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Seward Johnson sculpture of an iconic photo from Times Square New York celebrating the surrender of the Japanese ending World War II (August 1945). The real story behind the photo when years later the woman who was the nurse's story was discovered was that her participation in this was not exactly willing. - Downtown Sarasota, Florida
"When there's a doubt within your mind
because you're thinking all the time"
Death Cab
Thank you Sam for the help! :)
"Unconditional Surrender" sculpture by John Seward Johnson. Six-foot replica on display at Pier 45, San Francisco, CA. 08/07/11
"Unconditional Surrender" sculpture by John Seward Johnson. Six-foot replica on display at Pier 45, San Francisco, CA.
I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
"Unconditional Surrender" sculpture by John Seward Johnson. Six-foot replica on display at Pier 45, San Francisco, CA. 08/07/11
Rottedam Marathon 2008. Chelanga, the winner of the 2007 surrenders on the Laan op Zud after 25 km. The spectatators where very much in support of him.
Made by my love with her Konica Minolta Z5.
Taken and edited on iPhone 4
Apps Used: SlowShutter, ToonPaint, Artista Sketch, PicGrunger, Blender, Superimpose, ?
Yes - this is for real - don't know what kind of spider this is, but it was big enough that I was afrraid to get too close to it! It looks like some kind of cartoon character if you ask me!
Oriental, North Carolina, September 27, 2020, 3:19 pm: Surrender the booty: Boat riders are enjoying the Pirate Jam sponsored by the Pamlico County Arts Council from the public pier next to Oriental’s wildlife resources boat ramp. The boat’s pirate flag encourages would-be victims to “Surrender the booty.”
Just a little drawing of Italy from Hetalia: Axis Powers in a dress. I drew this one a while ago, and it was my first fan art for Hetalia.
Each click reverberates a thousand echoes…
Each tap trembles the spine it tingles
No need, no feed, lines all but dropped
Of words deferred how many times How many opportunities
From black to white, a transformation reveals
No words, a blank slate as if a heart is sealed
From rolling pastures, green deep green
Submerged in aqua canyons Now empty vessels
Treasures drowned in an aqueous depth
Where screams disappear and enter a void
Light beguiled a silent bubble
Shadows dance with light no flame
Oh but a glimpse as shadows engulf
Thy tender frame in canyon depths
Rise oh light, the mountain grows
Making it easier, reading thy wish
Hushing and tearing apart every pulse
Close thy palm for the need is it there
When alone it floats as gardens close
Open thy palm for empty it’s not
The garden is a gift it always gives
Regardless of want, but it hopes
Sink deeper into the silt
Kisses the skin the earth moisturises
And there it rests
Until mountains tumble
Submerging deeper sadness is snuffed
Trust oh trust oh listen oh see
Souls cannot rest and souls cannot sing
Spacious cores listen to each breath
Beyond all gems known to me
The wearer who chooses immerses in awe
Its essence consistently inwards it throbs
Rise to the surface the moons pulling harder
Flow with the current, out of the sea
Spill over mountains Surrender to beauty
~ Anna Stanislawa
This Agorius sp also belongs to the jumping spider family, Salticidae. It also mimics another creature- an ant.
Notice although it has 8 legs, it tends to raise the 2 front legs hence giving the impression it actually has 6 legs plus a pair of antannae.
Compared to the Myrmarachne, Agorius lacks the extended jaws.
The Battle of Appomattox Court House, fought in Appomattox County, Virginia, on the morning of April 9, 1865, was one of the last battles of the American Civil War (1861–1865). It was the final engagement of Confederate General in Chief, Robert E. Lee, and his Army of Northern Virginia before it surrendered to the Union Army of the Potomac under the Commanding General of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.
Lee, having abandoned the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, after the nine-and-a-half-month Siege of Petersburg and Richmond, retreated west, hoping to join his army with the remaining Confederate forces in North Carolina, the Army of Tennessee under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Union infantry and cavalry forces under Gen. Philip Sheridan pursued and cut off the Confederates' retreat at the central Virginia village of Appomattox Court House. Lee launched a last-ditch attack to break through the Union forces to his front, assuming the Union force consisted entirely of lightly armed cavalry. When he realized that the cavalry was now backed up by two corps of federal infantry, he had no choice but to surrender with his further avenue of retreat and escape now cut off.
