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This older, about 123,500 square foot, Non-Supercenter Wal-Mart Store is located just outside of the Washington, DC Beltway, about two miles South of the historic city of Alexandria, Virginia proper, in the smallish, unincorporated community of Hybla Valley, in Southeastern Fairfax County, Virginia, USA. The mail for this store goes through the Alexandria Post Office, which is why its official Mailing Address says Alexandria, Virginia. Fairfax County is the most populous county in Virginia, as well as in the Washington, DC-Baltimore combined metropolitan area, with 1.1 million residents, according to the 2011 Census Bureau Estimates, and is growing pretty fast in population, as is most of the rest of the vast Washington-Baltimore area, with nearly 9 million residents in total. This Wal-Mart store is located about 50 miles South of our house in Frederick County, Maryland, USA, but, we were running important errands in the Northern Virginia area today, so we stopped by this store to pick up some basic neccesities that were running low at our house. it appears that this Wal-Mart store is beginning the construction for a Supercenter Expansion, judging by the construction crane visible to the left of the store in this picture, as well as by the general disarray ot the store's interior. Such an expansion would sure be welcome in my opinion, as the store was virtually bursting at the seams, in terms of both product shelving and customers shopping inside, in this extremely densely populated urban area. I sure hope that the proposed Supercenter expansion at the Germantown, Maryland Wal-Mart store gets approved, as that one is currently a little bigger and not quite as packed as this one, but pretty close and getting worse every day, and, the Germantown, Maryland store is the second closest one to our house, and the only one between our house and Washington, DC proper. However, Thankfully, the South Frederick city, Maryland Wal-Mart has been a Supercenter since well before we moved to the area, and, that one is, by far, the closest Wal-Mart store to our house, and is the one that we have been shopping at routinely since we moved to Southern Frederick County, Maryland in late August of 2011. We have only been to the Germantown, Maryland Wal-Mart a couple times since we moved to the area, but, when and if the Germantown Wal-Mart becomes a Supercenter, we might go there more frequently, depending on which direction we happen to be traveling, as we often go South into the heavily populated Montgomery County, Maryland area, where Germantown is, as opposed to North into the somewhat less populated, but by no means small, Frederick city, Maryland area. This photo was taken on today, May 14, 2012.
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Rejoining on the path laid down by Myficals, I visited Meewalh. Myficals pointed out a McDonalds as an example of questionable taste, but I didn’t bother looking for it. The more I explore, the more I find that for me, it’s about the architecture.
Here in Meewalh, I find a hodge-podge of buildings on a carelessly laid out street plan. It’s all a bit of a mess. From where you see me standing in this picture, I can see a square-rigger sailing ship at the dock. Go ahead and put a McDonalds next to it, that would fit with the general disarray of the rest of this sim.
Date:ca. 1774, with later additions
Culture:French, Paris
Medium:Carved, painted, and gilded oak
Dimensions:Overall: H. 11 ft. 8-1/2 in. x W. 22 ft. 10-1/2 in. x L. 25 ft. 6 in. (3.56 x 6.96 x 7.77 m); or H. 140-1/2 x W. 274-1/2 x D. 306 in. (356.9 x 697.2 x 777.2 cm)
Classification:Woodwork
Credit Line:Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1972
Accession Number:1972.276.1
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 527
The splendour of the French nobles is confined to their town-residence: that of the English is more usefully distributed in their country-seats.— Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life
When installed in the Hôtel de Cabris in Grasse, this paneling lined the walls of a considerably smaller space than it does today. Originally the room had five sets of double doors (now reduced to four) and an equal number of mirrors (now three). A wonderful harmony must have been achieved by alternating the carved and gilded woodwork with the reflective glass surfaces. Mirrors were very effectively used in eighteenth-century French interiors, offering unlimited perspective views and magically making the rooms appear larger than they were.
The Museum’s paneling was commissioned in Paris for the new residence of Jean-Paul de Clapiers, marquis de Cabris (1749–1813), and his wife, Louise de Mirabeau (1752–1807), which had been built between 1771 and 1774 by the little known Milanese architect Giovanni Orello, who resided in Grasse. The Parisian sculptor André Brenet (ca. 1734–after 1792) supervised the interior decoration of the house. According to the inventory drawn up in February 1778, the hôtel had been left unfinished and in a state of disarray and this boiserie, intended for the salon de compagnie, or reception room, remained unpacked and in crates. This must have been due to the calamity that befell the family that same year: the marquis de Cabris had been declared insane and his wife confined to a convent. It is probably also the reason that the overdoors and panels over the mirrors were not completed. The paneling was installed later, and it remained in the house until 1910, when it was purchased by E. M. Hodgkins, a dealer from England who resided in Paris. Together with the rest of Hodgkins’s effects, the woodwork elements were auctioned off in 1937. Duveen Brothers, the international firm of dealers and decorators, sold the paneling to the Charles Wrightsmans in 1957 for use in the dining room of their Fifth Avenue apartment. It was for this installation that the paneling was first rearranged and augmented.
The decoration of the room, with its dignified moldings, geometrical forms, and preference for Greek and Roman ornament, is a pure expression of the Neoclassical style. The rounded corners are carved with different trophies of musical instruments that are suspended from bow-tied ribbons and hung from an imaginary nail (see detail page 36, below). Smoking incense burners on tripod stands, a motif derived from classical antiquity, embellish the upper door panels, while those below show flaming torches. Both sets of panels have, in addition, crossed laurel and olive branches, ancient symbols of victory and peace. Here they may refer to the local vegetation, just as the incense burners may allude to the perfume industry of the Provence region. The combined use of dulled and burnished gilding creates a particularly lively effect, as is seen, for instance, in the laurel leaves with their beautifully rippled edges that are left matte, contrasting with the lustrous stems of their branches.
Epigraph. Gibbon 1788–93/1966, p. 125.
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Strong winds associated with a winter storm in December before Christmas brought in loads of cold and wrecked these carolers tunes.
In this full-length four-page letter addressed "York town Ma 2n 1778" Honorable Wm. Ellery writes possibly William Whipple on various naval matters, lack of supplies, and general disarray of commissary operations. Mentions looking for new Commissary General-- "We have chosen Genl. Greene Quarter Master generals,...". He writes, "Genl. Howe is upon the kidnapping plan at present..." Matters pertaining to Congress at York.
Another in my occasional series, looking at the variety of types of toolboxes -- and contents -- used by different types of trades people, handyman types, and so on. Came across this one near a construction site, but with no obvious owner or user near it. Decided I ought to see if I could get permission from somebody before snapping away. After a couple of inquiries I did find the owner and of course, had to begin my questioning with something like, "This is probably kind of an odd question, but ..."
I guess after seeing one like this, I don't feel quite as bad about the level of disorder in my own toolboxes. Then again, he probably can find what he needs without much ado, and doesn't waste any time being anal about organization.
Oil on panel; 65.7 x 53.3 cm.
Jean-Baptiste Greuze was a French genre and portrait painter who initiated a mid-18th-century vogue for sentimental and moralizing anecdotes in paintings.
