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Tomb of Tự Đức (Vietnamese: Lăng Tự Đức) is located in Huế, Vietnam. It is built for the Nguyễn Emperor Tự Đức and took three years to build from 1864–1867. It is divided into a Temple Area and a Tomb Area.
Emperor Tu Duc enjoyed the longest reign of any monarch of the Nguyen dynasty, ruling from 1848-83. Although he had over a hundred wives and concubines, he was unable to father a son (possibly he became sterile after contracting smallpox). Thus, it fell to him to write his own epitaph on the deeds of his reign. He felt this was a bad omen, but the epitaph can still be found inscribed on the stele in the pavilion just to the east of the Emperor's tomb. This stele is the largest of its type in Vietnam, and had to be brought here from a quarry over 500 kilometers away--a trip that took four years.
Tu Duc began planning his tomb long before his death in 1883. The major portions of the tomb complex were completed from 1864-67, along with future temple buildings that served as a palatial retreat for Tu Duc and his many wives during his lifetime. Construction of the tomb demanded so much corvee labor and extra taxation that there was an abortive coup against Tu Duc in 1866. This was put down, and for the remainder of his life, Tu Duc continued to use the tomb's palace buildings as his place of residence.
Amenities for the living are unmatched at any other tomb in Vietnam. Here, the Emperor could boat on the lake and hunt small game on the tiny island in the lake's middle. He could recline at Xung Khiem Pavilion and recite or compose poetry in the company of his concubines. After trips on the lake, the boats would moor at Du Khiem Pavilion, from which the Emperor and his entourage could walk directly west into the palace area of the tomb.
After the Emperor's death in 1883 his adopted son Kien Phuc took over as the Nguyen Emperor. Perhaps because he only ruled seven months before dying, a separate tomb was not established for him. Instead, he was laid to rest in a small corner on the grounds of Tu Duc's tomb. Between the tombs of Tu Duc and his son is the tomb of Empress Le Thien Anh, Tu Duc's primary wife.
Interestingly, despite the grandeur of the site and the amount of time Tu Duc spent here, he was actually buried in a different, secret location somewhere in Hue. To keep the secret safe the 200 laborers who buried the king were all beheaded after they returned from the secret route. To this day, the real tomb of Tu Duc remains hidden for future generations to discover.
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Cadets who meet the qualifications and agree to commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army are recognized in an annual ceremony, honoring their commitment and dedication. Comprised of freshman, sophomores and juniors, the ceremony signifies the beginning of each cadets responsibility to prepare themselves to be officers in the Unites States Army.
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British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. D. 114. Photo: 20th Century Fox.
Bright-eyed Mitzi Gaynor (1931) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She was a leading lady in light musicals, including There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), which featured Irving Berlin's music and starred Ethel Merman, and South Pacific (1958), based on the musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Mitzi Gaynor was born as Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber in 1931, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Pauline, a dancer, and Henry von Gerber, a violinist, cellist, and music director. After her father remarried, she became step-sister to anti-war activist Donald W. Duncan. Her family first moved to Elgin, Illinois, then to Detroit, and later when she was eleven, on to Hollywood. She trained as a ballerina as a child and began her career as a chorus dancer. At 12, she joined the dancing chorus of the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. She lied about her address so she could attend Hollywood High School. In 1950, she signed a seven-year contract with Twentieth Century Fox where she sang, acted, and danced in several film musicals. A Fox Studio executive thought that Mitzi Gerber sounded like the name of a delicatessen, and they came up with a name that used the same initials. Gaynor made her film debut in a musical, My Blue Heaven (Henry Koster, 1950) supporting Betty Grable and Dan Dailey. She followed it with a college drama Take Care of My Little Girl (Jean Negulesco, 1951), where she played the roommate of Jeanne Crain. Fox then gave Gaynor a star part, in the musical biopic Golden Girl (Lloyd Bacon, 1951). It was a mild success at the box office. Gaynor was one of several stars in the anthology comedy We're Not Married! (Edmund Goulding, 1952) with Ginger Rodgers and Marilyn Monroe, and then she was top-billed in the musical, Bloodhounds of Broadway (Harmon Jones, 1952). Fox put her in another biopic, The I Don't Care Girl (Lloyd Bacon, 1952), where she played Ziegfeld star Eva Tanguay. Gaynor starred in Down Among the Sheltering Palms (Edmund Goulding, 1953), playing a South Sea island girl. She was the female lead in a Western, Three Young Texans (Henry Levin, 1954) with Jeffrey Hunter. Gaynor's most popular film in her time at Fox was There's No Business Like Show Business (Walter Lang, 1954), where she was billed after Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor and Johnnie Ray.
