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Description: Malayan Peninsula. Tunku dia Udin's Secretariat.
Location: Malaya
Date: 1860-1900
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Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/484.
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Description: The Laundress.
Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/108
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Description:
The temple has a white pagoda and a monumental walking Buddha statue overlooking the town below. The view is best during sunrise or sunsets.
Location: Nan Province, Thailand
Description of the skeleton of an extinct gigantic Sloth, Mylodon robustus, Owen, with observations on ... Megatherioid quadrupeds in general /.
London,1842..
* Názov: Profesionál
* Alternatívne názvy: Le professionnel /Profesionál / The Professional
* Produkcia: Francie,1981
* Rok: 1981
* Dobatrvania: 104 min
* Žáner: Akční,Krimi,Dra-ma,Thriller
* Zvuk: CZ
*Titulky: CZ
* ČSFD hodnotenie: 85%
* Iné:
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* Režie:Georges Lautner
Scénář: Jacques Audiard, Michel Audiard, Georges Lautner
Kamera: Henri Decaë
Hudba: Ennio Morricone
Hrají: Jean-Paul Belmondo, JeanDesailly, Cyrielle Clair, Robert Hossein, Michel Beaune, Jean-Louis Richard,Marie-Christine Descouard, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Elisabeth Margoni, PierreVernier, Maurice Auzel, Serge Nubret, André Weber, Pierre Forget, GérardDarrieu, Marc Lamole, Daniel Breton, Jean-Claude Bouillaud, Cheik Doukouré,Beate Kopp, Pascal N'Zonzi, Yves Pignot, Jacques Canselier, Baaron, MichelBerreur, Pierre Saintons, Bernard Marcellin, Sidiki Bakaba
Střih: MichelleDavid
Zvuk: Alain Sempé
Scénografie: Eric Moulard
Kostýmy: PauletteBreil
(další profese)
* Obsah: Francouzského tajnéhoagenta Josselina „Josse“ Beaumonta pošlou do jisté africké země, aby tamodstranil diktátora Njalu. Politická situace se však radikálně změní apředtím nepohodlný diktátor se stane pro francouzskou vládu důležitouosobností. Tajná služba Josse zradí a africká vláda ho odsoudí zapřípravu atentátu. Jossovi se po dvou letech podaří utéct a vrátit se doFrancie, kde úmyslně informuje bývalé nadřízené, že splní svůjpůvodní úkol a zabije prezidenta Njalu, který právě přicestoval naoficiální státní návštěvu. Tajná služba všemožně usiluje atentátuzabránit.(oficiální text distributora)
Description: The Borstal Institution. A corner of the vegetable gardens. The Institution is self-supporting in green vegetables.
Location: Mauritius
Date: 1950-1959
Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/753
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Description: This drawing or engravings of bird heads was used in Spencer F. Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer, and Robert Ridgway's, A History of North American Birds: Land Birds, 3 volumes (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874) and The Water Birds of North America: Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, vols. XII-XIII (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1884). Heads drawn by Ridgway and Henry W. Elliott.
Box: 33
Format: Drawings (visual works)
Identifier: 547520
Collection: SIA RU007167, Robert Ridgway Papers, circa 1850s-1919.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Description: This drawing or engravings of bird heads was used in Spencer F. Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer, and Robert Ridgway's, A History of North American Birds: Land Birds, 3 volumes (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874) and The Water Birds of North America: Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, vols. XII-XIII (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1884). Heads drawn by Ridgway and Henry W. Elliott.
Box: 33
Format: Drawings (visual works)
Identifier: 547522
Collection: SIA RU007167, Robert Ridgway Papers, circa 1850s-1919.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
These photos were taken 9 months ago, in July 2022.
A few months ago I started a page on Instagram where I post a limited number of my footwear photos. Posting them quickly on Instagram makes it possible for you to view them without having to wait months for them to appear here.
My username on Instagram is onlymeknow9876 My name there is Stupid Me
I will, as I have time, continue to post the full collection, including the photos put up on Instagram.
As I said in the title, the eBay description said these are size 39B, 8M. Now if you assume the sizing is standard, no way. My feet are about size EU 40. But my toes are way through the toe holes, the heel pads on the bottom of the shoes are under my arch, not my heels.
