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Drinking cup (kylix) depicting Herakles rescuing Deianera from Nessos
Greek, Classical Period, about 420–410 B.C.
Painter: Aristophanes
Potter: Erginos
Place of Manufacture: Athens, Attica, Greece
Ceramic, Red Figure
The same shape and size as every other classical guitar on the planet.
This one recovered from the dump, bought for a couple of quid, oiled and cleaned and is perfectly playable.
Was lucky enough to have beautiful natural light during yesterdays visit to the little known Museum of Classical Archaelogy in Cambridge
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Light created by combustion such as the fire of gas lanterns has low luminescence and creates a romantic atmosphere.
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Booth: A prodigy violinist dissapears and a month later his skull ends up bouncing off a garbage truck?
Cam: Obviously, we are looking for someone who really really hates classical music.
--"Bones" (FOX)
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Merritt Parkway
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Merritt Pkwy Shield.svgConnecticut Highway 15.svg
Merritt Parkway
US 7 in Norwalk
Route 8 in Trumbull
North end: Route 15 (Wilbur Cross Parkway) in Milford, CT
Location
Counties:Fairfield
Highway system
Routes in Connecticut
Interstate U.S. State Special Service Roads
Merritt Parkway
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
ArchitectConnecticut Highway Department; et al.
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Classical Revival, Modern
The Merritt Parkway is a historic limited-access parkway in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The parkway is known for its scenic layout, its uniquely styled signage, and the architecturally elaborate overpasses along the route. It is designated as a National Scenic Byway and is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places.[3] Signed as part of Route 15, it runs from the New York state line in Greenwich, where it serves as the continuation of the Hutchinson River Parkway, to the Housatonic River in Stratford, where the Wilbur Cross Parkway begins. On May 19, 2010, the parkway was named one of America's Most Endangered Historic Places.[4] The parkway was named for U.S. Congressman Schuyler Merritt.
Easton Turnpike bridge over the Merritt in Fairfield.
The Parkway is one of a handful of United States highways listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is acknowledged for the beauty of the forest that it passes through, as well as the architectural design of its overpasses; at the time of its construction, each bridge was decorated in a unique fashion so that no two bridges on the parkway looked alike.[5] However, newer overpasses used by intersecting expressways did not maintain this tradition, and as a result the highway is now spanned by several ordinary modern bridges constructed using undecorated concrete on steel I-beams.
The Parkway has two lanes in each direction. Due to its age, it was originally constructed without the merge-lanes, long on-ramps, and long off-ramps that are found on modern limited-access highways. Some entrances have perilously short and/or sharp ramps; some entrances even have stop signs, with no merge lane whatsoever; this leads to some dangerous entrances onto the highway. Most have since been modernized, with the interchange of Route 111 in Trumbull featuring Connecticut's first single point urban interchange (SPUI). The speed limit on the parkway ranges from 45 to 55 mph (70 to 90 km/h). A section between Westport and Fairfield is a stretch, roughly five and a half miles long without a single exit, referred to by local traffic reports as "The No Exit Zone"[6] or "No Man's Land".[7]
Vehicles over 2.5 meters (eight feet) in height, weighing more than 3,650 kilograms (four tons), towing a trailer, or containing more than four wheels are not allowed on the parkway. (Under extenuating circumstances, however, ConnDOT may issue permits for oversize vehicles to use the Parkway.[1])
History[edit]
Tree canopy over the Merritt, and grassy median
Toll booth 1955
Welcome sign in Greenwich
The Merritt Parkway is one of the oldest parkways in the United States. The portion from Greenwich to Norwalk was opened on June 29, 1938. The section from Norwalk to Trumbull was completed in November 1939 and in 1940 was finished to the Housatonic River in Stratford. The parkway was named for U.S. Congressman Schuyler Merritt, who was instrumental in enacting legislation allowing the parkway to be built. The Merritt Parkway is the first leg of what would later become the modern Route 15. Built between 1934 and 1940, the Merritt runs for 37 miles (60 km) from the New York state line in Greenwich to the Housatonic River in Stratford. It was conceived as a way to alleviate congestion on the Boston Post Road (U.S. Route 1) in Fairfield County.
