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Yaowarat Rd is the main street in Chinatown in Bangkok. Barriers and people gather for festivities of New Year's 2018 for the upcoming parade. There are many vendors and stores on this street.
Lower Lakes
Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia
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A broken window in the abandoned Dominican Building in Baguio, Philippines is fitted with tree cuttings to form a barrier to keep out trespassers.
At sunset.
I was penned in by a couple of hundred people admiring the sunset, yet I didn't see anyone else with a camera. I thought that was unreal.
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The Thames Barrier prevents the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded by exceptionally high tides and storm surges moving up from the North Sea. As you can see, the tide was out when I took this shot.
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Cómo será nuestra naturaleza que necesitamos de rejas y barreras para protegernos unos de otros ...
How is our inner nature that we need fences and barriers to protect from one another ...
A planned test closure of all the barriers, Taken from the south bank, east, upstream stream of the barrier.
January 11, 2020
The low dunes at the edge of the parking lot on a very windy winter day.
Mants Landing Beach
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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The Thames Barrier is a retractable barrier system built to protect the floodplain of most of Greater London from exceptional high tides and strong storm surges. It was opened in 1984.
Located on the southeast tip of Florida, the city of Sunny Isles Beach is set on a barrier island surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway. Halfway between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Sunny Isles Beach is the perfect relaxing escape destination that includes two miles of fine sand beaches. Visit the landmark fishing pier or enjoy the area's abundant outdoor activities, such as snorkeling.
On February 16, 1985, a Wisconsin & Calumet (WICT) Railroad work train plowed north from Monroe, Wisconsin, clearing snow and ice on former Illinois Central's Freeport, Illinois, to Maison, Wisconsin, branch until it met this ice barrier inside the 1,260-foot Stewart Tunnel. The tunnel is located between Exeter and Belleville, Wisconsin, in the southwest part of the state. The railroad was later abandoned and the right-of-way became the Badger State Trail, so one can now hike or bike through the tunnel. Photo by Joe McMillan.
Obama visits Buckingham Palace as protesters gather outside. London 24.05.2011
As U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle visited Buckingham Palace today to meet the Queen and later on attend a State banquet in his honour, a heavy policing and security operation took place involving uniformed, plain-clothed and armed police as well as US and UK Army and CIA operatives, as several large groups of protesters representing Libya, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, Syria, the Stop The War Coalition (StWC) and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) gathered across the road from the Palace by Canada Gate to vigorously denounce duplicitous US foreign policy which sees the very dictators which the so-called Arab Spring is trying to remove being supported financially, politically and militarily by the Obama Administration with strong support from British Prime Minister David Cameron's government, as both leaders publicly mouth insincere, media-friendly platitudes about the need for democracy in the Arab regions.
Also amongst the protesters were protesters in orange jump-suits calling for the release from Guantanamo Bay of British muslim Shaker Aamer, who has been held without charge or trial for over nine years in the harshest of conditions in the notorious American military prison. All the other British detainees have now been returned home, having all been the victims of cruel and inhuman treatment at the hands of their US Military captors, yet Shaker Aamer remains.
Though President Obama made the closure of Guantanamo one of the central themes of his pre-election campaigns, and despite him having signed an Executive Order to close Guantanamo by January 2010 soon after becoming President, the Military prison remains very much open for business as usual, and remains a part of the continuing U.S. policy of illegal abduction, rendition, torture and indefinite detention without trial or due process in the so-called "War on Terror".
Today's protesters also called for the closure of Guantanamo Bay and the equally infamous CIA prison at Bagram Airbase in Iraq, and for the immediate release of all the detainees who have not been charged with a single offence despite being brutalised for years by the U.S.A., which seems to think that the Geneva Conventions don't apply to them.
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Orkney
I’m standing on the island of Burray looking across at barrier Number 3 to the left of the picture, which connects Burray to Glimps Holm. In the centre of the picture going off to the right is Barrier Number 2 which runs between Glimps Holm and Lamb Holm. Barrier Number 1 which is not in the image then connects Lamb Holm to the Orkney Mainland at St. Mary’s. Barrier Number 4 which is off behind me goes from Burray across to South Ronaldsay.
These four causeways were built after the sinking of the HMS Royal Oak while it lay at harbour in Scapa Flow in October 1939.
On 14th October 1939, The German U-Boat U-47, took advantage of a high tide to get passed the blockships and into Scapa Flow. Once there it torpedoed HMS Royal Oak before leaving the way it had entered. 834 members of the Royal Oak's crew were killed. A memorial to all those who died on the ship is in St. Magnus Cathedral In Kirkwall.
Not long after this attack Winston Churchill visited Orkney and ordered that work begin on the construction of four permanent barriers, linking together the chain of islands from Mainland to South Ronaldsay. The contract was given to Balfour Beatty and work began in May 1940.
The Churchill Barriers were formally opened by the first Lord of the Admiralty on 12th May 1945, just before the war ended. As a result their lasting role was not as a defence for Scapa Flow, but as a series of causeways linking five islands together, roads were built on top of the barriers after the war.
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Barrier Lake is a man made reservoir at the north end of Kananaskis Country in Alberta, Canada.. Trapped methane causes frozen bubbles to form under the ice on the lake's surface. This phenomenon results when decaying plants on the lake bed release methane gas, which creates bubbles that become trapped within the ice, in suspended animation, just below the surface as the lake begins to freeze. The visual effects formed by the resulting stacks of bubbles, frozen while rising toward the surface, combined with the clear blue water, have made Abraham Lake a popular destination for photographers and nature observers.