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Series: Where Spirituality meets Physicality60 x 40" Mixed Media & Acrylics on Canvas2013 (c) Deb Chaney
In this room on April 9th 1865, General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
Well...not exactly. The orginal McLean farm house was pretty much gone by the end of the 19th century. The National Park Service painstakingly reconstructed the building and made things as close to what they were at the end of the Civil War.
The desk on the far left was used by Lee, and the desk in the center was used by Grant.
National Park Service volunteer Dave Pearson speaks to a group of Arlington National Cemetery visitors at the marker of Union Gen. Edward Ord in Section 2 not far from Robert E. Lee's Arlington House home on the evening of April 4. A number of grave tours featuring Union officers present at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 when Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. The tours were part of a 150th commemoration of that Civil War surrender. (Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall photo by Jim Dresbach)
Cello became jealous upon Dante's arrival, but after a week and lots of playing the police around, I think things are getting back to what they used to be. The little new one isn't as fast a learner as Cello, on all accounts and by far, but he pleased us today by managing to succeed a long walk on St-Denis and Mont-Royal street, which are streets of high traffic in Montreal. As a result, they both suffer from intense sleepiness. :-)
Montréal, Canada. 12Oct2009
One of the Sculptures by Patrick Amiot, Painted by his partner Brigitte Laurent, in Sebastopol, California. Their website is www.patrickamiot.com/
悪魔に魂 売りましょか
黒い炎が チロチロ燃えて ほんとの 自分を 見つけたの
Surrender my soul to the devil
The black fire burning crisply
I have finally seen my true self
Perhaps I'm too weird or too dark or too otaku.... "Ooo! Look, the Oni King is sitting on National Diet Building* in East Osaka?"
But I loved the Higashiōsaka sim. To me this vision of hell is one of the most beautifully executed sims in the entirety of the grid. My friends all seemed to dislike it, though.
*Japan National symbol in Tokyo akin to the US Capitol Building.
"Unconditional Surrender", a 25-foot statue created by renowned artist J. Seward Johnson, was temporarily taken down from its location along the bayfront in Sarasota, FL so that it can undergo maintenance in New Jersey. It will make the 1,100 mile trip on the back of a truck. The driver was measuring this piece of the statue to make sure it met road safety restrictions. Vist my daily photo blog: www.srqjet.blogspot.com
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,731,571 in 2016, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,245,438 people (as of 2016) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) proper had a 2016 population of 6,417,516. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
People have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops. York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto. It was designated as the capital of the province of Ontario in 1867 during Canadian Confederation. The city proper has since expanded past its original borders through both annexation and amalgamation to its current area of 630.2 km2 (243.3 sq mi).
The diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada. More than 50 percent of residents belong to a visible minority population group, and over 200 distinct ethnic origins are represented among its inhabitants. While the majority of Torontonians speak English as their primary language, over 160 languages are spoken in the city.
Toronto is a prominent centre for music, theatre, motion picture production, and television production, and is home to the headquarters of Canada's major national broadcast networks and media outlets. Its varied cultural institutions, which include numerous museums and galleries, festivals and public events, entertainment districts, national historic sites, and sports activities, attract over 43 million tourists each year. Toronto is known for its many skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, the CN Tower.
The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations. Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism.
Source: localwiki.org/toronto/Graffiti_Alley
Graffiti Alley in The Fashion District runs south of Queen Street West from Spadina Avenue to Portland Street beginning at 1 rush lane, Toronto, Ontario Canada . It is one of the best known location to see Toronto Graffiti.
There is about a kilometer's worth of wall space of varying quality.
A graffiti event called Style in Progress has taken over graffiti alley for a 24-hour period of legal painting, during the 2000s. Nowadays the alley is still frequently painted, but the artist should ask the permission to the building or shop owner.
The Alley was also home to the Secret Swing.
CBC Comedian Rick Mercer often films his famous weekly TV on air Commentary while walking through Graffiti Alley using the Murals as his backdrop. Result being, many Canadians may not know the name of this alley nor the exact location, but they can recognize it once they see it while walking through here in person.
Source: www.atlasobscura.com/places/graffiti-alley-rush-lane
LOCATED WITHIN TORONTO’S FASHION District, Graffiti Alley runs parallel to the trendy stretch of Queen Street West. It encompasses three city blocks and includes the contiguous alleyway of Rush Lane. It’s a popular spot to view some of the best examples of Toronto’s vibrant street art and mural culture.
Previously a hotspot for unsanctioned graffiti art, Graffiti Alley sparked a fight for legalization by the Queen Street West Business Improvement Association. In 2011, it was designated as an area of municipal significance, and StreetARToronto, or StART, a program that provides funding and approval for public murals and graffiti art, was born from the struggle.
Today, Graffiti Alley is a popular backdrop for photoshoots, as well as a place to see works by iconic artists like Duro the Third, uber5000, and ELICSER. It has served as the venue for small street festivals, a set for music videos, and for a time, had a restaurant named after it.
Washington had marched all the way here from New York, scrapping his plans to attack that city BEFORE he learned that the French had defeated the British Navy here. His chance paid off, and bad weather prevented Cornwallis from escaping across the river. With additional British troops an unknown distance away, Cornwallis had no choice but to surrender. The troops came to this field and threw down their arms desultorily.
It took two more years to officially end the war, but after Yorktown, it was pretty much over.
