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James Kelso Daniel House 1 Americus GA by Lance Taylor

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Americus Garden Inn Bed and Breakfast

Mary and I stayed here in December 2011.

Old PO Fitzgerald GA by Lance Taylor

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NRIS #92000383

Built ca 1918

ROG-SCH by Dundalk 1982

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chawne asked me to contribute a square to her f*ck quilt. thing is, i'm not much of a quilter, so i thought i'd do a little fuckin' cross stitch for her.

the linen is from an old pair of pants. heh. and i used some of that waste canvas which i have to say is a bit of a PITA. FUCKERS!

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House 740 SE Ft King St Ocala FL by Lance Taylor

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Built ca 1891

Style: Victorian Vernacular

Mattie Rutherford Elementary 1 Jacksonville FL by Lance Taylor

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PS #6

Built 1912

Originally named Springfield Grammar School

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Mark Hickey contributes his segment during the making of a podcast by phone.

Rhyolite Ghost Town, Nevada by Jack & Petra Clayton

"Tribute to Shorty Harris" (1994) by Fred Bervoets, Rhyolite Ghost Town, Nevada

Amargosa Desert and Bullfrog Hills

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Among the artists that have contributed work to the museum, probably the one who felt most out of place in the desert was Belgian artist Fred Bervoets, appointed a Knight of the Order of Leopold II by the King in 1988.

His “portrait” sculpture of Shorty Harris (an early miner in Death Valley and its environs) and a penguin has elicited countless questions. The miner makes sense, but why the Antarctic bird?

Word has it that Bervoets wanted to include in his sculpture an indication of how “alien” he felt in the Nevada desert. The penguin was the most out of place entity the artist could think of to represent his own feelings of displacement under the Mojave sun, a self-portrait then as a penguin in the desert.

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The birth of Rhyolite was brought about by Shorty Harris and E. L. Cross, who were prospecting in the area in 1904. They found quartz all over a hill, and as Shorty describes it “... the quartz was just full of free gold... it was the original bullfrog rock... this banner is a crackerjack” declared Shorty! “The district is going to be the banner camp of Nevada. I say so once and I’ll say it again.” At that time there was only one other person in the whole area: Old Man Beatty who lived in a ranch with his family five miles away. Soon the rush was on and several camps were set up including Bullfrog, the Amargosa and a settlement between them called Jumpertown. A townsite was laid out nearby and given the name Rhyolite from the silica-rich volcanic rock in the area.

There were over 2000 claims covering everything in a 30 mile area from the Bullfrog district. The most promising was the Montgomery Shoshone mine, which prompted everyone to move to the Rhyolite townsite. The town immediately boomed with buildings springing up everywhere. One building was 3 stories tall and cost $90,000 to build. A stock exchange and Board of Trade were formed. The red light district drew women from as far away as San Francisco. There were hotels, stores, a school for 250 children, an ice plant, two electric plants, foundries and machine shops and even a miner’s union hospital.

The town citizens had an active social life including baseball games, dances, basket socials, whist parties, tennis, a symphony, Sunday school picnics, basketball games, Saturday night variety shows at the opera house and pool tournaments. In 1906 Countess Morajeski opened the Alaska Glacier Ice Cream Parlor to the delight of the local citizenry. That same year an enterprising miner, Tom T. Kelly, built a Bottle House out of 50,000 beer and liquor bottles.

In April 1907 electricity came to Rhyolite, and by August of that year a mill had been constructed to handle 300 tons of ore a day at the Montgomery Shoshone mine. It consisted of a crusher, 3 giant rollers, over a dozen cyanide tanks and a reduction furnace. The Montgomery Shoshone mine had become nationally known because Bob Montgomery once boasted he could take $10,000 a day in ore from the mine. It was later owned by Charles Schwab, who purchased it in 1906 for a reported 2 to 6 million dollars.

The financial panic of 1907 took its toll on Rhyolite and was seen as the beginning of the end for the town. In the next few years mines started closing and banks failed. Newspapers went out of business, and by 1910 the production at the mill had slowed to $246,661 and there were only 611 residents in the town. On March 14, 1911 the directors voted to close down the Montgomery Shoshone mine and mill. In 1916 the light and power were finally turned off in the town.

Today you can find several remnants of Rhyolite’s glory days. Some of the walls of the 3 story bank building are still standing, as is part of the old jail. The train depot (privately owned) is one of the few complete buildings left in the town, as is the Bottle House. The Bottle House was restored by Paramount pictures in Jan, 1925. The ghost town of Rhyolite is on a mixture of federal and private land. It is not within the boundary of Death Valley National Park.

Rhyolite is 35 miles from the Furnace Creek Visitor Center on the way to Beatty, Nevada. A paved road heading north (left) from Hwy. 374 will take you to the heart of the the town.

British Council's Practical Teaching Methodology Workshop - IELTS Advanced 2017 by British Council Vietnam

With the aim to contribute to the improvement of IELTS test preparation Vietnam, the British Council IELTS have been organising teacher training workshops in Vietnam for the past 8 years. Teacher training is one of our key activities that we offer to our IELTS partners to provide the teachers with insights of how IELTS are marked and practical skills of teaching IELTS in order to help the students reach their full potential in the real exam. This year we are very delighted to welcome nearly 70 teachers to the British Council's Practical Teaching Methodology Workshop - IELTS Advanced 2017, organised in Hanoi on 19th & 20th August 2017.

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International Women's Day 2019 Celebration in Baghdad by United Nations Iraq (UN Iraq)

Advancing women’s empowerment contributes to national stability, says DSRSG Walpole at International Women’s Day celebration

Baghdad, 07 March 2019 – International Women’s Day was celebrated today at an event organized by the Directorate for the Empowerment of Iraqi Women at the Council of Ministers.

