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Seen at the UK Coach Rally in Brighton in April 1994 is Staines Crusader of Clacton Van Hool EOS E180Z C48FT L111PVW.
Our collaboration group Brickerei is fascinated with middle ages and crusaders. After last year, we decided to pick the historic, multicultural Middle East as our next project. The build shows a medieval city on the shores and the lively desert inside the land, separated by a gate and a wall in the middle.
The build is 16x8 baseplates, about 4x2 meters, and was built by 13 contributors of SwissLUG:
Daniel - harbor
Bricking Robo - river delta and watered fields
Damian - outer city
Dornbi - the wall and surroundings
Jean-Claude - ruins in the desert
Marc - the largest dunes
Martin - dry river section
Patrick - outer desert road
Patric - the oasis
StefanEris - the marketplace
tisma brick - the larger part of the desert
Urs - the gate and desert in front of the gate
Xymion - inner city and palace
Something of a moderately regular sight for me, I think I also have a photo of it from my pre-Flickr days.
OGD465M (1973) Clan Crusader. The Clan Crusader is a fibreglass monocoque British sports car based on running gear from the Hillman Imp Sport, including its Coventry Climax derived, rear-mounted 875 cc engine and was first made in Washington, Co Durham, England between 1971 and 1974. Total production was 315. Seen at Bo'ness on 2nd September 2017
I'd thought the days of finding a Cortina in my local Lidl car park were over 10 years ago, but it would seem not. By neat coincidence, the last one I photographed there was also a 1.6 Crusader.
Sticker below the registration plate is probably for Frank Dye, who were a fairly local dealer.
Mictis profana is a species of insect in the family Coreidae known by the common names crusader bug and holy cross bug.
Here it is feeding on a Cassia fistula stems. They are herbivores and can feed on a variety of plants. Nymphs can damage the tips on trees.
Zoom to full size on this photo to see the detail on the back of the insect.
Photo: Fred
Agent of change
I’m the sneaky sort of change-maker. I just start doing things differently and wait for others to notice and follow along.
Originally, I had some better photos of the cape I wore over this blazer. I hadn’t worn the cape in years, but it occurred to me that it was the perfect topper for a blazer. With the wind, I felt like a caped crusader. Unfortunately, my dramatic, cape-blowing photo was out of focus, so you’ll have to imagine.
Blazer, Forever 21 (thrifted). Top, Stella Laguna Beach (consignment). Skirt, Banana Republic (thrifted). Belt, thrifted. Boots, Lauren Ralph Lauren. Cape, Merona (thrifted).
U.S. Marines, Vought F-8U-2NE (F-8E) Crusader, cn 1205, BuNo 150920, marked DR/00 in the livery of VMF(AW)312. Seen at the Flying Leatherneck Museum, Miramar (NKX/KNKX)
fedex crusade, 2003, 20.5"w x 15.5"h, mixed media painting on an opened fedex envelope sent to me.
This is one of a series of pieces I did on opened-up FedEx envelopes, sent to me by various people and places. I thought they were beautiful, being a graphic designer by profession (I also created a series on GAP shopping bags), I have great appreciation for excellent branding. These envelopes inspired me and became my canvases...
I incorporated here a wine bottle label with sash; kraft paper wrapping from a great art book, Clavé Sculpteur that I had purchased; map swatch; graph tissue paper; very old religious calendar; map; crusade sticker; Frida movie ticket stub; polka dot wallpaper swatch...
I keep everything, and use them in my work. They are a part of me and they are me...
*On exhibit at Sandra Goldie Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
*M!WAA @ New Art Center, NYC, 2005.
4 x ship of 14 Sqn Tornado GR4's line up at RAF Leuchars prior to taking part in the airfield attack during the 2005 airshow
Sadly the weather was not too great??
A Hassassin, Saracen, and Crusader from the Crusades.
I took some liberties with the Hassassin, which is more or less ripped straight from Assassin's Creed.
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125mm Rifled cannon, .50 Caliber coaxial machine gun, 7.62mm mounted machine gun ( Operated by Commander via computer ) This version is the UP armored version.
This took me so long, Quite pleased with it.
You like?, I sell you good price.
Sad looking Detroit powered Leyland Crusader with light weight Albion backend. Going nowhere fast.
