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plant / grow is a mobile cart designed to distribute young plants and trees intended for planting in public brown zones. information regarding various green issues is also stocked on the cart.
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Public Interaction Objects (PIO) is a series of low-tech participatory objects. They are physical interfaces engineered to create meaningful interaction with individuals in various public contexts. Each object is a composite of various influences. PIO influences include historical and mythological narratives, cultural customs, market economies, and lifestyle, entertainment and commercial technologies.
These objects are designed to ultimately promote curiosity and participation for those that come in contact with them. PIOs also challenge our all too prevalent responses of suspicion and alarm that many foreign objects create. In recent years, our governments have decreed freedom-limiting legislation and in many public contexts - a heighten militarization. There are fear-laden messages channeled daily throughout the media as well. We have been indoctrinated to report these things rather than curiously explore them ourselves.
FS recognizes that we live in world that requires a basic sense of courage and trust in the people and objects that we share our spaces with in order to be free and active. It is also acknowledged that this trust has been horrifically exploited. We do not want to minimize the reality of these tragedies, nor do we condone these acts of aggression. Conversely, we do not want to surrender our freedom to explore, examine, create, share, confront, protest, and disseminate both ideas and objects in our shared public realm.
Workshop about distributing your own program, held at Civic Club, Garberville at Grassroots Radio Conference 2010.
Photo by Simon Frech
Gov. Beshear joined company and local officials in Winchester to break ground on an expansion for J&T Munitions, doing business as J&T Distributing. The company plans to add 15 full-time jobs and invest more than $3.6 million in the Commonwealth. July 1, 2013.
The Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS), also referred to as the AN/GSQ-272 SENTINEL weapon system, is the Air Force’s primary intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) collection, processing, exploitation, analysis, and dissemination (CPAD). (U.S. Air Force photo)
Volunteers distribute water and gatorade at a hydration station adjacent to Lake Merritt just under a mile from the finish line for both the half and full marathons.
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A Bori-Udic Cambosol and landscape. These soils mainly distribute in China's northeast areas, including Greater Khingan Mountains, Lesser Khingan Mountains, Wanda Mountains, and Changbai mountains. Besides, they are also found with a certain amount in narrow valleys in southern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Topographically, those areas are mainly middle and low mountains and hills. Parent materials are diversified, including weathered materials derived from granite, gneiss, sandstone, shale and limestone, as well as loess. The vegetation is mixed coniferous and deciduous forests. They have frigid temperature regime and udic soil moisture regime. (Photos and notes courtesy of China Soils Museum, Guangdong Institute of World Soil Resources; with revision.)
In Chinese Soil Taxonomy, Cambosols have low-grade soil development with formation of horizon of alteration or weak expression of other diagnostic horizons. In Soil Taxonomy these soils are commonly Inceptisols, Mollisols, or Gelisols.
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Greenpeace activists distribute wanted posters calling out American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard and Energy Lobbyist Jeffery Holmstead, former Assistant Administrator of the EPA under George W. Bush Nov. 15, 2012. Greenpeace was outside the Hamilton Hotel in Washington during the Politico Energy & the Presidency event in which both men were scheduled to speak.
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Thursday, 2 April 2015: Chumling (2385 m) to Chhokang Paro (3030 m)
A mega day taking the high route via Chumchet, Yarcho, Gompa Goan, Lari and Puh, distributing LED solar lights carried by porter Henry, before dropping down to the Sardi Khola / Syar Khola / Tsum Chu at Domje and climbing back up to Chhokang Paro where we were met by Namgyal’s mum, bringing tea and snacks to help us on the final mile or so to their home.
En route, lots of Tibetan tea, tsampa, rice and veg; offers of arak and chang; ~2000m ascent… visits to homes, schools, a monastery and a nunnery, high in the mountains of Upper Tsum Valley.
Wonderful.
Map from Günter Seyfferth’s Die Berge des Himalaya (The mountains of Himalaya).
Read more about my Tsum Valley trek with Val Pitkethly.
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Rare - Then CAPITOL was distributed to Telefunken Decca. From the mid 1950s on CAPITOL was distributed always by EMI Electrola.
One of the very first albums in Germany. A very special record sleeve. It says - This Capitol LP was delivered by your shop xy and in the field right down, normaly is a stamp from the dealer.Probably from 1953. From 1954 on they use sleeves with pictures from the artists. In that time there aren't any 30cm/12inch LPs . I think in Germany they started in 1956.--------Eine der ersten deutschen LPs. Eine 25 cm LP. Die sogenannte Rhein'sche Füllschrift Technik war noch zu kompliziert um 30 cm LPs herzustellen. Das gelang in Deutschland erst 1955/56. Das Material war noch sehr fest und ähnelte dem 1950er Schelllack-Material.
Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra distributed three-wheelers to over 200 physically challenged persons in New Delhi. On Late Rajiv Gandhi's birthday it was supposed to be distributed by Congress President Sonia Gandhi but due to her illness it got postponed.
Rahul and Priyanka, interacted with almost all the people who were given motorised three-wheelers by the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and spent some time with them.
They went to almost every single person, exchanged pleasantries with them and heard their problems.
The Postcard
A postcard that was printed by the Prince Lithograph Co. of Arlington, Virginia and distributed by the L. B. Prince Co. of Arlington, Virginia.
On the back of the card is printed:
'United States Capitol.
The cornerstone was laid in
1793. Burned by the British
in 1812. The house and
Senate Chambers, Statuary
Hall, the Rotunda and the
President's Room are most
interesting.'
The card was posted in Washington on Sunday the 15th. March 1964 to a recipient who lived in Israel. The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Mum,
Thanks for your letter - I
was very happy to receive
it. It arrived on the same
day your letter to Esther
arrived.
Good to know you make
fun of my English - wait
until you hear it as it's
not too Americanized!
I'm writing just to tell you
that five minutes ago
........................................
Love to all the family,
Bad Epp."
We will never know what had happened five minutes previously, as it was heavily blocked out on the card. Probably nothing too traumatic or it would not have been preceded by the lighthearted part of the message.
The United States Capitol
The United States Capitol, often called The Capitol or the Capitol Building, is the meeting place of the United States Congress and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government.
It is located on Capitol Hill at the eastern end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Though no longer at the geographic center of the federal district, the Capitol forms the origin point for the district's street-numbering system and the district's four quadrants.
Central sections of the present building were completed in 1800. These were partly destroyed in the 1814 burning of Washington, then were fully restored within five years. The building was later enlarged by extending the wings, the House of Representatives in the south wing, and the Senate in the north wing.
The massive dome was completed around 1866 just after the American Civil War. The Capitol is built in a neoclassical style and has a white exterior.
The architect Francis Willford Fitzpatrick described the Capitol building as follows:
"Grand in the glaring sun, magnificent in a storm,
weird and specter-like of a dark night, and a dream
of loveliness by moonlight, it stands unsurpassed,
from any point of view, by any building in the world."
History of the Capitol Building
Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant was given the task of creating the city plan for the new capital city of Washington. L'Enfant chose Jenkin's Hill as the site for the "Congress House", with a "grand avenue" (now Pennsylvania Avenue, NW) connecting it with the President's House, and a public space containing a broader "grand avenue" (now the National Mall) stretching westward to the Potomac River.
The Name
In reviewing L'Enfant's plan, Thomas Jefferson insisted that the legislative building be called the "Capitol" rather than "Congress House". The word "Capitol" comes from Latin, and is associated with the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Capitoline Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome. The connection between the two is not clear.
In addition to coming up with a city plan, L'Enfant had been tasked with designing the Capitol and President's House; however, he was dismissed in February 1792 over disagreements with President George Washington and the commissioners, and there were no plans at that point for the Capitol.
The Design Competition
In spring 1792, United States Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson proposed a design competition for the Capitol and the "President's House", and set a four-month deadline. The prize for the competition was $500, and a lot in the Federal City.
At least ten individuals submitted designs for the Capitol; however the drawings were regarded as crude and amateurish, reflecting the level of architectural skill present in the United States at the time.
The most promising of the submissions was by Stephen Hallet, a trained French architect. However, Hallet's designs were overly fancy, with too much French influence, and were deemed too costly.
A late entry by amateur architect William Thornton was submitted on the 31st. January 31 1793, to much praise for its "Grandeur, Simplicity, and Beauty" by Washington, along with praise from Thomas Jefferson.
Thornton was inspired by the east front of the Louvre, as well as the Paris Pantheon for the center portion of the design.
Thornton's design was officially approved in a letter dated 5th. April 1793 from Washington, and Thornton served as the first Architect of the Capitol (and in fact later as the first Superintendent of the United States Patent and Trademark Office).
In an effort to console Hallet, the commissioners appointed him to review Thornton's plans, develop cost estimates, and serve as superintendent of construction. Hallet proceeded to pick apart and make drastic changes to Thornton's design, which he saw as costly to build and problematic.
