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Contributing Building - Madison Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #74000696 and #89002159
Patriotic Fundraising Card for Australia Day 30 July 1915.
(Foundation Day)
Supporting the troops through patriotic fundraising was also a way that those unable to fight could contribute to the war effort.
While most of us associate Australia Day with 26 January, in 1915 that date was celebrated as Foundation Day and only in New South Wales, as each of the colonies had their own commemorations for their founding. During the First World War, the concept of a national ‘Australia Day’ was instead part of a wider fundraising plan where money was raised by declaring a special ‘day’ on which events such as auctions, stalls, performances and street collections were held to encourage the community to contribute to the war effort.
The success of ‘Australia Day’ in 1915 saw a repeat of similar events the following year, this time on 28 July, and in the subsequent years of the war.
Australian people during other fundraising days saw an ‘Australia Day’ as a way of drawing on the pride of Australians in their soldiers’ recent achievements at Gallipoli. 30 July 1915 was the date agreed upon, and events were held across all of Australia. Ribbons, badges, handkerchiefs, buttons and other items were sold to raise funds, with phrases such as ‘For Australia’s Heroes’, ‘Help Our Wounded Heroes’ and ‘The Turks Struck their Match in the Australians’ which appealed to people’s sense of pride and patriotism. From a population of just under 5 million people, the day raised over 311,500 pounds in Victoria and more than 839,500 pounds in New South Wales. Today, that figure would be close to $623,000 and $1.7 million respectively.
Australia Day, celebrated on 26 January to commemorate the arrival of the First Fleet, was originally known as Foundation Day. It was not until after the Second World War that the Commonwealth and state governments agreed to rename the celebrations on 26 January as Australia Day.
Back in 1915, it was then a very generalised nominated name for any chosen date by any State to help raise funds to support our war efforts. A simple Google search on how Australia Day, as now celebrated on 26th January, came about explains all (Foundation Day became a national Australia Day, but it wasn’t back in 1915). It became nation-wide only in 1935 but an official national public holiday from 1994 – so recent!). If anything, a real “Foundation Day” would be, or should be, 1st January (from our federation in 1901). A Foundation Day is a designated date on which celebrations mark the founding of a nation. This day is for countries that came into existence without the necessity of gaining Independence, which is what we did. Prior to that we were just ‘colonies’ called states.
The above was obtained from the Australian War Memorial (AWM) web site.
H.E. Mr. Nasser Ibrahim Allenqawi, Permanent Representative of the State of Qatar to the OPCW, and H.E. Ambassador Fernando Arias, Director-General of the OPCW
Urban agriculture is estimated to contribute up to 30% of global food production. Critically, water from streams and wells commonly used for irrigation at urban farms is often highly contaminated by industrial wastewater and sewage. Working together with our University of Sierra Leone colleagues and local, female-driven farming groups in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the GRASS (Green-rooted agriculture associations) project investigates the use of managed planting schemes and phytoremediation (i.e., plant-based removal or immobilisation of contaminants) to enhance green infrastructure, making urban agriculture more sustainable and strengthening the figurative roots of communities. We held an outreach workshop at one of the Freetown farm sites in May 2022, which focused on engaging with the farmers and their children to discuss why water is important and what can be done to protect this valuable resource. A collection of photos from the workshop is framed by artwork created by the children during an activity.
Dr Lee Bryant
Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
Image Accreditation: Collage created by Dr Lee Bryant; photos by Prof Roy Maconachie and Kabba Bangura artwork by children at New England urban farm site in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Collaborators
Professor Roy Maconachie, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, Kabba Bangura, University of Sierra Leone, Nana Samura, New England Women’s Farming Association
Category: Partnerships
Research that is working in collaboration with people outside academia including industry, policymakers and civil society and community-based organisations.
Contributing Building - Brunswick Old Town Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #79000727
905 Union St
Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber contribute work that reflects the last several years of struggle around displacement and privatization in Vancouver as the city prepares to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. In "We Declare" Spaces of Housing, Vancouver 2008, the artist team looks at sites and institutions where decisions regarding housing are made.
