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Monarch Waystation,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence (Douglas County), KS.
Terezín was in de Tweede Wereldoorlog de tot concentratiekamp en getto veranderde Tsjechische vestingstad. Het was vooral een doorgangskamp voor Joden die meestal spoedig naar Auschwitz-Birkenau of andere vernietigingskampen werden gestuurd. In Terezín stierven 31.000 mensen.
Deze foto's zijn van het zogenaamde kleine fort. Het gaf me een dubbel gevoel. Het is uit bouwhistorisch oogpunt een prachtige vesting met verdedigingswerken. Maar de horror die hier onder Duitse Leiding plaats vond is niet te bevatten. Het maakte meer indruk dan mijn eerste bezoek, in 1987.
The old fortress of Theresienstadt was a hybrid concentration camp and ghetto established by the SS during World War II. It was located in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (a German-occupied region of Czechoslovakia). Theresienstadt served two main purposes: it was simultaneously a waystation to the extermination camps, and a "retirement settlement" for elderly and prominent Jews to mislead their communities about the Final Solution. Its conditions were deliberately engineered to hasten the death of its prisoners, and the ghetto also served a propaganda role.
Didyma (/ˈdɪdɪmə/; Ancient Greek: Δίδυμα) was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ionia in the domain of the famous city of Miletus. Apollo was the main deity of the sanctuary of Didyma, also called Didymaion. But it was home to both of the temples dedicated to the twins Apollo and Artemis. Other deities were also honoured within the sanctuary. The Didymaion was well renowned in antiquity because of its famed oracle. This oracle of Apollo was situated within what was, and is, one of the world's greatest temples to Apollo. The remains of this Hellenistic temple belong to the best preserved temples of classical antiquity. Besides this temple other buildings existed within the sanctuary which have been rediscovered recently; a Greek theatre and the foundations of the above-mentioned Hellenistic temple of Artemis, to name but two.
The ruins of Didyma are located a short distance to the northwest of modern Didim in Aydın Province, Turkey, whose name is derived from the ruins. It sits on a headland that in antiquity formed the Milesian Peninsula. Didyma was the largest and most significant sanctuary on the territory of the great classical city Miletus. The natural connection between Miletus and Didyma was by way of ship. But during antiquity the sediments from the Meander River silted up the harbour of Miletus. A slow process which eventually meant that the nearby Latmian Gulf developed from a bay into a lake (today Bafa Gölü).[2]
The linear distance between Miletus and Didyma measures some 16 km. As well as the simple footway there also existed a Sacred Way between the city and its sanctuary which measured some 20 km in distance. This Sacred Way, built in the 6th century BC, was used for festival processions.[3] It touched the harbour of Didyma, situated 3 km northwest of the sanctuary called Panormos[4] (today Mavişehir). Along this route were ritual waystations, and statues of noblemen and noblewomen, as well as animal and mythological beast figures. Some of these statues, dating to the 6th century BC, are now in the British Museum (Room 13), excavated by the British archaeologist Charles Thomas Newton in the 19th century...Wikipedia
A post for Gorgeous Green Thursday! Another thing that I am quite taken by; the Pawpaw Trees at the Butterfly Garden on West Campus.
The former home of wealthy merchant James B. Watson is the sole survivor of the elegant Federal style row houses that once lined State Street. Like other merchants of 18th and early 19th century New York City, Watson chose to live near the river in order to have an unobstructed harbor view and to be in close proximity to his shipping interests. The eastern portion (1793) which follows the line of the street was executed by an unknown architect, while the curved western portion (1806) has been attributed to the sophisticated architect, John McComb Jr, the first native born architect. Following the Civil War, the house served as a hotel until 1886 when purchased by Irish immigrant Charlotte Grace O'Brien to serve as the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary, a waystation for young immigrant girls.
A statue of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton stands outside the building, which is currently the rectory of her shrine. Born Elizabeth Ann Bayley in 1774 was the first American-born to be canonized, by Pope Paul VI in 1975. She founded the Sister’s of Charity of Saint Joseph’s, the first new community for religious women to be established in the United States. She also began Saint Joseph's Academy and Free School, the first free Catholic School for girls staffed by sisters in the United States.
