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It's debatable if there ever was a Maggie wall but it stands to all the women that were killed after being accused of witchcraft.
The memorial has also been the seen of the unsolved murder of Annalise Johnstone 10 May 2018.
An afternoon visit in Oxfordshire to the National Trust property of Buscot Park.
Buscot Park is a country house at Buscot near the town of Faringdon in Oxfordshire within the historic boundaries of Berkshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.
It was built in an austere neoclassical style between 1780 and 1783 for Edward Loveden Loveden. It remained in the family until sold in 1859 to Robert Tertius Campbell, an Australian. Campbell's daughter Florence would later be famous as Mrs Charles Bravo, the central character in a Victorian murder case that remains unsolved to this day. On Campbell's death, in 1887, the house and its estate were sold to Alexander Henderson a financier, later to be ennobled as Baron Faringdon.
Following the death of the 1st Baron in 1934, the house was considerably altered and restored to its 18th-century form, by the architect Geddes Hyslop, for his grandson and successor, Gavin Henderson, 2nd Baron Faringdon, during this era, the art collection founded by the 1st Baron was considerably enlarged, although many of the 1st Baron's 19th-century works of art were sold immediately following his death.
The house and estate was bequeathed to the National Trust in 1956. The contents (which include works of art by Rembrandt and Burne-Jones) are owned by the Faringdon Collection Trust. The house is occupied and managed by the present Lord Faringdon. The mansion and its extensive formal and informal gardens and grounds are open to the public each summer.
Grade II listed building
West Pavilion
Buscot Park: West Pavilion With Attached Terrace Walls and Gatepier
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BUSCOT Buscot Park, West pavilion with attached terrace walls and gatepier
(Formerly listed with Buscot Park)
GV II
Pavilion (part of country house). Circa 1935 by Geddes Hyslop for 2nd Baron Faringdon. Limestone ashlar. 7-bay range running parallel with main axis of mansion (q.v.) has both ends porticoed with 4 Tuscan Doric columns in antis and roundels in pediments. Longer sides have an additional basement storey, to east opening to a sunken service court; middle bay, which is wider and breaks forward below triangular pediment, has an arched carriage entry rising through both storeys. Ashlar ridge stacks flank central bay. Stone retaining walls, punctuated by low piers with vases and by flights of steps, extend around the west and north sides of the north terrace, curving around a stone basin and statue, and to south ramp up to a raised balustrade adjoining the panelled northern pier of the south-west gateway to the forecourt. The walls form part of an elaborate formal landscape scheme surrounding the mansion. (q.v. also east pavilion and south screen.) (Country Life, 18, 25 May 1940; National Trust Guidebook to Buscot Park).
Listing NGR: SU2426796849
Detail, basement floor. Set: The Bank of Abandonment (1977) (Espoo, Finland) + Unsolved cases + Shoes + collection: Urban exploration
McCarthy’s Rents
26 Dorset Street #13, Miller’s Court
an art installation by Dave Allen
showing at Domy Books, Austin, TX
recreation of Jack the Ripper's final victim from the crime scene photos.
copyright Rebecca Sikes
rsikesphotography 2009
Read about sushant-singh-rajput-latest-news. There are so many unsolved panels are opening now one by one.
The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie in Scotland
The Loch Ness Monster is a creature that lives in Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Popular interest and belief in the animal was brought to the world's attention in 1933. The most common speculation among believers is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving 'lizard' plesiosaurs.The scientific community regards the Loch Ness Monster as a modern-day myth, and explains sightings as a mix of hoaxes and wishful thinking.Despite this, it remains one of the most famous examples of cryptozoology. The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname Nessie since the 1950s.
On October 22nd 2012 Theresa Irene Wolowski, and Ryan Janek Wolowski, took a boat ride through Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands looking for Nessie, who's presence was felt.
Fore more on The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie visit
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/legend-loch-ness.html
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Scotland, Scottish Highlands, UK United Kingdom, Europe
10-22-2012
Irish security consultant Paul Enright testifies at the inquest into the unsolved murder of the British artist Tonio Trzebinski, in Kenya's Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi, October 12, 2016. Mr Enright said he was friends with the Danish Swedish huntress Natasha Illum Berg and her boyfriend Sebastian Willis Fleming in October 2001, when Mr Trzebinski was shot on Miss Illum Berg's driveway in Karen, an upmarket suburb of Nairobi. Mr Enright said he visited the scene on the night of the murder, to comfort a distraught Miss Illum Berg. It was only then he discovered that she had been cheating on his friend Mr Willis Fleming and conducting an affair with Mr Trzebinski, a married father of two.
I used to have a geocache called Secret Circuits. (You can view the link if you have a geocaching.com user id). This cache had a bunch of old circuit boards in it. The idea was to try and guess the function of the boards when you visited the cache. Some folks enjoyed it and even added their own circuits to stump me. Some just realized I was wierd.
I lost the original high resolution image. Bummer!
Any guesses?
Inspired by yesterday's dream, and the unsolved mysteries contained therein, I set off today to relearn the answers that I forgot. To understand the mysteries of life. To answer the riddles of nature.
