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LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German-built and -operated, passenger-carrying, hydrogen-filled, rigid airship which operated commercially from 1928 to 1937. It was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who was a Graf or Count in the German nobility. During its operating life, the airship made 590 flights covering more than a million miles. It was designed to be operated by a crew of 36 officers and men.
The Graf Zeppelin had visited Palestine in April 1929 and the second flight to the Middle East took place in 1931 beginning on April 9 with a flight to Cairo, Egypt, where the airship landed less than two days later. After a brief stop, the Graf Zeppelin proceeded on to Palestine before returning to Friedrichshafen, Germany on April 23, just an hour over four days after departure. The trip took 97 hours, covered 5,600 miles and crossed 14 countries on three continents.
The loss of the LZ 129 Hindenburg at Lakehurst on May 6, 1937 shattered public faith in the safety of hydrogen-filled airships making the continuation of their commercial passenger operations unsustainable unless the Graf Zeppelin and the still under construction LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin II could convert to non-flammable helium, the only alternative lifting gas for airships.
Although much safer than hydrogen, the greatly added expense, lack of availability, and overall degradation in lifting performance that converting to helium would impose on the Graf Zeppelin made its continued operation no longer commercially viable. That being the case, one day after the "Hindenburg" crashed in Lakehurst the nine-year-old LZ 127 was promptly grounded and withdrawn from service upon its arrival in Friedrichshafen on a flight from Brazil on May 8, 1937. Six weeks later on June 18 the airship was ferried to Frankfurt on what would prove to be its 590th and final flight. Upon arrival at its massive hangar at the Frankfurt airport, the airship was deflated and opened to the public as a museum. [Source: Wikipedia]
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Another Winter Count. My fifteenth. Starting with a "solpelare" from January. February is always a good time for enjoying a semla. A tunnel photo for March. Brunkebergstunneln. I have a thing for photographing windows. I snapped this with the zoom lens at Söder Mälarstrand in May. Kinda fun that the guy noticed me. A lot of people get married at Stockholm City Hall. Back in May, I got a photo of this couple. A busy street turned into a pedestrian heaven for a few weekends this past Summer. This contortionist caught my eye so much that I made an album with her performance inside the whale skeleton at Sveavägen. I took many promenades through the old town this year. In July, these two teenage girls asked to have their photo taken. On a whim, I decided that I should start documenting Solna, so I started two Flickr albums that I quickly filled up with photos from that municipality. This a new parking garage called the Beehive. After a three-year-long hiatus, the BBQ evenings at Villa Blåmes started again. Which was nice, not counting the hangovers. I walked up to the top of the Hammarbybacken hill twice this Autumn because of all the great views over Stockholm from that ski hill. In November I decided to start a new 100 days of darkness project. And lastly, a photo from the annual Stockholm Santa Run. Perfect for for December I think.
El Gravensteen es un castillo de Gante de origen medieval. Su nombre significa "castillo de los condes" en neerlandés. El castillo actual fue construido en 1180 por el conde Felipe de Alsacia y se inspiró en los castillos cruzados que Felipe de Alsacia encontró durante su participación en la Segunda Cruzada.
The Gravensteen is a castle in Ghent originating from the Middle Ages. The name means "castle of the counts" in Dutch. The present castle was built in 1180 by count Philip of Alsace and was modeled after the crusaders castles that Philip of Alsace encountered while he participated in the second crusade.
Ghent Flanders (Belgium)
Victory Wooden Puzzles
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TED: "S'bin rainin' today, it's bin all dark an' misrabull, an so I dun this seaside pussle to cheer meself up. It's a pikchur of Torkee, that's a resort in Devon. I ain't never bin there but I fink I'd like to go an' see wot it's like in real life. I'd like to try sum candy floss an' 'ave a Devon cream tea...
This is a woodun pussel wot the Mumster got off eBay, cuz she no's Dad likes ol' posters like this. We're gonna keep it so it's goin' in the cubberd. I jest 'ope there's room!"