The event, which was supported by UN Women and the International Medical Corps, was attended by senior Iraqi government officials, including the two Deputy Speakers of the Council of Representatives, human rights activists, civil society representatives, the international community and many others.

Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (DSRSG) Alice Walpole addressed the meeting, along with Dr. Mahdi Al-Allaq, Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers, who represented the Prime Minister; Dr. Thikra Alwash, Mayor of Baghdad and Chair of the Standing Committee on the Advancement of Women; UN Women’s Representative, Ms. Dina Zorba and UNFPA Representative, Dr. Oluremi Sogunro; as well as the Director-General of the Directorate for the Empowerment of Iraqi Women, Dr. Ibtisam Aziz.

In her remarks, DSRSG Walpole welcomed the upcoming discussions in Parliament on updating the Anti-Domestic Violence Law. “We need to acknowledge that domestic violence diminishes and shames all of society; it is a threat not just to women but to society itself,” she emphasised.

Reflecting on the challenges facing displaced women across Iraq, DSRSG Walpole noted that “They continue to suffer the brutal consequences of the recent conflict”.

“Female-headed households should be prioritised in accessing public services,” she said, and called on the Ministries of Defence and Interior, and the National Operations Command, to “to ensure that secure clearance mechanisms are coordinated among security actors to minimize re-screening of individuals already screened; and to consider removing security clearance requirements for civilians who have not been charged with a criminal or terrorism-related offence, so they do not face obstacles in accessing public services, including civil registries and courts”.

DSRSG Walpole also noted the high unemployment rate amongst young women, which is double that of men. She called on the government to “offer small business grants to female entrepreneurs to help them into the business arena, in particular to women returnees in the liberated areas, and those heading households”.

“Advancing women’s economic empowerment in this way will contribute to the government’s efforts to achieve national stability,” she noted.

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Is an App a Day Keeping the Doc Away? by Digital Health, BabyTech and BeautyTech

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Selby Abbey - Benedictine Abbey - Anglican Parish Church, Selby, North Yorkshire, England. by PHOTOGRAPHY by DM & DBM.

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Selby Abbey is a former Benedictine abbey and current Anglican parish church in the town of Selby, North Yorkshire, England. It is a member of the Major Churches Network in England.

Monastic history

The church is one of the relatively few surviving abbey churches of the medieval period, and, although not a cathedral, is one of the biggest. It was founded by Benedict of Auxerre in 1069 and subsequently built by the de Lacy family.

On 31 May 1256, the abbey was bestowed with the grant of a Mitre by Pope Alexander IV and from this date was a "Mitred Abbey". This privilege fell in abeyance a number of times, but on 11 April 1308, Archbishop William Greenfield confirmed the grant, and Selby remained a "Mitred Abbey" until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Archbishop Walter Giffard visited the monastery in 1275 by commission, and several monks and the Abbot were charged with a list of faults including loose living, (many complaints referred to misconduct with married women). In 1279 Archbishop William de Wickwane made a visitation, and found fault with the Abbot as he did not observe the rule of St Benedict, was not singing mass, preaching or teaching, and seldom attending chapter. Things had not improved much in 1306 when Archbishop William Greenfield visited and similar visitations in later years resulted in similar findings.

The community rebuilt the choir in the early fourteenth century, but in 1340, a fire destroyed the Chapter House, Dormitory, Treasury and part of the church. The damage was repaired and the decorated windows in the south aisle of the nave were installed.

In 1380–1 there was the abbot and twenty-five monks. In 1393 Pope Boniface IX granted an indulgence to pilgrims who contributed to the conservation of the chapel of the Holy Cross in the abbey.

The fifteenth century saw more alterations to the abbey. The perpendicular windows in the north transept and at the west end of the nave were added and the Sedilia in the Sanctuary was added. One of the final additions was the Latham Chapel, dedicated to St Catherine, east of the north transept, in 1465.

In the Valor Ecclesiasticus of 1535 the abbey was valued at £719 2s. 6¼d (equivalent to £467,021 in 2021). The abbey surrendered on 6 December 1539. The community comprised the Abbot, and 23 monks. The abbot was pensioned off on £100 a year (equivalent to £71,416 in 2021) the prior got £8 and the others between £6 6s. 8d. and £5 each.

Abbots of Selby

Benedict 1069–1097

Hugh de Lacy 1097–1123

Herbert, 1123–1127

Durand, 1127–1137

Interregnum 1137–1139

Walter 1139–1143

Helias Paynel, 1143–1153

German, 1153–1160

Gilbert de Vere, 1160–1184

Interregnum 1184–1189

Roger of London, 1189–1195

Richard I (prior), 1195–1214

Alexander, 1214–1221

Richard, 1221–1223

Richard (sub-prior of Selby), 1223

Hugh de Drayton, 1245–1254

Thomas de Whalley, 1254–1263

David de Cawod, 1263–1269

William de Aslakeby (prior) 1280,-1293

John de Wystow I (sub-prior), 1294–1300

William de Aslaghby (sacrist), 1300–1313

Simon de Scardeburg (prior), 1313–1321

John de Wystow II, 1322–1335

John de Heslyngton (a monk), 1335–1342

Geoffrey de Gaddesby, 1342–1368

John de Shirburn, 1369–1408

William Pigot, 1408–1429

John Cave, 1429–1436

John Ousthorp, 1436–1466

John Sharrow, 1466–1486

Lawrence Selby, 1487–1504

Robert Depyng (monk of Crowland Abbey) 1504–1518

Thomas Rawlinson, 1518–1522

John Barwic, 1522–1526

Robert Selby, 1526–1540

Post monastic history

For a time after the dissolution, the church was unused but in 1618 it became the Parish Church of Selby. During the English Civil War and the Commonwealth period the building suffered with the north transept window being destroyed, and the statues on the brackets in the choir were demolished.