In July 1793, Jefferson convened a five-member commission, bringing Hallet and Thornton together, along with James Hoban (winning architect of the "President's Palace") to address problems with and revise Thornton's plan.
Hallet suggested changes to the floor plan which could be fitted within the exterior design by Thornton. The revised plan was accepted, except that Secretary Jefferson and President Washington insisted on an open recess in the center of the East front, which was part of Thornton's original plan.
The original design by Thornton was later modified by the British-American architects Benjamin Henry Latrobe Sr., and then Charles Bulfinch.
The current cast-iron dome and the House's new southern extension and Senate new northern wing were designed by Thomas Ustick Walter and August Schoenborn, a German immigrant, in the 1850's, and were completed under the supervision of Edward Clark.
Construction of the Capitol
L'Enfant secured the lease of quarries at Wigginton Island and along Aquia Creek in Virginia for use in the foundations and outer walls of the Capitol in November 1791.
Surveying was under way soon after the Jefferson conference plan for the Capitol was accepted. On the 18th. September 1793, President George Washington, along with eight other Freemasons dressed in masonic regalia, laid the cornerstone, which was made by silversmith Caleb Bentley.
Construction proceeded with Hallet working under the supervision of James Hoban, who was also busy working on construction of the "President's House" (also later known as the "Executive Mansion").
Despite the wishes of Jefferson and the President, Hallet went ahead anyway and modified Thornton's design for the East Front and created a square central court that projected from the center, with flanking wings which would house the legislative bodies. Hallet was dismissed by Secretary Jefferson on the 15th. November 1794.
George Hadfield was hired on the 15th. October 1795 as Superintendent of Construction, but resigned three years later in May 1798, because of his dissatisfaction with Thornton's plan and the quality of work done thus far.
The Senate (north) wing was completed in 1800. The Senate and House shared quarters in the north wing until a temporary wooden pavilion was erected on the future site of the House wing which served for a few years for the Representatives to meet in, until the House of Representatives (south) wing was finally completed in 1811.
There was a covered wooden temporary walkway connecting the two wings with the Congressional chambers where the future center section with rotunda and dome would eventually be.
However, the House of Representatives moved early into their House wing in 1807. Though the Senate wing building was incomplete, the Capitol held its first session of the United States Congress with both chambers in session on the 17th. November 1800.
The National Legislature was moved to Washington prematurely, at the urging of President John Adams, in hopes of securing enough Southern votes in the Electoral College to be re-elected for a second term as president.
The War of 1812
Not long after the completion of both wings, the Capitol was partially burned by the British on the 24th. August 1814, during the War of 1812.
George Bomford and Joseph Gardner Swift, both military engineers, were called upon to help rebuild the Capitol. Reconstruction began in 1815, and included re-designed chambers for both Senate and House wings (now sides), which were completed by 1819.
Construction continued through to 1826, with the addition of the center section with front steps and columned portico and an interior Rotunda rising above the first low dome of the Capitol.
Latrobe is principally connected with the original construction and many innovative interior features; his successor Bulfinch also played a major role, such as design of the first low dome covered in copper.
The House and Senate Wings
By 1850, it was clear that the Capitol could not accommodate the growing number of legislators arriving from newly admitted states.
A new design competition was held, and President Millard Fillmore appointed Philadelphia architect Thomas U. Walter to carry out the expansion. Two new wings were added: a new chamber for the House of Representatives on the south side, and a new chamber for the Senate on the north.
When the Capitol was expanded in the 1850's, some of the construction labor was carried out by slaves "who cut the logs, laid the stones and baked the bricks".
The original plan was to use workers brought in from Europe, but there was a poor response to recruitment efforts. African Americans, some free and some enslaved, along with Scottish stonemasons, comprised most of the workforce.
The Capitol Dome
The 1850 expansion more than doubled the length of the United States Capitol; it dwarfed the original, timber-framed, copper-sheeted, low dome of 1818, designed by Charles Bulfinch which was no longer in proportion with the increased size of the building.
In 1855, the decision was made to tear it down and replace it with the "wedding-cake style" cast-iron dome that stands today. Also designed by Thomas U. Walter, the new dome would stand three times the height of the original dome and 100 feet (30 m) in diameter, yet had to be supported on the existing masonry piers.
Like Mansart's dome at Les Invalides in Paris (which he had visited in 1838), Walter's dome is double, with a large oculus in the inner dome.
Through the oculus can be seen The Apotheosis of Washington painted on a shell suspended from the supporting ribs, which also support the visible exterior structure.