A 1965 restoration of the mission removed the dormers and added a railing at the roofline. With the 1940 demolition of the El and the 1960s proliferation of box-and-plaza skyscrapers, the mansion now seems stranded on a too-wide street amidst oversized neighbors. In 1975, the mission was dedicated as the Rectory of the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Seton, after America's first canonized saint, who was born on Staten Island.
The James Watson House was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1965.
National Historic Register # 72000891
Migrating male monarch fueling up on the flowers in the restored tall grass prairie at the Hocking Hills Regional Welcome Center in Ohio. They had a monarch waystation with a whole bunch of chrysalises still waiting to release their butterflies.
Attendies of the annual Prairie Fire Bioneers Conference install a monarch waystation at the Knox Farm.
Returnee girls smile for the camera at the waystation. Returnees are happy to return to the South and reunite with their families and relatives.
Cheatham Lake is cultivating several pollinator gardens for bees and butterflies, and seeks volunteer gardeners interested in helping to certify the site as a Monarch Waystation. They will help with developing, maintaining and improving the gardens, working toward certification. Volunteers are encouraged to learn more about gardening and getting involved at a workshop 10 a.m. Oct. 21, 2017 at the Resource Manager’s Office located at 1798 Cheatham Dam Road in Ashland City. (USACE video by Lee Roberts)
Attendies of the annual Prairie Fire Bioneers Conference install a monarch waystation at the Knox Farm.
Returnee girls smiles in the bus that brought her to the Torit waystation. Children enjoy playing in the bus even after their arrival.
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REDMILL AND ITS HAUNTED HOUSE
By Kevin W. Wright
When Jacob C. Zabriskie leased the 80-acre mill farm upon the Saddle River from Abraham Gouverneur in 1766, it included a new, four-room stone house. The neighborhood, known casually as Zabriskie's Mills, was renamed New Hamburgh in 1790, when a post office opened.1 Located upon the Albany post road, New Hamburgh was a busy relay point for stage coaches stopping overnight, the water and pasture thereabout being of the best quality. In winter, large companies of farmers from as far off as Sussex County stayed the night while en route to city markets with sled loads of venison, pork and other farm products. In season, as many as 25 farmers could be seen forming a procession across the frozen countryside and as many as a hundred rural travelers might put up for the night in hotels near the mill. At one time or another, Garret Oldis, Benjamin Oldis, Harmon Lutkins, Samuel Breevort, Henry Brevoort, George Doremus, John Zabriskie, Henry Zabriskie, Henry Van Emburgh, Cornelius Taylor and David Naugle established reputations for hospitality at taverns along the Paramus Road. Polly Brevoort's hotel, supposedly more popular than any of her numerous competitors, stood on the west side of the bridge. For many years, a solitary fiddler named Yean Moore provided entertainment for the old-time dances at such establishments, whose balconies were illuminated by a row of candles and whose dance-halls echoed with the lively footfall of rustic swains and cityfolk draw from as far away as Paterson. Barger's Lane (as the old road to Paterson from Arcola was then known) was also a popular track for horse-racing where thousands of dollars were wagered and every foot of the course was lined with men and women from miles around. The Bergen County militia held their periodical "trainings" on the broad and level plain about Red Mills; such training-days, attended by thousands, had the air and festivity of a general holiday.
In 1816, Garret Oldis conveyed the mill lot at New Hamburgh to John Ryers of Sloterdam, who installed wool-carding machinery. In January 1820, John and Bernard Ryers sold the carding mill to Albert A. Westervelt. The new owner distinguished the mill with a bright coat of paint and so bestowed the name Red Mill.
In July 1824, Westervelt's son-in-law, Edward B. Force, informed the public that he had "established a manufactory for the purpose of Carding, Spinning, Fulling, Dyeing and Dressing at the Red Mill belonging to Albert A. Westervelt at Paramus, where he intends to carry on the above business in all its various branches." He offered to card farmers' wool "as usual" and to manufacture wool into "all descriptions of yarn, cloths, flannels and Satinet, etc, at reduced prices." In October 1825, he and Garret A. Westervelt advertised that "their Fulling Machine [was] now in Complete order at the Red Mill, Paramus..." Cloth for fulling could be left at stores in Hackensack, Old Hackensack (Bogota), English Neighborhood and Paterson Landing. Two or three pedlars made regular rounds of the countryside, bringing raw and worked materials from points as distant as Union Hill, Englewood and Nyack. Satinet, yarn and red flannel blankets were manufactured by hands working from dawn until eight in the evening, earning from 50¢ to 75¢ weekly.