Inanimate objects are really what make everything... as much as living things would beg to differ. I decided to look at things very closely, and understand what it would be like to be an inanimate object... Or, I should say, an object even less animate than myself.
I started, of course, with trying to understand how it would be to be a cookie. To do this, I needed to get inside the cookie jar and snuggle up with the other cookies. I ended up breaking them, so (to be a good puppy and not leave any mess) I had to eat the crumbs.
Then, I went around the house looking at different objects from their point of view. It was fun... though I wouldn't like to be that one wine glass that fell off the shelf when I was climbing onto the shelf. It broke into lots of tiny pieces. I haven't come down off the shelf yet for fear of stepping on one.
I hope the humans don't notice it's missing...
Buku Akuntansi Pengantar 1 Berbasis Matematika
Penulis:
Dr. Sony Warsono, MAFIS, Akuntan
(Dosen Fakultas Ekonomika dan Bisnis UGM)
Arif Darmawan, SE
(Praktisi)
M. Arsyadi Ridha, SE
(Praktisi)
Resensi:
Sangat mungkin saat ini Anda merasa:
a.akuntansi itu hal yang asing dan sulit dimengerti, meskipun sebenarnya terkait dengan informasi keuangan.
b.buku-buku akuntansi yang ada tidak menawarkan “cara berpikir” dan menggunakan “bahasa” yang mudah dipahami,
c.ingin memperoleh pembahasan akuntansi dari perspektif yang benar.
Jika hal-hal di atas yang terjadi maka silakan membaca buku ini. Faktanya, akuntansi didokumentasikan secara akademis di buku Matematika yang ditulis oleh profesor matematika yang telah mengajar 30 tahun. Juga fakta, melalui perspektif matematika, buku ini dapat mengungkap kembali rasionalitas-rasionalitas dasar yang digunakan akuntansi. Meskipun menggunakan perspektif matematika, dosen tidak perlu khawatir karena pengetahuan matematika yang digunakan adalah matematika aljabar yang sudah dikenal mahasiswa sejak di sekolah. Buku ini juga menyediakan kertas kerja (worksheet) yang menjadikan dosen maupun mahasiswa dapat belajar mandiri.
10 Misteri Akuntansi Terungkap
Menggunakan bahasa universal yang disebut matematika, buku ini merupakan buku pertama di Indonesia yang mengungkap 10 tabir misteri (unsolved mysteries) akuntansi berikut ini:
Unsolved Mystery 01: Mengapa Aset bertambah di debet, sedangkan Pendapatan bertambah di kredit?
Misteri ini dibahas di bab khusus dan terjawab secara mudah dan logis sehingga pembelajaran akuntansi tidak perlu lagi mengandalkan konvensi tanpa argumen.
Unsolved Mystery 02: Mengapa Aset dan Biaya sama-sama di Debet jika bertambah dan di Kredit jika berkurang?
Misteri ini terjawab melalui analogi yang telah berlaku di akuntansi sejak lama tetapi sering diabaikan.
Unsolved Mystery 03: Mengapa transaksi Biaya mengurangi Modal tetapi dicatat di akun Biaya sebagai penambahan?
Misteri ini muncul karena persamaan Aset = Utang + Modal + Pendapatan - Biaya. Buku ini menghilangkan misteri ini melalui penggunaan persamaan Aset + Biaya = Utang + Modal + Pendapatan.
Unsolved Mystery 04: Mengapa Modal didefinisikan sebagai hak residual?
Sebenarnya ini bukan misteri tetapi hanya sebatas kepatuhan akuntansi terhadap persamaan matematika.
Unsolved Mystery 05: Mengapa banyak pembelajar justru kesulitan membuat neraca lajur padahal tujuan neraca lajur adalah memudahkan penyusunan laporan keuangan?
Terungkap bahwa neraca lajur 10 kolom itu membutuhkan “tips dan triks” yang tidak mudah dipahami. Buku ini menghilangkan misteri ini dengan penggunaan neraca lajur 12 kolom (10 kolom + 2 kolom untuk pencatatan penutup).
Unsolved Mystery 06: Mengapa jurnal penyesuaian dan jurnal penutup meliputi juga fungsi pemindah-bukuan (posting)?
Buku ini mengganti terminologi “jurnal penyesuaian” dan “jurnal penutup” dengan terminologi “pencatatan penyesuai” dan “pencatatan penutup” yang meliputi fungsi penjurnalan dan pemindah-bukuan.
Unsolved Mystery 07: Mengapa pencatatan penyesuai dilakukan? Apakah pencatatan sebelumnya tidak menggambarkan transaksi yang “sesungguhnya”?
Buku ini secara tegas menjawab alasan dilakukannya pencatatan penyesuai yang menjadikan pembelajar mau menerima sepenuhnya arti penting pencatatan penyesuai.
Unsolved Mystery 08: Konon kabarnya accounting is a number crunching course, mengapa justru pembelajar lebih bingung dengan penjurnalan? dimanakah penghitungannya?
