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United Committee for African-American Contributions in St. Mary's County (UCAC) 8th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival at Freedom Park at intersection of Route 235 and Tulagi Place in Lexington Park, MD on Saturday, 18 June 2011
Exhibitors
Visit UCAC Juneteenth Festival at www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html
Read Juneteenth Crowd Fills Freedom Park article by Baynet at www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/22879
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
United Committee for African-American Contributions in St. Mary's County (UCAC) 8th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival at Freedom Park at intersection of Route 235 and Tulagi Place in Lexington Park, MD on Saturday, 18 June 2011
Exhibitors
Visit UCAC Juneteenth Festival at www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html
Read Juneteenth Crowd Fills Freedom Park article by Baynet at www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/22879
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
African American Contributions in St. Mary's County Juneteenth Celebration . www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html . Freedom Park . Corner of Route 235 and Tulagi Place . Lexington Park, MD . Saturday, 16 June 2007 . Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
African American Contributions in St. Mary's County Juneteenth Celebration . www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html . Freedom Park . Corner of Route 235 and Tulagi Place . Lexington Park, MD . Saturday, 16 June 2007 . Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
Portfolio represented across a two year period from the start of 2007 until the end fo 2008, through a Percentage Area Graph and a Treemap, highlighting the relative contribution of each sector and stock to the overall portfolio.
Hemel Hempstead - Field Trip - 08/07/13 - National Moth Night contribution
David, Roger and myself made another effort to trap at Gadesprings again, for my contribution to National Moth Night (as I wouldn't be running a trap in my garden until Sunday night)
The weather was perfect, cloudy and mild with just a hint of breeze. Luckily we had almost finished packing up at about 2am before the rain started.
We set up 2 traps from the mains and a further 3 traps about 200 metres along the canal/watercress beds. Two of the traps were placed right next to large outcrops of Butterbur, in the vain attempt to see whether we could get a Butterbur Moth....that never happened! Although we did get a few interesting species at the end of the night.
Olive was a good record. My only records are below
Hatfield Broad Oak 21/07/2008
Hatfield Broad Oak 22/07/2008
Canvey Wick SSSI 08/07/2010
Interestingly all my previous records are from Essex, so this is my first Hertfordshire specimen.
Other moths of note were a Dioryctria, possbly abietella due to its plainess and size (I have set the specimen for further identification), Ypsolopha sequella which I haven't seen for awhile now, and a possible Elachista gleichenella, which to my knowledge is extinct in Herts now. I unfortunately let it go after a few photos which I am kicking myself for doing. It does look spot on for this species and has many more markings than atricomella, alpinella and the rest of the confusion species.
Numbers below are approximate
08/07/13 - Gadesprings - Hemel Hempstead - 2x 125w MV Robinson Trap, 1x 160w MBT Trap, 1x 22w Actinic + 26w Blacklight Trap & 1x 80w Actinic Trap run from 9.00pm until 1.30am
124 Species in total
63 Macro Moths & 61 Micro Moths
Macro Moths
1x Beautiful Hook-tip
1x Bright-line Brown-eye
2x Brimstone Moth
5x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
1x Clay
2x Cloaked Minor
3x Common Carpet
1x Common Emerald
2x Common Footman
4x Common Rustic
1x Common Wave
1x Common Wainscot
1x Copper Underwing
1x Coronet
10x Dark Arches
15x Dingy Footman
10x Double Lobed
1x Double Square-spot
10x Dun-bar
1x Fern
5x Flame Shoulder
1x Heart & Dart
2x July Highflyer
1x Knot Grass
3x Large Yellow Underwing
8x Least Yellow Underwing
15x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
5x Lesser Yellow Underwing
1x Lunar-spotted Pinion
3x Maple Pug
1x Nut-tree Tussock
1x Olive
4x Orange Swift
1x Pale Mottled Willow
2x Pale Prominent
1x Poplar Hawk-moth
2x Red Twin-spot Carpet
4x Riband Wave
1x Rosy Rustic
12x Ruby Tiger
1x Sallow Kitten
1x Scorched Carpet
2x Shuttle-shaped Dart
5x Silver-Y
1x Single-dotted Wave
2x Small Fan-footed Wave
2x Small Phoenix
1x Small Rivulet
1x Smoky Wainscot
5x Snout
1x Southern Wainscot
1x Square-spot Rustic
2x Straw Dot
1x Tawny Speckled Pug
