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Netherlands, Den Haag, The Binnenhof, the gold neogothic fountain adorns the main square, a gift from the citizens of Den Haag, following the restoration of the complex in 1885, designed by Pierre Cuypers.
The Binnenhof inner court next to the Hofvijver Lake is a complex of buildings in the centre of The Hague housing the meeting place of both houses of the States General in the Ridderzaal, the knight’s hall which was initially a public space built as a ballroom, further the Ministry of General Affairs & the office of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Built predominantly in the 13th century, the gothic castle formerly functioned as home of the counts of Holland. It became the political centre of the Dutch Republic in 1584, counted amongst the topmost 100 Dutch heritage sites & is the oldest House of Parliament in the world still in use.
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GWU003 and XRN015 sit at the front of empty One Rail coal trains at Carrington awaiting their next duties.
Carrington, NSW.
Sunday, 5 February 2023.
Rime frost adorns a tree found in Island Park in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. Rime frost forms on foggy or misty days when the temperature hovers slightly below the freezing point. Hoar frost, on the other hand, forms on clear days when the moisture in cold but humid air freezes.
Que fascinante adorno ha hecho la naturaleza en este lugar. Es el lecho de un río que ha dejado esa pequeña isla con una vegetaciòn de cactáceas de forma increiblemente bella. Es parte del recorrido a las huellas de dinosaurio carnívoro en San Juan Raya, en la Reserva de la Biósfera de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán. Tienes que vivirlo!
The bustling scene at Boudhanath Stupa is a mesmerizing sight to behold. The iconic whitewashed dome, adorned with colorful prayer flags, rises up in the center of the frame. A throng of people, both locals and tourists alike, weave their way around the stupa's base, engaged in the meditative practice of circumambulation. Amidst the sea of faces, the gilded tower of the stupa stands tall, its all-seeing eyes watching over the crowd below. The air is filled with the soothing hum of chanting and the scent of incense, adding to the peaceful ambiance of this sacred space – Kathmandu, Nepal
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Bicentennial Park is a 40-hectare of parkland located 16 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of City of Parramatta. Bicentennial Park is situated on the shores Homebush Bay and is a part of the Sydney Olympic Park in New South Wales, Australia. The Park is a natural heritage site featuring an important wetland ecosystem and parklands. It offers visitors recreation, nature-based tours, environmental education and outdoor event experiences. The park has picnic areas, playgrounds, pathways and cycle ways, access to the wetlands, salt marsh and bird hides. It also features Lake Belvedere, Peace Monument, Treillage Tower, Sundial, 'Cyrus the Great' statue, the Silent Hearts Memorial Garden and water features. Powells Creek runs through the eastern side of the park. The Homebush Bay wetland is occupied by animals that thrive in the salt water wetlands. Bicentennial Park was created by the state and federal governments during the 1980s, to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary in 1988. The project involved recycling 47.4 hectares of former rubbish dump into a regional recreation area and the conservation of 53 hectares of a wetland ecosystem on the Parramatta River. The park was officially opened on 1 January 1988. 52482
Coluna en que, fundándose la vida,
muestras del cielo la segura entrada;
carga, que a la piedad de Dios medida,
quedaste de tu peso aligerada:
pues con su gracia y méritos unida,
las fuerças puestas para ser llevada;
y eres el blanco del heroico intento,
al que la vida diste, dá el aliento.
(...)
La Cruz pretende el Magno Constantino,
grata, reconocida su memoria,
de aver sido laurel de su victoria.
Quando más del ferbor arrebatado,
sin adorno imperial, ni pompa grabe,
pidió que se lograse su cuydado
con animosa fee, con voz suabe.
Aquella, a quien el verbo dá su lado,
y más de los misterios altos sabe:
con profunda humildad y agrado tierno,
dixo (mirando a Tres) al Padre Eterno.
Padre, Señor y Dios, pues a mi afeto
Vuestro amor tan seguro corresponde,
y del Cesar Christiano es digno objeto
la Cruz, que el cauteloso monstruo esconde:
tenga su pretensión, por justa, efeto;
Vuestra Deidad, que a méritos responde,
tan soberano premio le conceda:
a obscuros siglos resplandor suceda.
Francisco López de Zárate, Poema heroico de la invencion de la Cruz, por el Emperador Constantino Magno, 1648.
MÚSICA: Duarte Lobo Missa Pro Defunctis for Six Voices (Introitus: Requiem Aeternam)
A Native Princess, adorned in traditional clothing, moves with beauty and grace to the beat of the pow wow drum.
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It's a whole new world of encounters when you walk through the dew laden early morning fields at Graham Creek...now that overnight temps have dropped to the 60s, many insects are slow to start their day!
