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This is Torch Lake in Northern Michigan. Rumor has it that National Geographic calls this lake the 3rd most beautiful in the world. The lake is 22 miles long and roughly 1 mile wide. The water temperature was primarily 72 degrees, crystal clear and just perfect. I love this place!
Familiar from the modern Olympics, it really did come from the ancients. Adapted from the interpretive sign:
It was used in torchlight processions and in races during celebrations in honor of fire gods in various cities of Greece. Day and night races were held, with men and teenagers; later, races with mounted men and children were added. Sometimes the game was a team sport and sometimes it was an individual game. E.g., in Athens during the classical period 40 runners from each race passed the torch in succession, covering a total distance of a little more than one kilometer, and the team of the race that finished first with the torch on fire won, while in the same city Pausanias describes a race that each athlete holds his own torch. In Olympia the runners were all placed together at a distance of one stadium from the altar and the priest offered a lighted torch to the first one who touched the altar; he received the honor of lighting it. The torch was made of bronze and usually consisted of a tube in which several thin wooden sticks smeared with pitch black or resin were placed. Usually, the sticks were additionally tied crosswise with strings. A small shield was fitted to the the tube to protect the athlete from dripping molten material. The tube was long enough at the lower end that it could be held by the hands of two athletes when passing the flame. Also, in this way the torch could stand on its own.
This marvelous museum is a labor of love from Greek engineer and historian Konstantinos Kotsanas. He researched the ancient Greek technologies and built all of the models himself, funding it out-of-pocket.
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Guildford was the host of an "evening celebration event" at the end of Day 63 of the Olympic Torch Relay. This was held at Stoke Park, and due to there being no parking at the site, four park and ride services were operated, managed by Arriva Guildford & West Surrey.
The park and ride to Merrist Wood College, Worplesdon (at GU3 3PE) was operated by Arriva Guildford & West Surrey using a mixture of its own buses and vehicles hired in from its sister Southern Counties subsidiaries.
It used the back half of stop A at the Spectrum leisure centre, which is the stop usually used by standard Guildford park and ride service 100 to pick up passengers going to/from the leisure centre itself. The layby is two buses long, which came in handy as it meant two routes could use it.
All four park and ride services were free (though obviously open only to ticket holders of the event) and started at 1.00pm, running to 5.30pm. There was then a gap until 'home time', with services running from 7.30pm to 10.30pm, although last buses departed from the Spectrum at 10.00pm.
Parking at the sites was on a first come, first serve basis. The services were scheduled to run every 20 minutes, though in practice were running far more frequently than that, with buses departing the terminus as soon as they were full.
Photographed at 2024 is Maidstone-based Arriva Kent & Sussex Dennis Trident/Alexander ALX400 5434 (W434 XKX). I don't think that this job is usually part of running number 'MD551'! It should have felt at home at Guildford, not least because its chassis was built a five minute drive away, but also as it carried route branding for Maidstone service 71 on its rear end only, a situation remarkably similar to what arose on Guildford's route 3-branded Darts...
The Olympic torch relay on the Cardiff leg. They had just run up Corporation road to the junction next to the little Tesco.
A heart was drawn with a torch as I took the picture. Creating a light trail of a heart.
*new group* Torch Trails!
The Olympic torch came through Huddersfield at 12 midday today. It came right past my house too, so I ran along with it for a while.
I used f/4 on purpose, because it gives me choices over what I want to focus on. I mostly focused on the torch carriers, but I prefer the focus on the crowd here. It's all about the crowd!
Olympic Torch Relay - Aylesbury - 9 July 2012
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Torch holders 002 (left) and 003 (right), of the Cardiff leg of the relay, exchange the flame. The Wales Millennium Centre is in the background.
Yes - on the morning of 2/6/75 there was snow on the hills! Taken from the Cloch Point, Gourock caravan park, Clyde Port Authority's Lighthouse/Bouy tender 'Torch' (1924) passes . At the time she was apparently the oldest steam vessel sailing regularly on the Clyde - being sold in '78 and scrapped in 1980.
BEIJING - CHINA - 4 February 2022: IOC President Thomas Bach with Abdulla Shahid during the torch relay ahead of BEIJING 2022, the XXIV IOC Olympic Winter Games.
Also on the relay were President of UN General Assembly Abdulla Shahid, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, IOC Young Leader from China: Shiling Lin and Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Photograph by IOC/Greg Martin
When I saw the clue Torch for the July 2012 MSH, I knew immediately that I would be setting a match to a flammable substance.
One far from any building, vehicle, or other flammable source, of course, and with a fire extinguisher on standby.
Photo © 2012 J. Ronald Lee.
Torched Hop Brewing Company (brewpub)
Atlanta (Midtown), Georgia, USA.
18 November 2016.
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▶ Holy Citramony Pilsner
"100% Citra hopped German Pilsner. Citra hops are now one with lager yeast. This 100% Citra hopped lager is an American twist on a traditional German Pilsner. A huge aroma of pineapple and mango leads to a crushable finish. "
5.4% alcohol-by-volume (abv)
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The torched remains of a cartel driven SUV that was part of a two vehicle attempt to cross the border in the early hours of May 14, 2016, lies on the Mexican side of the border where it will probably remain well into the next century.
While the perpetrators were able to cut through the steel barrier with a cutting torch, this Ford Explorer became buried in the sand when the perpetrators attempted to pull the large piece of the barrier that they had cut free into Mexico, in order to drive their vehicle(s) into the United States.
The Border Patrol spent the rest of the day playing "wack-a-mole" with about ten individuals from this group who were trying to cross the border without the use of their vehicles.
The cartel must have come back and striped the SUV before they torched it because the plates and the wheel rims are obviously missing.
International Border Between Coyote Wells and Calexico - Imperial County California.
(November 20, 2016)
The Olympic torch went right past my house this morning, so I thought I'd go out and take some pictures and a video. They were supposed to go down Commercial Drive but didn't - I'm guessing because of protesters. So it went down Clark Drive, about 10 or so blocks west, then came past my house on 1st ave. The Olympics are a pretty contoversial topic here, and I'm wondering what the rest of the world is hearing about that side of things. Will you let me know?
Union Pacific was kind enough to operate this special-engine-laden westbound through Rochelle, Illinois, on my birthday in 2006. Included are one of the Olympic Torch Relay engines, the United Way engine, and the C&NW heritage unit. This was the last time I would see the United Way engine.
Olympic torch passing through Rochester, Kent, 20 July 2012
The torch bearer is Sarah Mooney - www.london2012.com/torch-relay/torchbearers/torchbearers=...