The castle was built on the site of an ancient Roman castellum. The basement appears to have been a Carolingian refuge. Historically, the first Count of Vianden was mentioned in 1090. The castle continued to be the seat of the Vianden's influential counts until the beginning of the 15th century.
In 1820, King William I sold the castle to Wenzel Coster, an alderman, for 3,200 florins. Coster started to demolish the building, selling off the tiles from the roof, the wooden panelling, the doors and the windows piece by piece. Soon the castle was a ruin.
Such was the indignation of his subjects at the mistreatment of the castle that in 1827 the king, himself a Count of Vianden, repurchased the ruin for 1,100 florins hoping to begin restoration work. Unfortunately, his time was taken up with the Belgian Revolution of 1830 and it was not until 1851 that Prince Henry of the Netherlands reconstructed the chapel at his own expense, giving it a lower roof. When Adolphe of Nassau-Weilbourg became Grand Duke of Luxembourg in 1890, he charged Bobo Ebhardt, a German specialist, with further restoration. Although Ebhardt succeeded in making important progress, his work was interrupted by the First World War.
During the Second World War, in the Battle of Vianden which took place on November 19, 1944, the castle was ably defended against the Waffen-SS by members of the Luxembourgish anti-Nazi resistance, and proved to have some military value even under conditions of modern warfare.
It was not until 1962 that consideration was again given to restoration, resulting in reconstruction of the Armory. Further progress was hampered by questions of the castle's ownership. Only after Grand Duke Jean had ceded the castle to the State in 1977 did work continue. In 1978, attention turned to rebuilding the walls, the gables and the roof. In 1979, the chapel was also given a new roof and restored to reflect its original Gothic appearance had been lost during the fire of 1667 caused by lightning. The white tower was also reinforced and topped with a conical roof. Finally, after the Nassau Mansion was fully restored in 1981–82, efforts were made to refurnish the interior as authentically as possible. This work was completed in 1990.
My 13 year old daughter and I took part in the Christmas Bird Count this year in Devon, Alberta. It was a chilly day with snow flurries and a windchill that kept our teeth chattering but as always, we enjoyed our time together. She is the one that has all the bird identifying knowledge and I just tag along for the chance to take some pictures and secretly jump up and down that she still wants to hang out with her mom :)
We were given the Clifford E. Lee Nature Sanctuary as our counting zone and quickly realized that these little chickadees are pretty hard to count because they would follow us around. They are quite accustomed to having the sanctuary visitors feeding them seeds out of their hands.
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...More lifers from Colombia.
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From TOP LEFT:
1.BARRED BECARD - Rio Blanco Reserve, Manizales
2.WHITE-BROWED BRUSHFINCH - Termales del Ruiz Hotel
3.BAR-CRESTED ANTSHRIKE - Tinamu Bird Lodge.
4.ANDEAN SOLITAIRE - Chicaqua National Park Bogota.
5.SIERRA NEVADA BRUSHFINCH - El Dorado Bird Lodge, S.M.
6.YELLOW-BELLIED CHAT-TYRANT - El Dorado Bird Lodge
Divide the number of pages you want by the number of sections you want and divide that number by 4. This is the number of sheets you need to count out to go with each signature cover.
How many do you see?
It was a phenomenal low tide yesterday at the beach. I have never seen so many sea stars at once. We had to be careful where we stepped.