Buku ini membahas fungsi pengukuran secara spesifik sehingga mahasiswa sudah dapat diperkenalkan dengan ketentuan FIFO/LIFO, nilai waktu uang (time value of money), dsb.
Unsolved Mystery 09: Mengapa banyak literatur menyusun laporan keuangan sebelum melakukan pencatatan penutup?
Meskipun terkesan hal yang sepele, pembuatan laporan keuangan sebelum pencatatan penutup kurang konsisten dengan cara kerja akuntansi yang menyajikan informasi akuntansi berbasis akun di buku besar utama.
Unsolved Mystery 10: Benarkah pencatatan pembalik itu bersifat opsional? Pencatatan pembalik (reversing entries) itu penting, tidak, penting, tidak, .............
Buku ini mengurai secara singkat kapan pencatatan pembalik itu harus dilakukan, dan kapan bersifat opsional.
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...on Goldenrod (Solidago).
The Monarch is probably the most well-known and beloved of North American butterflies. Its wings when open feature an easily recognizable orange and black pattern, with a wingspan of 3.3 - 4.9 inches (8.5 - 12.5 cm) . The females have darker and thicker veins on their wings while the males have a spot in the center of each hindwing from which pheromones are released, and which also helps to easily distinguish them from a females.
In North America, the Monarch ranges from southern Canada to northern South America. It rarely strays to western Europe (sometimes as far as Greece) from being transported by U. S. ships or by flying there if weather and wind conditions are right. It has also been found in Bermuda, Hawaii, the Solomons, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, Ceylon, India, the Azores, and the Canary Islands.
Monarchs are especially noted for their lengthy annual migration. In North America they make massive southward migrations starting in August until the first frost. A northward migration takes place in the spring. The Monarch is the only butterfly that migrates BOTH north and south as birds do on a regular basis. But no single individual makes the entire round trip. Female monarchs deposit eggs for the next generation to complete the journey during these migrations. How the offspring know where to go remains one of nature's unsolved mysteries.
In eastern North American the Monarch population begins the southward migration late summer - early autumn and can cover thousands of mile from the United States and southern Canada to Mexico. The western North American population, west of the Rocky Mountains, most often migrates to sites in California, but have been found overwintering in Mexico.
Besides Mexico and California, overwintering populations of Monarchs are also found along the Gulf Coast, year-round in Florida, and in Arizona where the habitat provides the specific conditions necessary for their survival. The overwintering habitat typically provides access to streams, plenty of sunlight (for body temperatures that allows flight), appropriate vegetation on which to roost, and is relatively free of predators. Overwintering, roosting butterflies have been seen on sumacs, locusts, basswood elm, oak, osage orange, mulberry, pecan, willow, cottonwood, and mesquite.
ISO400, aperture f/11, exposure .004 seconds (1/250) focal length 230mm
I think it's pretty! I have to say the way it meets the ground is a bit sad; the generic cubic block contains a school (added to the project for a tax break), with limited involvement from Gehry. You'd think the kids might want zippy architecture too, or that the street might appreciate something glamorous touching down in a gracious and interesting way. Anyway, it seems like an unsolved design problem to me, even though I really do like the way this thing looks in the skyline - out-of-scaleness and cheesy branding notwithstanding...
Previously glimpsed here.
Stolen 30 years ago from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA which suffered the largest art heist in history. The crime remains unsolved.
Stolen from: The Dutch Room. The painting was lifted from its easel and removed whole from its frame.
Significance: This is a masterpiece for many reasons. First, only 34 Vermeers are believed to exist. Second, Vermeer was a master of light and mystery. “There’s an element of complexity that all great works of art have,” Chong says. “You can pick out the technicalities—we know the light falls from the left and that people singing and playing music is a traditional Dutch theme, but all those facts don’t add up to this painting.”
Worth noting: The painting on the right in this scene depicts a real work, The Procuress, by Dirck van Baburen, which Vermeer’s wealthy mother-in-law once owned—and which now, astonishingly, hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Early one morning, the entire population of a tiny island off the Carolina coast disappears, causing grief and frustration among the relatives and friends left behind on the neighbouring island and mainland.
Two of the three main threads follow a woman and a visiting property speculator who are among the abducted and the other tracks the woman's boyfriend. The couple fall out badly because of the speculator and thus the man is on the mainland when the disappearance happens.
Like them, I became very frustrated with events, or lack of them!
15 pages to go and still no real clues to what's happening.
The Rapture? Aliens? A student prank!? A host of even less likely surmises? Nobody knows, except maybe the smarmy visitor and he's deliberately winding up the woman by hinting he knows but isn't telling...
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It's really about coping with loss, and grief, and relationships, and, while I take a very broad view of what counts as science fiction, I'm not at all persuaded that this is inside my boundaries. With a different approach, maybe it could have been a weird, new-wave story, but it would need to have been seriously re-written!
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file under 'unsolved paranormal events'
The application of mathematics to the visual arts and architecture played a major role in raising their status from manual and mechanical crafts to activities on a par with the liberal arts and sciences.