The signing of the surrender documents occurred in the parlor of the house owned by Wilmer McLean on the afternoon of April 9. On April 12, a formal ceremony of parade and the stacking of arms led by Confederate Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon to federal Brig. Gen. Joshua Chamberlain marked the disbandment of the Army of Northern Virginia with the parole of its nearly 28,000 remaining officers and men, free to return home without their major weapons but enabling men to take their horses and officers to retain their sidearms (swords and pistols), and effectively ending the war in Virginia.
This event triggered a series of subsequent surrenders across the South, in North Carolina, Alabama and finally Shreveport, Louisiana, for the Trans-Mississippi Theater in the West by June, signaling the end of the four-year-long war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Appomattox_Court_House
From April 2nd and the Fall of Petersburg to April 9th and the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, Confederate and Federal armies engaged in skirmishes and battles, including a major battle at Sailor’s Creek. The Confederates were desperate to get to Lynchburg for supplies and to break out to join Confederate forces in North Carolina. The Federals sought peace as Lincoln envisioned it, starting with the destruction or surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
The armies confronted each other on the gently rolling terrain in and around Appomattox Court House at dawn on April 9th. Confederates of the Secord Corps, under the leadership of Major General John B. Gordon, swept forward across the ridgelines to clash with the Federal cavalry of Major General Philip Sheridan. Initial assaults were successful, but Federal infantry from Major General Charles Griffin’s Fifth Corps and Major General John Gibbon’s Twenty Fourth Corps arrived after a forced march. These men, including some 5,000 United States Colored Troops, blocked Lee’s army from accessing roads to Lynchburg and Danville.
Confederates under the command of Lieutenant General James Longstreet could not provide support for Gordon because the Federal Second Corps of Major General Andrew A. Humphreys advanced against Longstreet’s troops. Grant, in a letter from April 7, had asked Lee to accept the “hopelessness of further resistance.” With his army surrounded, Lee now agreed with Grant’s assessment and ordered his officers to offer a white flag of truce.
Lee and Grant exchanged letters regarding the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. Grant’s terms, reflecting Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address and Lincoln’s recent guidance provided at City Point, Virginia, required a promise to surrender arms and not engage in further conflicts against the United States. Grant did not ask for unconditional surrender. Lee accepted the terms.
Sergeant Major William McCoslin, serving in the 29th Regiment USCI, declared in a May 1865 letter that “We the colored soldiers, have fairly won our rights by loyalty and bravery”. In contrast, Brigadier General Armistead Lindsay Long from the Army of Northern Virginia communicated that “It is impossible to describe the anguish of the troops when it was known that the surrender of the army was inevitable. Of all their trials, this was the greatest and hardest to endure”. On April 9, Colonel Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who served as part of the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry, chronicled that the “Rebels are half starved, and our men have divided their rations with them . . . . We did it cheerfully”. Brevet Major General Joshua Chamberlain stated that “Brave men may become good friends,” but Chamberlain further reported that a Confederate officer was more uncertain: “You’re mistaken, sir . . . . You may forgive us but we won’t be forgiven. There is rancor in our hearts . . . which you little dream of”.
On the evening of April 9, Pvt. Hiram W. Harding, who served in the 9th Virginia Cavalry Company D, described this poignant occasion in his diary: the “noble army of Northern Virginia was surrendered to day at ten O'clock & the Cavalry ordered to Buckingham courthouse there to be disbanded”. Federal officials printed parole passes for Confederate soldiers beginning on April 10th from the Clover Hill Tavern; the formal ceremony of the stacking of arms took place April 12th. The American myth of Appomattox, Grant, and Lee and their individual and nuanced symbolism sparked simultaneously with the surrender.
Written by Russ Wood, Appomattox Court House NHP Volunteer
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