However, it appears the previous occupant had feet close to my size. The heels were already stretched out to fit on my feet, sans heel pad. And it appears that the toe holes were there for a long time. So, perhaps the previous occupant had size 39 feet and just made them fit.
In any event, I seem to be able to wear them as is. And I like the toe holes.
Description: Panoramic views of Castries in 1949 and 1952
Location: Castries, St Lucia
Date: 1949-1952
Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/384
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Description : From North Shields.Shipping Collection : W Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 048604
Názov: Malá automatizace
Autor: Haškovec J.Š., Kotek Z.
Rok vydania:1965
ISBN: 04–534–65
Jazyk: CZ
Formát: A6
Strán: 241
Vydavateľ:SNTL
Description from the back - “A busy evening at Sanders’ Midway Shopping Center - the Bright Spot in the Heart of the Beautiful Lake of the Ozarks country at Sunrise Beach, Mo. Halfway between Versailles and Camdenton on Highway 5. Sanders’ Midway offers complete shopping facilities, Motel, Restaurant, etc.”
Published by Stough Photo’gs, Kansas City, Missouri.
Description: Kamberi
Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/63
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Description: This drawing or engravings of bird heads was used in Spencer F. Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer, and Robert Ridgway's, A History of North American Birds: Land Birds, 3 volumes (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874) and The Water Birds of North America: Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, vols. XII-XIII (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1884). Heads drawn by Ridgway and Henry W. Elliott.
Box: 25
Format: Drawings (visual works)
Identifier: 547301
Collection: SIA RU007167, Robert Ridgway Papers, circa 1850s-1919.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
This was also taken at the Lemay Museum in Tacoma, Description courtesy of Lemaymuseum.org:
The Nordyke & Marmon Company began production of an experimental air-cooled V-twin automobile in 1902. An air-cooled V-4 followed the next year. Marmon soon gained a reputation as a speedy, reliable, and upscale automobile. Marmon automobiles were built in Indianapolis, between the years of 1903 and 1933.
The Model 32 of 1909 led to the Wasp, winner of the first Indianapolis 500 motor race. The Wasp featured the world's first rear-view mirror. Marmon pioneered the use of aluminum in its engine and also in the body and chassis.
The 1926 Marmon D-74 roadster featured an in-line six. Nearly 4500 of were sold in 1926 at a cost of over $3000. Marmon went on to produce a V16 automobile in 1931. The Marmon discontinued automobile production in 1933, which was the worst year of the Great Depression.
ACM's Marmon's 2-passenger roadster body style had been discontinued and not offered in the 1926 Marmon Catalog, but the few remaining bodies left over from production were available as a special order.
Marmon Motor Cars (previously Nordyke and Marmon), made approximately 250,000 cars...fewer than approximately 350 exist today.
ACM's 1929 Marmon successfully completed the 2011 Pebble Beach Motoring Classic.
Reference:
The Marmon Club www.marmonclub.com/
Lou Iccocino, Marmon Club Technical Advisor
Year: 1926
Make: Marmon
Model: D-74
Style: Roadster
Serial No: 161ORC63
Odometer: 45223
Engine Cyl: 6
Engine Size: 339.7
Engine HP: 84
Trans: 3-Speed
Description: 3 views of Potter Palmer's castle.
Creator: Cushman, Charles Weever, 1896-1972
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Part of Charles W. Cushman Collection
Indiana University, Bloomington. University Archives.
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Description
Markhor stand 65 to 115 centimetres (26 to 45 in) at the shoulder and weigh from 40 to 110 kilograms (88 to 240 lb). Females are tan in colour with a white underbelly and a pattern of black and white on the legs. Males have a lighter tan colour with the same white underbelly and pattern on the legs, as well as a black face and a large amount of long shaggy white fur on their neck and chest which can grow to knee-length. Both sexes have corkscrew-shaped horns which can grow up to 160 centimetres (63 in) long in males, and up to 25 centimetres (9.8 in) in females.
Behaviour and distribution
Markhor are found at altitudes of 500 to 3,500 metres (1,600 to 11,000 ft) where they eat grass, leaves, and whatever other vegetative matter they can find, often standing on their hind legs to reach the top leaves of trees. Markhor are crepuscular, active in the early morning and late afternoon. Females gather in herds of up to nine individuals and males are normally solitary.
