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Exactly 222 Years Ago Today, Beethoven Premiered His 1st Symphony - IMRAN™
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Yesterday I posted about ABBA's creating a song, Voulez-Vous, 43 years ago. Well, just a few countries over, exactly 222 years ago today, on April 2, 1800, the musical legend and genius Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his 1st Symphony in C Major, at the Vienna Burgtheater.
He was 29 then, and also performed on the piano at the premiere. While some of his other pieces of music are more dramatic and recognized by the masses, his first one was also notable for changing many of the practices of the time.
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Nikon D80. 105mm f/2.8G IF ED AF-S VR Micro Nikkor. f/3.2. ISO 320. Shutter 1/160 hand held. AWB. Manual Exposure, Manual Focus.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 image size reduction.
This a perfect model I say, slow but had to wait a while till he starts his engine. Real slow.
Have a good day, you all.
Camera: Nikon D700. Exposure: (1/640). Aperture: f/1.8. Focal Length: 50 mm. ISP Speed 320. Manual Exposure. Manual Focus. Sharpness set to maximum.
Adobe Photoshop CS3. Black and White Layer. Set it to Luminosity and then adjusted the Red, Blue and Yellow. A new layer of Radial Blur set to a 100%. Layer masked, removed the Radial Blur from the left side.
Location: Male' International Airport Entrance.
Listening to Tabloid Junkie by Michael Jackson
Some will declare that Muhammad Ali was the greatest fighter of all time. If a person is sucked in by the hype promoted by Ali and Howard Cosell, that would be easy to do. Ali no doubt dominated the golden age of boxing.
There was another boxer though, a puncher, who had a reputation for putting his opponent down within three rounds. That boxer was Big George Foreman. In his career, Foreman eclipsed Ali, fighting 81 bouts, winning 69 by knock-out. Like Ali, he suffered only five losses. Because of the way Foreman dominated the ring, many did not believe he had the legs to stand twelve rounds. After Ali regained his title in 1974 by defeating George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire by exploiting this percieved weakness, Foreman had a hard time shaking the image of a fighter who could not go the distance.
In 1987, after 10 years away from the ring, Foreman surprised the boxing world by announcing a comeback at the age of 38. His intent was to remove the WBA, WBC, and IBF belts from Mike Tyson's waist. He never got the chance. Tyson lost to Buster Douglas first. Then Evander Holyfield won the undisputed heavyweight champion title. In 1991, Foreman was given the opportunity to fight Holyfield. To the amazement of critics, Foreman went the entire 12 rounds but lost the fight on points.
Finally, on November 5, 1994, George Foreman met heavyweight champion Michael Moorer in the ring in Las Vegas. Foreman wasn't given a chance by the bookies. He wore the same red trunks which he had worn against Muhammad Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle twenty years earlier. It was an exhibition fight, but the title was at stake. Moorer wasn't concerned. He stood toe to toe and outboxed Foreman for nine rounds. Then in the tenth round, Foreman began herding Moorer with hooks. He nailed Moorer with a combination of long jabs. Next, Foreman closed in and threw a short jab that caught Moorer on the chin, busting open his lip and dropping him to the canvas.
With that blow, at the age of 45 years old, Foreman regained the undisputed heavyweight title that he had lost to Muhammad Ali. He became the oldest fighter ever to win the world heavyweight crown. Twenty years after losing his title for the first time, he broke the record for the longest interval between his first and second world championships. The age spread of 19 years between the champion and challenger was the broadest of any heavweight boxing championship fight in history.
Today, Foreman is an ordained minister, an author and a successful entrepreneur. He is ranked #9 on Ring magazine's list of "100 greatest punchers of all time". ESPN ranked Foreman as the eighth greatest All-Time Heavyweight. George Foreman was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2003. To many, he will forever remain the Champ. He proved that determination and stamina comes in many forms.
The Rogue Players: Today In History
Legendary Nights The Tale of Foreman Moorer Part 1/3
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Strobist: AlienBee 800 with HOBD-W camera left. Reflector camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
17. Today in History - pick a day in the month, any day, find what happened on that day in History (anywhere, anytime) post a photo representing that event, may or may not use PP, each to their own. Must include an explanation about the event.
Tuesday, July 19, 1814 - the death of Matthew Flinders, the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia.
I have always wanted to do something on Matthew Flinders not only because of the great Australian Explorer he was and a nautical one to boot, but because it has been a journey that I too have undertaken. We were both born of an adventurous spirit and we both have circumnavigated "Terra Australis", Flinders being the first. Read on if you like; it might be a bit long.
Matthew Flinders - Born: 16 March 1774 in Donington, Lincolnshire, England. Died: 19 July 1814 (aged 40) London, England.