In 1954, Mitzi Gaynor married Jack Bean, a talent agent and public relations executive for MCA, in San Francisco, California. She had just been released from Twentieth Century-Fox (before the start of There's No Business Like Show Business) with four years left on her contract and decided with the time off to get married. The union was childless. After their wedding, Bean quit MCA, started his own real estate business and managed Gaynor's career. Bean wisely perceived that his new bride was a far more effective performer on a live stage rather than a film set. In 1956, Gaynor appeared in the Paramount remake of Anything Goes (Robert Lewis, 1956), co-starring Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, and Zizi Jeanmaire, loosely based on the musical by Cole Porter, P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton. Paramount cast her in another remake, The Birds and the Bees (Norman Taurog, 1956) with David Niven, playing the role originated by Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941). Her third film for Paramount was The Joker Is Wild (Charles Vidor, 1957), a biopic of famous comedian Joe E. Lewis (Frank Sinatra) in which Gaynor played the female lead. In 1957, Gaynor appeared in MGM's Les Girls (George Cukor, 1957), with Gene Kelly and Kay Kendall. Her biggest international fame came from the plum role of Nellie Forbush in the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific (Joshua Logan, 1958), starring Rossano Brazzi. For her performance, she was nominated for a Best Actress Golden Globe Award. Gaynor followed this with a comedy at MGM, Happy Anniversary (David Miller, 1959) opposite David Niven, and the British musical comedy thriller Surprise Package (Stanley Donen, 1960), with Yul Brynner and Noël Coward. Her last film role was For Love or Money (Michael Gordon, 1963), starring Kirk Douglas. Mitzi Gaynor's film career was over, but happily, she continued to be a major draw on the nightclub and summer musical circuit. She often performed songs at Academy Awards ceremonies. At the 1967 Oscar telecast, she sang the theme from the film Georgy Girl (Silvio Narizzano, 1966) and stopped the show. The Academy had a hard time getting the audience to sit down and stop applauding. Gaynor later added the number to her concert repertoire. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she starred in nine acclaimed television specials that garnered 16 Emmy nominations. During the 1990s, Gaynor also became a featured columnist for the influential news magazine The Hollywood Reporter. Her husband Jack Bean died in 2006.
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Cadets who meet the qualifications and agree to commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army are recognized in an annual ceremony, honoring their commitment and dedication. Comprised of freshman, sophomores and juniors, the ceremony signifies the beginning of each cadets responsibility to prepare themselves to be officers in the Unites States Army.
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MSG Barrett Taylor, Army Contracting Command – Redstone Arsenal, adjusts the television monitors at the start of a Soldier’s appearance at the Army Contracting Command Noncommissioned Officer of the Year board. This year, due to budget constraints, ACC conducted the formal board and other events virtually. Board members viewed competitors worldwide from video monitors at the ACC headquarters on Redstone Arsenal, AL. Competitors completed physical portions of the event under the watchful eyes of local NCOs. (U.S. Army Photo by Edward G. Worley)
The 925th Contracting Battalion held a change of command ceremony for outgoing commander, Lt. Col. Jessie K. Griffith III and incoming commander, Lt. Col. Rickey J. Torres July 3, 2019 on Fort Drum, NY. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Tiffany Banks.)
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The Apollo command module is the NASA spacecraft that flew astronauts from the Earth to the Moon and back.
In 1961, NASA awarded the contract for the command module to then North American Aviation. It was a continuation of the "capsule" spacecraft design used in the Mercury and Gemini Programs. The Apollo command module was larger to accommodate three astronauts and used advanced computers and navigational equipment on the longer lunar flights. For most of the flight, the command module was attached to the service module which contained the propulsion, environmental, electrical, control and fuel systems.
Unlike the previous NASA spacecraft, the Apollo command module was built with a docking assembly and hatch so that it could dock with the lunar module. The lunar module would detach and land on the moon with two astronauts leaving the command module and its pilot in lunar orbit until their return.