During mating season, males fight each other for the attention of females. These fights involve lunging until the two males' horns are locked together, and then twisting and pushing until one male falls. Markhor sound much like the domestic goat.
The animal is largely found in the Northern Areas of Pakistan especially in Chitral, Diamer and Astore regions, parts of Baltistan and in Hazarganji-Chiltan National Park near Quetta.
Conservation status
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources has classified the Markhor as an endangered species, meaning it is in danger of facing extinction in the near future if conservation efforts are not maintained. Numbers between 2,000 and 4,000 exist in the wild.
*From Wikipedia*
Description : Looking eastward from Glasshouse BridgeShipping Collection : W Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 050973
* Názov: Policajt nebo rošták
* Alternatívne názvy: Policajt alebodarebák / Flic ou voyou / Policajt nebo rošťák
* Produkcia: Francie,1979
*Rok: 1979
* Doba trvania: 103 min
* Žáner: Akční,Krimi,Ko-medie,Drama
*Zvuk: CZ, FR
* Titulky: CZ
* ČSFD hodnotenie: 80%
* Iné:
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* Režie:Georges Lautner
Scénář: Jean Herman, Michel Audiard, Michel Grisolia
Kamera: Henri Decaë
Hudba: Philippe Sarde
Hrají: Jean-Paul Belmondo,Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset, Julie Jézéquel, Michel Beaune, GeorgesGéret, Venantino Venantini, Charles Gérard, Catherine Lachens, Michel Galabru,Marie Laforêt, Maurice Auzel, Tony Kendall, Henri Attal, Philippe Castelli,Nicolas Vogel, Michel Peyrelon, Juliette Mills, Marc Lamole, Patrick Rocca,Alfred Baillou
Střih: Michelle David
Zvuk: Alain Sempé
Kostýmy:Marie-Françoise Perochon, Paulette Breil
(další profese)
*Obsah: Ve filmu Policajt nebo rošťák je Jean-Paul Belmondopřesně takový, jakého ho mají diváci nejraději. Tvrdý, neústupný,trochu samotářský, ale především vždy obklopen krásnými ženami a vždynad věcí. Do Nice přijíždí inkognito divizní komisař oddělenívnitřního vyšetřování Stan Borowitz, specialista na čistky uvnitřpolicie. Vše totiž nasvědčuje tomu, že nedávno zavražděný komisařBertrand byl v úzkém spojení s místní mafií. A není zdaleka sám.Policejní inspektoři Rey a Massard jsou do vraždy přímo zapleteni, je tedynutné je usvědčit a policii očistit. Borowitz má vlastní netradičníprostředky a postupy a rozhodne se vyvolat válku gangů, která by jako prvnívydala oba zkorumpované inspektory. Nečekaný příjezd neposlušné dceryCharlotty vše zkomplikuje.(o-ficiální text distributora)
Description: Flacq. Main Road.
Location: Flacq, Mauritius
Date: January 1945
Description: Pont Praslin
Location: Pont Praslin, Mauritius
Date: January 1945
Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/749
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St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church - 1889
924 Douglas Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2011.08.07
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Description of Historic Place
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church is a landmark red-brick structure, located at the corner of Douglas and Broughton Streets in downtown Victoria. The Church is notable for its prominent corner tower, which is situated at a bend in Broughton Street and terminates the view to the west. The church displays a number of distinctive features, including crow-stepped gables, a variety of projections and towers, corner tourelles, and a picturesque roofline. Three sets of double entry doors are set in round-arched openings. At the rear there is a curved two-storey projecting bay.
Heritage Value
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church is valued as a symbol of Victoria's ecclesiastical history and is representative of the ethnicity of its early immigrants. Victoria’s first Presbyterian church opened in 1862, but in 1866 the new congregation of St. Andrew's was formed with the blessing of the Church of Scotland. Their early ministers were integral in fostering Presbyterianism on Vancouver Island and in the interior of the province. From the earliest days of settlement, Victoria’s population had a high proportion of Scots. As the population of the city grew, so did this congregation, necessitating a larger place of worship. The cornerstone of this new building was laid on March 7, 1889 and the building was dedicated on January 12, 1890. When the United Church of Canada was formed in 1925, this congregation declined to join, and stayed with the Presbyterian Church of Canada, where it remains today.