Maletto is on the western side of the Etna to 960 M of altitude. Human settlings, around the actual Maletto, they were had until from the first millennium before Christ. There lived the Siculs, then arrived Greeks, Romans, Byzantines and Arabs, Normans and Swabians. To one of these last, the Manfredi Maletta count, is owed the origin of Maletto. In the 1263, this one did raise on the fortress a strengthened tower, said Castle, about which s picked up a first nucleus of inhabitants. The construction of the actual historical centre was started at the end of XV century, when the districts that are today around the Castle were built. The construction then continued in the first years of the following century with the realization of the baronial palace of the Spatafora and the attached Saint Michael Archangel church, l et alone of stores and of an open gallery, of an inn and of a warehouse. It was however starting from the 1619, when Maletto the king of Spain recognized the title of principality, that the area is developed mostly, assuming the definitive aspect kept to our days. Maletto is the most elevated town of the Etna and of the province of Catania and it reverts nearly for whole in the park of the Etna.The production of the strawberries has made famous Maletto in the world.
Maletto è un comune italiano di 4.029 abitanti della provincia di Catania in Sicilia.Le origini del piccolo comune etneo risalgono al 1263. Esso nacque per interesse di Manfredi di Maletta, parente dell'imperatore Federico I, che edificò su uno sperone roccioso un castello, di cui ancora si conservano i ruderi. Il piccolo borgo fu abbandonato e decadde. L'attuale agglomerato urbano, è frutto della ricostruzione avviata nel 1440, ad opera del principe Spadafora.Ogni anno, nel mese di giugno, Maletto diventa la città delle fragole, richiamando centinaia di turisti e di visitatori. Nel corso della Sagra, le maestranze locali realizzano una gigantesca torta alla fragola di oltre mille chili, che viene offerta a tutti i partecipanti. Durante la manifestazione vengono esposti in appositi stand le fragole in piantine e in cassette e sono offerte come assaggio gratuito ai visitatori. Il frutto matura tra i primi di maggio e la fine di giugno e nell'ambito della sagra sono esposti diversi tipi di fragole: la fragolina di pasticceria, la fragola "rifiorente", che matura da gennaio a dicembre, e la fragola tradizionale, dal sapore più dolce e dall'odore più profumato. La sagra dura tre giorni e si svolge di solito dal venerdì alla domenica.
Mount Etna (Aetna in Latin, also known as Muncibeddu in Sicilian and Mongibello in Italian, a combination of Latin mons and Arabic gibel, both meaning mountain) is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. Its Arabic name was Jebel Utlamat (the Mountain of Fire).Volcanic activity at Etna began about half a million years ago, with eruptions occurring beneath the sea off the coastline of Sicily. 300,000 years ago, volcanism began occurring to the southwest of the present-day summit, before activity moved towards the present centre 170,000 years ago. Eruptions at this time built up the first major volcanic edifice, forming a strato-volcano in alternating explosive and effusive eruptions. The growth of the mountain was occasionally interrupted by major eruptions leading to the collapse of the summit to form calderas.From about 35,000 to 15,000 years ago, Etna experienced some highly explosive eruptions, generating large pyroclastic flows which left extensive ignimbrite deposits. Ash from these eruptions has been found as far away as Rome, 800 km to the north.Sicily's greatest natural attraction is also its highest mountain: Mount Etna, at 10,924 feet, is the most active volcano in Europe and the oldest recorded active volcano in the world.Mount Etna is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily, close to Messina and Catania. It is the largest active volcano in Europe, currently standing about 3329.6 m (10,924 feet)high, though it should be noted that this varies with summit eruptions; the mountain is 21.6 m (71 ft) lower now than it was in 1865. It is the highest mountain in Italy south of the Alps. Etna covers an area of 1,190 km² (460 square miles) with a basal circumference of 140 km.The fertile volcanic soils support extensive agriculture, with vineyards and orchards spread across the lower slopes of the mountain and the broad Plain of Catania to the south. Due to its history of recent activity and nearby population, Mount Etna has been designated a Decade Volcano by the United Nations.Etna lava stone is a material with unique characteristics: durable, indestructible, resistant to changes in the temperature (it’s a heat conductor), it offers infinite possibilities of uses: flooring, urban furniture, interior design.After the glazing process the product doesn’t get stained, resists to acids and doesn’t require particular maintenance: that’s why lava stone is the ideal material even to make kitchens and bathrooms countertops. The natural stone tends to grey, with the glazing process we can obtain any desired colour. Shapes, sizes and decorations can be customized . The lava stone it is formed by the solidification of cooled magma on the surface of the Etna volcano, in Sicily