Like York Minster, the church rests on a base of sand and has suffered from subsidence. Many sections collapsed entirely during the seventeenth century, including the central tower in 1690 which destroyed the south transept. The Tower was rebuilt, but not the transept. In the eighteenth century the choir was filled with galleries, and used for services, the nave only used for secular purposes.

The church was restored by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1871–1873 who restored much of the nave for use, and again in 1889–1890 by his son John Oldrid Scott, who restored the choir. The tower was restored in the first few years of the twentieth century.

The reredos was designed by Robert Lorimer and added in 1901.

Vicars of Selby Abbey

Anthony Ashton 1540 – 1583

Robert Dove 1583 – 1586

Thomas Tomlinson 1586 – 1603

John Bradley 1603 – 1610

Thomas Greenwood 1610 – 1613

John Moor 1613 – 1620

Richard Smith BA 1620 – 1625

John Whitaker BA 1625 – 1642

Paul Hammerton 1642 – 1650

Richard Calvert 1650 – 1658

Thomas Birdsall 1658 – 1666

Arthur Squire MA 1666 – 1698

Shadrach Sherburn BA 1698 – 1701

Henry Allan 1701

Geoffrey Rishton 1701 – 1720

Thomas Hardy 1720 – 1728

William Charnley BA 1728 – 1748

Marmaduke Teasdale BA 1748 – 1778

William Porter MA 1778 – 1796

William Caile 1796 – 1797

Thomas Mounsey 1797 – 1819

Jonathan Muncaster 1819 – 1834

John Leidger Walton MA 1834 – 1850

Francis Whaley Harper MA 1850 – 1889

Archibald George Tweedie MA 1889 – 1904

Maurice Parkin MA 1904 – 1910

John Solloway DD 1910 – 1941

Alfred Edgar Moore Glover MA 1941 – 1945

Frank Read AKC 1945 – 1952

John Aldwyn Pelham Kent MA 1952 – 1978

Anthony Cecil Addison Smith MA 1978 – 1983

Michael William Escritt DipTh 1983 – 1990

Peter Lawrence Dodd MBE 1990 – 1993

James Alexander Robertson 1993 – 1996

Roy Ian John Matthews TD MA 1996 – 1997

Keith Michael Jukes BA 1997 – 2007

Keith David Richards 2007 – 2010

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The fire of 1906

The organ builders from John Compton had been working until 11.00 pm on Friday 19 October, and shortly after midnight on Saturday the organist Frederick William Sykes spotted flames coming from the organ chamber. The organ builders had been installing a new kinetic gas engine to provide power to the new organ. Initial reports that the new organ equipment was to blame for the fire were later proved inaccurate.

The fire destroyed the roof of the choir and the belfry and peal of eight bells was also destroyed. All of the interior fittings were also destroyed but thanks to the actions of the local fire brigade, the fourteenth-century stained glass in the East window was saved.

A secondary fire broke out in the nave roof on the Sunday, but this was quickly extinguished.

The abbey was rebuilt under the supervision of John Oldrid Scott at a cost of around £50,000 (equivalent to £5,545,000 in 2021) and reopened in 1909. The restoration of the south transept was completed in 1912, funded by William Liversedge.

Later twentieth century

In 1952 the abbey was given Grade I listed status.

Restorations of 2002

In 2002 the abbey underwent an extensive restoration, costing several million pounds. Stage 6, the restoration of the Scriptorium was completed at a cost of £795,000. The £400,000 cost of restoring the South choir Aisle and the "Washington Window" was met in full by British American Tobacco. World Monuments Fund committed more than $800,000 to exterior work, including roof repairs, beginning in 2002.

The Washington Window

A notable feature of the abbey is the fifteenth-century Washington Window, located at the clerestory level of the quire, which features the heraldic arms of the ancestors of George Washington, the first president of the United States. It is believed the shield is in the Abbey thanks to a financial benefaction supporting the work of the monastery at Selby from John Wessington, one of George Washington's ancestors, who was Prior of Durham from 1416 to 1446, and the design is thought to be one of the oldest representations of the Flag of the United States in the world. Selby Abbey is on the 'American Trail' of attractions around the UK with strong American historical connections.

Music

Music at Selby Abbey has a long history going back to its monastic foundation in the 11th century when plainsong was chanted at the daily services by the Benedictine monks. Today, the music at services consists principally of choral music sung by the Abbey's choir, organ music, and congregational hymn singing.

The Choir of Selby Abbey numbers c35 adults and children. While the choir consists principally of dedicated volunteers, the Abbey provides three Choral Scholarships and employs a professional Assistant Organist and Director of Music. The Abbey Choristers receive a full musical education and training. During term-time the choir sings at the weekly Sung Eucharist on Sundays, and at Choral Evensong on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month, in addition to singing at other special services, weddings and concerts.

In 2022 the Abbey Junior Choir was founded to provide singing opportunities for younger children aged five and upwards.

The Abbey hosts many concerts throughout the year performed by choirs, orchestras, brass bands and other musicians and groups. Selby Abbey Trust organises an annual Organ Recital Series featuring performers from across the world.

Organ

The previous organ was installed in 1825 by Renn and Boston, in a gallery on the east side of the choir screen wall. It was rebuilt several times by Booth of Wakefield, Forster and Andrews of Hull and Conacher of Huddersfield. In 1868 the organ was rebuilt and moved to a bay in the quire. The opening recital was given by William Thomas Best. This organ was rebuilt in 1891 by James Jepson Binns of Bramley and moved again, this time to the north side of the quire. A rebuild took place by John Compton in 1906, but the organ was destroyed by the great fire of that year, which nearly destroyed the abbey too.

