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Lake Tōya (洞爺湖, Tōya-ko?) is a volcanic caldera lake in Shikotsu-Toya National Park, Abuta District, Hokkaidō, Japan. The stratovolcano of Mount Usu lies on the southern rim of the caldera. It is a nearly circular lake with 10 kilometers diameter in the east-west direction and 9 kilometers in the north-south direction. The main town is Tōyako Onsen (洞爺湖温泉), on the western shore. The town Tōyako is located on the other side of the lake.
Specs:
Model Number: P170/30
Sensitivity: 94.3dB @ 1M
Nominal Impedance: 4ohm
Treated cloth 1/2 roll surround
Free air resonance: (Fs) 49.5 Hz
Power Handling: 80 Watts RMS 100 Watts max
Woofer Diameter: 6.75"
Outside Mounting Hall to Outside Mounting Hall: 7.875"
Mounting Depth: 2.75"
Audiophiles Comment: Audiophile quality speakers
Dutch Submarine HNLMS DOLFIJN
Pennant Number: S-808
Leaving Portsmouth Harbour with Tugs
SD HELEN and GWENDOLINE P
Walrus Class Submarines Class Overview
Dimensions, machinery and performance
Length: 222' 2" Engines:
3 SEMT Pielstick 12 cylinder PA4V diesels (a)
Beam: 27' 5" Motors: 1 Holec electric motor
Draft: 22' 9" Shafts: 1
Pressure Hull Horsepower
Length: N/A Engines: 6,900 (2,300 each)
Diameter: N/A Motors: 3,950 surfaced / 5,430 submerged
Displacement
Speed
Surfaced:
1,900 std. / 2,465 full Surfaced: 13 knots
Submerged: 2,800 Submerged: 21 knots
Diving Depth: 984' Range
Surfaced: 60 days endurance
Crew: 52 Submerged: 10,000 NM @ 9 knots (snorkel)
Armament
Number Carried Type Arrangement Weapons
4 21" (533mm)
torpedo tubes bow 20 torpedoes or 40 mines
Name Builder Launched Commissioned
Dolfijn S-808 Rotterdamsche Droogdok
Maatschappij NV
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
With the height of 112.5 meters and diameter of 100 meters, Tempozan Harbor Village Ferris wheel was once the largest Ferris wheel in the world.Tempozan Harbor Village Ferris wheel was surpassed by London Eye when it opened to public in 1999, however, some argues that London Eye is actually an observation wheel which is considered to be another kind of wheel and shouldn't be counted in the Ferris wheel ranking. Nevertheless, some newcomers like Palette Town Ferris wheel (opened in 1999, located in Odaiba, Tokyo, with same diameter as Tempozan, but 2.5 meters more in total height), Sky Dream Fukuoka (opened in 2002, with 112 meters in diameter and 120 meters in total height), or the Diamond and Flower Ferris wheel of Kasai Rinkai Park, east of Tokyo (opened in 2005, 111 meters in diameter and 117 meters in height), exceeded Tempozan with small margins.
The Ferris wheel was opened to public on July 12, 1997. During its 17-minute ride, it offers a view of Osaka Bay and surrounding areas, such as Ikoma Mountains to the east, Akashi Strait Pearl Bridge to the west, Kansai International Airport to the south, and Rokko Mountains to the north.
The wheel has colored lights that provide a weather forecast for the next day. Orange lights indicate a sunny day, green lights a cloudy day and blue lights indicate rain.
Sorteren van Hubelino knikker ballen met een diameter van 24.5mm. Er wordt gebruik gemaakt van Fischertechnik bouwstenen. Een kleur sensor module (TCS34725) wordt aangestuurd via een I2C verbinding op de TXT Controller. Er zijn 4 kleuren beschikbaar. De start gebeurd automatisch via de lichtmeting van de sensor. Die detecteerd of er een bal aanwezig is. Met 3 XM-motoren worden de ballen volgens het kleur gerangschikt.
Via 4 instel waarden op het PC scherm kunnen licht en kleur waardes gewijzigd worden. De meest belangrijke instelling is de W_set voor het omgeving licht. De W_set waarde bepaald de auto detectie van de ballen.
RY_GB schuiver bepaald de groep voor color selector1 en staat default op 3000. Waarden beneden de 3000 zijn voor Rood en Geel, waarden erboven zijn voor Blauw en Groen.
RY_sel schuiver bepaald de kleur selectie tussen Rood en geel. De default waarde staat op 2350.
RGB_sel schuiver bepaald de kleur selectie tussen Groen en Blauw. De default waarde staat op 6000.
W_hold en K_hold zijn de laatst gedetecteerde waarden voor licht en kleur.
De W,R,G,B waarden zijn de huidige realtime gemeten waarden van de sensor. Zonder de aanwezigheid van een bal is de licht waarde lager dan de W_set (ingesteld op 465) waarde.
Youtube video: youtu.be/PbRfnA8OB14
Vido Island - about one kilometer diameter - rises from the sea just a short ferry ride from Corfu Town and the modern cruise-liner port seen here. There are no cars on the island, and it is something of a Nature Reserve.
There is a very large monument commemorating the care given by the Greeks to the soldiers of the Serbian Army who were evacuated to Corfu in 1915. Many of the sick and dying were quarantined in a hospital on the Island at that time.
For Torched & Scorched at Ventana 244 May 15 to June 21 2015, Raphaele Shirley built the fourth of recent series of large scale paint and neon installations. This new orb shaped work, blistering white light and golden skin is set in a dark expanse. In this series Shirley merges differing representations of cosmology generated throughout the ages in both Eastern and Western traditions filtered through the language of post minimal and process based art.