Upon his death in 1838, Albert Westervelt was succeeded by Edward B. Force, husband of his daughter Lydia. Force increased production, spinning wool yarn for the Higgins carpet factory in New York. He removed the saw mill portion from over the flume and added it to the north end of the building, then built a two-story addition on the south side where six power looms ran full time. He also built a long building on the east side of the road to house eighteen hand looms. Lastly, he erected a belfry on the mill which he used to summon his employees, who sometimes numbered 50 hands.
Red Mill now used all its power as a woolen mill. Its principal product was heavy printing blankets, fulled in heavy stocks and then used over heavy rollers for printing calicos and other goods. A barn which Edward Force built a short distance south of the mill in 1840 was outfitted with seats in 1842 and appropriated for religious services. In 1843, Force donated a lot for construction of the Arcola Methodist church. His neighbors brought a number of large logs to the mill where they were sawn into timbers. Rev. Manning Force, Edward's brother, laid the cornerstone .
Edward Force died September 6, 1850, at 51 years of age. In November 1853, commissioners of the Orphans Court sold the mill and about 60 acres for $5,200 to the highest bidder, George Graham, reputedly "a portly Englishman said to have been a high liver." He angered his neighbors along the river by raising the level of the mill dam to increase its power, thereby flooding meadowlands as far as Dunderhook. They retaliated by throwing the upper course of stones on the dam into the river during the night. During the Civil War, Graham produced army blankets for Robert Beatty of Little Falls, who had a government contract. In March 1871, administrators of George Graham's estate sold the property to John Dunlop. He, in partnership with D. S. Beam, Samuel Smith and General Hoxney, all of Paterson, intended using the mill pond as a municipal reservoir for the city of Hackensack, but the water supply proved inadequate for that purpose.
For many years, the setting of the Red Mill, with its two dams, bridge and stream, made it a favorite subject for professional and amateur photographers, sketchers and painters. But its industrial life ebbed away, outdone by the modern factory system. The popularity of the place as a waystation declined with the rise of the railroads and, as the roads thereabout deteriorated, the old drovers and stage hotels closed. In August 1873, The Hackensack Republican announced that the Red Mill at Arcola had been "rented and will soon run as a shoddy manufactory," but the old mill dam sustained a heavy break by a freshet in April 1874. The old dwelling house near the Red Mill was reportedly "the subject of a good many comments":
"The neighbors say that strange noises are to be heard in the building after night fall. On one occasion an apparition in white stood at the window. In the early part of this century 'Olly' Westervely lived there. He was an eccentric man, and it is said, that he ordered a coffin before his death. It was brought into the house, and the old man got into it to see how a wooden overcoat fitted. It was a tight fit, and help had to be brought to relieve Mr. Westervelt out of his predicament. It may be that the spirit of the old man has returned to revisit the old settlement. Change has developed, but little. The old mill still stands, and its former occupant, E. B. Force, and others, have long crossed the dark river. It would not be unreasonable to suppose the spirits of the departed return to earth, that apparitions from the spirit world are walking around the Red Mills, and disturbing the residents by phantoms. The building in itself is enough to scare any one let alone the presence of a ghost. It is an admirable place for goblins 'and sich,' and the only way the public can be relieved of them is to pull down the old dwelling, and break up such a hiding place."
Easton Water Tower
The Red Mill was dismantled in December 1894. In 1898, Edward Denison Easton, a gramaphone manufacturer, built a handsome residence at Arcola, near the site of the Red Mill, and wished to constructed a park back of his residence. About fifty men and twenty teams of horses worked on the construction of walks and drives. Trees were planted and a lake formed in the middle of the grounds. In July 1899, John Dunlop conveyed the Red Mill to William Johnson, of Hackensack, who sold it three months later to Edward Easton, who was then "making extensive purchases of property in that neighborhood with a view to beautifying the surroundings of his home." In 1904, Easton constructed the present stone tower on the former site of the Red Mill, which he used to pump water for his gardens.
Returnee children in the bus that brought them to the Torit waystation
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Young girl in the sunset at Torit waystation. In the background, the UNHCR tent hosting the Red Crescent Society volunteers and the line of returnees awaiting medical advice or medicine.