The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie in Scotland
The Loch Ness Monster is a creature that lives in Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Popular interest and belief in the animal was brought to the world's attention in 1933. The most common speculation among believers is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving 'lizard' plesiosaurs.The scientific community regards the Loch Ness Monster as a modern-day myth, and explains sightings as a mix of hoaxes and wishful thinking.Despite this, it remains one of the most famous examples of cryptozoology. The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname Nessie since the 1950s.
On October 22nd 2012 Theresa Irene Wolowski, and Ryan Janek Wolowski, took a boat ride through Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands looking for Nessie, who's presence was felt.
Fore more on The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie visit
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/legend-loch-ness.html
Photo
Scotland, Scottish Highlands, UK United Kingdom, Europe
10-22-2012
Overcome with grief, Timothy Dungan and his mother Connie Harris stand near Brice Dungan's grave marker at Westover Cemetery in Augusta, June 21, 2007. Timothy's two-year-old son Brice died almost one year ago and the homicide case remains unsolved.
Connie Harris told me that at her grandson's funeral, the priest said that Brice would visit her in cool breezes, in butterflies, in sunsets.
and that he does.
She and her son visit the grave every day.
every. single. day.
There is a nightlight on the grave marker so Brice won't be afraid of the dark.
The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie in Scotland
The Loch Ness Monster is a creature that lives in Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Popular interest and belief in the animal was brought to the world's attention in 1933. The most common speculation among believers is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving 'lizard' plesiosaurs.The scientific community regards the Loch Ness Monster as a modern-day myth, and explains sightings as a mix of hoaxes and wishful thinking.Despite this, it remains one of the most famous examples of cryptozoology. The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname Nessie since the 1950s.
On October 22nd 2012 Theresa Irene Wolowski, and Ryan Janek Wolowski, took a boat ride through Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands looking for Nessie, who's presence was felt.
Fore more on The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie visit
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/legend-loch-ness.html
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Scotland, Scottish Highlands, UK United Kingdom, Europe
10-22-2012
Entry in category 3. Locations and instruments; © CC-BY-NC-ND: Vivek Maradia
At CERN Control Room in Geneva, we can find hundreds of empty Champagne bottles. Each empty bottle represents a big success story of thousands of people's hard work to close the gap between nature and science. Each bottle brings us closer to find the answers to unsolved problems. This is the photo of LHC Control Station.
John Hook speaking with attendees at an event titled "Who Killed Bob Crane?: The Final Close-Up" at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
So yes it is possible to complete a scavenger hunt in one weekend but I'd advice better planning! We focused on one clue and went to the SeaLife Centre on Saturday leaving a lot of clues left unsolved... Fortunately it rained on Sunday and we were forced to go to the only indoors attraction we could find, Beaulieu Motor Museum. It was like they were waiting for us! They even had invisible things!
So lots of fun but a bit manic for a regular occurance. Hopefully this will encourage me to get back in the game for future months though.
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On August 23, 1987, two Saline County, Arkansas boys, Don Henry and Kevin Ives, were murdered, then laid upon the tracks near the Shobe Road Crossing where it was hoped the damage done to their bodies by a passing train would erase all evidence of the crime. The book, "The Boys On The Tracks", by investigative reporter, Mara Leveritt, and the film "Obstruction Of Justice", produced by Jean Duffey, and Linda Ives (Kevin's determined and tenacious mother), provide an in-depth look at an American tragedy and it's cover-up. Both are available for purchase online.
I took this inside the pyramid not really knowing what it was that was flying around up there. I'm guesing a bird, but it looks like two. I still can't quite figure it out. The upper wings look transparent and are not shaped like bat wings.
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Defunct Schools-an episode of Unsolved Mysteries was shot using this school when a man acting suspicous hid bloody sheets behind it,and then was spotted by a couple as they were out for a sunday drive.
Unsolved problem with one-way packages: How does it come after food to the refuse bin? (Translation by software ;=)
Ungelöstes Problem bei Einwegverpackungen: Wie kommt sie nach dem Essen zum Abfallbehälter?
Sachdienliche Hinweise nimmt jede Fast Food- Filiale entgegen.
Markanter hoher Stein im Garten bei der Stadtkirche in Göppingen, eigentlich zu schade für Abfall.
März 2012.
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You can see him here most every day around the same time. A quarter after ten, as the hands of time tick around the clock of life with inevitable precision, come rain or shine as a well practised daily routine unfolds amidst the bustling crowds and coach parties of exciteable students that spill and spew onto the London landscape from around the globe. Better to hide in plain sight than be locked away in the dark confines of one's own mind, perhaps. Ambling along the dirty grey tarmac pathway of St James' Park, the little old man with the shuffling gait and wrinkled hands that now shake with age and ailments, clutching an old Asda plastic bag that is chock full of breadcrumbs and treats for the eager pigeons and grateful squirrels who beg, much to the amusement of the assembling crowd as the feeding frenzy commences.