They also support the tholos that supports the Statue of Freedom, a colossal statue that was raised to the top of the dome in 1863. The statue invokes the goddesses Minerva or Athena.
The cast iron for the dome weighs 8,909,200 pounds (4,041,100 kg). The dome's cast iron frame was supplied and constructed by the iron foundry Janes, Fowler, Kirtland & Co.
A steep, metal staircase, totaling 365 steps, leads from the basement to an outdoor walkway on top of the Capitol's dome. The number of steps represents each day of the year.
Later Expansion of the Capitol
When the Capitol's new dome was finally completed, its massive size overpowered the proportions of the columns of the East Portico, built in 1828.
Accordingly in 1904, the East Front of the Capitol building was rebuilt, following a design of the architects Carrère and Hastings.
In 1958, the next major expansion to the Capitol started, with a 33.5-foot (10.2 m) extension of the East Portico. In 1960, two years into the project, the dome underwent a restoration. A marble duplicate of the sandstone East Front was built 33.5 feet (10.2 m) from the old Front.
In 1962, a connecting extension repurposed what had been an outside wall as an inside wall. In the process, the original sandstone Corinthian columns were removed and replaced with marble.
It was not until 1984 that landscape designer Russell Page created a suitable setting for them in a large meadow at the U.S. National Arboretum in northeast Washington as the National Capitol Columns, where they were combined with a reflecting pool into an ensemble that is reminiscent of the ruins of Persepolis, in Persia.
Besides the columns, hundreds of blocks of the original stone were removed and are stored behind a National Park Service maintenance yard in Rock Creek Park.
The Capitol Building was ranked Number 6 in a 2007 survey conducted for the American Institute of Architects' "America's Favorite Architecture" list.
The Capitol draws heavily on other notable buildings, especially churches and landmarks in Europe, including the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican and St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
On the roofs of the Senate and House Chambers are flagpoles that fly the U.S. flag whenever either is in session.
On the 18th. September 1993, to commemorate the Capitol's bicentennial, the Masonic ritual cornerstone laying with George Washington was re-enacted by Freemason politicians.
The Capitol Visitor Center (CVC)
On the 20th. June 2000, ground was broken for the Capitol Visitor Center, which opened on the 2nd. December 2008. From 2001 through 2008, the East Front of the Capitol (site of most presidential inaugurations until Ronald Reagan began a new tradition in 1981) was the site of construction for this massive underground complex, designed to facilitate a more orderly entrance for visitors to the Capitol.
Prior to the center being built, visitors to the Capitol had to line up in the basement of the Cannon House Office Building or the Russell Senate Office Building. The new underground facility provides a grand entrance hall, a visitors' theater, room for exhibits, and dining and restroom facilities, in addition to space for building necessities such as a service tunnel.
The CVC provides a single security checkpoint for all visitors, including those with disabilities. The complex contains 580,000 square feet (13.3 acres or 54,000 m2) of space below ground on three floors, and offers visitors a food court and educational exhibits, including an 11-foot scale model of the Capitol dome. It also features skylights affording views of the actual dome.
Long in the planning stages, construction began in the fall of 2001, following the killing of two Capitol police officers in 1998. The estimated final cost of constructing the CVC was $621 million.
Dome Restoration
A large-scale Capitol dome restoration project, the first extensive such work since 1959–1960, began in 2014, with completion scheduled before the 2017 presidential inauguration.
As of 2012, $20 million in work around the skirt of the dome had been completed, but other deterioration, including at least 1,300 cracks in the brittle iron that have led to rusting and seepage inside, needed to be addressed.
Before the August 2012 recess, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to spend $61 million to repair the exterior of the dome. In late 2013, it was announced that renovations would take place over two years, starting in spring 2014. Extensive scaffolding was erected in 2014, enclosing and obscuring the dome. All exterior scaffolding was removed by mid-September 2016.
With the increased use of technologies such as the Internet, a bid tendering process was approved in 2001/2002 for a contract to install the multidirectional radio communication network for Wi-Fi and mobile-phones within the Capitol Building and annexes, followed by the new Capitol Visitor Center.
Capitol Building Art
The Capitol has a long history in art of the United States, beginning in 1856 with Italian/Greek American artist Constantino Brumidi and his murals in the hallways of the first floor of the Senate side of the Capitol. The murals, known as the Brumidi Corridors, reflect great moments and people in United States history.