Raphaele Shirley is a French-American multi-media artist. She lives and works in New York City. She studied fine arts at the Beaux Arts of Aix-en-Provence, France and then moved to NYC in 1993. Her practice ranges from light art, sound, public art, social interventions, collaborative works and performance.
Some of her collaborations include Perpetual Art Machine [PAM], an interactive video installation and online web community, founded in 2005, of over 2000 members. In 1998 she co-founded The New York International Fringe Festival, the largest theater festival in the US. She was video pioneer Nam June Paik’s assistant from 1997-2002, where she developed his monumental laser works, including the 75-foot waterfall Jacob’s Ladder for the S.R.Guggenheim museum in New York, Bilbao and Seoul and the 30 meter- wide, award winning, Laser Waterscreen‚ permanent on the lake of the Olympic Park of Seoul Korea. She built upon her experience with Nam June Paik and developed her own series of site-specific works, including a commission in Norway in 2009, Jewels of Kvinesdal, a 30’ wide stainless steel, a xenon sky-beam viewable from 15 kilometers around. Another public art-work, commissioned in 2010, Shooting Stair for Dorfman Projects, Long Island, NY, is a water and laser light sculpture set outdoors. Her piece‚ Light Shot on a Bender, combining LED lights and water was presented in the Bring to Light festival in 2011 in Greenpoint, NY. She recently completed a 60-foot diameter light spiral for the Flint Public Art Project in Flint, Michigan.
Her work has been shown in venues such as the Museum of Moving Image, S.R. Guggenheim, Chelsea Art Museum and Post Masters Gallery in New York, the NCCA Moscow, 2nd Moscow Biennial and the Hermitage St. Petersburg, Russia, at the Museum of Modern Art, Linz, Austria and Art Basel/ Miami 2006. She participated in 2009 and 2010 in the artist residency/sail boat expedition to the Arctic Circle, Norway with the Farm Foundation, “The Arctic Circle” Residency directed by Aaron O’Conner.
East Anglia Railway Museum
Works Number: 333
Weight: 28 tons
Wheels: 2' 11" diameter
Wheelbase: 6' 2"
Engine: 8 cylinder Paxman Ricardo 150 hp
Transmission: Fluid Coupling. 3 Speed epicyclic with worm final drive
Built in 1938 by Andrew Barclay and Sons Limited of Kilmarnock, AMW was ordered for the Air Ministry for work in their supply depots. It was delivered new to Hartlebury Base, near Worcester. Shortly afterwards it was transferred to Ruislip, Middlesex, where it stayed until rail operations ceased in 1968. It was then sold to Hill & Sons of Botley, Hampshire.
Narrowly escaping scrapping, it was then destined to be part of a sale of machinery to a Belgian firm. Following eighteen months of legal wranglings, the sale was aborted with the locomotive being repossessed in lieu of transport payments. Various unsuccessful attempts were made to offer it for sale to port authorities, until it was purchased (together with twenty gallons of water in the sump!) by a consortium of Museum members in 1970.
Delivery to Chappel was on 4 February 1971. It was restored and painted in Great Eastern Railway blue livery during the latter part of 1973, but suffered serious mechanical failure in 1978. The gearbox has since been rebuilt, and the locomotive is now a reliable member of the Museum's fleet. It was repainted in the latter part of 1991. It has connections with local industry by way of its Paxman of Colchester engine- the same firm who produced the engines for British Rail's High Speed Train fleet. Following radiator repairs, it re-entered service in 1995.
This is another diesel locomotive which managed without the luxury of an electric starter, the engine being turned over by a compressed air motor supplied from an air reservoir. If the loco has not been used for some time and the air reservoir is not up to working pressure, this has to be restored by a petrol fueled donkey engine/compressor located in the cab which has to be coaxed into life using a manual starting handle.
Brooksella alternata Walcott, 1896 - fossil sponge from the Cambrian of Georgia, USA. (~3.3 centimeters across at its widest)
“Star cobbles” are hard, three-dimensional, multilobate siliceous concretions weathered out from shales of the Conasauga Formation (Middle Cambrian) in the Coosa River Valley of Alabama & Georgia. Most are three to six centimeters in diameter, but they range from one to ten centimeters in size. Star cobbles were given scientific names by Charles Walcott in 1896: Brooksella alternata, Brooksella confusa, and Laotira cambria. What star cobbles represented has been debated in the paleontological literature ever since. Walcott called them jellyfish (Phylum Cnidaria), but many researchers considered them to be trace fossils (burrows).
A restudy of Conasauga star cobbles has concluded that these structures are body fossils, not burrows, and that Walcott’s three species belong to one highly variable species, called Brooksella alternata.
Brooksella specimens, as seen in cross sections, have no backfills, so they are not burrow fillings. They are always preserved in silica, and have a simple ellipsoidal construction with radial lobes. They vary in shape and lobe number, but they often have a central depression, and the lobes often terminate in visible openings. Most telling, sponge spicules are present on the surfaces of some specimens (even Walcott saw these, but concluded they weren’t part of Brooksella itself).
Brooksella alternata is now considered to represent a hexactinellid sponge. The central depression is inferred to be the osculum. Hexactinellids make their skeletons with siliceous spicules, and rapid diagenesis of a siliceous sponge skeleton is a great way to make three-dimensionally preserved siliceous concretions. So, Brooksella isn’t a trace fossil - it’s a sponge!
This particular specimen is a four-lobed Brooksella, which is scarce.
Classification: Animalia, Porifera, Hexactinellida, Reticulosa, Protospongiidae
Stratigraphy: Conasauga Formation, Middle Cambrian
Locality: undisclosed site near the town of Rome, Floyd County, northwestern Georgia, USA
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Synthesized from info. provided by:
Loren Babcock (pers. comm.)