Greuze studied first at Lyon and afterward at the Royal Academy in Paris. He first exhibited at the Salon of 1755 and won an immediate success with his moralizing genre painting of Father Reading the Bible to His Children (1755). Although Greuze’s attention at this time was fixed on a less-pretentious type of genre painting in which the influence of 17th-century Dutch masters is apparent, the favorable attention he received turned his head and established the lines of his future career.
In 1755 Greuze left for Italy but remained impervious to the influence of Italian painting. In 1759 he became acquainted with Denis Diderot, who encouraged his inclination toward melodramatic genre, and throughout the 1760s Greuze reached new heights of popular acclaim with such works as The Village Betrothal (1761) and The Father’s Curse and The Prodigal Son (both c. 1765).
Greuze submitted to the Salon in 1769 a large, rather dreary historical painting, Septimius Severus Reproaching Caracalla, which he hoped would gain him admission to the academy as a history painter. But the academy would admit him to membership only as a genre painter, and so the resentful artist exhibited his works to the public only in his own studio for the next 30 years. In addition to moralizing genre, he painted young girls in poses of feigned innocence and calculated disarray.
Throughout the 1770s Greuze was kept busy painting moralizing pictures, but by the 1780s his work had gone out of fashion and his income was precarious. By 1785 his once-considerable talent was exhausted. The reaction against his sentimental genre paintings resulted in critical neglect of his drawings and portraits, in which Greuze’s superb technical gifts are displayed with great integrity.
This gives a good impression of the confusion that was going on in the fort. Too bad that Stephen's attackers had such pathetic movement rolls in the initial turns (actually he had pretty bad movement rolls for the whole game).
In this full-length four-page letter addressed "York town Ma 2n 1778" Honorable Wm. Ellery writes possibly William Whipple on various naval matters, lack of supplies, and general disarray of commissary operations. Mentions looking for new Commissary General-- "We have chosen Genl. Greene Quarter Master generals,...". He writes, "Genl. Howe is upon the kidnapping plan at present..." Matters pertaining to Congress at York.
At the end of May 1942, the Free French 1st brigade occupied the southern sector of the British 8th Army's deployment in the heart of Libyan desert, facing German and Italian Axis troops. This was a key point on the extreme left of the position since it could prevent any potential encirclement from the south of Allied forces retreating in disarray from the defeat and the fall of Tobruk that had opened the road to Cairo for the German tanks.
I discovered this location while driving to the franco-cypriot school in Nicosia, Cyprus. These are governmental buildings next to the police academy. The complex is to be destroyed in the near future. I was interested in catching the effects of time on official government owned buildings.
In this full-length four-page letter addressed "York town Ma 2n 1778", Honorable William. Ellery writes possibly William Whipple on various naval matters, lack of supplies, and general disarray of commissary operations. Mentions looking for new Commissary General--"We have chosen Genl. Greene Quarter Master generals,...". He writes, "Genl. Howe is upon the kidnapping plan at present..." Matters pertaining to Congress at York.
U.S. Army Lt. Col. Aaron P. Lefton, JTF COVID Commander, and Master Sgt. Jaime W. Lino, JTF COVID Senior Enlisted Advisor, prepare to lay a wreath upon the tombstone of John Jacob “Rifle Jack” Peterson at Bethel Cemetery, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., on March 4, 2021. John Jacob “RIFLE JACK” Peterson was a Revolutionary War patriot of African and Kitchawan descent whose heroism helped repel British forces in Croton, New York. His actions threw Benedict Arnold’s treasonous plans into disarray and led to the capture of Major Andre. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Spc. Marla Ogden)
In 1928, John D. Rockefeller envisioned Rockefeller Center as the site of three huge office buildings and an ideally-located opera house. The stock market crash of 1929 forced him to re-evaluate his plans. The opera house backed out of its deal and the whole project was sent into disarray and confusion.
Not to be thwarted, Rockefeller and his lead architect, Raymond Hood, set to work on what was to become the first integrated office complex in the world, combining shops, gardens, restaurants and entertainment.
The first of 14 buildings was completed during the depression era between 1931 and 1940, and provided jobs for over 225,000 people. Thirty Rockefeller Plaza, with its gilded statue of Prometheus at the entrance, was another of the early buildings constructed and is the largest. The famous Radio City Music Hall was added in 1932 and features the famous Rockettes chorus line, a highlight during the Christmas and Easter season. The music hall, which features year-round entertainment from top performers, seats 5,874 people, and is an Art Deco masterpiece.
Another of the magnificent treasures found at Rockefeller Center is the statue of Atlas. Lee Lawrie designed this 4,000 lb (1,800 kg) bronze statue at the entrance to the International Building on Fifth Avenue at West 50th Street. Atlas is just one of twelve Lawrie works that one can view at Rockefeller Center.
Known as much for its outdoor spaces as it is for its indoor areas, Rockefeller Center features an outdoor cafe, the sloping Channel Garden, and a skating rink. Each Christmas season, the world's largest decorated tree sits next to the skating rink. Beneath Rockefeller Center are shops and restaurants. There are upscale shops of all types here, and visitors can purchase anything from Japanese books to Italian leather goods. For special gifts, visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art Store or Agatha, which offers French costume jewelry.
Harrowgate Plaza, 3528 I St; closed no later than the late 90s. Is currently a furniture outlet that appears to still be open despite the entire shopping center falling into disarray. Is tucked away off of I St up a hill, making it even more creepy.
Old little englewood station now highly abandoned with the englewood area in disarray. What once was a bustling station stop where you could switch to the local transit above ( now the CTA green line) are long gone. The tracks are still used by freight and Metras SWS service.
I discovered this location while driving to the franco-cypriot school in Nicosia, Cyprus. These are governmental buildings next to the police academy. The complex is to be destroyed in the near future. I was interested in catching the effects of time on official government owned buildings.
This wall accent is on the left side wall of the meat & fish department counter. Here's this same side wall several weeks prior, in quite a bad state of disarray: flic.kr/p/hS1mRV
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Kroger, (1997-1998) built (as Seessel's), Goodman Rd. at Horn Lake Rd., Horn Lake MS
I discovered this location while driving to the franco-cypriot school in Nicosia, Cyprus. These are governmental buildings next to the police academy. The complex is to be destroyed in the near future. I was interested in catching the effects of time on official government owned buildings.
this was the largest of the buildings in the complex. it was so vast. the light just poored in through the windows. it was such a great feeling being inside; it was so silent and everything is in disarray, but the whole time you can just sense all the activity that went on here for so many years. i imagine its somewhat like exploring an old shipwreck.
updated: thanks for the comments on this set of pictures; with the info provided i've been able to correct the title and add this interesting link bay-journal.com/bay/1he/bus/industrialworks.html
UNIFICATION OF NEPAL
Nepal was unified by King Prithvi Narayan Shah of Gorkha kingdom in the mid-eighteenth century by winning over other kingdoms and moving his capital to Kathmandu.
EARLY RULERS
Nepal's recorded history began with the Kiratis, who arrived in the Kathmandu valley in the 7th or 8th century BCE from the east. Little is known about them, other than their deftness as sheep farmers and fondness for carrying long knives. The Kirats ruled for about 1225 years (800 BCE-300 CE); they had a total of 28 kings during that time. Their first and best remembered king was Yalambar Haang, who is mentioned in the epic Mahabharata.