Inconspicuous and anonymous, expensive designer clothing that dwarfs his diminutive frame as the years claim their pound of flesh from weiry bones and scrawny hide, he holds captive the warmth with his snazzy headgear, as once he had held captive those upon whom he vented his warped actions and dispicable deeds, now memories in a forgetful mind, dark episodes from a past littered with dirty secrets. And he smiles, oh so sweetly to the excited faces, the myriad of foreign tongues who laugh and clap as the animals jostle for the old mans attentions and the lure of his tasty morsels to eat.
He'll play to the crowd, as he always does, years of well practised feeding, a knowledge of the creatures of habit vast and plentiful and a location carefully picked just off the bridge where the black and white swans and family of beautiful pelicans majestically glide and saunter across the mill pond surface of the water. His fallen mouth, sucked in like a corpse with his dentures conspicuous by their very absence, and sullen eyes that have viewed the seedy side of life that you and I could never comprehend nor wish to ponder, define the man who is and was, and will bean enigma until his natural demise. They say that secrets follow a man to the very confines of his grave, and perhaps that is for the best in the case of some folk, for him at least this would be the case. For this man harbours a past that is riddled with inglorious acts of momentous notoriety, a darkness amidst the light of reason in a world still shell shocked by the very nature of such heinous crimes that filled the local tabloid spreadsheets, made the early evening news listened to by concerned mothers on radio players through the decades long gone by and consigned to the annals of histroy itself, along with the evidence pawed over by innept hands and processed in the days when technology took a back seat to leg work and corruption.
The sixties were the days of his prime, strutting like a peacock amidst the bravado and bullshit of the London scene. Beatles in the charts, Mary Quant on every girls lips and Twiggy as a role model, he walked the lanes of Carnaby street draped in high fashion, dripping elegance and charm, catching the eyes of the young and impressionable in the days long before cell phones, plasma TV's and forensic investigations that ventured further than an alibi and some police ineptitude as depicted in the weekly episodes of 'Dixon of dock green' or 'Softly softly'.
Almost half a century later and he is barely recognisable as the sharp dressing psychopath who terrorised the streets in those heady days of his youth. The point and shoot compact cameras with their promise of a trillion mega pixel clarity and idiot proof technology are out in force as parents usher their little ones to stand by the old man, centre stage in mediocre frames that back home on the walls of Europe will be blown up to gargantuan size and immortalized in acrylic form on the walls of happy homes. A tiny tot in baby blue designer clothing feels the lure of the old mans smile,and the touch of his hand on her shoulder as he poses with her for a series of hastily snapped shots. She moves away towards the comfort and reassurance of her grinning parents, her five year old mind somewhat confused and slightly dazed by the unnerving occurrence, a feeling within that her young mind that she cannot understand nor put into words of coherency as an ice cream van grabs her attention.
Far away in a nameless town in a faceless community lies a church and it's graveyard where a body lays rotting back to the earth and fresh flowers are placed with singular regularity each first Sunday in the new month by a little old man who the locals neither know nor notice. Times change, life goes on, but a friendship and bond that was forged in life by two like minds has never been forgotten. Accomplice and lover, the brains behind the meticulous planning and detail of each and every act, admired and revered, a role model of sorts to a mind so warped and depraved. A pillar of the community who was known for his beaming smile and pleasant disposition, doffing his trilby and stepping into the road at each and every instance of a meeting with an oncoming lady on the paved streets of that little Utopia.
It's cold this morning and the old man decides that enough is enough, he has satisfied his need for a connection of the mind and flesh, as a man snaps away with his fancy Nikon, smiling as a lone squirrel braves the wrath of the legion of pigeons that vastly outnumber him and snatches some food from the wrinkled fingers of the old man who stands before him. It was different back then when the seventies arrived amidst a hail of Hendrix riffs and drug induced melancholy.
There was an innocence that has long since died, a vibe on the streets that was as intoxicating as it was dangerous, and a freedom to roam and prey on the weak and hapless with vicious impunity and callous disregard for the humanity of compassion. They were the hunting days for the predatory pair, the killing fields that have now become shopping malls and motorway extensions, rubble piled on bones that have never been discovered nor excavated, nor ever shall. He'll take his morbid secrets to the grave that is bought and paid for in the plot next to his soul mate and peer. And the tears of the families in generations that successively spawn and hope to forget the past though cannot hide from the anger and regret, still flow and always shall as rivers of remorse with no bones to bury, no closure to take comfort in.
Lost love, broken hearts, nightmares and regret as police files lie dormant and dusty in the dank confines of the cement breeze block storage rooms where the unsolved cases go to rest. And still the little old man smiles at the children who fill his heart with happiness and joy, those tiny faces glowing with enthusiasm and excitement as he throws the food into the air and the pigeons catch the bites mid air with ease and aplomb. He tries to forget, or at the very least push to the very far reaches of his subconscious those tint faces that haunt him so in every waking hour, for some secrets gnaw away at a man, tearing at his inner self until he breathes his last breath. Life now seems so very different, though the routines followed bare a striking resemblence to those hunting days of old. Like a pied piper of sorts, the little old man procures the presence and interest of the animals with the lure of food now as perhaps he and his lover once did way back with candy and promises to the eyes and minds of the innocents. He no longer waits for a knock on his door nor fears the lonliness of a prison cell as his life clock ticks ever closer to a conclusion of sorts, and he views those mementos of his former life from time to time, remembering how things used to be.
