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The winding east side entrance path to the Maryhill Museum of Art.
To the right is the historic, Sam Hill three-story Beaux Arts mansion. To the left, with Mount Hood in the background, is the museum's first physical expansion the Mary and Bruce Stevenson Wing that opened to the public in May 2012. It includes a plaza that overlooks the Columbia River, an education center, a collections suite, and a café.
The new contemporary wing blends in beautifully with the original Beaux Arts mansion as it extends south toward the cliffs that overlook the Columbia River. The Mary and Bruce Stevenson Wing was honored as Engineering News Record (ENR) Northwest’s 2012 Best Project. The expansion was also named by ENR as the Best Cultural / Worship Project in the Northwest in 2012. Together the museum’s two buildings have a combined 35,000 square feet of space.
On this sunny spring day (May 11, 2021) the landscaped 26 acres surrounding the museum are a lush green. The grounds contain several outdoor sculptures including Missive, a 1976 bronze by James Lee Hanson off the path to the right in the foreground. Maryhill’s gardens are an oasis of green within the stark, dry landscape of the eastern end of the Columbia River Gorge. The museum is surrounded by several expansive lawns, shade trees and picnic areas, and the William and Catherine Dickson Sculpture Park, where visitors can enjoy the large-scale outdoor sculptures from the museum’s permanent collection.
Lake County, Minnesota - October 20, 2019: The Joseph Alexander Visitor Center for Gooseberry Falls State Park during the autumn season
Helen is a city in White County, Georgia, United States, located along the Chattahoochee River. The population was 531 at the 2020 census. The city has now been made over, as a tourist attraction, to look like an old-world Bavarian village. This idea was suggested by John Kollock, an Atlanta artist.
Helen was laid out by John E. Mitchell of St. Louis during the years 1912 and 1913. When a name for the small settlement was being sought, a lumber official suggested the name of his daughter and there was little opposition. Called the "Star of the North," Helen was incorporated on August 18, 1913. Helen was built along the former route of the Unicoi Turnpike, a 1,000-year-old Native American trail connecting Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia.
Formerly a logging town in decline, Helen resurrected itself by becoming a replica of a Bavarian alpine town, in the Appalachians instead of the Alps. This design is mandated through zoning first adopted in 1969, so that the classic southern German style is present on every building, even on the small number of national franchisees present. In 1975, Documerica photographer Al Stephenson documented the life, recreation, and economy of the Helen area before and during the reconstruction of the settlement.
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The best-known dock in Liverpool is the Albert Dock, which was constructed in 1846
Liverpool is a city in North West England. Its growth as a major port was paralleled by the expansion of the city throughout the Industrial Revolution. In the 19th century, it was a major port of departure for Irish and English emigrants to North America. Liverpool's status as a port city has attracted a diverse population, which was historically drawn from a wide range of cultures and religions.
Several areas of the city centre were granted World Heritage Site status by UNESCO in 2004. The city celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2007, and was jointly named the 2008 European Capital of Culture.
Liverpool is closely associated with the arts, in particular music. The popularity of the Beatles and other music groups from the Merseybeat era contributed to the city's status as a tourist destination. The city has the second-highest number of art galleries and national museums in the United Kingdom, with only London having more.
Location: High Street, Swanage, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England.
The Ship Inn, established 1793 and still going strong!
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Location: High Street, Worcester, England on a rainy afternoon.
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Boracay Island claimed the 12th place in the Top 30 Islands in the World: Readers' Choice Awards 2014 by Conde Nast Traveler. Philippines' Boracay Island in Aklan was chosen for its “gentle coastlines and transporting sunsets.” Source: www.cntraveler.com/galleries/2014-10-20/top-30-islands-in...
Location: Alongside the Swan Hotel, on the River Leven, Newby Bridge, Cumbria, England.
The Swan Hotel has been around since 1623 and the hotel’s grand Georgian façade was added in 1766 – a time at which the hotel had become a stopping point for the Royal Mail stage coach.
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From The Guest House at Graceland, we go up Elvis Presley Blvd. just a bit and find this: not bad looking as far as little motels go, but for the more economy-minded tourists coming to Graceland of course -- and nothing wrong with that! This was a Scottish Inns location in the late 00's, then an Econo Lodge, and possibly even something else prior to becoming Memory Lane. It might look like a remodeled classic 1970's motel, but was built in 2005, on the site of a former (definitely classic!) 70's Denny's Restaurant.
An Iranian boy floats in the mineral waters of Badab-e Surt. As Wikipedia notes, Badab-e Surt "is a natural site in Mazandaran Province in northern Iran, 95 kilometres (59 mi) south of the city of Sari, and 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of Orost village. It comprises a range of stepped travertine terrace formations that has been created over thousands of years as flowing water from two mineral hot springs cooled and deposited carbonate minerals on the mountainside". Photo taken on August 07, 2008 in Badab-e Surt, Orost village, Mazandaran Province, Iran.
