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Pokrovskiy Convent was founded by Princess Alexandra Petrovna, the wife of tsar's Alexandr II brother - grand duke Nikolay Nikolaevich. She created the convent for poor woman who needed the asylum and wanted to devote oneself to God. The consecration of the future convent took place on the 11 of January 1889: on this day the foundation of church and princess house took place.This date is considered to be the day of the convent foundation. Alexandra Petrovna settled in the convent already at the time of construction and took here the veil with the name of Anastasia. Main temple - St. Nikolas cathedral was founded in 1896 in the presence of Tsar Nikolay II and his wife Alexandra Fedorovna. The Tsar himself endowed 80 thousand rubles for the construction.
Свято-Миколаївський собор, головний храм Покровського жіночого монастиря, було зведено у 1896-1911 роках за проектом київського архітектора Володимира Миколаєва в неоросійському стилі. Спочатку храм вінчали 15 куполів з позолоченими маківками й хрестами. Інтер'єр собору прикрашав монументальний розпис (1897-1898 рр.), іконостас XIX століття, ікони.
У 1920-х рр. монастир було закрито, зруйновано багато монастирських будівель, демонтовано куполи на Покровській церкві (1923 р.). 1935 року з Миколаївського храму було знято всі куполи, які мали виняткове композиційне значення для самої будівлі й ансамблю монастиря в цілому. Руйнування монастирських споруд тривало до 1960-х рр. На сьогоднішній день цей собор - найвищий храм України - сягає 67 метрів.
My wife works so hard in her garden that I have to reward her with beautiful pictures every year :)
Happy Thanksgiving :)
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Tom Petty - Change the Locks
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Tom Petty - You Don't KNow how it Feels
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Skid Row - I Remember You
As I was walking by, I saw Susan at the computer in the dark. Since Susan decided to retire, she moved from her huge office to our hallway closet. My busy, energetic wife is working at reducing all obligations to concentrate on ART only.
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Risin og Kellingin (Risin and Kellingin) are two sea stacks just off the northern coast of the island of Eysturoy in the Faroe Islands close to the town of Eiði. The name Risin og Kellingin means The Giant and the Witch (or Hag) and relates to an old legend about their origins. The Giant (Risin) is the 71m stack further from the coast, and the witch (Kellingin) is the 68m pointed stack nearer land, standing with her legs apart.
A legend tells how, once upon a time, the giants in Iceland were envious and decided that they wanted the Faroes. So the giant and the witch (his wife in some versions of the story) were sent down to the Faroe Islands to bring them back.
They reached the north-westernmost mountain Eiðiskollur, and the giant stayed in the sea while the witch climbed up the mountain with a heavy rope to tie the islands together so that she could push them onto the giant's back. However, when she attached the rope to the mountain and pulled, the northern part of the mountain split. Further attempts were also unsuccessful, and they struggled through the night, but the base of the mountain was firm and they could not move it.
If the sun shines on a giant or witch, it turns to stone. So it was that as they continued to struggle they didn't notice time passing, and as dawn broke a shaft of sunlight put a stop to their efforts by turning them to stone on the spot. They have stood there ever since, staring longingly across the ocean towards Iceland.
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PIRAMIDS OF GIZA
The only survivor of the Seven Wonders of the World.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is the main part of a complex setting of buildings that included two mortuary temples in honor of Khufu (one close to the pyramid and one near the Nile), three smaller pyramids for Khufu's wives, an even smaller "satellite" pyramid, a raised causeway connecting the two temples, and small mastaba tombs surrounding the pyramid for nobles. One of the small pyramids contains the tomb of queen Hetepheres (discovered in 1925), sister and wife of Sneferu and the mother of Khufu. There was a town for the workers of Giza, which included a cemetery, bakeries, a beer factory and a copper smelting complex. A few hundred meters south-west of the Great Pyramid lies the slightly smaller Pyramid of Khafre, one of Khufu's successors who is also commonly considered the builder of the Great Sphinx, and a few hundred meters further south-west is the Pyramid of Menkaure, Khafre's successor, which is about half as tall. In May 1954, 41 blocking stones were uncovered close to the south side of the Great Pyramid. They covered a 30.8 meter long rock-cut pit that contained the remains of a 43 meter long ship of cedar wood. In antiquity, it had been dismantled into 650 parts comprising 1224 pieces. This funeral boat of Khufu has been reconstructed and is now housed in a museum on the site of its discovery. A second boat pit was later discovered nearby.[
My wife and I spend the past five days with long time camping friends at the Anza Borrego Desert State Park. I think it's some kind of a law that if you go to a desert park you have to take a sunrise picture.
Other sunrise pictures that I've taken can be seen in my Sunrise/Sunset album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157606955366056
Other desert picture that I've taken over the years can be3 seen in my Desert Album.
Avi - Papua New Guinea - Mourning wife
Bezoek bij een familie gekleed in de traditionele kledij van de Chimbu-stam.
De vrouw is gekleed als een rouwende echtgenote. Ook zwarte body painting op het lichaam.
The woman has the clothes of a mourning wife. She also has black body painting as a expression of sorrow.
Western Highlands is a province of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital is Mount Hagen. The province covers an area of 8,500 km², and there are 440,025 inhabitants (2000 census), making the Western Highlands one of the most densely populated provinces. Tea and coffee are grown in the Western Highlands. Mount Wilhelm, the tallest mountain in Papua New Guinea, is on the border of the Western Highlands.
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Simbu, also known as (and officially named) Chimbu, is a Highlands Region province in Papua New Guinea.
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Chris bravely offered to gain a higher vantage point to get a better angle of the winery I was trying to photograph, and while she was up there, it would have been a waste not to do something silly and record it for posterity.
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Many of your will remember the Biblical story of Lot's wife who turned back to look at the city of Sodom and was turned into a pillar of salt. Well, this is possibly a prophetic version of what would happen today, a mountain of salt.
I have just been choosing a few random photos from our trip and this is today's. With a sense of some frustration.
South of the Central Queensland city of Rockhampton, a road leads down to the coast to a locality called Port Alma. It once had a goods only railway (now long closed) to what was theoretically Rockhampton's port but it never really got off the ground. It's at the end of a road that crosses kilometres of mud flats. It does have a wharf and there was even a ship when we arrived after being stopped three times by those annoying traffic lights controlling road works. There were no cars on the road but we still had to sit and wait...six times in all of course for the return journey. I was surprised to see a ship but I believe it was loading the only product of the area for export - you guessed it, salt.
Many of the mudflats have been made into large evaporation ponds and large quantities of salt are produced as you can see. Last time we came down to Port Alma and the reason for today's trip is that much of the edge of the road was lined with massive quantities of pink tinged salt in strange formations and was quite a fascinating sight. But today, not only did we start out in a pea souper of a fog, the first this winter, got trapped by the roadworks on both this and later the main highway south but, apart from the salt already won as depicted in the shot, all of the roadside formations and real pillars of salt had entirely disappeared. Not a grain in sight. I could literally stand in it years ago, nothing at all this time except mud and mangroves and distant water filled evaporation ponds or pans. But, there is always a bright side, I did find out that it is still a working port of sorts and we saw this dazzling hill of salt with rusty bucket loader (or whatever they are called) working on it. Or would have, except it was a public holiday and the works were closed......so what were all those road workers doing. Giving away their day off? Hard, dedicated Aussie workers.....cough, cough!
I wonder what happens if there is a lot of rain, does the salt get dissolved and run back to the ponds and they start all over again? That will have to wait for another day!
Port Alma, Queensland.