1x Toadflax Pug
4x Tree-lichen Beauty
2x Uncertain
2x V-pug
5x White-spotted Pug
5x Willow Beauty
2x Wormwood Pug
8x Yellow Shell
1x Yellow-barred Brindle
Micro Moths
2x Acentria ephemerella
1x Acleris emargana
2x Acleris forsskaleana
1x Acleris variegana
2x Agapeta hamana
10x Agriphila straminella
5x Agriphila tristella
2x Aleimma loeflingiana
2x Apotomis lineana
2x Argyresthia bonnetella
1x Bactra lancealana
1x Batia unitella
2x Blastobasis adustella
1x Brachmia blandella
1x Calamotropha paludella
1x Caloptilia alchimiella
2x Cameraria ohridella
4x Carcina quercana
2x Cataclysta lemnata
2x Celypha lacunana
1x Chrysoteuchia culmella
4x Clepsis spectrana
1x Cnephasia sp
2x Coleophora sp
2x Dipleurina lacustrata
1x Dioryctria abietella (pending)
5x Elachista canapennella
1x Elachista gleichenella (pending)
5x Elachista maculicerusella
1x Emmelina monodactyla
1x Epiblema uddmanniana
5x Epinotia nisella
1x Epinotia ramella
1x Eucosma cana
2x Eudemis profundana
1x Eudonia mercurella
1x Eudonia pallida
2x Euzophera pinguis
1x Gypsonoma dealbana
1x Hedya salicella
2x Helcystogramma rufescens
4x Limnaecia phragmitella
2x Mompha epilobiella
1x Monochroa palustrella
1x Orthopygia glaucinalis
2x Pandemis cerasana
1x Pandemis corylana
5x Pandemis heparana
1x Parornix sp
2x Phycita roborella
50+ Pleuroptya ruralis
3x Plutella xylostella
1x Prays ruficeps
2x Pterophorus pentadactyla
1x Pyrausta aurata
1x Rhopobota naevana
2x Spilonota ocellana
4x Trachycera advenella
1x Udea prunalis
2x Yponomeuta evonymella
1x Ypsolopha sequella
Over 1,300 personnel from all three armed services, veterans and cadets made the 2019 National Armed Forces Day parade in Salisbury the largest one to date. Originally conceived as Veterans Day, the name of the event was changed in 2009 to National Armed Forces Day to celebrate the contributions of both past and present members of the British Armed Forces. Taking place on the last Saturday of June, the parade is one aspect of a whole weekend where the national lead event is hosted by a different town or city each year around the UK.
The national event was held from 28 to 30 June 2019 in Salisbury and hosted by Wiltshire Council and its council leader Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE.
Her Royal Highness Princess Anne reviewed the parade on 29 June 2019 of more than 1,300 service personnel, cadets and veterans and took the salute on the dais in front of the Guildhall, accompanied by the Mayor of the City of Salisbury John Walsh, as the procession went by. The parade was preceded by a fly past by the Red Arrows at 10 am. The parade was led by a detachment from the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, followed by bands and marching contingents from the three armed services, veterans and cadets and finished with the British Army units which hold the Freedom of the City of Salisbury.
The order of the procession was as follows:
Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth
Royal Navy drawn from ships across the Fleet
Corps of Royal Marines
King’s Royal Hussars
Royal Tank Regiment
Coyote Tactical Support Vehicle
22 Engineer Regiment, Corps of Royal Engineers
Front loader vehicle
Queen’s Gurkha Signals
1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment, with troops from Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas
Army Air Corps
Royal Logistics Corps
Heavy haulage tractor unit
Royal Army Medical Corps
Army ambulance
Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Towing truck
Adjutant General’s Corps
1st Military Working Dog Regiment, Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Intelligence Corps
Royal Army Physical Training Corps
Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment
Queen’s Colour Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment
Royal Air Force drawn from squadrons across the UK
Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioners
Royal British Legion Standard Bearers
Veterans
War Widows’ Association
Sea Cadet Corps and Royal Marines Cadets
Army Cadet Force, The Rifles
Army Cadet Force, The Rifles, Bugles and Drums
Air Training Corps
Community Police Cadets
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service
Fire engine
Regiments having the Freedom of the City of Salisbury:
Band of the Royal Artillery
Royal Artillery
Royal Military Police, Adjutant General’s Corps
Military Police car
Royal Wessex Yeomanry
Band and Bugles of the Rifles
5th Battalion, The Rifles
Warrior tracked armoured vehicle
Paramedic
Police car
Royal Air Force Police
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster David Lidington, Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, senior military officers and civic dignitaries also watched the parade.