Emptying the remaining dregs of food onto the grass section on the other side of the shallow black painted fence, the little old man neatly folds the plastic band, first in half and then once more again, placing the folded piece into his pocket before turning and shuffling away against the flow of people like a car down a one way street. The hands are riddled now with arthritics that moulds and deforms his limbs, though the intent within that ageing brain still lingers like a bad smell that just will not pass.
He'll walk a well trodden pathway towards the sanctity of his quiet abode, doffing his cap to neighbours one and all who ask about his health and wish him a good day before he closes the front door and throws the locks with a metallic clunk as the drawbridge is lifted. Bedroom attire and the comfort of Marks and Spencer's slippers, a mug of cocoa and some rich tea biscuits to dunk and savour and the upstairs bedroom with the padlock and chain firmly affixed to an old English oak wardrobe in which lies a monogrammed travel case and the memento's of each victim who suffered at his hands. There is little on the Television to occupy a restless mind, so a trip down memory lane to days gone by when life was good and love filled his now black and empty heart.
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Written March 24th & 25th 2011
Photograph taken at 10:07am on March 17th 2011 in St James park, just off The Mall in central London, England.
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Nikon D700 135mm 1/80s f/6.3 iso200
Nikkor AF-S 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED IF VRII. UV filter. Nikon GP-1 GPS.
Latitude: N 51d 30m 10.59s
Longitufe: W 0d 8m 5.14s
Altitude: 25m
Taken with Fuji Film IS 1. Located in Bethleham Cemetery Clark County, Mo. This large mounment marks the final resting place of the Spencer family in which 5 people were murdered with an axe in 1877. To this day an unsolved murder. The epitah reads '"We are all here" Murdered with an ax night of August 2, 1877. Their bodys lie beneath this tomb their virtues live above it. One of the suspects of the murders was aquitted and and was told not to go home. He went anyway and a mob formed and lynched him and Then hung him from a gate post beam in his own yard.
The lone and ancient English oak that stands atop Meon Hill, a couple of hundred feet above the Cotswolds village of Mickleton, Gloucestershire, England.
Much legend and myth surrounds this location, formerly the site of a Neolithic fort, and reputedly the inspiration for Tolkien's 'Weathertop' from The Lord of the Rings trilogy. It was supposedly created by the devil in an attempt to destroy a nearby abbey, presumably in vain, since he missed and created this hill with the large clod of Earth he was meant to be lobbing at it instead. By night, it is rumoured to be frequented by the phantom hounds of the Celtic King Arawyn, something backed up by the many sightings of mysterious large black dogs in the area. The king was the lord of departed spirits who would hunt to gather souls, riding a pale horse and accompanied by a pack of hounds with red ears.
However, its most notorious claim to fame is that it was the scene for a murder that took place on Valentine's Day - the Eve of Lupercalia, an ancient Pagan festival of love - in 1945, when a local farm worker was killed in a manner suggesting witchcraft was involved. According to the old Julian calendar in use until the Middle Ages, February 14th actually fell on February 2nd which, according to local superstition, was traditionally the best day for a blood sacrifice. The victim, Charles Walton, was impaled to the ground by a pitchfork, a trouncing hook embedded in his throat and a cross carved upon his chest. Local police, baffled, brought in the famous Inspector Fabian of the Yard, but the case remained unsolved, thanks in part to reticence to talk about the events by the local populace (a reluctance that apparently remains among the villagers even to this day). During the investigation a member of the police found a book titled Folklore, Old Customs and Superstitions in Shakespeareland, written by J Harvey Bloom in 1929. A striking passage in it stated another Charles Walton had died in 1885 - 60 years beforehand - after seeing a foreboding ghost in the shape of a headless woman accompanied by a big dark hound. Rumours of the 20th century Charles Walton being the same man, having returned to life thanks to witchcraft, endured.
Just before leaving to return to Scotland Yard in London, Fabian apparently glimpsed a large black dog at the murder site. Later that day, a large black dog was found dead, hung by its neck from a tree next to the murder scene and the same evening, a police car ran over and killed a similar dog in a lane near the village.
A strange postscript to the crime occurred in August 1960 during the demolition of outhouses behind Charles Walton's cottage. A workman saw something shining in the earth and, on picking it up, found it to be an old tin pocket watch. Later that day it was identified as being the watch that Walton was wearing on the day of his death. On opening the watch case, a small piece of coloured glass was found. Walton was known to have carried this around with him, never letting it out of his possession. The general consensus of opinion among the villagers was that this was a piece of witch glass, used to either reflect or absorb any evil thoughts that had been directed at its owner. The odd thing about this find was that the police had searched the building shortly after the crime and found nothing, so it appears that the killer must have returned at some point later to deposit the watch.
Taken on April 3, 2010.
Queensland State Archives Item ID ITM294496 Dept No.44
The murder of siblings Michael, Norah and Ellen Murphy near Gatton on Boxing Day 1898 sparked intense interest and speculation. All three were killed between 10pm and the early hours of the following morning on their way home from a dance that had been cancelled and the case remains unsolved to this day.