L'Etna è un vulcano attivo che si trova sulla costa orientale della Sicilia (Italia), tra Catania e Messina. È il vulcano attivo più alto del continente europeo e uno dei maggiori al mondo. La sua altezza varia nel tempo a causa delle sue eruzioni, ma si aggira attualmente sui 3329.6 m (10,924 feet) s.l.m. Il suo diametro è di circa 45 chilometri.Un tempo era noto anche come Mongibello.In genere le eruzioni dell'Etna pur fortemente distruttive delle cose, non lo sono per le persone se si eccettuano i casi fortuiti o di palese imprudenza come quello dell'improvvisa esplosione di massi del 1979 che uccise nove turisti e ne ferì una decina di altri avventuratisi fino al cratere appena spento. L'Etna è un tipico strato-vulcano che iniziò la sua attività , tra 500 e 700 mila anni fa. La sua lava di tipo basaltico è povera in silice, è molto calda, densa e fluida. Per queste ragioni le eruzioni sono tranquille ed il percorso delle lave prevedibile. La velocità di scorrimento è superiore a quella delle lave acide, più ricche in silice e più viscose e leggere.La lavorazione della pietra lavica, derivante dall’industria estrattiva delle vicine cave dell'Etna, per scopi ornamentali o per materiali da costruzione, diede da vivere a molte famiglie siciliane.I "pirriaturi", anticamente, estraevano lungo i costoni dell'Etna solo strati superficiali di lava perché più porosi e più facilmente lavorabili con arnesi quali la subbia, lo scalpello, la mazzola e il martello. Sul materiale estratto interveniva lo spaccapietre che ricavava lastre di pietra, infine lo scalpellino rifiniva il materiale. Uno degli usi prevalenti cui era destinata la pietra lavica era la pavimentazione delle strade urbane
Scanned slide (Kodak negative) – date c late 1980s / early 1990s.
In a semi abandoned condition after the closure of Leicester's Cattle Market in 1988, the former clock tower and associated buildings stand neglected in waste ground which was in the process of clearance to make way for a new cinema, car park and other businesses.
Fearful that the old clock tower might have been demolished, I thought a few photos would be in order. Happily it still survives and the buildings surrounding it have been transformed into what is now the aptly named Counting House pub (grade II listed).
photo manipulation/gimp
for joshua
~ a project to help Joshua recognise him self in images and photos.
According to Park staff count there were 18,000 Chum alive and
23,000 already dead/spawned out.
Excerpts from Wikipedia
Chum Salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) is a species of Pacific salmon, and may also be known as dog salmon or keta salmon, and is often marketed under the name silverbrite salmon. The name chum salmon comes from the Chinook Jargon term tzum, meaning "spotted" or "marked", while keta in the scientific name comes from the Evenki language of Eastern Siberia via Russian.
Goldstream Provincial Park
Vancouver Island BC
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A rhyme, dating from a time when the presence of corvidae indicated future events. This rather blameless Torresian Crow was in the Minnippi Wetlands in Brisbane. Texture from PicMonkey.
I started finding 4-leaf clovers at our house from day one. They were so plentiful I stopped picking them, but they were a great way to break the ice with many new neighbors out for a stroll. "Do you want to get lucky?", I'd ask before crouching at their feet. For some reason, I also got to know many of our fine police officers this way.
But 5-leaf clovers have been less common. This afternoon, my one-year-old son and I were sitting in the grass, feeding each other grapes, when I noticed he was staring intently at something on the ground. He looked up at me as if to say "Is this right?" before looking back down and pointing at this clover. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get his finger in the shot, but nevertheless he would like you know that this clover indeed has 5 leaves.