The first record of the word Nepal is found in ancient Indian annals such as the puranas from the 4th century A.D where an area known as 'Newal' or sometimes as 'Newar' is mentioned, referring to what is now known as the Kathmandu Valley. However, the area of the sovereign state of Nepal has changed from time to time during its history, expanding and shrinking in area since ancient times.
Of the kings originating inside or outside of modern Nepal, a common characteristic of attempting to unify Nepal from mostly west to east, along the southern track of the Himalayas and the northern plain of Ganges, can be identified. No Nepalese ruler has been recorded attempting to cross the Himalayas to expand their states into Tibet or China, and none has been recorded trying to cross the Ganges plain into modern India. For the most part, Nepalese rulers seem to have been focused on the territories that more or less comprise modern-day Nepal, between the region of Kashmir in the west and Bhutan in the east.
Nepal as a political region has been united by different kings of different kingdoms at various times in Nepalese history. Common tradition holds that among the first uniters of Nepal was a king by the name of Mandev, who ultimately controlled territory from the Brahmaputra River in the east to the Gandaki in the west. Recorded details of his unification, however, are scarce, and Mandev's actions and his very existence cannot be definitively confirmed. The same may be said for various early recorded and traditional (i.e. not necessarily recorded) rulers of Nepal, all of whose kingdoms apparently broke up when their dynasties died out. While records and documents of several such rulers do exist, a lack of interest has made their accessibility difficult and limited the number of translations and analyses.
KING PRITHVI NARAYAN SHAH
King Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723-1775) was born in the Shah dynasty of Gorkha on 11 January 1723 (27 Poush 1779 B.S.) After the death of Narabhupal shah on 25th chaitra he became the king of Gorkha. He ascended to the throne of Gorkha kingdom on 3 April 1743. He was interested in politics and diplomacy and had interests in both visiting and conquering other countries since his days as prince. He decided to enlarge his kingdom that was confined to the small Gorkha region of present-day Nepal and had an area of just 2,500 square km (approx. 50 km x 50 km). He defeated major principalities in wars and unified them under his rule starting from the 1740s ending with shifting of his Gorkha Kingdom’s capital from Gorkha region to Kathmandu in 1769. While he was successful at conquering the Kathmandu valley and the Sen kingdoms further east of the Kathmandu valley, his efforts were limited to the west of his homeland. He then attacked and absorbed dozens of other small principalities and gave a new name "Nepal" to his Gorkha kingdom. He was able to conquer some of the 22 principalities or kingdoms, known as the (thebaise raj-ya, and some of the 24 kingdoms (the chaubasi raj-ya), which were two sets of allies west of the King's homeland of Gorkha, in what is now called western Nepal.Soon after he ascended the throne of Gorkha Kingdom, Shah tricked his way into the royal household of Bhaktapur for a number of months. He wanted the rich agricultural soil of the valley, and the strategic point of the Kathmandu valley as a transit point for expanding trade with both Tibet and India. Then he planned the conquest of the valley. To this end, he decided to first capture Nuwakot, which belonged to the state of Kantipur, as a strategic point. He also foresaw that taking over Nuwakot would significantly strengthen the position of his Gorkha nation and weaken the states occupying the Kathmandu Valley. Nuwakot held strategic importance, as there was already a fort there, and it had remained as a connecting pass the valley and Tibet.
NUWAKOT
Prithivi Narayan was a very ambitious king. Along with the invasion of the Gorkha he wanted it to protect it from the Gorkha troops, so he started to unify the small kingdoms to be a single country . One year after becoming King, in 1744 AD, Prithvi Narayan Shah attacked Nuwakot but was repelled because the Gorkha army was not well equipped. In addition, conflicts of interest between the Pandeys and Basnets - two important warrior clans in the Gorkha palace - arose to add domestic political tension. Shah then made Kalu Pande "Mul Kaji (equivalent to Prime Minister)" of his state and thus strengthened his domestic political position. Almost a year later, on 2 October 1744, he attacked Nuwakot again and won, thus expanding the bounds of his Gorkha state.
KIRTIPUR
Kalu Pandey employed a strategy involving a blockade of the Kathmandu Valley, and subsequently took over the surrounding settlements and strategic positions around the valley. In the next two years (during 1745-46) he captured Mahadevpokhari, Pharping, Chitlang, Dharmasthali, Naldrum, Siranchok and Shivapuri. He then focused his attention on Kirtipur and Makawanpur, two palaces which were also strategic military targets. Kirtipur was in an elevated position with a fort surrounded by walls and jungles, an ideal place to make inroads into the valley. Shah thought that if he could take over Kirtipur, occupying the rest of the valley would be much easier. On 4 December 1757 he made his first attack on Kirtipur. In this war he lost his strong general Kalu pandey which was a great loss for gorkha. Kalu Pandey had told him that it was not the right time to attack Kritpur. His body was buried in Kirtipur. Prithvi Narayan Shah himself was nearly killed in the battle. As a result, the Gorkha army, having lost a great deal of morale, was defeated. It is said that as revenge for his two earlier defeats, The Gorkha army was repelled again in August 1765.
After two defeats, the Gorkha army changed its strategy again and surrounded Kirtipur during the harvest season, effectively laying siege to the stronghold. The Gorkha army also took over the nearby Balaju fort. After several months of this blockade, the people of Kirtipur could not even get water to drink and were forced to surrender to the Gorkha army on 17 March 1766. This time the Gorkha army took over Kirtipur without a fight. Prithvi Narayan Shah had his army cut off the noses and lips of all the people of Kirtipur.
Conquest of Southern Nepal and the Kathmandu Valley
As Nuwakot was a key point for Kathmandu’s trade with Tibet, Makawanpur in the south was equally important for trade with India. While the battle to surround Kathmandu was going on in the north, the Gorkha army captured Sindhulikot, Timilakot and Hariharpur in the south and southeast of modern-day Nepal before it entered into the Makawanpurgadhi territories. Makawanpur was captured after only 10 hours of battle in August 1762. In 1763 AD, the Gorkha army conquered seven other villages, including Dhulikhel and Banepa, and expanded the Gorkha state's border line further north. With this, the Kathmandu Valley was completely surrounded and blockaded. After all the four passes (Sanga, Baad, pati and Chandragiri Bhanjyang, also known as Char Bhanjyang) of the Kathmandu Valley were controlled by Prithvi Narayan Shah, the eventual lack of salt, oil, spices, and even clothes led to turmoil in the valley and disaster struck Kathmandu. When the local government failed to pay its soldiers, the morale of its military dwindled.
The king of Kathmandu at the time, Jaya Prakash Malla, then asked for military aid from the British in British India. In August 1767, when the forces of the British India arrived in Sindhuligadhi, the Gorkha military conducted guerrilla attacks against them. Many of the British Indian forces were killed and the rest eventually fled, leaving behind a huge amount of weapons and ammunitions, which were seized by the Gorkha army.
