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A memorial to the Titanic -built in a Belfast shipyard -stands in front of City Hall.
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Golkonda గోల్కొండ or Golla konda గొల్ల కొండ (shepherd's hill) a ruined city of south-central India and capital of ancient Kingdom of Golkonda (c.1518–1687), is situated 11 km west of Hyderabad.
The most important builder of Golkonda was Ibrahim Quli Qutub Shah Wali, the fourth Qutub king of the Qutub Shahi Dynasty. Ibrahim was following in the spirit of his ancestors, the Qutub Shahi kings, a great family of builders who had ruled the kingdom of Golkonda from 1512. Their first capital, the fortress citadel of Golkonda, was rebuilt for defense from invading Mughals from the north. They laid out Golkonda's splendid monuments, now in ruins, and designed a perfect acoustical system by which a hand clap sounded at the fort's main gates, the grand portico, was heard at the top of the citadel, situated on a 300-foot (91 m)-high granite hill. This is one of the fascinating features of the fort.
They ruled over most of present day Andhra Pradesh before the British Raj. After transferring Northern Circars to British, they ruled the Telangana region and some parts of present day Karnataka and Maharashtra.[1]
Swenson Hall is UW-Superior's largest building. It opened in 2011. The Yellowjacket Union is visible in the background.
The University of Sydney (commonly referred to as Sydney University, Sydney Uni, USYD, or Sydney) is an Australian public research university in Sydney. Founded in 1850, it is Australia's first university and is regarded as one of its most prestigious, ranked as the world's 27th most reputable university. Five Nobel and two Crafoord laureates have been affiliated with the university as graduates and faculty.
The university comprises 16 faculties and schools, through which it offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. In 2011 it had 32,393 undergraduate and 16,627 graduate students.
Sydney University is a member of the prestigious Group of Eight, Academic Consortium 21, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning, the Australia-Africa Universities Network (AAUN), the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Worldwide Universities Network. The University is also colloquially known as one of Australia's sandstone universities.
The main campus has been ranked in the top 10 of the world's most beautiful universities by the British Daily Telegraph, The Huffington Post, among others such as Oxford and Cambridge and is spread across the inner-city suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington.
Originally housed in what is now Sydney Grammar School, in 1855 the government granted land in Grose Farm to the university, three kilometres from the city, which is now the main Camperdown campus. The architect Edmund Blacket designed the original Neo-Gothic sandstone Quadrangle and Great Tower buildings, which were completed in 1862.
The Jacaranda tree in the main quadrangle was planted in 1928.
IMHO, the world's most beautiful skyscrapers, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - the world's tallest buildings until they were overtaken by Taipei 101, and later, Burj Khalifa, Dubai.
On our drive down to Panama City Beach we pass through Eufaula on highway 431.
It's odd because the busy highway funnels through this completely out of place area with these great-looking homes. I'm not sure why there is no bypass, but this time we decided to stop and take pictures of some of the wonderful houses along the road.
Photos were taken during a recent trip to Washington D.C. during the Cherry Blossom Festival and shot on a Canon G11 during mixed weather.
Learn more about the trip and my other adventures on virtualwayfarer.com
Photos by Alex Berger
Another of its interesting features: The obelisk which stands there now is known as the Lateran Obelisk, the largest standing one in the world, estimated to weigh 455 tons, commissioned by pharaoh Thutmose III and situated before the great temple of Karnak in Thebes. Constantius II had it shipped to Rome where it was set up in the Circus Maximus in 357. At some point it was broken and buried under the Circus, but it was rediscovered and re-erected in the 16th century.
This is one of the great cathedrals of Rome. It is known as the Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, a cathedral church of the Diocese of Rome and the official ecclesiastical seat of the Bishop of Rome. It is the oldest of the four Papal Basilicas of Rome, ranking above all other churches in the Catholic church, including St. Peter's Basilica, with the designation of the title Archbasilica. The structure has quite a lot of history attached to it: it stands over the ruins of a fort of the imperial bodyguard established by Septimius Severus in 193, and the rest of the site had been occupied by the palace of the gens Laterani, hence the name, during the early Roman Empire. Constantine took it over later upon marrying Fausta, but he later granted it to the Bishop of Rome, possibly during the pontificate of the Pope Miltiades, hosting the synod of bishops which declared Donatism as heresy in 313. It eventually became the residence of Pope St. Sylvester I, and the cathedral of Rome. He also presided over the official dedication of the basilica and the adjacent Lateran Palace in 324.
Such was its wealth and renown, due in large part to donations made by popes and other benefactors that it was known even in its early years as the Basilica Aurea, which unfortunately drew the attention of attacking armies, including the Vandals, who stripped it of all its treasures. It was restored in 460 by Pope Leo I, and again at the behest of Pope Hadrian, but it was nearly destroyed entirely during an earthquake in 897, reportedly collapsing "from the altar to the doors," to the degree that it was even difficult to reconstruct the lines of the old building. Reconstruction efforts commenced on a new church which lasted until 1308 when it was destroyed by fire, then rebuilt by Pope Clement V and John XXII. This structure was burned also, in 1360, and was rebuilt by Pope Urban V. It has retained its ancient form despite the destructions, although few traces remain of the original structure. It is divided by rows of columns and aisles, featuring a peristyle surrounded by colonnades with fountains in the middle in the facing courtyard, which is a conventional Late Antique format also used at St. Peter's Basilica.
