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Rouen Armada is one of the largest free-admission maritime events in the world with over 10 million visitors expected. In June 2019, the event promises to be bigger and better than ever before as the Armada will be celebrating its 30th anniversary. Some 30 beautiful sailing ships from many countries will be berthed along the River Seine quaysides, from the Esplanade Saint-Gervais under the spectacular Pont Flaubert lift bridge to the Guillaume le Conquerant bridge upstream. In addition, there will also be several pleasure cruise boats, warships and even submarines to marvel at! Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this key event in the international sailing calendar will bring together visitors from near and far with thousands of French and foreign sailors from 6 to 16 June 2019. Over thirty magnificent tall ships, along with military boats and submarines from all over the world, will line Rouen's quaysides for ten days of celebrations, finishing with the parade along the River Seine. en.normandie-tourisme.fr/calendar-of-events/rouen-armada-...
Embleton Bay, Craster, Northumberland
As well as a sunrise at Bamburgh, I was hoping to capture this castle from the beach and do one of those eerily long exposure shots with the tide sweeping in over those wonderful black boulders to turn the scene in to spooky mystical medieval castle by the sea type of image... you get the picture!
But first, getting there... the cheapskates and lazy will head for the dead end lane at Dunstan Steads north of the castle, whereas us energetic, pay through the nose, will park at the extortionate £2 a day car park just outside Craster and take the long walk route. I'm only moaning for what's about to follow. The castle is north of the village of Craster and can be seen on the cliff top the moment you start the walk north along the coastal path. It's an impressive sight, a real fortress of defence that dominates the skyline, but you quickly sense you're not getting anywhere... just like a donkey chasing the carrot on a stick! I suppose I could blame the headwind for it took well over an hour to this point.
The castle is fenced off and a large National Trust sign displays the prices for entry - £6 per adult put free to NT members. Bargain I thought as it was too early to head to the boulder beach so we went in for a look around.
Does anyone remember P.T. Barnum and the odd quotes he may have said like "This way to the Egress" and "There's a sucker born every minute"... both apply! Once you pass through this impressive gateway... that's yer lot. Admittedly, there is a nice NT ticket office just beyond in the forecourt, but after that it's just open fields and the remains of the ruined perimeter wall. What you see from the boulder beach is just a solitary tower on the north side. Even at free admission, I still felt cheated!
It gets worse... but you'll have to wait for the next posting.
Explored! Highest position: 57 on Wednesday, October 14, 2009
More at the website: www.aaronbrownphotos.com/Exhibit
The little lady and I set off on another adventure: this time to Seoul Grand Park Zoo! It's huge. I mean HUGE. You have to take a trolley car to get there. We also went on an especially hot day, so you can imagine the smells we endured. Monkeys are generally cute, unless they're flinging feces... or locked up in the Sing Sing of zoos with the longing eyes of a child sans legs watching all the other kids run in the park. i just wanted to give it a hug.
From Wikipedia:
Seoul Grand Park is a park complex to the south of Seoul, South Korea, in the city of Gwacheon (과천시).
Seoul Grand Park has numerous facilities, including:
* Hills and hiking trails
* Seoul Grand Park Zoo
* Children's Zoo
* A rose garden
* SeoulLand amusement park
* Seoul Museum of Modern Art
The attractions all have separate admission fees. Line 4 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway stops at Seoul Grand Park Station. A free shuttle bus from the station visits the art museum and upper park entrance.
Thanks for checking it out!
Bathing fun for the sparrow society without having to pay admission.
Sparrow Bath
A little sparrow sits by the water
and dips its beak in it.
'Oh, how wonderful', it thinks,
and then hops in a bit.
It calls its brothers and sisters,
the whole sparrow army.
They come out of their nests
and everyone chirps loudly.
With true sparrow courage,
without any fear,
they plunge into the water
and were so happy there.
(Edi)
Es ist viel zu heiß
Badespaß für die Spatzengesellschaft, ganz ohne Eintritt zahlen zu müssen.
Spatzenbad
Ein Spätzlein sitzt am Wasserbad
und taucht den Schnabel ein.
'Oh herrlich', denkt es dabei grad'
und hüpft dann ganz hinein.
Es ruft die Brüder und Schwestern,
das ganze Spatzenheer.
Sie kommen aus ihren Nestern
Und zwitschern gar so sehr.
Mit echtem Spatzenmut,
ganz ohne sich zu scheuen,
stürzen sie sich in die Flut
und taten sich soo freuen.
(Edi)
Looking for space .. [1975]
'All alone in the universe
Sometimes that's how it seems
I get lost in the sadness and the screams
Then I look in the center
Suddenly everything's clear
I find myself in the sunshine and my dreams'
John Denver.
Queenscliff family beach ..
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The Mesa Drive-In outside of Pueblo Colorado on Christmas Eve 2008. And no this is not HDR. I did some post processing with curves but all on one image.
on tour with maxelmann
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Italien / Südtirol - Die Gärten von Schloss Trauttmannsdorff
The Gardens of Trauttmansdorff Castle (German: Die Gärten von Schloss Trauttmansdorff; Italian: I Giardini di Castel Trauttmansdorff) are botanical gardens located on the grounds of Trauttmansdorff Castle in Meran, Italy. The gardens are open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.