This sunrise shot was taken at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Tekapo, during during the Aotearoa Photography Adventure 2016 with #Frozenlite, in collaboration with #AhmadCaravan.
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Paseo en bote por Trang An. Esto fue en la última parada, antes de empezar el camino de vuelta. Un paseo en bote muy recomendable
Conservation area within the ancient village of Rivington, Lancashire, UK. - the building on the left was the Old Post Office and the building on the right the Old School House.
Rivington is a small village on the high moorland of the West Pennine Moors and lies about 6 miles to the southeast of Chorley.
It is an ancient village, dating from an early settlement of around 620-650 AD.
Chateau Gaillard was designed and built by Richard 1st, King of England, Duke of Normandy and more commonly known as Richard the Lionheart, in super fast time, taking only 2 years from 1196 to 1198.
Now 800 years later the ruins still sit majestically 90 metres above the picturesque town of Les Andelys and one of the most beautiful meanders of the river Seine in Normandy.
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Roozengaarde Tulip Display Gardens with a bit of Topaz Simplify Painterly applied. Both sides of the fence.
Plesiosaurs were not dinosaurs, they became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous, 65 million years ago, at the same time as the non-avian dinosaurs. Plesiosaurs had powerful swimming muscles attached to their expanded shoulder and pelvic bones, and they used their flippers to swim.
The 2008 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree came from Hamilton, New Jersey. The '08 Tree was donated by the Varanyak family. Tree Facts from the 2008 Tree Facts Postcard (photo by Bart Barlow): Norway Spruce. 72 feet tall, 40 feet wide. Approximately 82 years old. Weight- approximately 16,000 pounds. 30,000 LED lights. (This was the second year that LED bulbs were used on the Tree). A portion of the electrical energy used to light the Tree came from a new installation of photovoltaic panels installed in 2007 on the roof of 45 Rockefeller Plaza. The Tree was topped with a crystal star designed by Swarovski. The 550 pound star is 9 feet in diameter and 1.5 feet deep. It is decorated with 25,000 crystals, with one million facets. The Tree was lighted on December 3, 2008. The Tree's last day on Rockefeller Plaza was January 9, 2009.
Música (abrir en nueva pestaña) / Music (Open link in new tab): Ana Alcaide – Tishri.
El casco antiguo de Letur conserva prácticamente intacto el intrincado trazado medieval de origen musulmán. Pasear por sus estrechas y tortuosas calles es toda una grata experiencia que nos transporta a tiempos de antaño.
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Panoramic view from the Laugavegurinn hiking trail to Landmannalaugar with Brennisteinsalda volcano in the middle, Blahnjukur on the right and Sudurnamur in background. Laugavegurinn is the most popular hiking trail in Iceland, leading from glacial valley of Thorsmork through volcanic terrain to Landmannalaugar natural park in South Iceland.
Location: The royal estate, Sandringham, Norfolk, England.
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Side street off Avenue Moterey in Luxembourg city www.picfair.com/pics/07066164-side-street-in-luxembourg-city
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue. Brightly lit by numerous billboards and advertisements, it stretches from West 42nd to West 47th Streets, and is sometimes referred to as "the Crossroads of the World", "the Center of the Universe", "the heart of the Great White Way", and "the heart of the world". One of the world's busiest pedestrian areas, it is also the hub of the Broadway Theater District and a major center of the world's entertainment industry. Times Square is one of the world's most visited tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 50 million visitors annually. Approximately 330,000 people pass through Times Square daily, many of them tourists, while over 460,000 pedestrians walk through Times Square on its busiest days.
Formerly known as Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the then newly erected Times Building, now One Times Square. It is the site of the annual New Year's Eve ball drop, which began on December 31, 1907 and continues to attract over a million visitors to Times Square every year.
Times Square functions as a town square, but is not geometrically a square; it is closer in shape to a bowtie, with two triangles emanating roughly north and south from 45th Street, where Seventh Avenue intersects Broadway. Broadway runs diagonally, crossing through the horizontal and vertical street grid of Manhattan laid down by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, and that intersection creates the "bowtie" shape of Times Square.
The southern triangle of Times Square has no specific name, but the northern triangle is called Father Duffy Square. It was dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's U.S. 69th Infantry Regiment and is the site of a memorial to him, along with a statue of George M. Cohan, and the TKTS ticket booth.
