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I'm currently doing some work with for the Up on the Downs/Let Them Speak For Themselves project. The aim is to update the work of the Defence of Britain Project to get a current record of the 20th Century Defences around Dover and Folkestone
Here are the sites I have so far look at, photographed and recorded the status of on the Western Heights area of Dover
I'll add better descriptions when I get a chance....
Here are my new cars and trucks group taken from auto shows:
NEW CAR GROUP www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157692830961011
TAIPEI INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2020 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157712430283538
TAIPEI INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2019 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157702218078872
INDY AUTO SHOW 2018 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157668026886039
INDY AUTO SHOW 2017 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157677303280270
INDY AUTO SHOW 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157660758053244
INDY AUTO SHOW 2015 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157650071617125
INDY AUTO
2014 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157639125626416
INDY AUTO SHOW 2013 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157632370347699
INDY AUTO SHOW 2012 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157628649320349
INDY AUTO SHOW 2011 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157625695949108
INDY AUTO SHOW 2010 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157625695949108
INDY AUTO SHOW 2009 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157625695949108
ACURA 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157660758053294
BMW 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157662935108452
BUICK 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157662478350799
CADILLAC 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157660809286623
CHEVROLET 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157660809286623
CHRYSLER 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663029095421
DODGE 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157660854249353
FIAT 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157662641010320
FORD 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663164647636
GMC 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663262903335
HONDA 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157660931210873
HYUNDAI 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663089172202
JAGUAR 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663146644002
JEEP 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663338349065
KIA 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663307113596
LAND ROVER 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663419252095
LEXUS 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157662828222350
LINCOLN 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663273806941
MAZDA 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157661146249053
NISSAN 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157662903647760
MINI 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157662898979150
PORSCHE 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157661175260304
RAM 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663481993361
SCION 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663482964561
SUBARU 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663078732380
TOYOTA 2016 www.flickr.com/photos/jezevec/albums/72157663677991325
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The church is currently owned by Limerick Civic Trust.
Saint Munchin’s was built in 1827 to replace a single-celled medieval church on the same site.
I must admit that I had, up until a few years ago, believed that Munchin was not a real name, maybe because I had confused it with the word munchkin. But I learned that I was wrong when I came across St. Munchin’s Church in Limerick City.
The location of this church overlooking the Shannon is situated in Englishtown on what is claimed to be the first site of the ancient cathedral of Limerick, before St Mary’s was built by Donal Mór O’Brien. The significant architectural quality and high state of preservation of the mausolea add greatly to the importance of this church. It is easy enough to find as it is located across the road from King John’s castle.
The graveyard contains many interesting stone grave markers and table-tombs dating from the eighteenth and the nineteenth century. There are a number of fine monuments and mausoleums of old Limerick families such as the Fogertys. There are many plaques demonstrating expressions of 'self-importance'.
The Jones Mausoleum is mentioned in many tourist guides. It is described as a freestanding limestone mausoleum, erected c. 1850
THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
IOWA CITY, IOWA
Built in the early 1840s, Old Capitol has served Iowa for nearly 150 years as a seat of government, education and tradition. When State Government moved to Des Moines in 1857, Old Capitol was given to the University of Iowa.
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Vessel NameCURRENT SPIRIT
Ship typeCrude Oil Tanker
FlagNorway
HomeportStavanger
IMO 9843924
MMSI 257617000
Call Sign LAGQ8
Gross Tonnage85329
Summer Deadweight (t):129482
Length Overall 277mts
Beam 46mts
Year Built:2020
Builder:Samsung Heavy Industries
Currently listening to: Jason Castro
Currently watching: Friday Night Lights
Currently reading: The Princess Bride by William Goldman
Current and former Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Norfolk-based 1st Battalion, 111th Field Artillery Regiment, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team gather for their annual regimental muster and celebration of Saint Barbara’s Day Dec. 7, 2019, in Williamsburg, Virginia. During the event, 10 Soldiers were awarded the Honorable Order of Saint Barbara, and four were honored with the Ancient Order of Saint Barbara, named for the patron saint of artillerymen. Hampton-based Charlie Battery was named the “best battery” during the event for their efforts in 2019. VNG Soldiers assigned to the Troutville-based 29th Infantry Division Band provided ceremonial and festive music for the occasion. (U.S. National Guard photo by Mike Vrabel)
June 21, 2023 - "The Cité de Carcassonne is a fortified medieval city located on a hill in the old town of Carcassonne, in the Occitanie region of southern France. It is located on the right bank of the Aude and in the southeast of the current city. Its origins date back to Gallo-Roman times and it was enlarged into a fortress in the Middle Ages. The fortified city is surrounded by a double wall (each about three kilometers long with a total of 52 towers). The main buildings within the Cité, which is still inhabited, are a castle (Château comtal) and a church (Basilique Saint-Nazaire).
In the 19th century, the already decaying city of Carcassonne was restored under the direction of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. This resulted in an extensive well-preserved historical monument that was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Carcassonne was founded as Carcasso in the 1st century BC. Founded by the Romans on the site of today's Cité. The so-called Gallo-Roman towers with a horseshoe plan on the inner wall testify to the Carcasso period.
On the 14 hectares, where between 3,000 and 4,000 people lived in the Middle Ages, 229 permanent residents live today. All the others work for tourism and live abroad. La Cité is a large open-air museum used by tourists and is not normally accessible by car.