Ciampaglio, C.N., L.E. Babcock, C.L. Wellman, A.R. York, & H.K. Brunswick. 2006. Phylogenetic affinities and taphonomy of Brooksella from the Cambrian of Georgia and Alabama, USA. Palaeoworld 15: 256-265.
Ciampaglio, C.N., C. Wellman, H. Brunswick, A. York & L.E. Babcock. 2005. Reinterpretation of Brooksella from the Conasauga Formation (Cambrian) of Georgia and Alabama, USA. in The Fourth International Symposium on the Cambrian System and the Tenth Field Conference of the Cambrian Stage Subdivision Working Group, Nanjing, August 18-24, 2005, abstracts and short papers. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 22(Supplement): 21-23.
Ciampaglio, C.N. & L.E. Babcock. 2006. Reinterpretation of Brooksella from the Conasauga Formation (Cambrian) of Georgia and Alabama, USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 38(3): 4-5.
Product Name: Inflatable Boat Game
Product No: GT124
Size: 2m Diameter
Pack: 30×30×140 cm
Weight: 15kg
Material: 0.9mm PLATO PVC Tarpaulin
Cert: CE,EN14960,EN71
Feature: High Durability, High Tear Strength, Fade Proof, Flame Retardant M2/B1, Anti-Mildew Treatment, Excellent UV-Resistance, Cold Weather Resistance, Waterproof, Anti-Static, Heat-Insulation
Not just fit and finish, Pango make a second blower tube and hide it if not use. We make the two tubes on different of the bouncer so that could fit the power location. Looking down the road you will find you need a second inflation tube. We want to make sure clients could use the bouncer convenient.
Stronger Baffles
Baffles that are secured by a 840 denier material that provides the MAXIMUM strength of the internal baffling of every inflatables. This material upgrade is unmatched by anyone else in the industry. This material is key to the overall durability of the products we sell.
D Ring Expose
Take a close look at the construction of the "d" rings in the products we sell. A tether system is only as strong as its weakest link. Tether points on the inflatable are extremely durable. The "d" ring tethering System have been laboratory-tested and certified by Professional Engineers for use on all giant slides and all other types of inflatables.
Vinyl（PVCTarpaulin） Expose
At Pango Inflatable, the only products we sell are constructed from the finest coated vinyl. Unlike other vinyl producers, the Coated Vinyl are Lead-Free in addition to meeting the EN71 test by SGS. Lead-Free vinyl are a standard that has been that way since day one. Exposure to lead is dangerous to children. The products Pango Inflatable sell are safe from the effects of lead. As for durability, the materials are a weft inserted substrate, which makes any possible rips virtually impossible.
No Wax Surfaces
We provide removable sliding surfaces for every slides we made, While other only provide the normal vinyl, Inflatable vinyl is not naturally slippery, therefore, waxing has become a normal preparation for getting a slide ready for use. The removable sliding surface found the on the products we sell is a high polished urethane coating, which in turn reduces the need to wax.
Zipper with Flaps
Unlike others, Pango Inflatable sells products that are easy to use. For example, the deflation zipper utilizes a Velcro flap that covers the zipper, thus, less air is lost and zippers are not exposed to abrasion or mischief.
Blower Tube Strap
While most manufacturers tie their blower inflation tubes to the blower system, however, the products Pango Inflatable sells, utilizes a universal sleeve with a cinching Velcro strap. One- handed operation keeps the tube securely attached to the blower system.
Liquid Laminator
DWe do the Digital Printing in our factory, unlike most factory here in China, they do the printing outside and could not control the delivery time and the quality. igitally printed graphics are one thing, keeping those beautiful images durable as well scratch and fade resistant is quite another. Every digital image used within an inflatable sold by Pango Inflatable is clear-coated with a special liquid laminate that is vulcanized to the vinyl surface.
Finger-Safe Netting
Most bouncer manufacturers use 1" or 2" netting. A child bouncing can easily catch their fingers in that size of netting, thus serious injuries can happen. Only the Pango Inflatable could provide netting that even a small child's finger cannot penetrate. Yet, the netting is still transparent enough to allow for easy viewing.
Removable Covers
Virtually every area that your customers step, slide or climb upon is on a replaceable & easily removable vinyl cover. From climbing stairs, to entrance tunnel sleeves to sliding surfaces, Pango Inflatable only sells products that are designed for high-volume traffic.
Safety Door on Bouncers
Worried about children possibly falling out of a bouncer? Don't be. We got 3 points of reinforcement on the entrance of the bouncer which make the entrance very strong. Also we add the step outside the entrance following the AU and USA standards of jumping castle.
On-Staff Engineering and Designing
We do reinforce stitching at the fixion of D-ring. Four stitching line will share the tension of the bouncer. This made the D-ring last much longer and stronger. Other factory use other design of the fixion, but will not good for the tension sharing. Could find the differnce in the attached photos.
Cushion Designs
We do cushion between the wall and the base. When the kids bounce on the bouncer this parts bear most of the pressure, so this new design will make this parts much more strong and safety, while other factory only stitch to the base.
Contact Site:http://www.pangoinflatable.com/
Mk 49 Mine.
Similar in diameter but only half the length of the MK14 torpedo, this 2000lb mine is fired from a torpedo tube. Laying on the ocean floor in depths of up to 200 feet this mine is designed to explode when the magnetic field of a ship passes over the mine. Developed in 1951 this mine is no longer in use.
(Text Submarine Force Museum)
MK 37 Torpedo.
The Mark 37 torpedo is a torpedo with electrical propulsion, developed for the US Navy after World War II. It entered service with the US Navy in the early 1950s, with over 3,300 produced. It was phased out of service with the US Navy during the 1970s, and the stockpiles were sold to foreign navies.
