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Restored dome mosaic ceiling at the Chicago Cultural Center
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Detail from the ceiling of the Lady Chapel.
Westminster RC Cathedral was designed by architect John Bentley. The building was started in 1895, completed in 1903, and consecrated in 1910. The style is known as 'Edwardian Blood & Bandages' for obvious reasons, and is built of red brick with stone banding. The cathedral has the widest nave of any church in England. The decoration of the interior is ongoing. The plan was for the lower part to be covered in marble with mosaics above. The marbling is complete - using over 100 different types of marble - the decoration of the side chapels is largely finished, but if you look up in the main part of the building you are met with dark, gloomy brick. Despite this the building is extremely impressive, and very beautiful. The feeling in the Cathedral is that of a peaceful, prayerful, living church. Well worth a visit.
Stairwell ceiling. By a process of elimination I think this must be the ceiling above the northern staircase.
By 1924 the U.S. Army Air Service needed a new primary training aircraft, and the Army chose the PT-1 designed by Consolidated Aircraft Corp. of Buffalo, N.Y. Deliveries began in 1925, and the PT-1 became the first training airplane purchased by the Army Air Service in substantial quantity following World War I. All totaled, Consolidated delivered 221 PT-1s to the Army Air Service, and aviation cadets in Texas and California flew it extensively during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Developed from the Dayton-Wright TW-3 airplane, the PT-1 featured a welded fuselage framework of chrome-molybdenum steel tubing. A departure from the all-wood structures found in other trainers, the structure proved so sturdy and dependable that the PT-1 earned the nickname "Trusty." Easy to fly, the Trusty made some students overconfident, and they received a shock when they advanced to faster airplanes with more difficult handling characteristics.
The museum obtained the airplane on display from The Ohio State University in 1957.
TECHNICAL NOTES:
Armament: None
Engine: Wright "E" of 180 hp (Hispano-Suiza design)
Maximum speed: 99 mph
Range: 310 miles
Ceiling: 13,450 ft.
Span: 34 ft. 9 1/2 in.
Length: 27 ft. 8 in.
Height: 9 ft. 6 in.
Weight: 2,550 lbs. loaded
The University of Coimbra’s grand examination room is Amazing. It tops the room where for university’s major academic ceremonies such as oral exams and graduations take place. The ceiling has some amazing patterns with Indo-Portuguese themes. PhD defences can be viewed from the balconies hat run round the outside of he top of the walls. Fascinating.