This boosted the morale of the forces of Prithvi Narayan Shah and further demoralized the kings of the Kathmandu Valley, among which was the king of Kantipur. In addition to this, the political situation of the valley, political wrangling inside the palace, and personal enmity had rendered the people of Kantipur very weak because Jaya Prakash Malla, the king of Kantipur, was of a paranoid nature, and his own brother and courtiers became dissatisfied with him. The state of Lalitpur had also faced chaos after the death of its king Yogendra Malla. Six pradhans (courtiers) then took power into their own hands, and put Tej Narsingh Malla on the throne; but the actual power in Lalitpur remained with the pradhans. In Bhaktapur as well, the palace of King Ranjeet Malla was in disarray due to domestic political wrangling. When Ranjeet Malla wanted to declare his two-year-old son as his heir, a queen (not through marriage) opposed it. This forced the king to declare his older illegitimate son as his heir to the throne. This only fueled conflict in the palace, as a result of which the palace was weakened further.
While the three kingdoms of the Kathmandu Valley were engaged in clashes and enmity, Prithvi Narayan Shah used this opportunity to impose an economic blockade against the entire valley region. He closed the trade route to Tibet, which passed through Nuwakot. The Gorkha army marched into the valley. On 25 September 1768, when the people of Kathmandu were celebrating the Festival of Indrajatra, Prithvi Narayan Shah won an easy victory over Kantipur.
Some historians doubt this version of the history written by the conquerors. They say that the valley was overtaken not in September but in cold December. The official version of overwhelmingly large force that captured Kathmandu is considered historically inaccurate. The truth, however, is that the powerful Pradhan courtiers of Kathmandu were promised lucrative positions in the new Kingdom in exchange for their help in killing the beleaguered king. The king realized that he had enemies galore and fled to the neighboring Bhaktapur, leaving the throne empty in Kathmandu. Upon easing his way to the throne of the Kathmandu, the very next day, he ordered the beheading of all of the Pradhan courtiers and their extended society.
Eleven days later (6 October 1768), he conquered Lalitpur. On 14 April 1769, he gained the town of Thimi and seven months later (17 November 1769) he took over Bhaktapur. In this way, the whole Kathmandu Valley came under the control of Prithvi Narayan Shah.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
Prithivi narayan Shah was very effortful to have good relations with different states for making his unification campaign a success. As a representative of his father, he had a pact with Lamjung, the old age enemy. Later he himself signed a treaty with King of Lamjung through the efforts sought be Kalu Pandey. Relations with the Malla Kingdoms was also important. PNS signed separate treaties with Kantipur and Bhaktapur, which are as follow : 1) to circulate the currency of either states in both states. 2) to carry joint trade with Tibet and share the incomes. 3) to enjoy rights to depute a state representative to Tibet. 4) to allow Kantipur to use the territory of Nuwakot for trade with Tibet. (Anush)
ESTABLISHMENT OF A UNITED KINGDOM OF NEPAL
After his conquest of the Kathmandu Valley, Prithvi Narayan Shah conquered other smaller countries south of the valley to keep other smaller fiefdoms near his Gurkha state out of the influence and control of the British rule. After his kingdom spread out from north to south, he made Kantipur the capital of expanded country which was known as Kingdom of Gorkha (Gorkha Samrajya).It was renamed as Kingdom of Nepal in 1930. by King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah.
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I must have been mad but the other guys who missed out wanted to go so I thought what the hell, lets go again and maybe capture something different. So thats what I did today.
A real time capsule but nature is taking back a lot of the rooms with full on decay and collapsed floors. Not to mention a shotgun wielding farmer and a bull roaming the enclosure to make matters worse. No chase today - bull was curiously watching us run away but did not decide to pursue.
Full set here: www.flickr.com/photos/41371468@N05/sets/72157630462121120/
U.S. Army Sgt. William Stump provides Soldiers assigned to JTF COVID-19 with a history lesson of the Battle of Treller’s Point and the heroic acts of John Jacob “RIFLE JACK” Peterson, at Bethel Cemetery, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., on March 4, 2021. John Jacob “Rifle Jack” Peterson was a Revolutionary War patriot of African and Kitchawan descent whose heroism helped repel British forces in Croton, New York. His actions threw Benedict Arnold’s treasonous plans into disarray and led to the capture of Major Andre. His heroism inspired the erection of a memorial plaque at Teller's Point Croton. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Spc. Marla Ogden)
Things are in such disarray, and look so strange, that I knew this would be an opportunity to take a couple "purposely confusing" photos.
BACKSTORY: Anyone who reads our contract (link below) can see that it specified to move the closet and built-in shelves. But Virginia Design Builders's workers -- the workers hired by Daniel M. Lopez -- were unable to properly move the closet without destroying it. And they "accidentally" threw away our shelves. They also broke the trim at the edge of the closet.
And then guess what? The asshole refused to stain the broken trim (and everythign else they broke/threw away too) to match the pre-existing color, leaving US with the job of restoring what they broke to the condition it was in before broken. Months of wood-staining hell thanks to the inability of Daniel M. Lopez's company to follow simple contractual instructions, as well as a total lack of honor in fully restoring damaged sections to their pre-damaged condition. We called the broken trim "Mt. Trim", because it was the hardest spot to physical reach in the entire house -- and we had to go up there 10+ times to stain it.
STAINING IS A PAIN: Just for reference, proper wood staining is a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR pain in the ass. The wood filling, the sanding, the pre-conditioning, staining, the wiping, the dropcloths, the multiple coats of everything, the (4) polyurethane coats [which often required holding a lamp in one hand, to reflect light on it to ensure evenness], and the final sanding. And don't get me started on the timing: Stain 20 minutes after pre-conditioning, but only for 2 hours; stain in 20 minute cycles consisting of 4 sub-cycles: stain area #1, stain area #2, wipe area #1, wipe area #2. Then break, get new gloves, and start over. A 20 minute cycle might equal 2 shelves, or 2 boards from ceiling to floor. Our spreadsheet had over 200 cells. At the end of the day, the only way to get stain off your skin was to apply paint thinner directly to your skin in violation of the instructions, common sense, and one's best interests...
looking up, wood staining.
carpet, cushions, spiral stairs.
confusing.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
June 23, 2007.
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LEGAL: To see an official VA DPOR sanction of $500 (+$150) against Dan Lopez and Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... These people were suing him for $400K last time I checked.To see OUR contract with Dan Lopez / Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... Just in case anybody doesn't believe me.inia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... These people were suing him for $400K last time I checked.To see OUR contract with Dan Lopez / Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... Just in case anybody doesn't believe me.icture, pool table, sandpaper, scissors.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
June 4, 2007.
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I discovered this location while driving to the franco-cypriot school in Nicosia, Cyprus. These are governmental buildings next to the police academy. The complex is to be destroyed in the near future. I was interested in catching the effects of time on official government owned buildings.
The bamboo patch is in disarray, it took a beating from hurricane Matthew in 2016 and again from hurricane Irma in 2017.
www.tramamsterdam.com/wagenpark/busseries/serie37.htm
Fabrikant: AEC - Verheul, Waddinxveen
Chassistype: AEC-van Twist Regal Mark IV 9831 E
Busnummer 38
Afgeleverd op 07-01-1956
Chassisnummer: 9831-E 527
MotornummerA219-Q 2523
Zit/staanplaatsen 32/63
Carosserienummer 7618
Omgenummerd naar 168 op 29-11-1970
Uit dienst gehaald 26-05-1973
Officieel uit dienst 22-06-1973
Afgevoerd op 27-06-1973 naar sloperij de Ridder, Soest
The Limits of Power by Andrew Bacevich
Synopsis
From an acclaimed conservative historian and former military officer, a bracing call for a pragmatic confrontation with the nation's problems
The Limits of Power identifies a profound triple crisis facing America: the economy, in remarkable disarray, can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion abroad; the government, transformed by an imperial presidency, is a democracy in form only; U.S. involvement in endless wars, driven by a deep infatuation with military power, has been a catastrophe for the body politic. These pressing problems threaten all of us, Republicans and Democrats. If the nation is to solve its predicament, it will need the revival of a distinctly American approach: the neglected tradition of realism.