The prominent site, massive size and lavish construction of this church, the largest in Victoria at the time of its construction, symbolized the importance of Scots in the social structure of the city. St. Andrew’s was associated with many notable members of Victoria’s society. Members of the congregation included pioneer industrialist, coal baron, politician and railway builder Robert Dunsmuir (1825-1889). Dunsmuir died before the church was complete, and his family donated the rose window in the church and the two flanking windows in his honour. All three windows were made by A. Linneman of Frankfurt am Main and shipped over to Victoria. Robert Burns McMicking (1843-1915) incorporated the Victoria Electric Illuminating Company with a group of local investors, which in 1883 introduced the first commercial electric lights in Canada and lit up the streets of Victoria. McMicking had the church provided with electric light, a rarity, as there was only one other church on the continent that was powered with electric light. Premier John Robson (1824-1892) was an elder of the church, and his funeral was held at St. Andrew’s.
St. Andrew's is valued as an important example of Late Victorian ecclesiastical architecture with distinctive Scottish Baronial elements as well as innovative structural engineering. It was designed by architect Leonard Buttress Trimen (1846-1892), who came to Victoria in 1887. He had a prolific, but short career, designing commercial and residential buildings, and the church was his most prominent commission. The style of St. Andrew’s is the Scottish response to the Jacobethan Revival in nineteenth-century England, and was a popular style for Scottish country houses. Drawing on the characteristics of fortified medieval tower houses and castles in Scotland, the style employs such elements as battlements, tourelles, and conical roofs as a declaration of national identity. Polychrome red and black banding demonstrates an awareness of contemporary architectural trends in England. The interior retains its distinctive amphitheatre seating with surrounding balcony, wrought-iron balustrades, and high vaulted ceiling; interior features have remained in notably intact original condition. The organ, in a round-arched surround inscribed with the text 'The Lord is in His Holy Temple – Let All the Earth keep Silence', is on axis with the entrance to the sanctuary. It retains some of the components from the organ that originally stood in the first St. Andrew’s, made by S.R. Warren & Son, Toronto. There are stained glass windows on the side and rear walls, including the large rose window. The church is also a highly sophisticated example of late Victorian-era construction, with massive brick structural walls; reputedly a million bricks were used to build the church. The complex roof truss system displays an early use of metal tension rods, which allowed the sanctuary to be spanned without interior columns.
Source: City of Victoria Planning and Development Department
Character-Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church include its:
- location at the corner of Douglas and Broughton Streets in the heart of downtown Victoria
- siting on the property lines with minimal setback
- ecclesiastical form, scale, and massing as expressed by its picturesque, asymmetrical composition, grand entry, corner tower, and varied gabled and conical roof forms
- masonry construction as expressed by its polished red-granite columns at the entrance with carved sandstone bases and capitals; massive red-brick structural walls; courses of blackened brick; and elaborate details such as a variety of rubbed and angled bricks, corbelled arcades, and tall brick chimneys
- Scottish Baronial-style details such as: tourelles, crow-stepped gables and conical roofs; polychrome brickwork; and a variety of round-arched and segmental-arched window and door openings, some with herringbone nogging above
- other exterior features such as three sets of double entry doors set in round-arched openings; wooden doors with iron strap hinges; sheet metal cupola with round dome; sheet metal finials; and metal name and date sign above side entry on Broughton Street
- windows such as: round-arched windows with diamond-leaded coloured glass, fixed stained glass windows; large rose window; double-hung wooden sash windows, some 12-over-12 and some with original stained glass; and bull’s eye windows in the corner tower with diamond-leaded coloured glass
- substantially intact interior with original features such as: amphitheatre seating with curved pews on a raked fir floor; wood-lined segmental-vaulted ceiling; pipe organ; balcony with wrought-iron balustrades; wooden panelling, floors and trim; and staircases with massive newels and lathe-turned balusters
- interior roof structure including heavy timber trusses with iron tension rods
- memorials and dedications, including the Dunsmuir memorial windows, the cornerstone of the first St. Andrew’s Church, and a plaque commemorating Robert Burns McMicking
Source: www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=14788...