I'll be going on an overnight camping trip today, so I'll catch up with everyone's new posts tomorrow evening!
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En Lozano es una localidad argentina del partido de General Las Heras, Provincia de Buenos Aires.
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J'orne sur le capot d'un Rastrojero ( voiture)
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Tahai, Rapa Nui, Easter Island, Chile.
The three ahu of Tahai
But without a doubt, the great focus of attention at Tahai are its three ahu or ceremonial platforms located on the small rocky cliff that rises above the sea. The altars form a visual line that stars in this magnificent setting. If you look straight at the platforms, the first group on the left with five moai statues is the Ahu Vai Uri, the next one is the Ahu Tahai and the last one with a single statue wearing a pukao or hat is the Ahu Ko Te Riku.
Ahu Vai Uri
The Ahu Vai Uri, whose name could be translated as dark water or green water, is the platform with the largest number of erected statues. Its construction dates from 1200 AD. and its five restored moai are a sample of the different styles of how they were carved.
The first one on the right is currently a piece of rock that is barely recognizable. However, the one that follows, much better preserved as such as the first on the left, has a lower and more robust body than the rest and shows a grim expression.
Ahu Tahai
Ahu Tahai has a single solitary moai about 4.5 meters high. The figure, which is very eroded, shows a thick torso and a wide neck, and rises on the oldest platform of the complex built around 700 AD.
Despite the enormous wear suffered by the moai over time, it still shows the greatness and pride of the ancestors they represent and, in some way, still transmits that mythical power called mana.
Ahu Ko Te Riku
Ahu Ko Te Riku is the last and singular platform located further north. Above it rises a single moai of 5.1 meters high that was restoredwith all the elements that adorned the old finished statues.
On his head it carries a pukao, a cylindrical piece carved in red scoria from the Puna Pau volcano. This form, which according to different opinions, represents a hat or a hair bun, was placed in the last phase of construction of the ahu. It is believed that the original pukaoof this moai was used to carve the Christian cross that is found in the nearby cemetery to Tahai, but there is not even the certainty that it had one. The other differentiating element of Ahu Ko Te Riku is that it supports the only moai that has eyes of the whole island.
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METX 211, adorned in CB&Q heritage paint, accelerates outbound towards Aurora past CP Roosevelt in Chicago, Illinois. Metra really knocked it out of the park with this one, and I'm looking forward to seeing what else the paint shops have in store for us in the future.
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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
Upper Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire located in the Cotswold district located 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. Nearby places include Lower Slaughter, Bourton-on-the-Water and Daylesford. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye. The Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Peter. Upper Slaughter was identified by author Arthur Mee as one of 32 Thankful Villages, although more recent work suggests a total of 52. This term referred to the small number of villages in England and Wales which had lost no men in World War I, and was popularised by Mee in the 1930s. In Enchanted Land (1936), the introductory volume to "The King's England" series of guides, he wrote "that a Thankful Village was one which had lost no men in the Great War because all those who left to serve came home again." Although the village was subject to an air raid, it also lost no men in World War II, an honour held by only 14 villages, collectively known as the Doubly Thankful Villages. The parliamentary constituency is represented by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP. The name of the village derives form the Old English term "slough" meaning "wet land". The manor of Upper Slaughter is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086; the Slaughter family acquired it in the late 12th century. The current building, on the site of an ancient building, was constructed over many years, starting in the Tudor era. Its crypt is estimated to be from the 14th century. The largest business in the village is the Lords of the Manor Hotel. The building dates from 1649 and has been a hotel since 1960s. The owners continue to furnish the house with portraits and antiques belonging to the former owner. Other hotels serving the two Slaughter villages include The Slaughters Country Inn and Lower Slaughter Manor. In 1906, the cottages around the square were reconstructed by architect Sir Edward Lutyens.
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Negro y blanco de América
Martin Luther King, tuvo una visión (y eso es un hecho)
Él murió para que pudiéramos ver que era su misión (para no mirar hacia atrás)
No hay división, no te entiendo?
El futuro se ve como si se ha llegado en torno a
Y tal vez por fin hemos encontrado nuestros puntos en común
Somos hijos de nuestro padre,
Si usted está buscando a Obama
Estamos negro y blanco América
En 1963 se casó con mi padre (una mujer de negro)
Y cuando caminaba por las calles
Que estaban en peligro (mira lo que has hecho)
Pero simplemente siguió caminando hacia delante la mano en la mano
Hemos esperado tanto tiempo
Negro y blanco América
No hay división, no te entiendo?
Negro y blanco América
Va a mantener un movimiento hacia adelante
Letra; lenny kravitz black and white america
Adorned with a sundown halo Colas Grid 56087 opens up from a signal signal check at Stenson Junction with the late running 14.50 Washwood Heath - Boston (6E07) metals on 27th March 2015.
