Reconstruction, he built a powerful patronage-based Republican party in the South, with the adroit use of the army. He took a hard line that reduced violence by groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
Unsuccessful in winning a third term in 1880, and bankrupted by bad investments, Grant found haven in New York before falling terminally ill with throat cancer. He was honored with a large funeral parade, stretching seven miles and including 60,000 marchers before his remains were were entombed in a temporary vault in the park. The granite and marble structure, the second largest mausoleum in the western hemisphere, was dedicated on Grant's 75th birthday, April 27, 1897. Julia Grant died on December 14, 1902 and her remains were interred beside her husband in a twin sarcophagus.
Architect John Duncan based his neoclassical design on one of the seven wonders of the world, the tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus. The monument is adorned by Doric columns on the lower level and a cupola above. It rises 150 feet above the ground and over 280 feet above the banks of the Hudson River. On the facade is the epitaph, "LET US HAVE PEACE"--a quote taken from Grant's acceptance of the Republican nomination. Allegorical figures probably representing Victory and Peace, sculpted by J. Massey Rhind, are depicted on either side of the sign.
The interior is largely made of Carrara and Lee marble. Inside a ground-level, circular crypt are two sarcophagi, made of red granite from Montello,
Wisconsin and weighing 8½ tons each, are placed inside a circular crypt at ground level. A path around the crypt contains busts of five of Grant's lieutenants (William Tecumseh Sherman, George Henry Thomas, Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Philip Henry Sheridan, and James Birdseye McPherson), which were added in 1938 as part of a WPA project.
On the four pendentives in the interior are relief sculptures, also by Rhind, with allegorical representation's of Grant's birth, Military Life, Civilian Life, and Death. In 1966, Allyn Cox's mosaic murals, portraying scenes from three of Grant's greatest campaign, were added to three lunettes inside Grant's Tomb. The Tomb also contains two reliquary rooms with murals by Dean Fausett featuring classical themes as well as maps depicting the theater of the Civil War. Locations of battles are indicated by crossed sabers. Grant's battles are indicated with a star. In the center of the reliquary room are bronze trophy cases containing replicas of Civil War battle flags.
In its early days, the Tomb's annual visitation often exceeded 500,000. In 1928, architect John Russell Pope proposed a number of developments at Grant's Tomb, but the Great Depression hinder such projects. During the 1950's, the Grant Monument Association transfered control over Grant's Tomb to the federal government. The National Park Service took over the site in 1959 and officially named the monument the General Grant National Memorial.
The 1960's and 1970's saw mismanagement by the NPS. The monument was scarred by vandalism. and many artifacts were either disposed of intentionally or otherwise lost. In 1972, the NPS spent government funds on the construction of abstract mosaic benches, which have been widely criticized for having little to do with the monument and for detracting from its architectural and aesthetic character. Into the 80's, the complex became a desolate hangout for drug dealers and homeless. In the late 90's funding was secured for a thorough renovation.
Grant's Tomb (interior and exterior) was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1975.
National Register #66000055 (1966)
“'Was there one thing in particular that caused you to lose your faith in God?' I asked at the outset.
He thought for a moment. 'It was a photograph in Life magazine,' he said finally.
'Really?' I said. 'A photograph? How so?'
He narrowed his eyes a bit and looked off to the side, as if he were viewing the photo afresh and reliving the moment. 'It was a picture of a black woman in Northern Africa,' he explained. 'They were experiencing a devastating drought. And she was holding her dead baby in her arms and looking up to heaven with the most forlorn expression. I looked at it and I thought, “Is it possible to believe that there is a loving or caring Creator when all this woman needed was rain?”'
As he emphasized the word rain, his bushy gray eyebrows shot up and his arms gestured toward heaven as if beckoning for a response.
'How could a loving God do this to that woman?' he implored as he got more animated, moving to the edge of his chair. 'Who runs the rain? I don't; you don't. He does - or that's what I thought. But when I saw that photograph, I immediately knew it is not possible for this to happen and for there to be a loving God. There was no way. Who else but a fiend could destroy a baby and virtually kill its mother with agony – when all that was needed was rain?'” - Lee Strobel interviewing Charles Templeton
“Faith drained them of the guilt that had oppressed them. Faith replaced despondency with hope. Faith infused them with new direction and purpose. Faith unlocked heaven. Faith was like cool water soaking their parched souls.” -Strobel
So here is something I have wanted to write on for a few weeks now. I think that this will be significantly different from some of my earlier writings, in that it is focused more on quotes from scripture rather than my own opinion. So, here goes nothing...
Earlier today I was taking part in a short conversation about free will. How much free will do we have and how much control does God exert over us. Let's take it a step further. How much control does God exert over the world. C.S. Lewis, when talking about miracles, once said that you don't have to look far to find a miracle of God: if you look at a vineyard you will find God taking water from the sky and making it into wine everyday; if you look in the sea you will see God taking one fish and turning it into enough to feed five thousand. The miracles of nature are being performed everyday. But how? We see God's creation still limping along trying to fulfill the purposes God created them for, recreating his miracles. I want to use one of Joe's most quoted verses:
“Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
"Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!” Luke 12:24-28
God provides for them. That seems to lean more towards Templeton, who would say because God did not provide, he does not exist. But I think that the fundamental issue we are looking at is possibly a bit different than it first appears. You shouldn't worry about tomorrow, you should trust God to provide. But to hold that alone is to take a verse and twist it. Another verse:
"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor." John 4:34-38
And another:
“Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” -Luke 12:33-34
So now what does the story say? God will provide, both for our bodies and our spirits, real food and spiritual food. How do we get this food? We can't just expect mana from Heaven... honestly. He says it right there! Doing the work of the Father! So now we've established that this is important, food from God is the fruit of serving him.
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing... This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” -John 15:5,8
We bear the fruit! We give the physical and food and we bring the spiritual food, and it is the Holy Spirit in us that makes it possible. Like Shaine Claiborne says, we are the hands and feet of Jesus in the world. It is God working on us like a vine dresser trimming branches. Any part that does not produce fruit, God asks us to get rid of. Going back quickly to Luke, God again calls us to give to the poor. Provide for them! Show your faithfulness to God and he shows you what faithfulness really means. Anyone who has taken part in a mission trip can attest to this: you help someone else, and God helps you, and together you praise God for what he has done. If you can't relate to this, you need to go on one of these trips to experience it yourself. But I will warn you, it's addictive.