Among the original works are those depicting Benjamin Franklin, John Fitch, Robert Fulton, and events such as the Cession of Louisiana. Also decorating the walls are animals, insects and natural flora indigenous to the United States. Brumidi's design left many spaces open so that future events in United States history could be added. Among those added are the Spirit of St. Louis, the Moon landing, and the Space Shuttle Challenger crew.
Brumidi also worked within the Rotunda. He is responsible for the painting of The Apotheosis of Washington beneath the top of the dome, and also the Frieze of American History. The Apotheosis of Washington was completed in 11 months and painted by Brumidi while suspended nearly 180 feet (55 m) in the air. It is said to be the first attempt by the United States to deify a founding father.
Washington is depicted surrounded by 13 maidens in an inner ring with many Greek and Roman gods and goddesses below him in a second ring. The frieze is located around the inside of the base of the dome and is a chronological, pictorial history of the United States from the landing of Christopher Columbus to the Wright Brothers's flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
The frieze was started in 1878 and was not completed until 1953. The frieze was painted by four different artists: Brumidi, Filippo Costaggini, Charles Ayer Whipple, and Allyn Cox. The final scenes depicted in the fresco had not yet occurred when Brumidi began his Frieze of the United States History.
Within the Rotunda there are eight large paintings about the development of the United States as a nation. On the east side are four paintings depicting major events in the discovery of America. On the west are four paintings depicting the founding of the United States. The east side paintings include The Baptism of Pocahontas by John Gadsby Chapman, The Embarkation of the Pilgrims by Robert Walter Weir, The Discovery of the Mississippi by William Henry Powell, and The Landing of Columbus by John Vanderlyn.
The paintings on the west side are by John Trumbull: Declaration of Independence, Surrender of General Burgoyne, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, and General George Washington Resigning His Commission. Trumbull was a contemporary of the United States' founding fathers and a participant in the American Revolutionary War; he painted a self-portrait into Surrender of Lord Cornwallis.
The Capitol also houses the National Statuary Hall Collection, comprising two statues donated by each of the fifty states to honor persons notable in their histories. One of the most notable statues is a bronze statue of King Kamehameha donated by the state of Hawaii upon its accession to the union in 1959.
The statue's extraordinary weight of 15,000 pounds (6,800 kg) raised concerns that it might come crashing through the floor, so it was moved to Emancipation Hall of the new Capitol Visitor Center.
The Capitol Crypt
On the ground floor is an area known as the Crypt. It was intended to be the burial place of George Washington, with a ringed balustrade at the center of the Rotunda above looking down to his tomb. However, under the stipulations of his last will, Washington was buried at Mount Vernon.
The Crypt houses exhibits on the history of the Capitol. A compass star inlaid in the floor marks the point at which Washington, D.C. is divided into its four quadrants and is the basis for how addresses in Washington, D.C., are designated (NE, NW, SE, or SW).
Within the Crypt is Gutzon Borglum's massive Abraham Lincoln Bust. The sculptor had a fascination with large-scale art and themes of heroic nationalism, and carved the piece from a six-ton block of marble. Borglum carved the bust in 1908, and it was donated to the Congress by Eugene Meyer Jr.
Borglum was a patriot; believing that "The monuments we have built are not our own", he looked to create art that was "American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement", according to a 1908 interview article.
Borglum's depiction of Lincoln was so accurate, that Robert Todd Lincoln, the president's son, praised the bust as:
"The most extraordinarily good portrait
of my father that I have ever seen".
According to legend, the marble head remains unfinished (missing the left ear) to symbolize Lincoln's unfinished life.
The pedestal was specially designed by the sculptor and installed in 1911. The bust and pedestal were on display in the Rotunda for many years until 1979 when, after a rearrangement of all sculpture in the Rotunda, they were placed in the Crypt.
At one end of the Crypt is a statue of John C. Calhoun. On the right leg of the statue, a mark from a bullet fired during the 1998 shooting incident is clearly visible. The bullet also left a mark on the cape, located on the back right side of the statue.
Twelve presidents have lain in state in the Rotunda for public viewing, most recently George H. W. Bush. The tomb meant for Washington stored the catafalque which is used to support coffins lying in state or honor in the Capitol. The catafalque now on display in the Exhibition Hall of the Capitol Visitor Center was used for President Lincoln.
The Hall of Columns is located on the House side of the Capitol, home to twenty-eight fluted columns and statues from the National Statuary Hall Collection.
In the basement of the Capitol building in a utility room are two marble bathtubs, which are all that remain of the once elaborate Senate baths. These baths were a spa-like facility designed for members of Congress and their guests before many buildings in the city had modern plumbing. The facilities included several bathtubs, a barbershop, and a massage parlor.