The gardens were initially laid out circa 1850 by Count Trauttmansdorff during the castle's restoration. Empress Elisabeth of Austria was a frequent visitor to Meran and the gardens. A bronze bust in her memory was placed in the gardens after her assassination in Geneva in 1898.
Today the castle grounds contain about 80 dedicated gardens with local and exotic plants, organized by region of origin, including typical landscapes of South Tyrol. Principal features of interest include:
Forests of the world – conifers and deciduous trees from the Americas and Asia.
Oleander Steps – flowering oleander, an ancient olive tree, etc.
Sun Gardens – cultivated plants of the Mediterranean, including cypress, figs, grapevines, lavender, and Italy's northernmost olive grove.
Water and Terraced Gardens – various gardens, including a formal Italian garden, English garden, and sensual garden.
The landscapes of South Tyrol – testimony of the ancient vegetation of the Valle dell'Adige.
The gardens also contain Aesculapian Snakes in their natural habitat, courtesy of the Alpine Zoo of Innsbruck, an aviary, a Japanese alluvial forest, rice terraces, and tea plantations.
(Wikipedia)
Die Gärten von Schloss Trauttmansdorff liegen am östlichen Stadtrand von Meran in Südtirol (Italien). Der nach seinem Wahrzeichen Schloss Trauttmansdorff benannte botanische Garten der Kurstadt Meran nimmt eine Fläche von rund zwölf Hektar ein. Natur- und Kulturlandschaften aus aller Welt, botanische Raritäten, Themengärten sowie lokale Vegetationsbilder des Landes Südtirols bilden die Schwerpunkte der Gartengestaltung. Im Vergleich zu vielen klassischen Botanischen Gärten, die in der Ebene liegen, erstrecken sich die Gärten rund um das Schloss über einen Höhenunterschied von rund 100 Metern, darin ähnlich dem Park La Mortella auf der Insel Ischia. Mit ca. 400.000 Besuchern pro Gartensaison steht der 2001 eröffnete botanische Garten an der Spitze der meistbesuchten Freizeiteinrichtungen Südtirols. Im Schloss selbst ist das Südtiroler Landesmuseum für Tourismus, das Touriseum, untergebracht.
Die Ursprünge von Schloss Trauttmansdorff gehen ins Mittelalter zurück. Um 1300 wurde das Gebäude als Burg Neuberg erstmals urkundlich erwähnt. Um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ließ Graf Joseph von Trauttmansdorff das halb verfallene Gebäude mit neugotischen Elementen erweitern. 1892 wurde das Schloss an die Familie Gyulay verkauft, nach deren Konkurs 1896 kam Baron Friedrich von Deuster, ein Weinhändler aus Kitzingen, in den Besitz von Schloss und Garten. Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg wurde Deuster von den Faschisten enteignet, das Anwesen fiel an einen Hilfsfonds für italienische Soldaten. Nach Auflösung des Fonds 1977 wurde die Südtiroler Landesverwaltung Eigentümer und übertrug die Verwaltung ihrer Liegenschaften der Gutsverwaltung des Land- und Forstwirtschaftlichen Versuchszentrums Laimburg.
Ab 1989 erfolgte eine umfassende Erneuerung: im Schloss wurde das Südtiroler Landesmuseum für Tourismus, das Touriseum, eingerichtet, und um das Schloss wurde der botanische Garten angelegt, was von den besonderen klimatischen Bedingungen Merans und der mikroklimatischen Vielfalt des Areals nahegelegt wurde. 1989 wurde der Bau des Gartens beschlossen, sechs Jahre später wurde mit der Ausführung begonnen. Nach sieben Jahren, in denen rund 24 Millionen Euro investiert worden waren, wurden die Gärten von Schloss Trauttmansdorff am 16. Juni 2001 eröffnet. Seit der Eröffnung haben mehr als sechs Millionen Menschen – Stand Oktober 2017 – die Gärten von Schloss Trauttmansdorff besucht.
Auf dem zwölf Hektar großen Areal wurden vier Zonen geschaffen, die fließend ineinander übergehen: Waldgärten, Sonnengärten, Wasser- und Terrassengärten und die Landschaften Südtirols. Die Kurstadt Meran mit ihrem milden Herbst und Winter pflegt seit mehr als 150 Jahren die Tradition des Experimentierens mit exotischen Gehölzen. Somit prägten Palmengewächse, Magnolien, Ginkgo u. a. bereits vor der Anlage der Gärten das Stadtbild. Die Hanglage, ein natürliches Amphitheater, eröffnete zudem weitere gestalterische Dimensionen: Exemplarisch sind die „Blühenden Lehmwände“, sehr steil nach einem Hangrutsch angelegte Staudenbeete. Um bereits der ersten Besuchergeneration einen botanischen Garten als Erholungsstätte zu bieten, wurden die Gärten von Schloss Trauttmansdorff weitgehend mit „erwachsenen“ Pflanzen ausgestattet.