Flinders and George Bass did much sea exploration around Australia, adding to the knowledge of the coastline, and producing accurate maps. As well as being the first to circumnavigate Australia, Flinders, together with Bass, was the first to prove that Van Diemen's Land, or Tasmania, was an island and not connected to the mainland. Australia was previously known as New Holland, and after Captain Cook claimed the continent for England in 1770, the entire eastern half became known as New South Wales. Flinders was the one who first proposed the name "Terra Australis", which became "Australia", the name adopted in 1824.
Flinders' work had come to the attention of many of the scientists of the day, in particular the influential Sir Joseph Banks, to whom Flinders dedicated his Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land, on Bass's Strait etc. Banks used his influence with Earl Spencer to convince the Admiralty of the importance of an expedition to chart the coastline of New Holland. As a result, in January 1801, Flinders was given command of the Investigator, a 334-ton sloop, and promoted to commander the following month.
The Investigator set sail for New Holland on 18 July 1801. Attached to the expedition was the botanist Robert Brown, botanical artist Ferdinand Bauer and landscape artist William Westall. Due to the scientific nature of the expedition, Flinders was issued with a French passport, despite England and France then being at war.
Aboard the Investigator Flinders reached and named Cape Leeuwin on 6 December 1801, and proceeded to make a survey along the southern coast of the Australian mainland.
On 8 April 1802, while sailing east, Flinders sighted the Géographe, a French corvette commanded by the explorer Nicolas Baudin, who was on a similar expedition for his government. Both men of science, Flinders and Baudin met and exchanged details of their discoveries, Flinders named the bay Encounter Bay.
Proceeding along the coast Flinders explored Port Phillip (now the site of Melbourne), which unbeknownst to him had been discovered only 10 weeks earlier by John Murray aboard the Lady Nelson. Flinders scaled Arthur's Seat, the highest point near the shores of the southernmost parts of the bay, where the ship had entered through The Heads. From there he saw a vast view of the surrounding land and bays. Flinders reported back to Governor King that the land had "a pleasing and, in many parts, a fertile appearance". He stated on 1 May, "I left the ship's name on a scroll of paper, deposited in a small pile of stones upon the top of the peak". Here, Flinders was drawing upon a British tradition of constructing a stone cairn to mark a historical location. The Matthew Flinders Cairn, which was later enlarged, is located on the upper slopes of Arthurs Seat a short distance below Chapman's Point.
With stores running low, Flinders proceeded to Sydney, arriving on 9 May 1802.
Having hastily prepared the ship, Flinders set sail again on 22 July 1802, heading north and surveying the coast of Queensland. From there he passed through the Torres Strait, and explored the Gulf of Carpentaria. During this time, the ship was discovered to be badly leaking, and despite careening, they were unable to effect the necessary repairs. Reluctantly, Flinders returned to Sydney, though via the western coast, completing the circumnavigation of the continent. On the way, Flinders jettisoned two wrought iron anchors, which were found by divers in 1973 at Middle Island, Recherche Archipelago in Western Australia. The best bower anchor is on display at the South Australian Maritime Museum while the stream anchor can be seen at the National Museum of Australia.
Arriving in Sydney on 9 June 1803, the Investigator was subsequently judged to be unseaworthy and condemned.
Unable to find another vessel suitable to continue his exploration, Flinders set sail for England as a passenger aboard HMS Porpoise. However the ship was wrecked on Wreck Reefs, part of the Great Barrier Reef, approximately 700 miles (1127 km) north of Sydney. Flinders navigated the ship's cutter across open sea back to Sydney, and arranged for the rescue of the remaining marooned crew. Flinders then took command of the 29-ton schooner Cumberland in order to return to England, but the poor condition of the vessel forced him to put in at French-controlled Isle de France (now known as Mauritius) for repairs on 17 December 1803.
Flinders was detained by the French, on the island of Mauritius. He was kept prisoner until 1810 on the grounds that he was a spy. He was finally released to return to England, but his health began to fail and he died young, on 19 July 1814. (Some accounts say Flinders died on 15 July 1814) Before his death he completed a book on his travels called 'A Voyage to Terra Australis', and died on the day that his book was published.
I do not own this image. It is provided for media use by the Lego Group (www.lego.com/en-us/AboutUs/), and I am using it in an article for BellaOnline (todayinhistory.bellaonline.com).
From 1989 - record cold temperature - so early. Wasn't even winter yet - Hence the need to use the glowing edges filter with photo shop!
From 1845 - 525 turkeys walking through the streets the day before Thanksgiving - a day where turkey the meal o_O`