Didyma Ancient Cities
Didyma (/ˈdɪdɨmə/; Ancient Greek: Δίδυμα) was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ionia. It contained a temple and oracle of Apollo, the Didymaion. In Greek didyma means "twin", but the Greeks who sought a "twin" at Didyma ignored the Carian origin of the name.[1] Next to Delphi, Didyma was the most renowned oracle of the Hellenic world, first mentioned among the Greeks in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo,[2] but an establishment preceding literacy and even the Hellenic colonization of Ionia. Mythic genealogies of the origins of the Branchidae line of priests, designed to capture the origins of Didyma as a Hellenic tradition, date to the Hellenistic period.[3] The ruins of Didyma are located at a short distance to the northwest of modern Didim in Aydin Province, Turkey, whose name is derived from Didyma's.
Bust of a marble kouros from the Sacred Way at Didyma, now in the British Museum, 550 BC[4]
Didyma was the largest and most significant sanctuary on the territory of the great classical city Miletus. To approach it, visitors would follow the Sacred Way to Didyma, about 17 km long. Along the way, were ritual waystations, and statues of members of the Branchidae family, male and female, as well as animal figures. Some of these statues, dating to the 6th century BC, are now in the British Museum, taken by the British archaeologist Charles Newton in the 19th century.[5]
Greek and Roman authors laboured to refer the name Didyma to "twin" temples — not a feature of the site — or to temples of the twins, Apollo and Artemis, whose own cult center at Didyma was only recently established, or whether, as Wilamowitz suggested[6] there is a connection to Cybele Dindymene, "Cybele of Mount Dindymon", is mooted. Recent excavations by the German team of archaeologists have uncovered a major sanctuary dedicated to Artemis, with the key ritual focus being water.
The 6th century Didymaion, dedicated to Apollo, enclosed its smaller predecessor, which archaeologists have identified. Its treasury was enriched by gifts from Croesus.
This was taken outside of Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. They had a farm there where they use to raise Liger (Lions and Tigers) until they all got out and a majority of them were shot. Ligertown happened in 1995, 27 exotic cats were seized and 19 killed. The surviving ligers were taken to Wildlife Waystation Sanctuary in Angeles National forest, California. I still wonder if they got all of them. It is a mountainous area where they were kept.... This cloud, a spirit I thought was really explaining the hurt that was suffered by animal abuse... The owners were charged...
My Box entry for the Canon Photo5 competition.
I am amazed that the little box with all its smaller boxes inside, actually supported my weight. My whole weight was on the box, to save the books. I think it was the little ones inside that did all the supporting.
This photo made Explore. Entry position: 178 on Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Highest position: 19 on Thursday, November 15, 2007
That is my higest ever debut & highest overall rank on Explore.
This photo was featured on Wil Wheaton's Blog as part of Wheaton's Books in the Wild.
Attendies of the annual Prairie Fire Bioneers Conference install a monarch waystation at the Knox Farm.
Another post today for Totally Texture Tuesday!
At the Butterfly Garden you encounter many different types of butterflies, including Buckeyes as shown here. The focus on this one is a bit on the soft side which is exactly what I envisioned. Taken with my old Pentax 50mm 2.0 prime lens (wide open) on my Nikon 1. Texture added in iPiccy.
Monarch Waystation,
University of Kansas,
Lawrence (Douglas County), KS.
Returnee girl carrying her luggage from the bus to the waystation building in Torit, Eastern Equatoria State
The Palace of Fine Arts Rotunda in San Francisco, right next to the Exporatorium (until the Exploratorium moves in 2013!!!) at night.
A returnee boy screams happily as he is playing in one of the buses at the waystation.
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The mausoleum of Afaq Khoja (1626-1694), a religious and political leader (and a saint to some Uighur Muslims), was initially built for his father around 1640. Supposedly 72 members of the Afaqi family spanning five generations are buried here but there are only 58 tombs.
The most notorious relative was his great grandniece, Iparham, who apparently had an exceptionally pleasing body aroma starting in her childhood. In 1760 at age 27 she was chosen to enter the imperial harem where she was called the Fragrant Concubine. She became the favorite of the Qianlong Emperor (who reigned over China from 1711 to 1796). She died from a disease in 1788 at age 55 in Beijing and was entombed back here in Kashgar. The Qianlong Emperor renovated and modified the mausoleum in 1795. [This love between a Han emperor and a Uighur maiden has been cited by some as evidence of the unity between the various ethnic groups of China. An alternative version of the story describes a rogue leader’s wife captured by military troops who refuses to serve the Emperor and then commits suicide or is murdered by the Emperor’s mother.]