Meran und im Besonderen Schloss Trauttmansdorff zählten zu den bevorzugten Destinationen der reisefreudigen Kaiserin Elisabeth von Österreich-Ungarn. Zweimal – 1870 und 1889 – weilte die Kaiserin, auch Sisi (oder fälschlich „Sissi“) genannt, dort auf Winterkur. In demselben Jahr erlebte Meran seinen ersten, vergleichsweise großen Ansturm an Wintergästen: Es begann der Aufstieg Merans zum Kurort von europäischem Rang. Durch den natürlich gewachsenen Flaumeichenwald ließ Kaiserin Elisabeth einen Weg anlegen. Bei der Errichtung der Gärten von Schloss Trauttmansdorff wurde dieser Weg als „Sissi-Promenade“ revitalisiert; einige der seinerzeit zur Verschönerung der Wege gesetzten Pflanzen, eine bronzene Sisi-Büste und die Sisi-Räume im Touriseum erinnern an ihren Aufenthalt. Ein „Sissi-Weg“ führt zudem von den Gärten von Schloss Trauttmansdorff in das Zentrum der Stadt Meran. Die Gärten sind Teil der sogenannten Sisi-Straße, einer europäischen Kulturroute zu Schlössern und Städten, die im Leben der Kaiserin eine besondere Rolle spielten. Baron von Deuster, der einstige Besitzer von Schloss Trauttmansdorff, ließ zu ihren Ehren eine Bank aus Marmor errichten, die heute auf einer Marmortreppe vor dem Schloss steht.
(Wikipedia)
Norristown State Hospital, Pennsylvania
An expansion of the asylum's campus was completed between 1907 and 1909, with the construction of several new buildings funding by a state grant. This period saw the construction of: the Acute Admissions Building (Building #17).
Originally posted on Ipernity: Joseph Brown's Singing Class!
"Joseph Brown's Singing Class! Admit the bearer."
I bought this well-worn singing class ticket in Clarion, Pennsylvania, and I suspect that it originated in Pennsylvania or another state sometime in the nineteenth century.
Even so, it's interesting to note that a Joseph Brown was conducting a singing class in New Zealand in 1875 as indicated by this brief note, which appeared in Auckland's New Zealand Herald on page 3 of the November 19 issue: "The members of Mr. Joseph Brown's part-singing class announce their intention of giving a complimentary benefit to that gentleman at the Lorne-street Hall, on Monday evening next week."
No mention of any green tickets used for admittance to the class, though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnE6QyL_tF0&feature=related
أنا سعيد ..
شخص سعيد دائما .. إنسان لا يحزن ..
وجهي جذع شجرة .. مرسوم فوقها ابتسامتي ..
قد يمنع الحب تفاصيل فكري من الصعود نحو السماء ..
قد يمنع القلق عيني من تذوق النوم العميق ..
قد يمنع الشعر قلبي من كسل ما بعد الظهيرة ..
قد تمنعني أرضي من التنفس .. فأموت ..
لكنني سعيد .. و لا أخفي سعادتي ..
فقد بات الحزن في بلادي تهمة ..
و باتت الدموع جريمة ..
مسموح لك أن تبكي إذ تشاهد مسلسل السهرة ..
مسموح لك أن تحزن إن مات قط جيرانك ..
مسموح لك أن تبدي بعض القلق لغلاء المعيشة ..
مسموح لك أن تحرق روحك في لهيب وهم سباقات الوظيفة ..
مسموح لك أن تغتم إن تغير منصب والدك ..
مسموح لك أن تلعن التاريخ إن فاتتك حفلة .. قد يقال إن اشتريت تذاكرها بأنك فيلسوف ..
.....
عدا ذلك .. فالحزن يبقيك خارج أرض البشر..
قد يصنفونك ..
قد يضايقونك ..
قد يتهمونك بالكآبة .. و شتان ما بين الحزن و الاكتئاب ..
قد يرمونك بالتشاؤم ..
قد يشنون عليك الحروب ..
قد يظنونك واعظا ..
أو يعتقدون بأنك تدعي الشهادة ...
و لأجل ذلك .. فأنا إنسان سعيد ..
ابتسامتي تنير وجهي الخشبي ..
و سعادتي تطغى على حياتي ...
سعادتي تخنقني ..
أرجوكم .. خففوا عني بعض السعادة فإنني أموت ..
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2 million residents across a total area of approximately 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2), it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the most populated subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7 million residents and the latter having over 9.6 million. Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the most populous city in the state and the second most populous city in the country. San Francisco is the second most densely populated major city in the country. Los Angeles County is the country's most populous, while San Bernardino County is the largest county by area in the country. California borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, the Mexican state of Baja California to the south; and has a coastline along the Pacific Ocean to the west.
The economy of the state of California is the largest in the United States, with a $3.4 trillion gross state product (GSP) as of 2022. It is the largest sub-national economy in the world. If California were a sovereign nation, it would rank as the world's fifth-largest economy as of 2022, behind Germany and ahead of India, as well as the 37th most populous. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and third-largest urban economies ($1.0 trillion and $0.5 trillion respectively as of 2020). The San Francisco Bay Area Combined Statistical Area had the nation's highest gross domestic product per capita ($106,757) among large primary statistical areas in 2018, and is home to five of the world's ten largest companies by market capitalization and four of the world's ten richest people.
Prior to European colonization, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America and contained the highest Native American population density north of what is now Mexico. European exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries led to the colonization of California by the Spanish Empire. In 1804, it was included in Alta California province within the Viceroyalty of New Spain. The area became a part of Mexico in 1821, following its successful war for independence, but was ceded to the United States in 1848 after the Mexican–American War. The California Gold Rush started in 1848 and led to dramatic social and demographic changes, including large-scale immigration into California, a worldwide economic boom, and the California genocide of indigenous people. The western portion of Alta California was then organized and admitted as the 31st state on September 9, 1850, following the Compromise of 1850.