Defence Secretary, Penny Mordaunt said: “On Armed Forces Day we celebrate the exceptional contribution service personnel, regular or reservist, veterans and their families make to our security and prosperity. The Armed Forces protect us and defend us around the world and serve communities throughout our country. With more than 300 events taking place across the UK, it’s incredible to see people coming together to show their support for the Armed Forces.”
The national event provided an opportunity to welcome the troops returning from Germany to Wiltshire, as one-quarter of the British regular army will be based in the county by 2020.
The Armed Forces and Salisbury have a close and historic relationship and the national event gave the people of Salisbury the chance to thank the Armed Forces for their tireless support towards the city’s recovery following the Novichok poison attacks in 2018.
Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE, leader of Wiltshire Council, said: “Wiltshire is the beating heart of the Armed Forces and we are extremely proud of our long association with the military. The Armed Forces Day National Event is a unique opportunity to recognise and pay tribute to the specialist military teams, the emergency services and the other organisations that managed the incident and the subsequent clean-up that has helped south Wiltshire to return to normal.”
Contribution to Instruction #4 for the Street Photography Now Project: "Document some evidence of human ingenuity that would otherwise go unnoticed. Do it without including any humans in the picture" - Michael Wolf
Taken in Ottawa, 25 October 2010.
Tiatr Academy of Goa (TAG) celebrates the Birth Anniversary of Pai Tiatrist - Joao Agostinho Fernandes on 14th December every year. TAG presented Lifetime Contribution to Tiatr Awards to tiatr artistes who have contributed immensely towards the development of tiatr stage. 14 such tiatr personalities are felicitated at the hands of Hon’ble Minister for Art & Culture, Shri. Dayanand Mandrekar. Veteran tiatr artiste, Smt. Josefina Dias was the Guest of Honour.
14 awardees are:
Rita Rose, Succurine Fizardo, Marcelino de Betim, Premanand Sangodkar,
Francis Xavier Mendes, Theo Alvares, John Gracias, Joe de Cavelossim’
Caetano Goes, Vincent de Nagoa, Cruz de Sanvordem, Tony Martins,
Remedios Fernandes (Remmie) and Farriol Coutinho (F. Mickey)
Pai Tiatrist Hall, Margao 14th December 2014
Xavier Mendes, Premanand Sangodkar and F Mickey
Xavier (died 12.3.18)
My first contribution to Stop, Collaborate and Listen, a group where someone posts an image and members submit a creative crop and edit.
The original image is here
I chose to crop tight, pull the subjects out into two edit layers, and extricate the background. I used a watercolor paint tool in Photoshop (not the native one - one I found on the internet somewhere) on the background. I then used Nik Color Efex 3.0 to pull up the contrast and punch up the saturation on the background water and grass. This eliminated the water color smudgy look.
Next, I selected the first of the extracted images with the human subjects, and created a Hue/Saturation Adjustment Layer. I pulled down the Saturation about 1/8th and increased the Lightness about 1/8th. I then selected the top copy layer and chose "Dissolve". I then pulled down the opacity about 1/3 and selected all three of the edits on the human subjects and joined them with Ctrl-E. I then copied that with Ctrl-J, and applied a Soft Focus filter and pulled down the opacity about 1/3, and joined the layers.
The eyes were harder. There were no catchlights, and they started out a bit dark in the original and got worse as I edited. After I was done playing with the foreground and background coloration and contrast, I added catchlights to the eyes, softened them with the blur tool at 1%. I then used Nik Viveza to increase the brightness and saturation of each eye individually.
I added a Blur Vignette and touched up a couple of areas that I wasn't happy with.
The whole thing took about 45 minutes, and was interrupted a few times by kids and commitments. There are a few more things I would have done, but I ran out of time.
Comments and critiques are most welcome. I am open to suggestions and hints for improving my editing skills.
Tom
Ambassador Betty King participated in a panel sponsored by the UN in Geneva to discuss the recently released papers “Making Change Happen: Enhancing the UN’s Contributions to Development” and “How Relevant is the Development UN?” Both papers were authored by the Future of the United Nations Development System (FUNDS) project of the Ralph Bunche Institute in New York. The paper “Making Change Happen: Enhancing the UN’s Contributions to Development” presents a comprehensive outline of how the UN development system will need to change and adapt to new realities, particularly in the context of structural and financing reforms. The paper suggests that all stakeholders in the UN development system will need to seek new ways of thinking that will lead to new paradigms or models in both areas. In her comments at the event, Ambassador King highlighted that the UN is both “indispensable” and “imperfect.” At its best, the UN can help prevent conflict, care for the needy, prevent deadly diseases, smooth the channels of global commerce, and promote values that we hold dear. She commended the authors of the study for their neat and concise divisions of the challenges the UN faces: 1) decentralization and rivalry, 2) ineffectiveness and irrelevance and 3) vested interests and lack of political will. She said that the world had evolved since the creation of the UN, yet despite our multi-polar world and a fast moving information age, much of the UN, especially the nuts and bolts of running it, is stuck around 1950.