Andrew J. Bacevich, uniquely respected across the political spectrum, offers a historical perspective on the illusions that have governed American policy since 1945. The realism he proposes includes respect for power and its limits; sensitivity to unintended consequences; aversion to claims of exceptionalism; skepticism of easy solutions, especially those involving force; and a conviction that the books will have to balance. Only a return to such principles, Bacevich argues, can provide common ground for fixing America’s urgent problems before the damage becomes irreparable.
Publishers Weekly
In this caustic critique of the growing American "penchant for empire" and "sense of entitlement," Bacevich (The New American Militarism) examines the citizenry's complicity in the current "economic, political, and military crisis." A retired army colonel, the author efficiently pillories the recent performance of the armed forces, decrying it as "an expression of domestic dysfunction," with leaders and misguided strategies ushering the nation into "a global war of no exits and no deadlines." Arguing that the tendency to blame solely the military or the Bush administration is as illogical as blaming Herbert Hoover for the Great Depression, Bacevich demonstrates how the civilian population is ultimately culpable; in citizens' appetite for unfettered access to resources, they have tacitly condoned the change of "military service from a civic function into an economic enterprise." Crisp prose, sweeping historical analysis and searing observations on the roots of American decadence elevate this book from mere scolding to an urgent call for rational thinking and measured action, for citizens to wise up and put their house in order. (Sept. 1)
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Biography
Andrew J. Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of colonel. He is the author of The New American Militarism, among other books. His writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the recipient of a Lannan award and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
An interview with Andrew J. Bacevich. Bill Moyer.
www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html
* Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated
* Pub. Date: August 19, 2008
* ISBN-13: 9780805088151
* Sales Rank: 1
* 224pp
* Edition Description: First Edition
* Edition Number: 1
The Hingham elevators are at the very north end of town.
Here is some very interesting history courtesy of wikipediea about Hingham, MT:
"Hingham is a small agricultural community on the Hi-line of northern Montana. The town was founded on February 11, 1910 and developed as a grain storage and shipping center along the Great Northern Railway. In 1909 M.A. Johnson and P.A. Peterson came to the area to homestead, they purchased a relinquishment for the townsite. A year later they had the 22-block town platted with a central square as its dominant feature, hence the nickname "The Town on the Square". Hingham was incorporated in 1917 and has since been governed by a mayor and town council. Through local efforts Hingham has developed the square into one of the best parks on the Hi-line with lush grass, mature trees and a picnic shelter. A landmark of the town is the water tower built in 1958 it towers 100 feet tall and can be seen for miles. In its early years Hingham had several hotels, saloons, restaurants, two banks, lumber yards, butcher shop, blacksmith shop, barber shop, trading company, grocery store, opera house, three churches and more. Most of which surrounded the square. Hingham had a state of the art hospital in its early years know as the Hingham Sanitarium. Built in 1913 by Dr. A.A. Husser it later burned down in 1919 dealing a severe blow to the community. Plans were made to replace the hospital with a more substantial structure but never materialized. Hingham Union Cemetery is the second largest cemetery in Hill County with over 355 graves. During the flu epidemic, the local undertaker left town in the middle of the night taking the cemetery records with him and leaving the cemetery in disarray. Citizens later remember digging graves and hitting the wood of coffins buried in supposedly vacant plots. There are a number of graves that are unknown and unmarked. Hingham cemetery is unique in that it once had an area known as potters field where people that commited suicide or couldn't afford to buy a plot were placed. Hingham's cemetery was the unofficial catholic cemetery of the hi-line in its early years. Students in Hingham met in several buildings around town until a school was built in 1914. The building was known to sway in the bad wind storms. In 1930 a new school building was constructed with a gymnasium added in 1936 several additions were made in later years including a indoor swimming pool. The school mascot was the Hingham Rangers with red, black and white as their colors. Due to shrinking enrollment the schools have consolidated to maintain a school in the area. Hingham and Rudyard consolidated schools in 1981 creating Blue Sky schools with Eagles as their mascot and blue and white as their colors. Another consolidation occurred in 2005 creating North Star Schools which is a merger of Rudyard and Hingham(Blue Sky), Gildford and Kremlin(KG)schools. Their mascot is the Knights with blue and black as their colors. Hingham hosted an school reunion on July 9th, 2010. On July 10th, 2010 Hingham celebrated its Centennial with a fun run/walk, food and craft vendors, military displays, local history displays, live entertainment, kids and adult games, barbecue, dance and fireworks."
Here is a video of my husband and I driving through Hingham, it gives you a little perspective of this little hi-line town:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiB3eFcHwbo
For more information go to this link:
Here we are then. All the Fray Bentos pre-digital photographs together in one place at the same time. The photos in the cardboard box on the right, with the green label, are those which have so far been posted to Flickr. So, as you see, I could probably keep going on Flickr for such time as I have left in this vale of tears but, of course, one tends to use one's more interesting "A-list" material early on.
The collection is in complete disarray and badly needs to be put back into some sort of order, probably chronological. Then I might stand a chance of finding any individual photo in less than a month. The internet is responsible. My first internet connection (1999) was by way of NTL's internet television service, at 3p a minute. My bills were typically around £120 monthly. Fortunately, from the point of view of my solvency, unmetered access came in after about a year. In another year I was made redundant and bought my first computer with part of the payoff money.
"Photo-sharing" was one of the things I first got "into" ...once I had got tired of the trolls on usenet. The trouble was that the photos became horribly disorganised and pulled-about, and I could never be bothered with the tedious business of putting them back in their place once I had used them. After seven years or so of this the collection is in the condition you see above, with many not even in boxes or envelopes.
In the far reaches of northern Scotland, within a village where time meanders at its own tranquil pace, a series of images unfolds, painting a tableau of life's relentless march amidst the shadows of climate's dismay and the distant rumbles of war that threaten to engulf Europe. It is a Wednesday evening, draped in the quietude of rainfall, a scene reminiscent of an Edward Hopper collection—imbued with solitude, emptiness, yet a profound continuance.
A Poem:
In this hamlet 'neath Scottish skies so wide,
Where the rains whisper and the winds confide,
Looms the spectre of a world in disarray,
Yet within these bounds, life finds its way.
Upon the cusp of night, shadows merge and dance,
In the pub's warm glow, eyes steal a glance.
The hearth's soft crackle, a comforting song,
In this northern retreat, where hearts belong.
The world outside may churn and roar,
With climates wracked and the drums of war.
Yet here we stand, in this time-suspended place,
Where tomorrow's worries are but a trace.
The local pub, our living room, our sphere,
A sanctuary from doubt, from dread, from fear.