Notable contributions to popular culture, for example in entertainment and sports, have their origins in California. The state also has made noteworthy contributions in the fields of communication, information, innovation, environmentalism, economics, and politics. It is the home of Hollywood, the oldest and one of the largest film industries in the world, which has had a profound influence upon global entertainment. It is considered the origin of the hippie counterculture, beach and car culture, and the personal computer, among other innovations. The San Francisco Bay Area and the Greater Los Angeles Area are widely seen as the centers of the global technology and film industries, respectively. California's economy is very diverse: 58% of it is based on finance, government, real estate services, technology, and professional, scientific, and technical business services. Although it accounts for only 1.5% of the state's economy, California's agriculture industry has the highest output of any U.S. state. California's ports and harbors handle about a third of all U.S. imports, most originating in Pacific Rim international trade.
The state's extremely diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast and metropolitan areas in the west to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east, and from the redwood and Douglas fir forests in the northwest to the Mojave Desert in the southeast. The Central Valley, a major agricultural area, dominates the state's center. California is well known for its warm Mediterranean climate and monsoon seasonal weather. The large size of the state results in climates that vary from moist temperate rainforest in the north to arid desert in the interior, as well as snowy alpine in the mountains.
Settled by successive waves of arrivals during at least the last 13,000 years, California was one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian North America. Various estimates of the native population have ranged from 100,000 to 300,000. The indigenous peoples of California included more than 70 distinct ethnic groups, inhabiting environments from mountains and deserts to islands and redwood forests. These groups were also diverse in their political organization, with bands, tribes, villages, and on the resource-rich coasts, large chiefdoms, such as the Chumash, Pomo and Salinan. Trade, intermarriage and military alliances fostered social and economic relationships between many groups.
The first Europeans to explore the coast of California were the members of a Spanish maritime expedition led by Portuguese captain Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo in 1542. Cabrillo was commissioned by Antonio de Mendoza, the Viceroy of New Spain, to lead an expedition up the Pacific coast in search of trade opportunities; they entered San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542, and reached at least as far north as San Miguel Island. Privateer and explorer Francis Drake explored and claimed an undefined portion of the California coast in 1579, landing north of the future city of San Francisco. Sebastián Vizcaíno explored and mapped the coast of California in 1602 for New Spain, putting ashore in Monterey. Despite the on-the-ground explorations of California in the 16th century, Rodríguez's idea of California as an island persisted. Such depictions appeared on many European maps well into the 18th century.
The Portolá expedition of 1769-70 was a pivotal event in the Spanish colonization of California, resulting in the establishment of numerous missions, presidios, and pueblos. The military and civil contingent of the expedition was led by Gaspar de Portolá, who traveled over land from Sonora into California, while the religious component was headed by Junípero Serra, who came by sea from Baja California. In 1769, Portolá and Serra established Mission San Diego de Alcalá and the Presidio of San Diego, the first religious and military settlements founded by the Spanish in California. By the end of the expedition in 1770, they would establish the Presidio of Monterey and Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo on Monterey Bay.
After the Portolà expedition, Spanish missionaries led by Father-President Serra set out to establish 21 Spanish missions of California along El Camino Real ("The Royal Road") and along the Californian coast, 16 sites of which having been chosen during the Portolá expedition. Numerous major cities in California grew out of missions, including San Francisco (Mission San Francisco de Asís), San Diego (Mission San Diego de Alcalá), Ventura (Mission San Buenaventura), or Santa Barbara (Mission Santa Barbara), among others.
Juan Bautista de Anza led a similarly important expedition throughout California in 1775–76, which would extend deeper into the interior and north of California. The Anza expedition selected numerous sites for missions, presidios, and pueblos, which subsequently would be established by settlers. Gabriel Moraga, a member of the expedition, would also christen many of California's prominent rivers with their names in 1775–1776, such as the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River. After the expedition, Gabriel's son, José Joaquín Moraga, would found the pueblo of San Jose in 1777, making it the first civilian-established city in California.
The Spanish founded Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1776, the third to be established of the Californian missions.
During this same period, sailors from the Russian Empire explored along the northern coast of California. In 1812, the Russian-American Company established a trading post and small fortification at Fort Ross on the North Coast. Fort Ross was primarily used to supply Russia's Alaskan colonies with food supplies. The settlement did not meet much success, failing to attract settlers or establish long term trade viability, and was abandoned by 1841.
During the War of Mexican Independence, Alta California was largely unaffected and uninvolved in the revolution, though many Californios supported independence from Spain, which many believed had neglected California and limited its development. Spain's trade monopoly on California had limited the trade prospects of Californians. Following Mexican independence, Californian ports were freely able to trade with foreign merchants. Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá presided over the transition from Spanish colonial rule to independent.
In 1821, the Mexican War of Independence gave the Mexican Empire (which included California) independence from Spain. For the next 25 years, Alta California remained a remote, sparsely populated, northwestern administrative district of the newly independent country of Mexico, which shortly after independence became a republic. The missions, which controlled most of the best land in the state, were secularized by 1834 and became the property of the Mexican government. The governor granted many square leagues of land to others with political influence. These huge ranchos or cattle ranches emerged as the dominant institutions of Mexican California. The ranchos developed under ownership by Californios (Hispanics native of California) who traded cowhides and tallow with Boston merchants. Beef did not become a commodity until the 1849 California Gold Rush.
