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Mobile Lego arctic base for research in the most extreme conditions. The base contains a snow scooter hangar, drill tower, crane, sensor array and laboratory.
Hollem, Howard R.,, photographer.
Painting the American insignia on airplane wings is a job that Mrs. Irma Lee McElroy, a former office worker, does with precision and patriotic zeal. Mrs. McElroy is a civil service employee at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Her husband is a flight instructor
1942 August
1 transparency : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
United States.--Navy
Air bases
Women--Employment
Emblems
Painting
Airplane industry
World War, 1939-1945
Civil service
United States--Texas--Corpus Christi
Format: Transparencies--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-18 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34899
Call Number: LC-USW36-387
Base de montaje de Villada para la construcción de la LAV Valladolid-Palencia-Leon donde podemos ver 4 rumanas de Comsa (Identificadas la L65 y L64), dos 319 de Continental Rail y la Prima de Convensa, ademas de diferentes máquinas para la construcción y mantenimiento de la línea.
Lyric Opera of Chicago
October 11, 14, 17, 20, 23 and 26, 2025
🎭 Cherubini’s Medea – Synopsis
Composer: Luigi Cherubini
Libretto: François-Benoît Hoffman, based on Euripides’ Medea, Pierre Corneille’s Médée, and other classical sources.
Premiere: 1797, Théâtre Feydeau, Paris (Médée in French); commonly performed in the 20th century in Italian translation (especially the Lachner version)
Setting:
Ancient Corinth, in the aftermath of Medea and Jason’s adventures in Colchis and the quest for the Golden Fleece.
Act I – The Wedding Day
The opera opens on the day of Jason’s wedding—not to Medea, his former wife, but to Glauce (also called Creusa), daughter of King Creon of Corinth. Jason has abandoned Medea and their two children in pursuit of social status and security.
Glauce is nervous—haunted by Medea’s reputation as a powerful and vengeful sorceress from a foreign land. Creon is firm: Medea must leave Corinth at once to prevent disruption to the royal wedding. Jason, torn but resolute, justifies his betrayal as necessary for the children’s future.
Medea arrives uninvited, distraught and humiliated. She pleads with Jason, only to be met with coldness. When Creon orders her exile, she manipulates him into granting her a one-day reprieve. The act ends with Medea vowing revenge.
Act II – The Veil of Vengeance
Medea wrestles with despair and rage, invoking the gods and her own powers. She hatches a deadly plan: she will send her children to Glauce bearing gifts—a robe and a diadem laced with poison.
Jason, still deluded by self-justification, allows the children to deliver the gifts, thinking it will bring peace between the two women. Medea hides her fury behind a mask of reconciliation.
Act III – Fire and Blood
Word soon comes that Glauce is dead—her body consumed by fire when she dons the cursed robe. Creon, trying to save her, dies as well.
Medea's triumph turns to horror as she prepares for her final act. She resolves to kill her own children to fully punish Jason—denying him both legacy and love. As Corinth burns and the people cry out in terror, Medea murders the boys and appears before Jason one last time, bloodied but defiant.
She vanishes into the night, leaving Jason to face the ruins of his ambition.
Themes and Musical Style
Cherubini’s Medea is a powerful blend of classical tragedy and early Romantic opera. Though written in the 1790s, it anticipates the dramatic intensity of later composers like Beethoven and Berlioz. The title role is one of the most demanding in the repertoire—vocally fierce, emotionally volcanic, and psychologically layered. Medea is no mere villain; she is a wronged woman driven to the outer edge of human experience, her grandeur and monstrosity bound together.
The opera explores:
Betrayal and abandonment.
The foreign woman as both outsider and threat.
The limits of power, reason, and vengeance.
The devastating consequences of pride and revenge.
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🎭 Opera in Revolutionary Paris: From Collapse to Reinvention
🔥 The Crisis (1789–1794)
At the outset of the French Revolution in 1789, opera was seen by many revolutionaries as a corrupt and elitist art form associated with the ancien régime. The Académie Royale de Musique (Paris Opéra), long funded by the monarchy, symbolized aristocratic excess and state patronage. The fall of the monarchy in 1792 and the execution of Louis XVI in 1793 sent shockwaves through all institutions—including the arts.