Type : Print Description : A postcard of St. Thomas' Church Gardens Barras Bridge Newcastle upon Tyne c.1905. Churches Collection : Local Studies Printed Copy : If you would like a printed copy of this image please contact Newcastle Libraries www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt quoting Accession Number : 068315
* Názov: 88 minut
* Alternatívne názvy: 88 minút / 88 Minutes /88 Minutes / 88 minut
* Produkcia: USA,Kanada,Ně-mecko,2007
* Rok: 2007
*Doba trvania: 107 min
* Žáner: Krimi,Drama,Thri-ller
* Zvuk: CZ,EN
*Titulky: CZ,SK
* ČSFD hodnotenie: 60%
* Iné:
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* Režie: JonAvnet
Scénář: Gary Scott Thompson
Kamera: Denis Lenoir
Hudba: EdwardShearmur
Hrají: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman,William Forsythe, Deborah Kara Unger, Ben McKenzie, Neal McDonough, Leah Cairns,Stephen Moyer, Christopher Redman, Brendan Fletcher, Michael Eklund, KristinaCopeland, Tammy Hui, Michal Yannai, Paul Campbell, Carrie Genzel, Mike Dopud,Trilby Glover, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Monique Ganderton, Michael Adamthwaite, JulianChristopher
Producenti: Randall Emmett, Jon Avnet
Střih: Peter E. Berger
Scénografie: Tracey Gallacher
Kostýmy: Mary E. McLeod
(další profese)
* Obsah: Vysokoškolský profesor Dr. Jack Gramm, kterýzároveň pracuje jako forenzní psychiatr FBI, dostane ultimátum – zbývámu 88 minut života. Aby se zachránil, musí Jack použít všechny svédovednosti a zkušenosti, aby zúžil okruh možných podezřelých, mezi něžpatří nespokojení studenti, opuštěná milenka i sériový vrah, kterýsedí v cele smrti. Jack Gramm založil celou svou kariéru na spolehlivém„určování“ povah lidí a faktorů rizik. Svoje expertní osvědčenízískal díky případu sériového vraha Jona Forstera a nyní, s pocitemzadostiučinění, čeká na Forsterovu popravu. Ale když se začnou objevovatdalší podobné vraždy, musí Jack obhájit, že Forster je skutečně vinen,jak celou dobu tvrdil.(oficiální text distributora)
Stolový rádioprijímač Tesla T 603A Symfonic. Na zadnej strane obsahuje ajprípojku na gramofón a prídavný reproduktor.
* Názov: Symfonic
* Typ: T603A
* Rok: 1950
* Výrobca: Tesla Přelouč
* Elektronky: ECH21, EF22, EF22,EBL21, AZ11
* Šesťokruhový superhet
* Rozsahy:
* DV: 1000 – 2000 m
* SV: 187 – 571 m
* KV: 16,5 – 51,5 m
* Sklenená stupnica v metroch(aj názvy vysielačov)
* trojstupňový prepínač šírky pásma a farbyzvuku
* pásmové ladenie na KV
* Výstupný výkon: 3W
* Napájaniesieťove: 110, 125, 150, 220, 245 V
* Príkon: 54W
Description: Munshi
Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/63
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CALIFORNIA SEA OTTERS
Animal Classification
Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris)
Description
Sea otters are members of the weasel or mustelid family. Like other members of this family, they have very thick fur. In fact, at 850,000 to one million hairs per square inch, they have the thickest fur of any mammal. Their fur actually consists of two layers, an undercoat and longer guard hairs. This system traps a layer of air next to their skin so their skin does not get wet. Sea otters are usually dark brown, often with lighter guard hairs. Alaskan sea otters tend to have lighter fur on their heads. Sea otters are the smallest marine mammals. In California adult females weigh 35-60 pounds (16-27 kg); males reach up to 90 pounds (40 kg). Alaskan sea otters are bigger with males weighing up to 100 pounds (45 kg).
Range/Habitat
Sea otters once ranged from Mexico to Alaska and even to Japan. Currently, the California population numbers around 2,800 and is found from Half Moon Bay to Morro Bay. There is a much larger population in Alaska, and sea otters are still found in Russia. Sea otters inhabit shallow coastal areas and prefer places with kelp. The kelp acts as an anchor that the sea otters use to wrap themselves in when they are resting.
Mating/Breeding
Females give birth to one pup and usually have their first pup at the age of four or five. Their pregnancies last four to five months. Pups can be born any time of year, but in California most are born between January and March, and in Alaska most are born in the summer. When born, the pups weigh from three to five pounds.