From the 1820s, trappers and settlers from the United States and Canada began to arrive in Northern California. These new arrivals used the Siskiyou Trail, California Trail, Oregon Trail and Old Spanish Trail to cross the rugged mountains and harsh deserts in and surrounding California. The early government of the newly independent Mexico was highly unstable, and in a reflection of this, from 1831 onwards, California also experienced a series of armed disputes, both internal and with the central Mexican government. During this tumultuous political period Juan Bautista Alvarado was able to secure the governorship during 1836–1842. The military action which first brought Alvarado to power had momentarily declared California to be an independent state, and had been aided by Anglo-American residents of California, including Isaac Graham. In 1840, one hundred of those residents who did not have passports were arrested, leading to the Graham Affair, which was resolved in part with the intercession of Royal Navy officials.
One of the largest ranchers in California was John Marsh. After failing to obtain justice against squatters on his land from the Mexican courts, he determined that California should become part of the United States. Marsh conducted a letter-writing campaign espousing the California climate, the soil, and other reasons to settle there, as well as the best route to follow, which became known as "Marsh's route". His letters were read, reread, passed around, and printed in newspapers throughout the country, and started the first wagon trains rolling to California. He invited immigrants to stay on his ranch until they could get settled, and assisted in their obtaining passports.
After ushering in the period of organized emigration to California, Marsh became involved in a military battle between the much-hated Mexican general, Manuel Micheltorena and the California governor he had replaced, Juan Bautista Alvarado. The armies of each met at the Battle of Providencia near Los Angeles. Marsh had been forced against his will to join Micheltorena's army. Ignoring his superiors, during the battle, he signaled the other side for a parley. There were many settlers from the United States fighting on both sides. He convinced these men that they had no reason to be fighting each other. As a result of Marsh's actions, they abandoned the fight, Micheltorena was defeated, and California-born Pio Pico was returned to the governorship. This paved the way to California's ultimate acquisition by the United States.
In 1846, a group of American settlers in and around Sonoma rebelled against Mexican rule during the Bear Flag Revolt. Afterward, rebels raised the Bear Flag (featuring a bear, a star, a red stripe and the words "California Republic") at Sonoma. The Republic's only president was William B. Ide,[65] who played a pivotal role during the Bear Flag Revolt. This revolt by American settlers served as a prelude to the later American military invasion of California and was closely coordinated with nearby American military commanders.
The California Republic was short-lived; the same year marked the outbreak of the Mexican–American War (1846–48).
Commodore John D. Sloat of the United States Navy sailed into Monterey Bay in 1846 and began the U.S. military invasion of California, with Northern California capitulating in less than a month to the United States forces. In Southern California, Californios continued to resist American forces. Notable military engagements of the conquest include the Battle of San Pasqual and the Battle of Dominguez Rancho in Southern California, as well as the Battle of Olómpali and the Battle of Santa Clara in Northern California. After a series of defensive battles in the south, the Treaty of Cahuenga was signed by the Californios on January 13, 1847, securing a censure and establishing de facto American control in California.
Following the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 2, 1848) that ended the war, the westernmost portion of the annexed Mexican territory of Alta California soon became the American state of California, and the remainder of the old territory was then subdivided into the new American Territories of Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Utah. The even more lightly populated and arid lower region of old Baja California remained as a part of Mexico. In 1846, the total settler population of the western part of the old Alta California had been estimated to be no more than 8,000, plus about 100,000 Native Americans, down from about 300,000 before Hispanic settlement in 1769.
In 1848, only one week before the official American annexation of the area, gold was discovered in California, this being an event which was to forever alter both the state's demographics and its finances. Soon afterward, a massive influx of immigration into the area resulted, as prospectors and miners arrived by the thousands. The population burgeoned with United States citizens, Europeans, Chinese and other immigrants during the great California Gold Rush. By the time of California's application for statehood in 1850, the settler population of California had multiplied to 100,000. By 1854, more than 300,000 settlers had come. Between 1847 and 1870, the population of San Francisco increased from 500 to 150,000.
The seat of government for California under Spanish and later Mexican rule had been located in Monterey from 1777 until 1845. Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of Alta California, had briefly moved the capital to Los Angeles in 1845. The United States consulate had also been located in Monterey, under consul Thomas O. Larkin.
In 1849, a state Constitutional Convention was first held in Monterey. Among the first tasks of the convention was a decision on a location for the new state capital. The first full legislative sessions were held in San Jose (1850–1851). Subsequent locations included Vallejo (1852–1853), and nearby Benicia (1853–1854); these locations eventually proved to be inadequate as well. The capital has been located in Sacramento since 1854 with only a short break in 1862 when legislative sessions were held in San Francisco due to flooding in Sacramento. Once the state's Constitutional Convention had finalized its state constitution, it applied to the U.S. Congress for admission to statehood. On September 9, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850, California became a free state and September 9 a state holiday.
During the American Civil War (1861–1865), California sent gold shipments eastward to Washington in support of the Union. However, due to the existence of a large contingent of pro-South sympathizers within the state, the state was not able to muster any full military regiments to send eastwards to officially serve in the Union war effort. Still, several smaller military units within the Union army were unofficially associated with the state of California, such as the "California 100 Company", due to a majority of their members being from California.