We'll return come dusk, as sure as the tide,
In the rhythm of the ordinary, we take pride.
For what are we, but passengers in time,
Through days mundane, through nights sublime?
The question lingers, in the air, it floats,
Is this all there is? In whispers, it denotes.
Yet, as we stand 'neath the gentle pour,
We find beauty in the repeat, in the encore.
For in these moments, life's essence we distill,
In the quiet of the village, in the peace, so still.
A Haiku:
Rain veils the night's face,
Quiet pub bids farewell—
Life's quiet march on.
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This shot despite having warm colors,
appears to be a very calm scene .... the truth is otherwise
everything was in disarray when I shot!
Time was running out for the event, the boys were rushing to meet to make their presentations and I was tired!
finally, a picture that I liked! chaos frozen! and an expression of tranquility!
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Esta toma a pesar de tener tonos calidos,
aparenta ser una escena muy calmada.... la verdad es otra
todo estaba sumido en un caos cuando disparé!
El tiempo se acababa para el evento, los chicos se apuraban para alcanzar a hacer sus presentaciones y yo ya estaba cansado! y con otros compromisos que atender!
al final, una foto que me gustó mucho! un caos congelado! y una expresión de tranquilidad!
Muni car #1057 rolls along The Embarcadero in San Francisco during Muni Heritage Weekend 2013.
This streetcar is painted to honor Cincinnati, which ran PCC streetcars from 1939 to 1951. Cincinnati was unique among North American streetcar systems in requiring two overhead wires for streetcars, one to supply electrical power, the other to provide a ground and complete the circuit. This arrangement grew from an early and (pardon the pun) groundless fear of electrocution from the standard streetcar practice of returning current through the tracks (trolley buses use two wires because they run on rubber tires, and have no tracks to use as ground). The uniqueness of Cincinnati’s PCCs extended to the paint scheme, an eye-popping canary yellow with three bold green stripes around the body. Only PCCs got this treatment in Cincinnati—buses and older streetcars were painted a prosaic transit orange.
Cincinnati’s streetcar governance was also unusual. The system was owned by a private company, the Cincinnati Street Railway Co. (CSR), but the City of Cincinnati had direct control over routes and operations under the franchise it granted.
In 1939, CSR purchased three modern streetcars — competing PCCs from St. Louis Car Co. and Pullman-Standard, plus a Brilliner — to compare their features. It then bought 26 PCCs from St. Louis Car in 1940 and 25 more that were delivered in 1947. CSR wanted 50 PCCs in that post-war order, but the City government, which favored buses, cut the order in half.
Then, with the paint on the new PCCs still shiny, the city force conversion of the Madisonville line to trolley buses in July 1947 - one of the earliest abandonments of a PCC route in America - and followed with demands for more conversions.
By 1950, with its finances in disarray, CSR decided to sell its PCCs, half of which were just three years old. Toronto bought all but the Pullman-Standard demonstrator, which, along with the single Brilliner, joined older Peter Witt style streetcars in running out the clock. It was the only time that PCCs were outlasted in regular service by old-fashioned streetcars.
Cincinnati’s last streetcar line, the 78-Lockland, was abandoned on April 29, 1951. But on February 17, 2012, as part of the current streetcar renaissance in America, Cincinnati broke ground on a new streetcar line, connecting downtown with the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood and uptown communities surrounding the University of Cincinnati. The new line will use modern, Portland-style streetcars.
Its vivid color makes No. 1057 one of the most photographed streetcars on the F-line.
The knock-off DDR game. Most of the arcade side is in disarray. The DDR game didn't allow 2 players. Only one skee-ball game worked, and it didn't score properly. One of the car racing games had at least $0.75 of quarters stuck in the slot. Crazy stuff!
Here was are being tricked into thinking both players can play at once. You can see the small TV they put in front of the big screen, rather than fixing the big screen. You also could BARELY hear the music. And this was with no one else around.
Britt, Clint.
dancing, playing Dance Dance Revolution.
Pizza MaGill's, restaurant, Annandale, Virginia.
April 10, 2011.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: For ational Siblings Day, Britt wanted to do something together with her brother, Clint. We also found out >Vicky was available, so she came too. Ryan wasn't able to make it because he was having computer problems.
After much hemming and hawing about what to do, we decided to go to Pizza MaGills. Pizza MaGills has an all-you-can eat buffet featuring foods like tacos, spaghetti, chicken, lasagna, pizza, soup, salad, macaroni, ice cream, papusas, french fries, and other kid-friendly foods.
Carolyn was looking forward to playing skee-ball, but it turned out the arcade section left a lot to be desired. One skee-ball machine worked, and it scored wrong 50% of the time. Eventually Clint just stood there grabbing the balls in mid air (for free play) because there was no point in abiding by the rules when playing on a broken machine. Their DDR machine had 2 huge metal dancepads, but when you put money in it, it had a missing USB error and only one player could play at a time. And the screen was broken, with a smaller television put in front of it. Most of the multi-player games only had one working player left.
The thing is, they make most of their money from tour buses that come in. Five buses of middle & highschoolers arrived while we were there, and the line was out the door. They made thousands of dollars. And since most of their customers are not repeat customers, they don't really have a reason to fix their aracade games. It's sad to see how much deline that place is. They used to have an array of cakes and puddings (all you can eat, of course) you could select from, but now they just seem to have ice cream. And they stopped selling wine awhile back, too.
Still -- if you want food that is way better than fast food, and cheaper than restaurant food, and you don't want to wait an extra second to get it - This is the #1 place I'd recommend. We hung out there for well over 2 hours.
UNIFICATION OF NEPAL
Nepal was unified by King Prithvi Narayan Shah of Gorkha kingdom in the mid-eighteenth century by winning over other kingdoms and moving his capital to Kathmandu.
EARLY RULERS
Nepal's recorded history began with the Kiratis, who arrived in the Kathmandu valley in the 7th or 8th century BCE from the east. Little is known about them, other than their deftness as sheep farmers and fondness for carrying long knives. The Kirats ruled for about 1225 years (800 BCE-300 CE); they had a total of 28 kings during that time. Their first and best remembered king was Yalambar Haang, who is mentioned in the epic Mahabharata.
The first record of the word Nepal is found in ancient Indian annals such as the puranas from the 4th century A.D where an area known as 'Newal' or sometimes as 'Newar' is mentioned, referring to what is now known as the Kathmandu Valley. However, the area of the sovereign state of Nepal has changed from time to time during its history, expanding and shrinking in area since ancient times.
Of the kings originating inside or outside of modern Nepal, a common characteristic of attempting to unify Nepal from mostly west to east, along the southern track of the Himalayas and the northern plain of Ganges, can be identified. No Nepalese ruler has been recorded attempting to cross the Himalayas to expand their states into Tibet or China, and none has been recorded trying to cross the Ganges plain into modern India. For the most part, Nepalese rulers seem to have been focused on the territories that more or less comprise modern-day Nepal, between the region of Kashmir in the west and Bhutan in the east.