Height of the Capitol Building
Contrary to a popular myth, D.C. building height laws have never referred to the height of the Capitol building, which rises to 289 feet (88 m). Indeed, the Capitol is only the fourth-tallest structure in Washington.
The House of Representatives Chamber
The House of Representatives Chamber has 448 permanent seats. Unlike senators, representatives do not have assigned seats. The chamber is large enough to accommodate members of all three branches of the federal government and invited guests for joint sessions of Congress such as the State of the Union speech and other events.
The Chamber is adorned with relief portraits of famous lawmakers throughout history. The United States national motto "In God We Trust" is written over the tribune below the clock and above the United States flag. Of the twenty-three relief portraits, only Moses is sculpted from a full front view and is located across from the dais where the Speaker of the House ceremonially sits.
There is also a quote etched in the marble of the chamber, as stated by venerable statesman Daniel Webster:
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth
its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its
great interests, and see whether we also, in our day
and generation, may not perform something worthy
to be remembered."
The Senate Chamber
The current Senate Chamber opened in 1859 and is adorned with white marble busts of the former Presidents of the Senate.
The Capitol Grounds
The Capitol Grounds cover 274 acres (1.11 km2), with the grounds consisting mostly of lawns, walkways, streets, drives, and planting areas. The current grounds were designed by noted American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who planned the landscaping from 1874 to 1892. In 1875, as one of his first recommendations, Olmsted proposed the construction of the marble terraces on the north, west, and south sides of the building that exist today.
Olmsted also designed the Summerhouse, the open-air brick building that sits just north of the Capitol. Three arches open into the hexagonal structure, which encloses a fountain and twenty-two brick chairs. A fourth wall holds a small window which looks onto an artificial grotto.
Built between 1879 and 1881, the Summerhouse was intended to answer complaints that visitors to the Capitol had nowhere to sit and no place to obtain water for their horses and themselves. Modern drinking fountains have since replaced Olmsted's fountain for the latter purpose. Olmsted intended to build a second, matching Summerhouse on the southern side of the Capitol, but congressional objections led to the project's cancellation.
Security
The U.S. Capitol is believed to have been the intended target of United Airlines Flight 93, one of the four planes that were hijacked on the 11th. September 2001. The plane crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers tried to regain control of the plane from the hijackers.
Since the 9/11 attacks, the roads and grounds around the Capitol have undergone dramatic changes. The Capitol Police have also installed checkpoints to inspect vehicles at specific locations around Capitol Hill, and have closed a section of one street indefinitely.
The level of screening employed varies. On the main east–west thoroughfares of Constitution and Independence Avenues, barricades are implanted in the roads that can be raised in the event of an emergency. Trucks larger than pickups are interdicted by the Capitol Police, and are instructed to use other routes.
On the checkpoints at the shorter cross streets, the barriers are typically kept in a permanent "emergency" position, and only vehicles with special permits are allowed to pass.
All Capitol visitors are screened by a magnetometer, and all items that visitors bring inside the building are screened by an x-ray device.
In both chambers, gas masks are located underneath the chairs in each chamber for members to use in case of emergency.
Structures ranging from scores of Jersey barriers made of pre-cast concrete to hundreds of ornamental bollards have been erected to obstruct the path of any vehicles that might stray from the designated roadways.
After the 2021 United States Capitol attack, security increased again. Additional security fences were installed around the perimeter, and National Guard troops were deployed to bolster security.
Violent and Dangerous Incidents at the Capitol
-- On the 30th. January 1835, the first attempt to kill a sitting President of the United States occurred just outside the United States Capitol. As President Andrew Jackson was leaving the Capitol out of the East Portico after the funeral of South Carolina Representative Warren R. Davis, Richard Lawrence, an unemployed and deranged housepainter from England, either burst from a crowd or stepped out from hiding behind a column and aimed a pistol at Jackson which misfired.
Lawrence then pulled out a second pistol which also misfired. It is believed that moisture from the humid weather on the day contributed to the double misfiring.
Lawrence was then restrained, with legend saying that Jackson attacked Lawrence with his cane, prompting his aides to restrain him. Others present, including Davy Crockett, restrained and disarmed Lawrence.
-- On the 23rd. April 1844, House-Speaker John White was involved in a physical confrontation on the House floor with Democratic Congressman George O. Rathbun of New York.