Legend has it that the fortress was once besieged by Charlemagne, when Mme Carcas was the lady of the castle. The siege lasted so long that famine soon claimed the first victims in the Cité. Mrs. Carcas then decided to stuff a pig with wheat and, when she was fat enough, she threw it off the castle wall. The besiegers, already exhausted, thought when they saw the fat animal that fell from their towers that the city must have food to spare. Dejected, Charlemagne's men gave up and returned home. When the town bells rang to celebrate the end of the siege, one of the besiegers is said to have exclaimed Madame Carcas sonne (Carcas sounds).
In 1208, Pope Innocent III, faced with the increase and extension of Catharism, decreed the Albigensian Crusade. The Count of Tolosa and the Viscount of Carcassonne are accused of heresy and their territories become the main target of the attack by the barons from France. On August 1, 1209, the city is besieged by the Crusaders. Raymond Roger Trencavel surrenders to them on August 15 in exchange for the lives of its inhabitants. The villages around the city are destroyed. The viscount dies of dysentery in his castle prison on November 10, 1209. Other sources speak of an assassination planned by Simon de Montfort.
The city becomes the headquarters of the crusade troops. The land and city are delivered to Simón de Montfort, military chief of the Crusader army. He died in 1218 during the siege of Toulouse and his son, Amaury VI de Montfort, took possession of the city, but was unable to manage it. He cedes the rights to it to Louis VIII of France, but Ramon VII of Toulouse and the counts of Foix allied against the king. In 1224, Ramón Trencavel II took possession of the city after Amaury fled.
Louis VIII launches a second crusade in 1226 and Ramón Trencavel must flee. The city of Carcassonne becomes part of the domain of the King of France and becomes the seat of a seneschal. A period of terror is installed inside the city among the inhabitants; the search and hunting of the Cathars multiplies the bonfires in the squares and there are continuous savage denunciations, with the installation of an Inquisition Tribunal within the city precincts.
Louis IX of France orders the construction of the second walled enclosure so that the city can withstand long sieges and sieges. Trencavel, refugee in Aragon, intends to recover his land. At the same time, the king of Aragon, Jaime I the Conqueror, is considered a constant threat to the region, very close to the borders of his kingdom, the city being part of the defensive system of the border between France and Aragon.
After the annexation of Roussillon to France by the Treaty of the Pyrenees, the military role of Carcassonne was greatly reduced, as the distance to the Spanish border increased considerably. The role of command post for the defense of the border was transferred to Perpignan.
The walls of the Cité date from various periods of construction. The oldest parts of the wall were erected at the time of the Visigoths. They can be recognized by the layers of small cube-shaped stones, interrupted by layers of bricks, and by the narrowness of the towers, which are already equipped with real windows. The castle was mainly built in the 12th century. The outer ring of walls with their smooth ashlars dates from the middle of the 13th century.
At the end of the 13th century some of the towers and parts of the inner wall were built, which was then being rebuilt and advanced. The ashlars from this period are mostly carved with art. The towers have several floors and are provided with loopholes. The building material for the two concentric belts of fortifications was brought from the surrounding quarries: hard sandstone, difficult to extract and work, but which over the centuries began to erode under the influence of violent storms from the southwest.
The interior of the walls is made of rounded stones, fragments of rock and sand, agglutinated with lime, which also serves as mortar. The texture of the masonry varies with each period of construction.
The regular outer wall, 1.5 kilometers long, was built in 15 years shortly after 1230, hence its uniform appearance. The construction history of the 1.3 km long inner wall is much more complicated and its masonry is far from uniform. At that time, the city already had a wall from the Gallo-Roman era that was around 1,000 years old, but it was no longer up to date. Today it forms the skeleton of the inner belt and can often be seen at the bottom of today's wall.
As always in such cases, the area between the two walls is called the Zwinger. The kennel kept the attacker in an area that militia projectiles could reach. The wall must be as high as possible, because until the 14th century people did not shoot back, they shot back. In times of peace, such a kennel was used for games and knightly combat festivals. In some cases, the old parts of the wall were supported on new foundations when they were tapped, so that the strange picture arises that the oldest part is higher than the later one.
The ditch around the wall was not filled with water, but it had the function of preventing the use of larger siege engines, which had to be directed against the wall at right angles to the direction of the Zwinger and therefore did not have sufficient access. here. The fortification of the city with a double fence corresponded to a new defensive tactic that had been designed around 1200 around the king in the time of Philip Augustus (1180-1223). His principle was: the defense must be active, it must be able to inflict heavy losses on the attacker. Therefore, more than a thousand archers were stationed on the battlements, and the towers flanked the entire wall without leaving a blind spot.
It was possible to advance towards the Zwinger between the two city walls without exposing oneself to the full mass of besiegers. This allowed early attackers who were said to have advanced this far to be pursued individually or in small groups. With this tactic, one could successfully resist even a numerically superior siege force.
Many towers of the outer line are so-called shell towers, i. that is to say, they are open at the back, so that the enemy could not take refuge once they crossed the first wall. Then it could still be attacked from the inner wall, for example by archers. However, the effectiveness of this defense has never really been proven." Previous description: www.topworldimages.com/Cite_de_Carcassonne.htm