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Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
From 10 to 17 September 2011, Voronezh celebrated its 425th anniversary. The anniversary of the city was given the status of a federal scale celebration that helped attract large investments from the federal and regional budgets for development.
On December 17, 2012, Voronezh became the fifteenth city in Russia with a population of over one million people.
Today Voronezh is the economic, industrial, cultural, and scientific center of the Central Black Earth Region. As part of the annual tradition in the Russian city of Voronezh, every winter the main city square is thematically drawn around a classic literature. In 2020, the city was decorated using the motifs from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. In the year of 2021, the architects drew inspiration from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen as well as the animation classic The Snow Queen from the Soviet Union. The fairy tale replica city will feature the houses of Kai and Gerda, the palace of the snow queen, an ice rink, and illumination.
Ant Skyscraper along a highway in northern Namibia. These impressive constructions dot the landscapes everywhere in the northern half of Namibia. The ants which build these are tiny, barely individually visible, and do their work only in the dark of night. Though this is an average size, we were told they reach a height of 8 meters (25 ft.) ( ! ! ). Native people used to "pave" the floors of their huts, with smashed, broken down bits of these, a habit which was emulated by the early Boer settlers of the region ... Apparently , in the building process, the ants infuse the clay with a coagulant, allowing it to cohere in a manner reminiscent of concrete, when thus utilized.
Cousin Trish grew up in South Africa.
Today at the museum she pointed out these "ant hills"
and said as a girl she had been warned to keep away from them.
Termite Hills & Impala
Akeley Hall of African Mammals
American Museum of Natural History
(The wild bunch in military uniforms rides into the town (San Rafael, Starbuck).
Children, including girls, throwing scorpions into an anthill.
An assembly of the temperance union.
Bounty hunters (Thornton) are lurking on the roof of a house.
Pastor: "Do not drink wine nor strong drink thou not thy sons with thee lest ye shall die."
"Look not thou upon the wine when it is read and when it brings his color in the cup, when moves itself aright at the last it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder."
Now folks ... that's from the Good Book but in this town it's five cent a glass. Five cents a glass. Does anyone really think that is the price of a drink? The price of a drink? Let him decide who has lost his courage and pride who lies a groveling heap of clay not far removed...
Soldier: All's quiet, sir
PIKE: Let's fall in. Follow me. (Running into an old woman) I beg your pardon, Madam.
Madam: I'm so sorry.
DUTCH: (smiling) Allow me Madam.
Madam: Thank you.
PIKE: (offers her his arm) May I.
Madam: Thank you.
(Cut to the Bounty hunters on the roof of a building):
Harrigan: Thornton, wake up. Soldiers. Take a look
(Inside the bank office):
Old employee: I don't care what you meant to do, it's what you did I don't like. You inconvenienced this lady, and made a fool of yourself and this railroad. Now I want you to apologize to this ...
(wild bunch entering the bank office)
Yes, can I help you?
PIKE: If they move kill them.
Personal note: Zoran B. Petrovic, my father.
As the day heats up, the railroad expands and this track sits waiting for the next train. Despite the even looking angle of this photo, the railroad is actually on a climb out of the Sacramento area here. After crossing the American River, the railroad starts a climb of about .15% towards Roseville, CA.
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These guys bite like the Dickens. They crawl on you unnoticed and then -- ZAP -- they sink their mandibles into you. Here the translucent pests are feasting on some processed food remnant. Looks like salt. Maybe they'll all die of high blood pressure.
Seen in Explore.
I'm both amazed and frustrated at the industrious little creatures that build their tunnels under our flagstone walk. In one day, they can create the equivalent of a mountain.
Khibiny mountains, Kola Peninsula
Pentax 67 II
55mm
f/8 1/3s
B+W Redhancer
Fujifilm Velvia 50
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This is something I can't recall seeing before, a two foot six inches high ant hill. Spotted whilst on the way back down to the valley on one of our Italian hikes, just above the town of Ortesei.
Their agitation was triggered by my pal sinking his hand into it. Rather him than me.
A typical scene in outback northern Australia ... anthills (termite mounds) some much taller than a human, fire burnt land (done just after the Wet season to encourage new growth), and some trees dotted across the landscape offering welcome relief from the heat of the days.
Taken in the Victoria River region of Northern Territory ... another of the place I always love revisiting ... remote, wild and wonderful!
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Crumbled homemade grated shortbread cookies and chopped hazelnuts bound together by a mixture of whipped butter and caramelized condensed milk. The dessert was formed into the shape of an anthill, covered with poppy seeds, then refrigerated overnight before it was sliced and served.
Beverage: Kusmi’s ’Tsarevna’ tea. Sweetened with sunflower honey.
A few fallen trees on the top of this hill near the Snörom farm in recent years. One birch tree was made into firewood. This one was left and has now been made into an anthill.
Swedish word of the day. Myrstack. Anthill.
Khibiny mountains, Kola Peninsula
Pentax 67 II
55mm
f/4, 1/6s
Lee .6 Soft
Fujifilm Velvia 50
Press [L] please
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More from my mother's old album of photographs from Ethiopia and Eritrea. These are photographs which I think she bought in a set as souvenirs from a commercial photography outfit.
Lone baboon atop anthill, viewing us trek wearily by back to camp, at end of another day....Mana Pools, ZM
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Une énorme fourmilière dans la forêt. Il y en avait une seconde un peu plus loin (voir en grand)
A huge anthill in the forest. There was a second a little further (view large)
Anthill and Tree /
Муравейник и дерево
The ants "integrated" the tree into an anthill. Please note that the bark of the tree was completely eaten by mooses and roe deers.
Муравьи "интегрировали" дерево в муравейник. Обратите внимание, что кора у дерева полностью объедена лосями и косулями.
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Marianne von Werefkin, Tula, Russisches Kaiserreich 1860 - Ascona, Schweiz 1938
Ameisenhaufen / Anthill (ca. 1916)
Privatsammlung / private collection
Strange that I couldn't rouse the little biters. Fire ants usually swarm when disturbed.
Guess it was time for the weekly family strategy meeting.
This is how one of the many construction sites for the new Metro line looks like at the moment.
It's a stitched panorama of images taken through a very dusty plastic window in the fence.
I guess it could be interesting to be able to follow the progress on a daily basis, but I don't envy the neighbours. There's a lot of noise and dust coming from this place.
Location: Jagtvej 10, 2200 København N