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Leaving DC soon. Trying to make it to a few spots I somehow never visited (or never captured decently), including this, the DC War Memorial, commemorating the citizens of the District of Columbia who served in World War I.
Had to do a little work with a couple exposures to accurately capture the lighting here.
"The Curlwaa Mechanics’ Institute was opened in the early 1900s. The Mechanics’ Institute term was dropped fairly early and it was generally known as the Curlwaa Hall. After the Second World War the original outdoor WW I monument was dismantled, as it had become a traffic hazard. The hall had become quite rundown and was renovated to become the Curlwaa Memorial Hall, which was officially opened in 1958. Panels were mounted either side of the main door recording the names of those who had died in the First and Second World Wars respectively. The original Honour Rolls recording all who had served were retained in the Hall."
Source: amisa.org.au/project/curlwaa-memorial-hall-mechanics-inst...
Marianne von Werefkin (Russia, 1860 - 1938, Switzerland) was student of Ilja Repin. She went with Alexej von Jawlenski to Muenich later to Murna. Had significant influence on the set-up of Die Blaue Reiter (Kandinski ea). In the period around WW-I she painted in bright, expressionistic style, like this Sturmwind / Stormy Night from 1917-1917.
Photo by Drager Meurtant, Albertina museum, Vienna.
Spring in a WW I cemetery found in a Wiączyń Reserve wood, close to Łódź, Poland......
Wiączyń Cmentarz Wojenny Wiki -but only in Polish language..
JT is modeling my chicken fry shirt. He thinks it's just a tad bit too big for him.
We had a chicken fry this past Saturday. I intended to take photos there but was too busy.
Thankfully the men do all the kitchen work - especially the hot job of frying the chicken. Sure does taste good though.
Lots of other jobs to keep the rest of us busy. Served over 200 people plus take out orders. The funds raised help maintain the building and grounds.
The Post is named after 2 young men killed in action from our town. Fred Cave, who was killed in WW I and Carl Dahl, who was killed in WW II. As far as I know, each American Legion Post is named after someone from their community who gave their life in service to their country.
Today is the day for veteran stories. Veteran's Day used to be called Armistice Day to remember November 11, the end of World War I. When I think of that, I think of the coming home of Sergeant Alvin C. York.
The decorated sergeant came home from World War I to Appalachia a famous man. The good news was that he came home. The strangeness of it all to him was that he came back a famous man. His war story was unique, particularly since he had entered the Great War a pacifist.
There was a good life waiting for him. He was soon married by the Tennessee governor. A grateful Rotary Club of Nashville bought his family property back that had been sold to another family and actually gave it to York, including a new two-story home to live in. Nice, eh?
York bought this mill house and dam himself.
York's widow willed their land to the state of Tennessee after her death. It is now a state park.
This gigantic triumphal arch is one of the symbols of Delhi. It was built in early XX century by the British to commemorate the tens of thousands of Indian soldiers who died fighting for them in WW I and various colonial wars. It has since become a memorial to the fallen soldiers of the Indian army and contains a tomb of an unknown soldier who fell during a war with Pakistan.
Эта гигантская триумфальная арка является одним из символов Дели. Она была построена в начале ХХ века британцами в честь десятков тысяч индийских солдат, павших, сражаясь за Великобританию, в Первой Мировой и в разных колониальных войнах. После обретения Индией независимости арка стала монументом солдатам армии Индии с могилой неизвестного солдата, павшего в 1971 г. в войне с Пакистаном.
This is a replica of a german WW I Albatros DVa. It uses an original Mercedes D.III engine. Since 2012 it is displayed at the RAF Museum at Hendon/London. Although it is raining outside, the little Aircraft would be eager to fly again as soon a possible.
Wilderness almost! This landscape has a few crofts and homesteads clinging on but lots of building here are derelict abandoned wrecks, where the young sons left to go to fight in
(WW I) As many never returned, the community started to break up as the old and woman of the farms were unable to continue to run them and thus were forced to leave and abandon everything and start elsewhere in towns and villages wherever they could find work.
A spa town, filled with Edwardian architecture, though I don't know if this counts.
On further investigation, it appears that the clock was built in 1955 as a memorial to the more than 200 soldiers from the area who lost their lives in WW I and WW II. Handsome either way.
Known also as the Sailors' Memorial Clock to commemorate the sailors who died during the WW I. The cornerstone was laid by the Prince of Wales on Oct. 31, 1919, with the 45-metre tower completed two years later.
happy birthday to me! there's a few pieces in here that i got for my bday, i hope you like these figs.
L to R:
Scandal Savage: I don't feel like making the Secret Six, but i really like this character so i made her, i think she turned out really good.
Parts: Tauriel Head, Ninjago Mask, PoP armor, and Faora torso.
Atomic Skull: Credit to LordAllo for the body idea.
Parts: Ghoultar Head, Faora armor, and torso i have 4 of but don't know where they are from.
WW: i got the "awesome" guide, so i switched out the face. All pieces are Official WW
World War I was one of the deadliest wars in history, with an estimated nine million combatant deaths and 13 million civilian deaths. Without the kind of modern ambulances shown here - a Cadillac ambulance donated by the employees of the Federal Shipbuilding Co. - the number of fatalities would have been considerably higher.
"During World War One, the Red Cross brought in the first widespread battlefield motor ambulances to replace horse-drawn vehicles, a change which was such a success, the horse-drawn variants were quickly phased out." --
"The equipment carried by the ambulance was changing fast at this time. Traction splints were introduced during World War I, and were found to have a positive effect on the morbidity and mortality of patients with leg fractures."
(Wikipedia)
My colorization of a 1918 photo in the US National Archives.
