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Originally, White Horse Close was probably the site of the Palace stables and may have been named after Mary, Queen of Scots, favourite white mount. From the 17th Century it was the site of an inn which was the terminus for the coach service to London. It was here that Prince Charles Edward Stuart's officers were quartered when they entered Edinburgh in 1745. The close was rebuilt as worker's houses in 1889 and completely reconstructed in the vernacular style by Frank Mears & Partners (1961-4). The result is described by Gifford et. al. in the Edinburgh volume of the 'Buildings of Scotland' as "so blatantly fake that it can be acquitted of any intention to deceive", but remains a small fantasy worth experiencing.
Born here was William Dick (1793 - 1866), founder of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Science --from www.geo.ed.ac.uk
Taken 5/22/15
The Schuylkill Mall's Kmart store is in the process of closing. The announcement to shutter the store came in February 2015, with the actual closure happening in June. This closing follows soon after a Sears store at the same mall closed its doors.
It is the last of the original three anchor stores to close, with Hess's closing in 1997, and Sears in 2015. This leaves the mall with only two original stores, GNC and Radio Shack as all of the other original stores have moved out at some point in the malls history.
Close-up of a damselfly's head in the garden at La Quinetière, Buais, Normandy, France
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Closing session - IAEA 58th General Conference Scientific Forum - Radioactive Waste: Meeting the Challenge - Science and Technology for Safe and Sustainable Solutions. IAEA Vienna, Austria. 24 September 2014.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Back garden of Sam's flat at 11 Linnett Close, Chingford, London
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The final image from a nighttime photoshoot a couple years ago in which I worked with designer Peter Chadwick to re-design Nine Inch Nails - Closer album cover.
Taken at ex-military base RAF Folkingham in Nottingham.
One Green gelled sb-600 was simply fired from off left shoulder.
This is a close up shot of my wee stall on Middle Meadows Walk, Edinburgh, Scotland. I make and sell My jewellery made from old Scrabble tiles and Maps.
So close, yet so far away
We believe in tomorrow, maybe more than today
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Nikon D90
Sigma Macro 105 MM
A closer view of a large iceberg that has calved from a glacier in the Antarctic Peninsula, as seen by Operation IceBridge while returning from a survey of the Ronne Ice Shelf on Nov. 1, 2012.
Credit: NASA / Jefferson Beck
NASA's Operation IceBridge is an airborne science mission to study Earth's polar ice. For more information about IceBridge, visit: www.nasa.gov/icebridge
Master Class DONETSK-OPEN
Donetsk, Ukraine
Sep 2011
Remastering 2020
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Seaham pier earlier today...highest tide of the year (thanks Barry). I was so engrosed in the shot I didn't see the water rushing at me...hence wet feet!
Flowerscape including Flannel Flowers, Actinotus helianthi.
Seen at the South Pacific Heathland Reserve in Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia.
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Improvement comes in ever shrinking increments. That would normally bore me, but fortunately paper won't leave me alone.
Playhouse Close
Once 'a steep, narrow stinking ravine' from the commercial heyday of this poultry and fishmarket.
Home also to the City Hangman or 'Doomster', the last being a John High who died in 1817.
George Heriot, benefactor and founder of the Hospital and School which bear his name, lived here in 1856.
Daniel Defoe is also rumoured to have worked here as a secret agent to the English Government at the Treaty of Union in 1707.
The head of the close was for many years a station for a primitive fire engine dragged out by rope in the event of emergency.
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Playhouse Close is so called because it was the site of the first public playhouse to be built after the Reformation in Edinburgh. Thomas Sydserf, son of a Scottish bishop, had made a brief, unsuccessful attempt to open one in the 1660s at his rooms in nearby Carrubber’s Close. The ambitious Sydserf wrote his own comedies, translated others from the French, and even managed to stage a production of Macbeth, but the disapproval of the kirk meant that there were few practising Scottish dramatists, and in 1669 Sydserf was assaulted by a gang with swords while at rehearsals in his rooms. He did, however, lay the foundations for future challenges to the kirk’s authority over the matter of public theatre.
Built in 1746, the playhouse on this spot opened to the public the following year. The famous tragedy Douglas, by the Edinburgh clergyman and writer John Home, was first performed here before transferring to Covent Garden in London. However, the theatre came under fire from the Kirk and the Town Council, both of whom opposed its existence, and it closed in 1786.
Before the Playhouse was built in 1746 there was no public theatre here, but that didn’t mean that the Royal Mile didn’t see a lot of what we might think of as processional ‘street theatre’ in the sixteenth century.
If I adequately translate the Spanish at:
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprenta_Municipal-Artes_del_Libro
Imprenta Municipal celebrates the history of printing, books and graphics arts. Dig those jumbo printing presses! Visit and you'll see bigger ones, out of camera range to the right.
The colorful artwork at left is for Letras Liberadas, showcasing posters and periodicals chronicling Spain's stormy history in the seven years following Franco's death. Are you new or relatively new in Madrid, as I am? Dost thou hunger to understand culture as well as language? Go! Letras Liberadas closes mid-April. You still have time.