Contributing Building - Wilmington Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #74001364 or #03000344
aka Elizabeth Bridgers Mansion
Built 1905
Style: Neoclassical
Architect: Charles McMillen
Contributing Building - Greenville Street-LaGrange Street Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #83000190
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Casa Batlló (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkazə βəˈʎːo]) is a renowned building located in the center of Barcelona and is one of Antoni Gaudí’s masterpieces. A remodel of a previously built house, it was redesigned in 1904 by Gaudí and has been refurbished several times after that. Gaudí's assistants Domènec Sugrañes i Gras, Josep Canaleta and Joan Rubió also contributed to the renovation project. The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), as it has a visceral, skeletal organic quality.
Like everything Gaudí designed, it is only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, has unusual tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work. There are few straight lines, and much of the façade is decorated with a colorful mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís). The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur. A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudí's home), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.
History
Initial construction (1877)
Antoni Gaudí in 1910
The building that is now Casa Batlló was built in 1877 by Antoni Gaudi, commissioned by Lluís Sala Sánchez. It was a classical building without remarkable characteristics within the eclecticism traditional by the end of the 19th century. The building had a basement, a ground floor, four other floors and a garden in the back.
Batlló family
The Batlló family
The house was bought by Josep Batlló in 1900. The design of the house made the home undesirable to buyers but the Batlló family decided to buy the place due to its centralized location. It is located in the middle of Passeig de Gracia, which in the early 20th century was known as a very prestigious and fashionable area. It was an area where the prestigious family could draw attention to themselves.
In 1906 Josep Batlló still owned the home. The Batlló family was very well known in Barcelona for its contribution to the textile industry in the city. Mr. Josep Batlló I Casanovas was a textile industrialist who owned a few factories in the city. Mr. Batlló married Amalia Godo Belaunzaran, from the family that founded the newspaper La Vanguardia. Josep wanted an architect that would design a house that was like no other and stood out as being audacious and creative. Both Josep and his wife were open to anything and they decided not to limit Gaudí. Josep did not want his house to resemble any of the houses of the rest of the Batlló family, such as Casa Pía, built by the Josep Vilaseca. He chose the architect who had designed Park Güell because he wanted him to come up with a risky plan. The family lived on the Noble Floor of Casa Batlló until the middle of the 1950s.
Renovation (1904-1906)
The atrium; Gaudí convinced Batlló to let him expand the central well of the building to let in light, instead of rebuilding.
In 1904 Josep Batlló hired Gaudí to design his home; at first his plans were to tear down the building and construct a completely new house. Gaudí convinced Josep that a renovation was sufficient and was also able to submit the planning application the same year. The building was completed and refurbished in 1906. He completely changed the main apartment which became the residence for the Batlló family. He expanded the central well in order to supply light to the whole building and also added new floors. In the same year the Barcelona City Council selected the house as a candidate for that year’s best building award. The award was given to another architect that year despite Gaudí’s design.
Refurbishments
Josep Batlló died in 1934 and the house was kept in order by the wife until her death in 1940 . After the death of the two parents the house was kept and managed by the children until 1954. In 1954 an insurance company named Seguros Iberia acquired Casa Batlló and set up offices there. In 1970, the first refurbishment occurred mainly in several of the interior rooms of the house. In 1983, the exterior balconies were restored to their original colour and a year later the exterior façade was illuminated in the ceremony of La Mercè.
Multiple uses
In 1993, the current owners of Casa Batlló bought the home and continued refurbishments throughout the whole building. Two years later, in 1995, Casa Batlló began to hire out its facilities for different events. More than 2,500 square meters of rooms within the building were rented out for many different functions. Due to the building's location and the beauty of the facilities being rented, the rooms of Casa Batlló were in very high demand and hosted many important events for the city.
Contributing Building - Dublin Commercial Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #02000540
Built 1934
Style: Art Deco
Contributing Building - Fairview Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #84001149
208 Wells St
Built 1917
Style: Prarie
Architect: Lloyd B Greer
Rapid population growth can be a contributing factor to both greenhouse gas emissions and vulnerability to climate stresses. Early childbearing, high fertility rates, and short birth intervals are associated with poor maternal and child health outcomes as well as lower educational attainment and work force participation, which directly impede women’s ability to participate and invest in climate change adaptation. However, the positive benefits of voluntary family planning, either for emissions reductions or adaptation, have not figured prominently in climate policy discussions or those related to improving access to family planning.