(Text Wikipedia)
Piping Technology & Products, Inc. fabricated 3-piece pipe clamps used to support 97" diameter stainless steel duct work. This duct work is being added to a refinery for an expansion project in Ponca City, Oklahoma. Each section of the clamp assembly is formed from a continuous plate and gussets are added at each of the bolt locations for increased strength and rigidity. Due to the ducts having a relatively thin wall, these clamps are designed wider than necessary in an effort to reduce localized stresses on the duct work. The lower section of each clamp is formed to create a 150° cradle. This acts as a cradle by supporting the duct without inducing extra pressure, which might cause the duct wall to buckle or bend.
The upper sections are formed from 1/2" thick by 12" wide bar stock, whereas the lower sections are formed from 1/2" thick by 18" wide. All three sections are rolled to an inner radius of 48 1/2" and the welded gusset plates are all 1/2" thick. The upper sections are formed at 105° each, and the upper load bolt is 2" in diameter while the six clamping bolts are 1 1/2" in diameter.
The maximum load to be carried by these pipe clamps is 16,888 lb. Each pipe clamp will be used in conjunction with a variable spring support to accommodate movements as high as 2 1/4".
Available In:
Diameters: 18″, 19″, 20″, 21″, 22″, 24″, 26″
Widths: from 7.5″ to 13″
Finish: Matte Antracite w/ Hand Brushed + Titanium Clear Lips
Note: Shown with optional Billet Cap
Blue West Benhar Co-operative Society Ltd. 8d token measuring 27mm diameter approx.Token appears to be plastic.
West Benhar Co-operative Society was established on 24th December 1885 and opened a branch in Harthill in 1886 and Blackridge in 1889. It joined West Lothian Co-operative Society in 1969, which became part of the Scottish Midland Co-operative Society Limited in 1982. One way to ensure the custom of members was to issue tokens for use in co-op branches. Most society had their own tokens, which could be purchased when funds were plentiful and used in exchange for goods, possibly towards the end of the week, when money was short.
West Lothian Museums. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/tourism/museumsgalleries/ums/information
Copyright: West Lothian Council Museums Service.
If you would like more information about this object, please contact: museums@westlothian.gov.uk, quoting WLCMS2009.019.002.003.
As a nature lover and couch biologist, one of the things I would love to do, is discover a new species. This tiny tiny worm of about 15cm long and 1mm diameter (See next photo for size reference) is my best bet to date!
I had no idea what it could be, but guessed "tree worm" of sorts. Non-stop rain for days on end caused this one to leave it's refuge and I had a lucky spot when it was caught in a puddle in the middle of a groundsheet. A couple of people thought it to be some sort of intestinal worm, but at least one veterinarian expressed doubts on that view. Locals at Dwesa have never seen one, so at the very least it was very rare find.
I even had opportunity to use the photo to bemoan man's rapid and continued destruction of the precious world around us, and how important it is that we preserve large areas of nature untouched. The rarest of rare should be protected and this include many we may not know to exist. Another case against mining on this coastline as I mention here.
After taking a little time to google 'thin worm' it turns out to be a parasitic species dependent on Insects as a host and known as "Gordian" or "Horsehair" worm. In many ways even more interesting than I could imagine. It seems the refuge it left was a host, as the adult Gordian worms do when there is water around.
No way of telling whether this particular species has been recorded before, but it's nevertheless a proud and most amazing find.
According to the sources linked below:
Phylum Nematomorpha: a name that means 'form of a thread'., Family Gordiidae, Genus Gordius. About 320 species have been described. Only one species is known to live in salt water, while all others are considered fresh water or semi-terrestrial species.
"Their habit of writhing and contorting themselves into knots, with one or more worms tangled together, accounts for their common name, 'Gordian' Worm, which originated from its similarity in appearance to a knot, specifically one created by Gordius, King of Phrygia around 330 B.C. As the mythical story goes, Gordius used this knot to bind a chariot to a pole. He declared that whoever could undo the knot would be ruler of all Asia. The challenge ended when Alexander the Great, when not able to untie the knot, cut it apart with his sword."
It's well worth the while to visit the following for more on these fascinating creatures:
Mind control on their victims. Why a perfectly dry grasshopper took a swim... .
Write up by Australian University.
www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/aginfo/entomology/entupdates/Indoor...
USS Iowa (BB-61) launched in 1942, with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in attendance. To ferry President Roosevelt to the Cairo & Tehran Conferences, the Iowa was fitted w/ a bathtub for the President's (paralyzed in 1921) convenience. The Iowa transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944 & saw much action. She was Adm. Halsey's flagship at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. During the Korean War, the Iowa served in raids on the N. Korean coast. Reactivated in 1984, she operated in both Atlantic & Pacific Fleets. In 1989, an explosion wrecked her #2 gun turret, killing 47 sailors. The ship finally was decommissioned in 1990. On 7 July, 2012, she was opened to the public at the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, as battleship museum and memorial.
Iowa's 16-inch-diameter guns were the biggest ever sent to sea on a U.S. ship. It took at least 77 men to fire the three guns in a single turret. The Iowa has three of these turrets. Ship's length: 887'. Beam: 108'. Speed: 33 knots. Compliment: 151 officers, 2637 enlisted
Bell diameter approx 15cm.