Following the 1906 fire and as part of the subsequent restoration of the Abbey, the firm of William Hill & Son was commissioned to build the current organ, completed in 1909. With 67 speaking stops and 4 manuals, most of the pipes of this instrument occupy two organ cases designed by John Oldrid Scott and placed either side of the choir stalls in the Chancel. The huge pipes of the "Pedal: 32' Double Open Diapason" sit in the Triforium overlooking the Nave.

The first major restoration of this organ was carried out in 1950 by Hill, Norman and Beard. In the early 1960s, the Italian virtuoso Fernando Germani made several LP recordings at the Abbey of organ music by Reger, Franck and Liszt, bringing the organ to international attention. In 1975, further alterations and additions were made to the organ by John T. Jackson.

By the 2010's the organ was showing its age and becoming increasingly unreliable, so in 2014, Geoffrey Coffin and Principal Pipe Organs of York carried out a major restoration which lasted two years. Paul Hale was the adviser and the project was completed in 2016.

Organists and Directors of Music

Wharton Hooper 1864–1866

Edward Johnson Bellerby 1878–1881

Frederick William Sykes 1881–1919

Henry Oswald Hodgson 1920–1921

Herbert Hill 1921–1922

Walter Hartley 1922–1962

David Patrick Gedge 1962–1966

Mervyn John Byers 1966–1976

Peter Seymour 1976–1978

Anthony Langford 1978–1980

Mervyn John Byers 1980–1987

Geoffrey Pearce 1987–1994

Roger Tebbet 1994–2020

James Lowery (Interim Organist) 2020–2021

Oliver Waterer 2021–

Ian Seddon (Assistant Organist) 2023–

Burials

Thomas Thwaites and wife Alice de la Hay

Bishop of Selby

The Bishop of Selby is a Suffragan Bishop to the Archbishop of York and oversees the Archdeaconry of York, which includes the Deanery of Selby

Selby is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England; it is located 12 miles (19.3 km) south of York on the River Ouse. In the 2021 UK Census, it had a population recorded at 19,760.

The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire; from 1974 until 2023, the town was the administrative centre of the Selby District.

Selby once had a large shipbuilding industry and was an important port on the Selby Canal, which brought trade from Leeds.

History

Foundation

The town's origins date from the establishment of a Viking settlement on the banks of the River Ouse. Archaeological investigations in Selby have revealed extensive remains, including waterlogged deposits in the core of the town dating from the Roman period onwards. It is believed that Selby originated as a settlement called Seletun, which was referred to in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of AD 779.

The place name 'Selby' is first attested in a Yorkshire charter c. 1030, where it appears as Seleby. It appears as Selbi c. 1050. The name is thought to be a Scandinavian form of Seletun, meaning 'sallow tree settlement'.

Development

The town of Selby is on the main route north from the Midlands and is the traditional birthplace of King Henry I, fourth son of William the Conqueror, in 1068/69; the connection is supported by William and his wife Matilda's unique joint charter of Selby Abbey, far to the north of their usual circuit of activities, which was founded for Benedict of Auxerre in 1069 and subsequently supported by the de Lacy family. King Henry I is reputed to have been born there in c. 1068. A notable feature of the abbey is the 14th-century Washington Window, featuring the heraldic arms of the ancestors of George Washington, the first president of the United States. The design is often cited as an influence for the Stars and Stripes flag.

It is said that the abbey was founded when Benedict saw three swans on a lake in Selby, which he took as a sign of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and that is why the official crest of Selby Abbey is three swans. Selby Abbey was closed in 1539 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII and the majority of the buildings have since been demolished. The central nave of the abbey church survived and in 1618 it became the parish church of Selby.

During the English Civil War the Royalist garrison of Selby was captured by Parliamentarians in the Battle of Selby on 11 April 1644. There are other historical sites, such as the cholera burial ground on the north side of the abbey, the market cross and the local school, Selby High School. The Market Place has existed since the early 14th century, when the market was moved away from the monastery churchyard. The Crescent which curves eastwards from James Street, was planned in the early 19th century by a local man, John Audus, after he saw Lansdown Crescent in Bath, Somerset.

Since 2000

Selby is expanding. New houses and shops are being built on the outskirts as far as the bypass, which has resulted in the loss of some trade from the town centre. Meanwhile, the riverfront is being revamped with modern housing and fashionable flats.

Rail crash

Main article: Great Heck rail crash

The 2001 Great Heck rail crash is also often referred to as the Selby rail crash. It happened a few miles south of Selby, at the village of Great Heck near the M62 motorway, and Selby was the closest major town to the accident site. On 28 February 2001 a vehicle crashed off the M62 down an embankment onto a railway track, where it was struck by a passenger train heading to London. The accident was then compounded by a second collision involving an oncoming goods train.

Hobson murders

Selby and its surrounding area came to national prominence once again through another tragedy on 18 July 2004, this time through four exceptionally violent murders carried out by former refuse collector Mark Hobson. Hobson, 34 at the time, killed his girlfriend, Claire Sanderson, 27, and her sister Diane at a flat in the nearby village of Camblesforth. He subsequently murdered an elderly couple, James and Joan Britton, at their home in the village of Strensall, near York. Hobson was later sentenced to life imprisonment, with the trial judge recommending that he should never be released; the High Court later agreed with this recommendation.

At the lowest level of governance is Selby Town Council. The town is divided into three electoral wards, north, south, each represented by five councillors, and west, represented by seven councillors. These 17 councillors are responsible for burial grounds, allotments, play areas and some street lighting. Elections to the town council are held every four years. The Mayor of Selby is elected annually by the members of the town council.

From 1974 to 2023, Selby was administered as part of a two-tier council system by Selby District Council. The town was represented by seven councillors on the District Council, two each for the west and south wards and three for the north ward. On the North Yorkshire County Council the town was part of the Selby Barlby county division, which elected two representatives to the county council.