At the time of California's admission into the Union, travel between California and the rest of the continental United States had been a time-consuming and dangerous feat. Nineteen years later, and seven years after it was greenlighted by President Lincoln, the First transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. California was then reachable from the eastern States in a week's time.
Much of the state was extremely well suited to fruit cultivation and agriculture in general. Vast expanses of wheat, other cereal crops, vegetable crops, cotton, and nut and fruit trees were grown (including oranges in Southern California), and the foundation was laid for the state's prodigious agricultural production in the Central Valley and elsewhere.
In the nineteenth century, a large number of migrants from China traveled to the state as part of the Gold Rush or to seek work. Even though the Chinese proved indispensable in building the transcontinental railroad from California to Utah, perceived job competition with the Chinese led to anti-Chinese riots in the state, and eventually the US ended migration from China partially as a response to pressure from California with the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act.
Under earlier Spanish and Mexican rule, California's original native population had precipitously declined, above all, from Eurasian diseases to which the indigenous people of California had not yet developed a natural immunity. Under its new American administration, California's harsh governmental policies towards its own indigenous people did not improve. As in other American states, many of the native inhabitants were soon forcibly removed from their lands by incoming American settlers such as miners, ranchers, and farmers. Although California had entered the American union as a free state, the "loitering or orphaned Indians" were de facto enslaved by their new Anglo-American masters under the 1853 Act for the Government and Protection of Indians. There were also massacres in which hundreds of indigenous people were killed.
Between 1850 and 1860, the California state government paid around 1.5 million dollars (some 250,000 of which was reimbursed by the federal government) to hire militias whose purpose was to protect settlers from the indigenous populations. In later decades, the native population was placed in reservations and rancherias, which were often small and isolated and without enough natural resources or funding from the government to sustain the populations living on them. As a result, the rise of California was a calamity for the native inhabitants. Several scholars and Native American activists, including Benjamin Madley and Ed Castillo, have described the actions of the California government as a genocide.
In the twentieth century, thousands of Japanese people migrated to the US and California specifically to attempt to purchase and own land in the state. However, the state in 1913 passed the Alien Land Act, excluding Asian immigrants from owning land. During World War II, Japanese Americans in California were interned in concentration camps such as at Tule Lake and Manzanar. In 2020, California officially apologized for this internment.
Migration to California accelerated during the early 20th century with the completion of major transcontinental highways like the Lincoln Highway and Route 66. In the period from 1900 to 1965, the population grew from fewer than one million to the greatest in the Union. In 1940, the Census Bureau reported California's population as 6.0% Hispanic, 2.4% Asian, and 89.5% non-Hispanic white.
To meet the population's needs, major engineering feats like the California and Los Angeles Aqueducts; the Oroville and Shasta Dams; and the Bay and Golden Gate Bridges were built across the state. The state government also adopted the California Master Plan for Higher Education in 1960 to develop a highly efficient system of public education.
Meanwhile, attracted to the mild Mediterranean climate, cheap land, and the state's wide variety of geography, filmmakers established the studio system in Hollywood in the 1920s. California manufactured 8.7 percent of total United States military armaments produced during World War II, ranking third (behind New York and Michigan) among the 48 states. California however easily ranked first in production of military ships during the war (transport, cargo, [merchant ships] such as Liberty ships, Victory ships, and warships) at drydock facilities in San Diego, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay Area. After World War II, California's economy greatly expanded due to strong aerospace and defense industries, whose size decreased following the end of the Cold War. Stanford University and its Dean of Engineering Frederick Terman began encouraging faculty and graduates to stay in California instead of leaving the state, and develop a high-tech region in the area now known as Silicon Valley. As a result of these efforts, California is regarded as a world center of the entertainment and music industries, of technology, engineering, and the aerospace industry, and as the United States center of agricultural production. Just before the Dot Com Bust, California had the fifth-largest economy in the world among nations.
In the mid and late twentieth century, a number of race-related incidents occurred in the state. Tensions between police and African Americans, combined with unemployment and poverty in inner cities, led to violent riots, such as the 1965 Watts riots and 1992 Rodney King riots. California was also the hub of the Black Panther Party, a group known for arming African Americans to defend against racial injustice and for organizing free breakfast programs for schoolchildren. Additionally, Mexican, Filipino, and other migrant farm workers rallied in the state around Cesar Chavez for better pay in the 1960s and 1970s.
During the 20th century, two great disasters happened in California. The 1906 San Francisco earthquake and 1928 St. Francis Dam flood remain the deadliest in U.S. history.
Although air pollution problems have been reduced, health problems associated with pollution have continued. The brown haze known as "smog" has been substantially abated after the passage of federal and state restrictions on automobile exhaust.
An energy crisis in 2001 led to rolling blackouts, soaring power rates, and the importation of electricity from neighboring states. Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric Company came under heavy criticism.
Housing prices in urban areas continued to increase; a modest home which in the 1960s cost $25,000 would cost half a million dollars or more in urban areas by 2005. More people commuted longer hours to afford a home in more rural areas while earning larger salaries in the urban areas. Speculators bought houses they never intended to live in, expecting to make a huge profit in a matter of months, then rolling it over by buying more properties. Mortgage companies were compliant, as everyone assumed the prices would keep rising. The bubble burst in 2007–8 as housing prices began to crash and the boom years ended. Hundreds of billions in property values vanished and foreclosures soared as many financial institutions and investors were badly hurt.