White was delivering a speech in defense of Senator Henry Clay, and objected to a ruling from the Speaker denying him time to conclude his remarks. When Rathbun told White to be quiet, White confronted him, and their disagreement led to a fistfight between the two, with dozens of their colleagues rushing to break up the fight.
During the disturbance, an unknown visitor fired a pistol into the crowd, wounding a police officer. Both White and Rathbun subsequently apologized for their actions.
-- On the 2nd. July 1915, prior to the United States' entry into the Great War, Eric Muenter (aka Frank Holt), a German professor who wanted to stop American support of the Allies, exploded a bomb in the reception room of the U.S. Senate.
The next morning he tried to assassinate J. P. Morgan Jr., son of the financier, at his home on Long Island, New York. J.P. Morgan's company served as Great Britain's principal U.S. purchasing agent for munitions and other war supplies.
In a letter to the Washington Evening Star published after the explosion, Muenter, writing under an assumed name, said:
"I hope that the detonation will make
enough noise to be heard above the
voices that clamor for war."
-- In the 1954 United States Capitol shooting, Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on members of Congress from the visitors' gallery, injuring five representatives.
-- On the 1st. March 1971, a bomb exploded on the ground floor of the Capitol, placed by the far-left domestic terrorist group the Weather Underground. They placed the bomb as a demonstration against U.S. involvement in Laos.
-- In the 1983 United States Senate bombing, a group called the Armed Resistance Unit claimed responsibility for a bomb that detonated in the lobby outside the office of Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd.
Six people associated with the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee were later found in contempt of court for refusing to testify about the bombing.
In 1990, three members of the Armed Resistance Unit were convicted of the bombing, which they claimed was in response to the invasion of Grenada.
-- In the 1998 United States Capitol shooting, Russell Eugene Weston Jr. burst into the Capitol and opened fire, killing two Capitol Police officers, Officer Jacob Chestnut and Det. John Gibson.
-- In 2004, the Capitol was briefly evacuated after a plane carrying the then-Governor of Kentucky, Ernie Fletcher, strayed into restricted airspace above the district.
-- In 2013, Miriam Carey, 34, a dental hygienist from Stamford, Connecticut, attempted to drive through a White House security checkpoint in her black Infiniti G37 coupe, struck a U.S. Secret Service officer, and was chased by the Secret Service to the United States Capitol where she was fatally shot by law enforcement officers.
-- A shooting incident occurred in March 2016. One female bystander was wounded by police but not seriously injured; a man pointing a gun was shot and arrested, in critical but stable condition. The city police of Washington D.C. described the shooting incident as "isolated".
-- In the 2021 United States Capitol attack, during the counting of electoral college votes for the 2020 United States presidential election, a pro-Trump rally resulted in a mob that violently stormed the Capitol.
The rioters unlawfully entered the Capitol during the joint session of Congress certifying the election of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, temporarily disrupting the proceedings.
This triggered a lockdown in the building. Vice President Mike Pence, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and other staff members were evacuated, while others were instructed to barricade themselves inside offices and closets.
The rioters breached the Senate Chamber and multiple staff offices, including the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
One person was shot by law enforcement, and later succumbed to the injury. President-elect Joe Biden criticized the violence as "insurrection" and said democracy was "under unprecedented assault" as a result of the attack.
The attack resulted in the deaths of four rioters, including a woman who was shot as she attempted to breach the Capitol. The events ultimately led to the second impeachment of Donald Trump.
It was the first time that the Capitol had been violently seized since 1814, when it was taken by the British.
-- In the April 2021 United States Capitol car attack, a black nationalist rammed a car into barriers outside the Capitol, hitting several Capitol Police Officers before exiting his vehicle and attempting to attack others with a knife.
An officer hit by the attacker's car died shortly thereafter. The attacker was shot by Capitol Police and later died of his injuries.
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 15th. March 1964, actors Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, who had co-starred in the 1963 film Cleopatra as lovers Mark Antony and Cleopatra, married in Montreal.
The couple divorced in 1974, and then remarried in 1975 before divorcing again in 1976.
Early Anti-Vietnam War Feeling
Also on that day, in what one historian described as "the earliest expression of antiwar feeling among American college students" in response to the Vietnam War, students at Yale University concluded a three-day long conference on socialism.
The conference included members of the new Students for a Democratic Society, and launched the "May 2nd. Movement" (M2M).
The conference adjourned with plans for an antiwar demonstration in New York City for the 2nd. May 1964.
Zbigniew Jan Dunikowski
The 15th. March 1964 alsomarked the death at the age of 74 of Zbigniew Jan Dunikowski.