Many thanks to Robmcrorie for providing an excellent tour today....
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Elegantly adorned with glass-beaded necklaces, a medallion and wrist band, an amber bracelet, and stretched earlobes with glass-beaded sleeves and copper pendants. Ngorongoro, Tanzania, East Africa. High resolution Noritsu Koki QSS digital film scan, shot with a Pentax Espio 140 pocket camera (38~140mm AF), circa 1997.
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The ornate doors that adorn Prague’s buildings are some of the most beautiful yet underrated features of the city. The doors of Prague, which are rich with intricate details, come in a variety of colors and styles. The style of the doors range from Baroque to Art Nouveau and Neo-Classical. Some are painted and carved or accented with medieval metal adornments. Each one is a distinctive work of art.
Walking through Prague feels almost like walking through a museum; the buildings are decorated with beautiful sculptures, paintings, and ornate details. The city is so full of interesting architecture, monuments, and statues that the beauty of it’s doors is often overlooked.
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Either the week of Mother's day, or the week before ....
depending on the weather ....
This church goes to great extent, to array the outside, of the building, with these gorgeous petuninas ...
They are truly enjoyed, by the church members, as well as the people livng in this area ...
They also, give several hanging baskets away,
~ on Mother's day
Have a blessed Sunday friends .....
Adorned with some majestic Elephants, this Kenya Airways 787 lines up on 09R at LHR in some wonderful early evening Sun
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The Isle of Purbeck, not a true island but a peninsula, is in the county of Dorset, England. It is bordered by the English Channel to the south and east, where steep cliffs fall to the sea; and by the marshy lands of the River Frome and Poole Harbour to the north. Its western boundary is less well defined, with some medieval sources placing it at Flower's Barrow above Worbarrow Bay.[1] The most southerly point is St Alban's Head (archaically St. Aldhelm's Head). It is suffering erosion problems along the coast.
The whole of the Isle of Purbeck lies within the local government district of Purbeck, which is named after it. However the district extends significantly further north and west than the traditional boundary of the Isle of Purbeck along the River Frome.
In terms of natural landscape areas, the southern part of the Isle of Purbeck and the coastal strip as far as Ringstead Bay in the west, have been designated as National Character Area 136 - South Purbeck by Natural England. To the north are the Dorset Heaths and to the west, the Weymouth Lowlands.[
Geology
The geology of the Isle is complex. It has a discordant coastline along the east and concordant coastline along the south. The northern part is Eocene clay (Barton Beds), including significant deposits of Purbeck Ball Clay. Where the land rises to the sea there are several parallel strata of Jurassic rocks, including Portland limestone and the Purbeck beds. The latter include Purbeck Marble, a particularly hard limestone that can be polished (though mineralogically, it is not marble). A ridge of Cretaceous chalk runs along the peninsula creating the Purbeck Hills, part of the Southern England Chalk Formation that includes Salisbury Plain, the Dorset Downs and the Isle of Wight. The cliffs here are some of the most spectacular in England, and of great geological interest, both for the rock types and variety of landforms, notably Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door, and the coast is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site because of the unique geology.
In the past quarrying of limestone was particularly concentrated around the western side of Swanage, the villages of Worth Matravers and Langton Matravers, and the cliffs along the coast between Swanage and St. Aldhelm's Head. The "caves" at Tilly Whim are former quarries, and Dancing Ledge, Seacombe and Winspit are other cliff-edge quarries. Stone was removed from the cliff quarries either by sea, or using horse carts to transport large blocks to Swanage. Many of England's most famous cathedrals are adorned with Purbeck marble, and much of London was rebuilt in Portland and Purbeck stone after the Great Fire of London.
By contrast, the principal ball clay workings were in the area between Corfe Castle and Wareham. Originally the clay was taken by pack horse to wharves on the River Frome and the south side of Poole Harbour. However in the first half of the 19th century the pack horses were replaced by horse-drawn tramways. With the coming of the railway from Wareham to Swanage, most ball clay was dispatched by rail, often to the Potteries district of Staffordshire.
Quarrying still takes place in Purbeck, with both Purbeck Ball Clay and limestones being transported from the area by road. There are now no functioning quarries of Purbeck Marble.
Wild flowers
The isle has the highest number of species of native and anciently introduced wild flowers of any area of comparable size in Britain.[3] This is largely due to the varied geology. The species most frequently sought is Early Spider Orchid (Ophrys sphegodes), which in Britain, is most common in Purbeck. Nearly 50,000 flowering spikes were counted in 2009. Late April is the best time, and the largest population is usually in the field to the west of Dancing Ledge. Smaller numbers can be seen on a shorter walk in Durlston Country Park. This orchid is the logo of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. Cowslip meadows (Primula veris and Primula deorum) are at their best shortly afterwards and Durlston Country Park has several large ones.