U.S. Mission Photo by Eric Bridiers
My cousin asked for contributions to #CreateAndDonate for the #TwoPointSixChallenge to help vulnerable and isolated people living with #dementia during #Covid19.
Do you want to join in too? If so, create! Your masterpiece can be anything you like, from a 26 minute painting, to a 2.6 minute dance, or a poem that uses all 26 letters of the alphabet. I did a photo including 26 miniature tankards.
Share! Post your masterpiece on social media. Don’t forget to hashtag #CreateAndDonate and #TwoPointSixChallenge, and tag @Arts4Dementia
Donate! Fundraise at Just Giving or donate to Arts 4 Dementia at Virgin Money Giving.
Further information at arts4dementia.org.uk/twopointsix/
Panel discussion about Norway's contribution and the Nordic pathways.
From the left: James Bellini, Svein-Richard Brandtzæg, Inger Johanne Wiese, Fridtjof Unander and Torbjørn Skjerve
Photo: Technport/ Max Hallqvist
African American Contributions in St. Mary's County Juneteenth Celebration . www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html . Freedom Park . Corner of Route 235 and Tulagi Place . Lexington Park, MD . Saturday, 16 June 2007 . Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
Trekking is the contribution of Nepal to the world in adventure tourism. To be one with Nature, to regenerate one's own confidence, to relive oneself, to appreciate Nepal's exquisiteness, to interact with its generous and responsive peoples are some of the places of interest of trekking in Nepal. Trekking is one long-lasting activities that draws reiterate visitors to the country. Consequently, Nepal is the definitive objective for the trekking supporter.
It offers a multitude of possibilities - from the "short and easy" walking excursion to the "challenging and strenuous" challenge of the snow-white peaks and their foothills and valley. But however easy, or reasonable, or demanding, there is something for every palate that goes with trekking in Nepal's hills, mountains and hinterlands. The most rewarding way to experience Nepal's indomitable amalgamation of natural attractiveness and cultural riches is to walk through the length, breadth and the altitudes of Nepal. Trekking in Nepal is as much a distinctive cultural expertise as well as an definitive Himalayan adventure.
Krishna Adhikari (Team Leader Govt. License No: 3505)
P.O.Box: 23044,Kathmandu, Nepal
Mobile Phone: 00977-9841433205
guidenepal@gmail.com & trekshimalaya@hotmail.com
Over 1,300 personnel from all three armed services, veterans and cadets made the 2019 National Armed Forces Day parade in Salisbury the largest one to date. Originally conceived as Veterans Day, the name of the event was changed in 2009 to National Armed Forces Day to celebrate the contributions of both past and present members of the British Armed Forces. Taking place on the last Saturday of June, the parade is one aspect of a whole weekend where the national lead event is hosted by a different town or city each year around the UK.
The national event was held from 28 to 30 June 2019 in Salisbury and hosted by Wiltshire Council and its council leader Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE.
Her Royal Highness Princess Anne reviewed the parade on 29 June 2019 of more than 1,300 service personnel, cadets and veterans and took the salute on the dais in front of the Guildhall, accompanied by the Mayor of the City of Salisbury John Walsh, as the procession went by. The parade was preceded by a fly past by the Red Arrows at 10 am. The parade was led by a detachment from the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, followed by bands and marching contingents from the three armed services, veterans and cadets and finished with the British Army units which hold the Freedom of the City of Salisbury.
