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The Breakers, once the summer home of the Vanderbilt family, is probably the most well known of the mansions of Newport, RI.
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Pilgrim's Haven on the Isle of May is a pupping beach for the Grey Seals and in a so' wester is very exposed. The seals seem to cope with it.
The Breakers
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Last month a spent a few days in Newport, Rhode Island and visited two of the mansions built during the Gilded Age. Here are six outside shots from the first one we toured.
"Built for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, The Breakers (1893-1895), is the grandest of Newport's summer “cottages” and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn-of-the-century America. In 1893, Mr. Vanderbilt and his wife Alice commissioned Richard Morris Hunt to design a house that would replace one on the same property that was destroyed by a fire in November of 1892."
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The breakers at Tungku Beach, one of the many beaches in Brunei Darussalam. Across from the spot where this picture was taken to the right is the Empire Hotel and Country Club - a 6 star hotel.
2008 is Visit Brunei Year.
Visit Brunei. The Kingdom of Unexpected Treasures.
Newport Rhode Island. RI was one of the original 13 colonies to declare independence. It is the smallest US state. Roger Williams established the colony of Providence and Anne Hutchinson and others established a small settlement at Newport on Aquidneck Island. Williams and Hutchinson were Puritans expelled for Massachusetts for their religious ideas. In 1644 the 2 settlements united to become the colony of Rhode Island (after the isle of Rhodes in Greece.) RI was the first colony to renounce allegiance to the British King but the last to ratify the US Constitution - it waited until May 1890 for assurances that a Bill of Rights would be added.
The Robber Barons and Newport. During the Industrial Revolution in America after the Civil War a small group of men and families came to dominate US business. They were the leaders, the first to develop and use new technology and materials, just like Bill Gates in this modern era. They built the railroads, were the first to use the new Bessemer steel making process, they developed the telegraph, the telephone, and they discovered oil and extracted kerosene to replace whale oil as the main burning fuel. Later, men like Henry Ford developed the motor car at an affordable price for middle class Americans, and he also introduced assembly line production system. They were the first to take control of these new industries and establish either regional or national monopolies by buying out all competitors. There were no US laws to restrict cartels and monopolies at that time. They got control of the natural resources- the oil wells, the means of transport- the railroads and oil pipelines, and they manufactured - especially steel. They also owned the coal mines. So they owned everything from the natural resources to the produced item and they controlled the marketing, the prices and the sales. They were known as the ‘Robber Barons’ and their influence on American is still great today despite decades of anti-trust (monopoly) legislation. Fortunately for the US they started the tradition of massive donations as their personal and company tax rates were so low. Their family names are especially linked to Bar Harbor, Newport and New York City. They were an exclusive group. To ‘make it’ in NY you had to be part of the 400, the 400 people Mrs. Astor could fit into her ballroom.
The Astors: of German descent and they made money from the fur and opium trade and were known as the landlords of NY. They lived where the Empire State is now built. They owned huge areas of NY and had their summer house at Newport. They donated the NY Public Library to the city.
The Vanderbilts: were original Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam. They owned much of Fifth Avenue where they lived near the Astors. They built a railroad and shipping empire to make them even today one of the wealthiest families. They owned and built Grand Central Terminal in NY, the largest train station in the world with 75 platforms.
The Carnegies: Andrew went into steel making and created the US Steel Company. He then invested in oil wells, railroads, and coal mining and became the second wealthiest man after John Rockefeller. He endowed Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh - his steel making city. He endowed Carnegie Music Hall in NY. He was a financial backer of Booker T. Washington the great black leader of the 1890s who founded Tuskegee University for Black Americans. You might see Carnegie Hall in NY.
The Morgans: John Pierpont became the banker to the Robber Barons. He then developed General Electrics but he was the banker to all the main railroads, steel works, telegraph companies and he was the investor behind the White Star Line of Titanic fame. On your free day in NY you could visit his home and the Morgan collection of books etc.
The Rockefellers: John was the man who established the Standard Oil Company but he owned the oilfields, the pipelines, and the refineries. He had 100,000 employees and lived near the Vanderbilts. His philanthropic interests included health, hospitals, sewerage and education. The Rockefeller Centre in NY is still owned by the family.
The Fricks: Henry Clay Frick was a steel magnate with works in Pittsburgh and New York. His art collection, the Frick Collection of old European masters is housed in his Fifth Avenue home which was designed to make Andrew Carnegie’s home look like a shack. You can visit this collection on the free day in NY if you want.
The Breakers - one of the Ten Mansions open in Newport. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s grandson had this mansion built in 1893. It is a 70 roomed Italian Renaissance style palace built as a summer house only. The house has been publically owned since 1973. It cost more than $12 million to build. Its furnishing and the building materials are lavish. The gardens are superb and sweep down to the cliff top edges, hence the house name, the Breakers.
The Marble House. This house was built for William Vanderbilt as a summer cottage between 1888-92.It was inspired by the Petit Trianon at Versailles. Mrs Vanderbilt saw it as her ‘temple to the arts.’ It cost $11 million to erect with $7million going on marble. William gave it to his wife as a 39th birthday present! To ‘relive’ the Newport experience read the novels of Edith Wharton, herself a NY aristocrat who had a summer residence at Newport. She was a great friend of the Vanderbilts. She is the American Jane Austen. Read The Age of Innocence 1921; or The House of Mirth 1905. Both novels have been made into films the Innocence in 1993 and the Mirth in 2000.
Typical manual brick breakers in Bangladesh, doing difficult daily work under challenging conditions to earn a small amount of money.
Former naval unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey vessel Breaker moored in the inner harbour at Lowestoft, Suffolk.
Breaker is a multi purpose vessel suited for a 24 hrs/day regime and 10 days endurance at sea. With her standard equipped cranes and booms, the vessel fits all needs for multi- disciplinary surveys like UXO detection for offshore wind farms.
Name: Breaker
Vessel type: Survey vessel
Home port: Panama
Flag: Panama
IMO: 4644878
MMSI: 371150000
Call sign: HP4641
Length overall: 31.2 m
Beam: 7.4 m
Draught: 2.4 m
Gross tonnage: 245 tons
Max speed: 10.6 knots
Builder: Oskarsham Shipyard, Oskarham, Sweden
Yard number: 337
Year built: 1956
Owner: Deep BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Disabled ship towed to Grimsby.
Breaker suffered an oil leak within the cooling system 42 miles east north-east of Hornsea in position latitude 53 50.559 N 001 13.551 E on 5th.November 2018. The hydraulic propulsion system of the engine spilled oil into the water. The tug Svitzer Josephine took the ship in tow, it arrived in Grimsby on 6th. November at 5 p.m.
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Im not best please with todays shots, Really need to stop shooting near midday. Which means i really need to learn to drive.
Took hour and a half bus journey to get here and was tormented by uncontrollable dogs (one even came from no where almost hurdling my camera and wave breaker in one go) and children walking into my shots.
Sometimes the waves and spray were truly awesome at Middle Cove, near St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador during a December period of prolongued storms. 55-200 at 200 mm.
I shot this for the JoeDios self-custom challenge. Not a "custom" per se, but my childhood custom is in pieces and partially stripped of paint. Breaker suits me nowadays anyway. At least, my kid says so. I've got a few pounds on him, but he and I are pretty similar. Except for the compulsive gum chewing and Tennessee accent.
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