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Superphylum: Radiata
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Medusozoa
Class: Scyphozoa
Subclass: Discomedusae
Order: Semaeostomeae
Family: Pelagiidae
Genus: Chrysaora
Species: C. hysoscella
Approx 12" diameter. Hand crafted mosaics, made in Manchester by local artist Elaine Booth. Created with hand cut ceramic tile and other recycled materials
USS Iowa (BB-61) launched in 1942, with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in attendance. To ferry President Roosevelt to the Cairo & Tehran Conferences, the Iowa was fitted w/ a bathtub for the President's (paralyzed in 1921) convenience. The Iowa transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944 & saw much action. She was Adm. Halsey's flagship at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay. During the Korean War, the Iowa served in raids on the N. Korean coast. Reactivated in 1984, she operated in both Atlantic & Pacific Fleets. In 1989, an explosion wrecked her #2 gun turret, killing 47 sailors. The ship finally was decommissioned in 1990. On 7 July, 2012, she was opened to the public at the Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, as battleship museum and memorial.
Iowa's 16-inch-diameter guns were the biggest ever sent to sea on a U.S. ship. It took at least 77 men to fire the three guns in a single turret. The Iowa has three of these turrets. Ship's length: 887'. Beam: 108'. Speed: 33 knots. Compliment: 151 officers, 2637 enlisted
Small diameter logs removed from forest thinning to be manufactured into post and poles. Grant awarded from USDA Grant to assist with a survey of roundwood manufacturing sites across the western U.S. to better characterize the roundwood industry and strengthen the supply chain. tinyurl.com/y94jt6py.
Western Wood Preservers Institute. USDA photo by Julie Kies.
This is a rare Coca-Cola Fiber Optic Bottle Cap Light. This is the only one I have ever seen offered on eBay. This light is brand new and has never been taken out of the box. Box shows little signs of wear. Light measures between 12-13" in diameter. This was made by Rabbit Tanaka Entertainment Lighting in 2004. This is an officially licensed Coca-Cola product. From the picture it looks like multi-colored lights surround the bottle and Coca-Cola lettering - they move/change and give a very cool retro show. Light is in the shape of a bottle cap and is not a square box. I think I paid around $100 eight years ago when this item was introduced. 99% of my Coca-Cola collectibles have never been removed from the original box, including this light.
All items come with a 14-day return and ship FREE.
Insurance is included.
For additional collectibles and antiques check out my eBay store.
Binishell: A dome of either 18 or 36m (59 or 118 feet) diameter erected by inflating a plastic 'balloon'. The Pittwater High School Binishell dome in northern Sydney collapsed on 4 August 1986, probably because of lightning. According to Dr Bini, 1500 such shells had been erected by 1986 without trouble. The collapse may have been caused by lack of grounding and electrical continuity in the reinforcement. Each dome is reinforced and concreted before inflation lifts the plastic balloon carrying 300 tons of wet concrete and steel to create a roof varying in thickness from 40 mm (1.5 in.) to 110 mm (4.5 in.). Any doors or windows are cut through the hardened concrete."
Lightning is that what they are saying the inside word is that..vistation a socual chapter BCIS "recreational"
I know I KNow....taking of vusiness everyday..you're a disgrace muriel
Giacomo Matteotti verbal attacks on Mussolini lead to his murder. Matteotti was one of the brave people in Italy who dared to speak out against Mussolini. Matteotti was a socialist (he was head of the Italian Socialist Party) and therefore shared none of the views of the post-March on Rome Mussolini. Matteotti was not afraid to speak his mind – but this bravery was to cost him his life.
Breaking my back just to know your name
Seventeen tracks and I've had it with this game
I'm breaking my back just to know your name
But heaven ain't close in a place like this
Anything goes but don't blink you might miss
Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight
Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
Ready? Let's roll onto something new
Taking its toll and I'm leaving without you
I'm ready, let's roll onto something new
'Cause heaven ain't close in a place like this
I said heaven ain't close in a place like this
Bring it back down, bring it back down tonight
Never thought I'd let a rumor ruin my moonlight
Well somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
A rushin', a rushin' around
Pace yourself for me
I said maybe baby please
But I just don't know now
When all I wanna do is try
[x3]
Somebody told me
You had a boyfriend
Who looked like a girlfriend
That I had in February of last year
It's not confidential
I've got potential
A rushin', a rushin' around
a crazed bit butter buzz.....the pan worked last time
Italy wants peace and quiet, work and calm. I will give these things with love if possible and with force if necessary. (Jan 1925)
This was sufficient to win back the support of the MVSN and it was the start of Mussolini's drive to dictatorship
Matteo Matteotti I wantta buy somewhere in tuscany
6 were chrge three were convucted and left off with light sentence to the bictor foes the spoiked..his-TORY!
social chap' The Treaty of Maastricht (formally, the Treaty on European Union, (TEU)) was signed on 7 February 1992 by the members of the European Community in Maastricht, Netherlands
and radio netherlands has a big special on ICE..a fuy who holds the world record on bathing in ice...he's life's quest...and some guy from mar-rishus..that tropical island whi scuptures ice the onle black man who does it a world best practise lebel..and a giy who plays ice musically..100 year old ice from antartica NO Good bit that ICE
Drop and run.....
Manufacturer/Artist: Unidentified
Decor: Copper-Reduction-Glaze
Colours: turquoise, oxblood-red, shades of grey
Clay colour: Dark-Brown
Height: 14 cm
Diameter (top): 3cm
Diameter (bottom): 9 cm
Make: Waddingtons
Serial: 524
Title: A Winter Scene with an Inn by a Frozen Stream by Isack van Ostade
Series: -
Pieces: 500 (concentric circles).
Size: 20" diameter. 50 cm diameter.
Date: 1972.
Bar Code: -
Origin: England.
A 1970s Waddingtons circular puzzle that came in a shallow square 'pizza' box. Note that at least two sizes were used; the earlier (lower numbered) puzzles having 360mm square boxes and the later, higher numbered, puzzles being in a smaller 330mm square box.