In April 2023, both councils, along with all district councils in North Yorkshire, were replaced by North Yorkshire Council. The unitary authority now provides all the services previously provided separately by the two councils.

In the United Kingdom Parliament, Selby formed part of the Selby constituency until the 2010 general election, when it became part of the new seat of Selby and Ainsty. It was represented by Conservative MP Nigel Adams until he resigned in June 2023, triggering a by-election held in July. The 20 July 2023 by-election was won by Labour candidate Keir Mather.

Geography

Selby lies on the tidal River Ouse in a natural area of Yorkshire known as the Humberhead Levels. The main roads that cross at Selby are the A63 from Leeds to Hull and the A19 from Doncaster to York, though the A19 and A63 have no longer met in Selby itself since the opening of the Selby Bypass in 2004. The River Ouse is navigable upstream as far as York so the old toll bridge, by which the A63 crossed the river at Selby, had to allow for this. For many years the swing bridge in Selby was a notorious local bottleneck but since the opening of the Selby bypass congestion in the town has been relieved.

The importance of Selby as a market town has declined in recent decades and its short-lived prominence as the centre of the Selby Coalfield has also waned. Selby is close to both York and Leeds. Its popularity as a tourist destination, owing to Selby Abbey, has led to a large amount of development and renovation in the town and surrounding area.

The residential areas of Selby have also been subject to expansion and development. A significant development called Staynor Hall continues to the south East of the town, with other developments in the Holmes Lane area and around the villages of Brayton, Barlby and Thorpe Willoughby. More have been built at various points along the riverfront, the result of an ongoing project to improve an area that had been largely derelict since the decline of the shipbuilding industry.

Floods

In recent years there have been serious flood problems in Selby and the adjoining village of Barlby. The threat in the Barlby area has been alleviated to some extent by work on improved flood barriers following the major flood of November 2000.

Religion

Selby Abbey is one of the largest parish churches in Britain and is larger than several cathedrals.

There are various other Christian churches in the town that offer community and differing styles of worship: King's Church, St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Portholme Methodist / URC Church, and St James' Church. Edge Community was founded in 2009 for the Flaxley Road community, and The Salvation Army opened The Church at the Crossroads on the Abbotts Road estate in 2015.

Brayton has St Wilfrid's Anglican Church and the Methodist Chapel and All Saints' Church is in Barlby. Thorpe Willoughby has St Francis Church.

Selby Churches Together set up and run the Selby and District Food Bank.

Economy

Much of the historical wealth of the town is based on its position on the banks of the tidal River Ouse. Selby used to have a large shipbuilding industry and was an important port on the Selby Canal, which brought trade from Leeds. The Selby Canal links the River Ouse at Selby to the River Aire at Haddlesey. The replacement Greenpeace craft (1989–2011), bearing the name Rainbow Warrior, was built in Selby in 1957 as a fishing boat. Selby's location allowed vessels to be launched into the river. This often required the more unusual technique of launching the vessels side-on into the river owing to lack of space for a more conventional stern-first or bow-first launch. One famous vessel of the Cochrane and Son's shipyard of the town is the preserved trawler Ross Tiger at Grimsby's National Fishing Heritage Centre. Cochrane launched their last vessel into the Ouse in 1998, a historical occasion which people around the area went to see. After Cochrane had closed the massive cranes still stood over the skyline of Selby until 2001, when very strong winds blew them down. Most of the shipyard buildings are still standing (as of February 2014) and the site, along with interviews with former employees and archive film, was featured in a 2013 video production 'Cochranes of Selby'. The site of the shipyard is currently home to many small businesses, housed in the buildings once used to build the Selby ships.

For a time Selby was the leading coal-mining area in the UK and featured some of the most advanced mining technology in Europe. It was the first new mine in the UK for decades and seen as a rejoinder to widespread concern that the British mining industry was effectively shutting down, particularly following the defeat of the 1984–85 miners' strike.

Wistow Colliery, which was part of the Selby Coalfield, holds the UK record for coal mined in one week—200,743 tonnes in 1995. The 110 square miles (280 km2) Selby Complex, employing 3,000 miners plus contractors and ancillary staff, closed on Friday 14 May 2004 despite rising demand for coal in the UK. UK Coal, the pit's owner, said closure was due to rising costs caused by deteriorating geological conditions and the falling price of coal. In its final years the company listed a £30 million loss on the plant.

Although much of the infrastructure of shipbuilding and coal mining remains both in and around Selby, both industries have long since been defunct. Now the main income for the area is derived from arable farming and as a commuter area for Leeds, Wakefield and York.

In recent years Selby has seen the development of new shopping areas both in the town centre and on the outskirts. The Abbey Walk Shopping Centre was developed on recreational land that runs parallel to the town centre. The expansion not only increased the volume of town-centre shops but also provided large-scale, convenient parking for the town centre. In more recent years the Three Lakes Retail Park has opened on the outskirts of town and continues to expand. Two of the town's supermarkets, Tesco and Morrisons, are looking to expand their stores, the latter meaning the resiting of the Abbey Primary School.

On 14 September 2005, Selby District Council was conditionally granted outline planning permission for a state of the art science facility to be built on the site of Burn Gliding Club but these plans did not come to fruition.

Transport

Selby is the transport hub for the local area; it has a bus and railway station running services to many places around the area.

Train services from Selby railway station run directly to London King's Cross, Leeds, Liverpool Lime Street, Manchester Piccadilly, York and Hull. Services are operated by several train operating companies; these are London North Eastern Railway, Northern Trains, TransPennine Express and Hull Trains.