Contained within the QSA archived police files are pages of handwritten letters from across Queensland sent from members of the community convinced they could help solve the case using their spiritual gifts. Some are simply a few words on a scrap of paper, others take up many pages and go into lengthy detail about possible conspiracies. The police called the correspondence files ‘Astrologers, Dreamers, Theorists, etc’.
Jaime Garzon, Bogata streetart
Seems to say if I understand it that until the situation (corruption) is fixed we're all standing in the shit
Jaime Hernando Garzón Forero (October 24, 1960 – August 13, 1999 in Bogotá) was a Colombian journalist, a comedian, lawyer, peace activist and political satirist. He was very popular on Colombian television during the 1990s, especially for his political satire. In addition to his work on television, he also had roles as a peace negotiator in the release of FARC guerrillas' hostages. He was murdered by suspected right-wing paramilitary forces in 1999, although the case remains open and unsolved.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Garz%C3%B3n
www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB360/
HDR app on Iphone 5
Toby Wing (1915-2001) - American Actress was born as "Martha Virginia Wing" on 14 July 1915 in Amelia Courthouse, Virginia. Her parents were photographer, Paul Reuben Wing (1892-1957) and equestrian, Martha Gillis Thraves (1893-1981). Toby's film career began aged nine, when her father was working as an assistant director for Paramount Pictures and her mother was employed as a Hollywood stunt rider. After about ten uncredited juvenile roles Toby became one of the first "Goldwyn Girls" in "Palmy Days" 1931.
Toby Wing appeared in more than forty feature films and fourteen short subjects from 1924 to 1938. She was memorable, though uncredited as the "young and healthy" blonde in "42nd Street" 1933. Among other low budget features, she starred in "Silks and Saddles" 1936. Her last movie was "The Marines Come Thru" filmed in 1938 and released again in 1942 as "Fight On, Marines!". She also appeared on Broadway in the Cole Porter musical "You Never Know" 1938. In 1939 she toured with Rita Rio and her "All Girl Orchestra" to help raise money for charity.
Toby Wing retired from films aged 23 after her marriage to aviation pioneer, Henry Tyndall "Dick" Merrill (1899-1982) in 1938. The couple had two sons, Henry Tyndall Merrill Jr. (1939-1940) and Richard Wing Merrill (1940-1982). She was an ardent member of the church, had a second successful career in real estate and died on 23 March 2001 in Mathews, Virginia aged 85. Toby Wing has a star recognising her contribution to the Motion Pictures Industry on the "Hollywood Walk of Fame" at 6561 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Her father Paul Reuben Wing (1892-1957), an army officer in WWII was captured by the Japanese and survived the "Bataan Death March". Her sister Gertrude Madison "Pat" Wing (1914-2002) was also an actress and chorus girl. Her brother Paul Reuben Wing Jr (1926-1998) was a successful businessman involved in real estate. Her son Richard Wing Merrill (1940-1982) was murdered in the family Miami home in 1982 aged 42. His death was reportedly related to a drug smuggling operation, though the case is still listed as unsolved.
Remains unsolved, to this day! 681 Fourth Street near Brannan, San Francisco.
Construction equipment for the Central Subway project, connecting Chinatown with Caltrain.
What would the State Fair of Texas be without one of these? Like the foot-long chili dog that preceded it, it's really strange how both taste better at the fair and the ballpark than anyplace else on the planet. Whereas, I've long since come to realize that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie in Scotland
The Loch Ness Monster is a creature that lives in Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. Popular interest and belief in the animal was brought to the world's attention in 1933. The most common speculation among believers is that the creature represents a line of long-surviving 'lizard' plesiosaurs.The scientific community regards the Loch Ness Monster as a modern-day myth, and explains sightings as a mix of hoaxes and wishful thinking.Despite this, it remains one of the most famous examples of cryptozoology. The legendary monster has been affectionately referred to by the nickname Nessie since the 1950s.
On October 22nd 2012 Theresa Irene Wolowski, and Ryan Janek Wolowski, took a boat ride through Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands looking for Nessie, who's presence was felt.
Fore more on The Loch Ness Monster, Nessie visit
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/legend-loch-ness.html
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Scotland, Scottish Highlands, UK United Kingdom, Europe
10-22-2012
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - unsolved mysteries - live at Jazzit Musik Club Salzburg - www.jazzit.at
28.09.2007 - more pictures: Tacuma - unsolved mysteries
Pontianak, Kalimantan Barat (West Kalimantan), Indonesia.
(Jalan Sutoyo, Pontianak).
A short visit to the Rumah Adat Betang, a vernacular longhouse of the Dayak tribes in Kalimantan Barat. I found the visit not an educational one leaving many curiosities unsolved and subjected to further interpretation. On that point are no proper story boards, pamphlets, and other relevant references at the site. Ironically, the visit was greeted by a shabby cleaner, I presume, who disrespectful was casually doing the sweeping act using a damp mop, and raising high in the air. The first thing he demanded of me was - money.