There were several reconstructions before Pope Sixtus V's major renovations which gave it much of the appearance it has now. The original Lateran palace was also demolished and replaced by a new one.Renovation on the interior began under Francesco Borromini, commissioned by Pope Innocent X, when the 12 niches were created and filled with statues of the apostles. Clement XII actually initiated a competition for the façade: the winner was Alessandro Galilei, who completed it in 1735. All remnants of the traditional basilica architecture were at that time removed.
It was occupied by every pope from Miltiades until the reign of French Pope Clement V who transferred the official seat of the Catholic church to Avignon in 1309 during the schism, and as such, several popes are interred here. There are six extent papal tombs, including those of Alexander III, Sergius IV, Clement XII Corsini, martin V, Innocent III and Leo XIII, the last pope not to be entombed in St. Peter's Basilica. Reportedly a dozen additional papal tombs were constructed beginning in the 10th c. but they were destroyed in the two fires of the 14th c. Their remains were collected and reburied in a polyandrum. There may also have been several other popes whose tombs are unknown. John X (914-928) was the first pope to be buried within the walls of Rome, possibly because of rumors that he was murdered by Theodora. Other important nearby features include the Lateran Baptistry, where legend states that Constantine I was baptized (although this is almost certainly untrue, though he may indeed have patronized and embellished the structure) and the Scala Sancta, whose white marble steps Jesus Christ is said to have graced upon his ascent to the praetorium of the Palace of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem, brought to Rome reportedly by St. Helena, the mother of Constantine. This site is one of the most important in Rome, and is probably the major pilgrimage site in the city other than the Vatican.
The Trautson Palace, home of the Department of Justice
The Trautson Palace is a palace in the 7th District of Vienna Neubau at the Museum Road 7
History
The property in suburban St. Ulrich on which the palace is situated belonged from 1657 on to the Countess Maria Margareta Trautson. On one part stood a house, the rest were vineyards or undeveloped. In the course of the construction wave after the Second Siege of Vienna, the Reichshofrat (aulic council) and chamberlain Johann Leopold Donat Count Trautson (the later 1st Duke Trautson) in 1712 had built a palace here that is among the most important Baroque buildings of Vienna. His model war the Amsterdam town house. Master builder was Christian Alexander Oedtl and he built according to plans of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach.
The palace was the scene of many festivities. Maria Theresa bought it in 1760 for around 40,000 guilders and put it available to the Hungarian Guard. This led to some modifications, the garden in front of the building became a riding school, instead of the garden wall and the Orangerie stables were built. 1848, the Hungarian Guard was disbanded and the palace was the seat of the Lower Austrian Army Command. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise emerged again a Hungarian Life Guards, which had its headquarters in the Palais. This led to further modifications. Even after the collapse of the monarchy, the building was owned by the Hungarian state and hosted from 1924 to 1963 the Collegium Hungaricum. The former People's Republic of Hungary sold the building to the Republic of Austria, because they did not want to fund the obligations imposed by the preservation orders and built a new construction in Eastern block-style in 2nd Viennese district of Leopoldstadt in Holland Road (Hollandstraße). The Garde alley in the 7th District since 1909 remembers the Hungarian Guard.
1961 acquired the Republic of Austria the palace for the administration of justice. Here, the demolition was considered, which led to heated discussions. The recent additions at Museum street and Lerchenfeld street were removed, on the site of the former garden built prefabs for UNIDO. The part at Neustift alley was replaced by an office building. Now, the Federal Ministry of Justice is housed in Trautson Palace .
The palace was provided with a richly decorated, three-story facade. Hans Georg Haresleben from Kaisersteinbruch got stone cutting commissions, who was using quarry of hard stone for portal, balcony and steps of the grand staircase. The imposing staircase leads to the Great Hall. Above many windows there are reliefs depicting scenes from ancient mythology.
I was taking photos at downtown Ann Arbor, in front of Hill Auditorium. The dark blue sky at dusk was really amazing. The road in the left side of this photo is the North University Avenue. At the end of the North University Avenue is the South State Street. This intersction is one of the busiest intersections in Ann Arbor.
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St Peter's church in Hampton Lucy (on the northern edge of Charlecote Park) is one of the most outstanding churches of the pre-Victorian Gothic Revival, dating from 1822-6 and built to the design of Thomas Rickman.
The church consists of a spacious aisled nave with plaster vaulted ceilings and a soaring west tower. The chancel was altered on !856 when George Gilbert Scott added the elaborate polygonal apse in full blown Victorian Gothic, a masterpiece in it's own right.
The most notable glass is that by Thomas Willement in the three apse windows from 1837 (formerly conrtained in one huge window before Rickman's east end was altered). Other windows contain glass by Hardmans of Birmingham. Some of the most attractive of all are the richly coloured and patterned geometric windows high in the nave clerestorey, casting their varied hues (especially blues and purples) across the vaulting on sunny days.