I don't usually build "fine art" jigsaws as I find them overly difficult for what they are, but didn't think I could pass up the opportunity to acquire this early 1970s Waddingtons puzzle.
This puzzle was built over the course of a day, but only finished after the natural light for the day had.
Ultimately I built this puzzle in quarters, beginning with the tree in the upper right quadrant, then proceeding counter-clockwise and finishing off with the dark smudges in the lower right quarter.
I found that placing the lighter coloured pieces first tended to help in the lower half of the puzzle, these giving the frozen streambed and the horse, among other detail. From there it was a case of looking for straight(ish) lines and other man-made objects, such as the bridge, the sled and the barrel. After that a case of filling in the gaps, at least until I ran out of pieces to place.
With seven missing pieces and a further four damaged pieces, this puzzle is far from complete or happy. The box has had a hard life too, with previous owners being rather cavalier with both the application and removal of tape. I rather suspect I will be the final owner of this particular example.
On the underside of the box there is text in four languages, most of which is below:
A WINTER SCENE WITH AN INN BY A FROZEN STREAM
Oil on Oak 19 3/16" x 15 ¾" (48.7 x 40 cm) signed Isack van Ostade
Isack van Ostade (1621 - 1649)
The National Gallery, London
Isack van Ostade was the younger brother and pupil of Adriaen Van Ostade (who was a Haarlem genre painter and a pupil of Frans Hals). In his short life he painted a large number of pictures, some of them genre subjects like brothers, but the best are of landscape.
Pictures depicting the frozen waters of Holland, enlivened by skating figures, had been popular since the very beginning of the 17th century. Dutch painters for a long time retained a single well-tried composition scheme. They viewed their scenes from the top in order to gain space for the unfolding of numerous episodes, and they were very fond of painting the blue skies of a frosty day and small vividly coloured skaters. 'On the Ice' by Isack van Ostade, like 'A Winter Scene, with an Inn by a Frozen Stream' was however, inspired by an endeavour to find a new, more intensive view. The spectator no longer looks at the scene from a distance and from above but becomes involved in the action, viewing it from his own height so that figures in front of him, and the landscape, become a unifying whole.
The painter overcame the need for composing his landscape with the aid of space plans. Everything in his picture takes place in a smooth flow of action on the frozen surface of the water with a low horizon, above which is an expanse of sky.
We are here witnessing an effort to create a picture of the Dutch Countryside with people moving about in it. The painting undoubtedly dates from around 1640 and is an outstanding feat on the part of the artist, expressing a harmonious relationship between man and nature.
Isack van Ostade was an accomplished draftsman influenced by his brother Adriaen, he began by specialising in interiors done in chiaroscuro, one of his favourite themes being 'The Slaughtered Pig'. After 1642, however, he took to open air scenes of peasant life, and also painted some fine winter landscapes in large dimensions.
Bought more jigsaws…
DONE: 96 puzzles (73335 nominal piece count). TO DO: 582 puzzles (668862 nominal piece count).
The Dome
Facts About the Dome
•Height, from base to weather vane: 121'
•Diameter at base: 40'
•Construction begun: 1785
•Interior work completed: 1797
•Wood used in dome construction: Timber from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, supplied by Dashiell family of Cypress Swamp, Somerset County.
•Architect of the dome: Joseph Clark
•Possible model for design of the dome: Schloßturm, the dome of the free-standing tower next to the palace of Karl-Wilhelm, Markgraf of Baden, in Karlsruhe, Germany
History of the State House Dome
When the Continental Congress came to Annapolis to meet in the Old Senate Chamber from November 1783 – August 1784, they found a State House which was still unfinished. Although the Old Senate Chamber was complete, the roof was not and it had leaked during the last few winters, damaging the upstairs rooms. The dome—or cupola—atop the State House was variously described as inadequate, unimpressive, and too small for the building and, it, too, leaked.
In order to rectify the situation, Joseph Clark, an Annapolis architect and builder, was asked to repair the roof and the dome. Clark first raised the pitch of the roof to facilitate the runoff of water and covered it with cypress shingles. The crowning achievement of Clark’s work on the State House was, of course, the extraordinary dome which he designed and built. It is not known where Clark’s inspiration for the unusual design of the dome came from, but it is very similar to one in Karlsruhe, Germany called the Schloßturm.
By the summer of 1788, the exterior of the new dome was complete. It was constructed of timber and no metal nails were used in its construction and, to this day, it is held together by wooden pegs reinforced by iron straps forged by an Annapolis ironmonger.
Although the exterior of the dome was completed by 1788, the interior was not completed until 1797. Tragedy struck the project in 1793 when a plasterer named Thomas Dance fell to his death from the inside of the dome. By 1794, Joseph Clark was completely disillusioned with the project and left it to John Shaw, the noted Annapolis cabinetmaker, to oversee completion. Over the years, John Shaw did much of the maintenance work on the State House, built various items for it and, in 1797, made the desks and chairs which furnished the Old Senate Chamber.
The First Dome: 1769-1774
Just as the Articles of Confederation did not effectively govern the country, the first dome of the State House at Annapolis did not survive more than a decade of Maryland weather. In 1769, the General Assembly of Maryland passed an act to erect a new state house, securely covered with slate tile or lead. The architect was Joseph Horatio Anderson, and the undertaker or builder of the project was Charles Wallace. According to William Eddis in 1773, the work was carried on with great dispatch and when completed would “be equal to any public edifice on the American continent.”