A ceremony was held April 11, 2015, in the Bataan Memorial Park in Albuquerque, N.M. In addition to the New Mexico National Guard's 44th Army Band, leadership of New Mexico National Guard, and scores of citizens, a few of the remaining World War II veterans participated in the ceremony. Also in attendance was the Philippine Consul General, Leo M. Herrera-Lim. Ernest Montoya, who served with the New Mexico National Guard 515th Coast Artillery and William Overmier, who served in the New Mexico National Guard 200th Coast Artillery, raised and lowered the white flag of surrender then the POW flag. Herrera-Lim said in his remarks, "I'm humbled to be part of this ceremony because for us,as [general] Fox so eloquently put, we are one. We stood not in representation of our countries alone, but in representation of our freedom."
The New Mexico National Guard provided a full ensemble of musicians, a color guard and soldiers who performed a 21 gun salute. (Released, U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Anna Doo, New Mexico National Guard Public Affairs Office)
"Unconditional Surrender" is a 25-foot tall, 6,000 pound sculpture created by J. Seward Johnson. Based on a photo taken the day World War II ended, it features a sailor kissing a nurse.
www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=43227
This shot gives a sense of scale.
Lee's Surrender overshot blanket, ready to weave. This felt good!
I assume that this weaving pattern came from sometime around the Civil War, given the name. I can't wait to actually have it finished!
"Unconditional Surrender", a 25-foot statue created by renowned artist J. Seward Johnson, was temporarily taken down from its location along the bayfront in Sarasota, FL so that it can undergo maintenance in New Jersey. Crews had a tough time dismantling it. They used a blow torch, wrenches, and a sledge hammer but the bolts wouldn't budge.
Just 400 yards north of the "South of the Border" tourist stop off I-95 at the North Carolina / South Carolina border, an abandoned homestead gives the appearance a dustbowl movie set
Atherton was surrendered to SH today from a local family who no longer wanted him because the kids would not clean out the cage. Atherton arrived in filthy moldy cage with a wooden shelf and wooden hidey house covered in mold. The cage was so bad I wouldn't let the family take it out of their truck. Atherton is too thin and he has lice and mites. :( He's about 1 year old, an Agouti rat. I took him home right away and put him in a cage, treated his parasites and fed him and he was so hungry he ate for two hours. Tomorrow I'll move him into a larger cage and find a spayed female for him. I named him Atherton!
Xanthos or Xanthus, also referred to by scholars as Arna, its Lycian name,[1] (Turkish: Ksantos, Lycian: Arñna, Greek: Ξάνθος, Latin: Xanthus) was an ancient city near the present-day village of Kınık, in Antalya Province, Turkey. The ruins are located on a hill on the left bank of the River Xanthos. The number and quality of the surviving tombs at Xanthos are a notable feature of the site, which, together with nearby Letoon, was declared to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.
The city of Xanthos was a centre of culture and commerce for the Lycians, and later for the Persians, Greeks and Romans who in turn conquered the region. Xanthos influenced its neighbours architecturally; the Nereid Monument directly inspired the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus in the region of Caria.
History
The acropolis of Xanthos dates from the 8th century BCE.[2] The city was mentioned by ancient Greek and Roman writers. The Greek historian Strabo noted that Xanthos was the largest city in Lycia.[3] The important religious sanctuary of Leto at Letoon, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of Xanthos, dates from the late 6th century BC,[4] and was closely associated with the city and linked by a sacred road.[5]
Under the Persian Empire
The Greek historians Herodotus and Appian both described the conquest of the city by the Median general Harpagus on behalf of the Persian Empire, According to Herodotus, the Persians defeated a small Lycian army in the flatlands to the north of the city in c. 540 BC.[6] The Lycians retreated into the city, which Harpagus then besieged. The Lycians destroyed their acropolis, and killed their wives, children and slaves, before engaging the enemy in a suicidal attack.[7]
During the Persian occupation, a local leadership was installed and by 520 BC it was minting coins.[8] By 516 BC Xanthos had been included in the first Nomos of Darius I in the tribute list.[9]
Conquest by Alexander the Great
From Telmessos the army of Alexander the Great marched over the mountains to Xanthos. There representatives from each of the cities of the Lycian League, including the port of Phaselis, personally offered the Lycians' submission, which was accepted. Alexander was encouraged when he found a sacred spring close to the River Xanthus, and obtained from there an inscribed bronze tablet that predicted that the Greeks would destroy the Persian Empire.[10]
Reports on the city's surrender to Alexander the Great differ: Arrian reports a peaceful surrender, but Appian claims that the city was sacked.[7] After Alexander's death, Xanthos was captured by Ptolemy I Soter from Antigonos.[11]
Roman period
Xanthus was in the Roman province of Lycia.[12] In 42 BC Brutus came to Lycia in the Roman Civil Wars, to obtain funds for his campaign in that year before the Battle of Philippi. The Lycian League refused to contribute; Brutus besieged Xanthos and the city was once again destroyed and only 150 Xanthian men survived the carnage. But Plutarch describes the carnage as self-inflicted, with Brutus and his Romans trying but unable to save the city from flames. In his words, 150 “did not escape having their lives saved.” Plutarch explains such suicidal behavior by the city’s similar response to Persian conquest generations earlier. [13] It was rebuilt under Mark Antony.[14]
Most of the buildings visible today were built during the Later Empire. The town took on a grid plan. A large piazza with porticoes was built in the west, probably where the classical agora was. There was also a triple-naved building which may have started as a pagan basilica and then become a church. There was probably a large porticoed avenue terminated with. a gateway.[