To address this gap, the Population Reference Bureau and Worldwatch Institute formed an international Population Dynamics and Climate-Compatible Development Expert Working Group to identify policy opportunities to increase investment in family planning in climate-sensitive development initiatives. Join us for a presentation about the working group’s report and discussion with select working group members.
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The one and half-story Gothic style railroad depot was built in 1891, replacing an earlier one that burned down. The station was on the Octario line of Pennsylvania Railroad. The station was in service into the 1930s. In 2014, the building was used as the office and Visitor Center for the complex. The depot is a contributing property of the Newlin Mill Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
I'm just kidding, it is not a skyscraper.
It would be 6-sided were it not for a couple of 6-foot indentations on its backside, not shown. Here, look at this diagram of the building outline from the website of the Columbia County Auditor.
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In downtown East Liverpool, Ohio, on May 14th, 2020, the Little Building (built 1915, a "contributing property" in the East Liverpool Downtown Historic District, 01000591 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the intersection of East 6th Street, Dresden Avenue, and St Clair Avenue.
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IMMIGRANTS CONTRIBUTE: AMERICA, WE SING BACK! community event at the All Souls Unitarian Church at 1500 Harvard Street, NW, Washington DC on Saturday afternoon, 28 September 2013 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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Delegate Roi Qualls contributes to consultation on the second day of the 107th Bahá'í National Convention, May 1, 2015. Photo by Jasmin Kemp
Members of the C I 315 Transfer Orientation Class and Future Teachers Future Leaders Learning Community in the School of Education at ISU came to Moulton to meet, in person, the pen pals with whom they've been corresponding this semester. During their time together, they read favorite books or wrote a story together about an adventure with Cy, the mascot!
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"General Thaddeus Kosciuszko contributed his engineering skills to the fortification of the Delaware River during the American Revolution which prevented the British Navy from entering Philadelphia in the fall of 1777. This was the second engineering assignment General Kosciuszko received from the Continental Congress. Designated a Kosciuszko Military Engineering site by THE COPERNICUS SOCIETY OF AMERICA under the authority of a Concurrent Resolution of The U.S. Congress – S. Con. Res. 44. Passed April 1978."
100 Hessian Avenue in National Park, New Jersey 08063 - Google Map - additional views
Pleased to contribute a photograph of St. Peter's Seminary in Cardross, Scotland to DAM's recent exhibition and publication on brutalist architecture worldwide.
The 2-book set is generously laid out and really beautifully made.
Contributing Building - Quincy Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #78000942
Built 1903
These photographs were taken and contributed by pupils of West Kilbride Primary School. 2012
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Art Works is proud to have contributed to the construction of this monument dedicated on March 30 - National Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day - in 2013. We prepared each of the 3 granite faces shown here for sandblasting. To do that, we arranged all 142 names and associated dates across the left and right panels and set up the text in the center panel. We cut all the text into masking material, glued the masking material to the granite slabs and then painstakingly removed each individual letter by hand. www.artwks.com
Contributing Building - Springfield Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #86003640
“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Contributing Building - Brunswick Old Town Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #79000727
Architect: Alfred Eichberg and
Style: Richardson Romanesque/Queen Anne
Built 1889
MacBride Hall is a contributing property to the Pentacrest, an historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The University of Iowa is a public research university located in Iowa City. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees; and it is the home of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, one of the largest university-owned teaching hospitals in the nation. Iowa was the first American institution of higher learning to accept creative work for academic credit, and developed the Master of Fine Arts degree.
Contributing Building - Riverside Historic District - National Register of Historic Places
NRIS #85000689
PS #12
Architect: Henry John Klutho
Delegate Ghaneh Fananapazir of California contributes to consultation on the third day of the U.S. Bahá'í National Convention, April 29, 2017. Photo by David Smith
These photographs were taken and contributed by pupils of West Kilbride Primary School. 2012
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The ancestors of the Icelandic horse were probably brought to the country by Viking Age Scandinavians between 860 and 935 AD. These settlers were followed by immigrants from Norse colonies in Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Western Isles of Scotland, who brought the ancestors of what would elsewhere become Shetland, Highland, and Connemara ponies. There may also be a connection with the Yakutian pony and the Nordlandshest of Norway. Breeds with similar characteristics include the Faroe pony and the Norwegian Fjord horse. Genetic analyses have revealed a link to the Mongolian horse (believed to have been originally imported from Russia by Swedish traders and subsequently contributing to the Fjord, Exmoor, Highland, Shetland, and Connemara breeds, all of which have been found to be genetically linked to the Icelandic horse). About 900 years ago, attempts were made to introduce eastern blood into the Icelandic, resulting in a degeneration of the stock. In 982 AD, the Icelandic Althing (parliament) passed laws prohibiting the importation of horses into Iceland, thus ending crossbreeding. The breed has now been bred pure in Iceland for more than 1,000 years.