Early History
When Manhattan Island was first settled by the Dutch, three small streams united near what is now 10th Avenue and 40th Street. These three streams formed the "Great Kill" (Dutch: Grote Kil). From there the Great Kill wound through the low-lying Reed Valley, known for fish and waterfowl and emptied into a deep bay in the Hudson River at the present 42nd Street. The name was retained in a tiny hamlet, Great Kill, that became a center for carriage-making, as the upland to the south and east became known as Longacre.
Before and after the American Revolution, the area belonged to John Morin Scott, a general of the New York militia, in which he served under George Washington. Scott's manor house was at what is currently 43rd Street, surrounded by countryside used for farming and breeding horses. In the first half of the 19th century, it became one of the prized possessions of John Jacob Astor, who made a second fortune selling off lots to hotels and other real estate concerns as the city rapidly spread uptown.
By 1872, the area had become the center of New York's horse carriage industry. The locality had not previously been given a name, and city authorities called it Longacre Square after Long Acre in London, where the horse and carriage trade was centered in that city. William Henry Vanderbilt owned and ran the American Horse Exchange there. In 1910 it became the Winter Garden Theatre.
As more profitable commerce and industrialization of Lower Manhattan pushed homes, theaters, and prostitution northward from the Tenderloin District, Longacre Square became nicknamed the Thieves Lair for its rollicking reputation as a low entertainment district. The first theater on the square, the Olympia, was built by cigar manufacturer and impresario Oscar Hammerstein I. According to Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, "By the early 1890s this once sparsely settled stretch of Broadway was ablaze with electric light and thronged by crowds of middle- and upper-class theatre, restaurant and cafe patrons."
Time Square
Times Square is zowel een plein als een buurt in Manhattan, New York in de buurt van 42nd Street en Broadway. De naam is afgeleid van het voormalige hoofdkantoor van de krant The New York Times. Tot de bouw daarvan in 1904 heette het plein Longacre Square.
Het plein ligt op de kruising van Broadway en Seventh Avenue tussen West 42nd Street tot West 47th Street. Onder het plein ligt het metrostation Times Square-42nd Street.
Het plein is het culturele centrum van New York. In de jaren tachtig van de 20e eeuw stond de buurt er echter zeer slecht bij. Door een gezamenlijk initiatief van overheid en ondernemers kreeg de buurt na 1990 weer allure, alhoewel critici het zonde vonden dat de oorspronkelijke rauwe sfeer was verdwenen en kleine ondernemers oneerlijk waren behandeld.
Opvallende kenmerken van het plein Times Square zijn de elektronische billboards, waarvan er meer dan 50 hangen. De theaterwijk Broadway, genoemd naar de straat, bevindt zich hier.
Elke oudejaarsavond zijn er veel mensen op en rond het plein. Even voor twaalf uur kunnen zij een grote, glanzende bal, de Times Square Ball, zien dalen langs een 23 meter hoge vlaggenmast boven op One Times Square. Vele miljoenen mensen volgen dit rechtstreeks op de televisie.
In New York staat het plein ook wel bekend als Crossroads of the World.
Sinds 2009 is een groot deel van Times Square afgesloten voor gemotoriseerd verkeer en als voetgangersgebied aangewezen.
Miami is a seaport city at the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Florida and its Atlantic coast. As the seat of Miami-Dade County, the municipality is the principal, central, and the most populous city of the Miami metropolitan area and part of the second-most populous metropolis in the southeastern United States.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Miami's metro area is the eighth-most populous and fourth-largest urban area in the U.S., with a population of around 5.5 million.
Miami is a major center, and a leader in finance, commerce, culture, media, entertainment, the arts, and international trade. In 2012, Miami was classified as an Alpha−World City in the World Cities Study Group's inventory. In 2010, Miami ranked seventh in the United States in terms of finance, commerce, culture, entertainment, fashion, education, and other sectors. It ranked 33rd among global cities. In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Miami "America's Cleanest City", for its year-round good air quality, vast green spaces, clean drinking water, clean streets, and citywide recycling programs.
According to a 2009 UBS study of 73 world cities, Miami was ranked as the richest city in the United States, and the world's fifth-richest city in terms of purchasing power. Miami is nicknamed the "Capital of Latin America" and is the largest city with a Cuban-American plurality.
Miami has the third tallest skyline in the U.S. with over 300 high-rises. Downtown Miami is home to the largest concentration of international banks in the United States, and many large national and international companies. The Civic Center is a major center for hospitals, research institutes, medical centers, and biotechnology industries.
For more than two decades, the Port of Miami, known as the "Cruise Capital of the World", has been the number one cruise passenger port in the world. It accommodates some of the world's largest cruise ships and operations and is the busiest port in both passenger traffic and cruise lines.
Metropolitan Miami is the major tourism hub in the American South, number two in the U.S. after New York City and number 13 in the world, including the popular destination of Miami Beach.
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