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The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon). A 1610 map depicts the name as Manna-hata, twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the Hudson River). The word "Manhattan" has been translated as "island of many hills" from the Lenape language.
New York County is one of seven counties in the United States to share the same name as the state in which they are located. The others are Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Utah counties.
The United States Postal Service prefers that mail addressed to Manhattan use "New York, NY" rather than "Manhattan, NY"
Traffic around La Crosse drying up, and word of these Iron Range escapees gave me the idea to fly across the state to Fond du Lac, with a stop in Camp Douglas for the Borealis. Waiting those couple minutes for the Borealis meant I would miss the departure from Fond du Lac, and as such I needed to get on 41 and intercept it somewhere south.
At least it was on the way home.
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One of my rose bushes has been persistent in blooming despite the early winter. It's really quite beautiful, and reminds me of Beauty and the Beast. I'll being rolling out extensive coverage of the Samyang AF 35mm F1.4 over the next few weeks, but here's another share to whet your appetite. This lens is quite optically sound for the price point if you are a Sony shooter. More images here: bit.ly/samAF1435ig | First Look Video:
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A Macro Mondays submission on the topic "Printed word".
This is an old German copy of Goethe's Faust, presented to my wife's grandfather in 1895.
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Sade [Lovers Rock]
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This one word led to much discussion between my husband and myself. He claims this is not a word and after checking a couple of dictionary's I was afraid he may be right however I did find Meow in the Webster's New World dictionary.
Meow (mē ou) n. the characteristic vocal sound made by a cat
This is a tiny 1.5" x 2" metal plate added to the bottom of a picture frame.
It was just a fun, calm day spent casually swimming in the spring air until somebody shouted "SHARK"...
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Omdat de trein een halfuur eerder in Venlo was kon ook eerder terug naar mijn hotel in Utrecht gereisd worden. Verwacht werd dat de trein tot Rotterdam 30 minuten eerder aankwam en dat het bij de avondplaat in Venlo bleef. Echter had Prorail met de nieuwe dienstregeling van de SSN-trein de geplande stops in Den Bosch en Meteren verlengt om nog een aantal vertraagde NS-treinen naar Utrecht voor te laten. Hierdoor werd mijn Intercity naar Den Haag voor de SSN-trein gestuurd en dit bood nog de mogelijkheid om ook in Utrecht de Kerstexpress te fotograferen.
Met uiteindelijk 40 minuten in de plus staat de SSN 01 1075 met de kerstexpress in de Domstad te wachten op vertrek naar Rotterdam Centraal
Crow in the spotlight ...
Sony ILCE-7R
300mm F2.8 G
The mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) is a perching duck species found in East Asia. It is medium-sized, at 41–49 cm (16–19 in) long with a 65–75 cm (26–30 in) wingspan. It is closely related to the North American wood duck, the only other member of the genus Aix. Aix is an Ancient Greek word used by Aristotle to refer to an unknown diving bird, and galericulata is the Latin for a wig, derived from galerum, a cap or bonnet.
The adult male is a striking and unmistakable bird. It has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face and "whiskers". The breast is purple with two vertical white bars, and the flanks ruddy, with two orange "sails" at the back. The female is similar to female wood duck, with a white eye-ring and stripe running back from the eye, but is paler below, has a small white flank stripe, and a pale tip to its bill.
Both the males and females have crests, but the crest is more pronounced on the male.
Like many other species of ducks, the male undergoes a moult after the mating season into eclipse plumage. When in eclipse plumage, the male looks similar to the female, but can be told apart by their bright yellow-orange beak, lack of any crest, and a less-pronounced eye-stripe.
Mandarin ducklings are almost identical in appearance to wood ducklings, and very similar to mallard ducklings. The ducklings can be distinguished from mallard ducklings because the eye-stripe of mandarin ducklings (and wood ducklings) stops at the eye, while in mallard ducklings it reaches all the way to the bill.