In the twenty-first century, droughts and frequent wildfires attributed to climate change have occurred in the state. From 2011 to 2017, a persistent drought was the worst in its recorded history. The 2018 wildfire season was the state's deadliest and most destructive, most notably Camp Fire.
Although air pollution problems have been reduced, health problems associated with pollution have continued. The brown haze that is known as "smog" has been substantially abated thanks to federal and state restrictions on automobile exhaust.
One of the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States that occurred in California was first of which was confirmed on January 26, 2020. Meaning, all of the early confirmed cases were persons who had recently travelled to China in Asia, as testing was restricted to this group. On this January 29, 2020, as disease containment protocols were still being developed, the U.S. Department of State evacuated 195 persons from Wuhan, China aboard a chartered flight to March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County, and in this process, it may have granted and conferred to escalated within the land and the US at cosmic. On February 5, 2020, the U.S. evacuated 345 more citizens from Hubei Province to two military bases in California, Travis Air Force Base in Solano County and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, where they were quarantined for 14 days. A state of emergency was largely declared in this state of the nation on March 4, 2020, and as of February 24, 2021, remains in effect. A mandatory statewide stay-at-home order was issued on March 19, 2020, due to increase, which was ended on January 25, 2021, allowing citizens to return to normal life. On April 6, 2021, the state announced plans to fully reopen the economy by June 15, 2021.
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Title.
Checking admission.
Title.
入場チェック中。
( Panasonic Lumix DMC-L10 shot)
Tokyo Big Site. Koto Ward. Tokyo. Japan. 2009. … 4 / 7
(Today's photo. It is unpublished.)
東京ビッグサイト。江東区。東京都。日本。2009年。 … 4 / 7
(今日の写真。それは未発表です。）
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The Native … Wildest Dreams
youtu.be/4b2mr9pP-fM?si=XkGB9RXXcAbADjZX
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Taylor Performs "Wildest Dreams" at The GRAMMY Museum
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Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams/Enchanted (1989 World Tour) (4K)
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２０２３年の展示
テーマ
カメラは時間にキスをする。
Mitsushiro - Nakagawa
展示場で配布するリーフレット（案内表示も）は以下でダウンロードできます。
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展示の概要
今回の作品は、
みなさんのご家族の写真が
主人公です。
作った３つの作品は、
すべて写真を差し替えられます。
展示が終わって、
誰かがこれらの作品を受け取っていただけたら
ご自身の家族の写真と差し替えてください。
僕がきょうまで展示を続けられた感謝の気持ちです。
展示に足を運んでくれた多くの方と、
世界中の写真好きのみなさんに、僕は心から感謝しています。
長い期間、僕に付き合っていただき、ありがとうございます。
作品１ 沐浴後
寸法
1000mm X 800mm
素材
新聞
The wall street Journal
International life
梱包紙
チョーク
(黒、白、オレンジ)
ガムテープ
メンディングテープ
撮影場所 自宅
作品２ 反抗期
寸法
900mm X 1800mm
素材
新聞
The New York Times
The Japan Times
梱包紙
チョーク
(黒、白、オレンジ)
ガムテープ
メンディングテープ
撮影場所 成田空港
作品３ 成長
寸法
900mm X 1800mm
素材
新聞
The New York Times
Financial Times
梱包紙
チョーク
(黒、白、赤、オレンジ)
ガムテープ
メンディングテープ
撮影場所 ロンドン
主催
デザインフェスタ
場所
東京ビッグサイト
日程
１１月１１日。土曜日。12日。日曜日。2023年。
ブースナンバー
J - 232
exhibition.mitsushiro.nakagawa@gmail.com
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SEVENTEEN(세븐틴)-All My Love
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Exhibition in 2023
theme
Camera kisses time.
Mitsushiro - Nakagawa
Leaflets(Also information display) to be distributed at the exhibition hall can be downloaded below.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vBRMWGk29EmsoBV2o9NM1LIVi...
Exhibition overview
The main character of this work is a photo of your family.
You can replace the photos in all three works you created.
Once the exhibition is over, if someone receives these works,
please replace them with a photo of their own family.
I feel grateful that I was able to continue exhibiting until today.
I am deeply grateful to the many people who visited the exhibition
and to all the photography enthusiasts around the world.
Thank you for sticking with me for a long time.
Work 1 After bathing
size
1000mm x 800mm
material
newspaper
The wall street Journal
International life
packing paper
chalk
(black, white, orange)
duct tape
mending tape
Shooting location: home
Work 2 Rebellion period
size
900mm x 1800mm
material
newspaper
The New York Times
The Japan Times
packing paper
chalk
(black, white, orange)
duct tape
mending tape
Shooting location: Narita Airport
Work 3 Growth
size
900mm x 1800mm
material
newspaper
The New York Times
Financial Times
packing paper
chalk
(black, white, red, orange)
duct tape
mending tape
Shooting location: London
organizer
Design festa
place
Tokyo Big Site
schedule
11th. Sat. 12th. Sun. Nov. 2023.
Booth number
J-232
exhibition.mitsushiro.nakagawa@gmail.com
images.
SEVENTEEN(세븐틴)-All My Love
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Ballina. Population 16,500.