The exact date of the completion of the first dome or cupola is not known but evidence suggests that it was completed by the year 1774. In a 1773 Act of Assembly, Charles Wallace was instructed to fix an iron rod pointed with silver or gold at least six feet above the cupola. The General Assembly also recommended that the roof be covered with copper because the slate originally specified would require frequent repairs and cause other inconveniences. According to Charles E. Peterson’s “Notes on Copper Roofing in America to 1802”, it was more than likely that local copper was put on the roof to advertise the new industry of Maryland.
The Second Dome: 1785-1794
According to the Intendent of Revenue, Daniel St. Thomas Jenifer, the first dome of the State House was a contradiction of architectural design. A survey of the timbers in 1784 revealed that they were so decayed by water damage that a new dome would be required.
“It was originally constructed contrary to all rules of architecture; it ought to have been built double instead of single, and a staircase between the two domes, leading up to the lanthorn. The water should have been carried off by eaves, instead of being drawn to the center of the building, to two small conductors, which are liableto be choked by ice, and overflowed by rains. That it was next to impossible, under present construction, that it could have been made tight”.
On February 24, 1785 Jenifer placed a notice in the Maryland Gazette for carpenters work to be made to the dome and roof under the execution of Joseph Clark
“The work We are a Doing is to put a Roof on the Governor’s House and we are going to take the Roof of the State house and it is a going to Raise it one story higher and the Doom is to be Sixty foot higher then the old one”.
Clark raised the pitch of the dome to facilitate the runoff of excess water, the chief reason the timbers rotted in the original dome.
“The Annapolis dome is in its proportions like the original Karlsruhe tower. Possibly its more classical feeling is a result of the universal trend of architectural styles rather than the influence of the altered Schloßturm. Yet the arched windows below the architrave in Annapolis, one with the lower part closed, are like the windows below the Architrave in Karlsruhe in all of which the lower parts are closed. The horizontal oval windows below the main curving section of the dome in Annapolis resemble the vertical ovals in the equivalent part of the Karlsruhe tower. The small square windows above the balustrades and the architraves themselves in both buildings are similarly placed.”
5 foot diameter pipe,
100 CFS (cubic feet / second),
31 feet of head (elevation or water drop).
This is a small hydro plant, providing electricity for 190 homes but with a "fish friendly" screen and a fish ladder around the corner, there's no downside.
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June 13th, 2013 - 44 Quiet Nights, Day 15 - Grand Teton National Park to somewhere in Idaho with a drive through Yellowstone to look for the bison.
After the successful bison hunt, we crossed through Montana into Idaho and set up camp at Box Canyon.
On a nearby hill is a smokestack. It's pretty impressive in actuality as you move around it and it looks big off in the distance, but it looks boring for a photo. Here's a nearby park with a replica brick circle showing the diameter of the stack at the top. Holy shit.
diameter daun bandul SAMA 112mm. diameter 'pen big end' SAMA 30mm. diameter pen piston SAMA 15mm. lakernya jg SAMA. kiri 150cc, kanan 110/125cc. overall musim ini barang lebih mulus dari kemaren.
Hillsdale Monaco Round Faux Marble Top Dining Table with 48-Inch Diameter, Matte Espresso via Smart Furniture Shop ift.tt/1uuEC3f
A large (its a good 3-ft in diameter) carved portrait of Colonel Thomas Harding, the founder of the Tower Works factory, Holbeck in 1866.
This is hidden away in one of the buildings on the site of the factory - the site's currently under re-development. There's actually 10 portraits in the room, all of leading (local?) inventors and visionaries of the Industrial Revolution, of which the holbeck area was the hub in Leeds (i took similar shots of all the portraits - to be posted later).
To borrow the biography from the Holbeck Urban Village website:
"Colonel Thomas Harding started out in business as a gill-pin maker in Great Wilson Street in Leeds in 1836. As the industrial revolution began to take off he opened the new Tower Works factory at Globe Road in 1864. The design of the new factory was heavily influenced by his love for Italian architecture and art. Harding's classification for pin sizes, the Harding Gauge, went on to become the international standard.
The most notable features of Tower Works are the three towers that give it its name and served as chimneys for the gill-pin factory. The largest and most ornate tower is based on the iconic Giotto campanile (bell tower) in Florence. The smaller ornate tower is based on the Lamberti Tower in Verona. A third plain tower, built as part of Harding's final phase of expansion in 1919, is thought to represent a Tuscan tower house. All three are listed structures, the two ornate towers being Grade II * and the plain tower Grade II.
The design for the Giotto Tower included ventilation systems that were way ahead of their time in terms of minimising pollution from the steel works. The chimney incorporated a filter to retrieve the excess steel dust from the production process. In 1895 T. W. Harding & Son amalgamated with two other companies to become Harding, Rhodes & Co. After sustaining damage in World War II when neighbouring buildings were bombed during the air raids on Leeds city railway station, the factory was never repaired and ceased to trade in 1981 after almost 120 years of operating on the site.
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The site is now owned by Yorkshire Forward, who are in the process of breathing new life into the site in the form of rennovations that will lead to a mixed-used development encompassing office space and studio's for leeds' creative industries, housing, and restaurants.
Two Chalices
Early 19th Century
Silver
a.) H:9 1/4” (23 cm)
Diameter: 5 1/4" (13 cm)
b.) H:9 1/4” (23 cm)
Diameter: 5 1/2" (14 cm)
Opening bid: P 180,000
Provenance:
Manila
Lot 53 of the Leon Gallery / Asian Cultural Council auction on 20 February 2016. For more details, please go to www.leon-gallery.com
The ancient Roman calix was a drinking vessel consisting of a bowl fixed atop a stand and was in common use at banquets.
A chalice (from the Latin calyx) is a standing cup used to hold sacramental wine during the Mass and was intended for drinking watered wine during the ceremony of the Eucharist (also called the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion).