The hooded crow (Corvus cornix) (also called hoodie is a Eurasian bird species in the Corvus genus. Widely distributed, it is also known locally as Scotch crow and Danish crow. In Ireland it is called grey crow, just as in the Slavic languages and in Danish. In German it is called "mist crow" ("Nebelkrähe"). Found across Northern, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, as well as parts of the Middle East, it is an ashy grey bird with black head, throat, wings, tail, and thigh feathers, as well as a black bill, eyes, and feet. Like other corvids, it is an omnivorous and opportunistic forager and feeder.
It is so similar in morphology and habits to the carrion crow (Corvus corone), for many years they were considered by most authorities to be geographical races of one species. Hybridization observed where their ranges overlapped added weight to this view. However, since 2002, the hooded crow has been elevated to full species status after closer observation; the hybridisation was less than expected and hybrids had decreased vigour. Within the hooded crow species, four subspecies are recognized, with one, the Mesopotamian crow, possibly distinct enough to warrant species status itself.
Except for the head, throat, wings, tail, and thigh feathers, which are black and mostly glossy, the plumage is ash-grey, the dark shafts giving it a streaky appearance. The bill and legs are black; the iris dark brown. Only one moult occurs, in autumn, as in other crow species. The male is the larger bird, otherwise the sexes are alike. Their flight is slow and heavy and usually straight. Their length varies from 48 to 52 cm (19 to 20 in). When first hatched, the young are much blacker than the parents. Juveniles have duller plumage with bluish or greyish eyes and initially a red mouth. Wingspan is 98 cm (39 in) and weight is on average 510 g.
The mallard or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands and South Africa. This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae.
The male birds (drakes) have a glossy green head and are grey on wings and belly, while the females (hens or ducks) have mainly brown-speckled plumage. Both sexes have an area of white-bordered black speculum feathers which commonly also include iridescent blue feathers especially among males. Mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and are social animals preferring to congregate in groups or flocks of varying sizes. This species is the main ancestor of most breeds of domesticated ducks.
The mallard is a medium-sized waterfowl species although it is often slightly heavier than most other dabbling ducks. It is 50–65 cm (20–26 in) long (of which the body makes up around two-thirds), has a wingspan of 81–98 cm (32–39 in),[16] and weighs 0.72–1.58 kg (1.6–3.5 lb). Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 25.7 to 30.6 cm (10.1 to 12.0 in), the bill is 4.4 to 6.1 cm (1.7 to 2.4 in) and the tarsus is 4.1 to 4.8 cm (1.6 to 1.9 in).
The breeding male mallard is unmistakable, with a glossy bottle-green head and white collar which demarcates the head from the purple-tinged brown breast, grey brown wings, and a pale grey belly. The rear of the male is black, with the dark tail having white borders. The bill of the male is a yellowish orange tipped with black while that of the female is generally darker ranging from black to mottled orange. The female mallard is predominantly mottled with each individual feather showing sharp contrast from buff to very dark brown, a coloration shared by most female dabbling ducks, and has buff cheeks, eyebrow, throat and neck with a darker crown and eye-stripe.
Owing to their highly 'malleable' genetic code, Mallards can display a large amount of variation, as seen here with this female, who displays faded or 'apricot' plumage.
Both male and female mallards have distinct iridescent purple blue speculum feathers edged with white, prominent in flight or at rest, though temporarily shed during the annual summer moult. Upon hatching, the plumage colouring of the duckling is yellow on the underside and face (with streaks by the eyes) and black on the back (with some yellow spots) all the way to the top and back of the head. Its legs and bill are also black. As it nears a month in age, the duckling's plumage will start becoming drab, looking more like the female (though its plumage is more streaked) and its legs will lose their dark grey colouring. Two months after hatching, the fledgling period has ended and the duckling is now a juvenile. Between three and four months of age, the juvenile can finally begin flying as its wings are fully developed for flight (which can be confirmed by the sight of purple speculum feathers). Its bill will soon lose its dark grey colouring and its sex can finally be distinguished visually by three factors. The bill colouring is yellow in males, black and orange for females. The breast feathers are reddish-brown for males, brown for females. The centre tail feather is curled for males (called a drake feather), straight for females.[citation needed]
During the final period of maturity leading up to adulthood (6–10 months of age), the plumage of female juveniles remains the same while the plumage of male juveniles slowly changes to its characteristic colours.[citation needed] This plumage change also applies to adult mallard males when they transition in and out of their non-breeding eclipse plumage at the beginning and the end of the summer moulting period. The adulthood age for mallards is 14 months and the average life expectancy is 3 years, but they can live to twenty.