The order of the procession was as follows:
Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment
Band of HM Royal Marines Portsmouth
Royal Navy drawn from ships across the Fleet
Corps of Royal Marines
King’s Royal Hussars
Royal Tank Regiment
Coyote Tactical Support Vehicle
22 Engineer Regiment, Corps of Royal Engineers
Front loader vehicle
Queen’s Gurkha Signals
1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment, with troops from Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Band of the Brigade of Gurkhas
Army Air Corps
Royal Logistics Corps
Heavy haulage tractor unit
Royal Army Medical Corps
Army ambulance
Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Towing truck
Adjutant General’s Corps
1st Military Working Dog Regiment, Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Intelligence Corps
Royal Army Physical Training Corps
Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment
Queen’s Colour Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment
Royal Air Force drawn from squadrons across the UK
Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioners
Royal British Legion Standard Bearers
Veterans
War Widows’ Association
Sea Cadet Corps and Royal Marines Cadets
Army Cadet Force, The Rifles
Army Cadet Force, The Rifles, Bugles and Drums
Air Training Corps
Community Police Cadets
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service
Fire engine
Regiments having the Freedom of the City of Salisbury:
Band of the Royal Artillery
Royal Artillery
Royal Military Police, Adjutant General’s Corps
Military Police car
Royal Wessex Yeomanry
Band and Bugles of the Rifles
5th Battalion, The Rifles
Warrior tracked armoured vehicle
Paramedic
Police car
Royal Air Force Police
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster David Lidington, Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt, senior military officers and civic dignitaries also watched the parade.
Defence Secretary, Penny Mordaunt said: “On Armed Forces Day we celebrate the exceptional contribution service personnel, regular or reservist, veterans and their families make to our security and prosperity. The Armed Forces protect us and defend us around the world and serve communities throughout our country. With more than 300 events taking place across the UK, it’s incredible to see people coming together to show their support for the Armed Forces.”
The national event provided an opportunity to welcome the troops returning from Germany to Wiltshire, as one-quarter of the British regular army will be based in the county by 2020.
The Armed Forces and Salisbury have a close and historic relationship and the national event gave the people of Salisbury the chance to thank the Armed Forces for their tireless support towards the city’s recovery following the Novichok poison attacks in 2018.
Baroness Scott of Bybrook OBE, leader of Wiltshire Council, said: “Wiltshire is the beating heart of the Armed Forces and we are extremely proud of our long association with the military. The Armed Forces Day National Event is a unique opportunity to recognise and pay tribute to the specialist military teams, the emergency services and the other organisations that managed the incident and the subsequent clean-up that has helped south Wiltshire to return to normal.”
United Committee for African-American Contributions in St. Mary's County (UCAC) 8th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival at Freedom Park at intersection of Route 235 and Tulagi Place in Lexington Park, MD on Saturday, 18 June 2011
Exhibitors
Sgt. James H. Harris Camp 38, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Visit UCAC Juneteenth Festival at www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html
Read Juneteenth Crowd Fills Freedom Park article by Baynet at www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/22879
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
The Achievement and Contribution Awards at the Tarble Arts Center on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on November 15, 2021. (Femi Usikalu)
World's Columbian Exposition - 1894
Theodore Robinson (1852 - 1896)
The World’s Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, celebrated the industrial and cultural contributions of forty-six nations in the five hundred years since Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the New World. The grandeur of the classically inspired structures that dominated the fairgrounds, popularly called the “White City,” attests to the ambition of this international event. The East Lagoon dominates the right side of Robinson’s painting, while at left are the mammoth Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building; the United States Government Building, with an American flag atop its cupola; and the red-roofed Fisheries Building.
Robinson, recently returned to the United States from an extended stay in Giverny, the home of French Impressionist Claude Monet, conceived the fairgrounds as an atmospheric arrangement of light and color. With its pulsating hues, middle-class subject matter, and sunny outdoor setting, World’s Columbian Exposition is a monument of American Impressionism.
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This World Class attraction was everything we expected and more. Construction has just begun on a major expansion, but that has been managed in such a way that it does not in any way detract from the experience now.
This album focuses on the artwork inside the buildings and on the other interior spaces including the Eleven Restaurant and the Gift Shop. A separate album posted a few days ago is devoted to the two April mornings that we spent exploring just some of the trails that crisscross the 120 acres of Arkansas forest around the museum.
Alice Walton and her co-creative team can be proud of the vision and execution of everything on this 120 acre site.
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"Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is a museum of American art in Bentonville, Arkansas. The museum, founded by Alice Walton and designed by Moshe Safdie, officially opened on 11 November 2011. It offers free public admission.