In early May several woods have carpets of Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum). King's Wood and Studland Wood, both owned by the National Trust, are good examples. At around the same time and later some Downs have carpets of yellow Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis comosa) and blue Chalk Milkwort (Polygala calcarea). In late May the field near Old Harry Rocks has a carpet of yellow Kidney Vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria).
Blue and white flowers of Sheep's bit (Jasione montana) and pink and flowers of Sea Bindweed (Calystegia soldanella) lend colour to Studland dunes in June. Both Heath Spotted Orchid (Dactylorhiza maculata) and Southern Marsh Orchid (Dactylorhiza praetermissa) are frequent on Corfe Common that month, and Harebells (Campanula rotundifolia) and Purple Betony (Stachys officinalis) flowers add colour to the Common in July.
Dorset Heath (Erica ciliaris), the county flower, can be found in July and August in large numbers, especially on and around Hartland Moor, in damper parts of the heathland. Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum) gives displays of yellow flowers there in early July. Marsh Gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe) is found less frequently in similar areas from mid August to mid September.[3]
Roman, Saxon and Norman
A number of Romano-British sites have been discovered and studied on the Isle of Purbeck, including a villa at Bucknowle Farm near Corfe Castle, excavated between 1976 and 1991.[4] The Kimmeridge shale of the isle was worked extensively during the Roman period, into jewellery, decorative panels and furniture.[5]
At the extreme southern tip of Purbeck is St Aldhelm's Chapel which is Norman work but built on a Pre-Conquest Christian site marked with a circular earthwork and some graves. In 1957 the body of a 13th century woman was found buried NNE of the chapel which suggests there may have been a hermitage in the area. In 2000 the whole chapel site was declared a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The precise function of the chapel building is disputed with suggestions that it may have been a religious retreat, a chantry for the souls of sailors who had drowned off St Aldhelm's Head or even a lighthouse or warning bell to warn sailors. Victorian restoration work of the chapel found signs that a beacon may have adorned the roof. The present cross on the roof is Victorian.
The town of Wareham retains its Saxon earth embankment wall and it churches have Saxon origins. One of these, St Martins-on-the-Walls was built in 1030 and today contains traces of medieval and later wall paintings.
At Corfe Castle village is the great castle which gives the village its modern name. The castle commands the strategic gap in the Purbeck Ridge. The present castle dates from after the Conquest of 1066 but this may replace Saxon work as the village was the place where Saxon King Edward the Martyr had been murdered in 978. The supposed place of his murder is traditionally on, or near, the castle mound. Corfe was one of the first English castles to be built in stone - at a time when earth and timber were the norm. This may have been due to the plentiful supply of good building stone in Purbeck.
Sir John Bankes bought the castle in 1635, and was the owner during the English Civil War. His wife, Lady Mary Bankes, led the defence of the castle when it was twice besieged by Parliamentarian forces. The first siege, in 1643, was unsuccessful, but by 1645 Corfe was one of the last remaining royalist strongholds in Southern England and fell to a siege ending in an assault. In March that year Corfe Castle was demolished ('slighted') on Parliament's orders. Owned by the National Trust, the castle is open to the public. It is protected as a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The isle
A large part of the district is now designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), but a portion of the coast around Worbarrow Bay and the ghost village of Tyneham is still, after nearly 60 years, in the possession of the Ministry of Defence who use it as a training area. Lulworth Ranges are part of the Armoured Fighting Vehicles Gunnery School at Lulworth Camp. Tanks and other armoured vehicles are used in this area and shells are fired. Due to safety reasons, right of entry is only given when the army ranges are not in operation. Large red flags are flown and flashing warning lamps on Bindon Hill and St Alban's Head are lit when the ranges are in use.[6] At such times the entrance gates are locked and wardens patrol the area.
Other places of note are:
Swanage, at the eastern end of the peninsula, is a seaside resort. At one time it was linked by a branch railway line from Wareham; this was closed in 1972, but has now reopened as the Swanage Railway, a heritage railway.
Studland: This is a seaside village in its own sandy bay. Nearby, lying off-shore from The Foreland (also Handfast Point), are the chalk stacks named Old Harry Rocks: Old Harry and his Wife.
Poole Harbour is popular with yachtsmen; it contains Brownsea Island, the site of the first-ever Scout camp.
Corfe Castle is in the centre of the isle, with its picturesque village named after it.
Langton Matravers, which was once the home of several boys preparatory schools until 2007 when the Old Malthouse closed.
Kimmeridge Bay, with its fossil-rich Jurassic shale cliffs, and site of the oldest continually working oil well in the world.