Finally, Templeton says that if this child died from thirst, God is a fiend. I disagree strongly. I think that if this child died from thirst, then Christians are fiends. I don't think God could tell us more clearly that this is our part in the world as his followers. If it wasn't clear enough, let me try to clear it up for you again.
“Do not withhold good from those who deserve it, when it is in your power to act. Do not say to your neighbor, "Come back later; I'll give it tomorrow"— when you now have it with you.” -Proverbs 3:27-28
Any other Americans out there who read this feel ashamed? It's as if God were looking ahead all those years to this moment in time and saying to Christians in America, 'how dare you?'. As Amanda can relate, God is out of time, he is then, now, and in the time still to come, of course he knew we would need to be told this! The duty is ours. Why did this child die? Why did it's mother have to suffer that ordeal? Because God didn't bring the rain? No, it's because we rich selfish stingy fiendish American Christians (if we can still claim the title of Christians, certainly by biblical standards we cannot) would not surrender our rain to those who needed it. We know we have the water, and if we don't have the water we certainly have the money and resources to get it. Charles Templeton died in 2001, having never been given this solution to his objection. But the point, is it is our duty to take up the case for suffering. We need to surrender the rain.
Special thanks to Seth for this final quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority. If the church does not participate actively in the struggle for peace and for economic and racial justice, it will forfeit the loyalty of millions and cause men everywhere to say that it has atrophied its will. But if the church will free itself from the shackles of a deadening status quo, and, recovering its great historic mission, will speak and act fearlessly and insistently in terms of justice and peace, it will enkindle the imagination of mankind and fire the souls of men, imbuing them with a glowing and ardent love for truth, justice and peace. Men far and near will know the church as a great fellowship of love that provides light and bread for lonely travelers at midnight.”
In February 1972 some 30,000 Birmingham engineers walked out on strike in solidarity with striking miners who were fighting against austerity pay deals. Up to 15,000 then marched to join miners who were picketing Saltley coke depot. The blockade forced the police, who had kept the depot open all week, to surrender and close the gates.
Militant picketing involving tens of thousands of miners had shut down power stations, docks and coal depots. But the victory at Saltley, won through solidarity strikes, was the turning point for the miners. Within seven weeks the government was defeated.
The rally today, 40 years later, was addressed by Arthur Scargill, legendary leader of Miners union NUM, Ken Capstick former vice president of Yorkshire NUM and former editor of the NUM journal, Bob Crow RMT General Secretary, Tony Burke UNITE Deputy General Secretary, strikers and eyewitnesses from the time. They not only reflected on their experiences 40 years ago but drew attention to how today, working people face a similar assault on their living conditions. November 2011 saw millions of workers strike in Britain in the biggest show of united action in generations and that forty years on, the Battle of Saltley Gate carries powerful lessons for a working class that is once again stirring.
The speakers were also joined by the Shrewsbury pickets, Pete Jackson author of a new pamphlet on the events “Close the Gates.” Local trade union theatre group Banner and participants enjoyed performances from local choirs and poets.
How the gates were closed
In 1971 the NUM submitted a pay claim of between £5 and £9 per week depending on grade. The NCB replied offering £1.60.
A national ballot voted for strike action and the NUM declared a strike from 9 January 1972. This was their first national strike in over 40 years.
From the beginning the NUR blacked the pits and power stations, dramatically reducing the movement of coal. ASLEF told their members not to move anything unusual. The docks were solid, refusing to move imported coal. The TGWU lorry drivers were solid, refusing to cross picket lines. The TUC agreed that all trade union members should respect picket lines.
It was decided that ‘flying pickets’ should be sent out around the country to stop coal movements to power stations and other key industrial targets.
Mass picketing was shutting down the energy supplies to power stations around the country. The police were becoming desperate to get the supplies through.
Saltley Coking works in Birmingham became a flashpoint in the dispute. The NUM and the government had agreed that coking works should only supply priority customers like hospitals during the dispute.
Saltley was owned by the West Midlands Gas Board and they decided that the guidelines didn’t apply to them. As a result hundreds of trucks headed to Saltley, causing a mile long queue waiting to get into the depot.
On Friday 4th February, after negotiations with the Gas Board had failed, picketing started. Most lorries defied the 200 pickets.
The Midlands NUM, which had been picketing Saltley, called for reinforcements.
By Monday 7th February there were 2,000 pickets from Yorkshire, South Wales and the Midlands.
It was becoming clear that many more pickets were needed to close Saltley, and other miners were busy picketing elsewhere.
On Tuesday 8th February a meeting was called of the AUEW East District shop stewards. Arthur Scargill addressed the meeting and asked for a one day strike and mass picket.
Arthur Scargill reported “I told them if they wanted to give us a quid to ease their conscience, then stuff it, we didn’t want it. We wanted physical support, we wanted strike action.”
The following afternoon 200 AUEW stewards and convenors voted to support the call.
From early in the morning of Thursday 10th February workers were walking out of work and heading to Saltley.
The Birmingham Evening Mail ran the front page banner headline “The Gates Close” followed by “Siege by 10,000 halts lorries, then police step in”
The main article on the front page of the Evening Mail on 10 February 1972 included -
“Saltley Coke depot was closed today as 10,000 demonstrators surged towards the gates.
“A sea of faces stretched for as far as the eye could see, below trade union banners and there was a great roar as the gates shut for the first time since picketing began last week.
“Scores of factories were closed or totally disrupted as workers responded to the strike call from the AUEW and the National Union of Vehicle Builders.
“From early morning the contingents, hundreds strong, began arriving at the depot.
“Finally Nechells Place, scene of earlier violence, St Clement’s Road, which runs past the depot gates, and the main Saltley Road, were completely thronged with singing, chanting crowds waving banners and placards.
“Others came from the Valor factory, the GEC, the Rover car works and several other British Leyland factories. Others marched under the red banner of the East District of the AUEW. Crowds of women from the SU Carburettor factory, the GEC and Valor swelled the ranks.
“An hour after the huge crowds had massed outside the depot the gates were closed and locked by Gas Board security men.
“Tumultuous cheering broke out as Mr Scargill climbed onto the roof of a nearby building and told the crowd through a loud hailer “if working people are united they can achieve anything.”
Workers’ solidarity closed the gates. Even 700 police were unable to cope with a crowd of 15,000 strikers.