Alice Walton, the daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, spearheaded the Walton Family Foundation's involvement in developing Crystal Bridges. The museum's glass-and-wood design by architect Moshe Safdie and engineer Buro Happold features a series of pavilions nestled around two creek-fed ponds and forest trails. The 217,000 square feet complex includes galleries, several meeting and classroom spaces, a library, a sculpture garden, a museum store designed by architect Marlon Blackwell, a restaurant and coffee bar, named Eleven after the day the museum opened, "11/11/11". Crystal Bridges also features a gathering space that can accommodate up to 300 people. Additionally, there are outdoor areas for concerts and public events, as well as extensive nature trails. It employs approximately 300 people, and is within walking distance of downtown Bentonville."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Bridges_Museum_of_American_Art
crystalbridges.org/nature-trails/
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United Committee for African-American Contributions in St. Mary's County (UCAC) 8th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival at Freedom Park at intersection of Route 235 and Tulagi Place in Lexington Park, MD on Saturday, 18 June 2011
Exhibitors
Visit UCAC Juneteenth Festival at www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html
Read Juneteenth Crowd Fills Freedom Park article by Baynet at www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/22879
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
Governor Charlie Baker, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito and Baker-Polito Administration cabinet officials recognize outstanding contributions made by Commonwealth employees at the Human Resources Division’s annual Performance Recognition Awards at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on March 30, 2022. [Joshua Qualls/Governor's Press Office]
United Committee for African-American Contributions in St. Mary's County (UCAC) 8th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival at Freedom Park at intersection of Route 235 and Tulagi Place in Lexington Park, MD on Saturday, 18 June 2011
Exhibitors
Visit UCAC Juneteenth Festival at www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html
Read Juneteenth Crowd Fills Freedom Park article by Baynet at www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/22879
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
United Committee for African-American Contributions in St. Mary's County (UCAC) 8th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival at Freedom Park at intersection of Route 235 and Tulagi Place in Lexington Park, MD on Saturday, 18 June 2011
Exhibitors
Visit UCAC Juneteenth Festival at www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html
Read Juneteenth Crowd Fills Freedom Park article by Baynet at www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/22879
Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography
Windmill Point's primary contribution to Canadian history took place prior to its use as a lighthouse. As the name would suggest, the lighthouse was originally a windmill, which was built in the 1830's. During the 1820's and 1830's, the British colony of Canada was governed by a small ruling elite. Reformers of the period began to demand a more broadly based democratic form of government for Canada. In 1837, these demands led to open rebellion on the part of the reformers, who were soundly defeated. Some of these reformers fled to the United States.
In 1838, the rebels and some American sympathizers gathered arms on the American side of the St. Lawrence River, and on November 12th landed 190 men in Prescott. The invaders took control of the windmill and the surrounding buildings. The invaders expected the local populace to come over to their side, but this did not occur. In a matter of days the windmill was besieged by 2000 British troops and local militia, gathered in nearby Fort Wellington, with artillery and naval support. The rebels surrendered on the 16th. Eleven were executed, and 60 were exiled to Australia.
After the battle, the windmill served as a military post. In 1872, the windmill was converted to a lighthouse. The lighthouse served until 1978. Today, Windmill Point and Fort Wellington are preserved as historic sites by the Canadian Park Service.
As a contribution to the legacy of the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the presidency of Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture and Europeana wanted to highlight the relevance of digital cultural heritage to the aims of the European Union during the next multiannual framework. During this two day event in Varna on May 28-29, 62 participants from 21 countries explored this together with experts and representatives of ministries of culture across Europe and draft a vision that expresses this contribution in concrete terms. Photo by Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY 2.0
UK geomorphologists have made, and continue to make, substantial contributions to the measurement, understanding and modelling of: the forces and stresses applied to earth surface materials by gravity, moving water, air and ice; the resulting transport of those Earth surface materials; and the real time interactions between processes, sediment transport and changing morphology.
Image: Flow mixing where the sediment laden River Bermejo enters the relatively clear River Paraguay in South America. The Bermejo River which originates in the high Andes supplies over 80% of the suspended sediment to the entire La Plata basin. Where the two rivers combine there is a complex interaction - a result of differences in depths, velocities and densities.
Source: © Daniel Parsons and Jim Best
United Committee for African-American Contributions in St. Mary's County (UCAC) 8th Annual Juneteenth Celebration Festival at Freedom Park at intersection of Route 235 and Tulagi Place in Lexington Park, MD on Saturday, 18 June 2011 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Ceremony
Visit UCAC 8th Juneteenth Festival 2011 at
www.africanamericancontributions.com/juneteenth2011.html
Elvert Barnes Photography
African American Contributions in St. Mary's County Juneteenth Celebration . www.ucaconline.org/juneteenth.html . Freedom Park . Corner of Route 235 and Tulagi Place . Lexington Park, MD . Saturday, 16 June 2007 . Elvert Xavier Barnes Photography