Thirty-five command modules were built, with 15 of them being launched on manned space missions. These included eleven Apollo missions, three Skylab missions, and the Apollo Soyuz Test Project. The rest of the modules were used in various Earthbound tests or unmanned test flights.
This command module mockup was built by North American Rockwell for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite during their reporting of the Apollo missions. Made up of surplus command module panels, equipment, couches and other parts, it gave television viewers a visual of the interior of the spacecraft. During the Apollo missions, there was limited live and recorded footage for use by the networks. Mockups, models, graphics and other visual aids were important tools for reporters to help fill in the visual narrative of an Apollo mission.
The mockup was later used in the Ron Howard & Tom Hanks HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. In the miniseries, the mockup was used by Emmett Seaborn, a fictitious news anchor with the fictitious NTC network.
Technical Specifications (Command Module Without Service Module):
Length: 30 ft-10 in
Diameter: 10 ft-7 in
Interior 210 cubic feet
Weight: 12.251 Ibs. (without service module)
Crew: 3
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this contract is a part of the Episcopal collection in Tortosa which is now open to the public.
Looking at the numerous signatures, it must have been a very important document, granting land and special right to the city/ or the bishop of Tortosa.
Italian postcard by B.F.F. Edit, no. 2338. Photo: Warner Bros.
American actor Zachary Scott (1914-1965) was known for his roles as sinister villains and well-dressed, suave 'mystery men'. Although his acclaimed performance in Mildred Pierce (1945) seemed to cement him as a star, it led to his typecasting and his subsequent films declined in prestige. He continued to work in films, including the Luis Buñuel classic La joven/The Young One (1960), but Scott never quite reclaimed the level of stardom that he'd achieved in the mid-1940s.
Zachary Thomson Scott Jr. was born in Austin, Texas, in 1914. He was the son of Sallie Lee (Masterson) and Zachary Thomson Scott, a wealthy surgeon. Scott intended to follow his father into medicine and attended the University of Texas at Austin. At 19, he dropped out and worked as a seaman on an England-bound freighter. There he appeared in almost two dozen provincial repertory theatre productions in the next 18 months, gaining confidence and skill. When he returned to Texas, he married actress Elaine Anderson and he began to act in local theatre productions. He and his wife were spotted in a play in Austin by Alfred Lunt and his wife Lynn Fontanne, who recommended them to the producers of New York's Theatre Guild. Zachary Scott made his debut with a small role as a bartender in a 1941 revival of 'Ah, Wilderness!'. He was also in 'The Damask Cheek' (1942), 'The Rock' (1943), and 'Those Endearing Young Charms' (1943). Jack L. Warner saw Scott perform in 'Those Endearing Young Charms' and signed him to his first film contract. Scott made his screen debut in the Film Noir The Mask of Dimitrios (Jean Negulesco, 1944) opposite Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Scott played the title role, of Dimitrios Makropoulos, an international intriguer and master criminal, whose body was just washed up on a local beach. Craig Butler at AllMovie: "The Mask of Dimitrios is an intricate little conspiracy thriller-cum-film noir that provides a great deal of entertainment value for fans of intrigue and betrayal, all cast in shadowy light that obscures as much as it illuminates" Scott seemed destined for a top-level career in Hollywood. He was one of the many Warners stars who had small roles in Hollywood Canteen (Delmer Daves, 1944). Then he was loaned to United Artists to play the lead in the classic The Southerner (1945) directed by Jean Renoir. The film portrays the hardships of a poor family struggling to establish a cotton farm in Texas in the early 1940s. It received three Oscar nominations. Though he received great acclaim for his performance, Scott was not particularly well promoted by Warners. His profile was immediately reversed by his well-received performance as the cad in the dark melodrama Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945). Scott played the duplicitous lover of both Joan Crawford and her daughter. His mysterious murder forms the basis of the plot and frames the film's opening and closing. Variety noted that Scott "makes the most of his character" in "a talented performance." Scott co-starred with Faye Emerson, the daughter-in-law of President Franklin D. Roosevelt by her marriage to Elliott Roosevelt, in the Film Noir Danger Signal (Robert Florey, 1945). He then co-starred with Janis Paige and Dane Clark in another mediocre Film Noir Her Kind of Man (Frederick De Cordova, 1946).