Bus services are operated predominantly by Arriva Yorkshire, which runs a range of local services, as well as longer-distance routes to Goole, Leeds, Pontefract, Wakefield and York. Thornes Independent operate two routes to Hensall and Hemingbrough.

In July 2001, construction began on the Selby by-pass, which had been authorised for development in 1993. The by-pass runs from the A19 at Barlby, along the southern perimeter of Selby, joining the A63 at Thorpe Willoughby. The project was delayed owing to technical difficulties with the swing bridge over the River Ouse, but was eventually completed in July 2004.

Culture and sport

Selby Town Hall has been running a music venue since 2003, with regular performances of music, dance, drama and comedy and local band nights, with an annual Battle Of The Bands final, which in 2009 sold out in 12 hours, seeing local band Leonard's Revenge crowned victors.

There have been four cinemas in Selby with the last one closing in the early 1980s. In 2009 a community group established a cinema project called Selby Globe. The group is also working with local community groups in securing the Abbot's Staith, a 15th-century warehouse currently on English Heritage's At Risk Register. It is expected that the development of the Abbot's Staith could offer opportunities for social, educational, historical and economic solutions for the town while also promoting tourism.

Selby's major sporting team is Selby Town F.C. ('the Robins'), playing in the Northern Counties East Division One at the Flaxley Road Stadium. As a result of a sponsorship deal with a local business, the stadium is now known as the Fairfax Plant Hire Stadium. The club was founded in 1919 and their most successful season was perhaps 1953–54, when they won the Yorkshire Football League and reached the first round of the FA Cup – meeting Bradford Park Avenue and getting their highest ever attendance of 7,000 fans.

A Rugby union club, Selby RUFC, plays at Sandhill Lane Stadium. Sandhill Lane Stadium is currently undergoing construction work to create a new seating stand overlooking the first team's pitch, and a gym and new changing rooms are being added to the members' bar and existing club bar. Selby RUFC have five open-age teams and have veteran and junior set-ups. Selby 1st are currently in Yorkshire League Division One. In the season 2008–09 Selby U10s won the Gullivers Plate at Twickenham, the U16s got to the final of the Yorkshire Bowl and Selby 3rds reached a North Yorkshire final. Selby also has a rugby league club, Selby Warriors, which plays at The Rigid Containers Sports Ground, Foxhill Lane and the Selby Rugby League Referees Society.

Selby Cricket Club, which shares Sandhill Lane Stadium, has four senior league teams, with the 1st and 2nd XI playing in the York and District Senior League, the 1st XI in Division 4 and the 2nd XI in Division 5. The 3rd XI play in Division 4 and 4th XI play in Division 5 of the York Vale League. The team runs two junior teams, the under 11s and 15s, which both play in the York and District Junior League, and an evening league team in the Howdenshire Evening League (West Division).

Selby and District Motor Club has its own clubhouse at Breighton Airfield on Sand Lane. Meeting on Tuesday evenings, its members participate in Road Rallies, Stage Rallies, Sprints, Autotests and Production-Car Trials. Members discuss motor sporting events and regularly show videos. The club organises an annual Road Rally called the Three Swans Rally, based on local roads and forming a major part of local championships.

Media

Local news and television programmes is provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire from the Emley Moor TV transmitter.

The town's local radio stations are BBC Radio York, Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire, Capital Yorkshire, YO1 Radio, and Selby Radio which is a community based radio station.

Selby's longest-established newspaper is the Selby Times, owned and published by Chronicle Publications along with its sister paper the Goole Times. The company previously owned the Selby Post and purchased the title from Johnston Press when they ceased publication of the paper in August 2013. Published weekly, the paper costs 60p and covers the Selby district, including the town centre and villages such as Sherburn-in-Elmet and as far as Tadcaster.

In 2014, despite the shift to online news, The Goole and Selby Times together were only one of three newspapers in the country actually to increase print sales. The Goole Times (incorporating the Selby Times) saw a rise of more than three quarters to 15,045 compared with the same period in 2013.

The Goole Times and Selby Times received an unprecedented 1,000 toys for their annual Christmas toy appeal in December 2017.

In 2019 The Selby Chronicle was relaunched as an online-only newspaper.

Twin towns

Selby is twinned with:

France Carentan, France

Germany Filderstadt, Germany

Notable people

Harold Brigham, footballer

Nigel Adams, Member of Parliament, Selby and Ainsty (UK Parliament constituency) and Minister of State for Asia

Robert Aske, rebel leader, lawyer

Tommy Cannon, entertainer

Robert of Selby, courtier, chancellor of Sicily

Jack Byers, footballer

Gavin Harding, first person with a learning disability to become mayor in the United Kingdom

Henry I of England, king of England

Arthur Hinsley, Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop

Jonathan Hutchinson, surgeon, dermatologist

Woods Hutchinson, physician, writer

Thomas Johnson, botanist

Keith Kelly, pop singer

John Sherwood, Olympic athlete

Steve Sherwood, footballer

James Stephenson, actor

Eden Taylor-Draper, actress

Smithson Tennant, chemist, discoverer

Matthew Warchus, theatre and film director

Leigh Wood, footballer

Louisville Commercial HD 2 Louisville GA by Lance Taylor

Contributing Buildings - Louisville Commercial Historic District - National Register of Historic Places

NRIS #93001469

122 E Broad St

Built ca 1900-1912

Home 1225 Thompson Pl Daytona Beach FL by Lance Taylor

Contributing Building - South Peninsula Historic District - National Register of Historic Places

NRIS #98001379

Style: Dutch Colonial Revival

Built ca 1925

1225 Thompson Pl

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British Council's Practical Teaching Methodology Workshop - IELTS Advanced 2017 by British Council Vietnam

With the aim to contribute to the improvement of IELTS test preparation Vietnam, the British Council IELTS have been organising teacher training workshops in Vietnam for the past 8 years. Teacher training is one of our key activities that we offer to our IELTS partners to provide the teachers with insights of how IELTS are marked and practical skills of teaching IELTS in order to help the students reach their full potential in the real exam. This year we are very delighted to welcome nearly 70 teachers to the British Council's Practical Teaching Methodology Workshop - IELTS Advanced 2017, organised in Hanoi on 19th & 20th August 2017.

