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FELDBACH, am 06 August 2021: Angelobt wurden insgesamt 423 Soldaten vor der Villa "Hold" in Feldbach. Diese kamen vom Aufklärungs und Artilleribataillon 7 aus Feldbach, des Jägerbataillon 18 aus St. Michael sowie der ABC-Abwehrkompanie aus Graz. Es spielte die Militärmusik Steiermark. Foto:BMLV/GREBIEN
A year later and some brave people have bought it and are starting to renovate it. Situated in Blackmoor Drive . West Derby. Liverpool.
The picture below was taken a year ago
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Not really sure when and why the "sad" face was drawn on the lamp, a funny contrast to everything around it.
Job 68 hustles back through downtown Des Plaines for the return trip to North Avenue with UPY #700 and one car for the Chicago Tribune.
The theater on the corner of Miner and Lee was built in 1925 at a time when Des Plaines had a population of about 5,000; over eight decades later, the town has grown to an aspiring northwestern suburb of Chicago of over 58,000.
Most of the N&W stuff I caught in Des Moines simply amounted to the yard/local power. In July 75, I got my first road freight as it came into town. Here it is at the end of its journey at SE 18th St.
I found this wonderful little Des Res on the A1122 road between Salters Lode and Downham Market. I was rather taken with the fine finish of the painted exterior; no care has been taken to make the joints join. If this was a rude hut, it would be the sort that hangs around bars in the wrong part of town.
Les Invalides in Paris, France, is a complex of buildings in the city's 7th arrondissement containing museums and monuments, all relating to the military history of France, as well as a hospital and a retirement home for war veterans, the building's original purpose. The buildings house the Musée de l'Armée, the military museum of the Army of France, the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, and the Musée d'Histoire Contemporaine, as well as the burial site for some of France's war heroes.
This famous church contains the Coffin of Napoleon. The Gold Cupola is recognised throughout Paris.
Dans une friche située sous une ligne de haute tension d'Hydro-Québec au Sud-Est de l'intersection du Boulevard Maurice-Duplessis et de l'Autoroute Louis-Hippolyte-LaFontaine (25), à Montréal, près du Parc du Ruisseau-de-Montigny.
Madame, éclaireuse ici préparant peut-être le terrain pour d'autres congénères...
Domaine des oiseaux de Mazères (09), le 13 janvier 2024
British postcard in the Lilywhite Photographic Series, Halifax, no. L 28. Photo: Claude Harris.
French dancer and actress Gaby Deslys (1881 - 1920) (aka Gaby Delys) was an internationally celebrated - and notorious - star of the early 20th Century. She was famous for her extravagant clothes, jewels and millinery. She had many admirers, most notably King Manuel II of Portugal, and during World War I she reportedly worked as a spy for the French government. Before her tragic early death she also made a series of silent films.
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Des Moines, Iowa
Listed 10/16/2013
Reference Number: 13000829
Completed and first occupied in 1931, the Des Moines Building is significant, locally and under National Register Criterion C, because of its architectural style. The building's massing, upper floor setbacks, and main lobby call attention to the influence of Art Deco styling on its design. The Des Moines Building is significant because of its architectural form as a skyscraper. It added a key component to the "Sixth Avenue Canyon," one of the densest and most fully developed urban spaces in Iowa. The Des Moines Building also calls attention to Proudfoot, Rawson, Souers & Thomas, a venerable Des Moines-based architectural firm, which designed the building and demonstrated in it the ability to adapt to new architectural ideas
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kulturstiftung des bundes / dannheimer und joos / halle (saale), germany
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Back in the 1950's and 1960's, doctors were the target for most drug advertising campaigns including DES.
Drug companies supplied hundreds of doctors with samples to give to their female patients, thus creating a market for the drug (in the case of diethylstilbestrol even before it was approved by the FDA).
Somehow DES set the template of "How To" market a dangerous drug to women. In 1948, diethylstilbestrol was advertised as the "Wonder Drug" recommended for all pregnancies. The face of a cherubic infant grinned up from the pages of medical journals next to the caption: "Really? Yes, desPLEX to prevent abortion, miscarriage and premature labor...bigger and stronger babies".
As early as 1953, research revealed that DES did not work – that DES actually brought about higher rates of premature birth and infant mortality – yet DES continued to be prescribed to pregnant women for decades mainly because pharmaceutical companies continued to heavily promote DES use to doctors and most doctors relied on the drug companies and their sales representatives for information.
Full page DES ad circa 1957
Des Moines Flickr Friend Photowalk
Jan 2011
11 image panorama, each image in portrait orientation
Really Right Stuff panorama head
Zeiss 50 mm f/2 Makro-Planar
Pedestrian Bridge on Des Moines River
JPR_9315 Panoramanefresz
View along the Quai des Orfevres by the River Seine towards the Pont des Arts, Paris.
River Seine Factoids:
After Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431, her ashes were thrown into the Seine from the medieval stone Mathilde Bridge, though unserious counter-claims persist.
According to his will, Napoleon, who died in 1821, wished to be buried on the banks of the Seine. His request was not granted.
At the 1900 Summer Olympics, it hosted the rowing, swimming, and water polo events. Twenty-four years later, the river hosted the rowing events again at Bassin d'Argenteuil, along the Seine north of Paris.
In January 1910, the Seine flooded 20 feet (6.1 m) above normal, drowning streets throughout the city of Paris and sending thousands of Parisians fleeing to emergency shelters. The 1910 Great Flood of Paris was the worst the city had seen since 1658 when the water reached only a few centimetres higher.
Until the 1930s, a towing system using a chain on the bed of the river existed to facilitate movement of barges upriver.
The Seine River was one of the original objectives of Operation Overlord in 1944. The Allies' intention was to reach the Seine by 90 days after D-Day. That objective was met. An anticipated assault crossing of the river never materialized as German resistance in France crumbled by early September 1944. However, the First Canadian Army did encounter resistance immediately west of the Seine and fighting occurred in the Forêt de la Londe as Allied troops attempted to cut off the escape across the river of parts of the German 7th Army in the closing phases of the Battle of Normandy.
Some of the victims of the Paris massacre of 1961 drowned in the Seine after being thrown off from the Pont Saint-Michel and other locations in Paris.
Dredging in the 1960s mostly eliminated tidal bores on the river, known as “le mascaret.”
In 1991, the banks of the Seine in Paris—the Rive Gauche and Rive Droite—were added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in Europe.
Since 2002 Paris-Plages has been held every summer on the Paris banks of the Seine: a transformation of the paved banks into a beach with sand and facilities for sunbathing and entertainment.
The river was a popular site for suicides and the disposal of bodies of murder victims. In 2007, 55 bodies were retrieved from its waters; in February 2008, the body of supermodel-turned-activist Katoucha Niane was found there. In the late 1700s and early 1800s over the space of six years 306 bodies were retrieved, the highest number in one day being 16. They were kept in the morgue for many years, and some were never identified.