Arthur Scargill recalled
“And then over this hill came a banner and I’ve never seen in my life as many people following a banner. As far as the eye could see it was just a mass of people marching towards Saltley. There was a huge roar and from the other side of the hill they were coming the other way. They were coming from five directions, there were five approaches to Saltley; it was in a hollow, they were arriving from every direction. And our lads were just jumping up in the air with emotion—a fantastic situation.”
“The Chief Constable said: ‘That’s it, I’m not risking any more here, those gates stay closed.’ He then turned to me—this is absolutely factual—and said: ‘Will you please do us a favour? Will you please disperse the crowd?’ And I said on two conditions:
firstly that I can make a speech to the crowd. He said, ‘Agreed.’ And secondly that I can use your equipment, because mine’s knackered. He said: ‘Agreed.’ Then I spoke from the urinal in Birmingham, with this police equipment.”
To attempt to settle the dispute the Wilberforce enquiry was set up on 15 February. It reported after three days proposing pay rises of £4.50 to £6 per week.
The strike was a victory. It had broken the government pay restraint. It had improved miners’ wages. It had seen incredible solidarity action. It had restored the miners’ confidence, not seen since 1926. And the method of winning had been militant action – flying pickets, mass pickets and solidarity strikes.
The strike broke the morale of the Tory government. They had been badly defeated.
The Tory home secretary at the time, Reginald Maudling, described the government as "wandering around the battlefield looking for someone to surrender to".
Unconditional Surrender is a series of sculptures by J Seward Johnson resembling a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, V–J day in Times Square, but said by Johnson to be based on a similar, less well known, photograph by Victor Jorgensen.
Sloan Avenue & Klockner Road (across the road from the Hamilton Transit Center - 720 Sloan Avenue Hamilton, NJ 08619 - Google Map
The Arado Ar 234 B Blitz (Lightning) was the world's first operational jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. Two Junkers Jumo 004 B turbojets powered this clean, graceful design. Speed made the Blitz virtually immune to attacks from piston-engined Allied fighters. The jet's maximum velocity topped 735 kph (456 mph). Although overshadowed by the more famous Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter, the relatively few Ar 234s that reached Luftwaffe units before the end of the German surrender provided excellent (if ultimately futile) service, particularly as reconnaissance aircraft.
Development of the Ar 234 began in 1940. The German Aviation Ministry issued an order to Dr. Walter Blume, technical director of the state-owned Arado concern, to design and build a reconnaissance aircraft propelled by the turbojet engines then under development by BMW and Junkers. Rüdiger Kosin led the design team. Largely free from Air Ministry interference, Kosin created a high-wing monoplane with two turbojet engines mounted in nacelles under the wings. The rear fuselage contained two downward-looking recon-
naissance cameras. To reduce weight and free space for larger fuselage fuel tanks, the initial prototype series dispensed with a conventional landing gear in favor of retractable skids mounted beneath the fuselage and nacelles. The airplane would taxi and takeoff atop a wheeled trolley that the pilot jettisoned as the jet left the runway. Ground crews recovered the trolley and refurbished it for the next flight.
Engine problems repeatedly slowed flight testing the first Ar 234. BMW and Junkers both experienced trouble building jet engines in quantities sufficient for both the Me 262 and
Ar 234 programs. Although Arado completed the Ar 234 V1 airframe in late 1942, the Messerschmitt aircraft took priority and claimed the trickle of flight-ready engines that Junkers managed to turn out. Consequently, the Ar 234 V1 did not fly until July 30, 1943.
Before it flew, the Air Ministry directed Arado to redesign the landing gear and give the jet a bombing capability. Kosin and his team enlarged the fuselage slightly to accommodate a conventional tricycle landing gear and added a semi-recessed bomb bay under the fuselage. To allow the pilot to act as a bombardier, Kosin mounted a Lotfe 7K bombsight in the fuselage floor ahead of the control column, which the pilot swung out of his way to use the sight. A Patin PDS autopilot guided the aircraft during the bombing run. The pilot-bombardier used another periscope sight during shallow-angle, glide bombing.
The first prototype for the revised design, designated Ar 234 V9, flew on March 12, 1944. The bomber version, designated Ar 234 B-0, became the first subtype built in quantity. The Air Ministry ordered 200 Ar 234 Bs and Arado built them at a new Luftwaffe airfield factory at Alt Lönnewitz in Saxony. The factory finished and delivered all 200 airplanes by the end of December 1944 but managed to roll out another 20 by war's end. The initial order had called for two versions of the Ar 234 B: the B-1 reconnaissance aircraft and the B-2 bomber but Arado built only the B-2 version. The company converted B-2 airframes into reconnaissance aircraft.
Plans called for more advanced versions of the Arado jet, including the Ar 234 C powered by four BMW 003 A-1 engines and fitted with a pressurized cockpit. Subvariants of the "C" model included the C-3 multi-role aircraft and the C-3N two-seat nightfighter. However, only 14 Ar 234 Cs left the Arado factory before Soviet forces overran the area. The four-engine Ar 234 was, however, the fastest jet aircraft of World War II. Prototypes for the more advanced Ar 234 D reconnaissance aircraft and bomber with provision for a second crewman were under construction but not completed at war's end.
A Luftwaffe pilot flew the first Ar 234 combat mission on August 2, 1944, when Erich Sommer piloted the V5 prototype on a reconnaissance sortie over the Allied beachhead in Normandy. He encountered no opposition. During his two-hour flight, Sommer gathered more useful intelligence than the Luftwaffe obtained during the previous two months. Virtually immune to interception, the Ar 234 continued to provide the German High Command with valuable reconnaissance until nearly the end of the war. The intelligence gathered, however, allowed German military planners to do little more than delay inevitable defeat.
Only one Luftwaffe unit, KG 76 (Kampfgeschwader or Bomber Wing 76), was equipped with Ar 234 bombers before Germany's surrender. As the production of the Ar 234 B-2 increased in tempo during fall 1944, the unit received its first aircraft and began training at Burg bei Magdeburg. The unit flew its first operations during December 1944 in support of the Ardennes Offensive. Typical missions consisted of pinprick attacks conducted by less than 20 aircraft, each carrying a single 500 kg (1,100 lb.) bomb. The unit participated in the desperate attacks against the Allied bridgehead over the Rhine at Remagen during mid-March 1945, but failed to drop the Ludendorff railway bridge and suffered a number of losses to anti-aircraft fire. The deteriorating war situation, coupled with shortages of fuel and spare parts, prevented KG 76 from flying more than a handful of sorties from late March to the end of the war. The unit conducted its last missions against Soviet forces encircling Berlin during the final days of April. During the first week of May the unit's few surviving aircraft were either dispersed to airfields still in German hands or destroyed to prevent their capture.