Nepal as a political region has been united by different kings of different kingdoms at various times in Nepalese history. Common tradition holds that among the first uniters of Nepal was a king by the name of Mandev, who ultimately controlled territory from the Brahmaputra River in the east to the Gandaki in the west. Recorded details of his unification, however, are scarce, and Mandev's actions and his very existence cannot be definitively confirmed. The same may be said for various early recorded and traditional (i.e. not necessarily recorded) rulers of Nepal, all of whose kingdoms apparently broke up when their dynasties died out. While records and documents of several such rulers do exist, a lack of interest has made their accessibility difficult and limited the number of translations and analyses.
KING PRITHVI NARAYAN SHAH
King Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723-1775) was born in the Shah dynasty of Gorkha on 11 January 1723 (27 Poush 1779 B.S.) After the death of Narabhupal shah on 25th chaitra he became the king of Gorkha. He ascended to the throne of Gorkha kingdom on 3 April 1743. He was interested in politics and diplomacy and had interests in both visiting and conquering other countries since his days as prince. He decided to enlarge his kingdom that was confined to the small Gorkha region of present-day Nepal and had an area of just 2,500 square km (approx. 50 km x 50 km). He defeated major principalities in wars and unified them under his rule starting from the 1740s ending with shifting of his Gorkha Kingdom’s capital from Gorkha region to Kathmandu in 1769. While he was successful at conquering the Kathmandu valley and the Sen kingdoms further east of the Kathmandu valley, his efforts were limited to the west of his homeland. He then attacked and absorbed dozens of other small principalities and gave a new name "Nepal" to his Gorkha kingdom. He was able to conquer some of the 22 principalities or kingdoms, known as the (thebaise raj-ya, and some of the 24 kingdoms (the chaubasi raj-ya), which were two sets of allies west of the King's homeland of Gorkha, in what is now called western Nepal.Soon after he ascended the throne of Gorkha Kingdom, Shah tricked his way into the royal household of Bhaktapur for a number of months. He wanted the rich agricultural soil of the valley, and the strategic point of the Kathmandu valley as a transit point for expanding trade with both Tibet and India. Then he planned the conquest of the valley. To this end, he decided to first capture Nuwakot, which belonged to the state of Kantipur, as a strategic point. He also foresaw that taking over Nuwakot would significantly strengthen the position of his Gorkha nation and weaken the states occupying the Kathmandu Valley. Nuwakot held strategic importance, as there was already a fort there, and it had remained as a connecting pass the valley and Tibet.
NUWAKOT
Prithivi Narayan was a very ambitious king. Along with the invasion of the Gorkha he wanted it to protect it from the Gorkha troops, so he started to unify the small kingdoms to be a single country . One year after becoming King, in 1744 AD, Prithvi Narayan Shah attacked Nuwakot but was repelled because the Gorkha army was not well equipped. In addition, conflicts of interest between the Pandeys and Basnets - two important warrior clans in the Gorkha palace - arose to add domestic political tension. Shah then made Kalu Pande "Mul Kaji (equivalent to Prime Minister)" of his state and thus strengthened his domestic political position. Almost a year later, on 2 October 1744, he attacked Nuwakot again and won, thus expanding the bounds of his Gorkha state.
KIRTIPUR
Kalu Pandey employed a strategy involving a blockade of the Kathmandu Valley, and subsequently took over the surrounding settlements and strategic positions around the valley. In the next two years (during 1745-46) he captured Mahadevpokhari, Pharping, Chitlang, Dharmasthali, Naldrum, Siranchok and Shivapuri. He then focused his attention on Kirtipur and Makawanpur, two palaces which were also strategic military targets. Kirtipur was in an elevated position with a fort surrounded by walls and jungles, an ideal place to make inroads into the valley. Shah thought that if he could take over Kirtipur, occupying the rest of the valley would be much easier. On 4 December 1757 he made his first attack on Kirtipur. In this war he lost his strong general Kalu pandey which was a great loss for gorkha. Kalu Pandey had told him that it was not the right time to attack Kritpur. His body was buried in Kirtipur. Prithvi Narayan Shah himself was nearly killed in the battle. As a result, the Gorkha army, having lost a great deal of morale, was defeated. It is said that as revenge for his two earlier defeats, The Gorkha army was repelled again in August 1765.
After two defeats, the Gorkha army changed its strategy again and surrounded Kirtipur during the harvest season, effectively laying siege to the stronghold. The Gorkha army also took over the nearby Balaju fort. After several months of this blockade, the people of Kirtipur could not even get water to drink and were forced to surrender to the Gorkha army on 17 March 1766. This time the Gorkha army took over Kirtipur without a fight. Prithvi Narayan Shah had his army cut off the noses and lips of all the people of Kirtipur.
Conquest of Southern Nepal and the Kathmandu Valley
As Nuwakot was a key point for Kathmandu’s trade with Tibet, Makawanpur in the south was equally important for trade with India. While the battle to surround Kathmandu was going on in the north, the Gorkha army captured Sindhulikot, Timilakot and Hariharpur in the south and southeast of modern-day Nepal before it entered into the Makawanpurgadhi territories. Makawanpur was captured after only 10 hours of battle in August 1762. In 1763 AD, the Gorkha army conquered seven other villages, including Dhulikhel and Banepa, and expanded the Gorkha state's border line further north. With this, the Kathmandu Valley was completely surrounded and blockaded. After all the four passes (Sanga, Baad, pati and Chandragiri Bhanjyang, also known as Char Bhanjyang) of the Kathmandu Valley were controlled by Prithvi Narayan Shah, the eventual lack of salt, oil, spices, and even clothes led to turmoil in the valley and disaster struck Kathmandu. When the local government failed to pay its soldiers, the morale of its military dwindled.
The king of Kathmandu at the time, Jaya Prakash Malla, then asked for military aid from the British in British India. In August 1767, when the forces of the British India arrived in Sindhuligadhi, the Gorkha military conducted guerrilla attacks against them. Many of the British Indian forces were killed and the rest eventually fled, leaving behind a huge amount of weapons and ammunitions, which were seized by the Gorkha army.
This boosted the morale of the forces of Prithvi Narayan Shah and further demoralized the kings of the Kathmandu Valley, among which was the king of Kantipur. In addition to this, the political situation of the valley, political wrangling inside the palace, and personal enmity had rendered the people of Kantipur very weak because Jaya Prakash Malla, the king of Kantipur, was of a paranoid nature, and his own brother and courtiers became dissatisfied with him. The state of Lalitpur had also faced chaos after the death of its king Yogendra Malla. Six pradhans (courtiers) then took power into their own hands, and put Tej Narsingh Malla on the throne; but the actual power in Lalitpur remained with the pradhans. In Bhaktapur as well, the palace of King Ranjeet Malla was in disarray due to domestic political wrangling. When Ranjeet Malla wanted to declare his two-year-old son as his heir, a queen (not through marriage) opposed it. This forced the king to declare his older illegitimate son as his heir to the throne. This only fueled conflict in the palace, as a result of which the palace was weakened further.
While the three kingdoms of the Kathmandu Valley were engaged in clashes and enmity, Prithvi Narayan Shah used this opportunity to impose an economic blockade against the entire valley region. He closed the trade route to Tibet, which passed through Nuwakot. The Gorkha army marched into the valley. On 25 September 1768, when the people of Kathmandu were celebrating the Festival of Indrajatra, Prithvi Narayan Shah won an easy victory over Kantipur.