During the Reign of Terror (1793–1794):
Many aristocratic patrons were executed or fled.
Censorship was intense and ideological.
Performances were suspended or redirected to serve revolutionary propaganda.
Operas of the ancien régime were banned or rewritten to reflect republican ideals.
Some theaters were shut down; others became stages for revolutionary pageantry and pièces à sauvetage (melodramas featuring heroic rescues and virtue).
Yet even amid the chaos, theater and opera never fully ceased. The revolutionary government understood their power for mass persuasion, and theaters were repurposed as tools for civic education.
Rebuilding and Redirection (1795–1797)
After Robespierre’s fall in 1794, the political climate began to thaw. The Directory (1795–1799) brought a more pragmatic and less ideologically rigid approach. Cultural life, especially in Paris, began to rebound, driven by:
A new bourgeois audience, eager for diversion and moral elevation.
A reorientation of content: works with themes of virtue, justice, and self-sacrifice were encouraged.
Relaxation of censorship allowed composers and librettists more freedom.
Theaters were reopened or rebranded; the Paris Opéra resumed activity under different auspices.
Foreign composers and émigré artists (like Cherubini, an Italian working in Paris) were welcomed, especially if they embraced revolutionary values—or at least avoided monarchist associations.
🎼 Cherubini’s Médée in Context
Luigi Cherubini had remained in Paris through the Revolution, adapting astutely to the shifting tides. He aligned himself with revolutionary ideals without becoming doctrinaire. His music struck a new, leaner tone—stripped of rococo ornament, full of dramatic clarity, moral gravity, and classical rigor—all qualities that appealed to post-revolutionary audiences.
Médée (1797) fit the moment perfectly:
Based on a classical subject, it resonated with revolutionary neoclassicism.
Medea, as a powerful outsider, embodied anxieties about vengeance, justice, and moral collapse.
The opera combined psychological realism with tragic grandeur, aligning with the Directory’s taste for high-minded drama over frivolous entertainment.
The setting and costumes could invoke antiquity without recalling Versailles.
Bigger Picture: Why Opera Survived
Opera endured because it could adapt:
Thematically, by shifting from gods and kings to heroes and martyrs.
Aesthetically, by adopting simpler, starker forms in tune with revolutionary neoclassicism.
Institutionally, by transforming royal theaters into national ones.
Politically, by serving as both mirror and mouthpiece of civic ideology.
And crucially: the public still wanted it. Even in the darkest days, Parisians flocked to theaters. In a society newly preoccupied with the people’s voice and emotions, opera—paradoxically—became more essential than ever.
This text is a collaboration with ChatGPT.
Shortly after the capture of Echo base on Hoth, Lord Vader himself questions briefly a few of the captured Rebels who couldn't escape in time. It does not take long.
An Imperial base on an icy world. Maybe Hoth?
I used the Carbon Freezing Chamber playset here, it seems to have a lot of detractors saying it's a stairway to nowhere, it's too flimsy, etc. but if you're into toy photography therein lies the challenge.
And for me personally, I also set a goal to do something other than recreate the scene from the movie.
So I combined it with the Cave pop-up from Extreme Sets for a new look, and in my opinion it's a worthwhile set. The translucent orange plastic piece under the stairs and platform is pretty awesome to light up, and it's relatively easy to break the entire thing down again and pack it up.
this is my display at brick fair i will have a video on my youtube tomorrow!
Entry to " LEGO Contest 2012"
Explored ~ Highest #94 on Friday, October 30, 2015.
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What a day Monday was, a day of ups and downs, a day of photo-shooting... Not only did I spend the morning in the Courtyard by the Pavilion at The Regency, I spent the afternoon in a doctor's office in Laguna Hills with plenty of time for photos! I got interested in textures... This one of a lamp base shaped like a shell is the second of three...
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HD High Resolution hair base.