Excerpt from www.citywindsor.ca/residents/historyofwindsor/Documents/M...:
The Lazurek Series: Just after WW I, Theodore “Fred” Lazurek emigrated from Romania with his parents who, along with many others from the region, sought the employment opportunities Ford City could offer. Fred followed in his father’s footsteps and became a photographer. Enthralled and inspired by its cultural diversity, Fred saw Ford City as a true community where everyone knew and cared about each other. Working from his home studio on Drouillard Road, he captured the essence of post-WW II life in East Windsor. A free spirit, unconcerned with fame or fortune, Fred was obsessed with recording images taking delight in commonplace scenes like a group of boys hanging out at the temple Theatre, or the neighbourhood knife sharpener on his daily rounds. His photos inspired revitalization project artists to create these vignettes of life on Drouillard Road, as seen through Fred Lazurek’s lens.
Fred Lazurek by JoAnne Weston 2001
The Recycler by Ryan Pearson 2001
Night Scene by Mike Mascarin 1999
News Stand by James Levergood 2001
Boys at the Theatre by Carl T. Haskell & James Levergood 2001
Knife Sharpener by Glen Donaldson 2000
This is Antónia, my beautiful WW, I love her bangs.
I made this dress and I think she´s gorgeous with it.
A group of enthusiasts based at the Missouri City airport near Kansas City hand builds replicas of WW I aircraft. They are 80% the original size of the planes. These are two Nieuports in French colors.
I was visiting my home town in Sandstone, Minnesota on the occasion of their annual Quarry Days celebration. It starts with a memorial service for veterans held at the Veterans' Memorial. November 11 is Veterans' Day in the US. It started as Armistice Day at the ending of WW I and was later changed to the present observance.
The Fond du Lac Indian Reservation (or Nah-Gah-Chi-Wa-Nong (Nagaajiwanaang in the Double Vowel orthography), meaning "Where the current is blocked" in the Ojibwe language) is an Indian reservation in northern Minnesota near Cloquet in Carlton and Saint Louis counties. The tribe ceded land to the US as part of an 1837 treaty along with other Ojibwa bands; the lands were located mainly from east-central Minnesota to north-central Wisconsin. Later, as part of the Treaty of La Pointe in 1842, the Fond du Lac Band and other Ojibwa tribes ceded large tracts of land located mainly in the Lake Superior watershed in Wisconsin and the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan. As part of an 1854 treaty, the tribe and the Lake Superior Band of Chippewa (largely situated along the northern shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota) ceded more land to the US. [Wikipedia]
In 1919 Rushville Illinois decided to welcome the WW I veterans home with a celebration they called "Smiles Day" after the popular song "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag" that has the first verse "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag, and smile, smile, smile," Then they just never stopped having it.
Tyne Cot Cemetery (WW I) is the biggest British military cemetery of Europe located in Belgium in the village Passendale. This impressive cemetery contains almost 12,000 tombstones. The rear of Tyne Cot consists of a wall with 35,000 names of missing soldiers.
In 1919 Rushville Illinois decided to welcome the WW I veterans home with a celebration they called "Smiles Day" after the popular song "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag" that has the first verse "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag,
and smile, smile, smile," Then they just never stopped having it.
An airscrew on a V-engine in Hangar 2 (WW I), Royal Airforce museum, London, UK.
To emphasize this propeller format I used an unusual 16:6 upright (portrait) format.
(Vintage Olympus Zuiko OM 2.0 28mm on Sony A7R4)
Ein Propeller an einem V-Motor aus Hangar 2 (WW I) des Royal Airforce Museums in London, Großbritannien. Um das Format des Propellers zu betonen benutze ich hier das ungewöhnliche 16:6 Hochformat.
Built for air races during the golden age of air racing between the end of WW I and the beginning of WW II. A plane like this piloted by Jimmy Doolittle set a new transcontinental record beating the old record by nearly an hour in 1931. .Fantasy of Flight Polk City Florida
in the center military positions left from world war I.
leading to the left mountain (torre di toblin/toblinger knoten) some remains from a trench
St. Dorothy Catholic Church in Mileszki near Łódź, Poland...
The oldest wooden church built in 1415-1418, two times burnt (1543 & 1765)..
rebuilt in 1766..
Devastated in WW I.. and reconstructed in 2000..
Lavaredo (Dolomites) - Three Peaks.
These iconic peaks are the symbol of the Dolomites. During WW I they were on the front line, italians on one side, austrians on the other. Few hundred meters apart. The picture is taken from the former austrian territory, the front was on the other side.On the front side one could see plenty of holes in the lower part of the peaks : austrian soldiers were fighting from inside the mountains...trenches, barracks were safely housed inside the rocks
Royal New-Zealand Airforce (RNZAF) Boeing B757-200(Combi) NZ7572
"KIWI-305" arriving Runway 26 from Keflavick. In to pick up the delegation of NZ Military and officials taking part in the 100 years commemoration ceremonies of the Passchendaele battle in 1917 (WW I)
Definatly one of the thoughest pics to edit I had so far due to the difficult colour of the a/c and the very bad lighting at time of arrival.
OST, 13-Oct-2017
The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa is a great place to learn about this country's military history. I enjoyed my visit earlier in the year but walking through an exhibit featuring the battlefields of WW I was a very sobering reality check. As we approach Remembrance Day, we would all do well to look back and prevent such horror from ever happening again.
Note that the name at the bow is "USAT Pocahontas". Many of the troopships were marked "USS".
This was the German ship Prinzess Irene before she was taken over by the United States.
Found image.
Information on troopships of WW I at: my troopship pages.