'Bullenah' in Bundjalung Aboriginal language means place where oysters are plentiful so it is not surprising that the town is the home of the Big Prawn located in Bunning’s carpark! The prawn was a commission given to Adelaide architects Glenn Industries and sculptor James Martin. He also did the Big Merino in Goulburn and the Big Oyster in Taree. He designed a 27 metre long and 20 metre high prawn in 1989. It eventually fell into disrepair and was due to be demolished but it has now been rescued. Ballina is located on the mouth of the Richmond River and its small lighthouse guards that entrance. A lighthouse was erected in 1866 but the current lighthouse was completed in 1880 on a 35 metre high headland. The government Colonial Architect James Barnet designed it. Although just 7 metres high the lighthouse has protected shipping since 1880. It was automated in 1926. Prior to its erection 90 ships were shipwrecked on the sand shoals in the estuary. The breakwater was completed in 1908 to ensure safety for shipping. The lighthouse is Ballina’s oldest structure. Apart from the Red Cedar cutters the first to want to settle in the region arrived in 1842 on board the ship called the Sally.
With the timber cutters came the need for saw mills and the first in Ballina opened in 1853. Timber was floated down the Wilson & Richmond Rivers ready for coastal shipping. In 1856 the government surveyed the town and the first town blocks were offered for sale in July 1857 at the Casino Police Station. The land sold slowly and not much developed in Ballina until the 1860s when Ballina became the major sea port and some gold was found in the estuary sands. The first Courthouse and police station opened in 1865. By then the Ballina Hotel was established. In the 1870s and 1880s sugar became the important industry of the district. Yeoman sugar farmers began cultivation of cane in the late 1860s and by 1875 there were 75 small sugar mills along the banks of the Richmond River. But the industry stabilised and only expanded in 1881 when the Colonial Sugary Refineries built their Broadwater sugar mill. By 1891 there were just 9 sugar mills in the district. Some South Sea Islander (Kanaks) labourers were employed on contracts in the Tweed and Richmond valleys but not many as NSW was never a region of large sugar plantations. Small sugar farms were the norm here. The northern rivers area still averages higher sugar yields than Queensland because the region does not have a pronounced dry season like many areas of QLD. The rich volcanic soils of the river flats are especially valuable sugar fields. Today NSW produces only 5% of Australia’s sugar but three sugar mills survive with the Condong mill near Murwillumbah, the Broadwater mill at Woodburn and another mill at Yamba towards Grafton. The NSW Sugar Milling Cooperative which has its office headquarters in Ballina was formed in 1978 when CSR sold their Broadwater mill to the cooperative. There are 600 sugar cane farms in the district growing cane on around 15,000 hectares or 30,000 aces.
Some of the more interesting and historic buildings in River Street are:
•The Courthouse at 16 River St. Designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet and completed in 1882 as the first Courthouse, cells and police station from 1865 burnt down in 1881. Like other Courthouse by Barnet the lofty court room is flanked by lower offices on each side in the Italianate style.
•Post Office 24 River St. This historic Post Office is used for other purposes now. Built in the Italianate style and designed by Colonial Architect Walter Liberty Vernon. This grand stuccoed two storey building has a prominent clock tower. It opened in 1888 but the clock tower was not completed until 1890.
•Behind the Information centre is the Maritime Museum. Its prized exhibits are a 12 metre long reed raft which sailed across the Pacific from Ecuador to Ballina in 1973; the port history; a tribute to women in the Navy; riverboat history and a dugout canoe etc. Admission about $5.
Cherry Street:
•Two blocks down is the Presbyterian Church. A small timber church was erected in 1885. The Federation style red brick church was built in 1915 and the original church became the church hall until 1960.
•Opposite the church is the former Council Offices which now house the Regional Art Gallery. The architect was Frederick Board and this building was erected in 1927 in the Art Deco style.
•Across the street from the Catholic Church is the Methodist Church - now a Uniting Church. The first church services were held in the Courthouse until the first church opened in 1888. In 1920 this timber church was moved to Cherry St. as a church hall. A new Methodist church costing £2,830 was here in 1920. It was due for demolition in 2016 but has since been repaired and reopened.
•Opposite the Methodist Church is the Catholic Presbytery built in 1912.
Norton Street where the Norfolk Island Pines were planted in 1915:
•Methodist North Coast Girls’ College. Architect designed by Frederick Board and erected in 1925. The grand building in brick with timber balconies faced financial difficulties during the great depression & closed 1930. It then became a guest house and was later converted to 16 flats. In 2000 it became Ballina Manor Hotel.
•Next corner on right is Brundah. Built in 1908 at great cost. For a stock and station agent named Roy Lang.
• Next corner left is the Anglican Church. The first wooden church built in 1877. A second church erected in 1906 when the date palms were planted. It was replaced in 1977 by current church.
•Next corner right is the former Marine View Hotel. Built in 1884. Later was the Tattersall Hotel. Closed 1919.
The Bottagra Brunch with Oscar G and friends took over Saturday “Daylife” at The Pool Harrah’s Atlantic City, NJ on Saturday July 29, 2017 Photo: Tom Briglia & Mike Manger
The Pool After Dark inside Harrah's Resort Atlantic City, NJ | Celebrating a birthday, bachelor, or bachelorette party? For FREE or Reduced Admission, VIP, or Bottle Service to Atlantic City's top nightlife destination, get on the nightclub guest list at www.gocoastalac.com.