In captivity, domestic ducks come in wild-type plumages, white, and other colours. Most of these colour variants are also known in domestic mallards not bred as livestock, but kept as pets, aviary birds, etc., where they are rare but increasing in availability.
A noisy species, the female has a deeper quack stereotypically associated with ducks. Male mallards also make a sound which is phonetically similar to that of the female, but it is a deep and raspy sound which can also sound like mek or whak. When incubating a nest, or when offspring are present, Females vocalise differently, making a call which sounds like a truncated version of the usual quack. They will also hiss if the nest or their offspring are threatened or interfered with.
The mallard is a rare example of both Allen's Rule and Bergmann's Rule in birds. Bergmann's Rule, which states that polar forms tend to be larger than related ones from warmer climates, has numerous examples in birds. Allen's Rule says that appendages like ears tend to be smaller in polar forms to minimize heat loss, and larger in tropical and desert equivalents to facilitate heat diffusion, and that the polar taxa are stockier overall. Examples of this rule in birds are rare, as they lack external ears. However, the bill of ducks is very well supplied with blood vessels and is vulnerable to cold.[citation needed]
Due to the malleability of the mallard's genetic code, which gives it its vast interbreeding capability, mutations in the genes that decide plumage colour are very common and have resulted in a wide variety of hybrids such as Brewer's duck (mallard × gadwall, Anas strepera).
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Pyracantha, communément appelé « buisson ardent » Est originaire du sud de l'Europe et de l'Asie. Les Pyracanthas sont des plantes ornementales, appréciées dans les haies et jardins pour leurs fleurs et leurs fruits colorés. Leur structure très dense et leurs grosses épines les rendent très utiles quand on a besoin de créer une haie infranchissable. Le mot Pyracantha vient du grec Pyros, le feu et Acantha, l'épine. Le nom de Buisson ardent est une allusion à l'épisode biblique rapporté dans l'Exode
Pyracantha, commonly called "burning bush" is native to southern Europe and Asia. Pyracanthas are ornamental plants, appreciated in hedges and gardens for their colorful flowers and fruits. Their dense structure and large spines make them very useful when you need to create an impassable hedge. The word Pyracantha comes from the Greek Pyros, fire and Acantha, the spine. The name of Burning Bush is an allusion to the biblical episode reported in Exodus.
Pyracantha, comúnmente llamada "zarza ardiente" es originaria del sur de Europa y Asia. Las Pyracanthas son plantas ornamentales, apreciadas en setos y jardines por sus coloridas flores y frutas. Su estructura densa y sus grandes espinas los hacen muy útiles cuando necesita crear un seto infranqueable. La palabra Pyracantha proviene del griego Pyros, fuego y Acantha, la columna vertebral. El nombre de Burning Bush es una alusión al episodio bíblico reportado en Éxodo.
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The drive to be someone you’re not
Chased desert dreams in hopes I’m not forgotten
I told myself that I was doing the right thing
Faked everything, faked everything I’m not
Red clouds come down
Won’t you take me away?
Red clouds all around
Won’t you take me away?
Built in the 17th century, this church marks the transition of an European Mannerist architectonic style to a Portuguese Baroque style, with the great religious ostentation.
This stylistic combination marked since this period of Jesuit expansion, that spread out the Christ word all over the “new worlds”, colonizing and Christianizing many new territories.
The Church presents a latin cross plant, with one only nave, the main chapel quite evidenced from the rest of the architectonic set, profusely decorated with golden carved wood and rich paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as rich blue and white glazed tiles panels of the 17th century.