In 1946, exhibitors voted Zachary Scott the third most promising "star of tomorrow". Although his performance in Mildred Pierce (1945) was acclaimed it also led to his typecasting as a portrayer of amoral characters. His subsequent films declined in prestige. Scott supported Ann Sheridan in the murder mystery The Unfaithful (Vincent Sherman, 1947) and Ronald Reagan and Alexis Smith in the Western Stallion Road (James V. Kern, 1947). MGM borrowed him to support Lana Turner and Spencer Tracy in the romantic drama Cass Timberlane (George Sidney, 1947). He had the lead in a Film Noir for Eagle Lion, Ruthless (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1948), and then returned to Warners for another Film Noir, Whiplash (Lewis Seiler, 1948). He supported Virginia Mayo in the Film Noir Flaxy Martin (Richard L. Bare, 1949) and Joel McCrea in the independent Western South of St. Louis (Ray Enright, 1949). He was reunited with Joan Crawford in the Film Noir Flamingo Road (Michael Curtiz, 1949). Crawford played an ex-carnival dancer who marries a local businessman to seek revenge on a corrupt political boss who had her railroaded into prison. It was one of the top-grossers of 1949. Warners tried Scott in a comedy, One Last Fling (Peter Godfrey, 1949), with Alexis Smith. He starred in some films outside the studio: the crime drama Guilty Bystander (Joseph Lerner, 1950) and the psychological thriller Shadow on the Wall (Andrew Jackson, 1950) with Ann Sothern. At Warners, he supported Randolph Scott in the Western Colt .45 (Edwin L. Marin, 1950) and Besy Drake and Dennis Morgan in the comedy Pretty Baby (Bretaigne Windust, 1950). He co-starred with Joan Fontaine in Nicholas Ray's Film Noir Born to Be Bad (1950). At AllMovie, Craig Butler writes: "Although it's hardly a great movie, Born to Be Bad is a lot of fun – if one is in the mood for a bitchy, campy, over-the-top melodrama."
In 1950, a divorce and a rafting accident, in which he was badly injured, sent Zachary Scott into a depression. After being dropped by Warners, he married actress Ruth Ford and began to concentrate more on stage and television work. Scott appeared in a variety of television series such as Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950) and Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1951). In 1951 he was arrested at a bar in Louisiana for violating segregation laws. He was in a black establishment drinking alcohol with African-Americans. he protested in court that he was invited to the bar by black men in uniform and that he was proud to drink with US soldiers. Scott's first film after he left Warners was the Western Stronghold (Steve Sekely, 1951) with Veronica Lake. It was financed by Filmadora Studios, a Mexican company. He also did the crime melodrama Lightning Strikes Twice (King Vidor, 1951) starring Ruth Roman and Richard Todd, and the Western The Secret of Convict Lake (Michael Gordon, 1951) starring Glen Ford. The latter was a critical and commercial success. Scott followed it with Let's Make It Legal (Richard Sale, 1951) in which he played a millionaire chased by Marilyn Monroe. He was on TV in Tales of Tomorrow (1951) and Betty Crocker Star Matinee (1952) and went to England to make the crime film Wings of Danger (Terence Fisher, 1952) with Kay Kendall. In Hollywood, he was in Studio One in Hollywood (1953) and Medallion Theatre (1953) on TV, and in Appointment in Honduras (1953), directed by Jacques Tourneur. He was in The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953), Chevron Theatre (1953), Suspense (1954), Schlitz Playhouse (1954), The Motorola Television Hour (1954), Campbell Summer Soundstage (1954), The United States Steel Hour (1954), Omnibus (1954), Climax! (1955) and General Electric Theater (1955), In Robert Montgomery Presents (1956), he played Philip Marlowe in a version of The Big Sleep. Other TV appearances were in Science Fiction Theatre (1955), The Star and the Story (1956), Celebrity Playhouse (1956), Theatre Night (1957) and Pursuit (1958). He made occasional films such as the Westerns Treasure of Ruby Hills (Frank MacDonald, 1955) and Shotgun (Lesley Selander, 1955) starring Sterling Hayden and Yvonne DeCarlo. DeCarlo was also his co-star in the Republic Film Noir Flame of the Islands (Edward Ludwig, 1956). The following year, he appeared in the British crime films The Counterfeit Plan (Montgomery Tully, 1957) with Peggie Castle, and Man in the Shadow/Violent Stranger (Montgomery Tully, 1957) co-starring Faith Domergue. Scott returned to Broadway with 'Requiem for a Nun' (1959).
