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Condos and office buildings line the shore of Biscayne Bay. This view of Brickell Avenue is from Rickenbacker Causeway looking north.

 

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China. Yunnan. Dali.

 

Market day in Xizhou.

 

The Bai used to weave a type of cloth called Tonghua 1,800 years ago. Bai people came up with their own type and style of attire during the Nanzhao Regime (737 – 902) and the Dali Kingdom (937 – 1253).

 

Today, Bai people wear bright clothing in coordinating colors. The fabric and embroidery used is delicate. Many pieces of Bai clothing will have a camellia flower represented on it. This flower symbolizes beauty. Often, a red scarf and a white outer layer will be worn to resemble a blooming camellia.

 

Many Bai people prefer the color white. This is because white signifies a high social status as well as dignity. Typically, white is seen somewhere on the clothing of a Bai person. Men often wear a white outer layer and white pants. Women tend to wear more colorful clothing than men, but white is always an element of their outfit. Most Bai females will wear a white, pink or light blue outer layer and a dark pink, purple or pink waistcoat.

 

If a girl is unmarried, she’ll wear her hair in a ponytail. Her hair will have a red string tied around the end of it. The string will also coil around the girl’s head. Most unmarried women will wear an embroidered apron.

 

The headscarf that’s worn on most Bai women’s heads is shaped liked a crescent. It represents a flower in the wind and the moon on a snowy evening. The top part of the scarf is white while the lower part of the scarf is embroidered with flowers. The tail of the scarf drapes over one shoulder and sways with the wind.

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BRACCIANO (ROMA-LAZIO)

 

1. Historia y Orígenes

Fundación: Las primeras fortificaciones en el sitio datan del siglo X, pero la estructura actual fue construida en el siglo XV (entre 1470 y 1485) por la familia noble Orsini.

 

Arquitectura: Fue diseñado por el arquitecto Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Su propósito dual era ser tanto una fortaleza militar (con gruesos muros, torreones y almenas) como una residencia principesca para una de las familias más poderosas de Roma.

 

2. Las Familias Propietarias

Los Orsini: La familia que lo construyó y vivió en él durante siglos.

 

Los Odescalchi: En el siglo XVII, el castillo fue adquirido por la familia Odescalchi. El castillo sigue siendo propiedad de esta familia, lo que ha contribuido a su excelente estado de conservación a lo largo del tiempo.

 

3. Características Clave

La Torre Circular (Torreón): La característica más dominante en tu foto es la gran torre circular (Torreón) con almenas güelfas (cuadradas), típica de las fortificaciones de esa época.

 

El Entorno: El castillo domina la ciudad de Bracciano y el pintoresco Lago de Bracciano, lo que le proporciona una posición defensiva estratégica y vistas espectaculares.

 

4. Uso Actual

El Castello Orsini-Odescalchi está abierto al público como un museo que alberga colecciones de arte, frescos y muebles antiguos.

 

También es mundialmente famoso por ser un lugar popular para celebrar bodas y eventos de lujo, especialmente después de que celebridades lo eligieran como escenario para sus ceremonias.

 

La Escena en tu Foto...

 

Primer plano: Las casas más modestas, de color ocre y con persianas de madera, que forman la estructura del pueblo medieval adyacente.

 

Fondo: La imponente y masiva muralla de piedra del castillo, que se eleva sobre el pueblo, mostrando su poder y solidez.

Matemwe Beach, Zanzibar, Tanzania

 

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The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is an orthodox church in the Tallinn Old Town, Estonia. It was built to a design by Mikhail Preobrazhensky in a typical Russian Revival style between 1894 and 1900, during the period when the country was part of the Russian Empire. The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is Tallinn's largest and grandest orthodox cupola cathedral. It is dedicated to Saint Alexander Nevsky who in 1242 won the Battle of the Ice on Lake Peipus, in the territorial waters of present-day Estonia. The current Russian patriarch, Alexis II, started his priestly ministry in the church.

 

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We took the White Line.

Length: 2.9 km, travel time: 13.1 min, stations: 4, opened: March 2018

 

Then, the Green Line:

Length: 3.7 km, travel time: 16.6 min, stations: 4, opened: December 2014

 

A system of urban transit aerial cable cars called Mi Teleférico ('My Cable Car') was opened in 2014. Currently eight lines are in operation, and three more lines are in the planning stage. The initial three lines were built by the Austrian company Doppelmayr. The first two lines (Red and Yellow) connected La Paz with El Alto. All stations have both a Spanish name and an Aymara name.