Kashgar (Kashi) is the westernmost city in China (nearer to Tehran and Damascus than to Beijing) with a population of roughly 350,000 who are predominantly Muslim Uighurs. Its history extends over 2,000 years, early on an important waystation on the Silk Road where the northern and southern routes merged at the transition from the desert to the east to the mountains to the west, the final barrier (treacherous terrain with bandits—plus dragons and evil spirits it was believed) to reaching India. Buddhism was active here in the 7th century. Islam was established here in the 10th century. Marco Polo visited around 1273-1274. Tamerlane (Timur the Lame) ravaged Kashgar in 1389-1390.
The movie “The Kite Runner” (2007) was filmed here as Afghanistan was too dangerous.
The Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014. (Chang'an, now Xi'an, is in eastern China and Tianshan is a system of mountain ranges in the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Northwest China.)
[The term ‘Silk Road’ was coined in 1877 by German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen. The Silk Road contributed not only to the exchange of goods and technologies, but also to the mutual enrichment of cultures and traditions of different peoples. Direct maritime trade between Europe and the Far East ultimately supplanted the overland route.]
On Google Earth:
Afaq Khoja Mausoleum 39°29'26.58"N, 76° 1'23.06"E
Although a special place has been set up for women to wash, some children do it in the open with water provided by UNHCR.
During these past six months at this job, I've met some extremely dedicated and competent people. One needs to be dedicated to work in this kind of facility, as the pay is not extravagant, the hours can be long and the work can be very dangerous and physically demanding. But once you've gotten close to the animals who live at the Wildlife WayStation, the hours and the money don't matter very much, and the work is all about keeping the animals safe, clean, healthy and happy. Seeing how interested, engaged and happy the animals are at the WayStation is a very significant part of the reward for doing the job.
A Muslim boy sells goats, including baby ones, at the Sunday Livestock Market.
Kashgar (Kashi) is the westernmost city in China (nearer to Tehran and Damascus than to Beijing) with a population of roughly 350,000 who are predominantly Muslim Uighurs. Its history extends over 2,000 years, early on an important waystation on the Silk Road where the northern and southern routes merged at the transition from the desert to the east to the mountains to the west, the final barrier (treacherous terrain with bandits—plus dragons and evil spirits it was believed) to reaching India. Buddhism was active here in the 7th century. Islam was established here in the 10th century. Marco Polo visited around 1273-1274. Tamerlane (Timur the Lame) ravaged Kashgar in 1389-1390.
The Silk Roads: the Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014. (Chang'an, now Xi'an, is in eastern China and Tianshan is a system of mountain ranges in the border region of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Northwest China.)
[The term ‘Silk Road’ was coined in 1877 by German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen. The Silk Road contributed not only to the exchange of goods and technologies, but also to the mutual enrichment of cultures and traditions of different peoples. Direct maritime trade between Europe and the Far East ultimately supplanted the overland route.]
On Google Earth:
Sunday Livestock Market 39°31'23.93"N, 75°55'54.73"E
Garden's Owners: Paul and Marjorie Krupa
Cornwall, New York 12518
Name of Garden Club: Cornwall Garden Club
State Garden Club: Federated Garden Clubs of New York State, Inc.
Description of garden & where it is located:
Marjorie and Paul Krupa's garden is located in the Hudson River Valley town of Cornwall, New York. It is a garden in "harmony with nature" where you will find many trees and plants that attract butterflies, birds, and bees. There are dogwood trees, many conifers, a small herb garden, and an abundance of perennial flowers. The garden is a National Wildlife Federation certified wildlife habitat and it is also registered as a Monarch Butterfly Waystation. In June 2012 the garden was one of three visited by the members of Cornwall Garden Club.
There are several garden rooms where plants adapt well to their location. For example, the front entrance faces north and ferns thrive in this location. In the south east exposure you will find sun loving plants and in the west garden there are many shade loving plants and wildflowers nestled under a large maple tree.
UNHCR Field Safety Advisor, Finance/Admin Assistant and two drivers are smiling at the UNHCR waystation in Torit. They and other staff are actively involved in supporting the return process and ensuring the safety of returnees.