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View from elevated walkway in Xujiahui Park, southwest corner of former French Concession, Shanghai - opened in 2002 on site of former rubber and record factories, c. 8 hectares, designed by Montreal Landscape Architects Williams, Asselin, Ackaoui in association with Shanghai Landscape Architecture Design Institute
Christmas holidays, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. December 27, 2012.
Photograph by Roy Kelley using a Canon PowerShot G11 camera.
Roy and Dolores Kelley Photographs
Remains of a crusader fortress built from October 1178 until March 1179. The cost of cutting the stones was 80,000 golden dinars, it is said that Saladin himself offered 100,000 dinars if the crusaders do not build it. The castle was maintained by the Templers, the masters of Safad on the east, and was built at a strategic point at the passage of the Jordan river. The crusaders never saw it finished. In the spring the fight between the crusaders and Saladin renewed, following a raid by the Crusaders on Muslim shepherds near Banias further north. On 25/08/1179 the army of Saladin appeared in front of the fort. Other forces were sent to the Galilee to set havoc. On 30 of August, five days after the beginning of the siege, an underground tunnel that was dug was big enough. Wood was placed and set on fire in the tunnel, and the roof collapsed with the tower of the fortress on top. Some 1000 people were in the fortress, most were slaghtered on the spot and some on their way to Damascus. Saladin stayed to eversee the destruction work carried out and finished.
Real Escuela Andaluza del Arte Ecuestre
(The Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art) in Jerez de la Frontera
oles County Courthouse Charleston IL. Built in1900 in the Romanesque style, Cornelius W. Rapp architect. Replaced the 1835 courthouse.
Massachusetts State House, Boston.
The dome was first gilded with gold leaf in 1874 and re-gilded with 23k gold in 1997.
Robin Hood Gardens is a residential estate in East London designed in the late 1960s by architects Alison and Peter Smithson and was completed in 1972.
Starting my A-Z of Thame, A is for Almshouses. These are believed to date from the mid-1500s and were originally housing for local poor men.
More info here - www.thamehistory.net/places/Almshouses.htm