Some historians doubt this version of the history written by the conquerors. They say that the valley was overtaken not in September but in cold December. The official version of overwhelmingly large force that captured Kathmandu is considered historically inaccurate. The truth, however, is that the powerful Pradhan courtiers of Kathmandu were promised lucrative positions in the new Kingdom in exchange for their help in killing the beleaguered king. The king realized that he had enemies galore and fled to the neighboring Bhaktapur, leaving the throne empty in Kathmandu. Upon easing his way to the throne of the Kathmandu, the very next day, he ordered the beheading of all of the Pradhan courtiers and their extended society.
Eleven days later (6 October 1768), he conquered Lalitpur. On 14 April 1769, he gained the town of Thimi and seven months later (17 November 1769) he took over Bhaktapur. In this way, the whole Kathmandu Valley came under the control of Prithvi Narayan Shah.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
Prithivi narayan Shah was very effortful to have good relations with different states for making his unification campaign a success. As a representative of his father, he had a pact with Lamjung, the old age enemy. Later he himself signed a treaty with King of Lamjung through the efforts sought be Kalu Pandey. Relations with the Malla Kingdoms was also important. PNS signed separate treaties with Kantipur and Bhaktapur, which are as follow : 1) to circulate the currency of either states in both states. 2) to carry joint trade with Tibet and share the incomes. 3) to enjoy rights to depute a state representative to Tibet. 4) to allow Kantipur to use the territory of Nuwakot for trade with Tibet. (Anush)
ESTABLISHMENT OF A UNITED KINGDOM OF NEPAL
After his conquest of the Kathmandu Valley, Prithvi Narayan Shah conquered other smaller countries south of the valley to keep other smaller fiefdoms near his Gurkha state out of the influence and control of the British rule. After his kingdom spread out from north to south, he made Kantipur the capital of expanded country which was known as Kingdom of Gorkha (Gorkha Samrajya).It was renamed as Kingdom of Nepal in 1930. by King Tribhuvan Bir Bikram Shah.
WIKIPEDIA
Some shots of the Scary Dairy from behind the fence...
From Wikipedia.org - The Scary Dairy is an old dairy farm adjacent to the former Camarillo State Mental Hospital, now California State University, Channel Islands.[1] It was run and maintained by the staff and patients of the hospital as a form of work experience and additional income to the hospital. In the mid-1900s (around the 1960s) the dairy was closed and the buildings fell into disarray and have since been heavily vandalized.
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"Go toward the light!" (This thought is the only reason I didn't delete this picture.)
The knock-off DDR game. Most of the arcade side is in disarray. The DDR game didn't allow 2 players. Only one skee-ball game worked, and it didn't score properly. One of the car racing games had at least $0.75 of quarters stuck in the slot. Crazy stuff!
Britt, Chris, Clint.
dancing, playing Dance Dance Revolution.
Ween shirt.
Pizza MaGill's, restaurant, Annandale, Virginia.
April 10, 2011.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
BACKSTORY: Britt wanted to do something together with her brother, Clint. We also found out >Vicky was available, so she came too. Ryan wasn't able to make it because he was having computer problems.
After much hemming and hawing about what to do, we decided to go to Pizza MaGills. Pizza MaGills has an all-you-can eat buffet featuring foods like tacos, spaghetti, chicken, lasagna, pizza, soup, salad, macaroni, ice cream, papusas, french fries, and other kid-friendly foods.
Carolyn was looking forward to playing skee-ball, but it turned out the arcade section left a lot to be desired. One skee-ball machine worked, and it scored wrong 50% of the time. Eventually Clint just stood there grabbing the balls in mid air (for free play) because there was no point in abiding by the rules when playing on a broken machine. Their DDR machine had 2 huge metal dancepads, but when you put money in it, it had a missing USB error and only one player could play at a time. And the screen was broken, with a smaller television put in front of it. Most of the multi-player games only had one working player left.
The thing is, they make most of their money from tour buses that come in. Five buses of middle & highschoolers arrived while we were there, and the line was out the door. They made thousands of dollars. And since most of their customers are not repeat customers, they don't really have a reason to fix their aracade games. It's sad to see how much deline that place is. They used to have an array of cakes and puddings (all you can eat, of course) you could select from, but now they just seem to have ice cream. And they stopped selling wine awhile back, too.
Still -- if you want food that is way better than fast food, and cheaper than restaurant food, and you don't want to wait an extra second to get it - This is the #1 place I'd recommend. We hung out there for well over 2 hours.
The Hingham elevators are at the very north end of town.
Here is some very interesting history courtesy of wikipediea about Hingham, MT:
"Hingham is a small agricultural community on the Hi-line of northern Montana. The town was founded on February 11, 1910 and developed as a grain storage and shipping center along the Great Northern Railway. In 1909 M.A. Johnson and P.A. Peterson came to the area to homestead, they purchased a relinquishment for the townsite. A year later they had the 22-block town platted with a central square as its dominant feature, hence the nickname "The Town on the Square". Hingham was incorporated in 1917 and has since been governed by a mayor and town council. Through local efforts Hingham has developed the square into one of the best parks on the Hi-line with lush grass, mature trees and a picnic shelter. A landmark of the town is the water tower built in 1958 it towers 100 feet tall and can be seen for miles. In its early years Hingham had several hotels, saloons, restaurants, two banks, lumber yards, butcher shop, blacksmith shop, barber shop, trading company, grocery store, opera house, three churches and more. Most of which surrounded the square. Hingham had a state of the art hospital in its early years know as the Hingham Sanitarium. Built in 1913 by Dr. A.A. Husser it later burned down in 1919 dealing a severe blow to the community. Plans were made to replace the hospital with a more substantial structure but never materialized. Hingham Union Cemetery is the second largest cemetery in Hill County with over 355 graves. During the flu epidemic, the local undertaker left town in the middle of the night taking the cemetery records with him and leaving the cemetery in disarray. Citizens later remember digging graves and hitting the wood of coffins buried in supposedly vacant plots. There are a number of graves that are unknown and unmarked. Hingham cemetery is unique in that it once had an area known as potters field where people that commited suicide or couldn't afford to buy a plot were placed. Hingham's cemetery was the unofficial catholic cemetery of the hi-line in its early years. Students in Hingham met in several buildings around town until a school was built in 1914. The building was known to sway in the bad wind storms. In 1930 a new school building was constructed with a gymnasium added in 1936 several additions were made in later years including a indoor swimming pool. The school mascot was the Hingham Rangers with red, black and white as their colors. Due to shrinking enrollment the schools have consolidated to maintain a school in the area. Hingham and Rudyard consolidated schools in 1981 creating Blue Sky schools with Eagles as their mascot and blue and white as their colors. Another consolidation occurred in 2005 creating North Star Schools which is a merger of Rudyard and Hingham(Blue Sky), Gildford and Kremlin(KG)schools. Their mascot is the Knights with blue and black as their colors. Hingham hosted an school reunion on July 9th, 2010. On July 10th, 2010 Hingham celebrated its Centennial with a fun run/walk, food and craft vendors, military displays, local history displays, live entertainment, kids and adult games, barbecue, dance and fireworks."
Here is a video of my husband and I driving through Hingham, it gives you a little perspective of this little hi-line town:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiB3eFcHwbo
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