Với mục đích nâng cao chất lượng dạy và học IELTS tại Việt Nam, Hội đồng Anh đã và đang tổ chức các khóa tập huấn nâng cao năng lực giảng dạy dành cho giáo viên IELTS trong suốt 8 năm qua. Chương trình tập huấn dành cho giáo viên là một trong những hoạt động quan trọng dành riêng cho các đối tác IELTS của Hội đồng Anh trên khắp cả nước nhằm cung cấp cho các giáo viên những hiểu biết sâu sắc và cập nhật về bài thi IELTS, cách thức chấm điểm của bài thi IELTS và những phương pháp giảng dạy thực tiễn có thể áp dụng ngay trong lớp học, thông qua đó giúp đỡ cho các học viên của đối tác đạt được phong độ tốt nhất và số điểm IELTS mơ ước. Năm nay Hội đồng Anh rất vinh dự được chào đón gần 70 giảng viên IELTS tới từ mạng lưới các đối tác tham dự khóa tập huấn nâng cao British Council's Practical Teaching Methodology Workshop - IELTS Advanced diễn ra tại Hà Nội trong 2 ngày 19-20 tháng 8 năm 2017.

Brenau University - Pearce Auditorium 1 by Lance Taylor

Contributing Building - Brenau College District and Green Street-Brenau Historic District - National Register of Historic Places

NRIS #78000987 and #85001974

Built ca 1896

Style: Second Empire

British Council's Practical Teaching Methodology Workshop - IELTS Advanced 2017 by British Council Vietnam

With the aim to contribute to the improvement of IELTS test preparation Vietnam, the British Council IELTS have been organising teacher training workshops in Vietnam for the past 8 years. Teacher training is one of our key activities that we offer to our IELTS partners to provide the teachers with insights of how IELTS are marked and practical skills of teaching IELTS in order to help the students reach their full potential in the real exam. This year we are very delighted to welcome over 150 teachers to the British Council's Practical Teaching Methodology Workshop - IELTS Advanced 2017, organised on 19-20 August 2017 in Hanoi and 21-22 September 2017 in Ho Chi Minh city.

Với mục đích nâng cao chất lượng dạy và học IELTS tại Việt Nam, Hội đồng Anh đã và đang tổ chức các khóa tập huấn nâng cao năng lực giảng dạy dành cho giáo viên IELTS trong suốt 8 năm qua. Chương trình tập huấn dành cho giáo viên là một trong những hoạt động quan trọng dành riêng cho các đối tác IELTS của Hội đồng Anh trên khắp cả nước nhằm cung cấp cho các giáo viên những hiểu biết sâu sắc và cập nhật về bài thi IELTS, cách thức chấm điểm của bài thi IELTS và những phương pháp giảng dạy thực tiễn có thể áp dụng ngay trong lớp học, thông qua đó giúp đỡ cho các học viên của đối tác đạt được phong độ tốt nhất và số điểm IELTS mơ ước. Năm nay Hội đồng Anh rất vinh dự được chào đón hơn 150 giảng viên IELTS tới từ mạng lưới các đối tác tham dự khóa tập huấn nâng cao British Council's Practical Teaching Methodology Workshop - IELTS Advanced diễn ra tại Hà Nội trong hai ngày 19-20 tháng 8 năm 2017 và tại TP.HCM trong hai ngày 21-22 tháng 9 năm 2017.

W P Corbett Building 2 Valdosta GA by Lance Taylor

Contributing Building - Valdosta Commercial Historic District - National Register of Historic Places

NRIS #83000234

Built ca 1904

Mt Carmel Missionary Baptist CS Jacksonville FL by Lance Taylor

Contributing Building - Springfield Historic District - National Register of Historic Places

Built 1926

Biggerstaff & Morris Building Childress TX by Lance Taylor

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Contributing Building - Childress Commercial and Civic Historic District - National Register of Historic Places

NRIS #16000349

Was a JC Penney store

Built 1908

Administration Bldg Gillespie-Selden Historic District Cordele GA c 1937 (1) by Maureen McKinney

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The Gillespie-Selden Historic District is a historic district in Cordele, Georgia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It includes an "African-American residential neighborhood, the Gillespie-Selden Institute, a few commercial buildings, and several African-American churches." The neighborhood was established by African-American railway workers in the late 1890s.

The district is 42 acres (17 ha) in size and includes 87 contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and a contributing site. The area is southwest of the downtown of Cordele, and is roughly bounded on the north by the CSX Railroad tracks and 13th Avenue, on the east by 11th St., on the south by 16th Ave. (U.S. Route 280), and on the west by 15th St.

In 2022, work began on a housing development in the historic district with the hope of revitalizing the neighborhood. The development, named "Gillespie Gardens", is aimed at tenants living at less than 60% of the region's median income.

The former school and hospital building now houses a community center.

Old Central of Georgia Depot Statesboro GA by Lance Taylor

Contributing Building - East Vine Street Warehouse and Depot District - National Register of Historic Places

NRIS #89001156

St Thomas Episcopal Greenville AL by Lance Taylor

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Contributing Building - South Greenville Historic District - National Register of Historic Places

NRIS #86001965

Built 1896

Style: Gothic Revival

Division Staff End of Tour Awards by 82nd Airborne Division

Join us in congratulating the Paratroopers and Leaders who have contributed greatly to the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command - Iraq. The CJFLCC-I is Iraq's leading ground train, advise, and assist element in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

NWC29: Saturday by Norwescon

Photos contributed to Norwescon by Michael Hanscom.