Behavior
Sea otters are social animals, with females and pups spending time together in one group and males in another. Pups stay with their mothers for the first eight months of their life. The pups' fur traps so much air that they actually cannot dive under water. When mothers leave the pups wrapped in kelp to hunt, pups bob on the surface of the ocean like a cork. Mothers spend much time grooming pups and often carry them on their chests. Pups begin to learn to swim at around four weeks of age. Sea otters are one of the few animals to use tools. They eat animals with shells, like clams and abalone, and use a stone to break open the shells. When sea otters are under water searching for food, they store what they have found in the loose skin folds at their armpits. Adult sea otters can eat 25%-30% of their body weight in one day!
Status
Sea otters in California are a threatened species due to past over hunting for their beautiful fur. Although sea otters are protected now, they remain vulnerable, especially to oil spills. Unlike other marine mammals, sea otters do not have a blubber layer. Therefore, they rely on their fur to keep warm. If their fur is oiled, it loses its insulating qualities and the sea otters soon chill. Otters are also affected by the oil fumes or poisoned by eating food exposed to oil. Most sea otters quickly die in an oil spill. Several thousand sea otters died in the 1989 Exxon oil spill in Valdez, Alaska. Other threats to sea otters include infectious diseases, parasites, boat strikes, entanglements, and toxins.
At The Marine Mammal Center
The Marine Mammal Center began rehabilitating sea otters in 1995. Since that time, we have rescued up to 207 sea otters.
Want to learn more about marine mammals?
SOURCE: www.marinemammalcenter.org/
My friend, Aidan, described Westminster Abbey as English history written in stone, which as good as a description as I could think of. And English, as the Kings and Queens of that country, later of Great Britain are buried here.
Anyway, I had a fabulous time at the Abbey, and already planning a return for the details I missed.
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Of all the churches and cathedrals in London, the one I wanted to visit and photograph was Westminster Abbey. But, the Abbey didn't allow photography didn't go. And then a few weeks back, my friend, Aidan, started to post shots from inside, and as it turns out, photography, in most areas of the Abbey, is now allowed. So it was a case of when we would visit, not "if", and once we had a free weekend, I began to plan and book.
£25 to go in, each. £10 each for the new museum. And £15 each for a hidden highlights tour. It wasn't cheap, but then if you're going to do it, do it well!
All chores were done Friday, including shopping, so we were free to catch the quarter to eight train from Dover. On the way we called into the garage to pick up some stuff to eat on the train, so we were set.
Saturday was also the last day of British Summer Time (BST), as the clocks would go back early on Sunday morning, then five long winter months would begin.
So, better make most of the daylight.
We were early for the train, so we ate breakfast on the platform, then once the train pulled in, I picked my favourite seats and we settled down for the hour run into London. THe one thing I hadn't planned well was the weather, and some rain was expected during the morning.
The train wasn't busy, and most people wore masks, though enough didn't to make one wonder if the message about COVID really hadn't got through. But then with Johnson as PM, we shouldn't be surprised.
We get off at Statford, and the rain was falling heavily even before we left the Essex marshes behind and entered the long tunnel. But at Stratford, day had become night and the rain fell in what is called stair-rods. I hoped that if we walked slowly through the shopping centre it might have eased by the time we needed to cross over the bridge to the regional station, but the rain was falling just as hard.
And there was no way to avoid it, so we just pulled our collars up and walked as quickly as possible.
Which is why, by the time we arrived at the other side, we were wet little hobbitses.
A quick walk to the Jubilee Line platforms, catching the next train out, we took seats and sat there, gently steaming.
Twenty minutes later, we arrived in Westminster, no dryer, really, taking the four flights of escalators to the surface, where outside it had, atleast, stopped raining for now.
Demonstrations are now outlawed in Parliament Square, so it was quiet, once you got to the other side of the road, its a five minute walk past the Palace of Westminster (Houses of Parliament), and round to the entrance of the Abbey.
Amazingly, there was no queue, and once inside the doorway I show my e tickets, they were scanned and we were allowed in. There was a one way system round the Abbey, so I began the first circuit with the 50mm lens, thinking I would go round again with the wide angle, and a third time with the big lens to snap detail.
That was the plan.