The National Air and Space Museum's Blitz, an Arado Ar 234 B-2 bomber carrying Werk Nummer (manufacturer's serial number) 140312, was one of nine Ar 234s surrendered to British forces at Sola airfield near Stavanger, Norway. It is the sole surviving example of an Ar 234. The aircraft had been on strength with 9./KG 76 (Ninth Squadron/ bomber Wing 76) during the final weeks of the war, having served earlier with the unit's eighth squadron. It and three other Ar 234s were collected by the famous "Watson's Whizzers" group of the USAAF (United States Army Air Forces) for shipment to the United States. After flying from Sola to Cherbourg, France on June 24, 1945, the four Ar 234s joined thirty-four other advanced German aircraft aboard the British aircraft carrier HMS Reaper for shipment to the United States. The Reaper departed from Cherbourg on July 20, arriving at Newark, New Jersey eight days later. U. S. Army Air Forces personnel reassembled and flew two Ar 234s, including 140312, to Freeman Field, Indiana, for testing and evaluation. The USAAF assigned the foreign equipment number FE-1010 to this Ar 234 for inventory and tracking purposes.
After receiving new engines and replacement radio and oxygen equipment, FE-1010 was flown to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, in July 1946 and transferred to the Accelerated Service Test Maintenance Section (ASTMS) of the Flight Test Division. After flight-testing was completed on October 16, 1946, the aircraft remained at Wright field until 1947, when it was moved to Orchard Place Airport, Park Ridge, Illinois. On May 1, 1949, the USAF (United States Air Force after 1947) transferred the Ar 234 and other aircraft at Park Ridge to the Smithsonian Institution. During the early 1950s, the airplanes were finally moved to a new Smithsonian storage facility at Suitland, Maryland to await restoration.
Restoration of the NASM Ar 234 began during 1984 and was completed in February 1989. Because all of the original German paint was stripped off the airframe before the aircraft's transfer to the Smithsonian, restoration specialists applied markings of a typical aircraft of 8./KG 76, the first bomber unit to fly the Blitz. The museum displayed the aircraft during 1993 in the main museum building downtown as part of an exhibit titled "Wonder Weapon? The Arado Ar 234." It is currently in storage at the Paul E. Garber Restoration and Storage Facility awaiting the completion of the museum's new Dulles Center.
Manufacturer: Arado
Date: 1944
Country of Origin: Germany
Dimensions:
Wingspan: 14.4 m (47 ft 4 in)
Length: 12.6 m (41 ft 6 in)
Height: 4.3 m (14 ft 2 in)
Weight, empty: 4,900 kg (10,800 lb)
Weight, gross: 10,010 kg (22,070 lb) with RATO (rocket-assisted takeoff) units
Top speed: 735 km/h (459 mph)
Materials:
Overall: Aluminum
Physical Description:
Single seat, twin engine jet bomber with RATO.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Virginia
A long line of Japanese officers wait to surrender their swords to the 25th Indian Division at Kuala Lumpur.this photo was in a box of my grandads things not sure if he took the photo or not as it was banned to take photos.but he was part of the honour gauard.
I have visited this ruin for many years, and am sad to say that it is slowly crumbling away. Not helped by vandals, who, as it is near the roadside, have the opportunity to park nearby.
It is on the Monuments at Risk register.
Bikaner is a city in the northwest of the state of Rajasthan in northern India. It is located 330 kilometres northwest of the state capital, Jaipur. Bikaner city is the administrative headquarters of Bikaner District and Bikaner division.
Formerly the capital of the princely state of Bikaner, the city was founded by Rao Bika in 1486 and from its small origins it has developed into the fifth largest city in Rajasthan. The Ganges Canal, completed in 1928, and the Indira Gandhi Canal, completed in 1987, facilitated its development.
HISTORY
Prior to the mid 15th century, the region that is now Bikaner was a barren wilderness called Jangladesh. In 1488 Rao Bika established the city of Bikaner. According to James Tod, the spot which Bika selected for his capital, was the birthright of a Nehra Jat, who would only concede it for this purpose on the condition that his name should be linked in perpetuity with its surrender. Naira, or Nera, was the name of the proprietor, which Bika added to his own, thus composing that of the future capital, Bikaner. Rao Bika was the first son of Maharaja Rao Jodha of the Rathor clan, the founder of Jodhpur and conquered the largely arid country in the north of Rajasthan. As the first son of Jodha he wanted to have his own kingdom not inheriting Jodhpur from his father or the title of Maharaja. He therefore decided to build his own kingdom in what is now the state of Bikaner in the area of Jungladesh. Though it was in the Thar Desert, Bikaner was considered an oasis on the trade route between Central Asia and the Gujarat coast as it had adequate spring water. Bika’s name was attached to the city he built and to the state of Bikaner ("the settlement of Bika") that he established. Bika built a fort in 1478, which is now in ruins, and a hundred years later a new fort was built about 1.5 km from the city centre, known as the Junagarh Fort.
Around a century after Rao Bika founded Bikaner, the state's fortunes flourished under the sixth Raja, Rai Singhji, who ruled from 1571 to 1611. During the Mughal Empire’s rule in the country, Raja Rai Singh accepted the suzerainty of the Mughals and held a high rank as an army general at the court of the Emperor Akbar and his son the Emperor Jahangir. Rai Singh's successful military exploits, which involved winning half of Mewar kingdom for the Empire, won him accolades and rewards from the Mughal emperors. He was given the jagirs (lands) of Gujarat and Burhanpur. With the large revenue earned from these jagirs, he built the Chintamani durg (Junagarh fort) on a plain which has an average elevation of 230 m. He was an expert in arts and architecture, and the knowledge he acquired during his visits abroad is amply reflected in the numerous monuments he built at the Junagarh fort.
Maharaja Karan Singh, who ruled from 1631 to 1639, under the suzerainty of the Mughals, built the Karan Mahal palace. Later rulers added more floors and decorations to this Mahal. Anup Singh ji, who ruled from 1669 to 1698, made substantial additions to the fort complex, with new palaces and the Zenana quarter, a royal dwelling for women and children. He refurbished the Karan Mahal with a Diwan-i-Am (public audience hall) and called it the Anup Mahal.Maharaja Gaj Singh, who ruled from 1746 to 1787 refurbished the Chandra Mahal (the Moon palace).
