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Fine furniture was once manufactured in Victoria. Sir John A. Macdonald’s National Policy called for protective tariffs to encourage Canadian industries and, in keeping with this, in 1879, the tariff on furniture rose to 35 per cent. It had the desired effect in Victoria by spawning two major furniture factories. The name Weiler was best known and one of the oldest in the field, having started in Victoria in 1861 as upholsterers and later furniture dealers. In 1879, German-born Weiler constructed a furniture factory at what is now known as the Counting House at the corner of Broad and Broughton streets. Later, he built an even bigger one on Humboldt Street and his four sons, who took over the business under the name Weiler Brothers in 1891, erected an impressive store and factory (still standing) at the corner of Government and Broughton streets
Chinese tea cups and an abacus, on display at the Yaowarat Chinatown Heritage Centre, at Bangkok's Chinatown.
My grandmother still has an abacus exactly like that :) In fact, she whipped it out of her many cupboards just after I told her about this photo. She tried teaching me how to count with it, but as with all things math-related, I still don't have a clue.
This is the artwork at the front of the sluice station along the banks of the River Mersey in East Didsbury.
Like the sides it's very bright and colourful and certainly makes the building stand out.
Got to admire the sheep on this one - just don't want to feel sleepy now...
n Bandra where we stay, there’s a small area with many old houses with tiled roofs. This is Runwar Village. Some of these houses are more than a century old. That is why this area has been declared a ‘heritage precinct’.
One thing that strikes anyone who comes here is the large number of crosses. We counted – on just two very small lanes, there were 23 crosses.
We were curious. We set out to find out the reason behind the crosses. Some people said it was because the area was full of Catholics. Some said to help people pray on their way to work or back. Then we met Mr John Gomes, a resident of Chapel Road. There are six crosses all a stone’s throw away from his house. He told us almost a century back, Bandra had been struck by a plague. Many people died. This place was overtaken by rats who spread the disease by biting people. “People were dying like flies, Mr Gomes told us. “We would bury someone, some back and see another person had died. The dead were sometimes carried away in cartloads. Many people packed their belongings and fled to the mountain.” Which mountain, we asked. Mt Mary, he replied. (Mt Mary is a church in Bandra situated on a little hill facing the sea). That is why people built the crosses, Mr Gomes said, to protect themselves from the plague. As a plea to Jesus to save them. Had anyone died in his family? No, he replied.
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Shot at Pittsburgh's Stage AE on 6/27/2014
See more from the show at www.pennsylvaniamusicnews.com/2014/06/counting-crows/
I LOVE Count Chocula cereal. Without a doubt my favorite cereal of all time. I could eat this shit all day, every day! Only thing is, I don't think those little white things are marshmallows. Rather, I believe them to be little pieces of crack-cocaine. It's just that addictive!!! Perhaps they should rename it as Count Crackula.
What's your favorite cereal?
PBS and NPCA present an evening in Central Park’s East Meadow with musical performances and highlights from Ken Burns’s upcoming PBS series THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA, which premieres September 27 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS. Pictured: Counting Crows perform at PBS and NPCA event in Central Park, New York City, September 23, 2009. Photo by Marion Curtis.
Cornwall, Vermont USA. Citizens doing their duties on Election Day, 2004. Note the paper ballots, yes, in the 21st century! I thought humans couldn't vote without computers. Be warned neighbors • Be vigilant! • For you, election haiku:
On paper ballots
freely cast; fully counted.
One voter, one vote.
- But of course there's Stalin's haiku view:
It's not the people
who vote that count, but rather
those who count the votes.
Miles loved dogs when he was a little man. So I made this little counting book for his 1st birthday. I used to be obsessed with trying to turn him into a genius. Now all I want is for him to just stop picking his nose.
Every first timer who visits Adam's Peak in Sri Lanka, ties a roll of sewing thread (mostly in white colour) and travels along with it for a possible distance before the roll finishes. There's a myth that how much distance people can take this thread is the lifespan of them.
Canon EOS 500 + Canon 50mm F/1,8
1/125 - f/2,8 - 400ISO
Canon 550EX on the right
Self-portrait made for my serie " My Student life " and by a film camera.
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52/12/3 #cf21 #count
Photo credit: Anne Holmes
Often when we are trying to identify an old address in a street we need to use old directories and count the houses from an intersection.