Boone County Deposit Bank Marker (Burlington, Kentucky) by courthouselover

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Built in 1925, this structure is a contributing property to the Burlington Historic District, which was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Located to the southwest of Cincinnati in Northern Kentucky, Burlington serves as the county seat of Boone County.

"Please Contribute Your Share" by morgan worth

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Above a door to what used to be a bathroom in an abandoned building in Richmond, CA. The full text of the sign reads "These facilities provided for your convenience. Please contribute your share by helping to keep them clean." I saw the sign and just laughed. I was of half a mind to go back and take it, but it is just so right in this context. It's lasted for 50 years, hopefully it lasts 50 more.

Gary House 2 Ocala FL by Lance Taylor

Contributing Building - Ocala Historic District - National Register of Historic Places

NRIS #84000912

521 SE Ft King St

Built ca 1888

Style: Queen Anne Revival

Tucker Brothers Lafayette AL by Lance Taylor

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Contributing Building - Chambers County Courthouse Square Historic District - National Register of Historic Places

NRIS #80000682

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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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Ocala High School 2 by Lance Taylor

Contributing Building - Ocala Historic District - National Register of Historic Places

NRIS #84000912

Architects: Mark and Sheftall

St Patrick's Catholic Apalachicola FL by Lance Taylor

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Contributing Building - Apalachicola Historic District - National Register of Historic Places

NRIS #80000951

Built ca 1925

Style: Mediterranean Revival

식샤를 합시다(Let’s Eat) 2 Final Episode 서현진(Seo Hyun-Jin) 고화질 캡처(Snapshot) by Monica Rossi

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Seo Hyun-jin debuted as the lead vocalist of K-pop girl group M.I.L.K in 2001. However, the girl group soon fell by the wayside due to fierce competition among manufactured bands, which led to one of the members quitting before the outfit completely disbanded in 2003.

After M.I.L.K. was dissolved, Seo attended Dongduk Women's University, where she majored in applied music to keep her dream of a career in singing alive. As a solo artist she contributed songs to a few soundtracks and SM Town compilations. When she got a chance to perform in her first musical, The Sound of Music, in 2006, she saw it as a turning point to begin her acting career. Besides joining more theatrical productions, Seo shot a movie and a short drama with boyband DBSK (at the time she and the group were under the agency SM Entertainment).

Supporting roles followed in the TV police procedural H.I.T (2007) and queer film Ashamed (also known as Life Is Peachy, 2011), though Seo got noticed for her subtler performances in period dramas such as Hwang Jini (2006), particularly her career-making performance in The Duo (2011) as a neighborhood tomboy who later becomes a gisaeng. She played her first villain in Feast of the Gods (2012), as an overly ambitious chef caught in a rivalry. Seo was then cast in more leading roles in the period dramas The King's Daughter, Soo Baek-hyang (2013) and The Three Musketeers (2014). But she said the character that most resembled her real-life personality was the foodie freelance writer in Let's Eat 2 (2015), adding that she "didn't realize how much fun shooting a lively and comical drama could be.

Seo has also frequently appeared in projects directed by her best friend, actress Ku Hye-sun, notably short film The Madonna and the feature film Magic, in which she had her first leading role.

03022017_ArcofInstability by Environmental Change and Security Program

Water scarcity and conflict over freshwater resources have contributed to an “arc of instability” stretching from West Africa through the Maghreb and across the Mediterranean to the Middle East. Rural livelihoods are collapsing, displacing many, and violent extremist organizations like Boko Haram, Al Qaeda, and ISIS are gaining footholds in areas where governance is weak. As local communities demand better provisioning of water, insurgent groups, building on discontent, use water to finance their operations and as a weapon of war. This panel will examine the causes of water conflict in the region, discuss implications for U.S. interests, and examine possible interventions to support better water governance.

North Carolina, Wake County, Crabtree Creek Recreational Demonstration Area- Camp Sycamore, Central Wash House; William B. Umstead State Park by Earl C. Leatherberry

In 1934, under the Resettlement Administration, federal and state agencies united to buy 5,000 acres of submarginal land to develop the Crabtree Creek Recreational Demonstration Area. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Works Progress Administration (WPA), helped construct the site. Four camps along with day-use and picnic facilities were built and opened to the public in 1937.

Camp Sycamore one of the four camps, had a capacity of 96 people and had three cabin clusters that surrounded a core of service buildings. Each cluster had eight sleeping cabins, a latrine, fire ring and water pump, The camp's service buildings included the dining hall/kitchen, cook's cabin, canteen, staff quarters, central washhouse, and an arts cabin. The buildings were designed based on the architectural guidelines published by the National Park Service. The rustic style structures were the results of architectural and landscape design, combined with quality craftsmanship performed by CCC and WPA workers. Camp Sycamore is in the Crabtree Creek Recreational Demonstration Area Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The building in the photograph was a central wash house, one of two remaining in the park. It has board and batten siding, lattice windows, and well-crafted examples of wrought-iron hardware. It is in the Crabtree Creek Recreational Demonstration Area Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a contributing property.

Terrestrial Ecosystem by Stacy Carswell

A photo of bushes and a man-made bicycle rack. The difference in the abiotic component in this terrestrial ecosystem and an abiotic component in aquatic ecosystem is that the pavement (which is non-living) doesn't contribute to the life cycle of any organisms in this area. The bushes may help support the life of different insects and organisms by providing shelter and food.

Acute pneumonia by Dr. Yale Rosen Atlas of Pulmonary Pathology

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Airspaces are filled with inflammatory cells, mostly polymorphonuclear leukocytes..

Image contributed by Dr. Yale Rosen - @yro854