During the 18th century, there was internecine war between the rulers of Bikaner and Jodhpur and also amongst other thakurs, which was put down by British troops.
Following Maharaja Gaj Singh, Maharaja Surat Singh ruled from 1787 to 1828 and lavishly decorated the audience hall (see illustration) with glass and lively paintwork. Under a treaty of paramountcy signed in 1818, during Maharaja Surat Singh's reign, Bikaner came under the suzerainty of the British, after which the Maharajas of Bikaner invested heavily in refurbishing Junagarh fort.
Dungar Singh, who reigned from 1872 to 1887, built the Badal Mahal, the 'weather palace', so named in view of a painting of clouds and falling rain, a rare event in arid Bikaner.
General Maharaja Ganga Singh, who ruled from 1887 to 1943, was the best-known of the Rajasthan princes and was a favourite of the British Viceroys of India. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India, served as a member of the Imperial War Cabinet, represented India at the Imperial Conferences during the First World War and the British Empire at the Versailles Peace Conference. His contribution to the building activity in Junagarh involved separate halls for public and private audiences in the Ganga Mahal and a durbar hall for formal functions. He also built the Ganga Niwas Palace, which has towers at the entrance patio. This palace was designed by Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, the third of the new palaces built in Bikaner. He named the building Lalgarh Palace in honour of his father and moved his main residence there from Junagarh Fort in 1902. The hall where he held his Golden Jubilee (in 1938) as Bikaner's ruler is now a museum.
Ganga Singh's son, Lieutenant-General Sir Sadul Singh, the Yuvaraja of Bikaner, succeeded his father as Maharaja in 1943, but acceded his state to the Union of India in 1949. Maharaja Sadul Singh died in 1950, being succeeded in the title by his son, Karni Singh (1924-1988).[6] The Royal Family still lives in a suite in Lalgarh Palace, which they have converted into a heritage hotel.
TRANSPORT
The internal transport system in Bikaner consists of autorickshaws and city buses. Bikaner railway station is on the Jodhpur-Bathinda line. Bikaner is connected to some of major Indian cities via broad gauge railway. The city has direct rail connections to Sri Ganganagar, Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Alwar, Bhubaneswar, Sambalpur, Bilaspur, Kanpur, Agra, Jalandhar, Baroda, Hyderabad, Guwahati, Jaipur, Surat, Gurgaon, Jalandhar, Puri, Coimbatore, Thiruvananthapuram, Chandigarh, Kota, Kollam, Jammu, Jodhpur and Ahmedabad, Pune, Indore, Vijayawada. However, there is no rail connectivity for other major Indian cities like Silchar, Indore,[clarification needed] Jhansi, Ranchi, Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Kurukshetra, Faridabad.
Bikaner is well served with roads and is linked directly to Delhi, Jaipur , Agra , Alwar, Ludhiana, Sri Ganganagar , Bhatinda, Ambala, Ahmedabad, Haridwar, Jodhpur, and many other cities. National highways 11, 15, and 89 meet at Bikaner.
CLIMATE
Bikaner is situated in the middle of the Thar desert and has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) with very little rainfall and extreme temperatures. In summer temperatures can exceed 45 °C, and during the winter they may dip below freezing.
The climate in Bikaner is characterised by significant variations in temperature. In the summer season it is very hot when the temperatures lie in the range of 28–48.5 °C. In the winter, it is fairly cold with temperatures lying in the range of 5–23.2 °C. Annual rainfall is in the range of 260–440 millimetres.
JUNAGARH FORT
The Junagarh Fort and its temples and palaces are preserved as museums and provide insight into the grandiose living style of the past Maharanas of Rajasthan.
LAXMI NIWAS PALACE
The Laxmi Niwas Palace is a former residential palace built by Maharajah Ganga Singh, the ruler of the former state of Bikaner. It was designed by the British architect, Col Samuel Swinton Jacob in the year 1902. The style of architecture is Indo-Saracenic. It is now a luxury Heritage hotel owned by Golden Triangle Fort & Palace P. Ltd. The magnificent structure in red sandstone is one of the most popular destinations for tourists in Bikaner. The Shri ram heritage a unit of Rao Bikaji Groups home stay owend / heritage hotel by Brigadier Jagmal singh rathore VrC, VsM descendant of Rao Bika ji Founder of Bikaner, Rao Bikaji Camel safari a unit of Rao Bikaji Groups.
KARNI MATA TEMPLE
The world famous shrine of Karni Mata can be found in the town of Deshnoke 30 km south from Bikaner on the road to Jodhpur. Karni Mata is worshiped as an incarnation of Goddess Durga.
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A two-week firearms surrender has been hailed a success after 243 guns were handed in.
Between 13th and 26th November, people were given the opportunity to surrender their guns anonymously at police stations across Greater Manchester.
Among the haul of pistols, revolvers, shotguns and handguns handed in was a 1973 Colt Revolver, Black P.Beretta, Gardone Vt 1936-Xiv and 9MM Walther P38.
A large quantity of ammunition was also surrendered.
More guns were handed in during this surrender than the previous two carried out in 2016 (221) and 2014 (225).
The firearms surrender was supported by the father and friends of Halton McCollin who tragically lost his life in 2008 when he was shot in the back of the head in Stretford.
Halton’s loved ones should have been celebrating his 30th birthday but instead joined Greater Manchester Police in appealing for people to give up the gun in the hope it’ll stop any other family going through the same pain.
Detective Chief Superintendent Mary Doyle said: “The surrender has been a great success and has seen 243 weapons taken off the streets, which is 243 fewer weapons that can cause harm and devastation within our communities.
“Although our surrender has finished, our fight against gun crime is far from over and we continue to focus our activity against those that use guns in their criminal activities.
“If you know somebody who has a gun, or is involved in firearms criminality, please tell us about it before another family is torn apart by a bullet.”
To report gun crime, contact Greater Manchester Police on 101 or 999 if a crime is in progress. Alternatively call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Use the hashtag #GiveUpTheGun on social media to join in the conversation.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
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Yoko Ono
New York Times, 25th Dec 1982
John and I were part of the huge crowd of world youth who grew up believing in the American idealism and its claim for human rights. We lived in societies under lingering Victorian influence while sharing the American Dream in our hearts.
The dream still lives. This is evident in the letters I receive from the world in sharp contrast to the prevailing pessimism here in the States. The world has witnessed American Spirit rising with remarkable resilience when it’s most needed and often when it’s least expected. No doubt it will again. My concern is how. We don’t need another martyr. We have had one too many.