Zachary Scott starred in the English-language Mexican drama La joven/The Young One (1960), co-written and directed by Luis Buñuel. "Inspired by" the story 'Travelin' Man' by Peter Matthiessen, the film deals with issues such as racism and statutory rape by depicting the interactions between two men and a teenage girl on a private island game preserve. The film was co-written by Hugo Butler (under the pseudonym H. B. Addis) and produced by George Pepper (as George P. Werker), two Americans who had moved to Mexico after being blacklisted in Hollywood. The Young One was screened in competition at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and has received highly positive reviews since its release. Scott guest starred on The Chevy Mystery Show (1960), Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960) and Diagnosis: Unknown (1960). In 1961, he portrayed White Eyes, a Native American Chief, in the Rawhide episode Incident Before Black Pass. He was in the now-lost film Natchez Trace (Alan Crosland Jr., 1960). The film takes place in the 1820s focusing on the exploits of John Murrell, a slave trader and bandit who worked the central part of the Natchez Trace in the 1820s and 1830s. Zachary Scott played roles in such TV shows as The DuPont Show of the Month (1961), Play of the Week (1961), The New Breed (1961), The Defenders (1961) and The DuPont Show of the Week (1962). Scott's last roles included the TV movie The Expendables (1962), and episodes of The Doctors and the Nurses (1962) and The Rogues (1965). His final film was the comedy It's Only Money (Frank Tashlin, 1962) with Jerry Lewis. Scott returned to Broadway for 'A Rainy Day in Newark' (1963) by Howard Teichmann. He then moved back to Austin. During his time at Warner's, Scott and his first wife Elaine socialised regularly with Angela Lansbury and her husband Richard Cromwell. Elaine Scott had met Zachary Scott in Austin and she made a name for herself behind the scenes on Broadway as stage manager for the original production of Oklahoma! The Scotts had one child, Waverly Scott. In 1950, Scott was involved in a rafting accident. Also during that year, he and Elaine divorced. She later married writer John Steinbeck. Possibly as a result of these developments or due to a box-office slump, Scott succumbed to depression, which affected his acting for Warners. Scott married his second wife, actress Ruth Ford, in 1952. Scott adopted her daughter, Shelly, from Ford's previous marriage to Peter van Eyck. Scott died in 1965, from a malignant brain tumour at the home of his mother in Austin, Texas at the age of 51. In 1950, a star was dedicated to Scott at 6349 Hollywood Boulevard in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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This photograph of a girl by a chess board was shot indoors by a window in the late afternoon. The sunny, natural lighting was hitting the subject from the side. The compositional technique "leading lines" was used to draw the viewer's eye to the subject and add visual interest.
Once you get into a surety bond contract, you should know that there are five elements that should be present before the law will enforce that guarantee.
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ICC and the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) held their annual Conference in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 20-21 September 2018.
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I photographed some of my lawn contracts the last couple of days. I'm pretty happy with how nice my lawns are looking. I am also still learning the settings on my camera so not all the photos took as well as I would have liked but all things in time. :D
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.
She additionally served as Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Howe's flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship.
In 1922, she was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012 and is the world's oldest naval ship still in commission with 240 years service by 2018.
Listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, HMS Victory has been the flagship of the First Sea Lord since October 2012. Prior to this, she was the flagship of the Second Sea Lord. She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship.
In December 2011, Defence Equipment and Support awarded an initial five-year project management contract to BAE Systems, with an option to extend to ten years. The restoration is worth £16 million over the life of the contract and will include work to the masts and rigging, replacement side planking, and the addition of fire control measures. It is expected to be the most extensive refit since the ship returned from Trafalgar. In her current state she has no upper masts and minimum rigging. It is expected that it will be over 12 years before these are replaced.
HMS Victory has also undergone emergency repair works to prevent the hull decaying and sagging. The hull is moving at a rate of 0.5 cm each year, about 20 centimetres over the last 40 years although there are plans to create new hydraulic supports that will better fit Victory
Melissa Garcia and SSG Elijah Felton discuss a contract at Fort Bliss, TX. Garcia is a contracting officer and Felton is a contracting specialist at the Mission and Installation Contracting Command (MICC) – Fort Bliss office. It is important for Army acquisition professionals to know their contracts, contracting officers and Defense Contract Management Agency representatives. (Photo by Ben Gonzales, MICC Public Affairs)