Westminster Abbey is where the Kings and Queens of England and Britain have been crowned. Also, where until Henry V11 thought otherwise, they were buried too, so the chancel is jammed with tombs of many famous and infamous figures from history, from Edward the Confessor to William and Mary, most tombs are grand, some less so. As well as Kings and Queens, minor royals and members of the nobility also were either buried here, or had monument erected. As have military figures, and famousnames from the arts.
It really is quite remarkable.
That and the Abbey itself, in parts dating from just before the Norman COnquest, to a rebuilding just after to the 13th Century when Henry III pulled the old Abbey down and started to rebuild it, until he ran out of money.
But it was completed, and since then had filled up with monuments, so many, I lost count and gave up trying to record them all. Instead, marvelling at their range and beauty.
I walked down the nave, through the arch into the Quire, and it was as breathtaking as expected, then round the Chancel looking and photographing the tombs of the Kings and Queens, round Henry VII's chapel.
And then repeating it with the wide angle lens, taking shots of the various chapels and tombs, all the while keeping an eye on the time as we were to go to visit the new gallery musuem at 11, and then a guided tour of some normally off limit places at half past.
Neither of these allowed photography, which is a great shame as the views from the gallery were stunning down the length of the Nave and then the ancinent chain library and the sanctuary of Henry VII's chapel where we could reach out and touch the shrine of St Edward the Confessor.
The museum had dozens of funeral effigies of the Kings and Queens, some made I'm sure to look better than they did in real life, but others had a degree of realism about them. The one of Queen Mary seemed pregnant, while the one for Queen Elizabeth Ist had a tight corset, so she would have appeared in death as she had as a young woman.
There were carvings, ceremonial cloaks, replicas of the Crown Jewels, and so much more, but we had run out of time, as we had to get to the other side of the church for the hidden secrets tour.
Us and three other couples joined our guide as he showed us the latest escavations revealing the area where monks used to prepare for services. This is hidden behind screens now, and will soon become the site of a new visitor's centre. The trenches were filled with uncvered skeletons and bones, all human of course, and these will all either be rebuuried here or some other Christian place.
Next we went to the Dean's quarters where we saw where he prepared for services, and were allowed into, but not allowed to photograph the Jerico Room, before being allowed outside for a while, then walking around the cloisters, back into the chancel and into Henry's chapel to see the tombs and shrine. Envious looks rained down on us as we climbed the wooden steps into the usually closed area, and then only the people in the gallery above could see us.
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Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom's most notable religious buildings and the traditional place of coronation and a burial site for English and, later, British monarchs.
The building itself was originally a Catholic Benedictine monastic church until the monastery was dissolved in 1539. Between 1540 and 1556, the abbey had the status of a cathedral and seat of the catholic bishop. After 1560 the building was no longer an abbey or a cathedral, after the Catholics had been driven out by King Henry VIII, having instead was granted the status of a Church of England "Royal Peculiar"—a church responsible directly to the sovereign—by Queen Elizabeth I.
According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the seventh century at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of King Henry III.[4]
Since the coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all coronations of English and British monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey.[4][5] Sixteen royal weddings have occurred at the Abbey since 1100.[6]
The Abbey is the burial site of more than 3300 persons, usually of prominence in British history: at least 16 monarchs, 8 Prime Ministers, poets laureate, actors, scientists, military leaders, and the Unknown Warrior. As such, Westminster Abbey is sometimes described as "Britain's Valhalla", after the iconic hall of the chosen heroes in Norse mythology.
Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was completed around 1060 and was consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before Edward's death on 5 January 1066.[9] A week later, he was buried in the church; and, nine years later, his wife Edith was buried alongside him.[10] His successor, Harold II, was probably crowned in the abbey, although the first documented coronation is that of William the Conqueror later the same year.[11]
The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in the Bayeux Tapestry. Some of the lower parts of the monastic dormitory, an extension of the South Transept, survive in the Norman Undercroft of the Great School, including a door said to come from the previous Saxon abbey. Increased endowments supported a community that increased from a dozen monks in Dunstan's original foundation, up to a maximum of about eighty monks.