Lincon,Oct 2013.
Back in 2008, my business did some work on this Willowbrook Crusader bodied Leyland Leopard on behalf of its then owner, Wheels / Midland Red Coaches of Nuneaton. Both the operators business and my own were enthusiast led, so we always welcomed 'the oddball'.
In the 1990s, the re-vitalised but downsized Willowbrook business had carved out a small niche market in the re-bodying of non life-expired chassis. Most of these were in bus form, using their 'Warrior' design, which bore a passing resemblence to the contemporary Leyland Lynx. However, to dip into the coach market, they offered the 'Crusader' body as here. The majority of those built were on Leyland Leopard chassis, but there were odd ones on AEC, Bedford and Leyland Tiger chassis too.
MIB 9505, in its pseudo Midland Red livery, looked smart when photographed outside our yard as it was about to be returned to its owner. At some stage in its life it appears to have gained a set of Plaxton 'lollipop' seats out of an Elite or Surpeme.
I've no idea what eventually became of this coach as it was probably by this date, the best surviving example of its type and it would consequently be good if it had clung to life
I heard recently from a volunteer from the Narrow Boat Project "Megan and Tinkers" that the Nottingham Crusader had gone into administration. The boat is currently up for sale or to be dismantled as scrap.
A selection of unedited shots. Apart from minimal cropping. Majority using, P (Program Auto). They were taken while on the move on a narrowboat along the River Trent here in Nottingham.
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Camera: Sony RX10 IV.
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Crac des Chevaliers is a Crusader fortress in Syria and one of the most important preserved mediaeval military castles in the world (although it may have suffered damage in the Syrian civil war since 2012). In Arabic it is called Qal'at al-Ḥiṣn.
The castle is located east of Tripoli, Lebanon, in the Hims Gap, atop a 650m-high hill along the only route from Antioch to Beirut and the Mediterranean Sea. The original fortress at the location had been built in 1031 for the emir of Aleppo. During the First Crusade in 1099 it was captured by Raymond IV of Toulouse, but then abandoned when the Crusaders continued their march towards Jerusalem. It was reoccupied again by Tancred, Prince of Galilee in 1110. In 1142 it was given by Raymond II, Count of Tripoli, to the Hospitallers, contemporaries of the Knights Templar.
Crac des Chevaliers was the headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller during the Crusades. It was expanded between 1150 and 1250 and eventually housed a garrison of 2,000. The inner curtain wall is up to 30m thick at the base on the south side, with seven guard towers 10m in diameter. Between the inner and outer gates a courtyard led to the inner buildings, which were rebuilt by the Hospitallers in a Gothic style. These buildings included a meeting hall, a chapel, a 120m-long storage facility, and two vaulted stone stables which could have held up to 1,000 horses. Other storage facilities were dug into the cliff below the fortress; it is estimated that the Hospitallers could have withstood a siege for five years.
In 1163 the fortress was unsuccessfully besieged by Nur ad-Din, after which the Hospitallers became an essentially independent force on the Tripolitanian frontier. By 1170 the Hospitallers' modifications were complete. In the late 12th and early 13th century numerous earthquakes caused some damage and required further rebuilding. Saladin unsuccessfully besieged the castle in 1188. In 1217, during the Fifth Crusade, King Andrew II of Hungary strengthened the outer walls and financed the guarding troops.
In 1271 the fortress was captured by Mameluke Sultan Baibars with the aid of heavy trebuchets and mangonels, at least one of which was later used to attack Acre in 1291. Baibars refortified the castle and used it as a base against Tripoli. He also converted the Hospitaller chapel to a mosque. King Edward I of England, while on the Ninth Crusade in 1272, saw the fortress and used it as an example for his own castles in England and Wales.
The fortress was described as “perhaps the best preserved and most wholly admirable castle in the world” by T E Lawrence. This fortress was made a World Heritage Site, along with Qal’at Salah El-Din, in 2006, and is owned by the Syrian government. The fortress is one of the few sites where Crusader art (in the form of frescoes) has been preserved.
Seen during an all-too-brief visit in October 1992 - that's snow on them thar hills in the background. This is a much-enlarged (and improved?) version of a post a long time ago...