The earliest Norse people venerated the horse as a symbol of fertility, and white horses were slaughtered at sacrificial feasts and ceremonies. Horses played a significant part in Norse mythology, among them Odin's eight-footed pacer Sleipnir. The first Icelandic horse known by name is the mare Skalm from the Book of Settlements from the 12th century: a chieftain named Seal-Thorir founded a settlement at the place where Skalm stopped and lay down with her pack. Horses also play key roles in the 13th-century Icelandic sagas Hrafnkel's Saga, Njal's Saga, and Grettir's Saga, set as far back as the 9th century.
Horses were often considered the most prized possession of a medieval Icelander and war horses were sometimes buried alongside their fallen riders. Icelanders also arranged for bloody fights between stallions; these were used for entertainment and to pick the best animals for breeding, and they were described in both literature and official records from the Commonwealth period of 930 to 1262 AD. Stallion fights were an important part of Icelandic culture; and the sometimes-serious physical and verbal brawls among the spectators had wide social and political repercussions that could even restructure political alliances. Courting between young men and women was also common at horse fights.
At first, natural selection played a major role in the development of the breed, as large numbers of horses died from lack of food and exposure to the elements. Between 874 and 1300 AD, during the more favorable climatic conditions of the medieval warm period, Icelandic breeders selectively bred horses according to special rules of color and conformation. From 1300 to 1900, selective breeding became less of a priority, as the climate was often severe and many horses and people died. Between 1783 and 1784, around 70% of the horses in Iceland were killed by volcanic-ash poisoning and starvation after the 1783 eruption of Lakagígar. The eruption lasted eight months, covered hundreds of square miles of land with lava, and rerouted or dried up several rivers. The population slowly recovered over the next hundred years, and from the beginning of the 20th century selective breeding again became important.
Despite increasing mechanization and road improvements, these horses still play a large part in Icelandic life. Farmers still use the breed to round up sheep in the Icelandic highlands, but most horses are used for competition and leisure riding. The first official race was held at Akureyri in 1874, and many competitions--gallop and pace races as well as performance classes showcasing the breed's unique gaits--are still held throughout the country from April through June. Winter events are often held, including races on frozen bodies of water (in 2009, both horses and riders needed to be rescued after falling through the ice at such an event). The first shows, focused on the quality of animals as breeding stock, were held in 1906. The Agricultural Society of Iceland, along with the National Association of Riding Clubs, now organizes regular shows with a wide variety of classes. Some horses are still bred for slaughter, and much of the meat is exported to Japan.
The first Icelandic breed societies were established in 1904, and the first breed registry in Iceland was established in 1923. In 2000, WorldFengur was established by the Icelandic government in cooperation with the FEIF as an official registry for Icelandic horses: this web database program is used as a studbook to track contains information on the pedigree, breeder, owner, offspring, photo, breeding evaluations, and assessments, and unique identification of each horse registered. Around 300,000 Icelandic horses, living and dead, have been registered worldwide.
There are now about 80,000 Icelandic horses in Iceland (compared to a human population of 317,000), and around 100,000 abroad. Because of their strength and small size, Icelandics were exported to Great Britain before the 20th century to work as unregistered pit ponies in the coal mines. The first formal exports of Icelandic horses were to Germany in the 1940s (almost 50,000 horses are in Germany, which has many active riding clubs and breed societies). Great Britain's first official imports started in 1956 with a Scottish farmer, Stuart McKintosh, and the Icelandic Horse Society of Great Britain was formed in 1986. The number of Icelandic horses exported to other nations has steadily increased and it's especially popular in western Europe, Scandinavia, and North America.