The abbot and monks, in proximity to the royal Palace of Westminster, the seat of government from the later 13th century, became a powerful force in the centuries after the Norman Conquest. The Abbot of Westminster often was employed on royal service and in due course took his place in the House of Lords as of right. Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-10th century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, "the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life", Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High and Late Middle Ages.[13]
The proximity of the Palace of Westminster did not extend to providing monks or abbots with high royal connections; in social origin the Benedictines of Westminster were as modest as most of the order. The abbot remained Lord of the Manor of Westminster as a town of two to three thousand persons grew around it: as a consumer and employer on a grand scale the monastery helped fuel the town economy, and relations with the town remained unusually cordial, but no enfranchising charter was issued during the Middle Ages.[14]
The abbey became the coronation site of Norman kings. None were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of the Confessor, rebuilt the abbey in Anglo-French Gothic style as a shrine to venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably regal setting for Henry's own tomb, under the highest Gothic nave in England. The Confessor's shrine subsequently played a great part in his canonization.
The following English, Scottish and British monarchs and their consorts are buried in the Abbey:
Sæberht of Essex (d. c. 616) [possibly]
Edward the Confessor (d. 1066) and Edith of Wessex (d. 1075)
Henry III of England (d. 1272) [his wife, Eleanor of Provence, is buried at Amesbury Priory]
Edward I of England (d. 1307) and Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290)
Edward III of England (d. 1377) and Philippa of Hainault (d. 1369)
Richard II of England (d. 1400) and Anne of Bohemia (d. 1394)
Henry V of England (d. 1422) and Catherine of Valois (d. 1437)
Edward V of England (d. c. 1483) and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (d. c. 1483) [possibly]
Also known as the Princes in the Tower. In 1674, the remains of two boys were exhumed from the Tower of London and at the orders of Charles II, they were interred in the wall of the Henry VII Lady Chapel.
Anne Neville (d. 1485), wife of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales [m. 1470–71; buried at Tewkesbury Abbey] and of Richard III [m. 1472–85; buried at Leicester Cathedral]
Henry VII of England (d. 1509) and Elizabeth of York (d. 1503)
Edward VI of England (d. 1553)
Anne of Cleves (d. 1557), former wife of Henry VIII [buried at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]
Mary I of England (d. 1558)
Elizabeth I of England as shown on her tomb
Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1542), mother of James VI & I of England and Scotland [brought from Peterborough Cathedral in 1612]
Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
In the 19th century, researchers looking for the tomb of James I partially opened the underground vault containing the remains of Elizabeth I and Mary I of England. The lead coffins were stacked, with Elizabeth's resting on top of her half-sister's.[9]
James VI & I of England and Scotland (d. 1625) and Anne of Denmark (d. 1619)
The position of the tomb of King James was lost for two and a half centuries. In the 19th century, following an excavation of many of the vaults beneath the floor, the lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault.[9]
Charles II of England and Scotland (d. 1685)
Mary II of England and Scotland (d. 1694) and William III of England and II of Scotland (d. 1702)
Anne, Queen of Great Britain (d. 1714) and Prince George of Denmark, Duke of Cumberland (d. 1708)
George II of Great Britain (d. 1760) and Caroline of Ansbach (d. 1737)
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Description: This drawing or engravings of bird heads was used in Spencer F. Baird, Thomas Mayo Brewer, and Robert Ridgway's, A History of North American Birds: Land Birds, 3 volumes (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1874) and The Water Birds of North America: Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, vols. XII-XIII (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1884). Heads drawn by Ridgway and Henry W. Elliott.
Box: 30
Format: Drawings (visual works)
Identifier: 547440
Collection: SIA RU007167, Robert Ridgway Papers, circa 1850s-1919.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Stolový rádioprijímač Tesla T 603A Symfonic. Na zadnej strane obsahuje ajprípojku na gramofón a prídavný reproduktor.
* Názov: Symfonic
* Typ: T603A
* Rok: 1950
* Výrobca: Tesla Přelouč
* Elektronky: ECH21, EF22, EF22,EBL21, AZ11
* Šesťokruhový superhet
* Rozsahy:
* DV: 1000 – 2000 m
* SV: 187 – 571 m
* KV: 16,5 – 51,5 m
* Sklenená stupnica v metroch(aj názvy vysielačov)
* trojstupňový prepínač šírky pásma a farbyzvuku
* pásmové ladenie na KV
* Výstupný výkon: 3W
* Napájaniesieťove: 110, 125, 150, 220, 245 V
* Príkon: 54W
Description: The Sultan of Perak's temporary camp.
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
Date: 1903
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