Six rest areas/service plazas featuring parking lots, Mobil gas stations, and convenience stores were also built along the Merritt so that drivers would not have to exit to refuel. These are located at either side of the parkway in Fairfield (near exit 46), New Canaan (near exit 37), and Greenwich (just beyond the CT-NY state line). The northbound-side plaza in Greenwich also houses a Connecticut welcome and tourism center. Since 2011, most of the ten service plazas along the combined length of the Merritt and the Wilbur Cross have been completely renovated to include more modern gas pumps, Alltown convenience stores, and the addition of a Dunkin' Donuts shop at each location; seven of the 9 renovated plazas also include a Subway shop. Prior to the renovations, no fast-food service had previously been available at the plazas. The pair of New Canaan plazas were the last to go under renovation; the southbound plaza reopened in May 2015 with the northbound plaza to reopen by June.
After the parkway fully opened in 1940, it was not uncommon for travelers to stop and picnic along the side of the road.[8] The Merritt Parkway Advisory Commission (later the Merritt Parkway Advisory Committee) decided upon banning horses and buggies, bicycles, pedestrians, billboards, and U-turns while a system of horse trails along the parkway were developed but were later abandoned.[9]
To ease objections from county residents who feared an influx of New Yorkers on their roads, in their towns, on their beaches and through their forests, highway planners called on engineers, landscape architects and architects to create a safe and aesthetically pleasing limited access highway – one with exit and entrance ramps, but no intersections – that would not spoil the countryside.
The bridges played a prominent role in the design. Architect George L. Dunkelberger designed them all. They reflected the popularity of the Art Deco style, with touches of neo-classical and modern design.[10][11][12] Some of these bridges were constructed by the Works Progress Administration.
Tolls were collected on the parkway at one toll plaza in Greenwich from June 21, 1939, until June 27, 1988. Two additional tolls were also located on the Wilbur Cross Parkway, in Milford and Wallingford. One of the parkway's former toll plazas is now preserved in Stratford's Boothe Memorial Park near Exit 53, complete with still-flashing lights over each toll lane.
In April 2001, a complete reissuance of the parkway's signs was carried out creating a uniform white-on-green and sawtooth border.
Safety of the parkway[edit]
One of the Merritt’s aesthetic features is also a potential danger to its drivers. Trees that line either side of the parkway, and often in the center median, grow branches that cover the roadway, and occasionally fall during severe weather, or with natural aging. Stretches of the parkway also lack guardrails on the right shoulders, creating a risk of tree impact accidents if cars veer off the pavement.
In 2007, after complaints were voiced about the danger of the trees along the parkway, state officials announced they would trim and eliminate some of them more aggressively. A large, seemingly healthy tree fell on a car near Exit 42 in Westport in June 2007, killing a couple from Pelham, New York. On June 23, 2011, a driver was killed in Stamford when a tree fell onto his car.[13]
A state study of fatalities on Connecticut highways showed that from 1985 to 1992, about ten people died every three years in tree-related accidents, although no other state roadway averaged more than one in three years.
The state Department of Transportation commonly sends out work crews twice a year to drive along both sides of the parkway at 5 mph (8 km/h) in search of decrepit trees. Trees that had been scheduled to be cut down in five or ten years would be removed sooner. Some more trees also would be removed, as the shoulder of the parkway is being widened to eight feet in order to give drivers room to pull over.[14]
Following the 2007 and 2011 incidents, the state became more aggressive in closing the parkway in times of severe weather. The parkway was closed during Tropical Storm Irene[15] and the Halloween nor'easter in 2011, and Hurricane Sandy in 2012. With each of those storms, many trees and limbs fell across the parkway. After Sandy, the state began a large effort to remove unhealthy trees, and in the process created much wider clearances between the roadside and forest.[13]
The parkway also has three sharp curves where speed limits are reduced to 45 miles per hour, two in Greenwich and one in Fairfield.
The state has a Merritt Parkway Advisory Committee that meets quarterly.[14]
The Merritt Parkway in popular culture[edit]
Willem de Kooning oil-on-canvas painting Merritt Parkway (1959) is owned by the Detroit Institute of Arts.[16][17]
Lisa Seidenberg, a filmmaker from Westport, produced a documentary film, The Road Taken...The Merritt Parkway (2008).[18]
Exit list[edit]
The entire route is in Fairfield County.
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The Yuyuan Garden (豫å›) are located in the center of the Old City of Shanghai, China, next to the Chenghuangmiao. They are considered one of the most lavish and finest Chinese gardens in the region.