Chalices have been used since the beginning of the Christian church. Because of Jesus' command to his disciples to "Do this in remembrance of me." the celebration of the Eucharist became central to Christian liturgy. Since the wine was supposed to be transformed into the blood of Christ, naturally, the vessels used in this important act of worship were treated with great respect. Until Vatican II, it was even considered sacrilegious for laymen to even touch a chalice, what more with his bare hands!
In Western Christianity, chalices often have a pommel or node where the stem meets the cup to make the elevation easier and to prevent the cup from slipping. In Roman Catholicism, chalices tend to be tulip-shaped, and the cups are quite narrow. Catholic priests will often receive chalices from their families upon their ordination into the priesthood.
Often highly decorated, chalices in the colonial period were often made of precious metal and even enameled and jeweled. If funds were short, religious tradition required that the inside of the cup at least be plated with gold.
These silver chalices, being almost identical in shape, must have been made by the same craftsman. Their circular bases, urn-shaped knopfs and gold-washed cups differ only in dimensions and decorative details. The surfaces of the chalices are delicately and finely engraved with swags of flowers and leaves tied together by ribbons, with a different design used in each. All their joints are bordered with a circlet of tiny beads, called rosario de perlas in contemporary inventories. This decorative detail is painstakingly laborious, as each bead is formed and filed individually from a square silver wire welded into a ring. The fact that the beads are uniform in shape shows the great skill of the silversmith who created the pieces.
-Martin I. Tinio, Jr
With the height of 112.5 meters and diameter of 100 meters, Tempozan Harbor Village Ferris wheel was once the largest Ferris wheel in the world.Tempozan Harbor Village Ferris wheel was surpassed by London Eye when it opened to public in 1999, however, some argues that London Eye is actually an observation wheel which is considered to be another kind of wheel and shouldn't be counted in the Ferris wheel ranking. Nevertheless, some newcomers like Palette Town Ferris wheel (opened in 1999, located in Odaiba, Tokyo, with same diameter as Tempozan, but 2.5 meters more in total height), Sky Dream Fukuoka (opened in 2002, with 112 meters in diameter and 120 meters in total height), or the Diamond and Flower Ferris wheel of Kasai Rinkai Park, east of Tokyo (opened in 2005, 111 meters in diameter and 117 meters in height), exceeded Tempozan with small margins.
The Ferris wheel was opened to public on July 12, 1997. During its 17-minute ride, it offers a view of Osaka Bay and surrounding areas, such as Ikoma Mountains to the east, Akashi Strait Pearl Bridge to the west, Kansai International Airport to the south, and Rokko Mountains to the north.
The wheel has colored lights that provide a weather forecast for the next day. Orange lights indicate a sunny day, green lights a cloudy day and blue lights indicate rain.
With a diameter of 100 meters, the Radio Telescope Effelsberg is one of the largest fully steerable radio telescopes on earth. Since operations started in 1972, the technology has been continually improved (i.e. new surface for the antenna-dish, better reception of high-quality data, extremely low noise electronics) making it one of the most advanced modern telescopes worldwide.
The telescope is employed to observe pulsars, cold gas- and dust clusters, the sites of star formation, jets of matter emitted by black holes and the nuclei (centres) of distant far-off galaxies.
Effelsberg is an important part of the worldwide network of radio telescopes. The combination of different telescopes in interferometric mode makes possible to obtain the sharpest images of the universe.
Text (C) Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
The telescope may receive radio signals from a distance of up to 12bn light years. Together with a redio telescope in the US (Green Bank, Virginia), it is the largest radio telescope in the world.
The photos show the telescope at different angles because it was turning quite a bit during our visit.
The monstrous, fifty-eight foot diameter Kennedy Tailing Wheels are a one-of-a-kind creation. Although not built during the Gold Rush, these huge wooden wheels were a direct result of a Gold Rush event and are probably the most remembered artifacts of any visit to Jackson today. The wheels were built in 1914 in response to federal anti-debris laws and court cases reaching back to the 1880’s; no longer could the mines dump their wastes into the rivers and streams, polluting the water and causing serious flood dangers to the farmers in the valleys below. All mine tailings had to be impounded. As the Kennedy Mine’s impound dam was located behind two small hills and about a half a mile away from the mill, the wheels were built to lift the tailings up over the hills to the dam.
The ore from the Kennedy Mine was crushed in their one hundred-stamp mill on the south slope of Humbug Hill. The tailings, or “waste,” were then mixed with water in the slime plant and allowed to flow down a one thousand-foot-long flume to the base of Wheel #1. Anchored to a concrete foundation, the three-story-tall wheel lifted the tailings forty-four feet in redwood buckets, and then emptied them into a flume which flowed to the base of Wheel #2. From the top of Wheel #2, an eight hundred-foot long flume carried the tailings over Jackson Gate Road to Wheel #3. Up another forty-four feet and down another flume to Wheel #4 which lifted the tailings for a final time up and over the top of the hill and into the impounding basin in Indian Gulch.
The wheels worked twenty-four hours a day, from December of 1914 to 1942 with few stoppages, each day lifting 850 tons of waste up and over the hills. When the Kennedy Mine closed in 1942, the corrugated iron buildings which had enclosed the four wheels were torn down for scrap. Suddenly, four looming wooden wheels appeared on Jackson’s horizon, much to the delight of later day artists and photographers. The wheels are located in the Jackson Kennedy Wheels City Park, north of town about a mile along Jackson Gate Road. Two wheels have fallen since they were uncovered in 1942, Wheel #3 in 1963, and Wheel #2 in 1970. Recently steps have been taken by local citizens, county and city officials to help preserve the last two standing wheels.