This particular replica of the vernacular house belongs to the Dayak Kanayatn (Dayak Kendayan, Dayak Kedayan) political ethnic identity to conveniently referred as Land Dayak- Klemantan. There are claim the grouping includes Dayak tribes speaking the Bakati/ Banyadu, Bajare, Banana, Baahe, Badamea/ Badameo languages, but still unclear and debated. Dayak Kanayatn form the majority among the numerous Dayak tribes concentrating in the districts of Kabupaten Landak, Kabupaten Pontianak, Kabupaten Kubu Raya, and Kabupaten Bengkayang.
Ref. and suggested reading:
id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suku_Dayak_Kanayatn
id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpun_Dayak#Rumpun_Dayak_Kanayatn_...
Pontianak, Kalimantan Barat (West Kalimantan), Indonesia.
(Jalan Sutoyo, Pontianak).
A short visit to the Rumah Adat Betang, a vernacular longhouse of the Dayak tribes in Kalimantan Barat. I found the visit not an educational one leaving many curiosities unsolved and subjected to further interpretation. On that point are no proper story boards, pamphlets, and other relevant references at the site. Ironically, the visit was greeted by a shabby cleaner, I presume, who disrespectful was casually doing the sweeping act using a damp mop, and raising high in the air. The first thing he demanded of me was - money.
This particular replica of the vernacular house belongs to the Dayak Kanayatn (Dayak Kendayan, Dayak Kedayan) political ethnic identity to conveniently referred as Land Dayak- Klemantan. There are claim the grouping includes Dayak tribes speaking the Bakati/ Banyadu, Bajare, Banana, Baahe, Badamea/ Badameo languages, but still unclear and debated. Dayak Kanayatn form the majority among the numerous Dayak tribes concentrating in the districts of Kabupaten Landak, Kabupaten Pontianak, Kabupaten Kubu Raya, and Kabupaten Bengkayang.
Ref. and suggested reading:
id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suku_Dayak_Kanayatn
id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpun_Dayak#Rumpun_Dayak_Kanayatn_...
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August 20, 2003.Philippine former presidents Corazon Aquino, (C) widow of assassinated opposition leader Benigno Aquino, and Fidel Ramos (L) with Vice-President Teofisto Guingona (R) sing the national anthem in a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Benigno Aquino in Manila, 19 August 2003. The late former senator was gunned down 21 August 1983 at the Manila airport after returning from exile in the US. Fifteen soldiers were convicted and jailed during the regime of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos but the brains behind the murder remains unsolved to this day. AFP PHOTO ROMEO GACAD
McCarthy’s Rents
26 Dorset Street #13, Miller’s Court
an art installation by Dave Allen
showing at Domy Books, Austin, TX
recreation of Jack the Ripper's final victim from the crime scene photos.
copyright Rebecca Sikes
rsikesphotography 2009
McCarthy’s Rents
26 Dorset Street #13, Miller’s Court
an art installation by Dave Allen
showing at Domy Books, Austin, TX
recreation of Jack the Ripper's final victim from the crime scene photos.
copyright Rebecca Sikes
rsikesphotography 2009
Bank which was target for ruthless kidnap and robbery is to close - with crime still unsolved
Ten years ago the manager of the Natwest Bank in Whitefield near Bury, and his family were held for 12 hours.
They were kidnapped at gunpoint at their home in Leigh by two men wearing wigs and false beards and using walkie talkies to speak to a third man called ‘Andy’.
The family was then kept bound and hooded in a warehouse over night before manager John Diggle was driven to his branch and forced to open the safe, with five other staff being locked in a vault.
An estimated £220,000 was stolen and the highly organised gang, who had stolen cars from Preston to carry out the raid have never been caught.
Now the bank on Bury New Road is to shut in March.
Manchester Evening News 281214
Pontianak, Kalimantan Barat (West Kalimantan), Indonesia.
(Jalan Sutoyo, Pontianak).
A short visit to the Rumah Adat Betang, a vernacular longhouse of the Dayak tribes in Kalimantan Barat. I found the visit not an educational one leaving many curiosities unsolved and subjected to further interpretation. On that point are no proper story boards, pamphlets, and other relevant references at the site. Ironically, the visit was greeted by a shabby cleaner, I presume, who disrespectful was casually doing the sweeping act using a damp mop, and raising high in the air. The first thing he demanded of me was - money.
This particular replica of the vernacular house belongs to the Dayak Kanayatn (Dayak Kendayan, Dayak Kedayan) political ethnic identity to conveniently referred as Land Dayak- Klemantan. There are claim the grouping includes Dayak tribes speaking the Bakati/ Banyadu, Bajare, Banana, Baahe, Badamea/ Badameo languages, but still unclear and debated. Dayak Kanayatn form the majority among the numerous Dayak tribes concentrating in the districts of Kabupaten Landak, Kabupaten Pontianak, Kabupaten Kubu Raya, and Kabupaten Bengkayang.
Ref. and suggested reading:
id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suku_Dayak_Kanayatn
id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpun_Dayak#Rumpun_Dayak_Kanayatn_...