The garden was first established in 1559 as a private garden created by Pan Yunduan, who spent almost 20 years building a garden to please his father Pan En, a high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty, during his father's old age. Over the years, the gardens fell into disrepair until about 1760 when bought by merchants, then suffered extensive damage in the 19th century. In 1842, during the Opium Wars, the British army occupied the Town God Temple for five days. During the Taiping Rebellion the gardens were occupied by imperial troops, and damaged again by the Japanese in 1942. They were repaired by the Shanghai government from 1956-1961, opened to the public in 1961, and declared a national monument in 1982.
Today, Yuyuan Garden occupies an area of 2 hectares (5 acres), and is divided into six general areas laid out in the Suzhou style:
Grand Rockery - rockery made of huangshi stone (12 m high), featuring peaks, cliffs, winding caves and gorges. This scenery was possibly created by Zhang Nanyang in the Ming Dynasty. This area also contains the Sansui (Three Corn Ears) Hall.
Heralding Spring Hall (Dianchun) - built in 1820, the first year of the Emperor Daoguang's reign. From September 1853 to February 1855, it served as the base of the Small Swords Society (Xiaodao Hui).
Inner Garden - rockeries, ponds, pavilions, and towers, first laid out in 1709 and more recently recreated in 1956 by combining its east and west gardens.
Jade Magnificence Hall (Yuhua) - furnished with rosewood pieces from the Ming Dynasty.
Lotus Pool - with a zigzag bridge and mid-lake pavilion.
Ten Thousand-Flower Tower (Wanhua)
Garden areas are separated by "dragon walls" with undulating gray tiled ridges, each terminating in a dragon's head.
For more information abou the Yuyuan gardens, Shanghai and China, please visit my website: www.abookaboutchina.com/travelguide/Shanghai
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
I was in Boracay again this tail-end of summer for a full-production on-location fashion pictorial. This is one of the outtakes from that photo shoot. Model: Lenard Bolivar. Fashion Designer: Dong Omaga-Diaz. Hair & Makeup Artist: Victor Ortega. Venue: Paradise Garden Resort Hotel (Boracay). Event Organizer: Bess Tonel. Thanks to Mr. Jochen Buskowitz of Paradise Garden Resort Hotel, Mr. Esteban S.F. Madrona Jr. of MBRS Lines, Mr. Niño Libosada of Philippine Beverage Partners Inc., and, Ms. Annie Convocar of Boracay Tropics. [Photographed by Dominique James of The Dominique James Photography Studio. Copyright © 2007. All rights reserved. For authorized use only. For more information, visit the official blog of The Dominique James Photography Studio at www.dominiquejames.com or email studio@dominiquejames.com for inquiries and bookings.]
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This structure, designed with Classical Revival elements, was erected in 1964. It sits on a small inconspicuous corner of a storefront block in downtown Louisville. The name of this county seat, by the way, is pronounced as if it were spelled Lewisville.
This was my 92nd and final courthouse to visit in the state of Mississippi. As of the morning of November 28, 2010, I have visited all 82 Mississippi counties and all 92 county seats.
Classical Concerts Vienna – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Strauss which was seen in the Schoenbrunn Palace in Vienna Austria
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A choir (from left: Nathalie Cruz, Bill Book, Dave Ruark and Catherine Vaughn Mobley) warn Darrin Gowan of his wife Cindy Phillips' perilous emotional state at not finding her gloves to wear to the fireworks display in the "Classical Menopause"segment of Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical now on stage at Theatre on the Square. The hilarious send-up of the aging process with a look at mammograms, prostate checks, kids who won't leave home, biological clocks and aging jocks plays Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 P.M. and Sundays at 5:00 P.M. Tickets are $ 30 for adults and $ 20 for seniors 62 and over, full-time students and military personnel. Group rates are also available. For reservations and information phone 685-8687 or go on line at www.tots.org. Click on the Theatre on the Square My Space link for a preview of the production.
Was lucky enough to have beautiful natural light during yesterdays visit to the little known Museum of Classical Archaelogy in Cambridge
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The 45EPIC landscapes and goddesses are straight out of Homer's Iliad & Odyssey!
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"RAGE--Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Zeus fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another. " --Homer's Iliad capturing the rage of the 45EPIC landscapes and seascapes! :)
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Music/poetry/art should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."
The Birth of Venus! Beautiful Golden Ratio Swimsuit Bikini Model Goddess! Helen of Troy! She was tall, thin, fit, and quite pretty!
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Baritone Thomas Meglioranza demonstrated, through singing and musical examples, how text and poetry affect musical interpretation in a lecture and performance at Kalamazoo Public Library, July 14, 2009. Meglioranza appeared at the library courtesy Fontana Chamber Arts. www.kpl.gov