Though Icelandic horses are small (330-380 kg and 13-14 hands), breed registries always refer to them as horses. One theory says this is because of their spirited temperament and large personality, and another suggests that their weight, bone structure, and weight-carrying abilities let them be classified as horses. Some breeders focus on animals for pack and draft work, which are conformationally distinct from those bred for their ability to perform the traditional Icelandic gaits. Others are bred solely for meat.
The hardy Icelandic horse comes in many coat colors, including chestnut, dun, bay, black, gray, palomino, pinto, and roan, and there are over 100 names for various colors and color patterns in the Icelandic language. Their double coat offers extra insulation in cold temperatures. They have well-proportioned heads with straight profiles and wide foreheads. The neck is short, muscular, and broad at the base; they have broad, low withers, a deep chest, muscular and slightly sloping shoulders, a long back, and broad, muscular, short, and slightly sloping croup. Their legs are strong and short, with relatively long cannon bones and short pasterns. The mane and tail are full, with coarse hair, and the tail is set low.
Members of this long-lived breed are not usually ridden until they are four or five years old and structural development is not complete until age seven. Their most productive years are between eight and eighteen, and they retain their strength and stamina into their twenties. An Icelandic mare that lived in Denmark reached a record age of 56, while another horse, living in Great Britain, reached the age of 42. The horses are highly fertile, and both sexes are fit for breeding up to age 25; mares have been recorded giving birth at age 27. The horses are social and not easily spooked, probably the result of not having any natural predators in their native Iceland. Icelandics tend to be friendly, docile, enthusiastic, and self-assured.
As a result of their isolation from other horses, disease in the breed within Iceland is mostly unknown except for some kinds of internal parasites. This is maintained by laws forbidding horse imports and exported horses from returning to Iceland, and by requiring that all equine equipment taken into the country be either new and unused or fully disinfected. As a result, native horses have no acquired immunity to disease; an outbreak on the island would be likely to be devastating to the breed. This makes it difficult to enter Icelandic horses into competitions outside of the country.
The Icelandic is a "five-gaited" breed, known for its sure-footedness and ability to cross rough terrain. As well as the typical gaits of walk, trot, and canter/gallop, the breed is noted for its ability to perform two additional gaits. The comfortable, ground-covering four-beat lateral ambling gait known as the tölt is known for its explosive acceleration and speed. There is considerable variation in style within the gait, and so the tölt is variously compared to similar lateral gaits such as the rack of the Saddlebred, the largo of the Paso Fino, or the running walk of the Tennessee Walking Horse. Like all lateral ambling gaits, the footfall pattern is the same as the walk (left hind, left front, right hind, right front), but differs from the walk in that it can be performed at a range of speeds. Some Icelandic horses prefer to tölt while others prefer to trot; correct training can improve weak gaits, but the tölt is a natural gait present from birth. There are two uncomfortable, incorrect varieties of the tölt: the first is an uneven gait called a "Pig's Pace" or "Piggy-pace" that is closer to a two-beat pace than a four-beat amble. The second, Valhopp, is a tölt-and-canter combination most often seen in untrained young horses.
The fast, smooth skeið, flugskeið, or "flying pace" allows some horses to reach 48 km/h. Not all Icelandic horses can perform this gait; animals that perform both the tölt and the flying pace in addition to the traditional gaits are considered the best of the breed. The flying pace is a two-beat lateral gait with a moment of suspension between footfalls; each side has both feet land almost simultaneously (left hind and left front, suspension, right hind and right front). Not a gait used for long-distance travel, it's uncomfortable for the rider when slow. Although most pacing horses are raced in harness using sulkies, in Iceland horses are raced while ridden.
The photograph is of the front elevation of the Georgian style Chatham Manor was constructed between 1768 and 1771 on a bluff overlooking the Rappahannock River and Fredericksburg. During the Antebellum Period, the house was the center of a large plantation. In 1805, some enslaved workers put a scare in the community by fighting to resist forced labor. During the Civil War, the house was used by the Union Army as a headquarters and later as a field hospital during the Battle of Fredericksburg. Chatham Manor was in ruin by the end of the Civil War and remained that way into the 1920s when it was restored. Chatham Manor is a unit of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. The Manor is located in the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefield Memorial National Military Park Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a contributing property.