Compare the two last times when the American Spirit has surged to bring justice to and for the nation. One being the Vietnam Peace Movement and the other, the Watergate Incident. No blame intended to any individual and group heroes, there was much painful bloodshed connected with the Peace Movement whereas there was none with Watergate. Heroes involved there were either silent or masked, and the incongruity of it was directly responsible to the unfolding of the case. I observed this as strong evidence of our growing awareness, that emotional radicalism is power play with emphasis on play, and peace nurtures peace as justice seeds justice. Sanity is allowing dichotomy, unity is discovering empathy, and harmony is a celebration of polarity. Our purpose is not to exert power but to express our need for unity despite the seemingly unconquerable differences. We as the human race have a history of losing our emotional equilibrium when we discover different thought patterns in others. Many wars have been fought as a result. It’s about time to recognize that it is all right to be wearing different hats as our heartbeat is always one.
I would like to propose a Nationwide Peace Poll to vote for peace versus nuclear holocaust of any size. The Poll should be clearly independent from Nuclear Disarmament and/ or gun control issues for now, as many of us feel a strong need for nuclear defence while regarding gun control a non-priority cause. Combining either or both of these issued with the Peace Poll would immediately reduce the Poll to a minority venture. The Poll should be authorized and organized by the Congress as a national undertaking for the sake of expedience alone, with the balloting through the media to minimize administrative expense. What the Peace Poll will do is to 1) show us where we stand in terms of individual and collective commitment to World Peace and 2) inspire the rest of the world to follow.
There may come a time, sooner than we imagine, when the world would feel safe to curtail production of nuclear arms. The cost cutback alone would be a direct financial gain to every country. Already some of us are starting to feel suspicious of the old myth that war is more lucrative than peace, especially after observing that the world’s largest weapon merchant, U.S.A, has not been exempt from the world economic crisis.
One could say that because of the times the people of the United States and their government have been given an opportunity to initiate World Peace. To take this initiative is to leave a tremendous legacy to our offspring, a legacy of our true concern for the future race and our planet. How can we ask our children to be caring when we ourselves show indifference to their fate? Smile to the future and it will smile back to us.
I pray that in the end gun control will cease to be an issue, as today’s misuse of guns may be due to the world tension for fear calls fear. A day may come when we will see governments offering to buy private guns for recycling, to, say, make domestic robots. A few guns perhaps would remain in museums next to the Early American spears for example as reminders of days when we used to kill each other to put stop to our lives before our natural deaths. Would they ever understand how much sorrow was caused by this instrument and its ritual I wonder? The true motivations for murdering one’s fellow human is and will be and eternal mystery to us.
In the beginning there was the Word. If the Universe was initially created by a word and its air play of seven days, wouldn’t it be a comparatively modest effort on our part to work together through affirmation and reaffirmation of our unity, to ensure the survival of our already existing planet? If, as we know now, all of us are only using less than 20% of our brains, it is not an exaggeration to say that our awareness knows no boundary, and a miracle is what we make of it.
The Eighties has become the most unusually beautiful, enlightened period in the history of the human race. It is as though the very tension has forced us to wake up from the long embryonic period we held on to. We are witnessing a unique society where all our feelings and thoughts have been brought out t the surface to be shared and re-examined. Not only that we have become closer to each other and wiser, but the wiser have become meeker and the meeker have become wiser thus making us truly one world.
In the summer of ’73 in New York City, John and I invited the press to announce the founding of a conceptual country called NUTOPIA. Anybody could be a citizen of this country. Citizens were automatically the country’s ambassadors. The country’s body was the airfield of our joint thoughts. Its constitution was our love, and its spirit, our dreams. Its flag was the white flag of surrender. A surrender to peace. We wished that one day we would take the flag to the United Nations and place it alongside the other flags as Nutopia was just another concept, as were concepts such as France, United States, and the Soviet Union. It was not a concept founded to threaten any other. At the time, the idea of “surrender” did not go down too well. A radical friend of ours expressed that he, too, disliked the term. “Surrender sounds like defeat,” he said. “Well, don’t you surrender to love, for instance?”, I looked at him. “No, he wouldn’t” I thought. “Are women the only people who know the pride and joy of surrender?” I wondered. “It’s a waste of time to explain to a macho radical, didn’t I tell you?” said John, a man who surrendered to the world, life and finally to Universe. “Anyway, don’t worry, Yoko. One day we’ll put it up there. You and I. I promise.” I still believe we will.
It is time for you to rise. It is you who will raise the flag. I feel that John and I, as a unit, have done our share. The rest of my life belongs to our son, Sean. It is your effort. Your flag. So remember, We Are Family. You and I are unity. In the Joy of Harmony, the World is One to Infinity. Speak out. Speak out of love and you need not fear. We will hear. America The Beautiful.
Surrender to Peace.
I love you.
Yoko Ono Lennon
December 25 ,1982
New York City.
P.S. Just now I received a call that a friend, Jamie Lubarr, was shot to death Christmas Eve. He was walking on the streets of New York to go to a party. Two people came from behind and shot him with no apparent reason.
I’m sorry Jamie. It was too late for you, ad for the approximately 24,000 sisters and brothers who were shot to death this year in U.S.A just with handguns alone (F.B.I Unified Reported Crime Statistics, Washington, D.C from January to October ’82). This means one every thirty minutes. The rising violence is a world phenomenon in varying shades of cruelty. Closing our eyes to it will not make it disappear.
I have not slept well since John died. One beside light is always lit through the night. It is as though I have no right to sleep in the comfort of darkness. I have my moments of joy and laughter. Night is when I face myself, John, and the dreams we dreamt together. There is anger and sorrow. Still, gun for gun is not the way. If we took that route, pretty soon, you would be hearing me say, “Well, thank God, we’re alive. That’s ‘cause my son is such a good marksman.” I don’t want to live that way. Forget the moral implication for a moment. How do we sleep? There is always a better marksman somewhere.
So I say it again. Speak out. Speak out of the wisdom of love- through love we have the power to create Heaven on Earth as Love is heaven and heaven is love. The Man said, “Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.”
Love,
Yoko
Studio One
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New York City 10023
Footnote: 19th October 2007
Dear Friends
This was my statement in the 80's.
I am amazed and saddened that the situation is incredibly similar now.
But we overcame in the 80's.
We can overcome again.
We are larger in numbers now.
So, I'll say it again.
Remember: We Are Family.