Rigged for Lelutka EvoX mesh heads
Comes in 12 colors;
- Ghost white, silver grey, black, bleached, blond, dark brown, light brown, auburn, copper, blue, red and lavender
- Changeable via texture HUD plus integrated tinting HUD
- These hair bases offer exceptional texture clarity that is unobtainable with BOM hair bases.
- It is designed to be worn WITHOUT another hair base (please remove any hair base bom layers).
- You CAN wear any Modulus alpha hair on top of it.
*This particular hair base is NOT rigged for any other mesh heads besides Lelutka EvoX. I cannot guarantee how it will work on older Lelutka heads or Catwa heads etc.
**There are ZERO refunds if you buy this base for use with Catwa etc and then discover it doesn't work for you.
***Use the free demo please
Federation crewmen unload the first sample from the Ganymede mission.
Unused shot from LEGO Space: Building the Future
Photo by Bluemoose
Fits in a compact Kitchen -that’s got an “annoying” Column, hiding mechanicals; therefore the “clipped-corners” specified by The Interior Designer ( which generated the base / frustum detail to mimic that “clipped corner”)
Frustum- is the name for this Geometric Solid
that this Pedestal Table base
is based upon.
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (April 17, 2024) Chief Machinist’s Mate (Nuclear) Richard Thompson, assigned the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Colorado (SSN 788), greets his wife after Colorado's change of homeport to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, April 17, 2024. Colorado commissioned in 2018, and is the fourth warship named after the Centennial State. Colorado is the fifth redesigned Block III Virginia-class submarine. (U.S. Navy photo/video by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Scott Barnes)
Base spec! Brilliant to see this still earning its keep, still doing a couple thousand miles per year.
This is an actual Marine Base, the beach is (was?) free for the public. Only foreigners have to pay a small fee.
- www.kevin-palmer.com - This supercell in the northwest corner of North Dakota was looking promising. But then it started to shrivel up.
Built between 1868 and 1888, this Second Empire and Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by Alfred H. Piquenard of the Chicago-based architecture firm Cochrane and Garnsey to serve as the Illinois State Capitol, replacing the then-31 year old former state capitol in the middle of Downtown Springfield, which had become inadequately sized for the rapidly growing population of the state. The 361 foot (110 meter) tall building, the tallest non-skyscraper legislative building in the United States, is the sixth building to serve as the Illinois State House. The capitol stands on the tallest natural point of land within the city of Springfield, and is the most prominent feature of the skyline of the city. The building features limestone exterior walls, with mansard and gabled roofs and a dome clad in zinc, a tall drum with arched and oxeye window bays, a lantern atop the dome, corinthian columns and pilasters, rustication at the base of the building, double-hung windows, two-story porticoes at the eastern and northern facade of the building, porticoes at the lower level of the drum below the dome, stone balustrades, and dormers at the mansard roofs. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The building was restored and had its systems updated during a renovation in 2011, and as of 2023, is undergoing a major renovation to its north wing, which will restore this portion of the building and further update the building’s internal systems.
General Dynamics F-16C Viper USAF 88-0421 421st FS "Black Widows" 388th FW Hill AFB, UT Base Leg @ EXERCISE RED FLAG 15-2, Nellis AFB (KLSV), Las Vegas, NV
Fin de travaux sur la ligne Bourges-Montluçon !
Fermée depuis Juin 2023 (!), la ligne a réouvert en intégralité le Lundi 2 Septembre 2024.
Les derniers trains de travaux stationnent sur la base arrière de La Ville Gozet (comme ici une BR214 et ses ballastières), avant de partir vers leurs prochaines missions.
Picture on the whole: www.flickr.com/photos/cccproductions/8753664371/
Hello guys and today I present you my newest Base!
It's a kind of a tower or something with a Clone Base on the top. I orientated myself a bit on Daan's base on Aldeeran. Thanks to him!
Feedback, comments and favs. are appreciated:D
If you're added feedback from YOU would be very cool!
Check out my video to see all details: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW0xbQVy39g
Thank you guys