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The Newtown Monuments consist of a large medieval cathedral, two monasteries and small church which date from 1206.

 

The descriptions that I have seen are a bit confusing in that most of them are different to a lesser or greater degree.

 

My current understanding is that the main building is the Church of St Peter and St Paul (sometimes called a cathedral). The smaller church in the east of the monastery is the parish church of Newtown Clonbun. This is the burial site of Lucas Dillon (c. 1530 – 1592), Attorney General for Ireland and Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and his first wife Jane Bathe. There is also a ’Tower House’ and a ‘Refectory’

 

The medieval cathedral [Cathedral and Priory Of Saints Peter and Paul] is situated in Newtown Cemetery. It was founded close to the temporal power of Trim Castle by the Norman Bishop Simon de Rochfort in c.1206 after his cathedral at Clonard was burned down. Only part of the original nave and chancel of this largest Gothic Church in Ireland survive. Part of the ruined Priory of Augustinian Canons, which were established to maintain the Cathedral, also survive.

 

Buried under the high alter of the cathedral are the remains of the founder Simon de Rochford (died 1224) and one of his successors, Bishop William Sherwood, who died in 1428.

 

The figure of the bishop now affixed to the wall of the cathedral was long trodden underfoot and was badly worn in places. The figure is commonly known as ‘king john's daughter' but is probably the figure of Simon de Rochford the founder of the cathedral.

 

In the parish church in Newtown-Clonbun stands the remains of the tomb of Sir Lucas Dillon and his wife Lade Jane Bathe, daughter of James Bathe of Athcarne and Drunmconrath. The recumbent figures of Sir Lucas in Renaissance armour and his wife in Elizabethian gown surmount the tomb. This tomb is known locally as the tomb of the jealous man and woman because the two figures do not touch each other at all. And also the sword of state separates the figures.

The Newtown Monuments consist of a large medieval cathedral, two monasteries and small church which date from 1206.

 

The descriptions that I have seen are a bit confusing in that most of them are different to a lesser or greater degree.

 

My current understanding is that the main building is the Church of St Peter and St Paul (sometimes called a cathedral). The smaller church in the east of the monastery is the parish church of Newtown Clonbun. This is the burial site of Lucas Dillon (c. 1530 – 1592), Attorney General for Ireland and Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and his first wife Jane Bathe. There is also a ’Tower House’ and a ‘Refectory’

 

The medieval cathedral [Cathedral and Priory Of Saints Peter and Paul] is situated in Newtown Cemetery. It was founded close to the temporal power of Trim Castle by the Norman Bishop Simon de Rochfort in c.1206 after his cathedral at Clonard was burned down. Only part of the original nave and chancel of this largest Gothic Church in Ireland survive. Part of the ruined Priory of Augustinian Canons, which were established to maintain the Cathedral, also survive.

 

Buried under the high alter of the cathedral are the remains of the founder Simon de Rochford (died 1224) and one of his successors, Bishop William Sherwood, who died in 1428.

 

The figure of the bishop now affixed to the wall of the cathedral was long trodden underfoot and was badly worn in places. The figure is commonly known as ‘king john's daughter' but is probably the figure of Simon de Rochford the founder of the cathedral.

 

In the parish church in Newtown-Clonbun stands the remains of the tomb of Sir Lucas Dillon and his wife Lade Jane Bathe, daughter of James Bathe of Athcarne and Drunmconrath. The recumbent figures of Sir Lucas in Renaissance armour and his wife in Elizabethian gown surmount the tomb. This tomb is known locally as the tomb of the jealous man and woman because the two figures do not touch each other at all. And also the sword of state separates the figures.

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Ogden Fox - Hamburg After Dark

Macfadden Books 75-216, 1968

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"Sex shows, swap clubs, legalized brothels, a 'call boy' ring—a world of utter sensual pleasure—that's Hamburg after dark."

 

Ogden Fox was a pseudonym of David M. Jones. Jones also used the pseudonym 'William Fitzpatrick' in the After Dark... series.

One of the many beautiful facades in Amsterdam. A bike, a light, green and a house

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Seen from the top of the Macarthur Causeway Bridge

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