Think PEACE, Act PEACE and Spread PEACE.
Together, we will shift the axis of the world to PEACE.
I love you!
yoko
1522-1591 Sir Thomas "Customer" Smythe and wife Alice daughter of Andrew Judde / Judd 1558 Lord Mayor of London and Mary Mirfyn 1542 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/4259137846/
co-heiress daughter of Thomas Murfyn 1523, alderman & former Lord Mayor of London, by Elizabeth 1561 only daughter & heiress of Sir Angel Donne of London by Anne Hawarden / Hawardine of Cheshire, .
Her co-heiress sister was Frances Murfyn wife of Thomas Cromwell's nephew Richard Williams d1544
Her mother Elizabeth Donne m2 Sir Thomas Denys of Holcombe Burrell in Devon who was prominent in the service of Wolsey & 4 Tudor monarchs gaining much land at the time of the Dissolution.
Her uncle Gabriel Donne was the last abbot of Buckfast Abbey in Devon, who in 1539 on its dissolution surrendered his abbey to Sir William Petre, as agent for King Henry VIII and was rewarded with a large annual pension of £120, the abbey site was then granted to Sir Thomas Denys the Abbot's brother-in-law
Children-
1. Andrew Smythe (died young) lies at his parents feet
2. Katherine Smythe www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/1160273484/ = Sir Rowland Hayward, Lord Mayor of London = (2) Sir John son of Sir Thomas Scott & Elizabeth Baker of Sissinghurst) = (3) Sir Richard Sandys
3. Mary Smythe = Robert Davis (Davy) of London, Receiver for Wales
4. Ursula Smythe = Simon Harding of London = (2) William Boteler (Butler) - of Bedford
5. Joan (aka Johanna) Smythe = Sir Thomas Fanshawe (d 1601) Esquire of Ware Park.
6. Elizabeth Smythe = Sir Henry son of Thomas Fanshaw who married wife's sister. (their daughter Mary m William Newce & died 1666 in Virginia)
7. Symon Smythe (d. 1596), killed at Cadiz, Spain
8 . Robert Smythe of Highgate = Ann daughter of William Lynford
9 . Henry Smythe of Corsham (Died before 1591) = Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Owen, JP
10. Sir John Smythe (eldest son) of Ostenhanger m 1576 Elizabeth flic.kr/p/47gG2Y(m 1576) daughter of Sir John Fineaux, Chief Justice of the King's Bench
11. Sir Richard Smythe of Leeds Castle flic.kr/p/47cuPk m1 Elizabeth daughter of Sir Thomas Scott, widow of John Knatchbull m2 Jane daughter of John White of London, widow of Samuel Thornhill
12. Sir Thomas Smythe of Sutton Governor of East India Company, Treasurer of Virginia Company, 1558-1625 flic.kr/p/7GhMdr m1 Judith daughter of Richard Culverwell m2 Jone daughter of William Hobbs m3 Sarah daughter of William Blount
13. Alyce Smythe = Sir William Harris of Crixes, Woodham, Essex.
Customer Smythe was a younger son of John Smythe 1538 of Corsham, a yeoman and clothier, by Joan daughter of Robert William Brounkner 1537 of Melksham and Ursula Gouldinge . from whom he inherited a farm in the Hundred of Amesbury, Wilts, worth £20 pa Aged c 16 years at the time of his father's death, he came up to London with the intention of seeking his fortune. and took up his freedom in his father's guild, the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, and subsequently in the Worshipful Company of Skinners, which may account for his intimate connection with Sir Andrew Judde, Lord Mayor of London in 1550, whose daughter Alice he married c1554.
In the reign of Mary Tudor he bought the Office of the Customs from a Mr. Cocker, for £2500, one of the most lucrative franchises in the country, becoming chief collector of customs duties, which involved paying an agreed annual sum to the royal exchequer and then collecting what he could making a fortune Some of this money was used to back the piratical expeditions of Drake and later Raleigh his son Thomas' friend. .. The increasing wealth of the Customer only tends to show that his gains were large; and Queen Elizabeth, ever on the watch to replenish her exchequer, did not fail to require larger and larger fines for a renewal of the leases; with these demands he at length found himself unable to comply, and in consequence he fell under her severe displeasure. His October 1589 counteroffer of a more modest payment was rejected. His increasing infirmities and the weight of his Royal Mistress's displeasure combined to shorten his life. He died 7 June 1591 his son Thomas taking over his position as collector of customs.
In his Will he founded a charitiy which still provides pensions for elderly people in the Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells area (wikpedia) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Smythe_(customer)
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A two-week firearms surrender has been hailed a success after 243 guns were handed in.
Between 13th and 26th November, people were given the opportunity to surrender their guns anonymously at police stations across Greater Manchester.
Among the haul of pistols, revolvers, shotguns and handguns handed in was a 1973 Colt Revolver, Black P.Beretta, Gardone Vt 1936-Xiv and 9MM Walther P38.
A large quantity of ammunition was also surrendered.
More guns were handed in during this surrender than the previous two carried out in 2016 (221) and 2014 (225).
The firearms surrender was supported by the father and friends of Halton McCollin who tragically lost his life in 2008 when he was shot in the back of the head in Stretford.
Halton’s loved ones should have been celebrating his 30th birthday but instead joined Greater Manchester Police in appealing for people to give up the gun in the hope it’ll stop any other family going through the same pain.
Detective Chief Superintendent Mary Doyle said: “The surrender has been a great success and has seen 243 weapons taken off the streets, which is 243 fewer weapons that can cause harm and devastation within our communities.
“Although our surrender has finished, our fight against gun crime is far from over and we continue to focus our activity against those that use guns in their criminal activities.
“If you know somebody who has a gun, or is involved in firearms criminality, please tell us about it before another family is torn apart by a bullet.”
To report gun crime, contact Greater Manchester Police on 101 or 999 if a crime is in progress. Alternatively call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Use the hashtag #GiveUpTheGun on social media to join in the conversation.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
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Title: Le Shima Surrender
Date: 1939-1945
Additional Information: Ie Shima Surrender
Tags: Ie Shima Surrender , Ie Shima Surrender , 1939-1945
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
I surrender all to You. Let my heart trust in You let my fear fall. Let Your love carry me through it all. I will hold onto You even through pain. Wont You take me away with You!
All credit goes to..
taken by Jeremy Johnson.(my youth pastor)
edited by me
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A two-week firearms surrender has been hailed a success after 243 guns were handed in.
Between 13th and 26th November, people were given the opportunity to surrender their guns anonymously at police stations across Greater Manchester.
Among the haul of pistols, revolvers, shotguns and handguns handed in was a 1973 Colt Revolver, Black P.Beretta, Gardone Vt 1936-Xiv and 9MM Walther P38.
A large quantity of ammunition was also surrendered.
More guns were handed in during this surrender than the previous two carried out in 2016 (221) and 2014 (225).
The firearms surrender was supported by the father and friends of Halton McCollin who tragically lost his life in 2008 when he was shot in the back of the head in Stretford.
Halton’s loved ones should have been celebrating his 30th birthday but instead joined Greater Manchester Police in appealing for people to give up the gun in the hope it’ll stop any other family going through the same pain.
Detective Chief Superintendent Mary Doyle said: “The surrender has been a great success and has seen 243 weapons taken off the streets, which is 243 fewer weapons that can cause harm and devastation within our communities.
“Although our surrender has finished, our fight against gun crime is far from over and we continue to focus our activity against those that use guns in their criminal activities.
“If you know somebody who has a gun, or is involved in firearms criminality, please tell us about it before another family is torn apart by a bullet.”
To report gun crime, contact Greater Manchester Police on 101 or 999 if a crime is in progress. Alternatively call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
Use the hashtag #GiveUpTheGun on social media to join in the conversation.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit
You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
The Peterson House, at 516 10th St. NW, is best known as the "House Where Lincoln Died." Just five days after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Lincoln sat in the "State Box" at Ford's Theatre, across the street, watching Our American Cousin. A well-known actor, John Wilkes Booth, desperate to aid the dying Confederacy, stepped into the box and shot Lincoln in the back of the head. He then jumped onto the stage, and cried out "Sic semper tyrannis" just before escaping through the alley.
After being shot, the fatally wounded President was carried by attendants, including Dr. Charles Leale, out into the street, where boarder Henry Safford, standing in the open doorway of his rooming house, gestured for them to bring the president inside. Lincoln was taken into the bedroom in the rear of the parlors and placed on a bed that was not long enough for him. Mrs. Lincoln was escorted across the street by Clara Harris, who had been in the box during the shooting, and whose fiancée, Henry Rathbone, had been stabbed by Booth during the assassination. Rathbone, bleeding severely from the knife wound in his arm, collapsed due to loss of blood after arriving at the Petersen House.
During the night and early morning, military guards patrolled outside to prevent onlookers from coming inside the house. A parade of government officials and physicians was allowed to come inside and pay respects to the unconscious President. Physicians continually removed blood clots which formed over the wound and poured out the excess brain fluid and brain matter from where the bullet had entered Lincoln's head in order to relieve pressure on the brain. However, the external and internal hemorrhaging continued throughout the night. Lincoln died in the house on April 15, 1865, at 7:22 a.m., at age 56.
The federal brick townhouse was built by German-born tailor, William Petersen in 1849. he U.S. Government purchased the house in 1896 and placed it under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service thirty years later. Now furnished with period pieces, the dark, narrow town house looks much as it did on that fateful April night. Today the theatre and house are preserved together as Ford's Theatre National Historic Site.
National Register #66000034 (1966)
Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner Jim Battle with Detective Chief Inspector Debbie Dooley, Michelle McHale from youth organisation Raising Aspirations and reformed offender Darryl Laycock with some of the surrendered knives.
Greater Manchester Police has taken over 1500 knives and other sharp weapons off the region’s streets during the ‘Bin the Blade’ knife surrender.
The haul includes an array of weapons – from domestic kitchen knives to swords, axes and hunting blades. The most unusual items include wartime cutthroat razors, a small knife in the shape of a shotgun cartridge and a number of ornamental daggers.
The Bin the Blade campaign was launched in support of the British Ironwork Centre’s ‘Save a Life, Surrender Your Knife’ initiative, which began in August 2014 with a knife bank in Birmingham. The British Ironworks Centre tours the UK, encouraging young people who are carrying knives to give them up. Surrendered knives will be used to create a spectacular 15-24 feet tall Angel statue in memory of those whose lives have been tragically lost to knife crime.
During the month of February Greater Manchester Police committed to 11 knife bins across the region. The secure bins were designed in conjunction with local voluntary organisation Raising Aspirations and manufactured by the British Ironworks Centre specifically for the surrender and completely free of charge.
The surrender ran from 1 – 28 February 2015, where the force asked members of the public to dispose of unlawfully held or unwanted knives and help prevent them getting into the wrong hands. It gave the public the chance to dispose of knives and other sharp weapons by simply dropping them in one of the dedicated bins completely anonymously.
As part of the force’s ongoing commitment to reducing incidents of knife crime, increased operational activity combined with the surrender has seen at least 1500 blades removed from circulation. The knives will now be collected by the British Ironworks Centre where they will undergo a sterilisation process before being added to the sculpture. The exact number of knives will be confirmed during this inspection.
Detective Chief Inspector Debbie Dooley of the Xcalibre Task Force said:
“This year’s knife surrender was a remarkable success and I am delighted that we have managed to remove over 1500 weapons from the streets of Greater Manchester.
“The number of incidents of knife crime in Greater Manchester remains comparatively low, with numbers falling year on year. However, the incidents that do occur have a devastating impact so whilst the surrender may be over; our commitment to protecting our communities from knife crime is not.
“We will continue to work hard to make the streets safer and will take strong action against anyone who carries a knife and believes they are above the law.”
“Deputy Police and Crime Commissioner Jim Battle said:
“Knife crime causes misery to victims, their loved ones and the wider communities so it’s good news that so many weapons have been handed in and are no longer on the streets of Greater Manchester. I want to thank the public for supporting this amnesty and working with the police to make our neighbourhoods safer.”
DCI Dooley added:
“We are extremely proud of the people of Greater Manchester for their support during the surrender and beyond. I look forward to seeing the resulting sculpture, a fitting memorial to people whose lives have been taken through violent crime.
“If you come across a knife or any other weapon during a house move or clear out, or you perhaps inherit or find an item, please do not wait for a surrender to get it off the streets – trained staff will always be on hand to dispose of them safely and securely. Just call your local police enquiry desk or 101 for assistance.”
Clive Knowles, Chairman of British Ironwork Centre said:
“The British Ironworks Centre is privileged to be in a position to be of service and calls upon all the UK's forces to follow the GMP lead and request knife or Gun banks while available, offered free of any cost.”
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