Dunikowski was a Polish born "alchemist" and convicted swindler who claimed that he had discovered a process for synthesizing gold from the silica in ordinary sand.
After persuading investors to purchase shares of his Belgian company, Metallex, he was arrested in 1931 and sentenced to two years in a French prison following his conviction for fraud.
Al Salameyah – Hama Governorate: FAO reached 200 women headed-households with poultry package.
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Thursday, 2 April 2015: Chumling (2385 m) to Chhokang Paro (3030 m)
A mega day taking the high route via Chumchet, Yarcho, Gompa Goan, Lari and Puh, distributing LED solar lights carried by porter Henry, before dropping down to the Sardi Khola / Syar Khola / Tsum Chu at Domje and climbing back up to Chhokang Paro where we were met by Namgyal’s mum, bringing tea and snacks to help us on the final mile or so to their home.
En route, lots of Tibetan tea, tsampa, rice and veg; offers of arak and chang; ~2000m ascent… visits to homes, schools, a monastery and a nunnery, high in the mountains of Upper Tsum Valley.
Wonderful.
Map from Günter Seyfferth’s Die Berge des Himalaya (The mountains of Himalaya).
Read more about my Tsum Valley trek with Val Pitkethly.
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Distribution of Solar LED Lanterns to best performing students of PEP Schools under Pervaiz Lodhie’s Pehli Kiran ( First ray of Light) initiative
Dated: Saturday March 12, 2016
Location: Raichand Meghwar Primary School
Old Mirpur, District Mirpurkhas
&
Sunflower Primary School,
Khawaja District Tando Allahyar
Giving Solar Lanterns as a prize to the best performing students is not a new initiative of Pervaiz Lodhie. In previous years Lodhie Foundation has extended his initiative to various schools in Sindh and Punjab.
Inspiring with the idea, Mr. Jonathan Mitchell PHD President and Founder of Concentric development Inc. invited Pervaiz Lodhie to extend his program of distributing solar lanterns as prizes in PEP schools. Pervaiz Lodhie has immediately offered to gift 249 lanterns, allowing for three prizes per school. His suggestion was to distribute them to 1)Top student of the year 2) Top most improved student of the year 3) Top best attendance student of the year.
Mr. Lodhie also suggested encouraging the prize recipients to teach a short literacy course to family members or relatives.
During his recent visit to Pakistan in March 2016, Pervaiz visited the two schools in Mirpurkas and Tando Allahyar and distributed the solar lanterns to the 7 best students. Remaining 242 lanterns will be distributed in first and second week of April 2016
The Primary Education Project (PEP) is a part of the education work of Diocese of Hyderabad that is working to provide sustainable quality education to the poorest children of Rural Sindh, Pakistan. PEP has been involved in the work of education since 2002 and currently has 83 schools in the five district areas of rural Sindh, which are Badin, Sanghar, Mirpurkhas, Tando Allahyar and Umerkot. At Present 4970 students are enrolled in 83 schools.
Participants from Lodhie Foundation/Shaantech:
Pervaiz Lodhie, President and Founder LEDtronics Inc and Shaan Technologies Pakistan, Founder Lodhie Foundation
Shahid Siddique General Manager Shaan Technologies private Limited
Sohaib Ahmed Sheikh, Business development Executive
Participant from Primary Education project (PEP):
Lilian Charles, Program Manager PEP,
Parkash Peter , Smile Coordinator
Salvin John Aadiyal, Media Manager at Primary Education Project (PEP)
Rubus is a large genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, subfamily Rosoideae. Raspberries, blackberries, and dewberries are common, widely distributed members of the genus. Most of these plants have woody stems with prickles like roses; spines, bristles, and gland-tipped hairs are also common in the genus. The Rubus fruit, sometimes called a bramble fruit, is an aggregate of drupelets. The term "cane fruit" (or "cane-fruit") applies to any Rubus species or hybrid which is commonly grown with supports such as wires or canes, including raspberries, blackberries, and hybrids such as loganberry, boysenberry and tayberry. (Wikipedia)
Recognised as one of the worst weeds in Australia, blackberry was declared a Weed of National Significance (WoNS) in 1999. Blackberries belong to a large genus (group of species) called Rubus which includes other berry plants such as raspberries (R. idaeus), dewberries (R. roribaccus), and loganberries (R. loganobaccus).
In NSW the group of blackberries that are considered to be noxious weeds are referred to as the Rubus fruticosus aggregate (R. fruticosus agg.) or, commonly, as European blackberries.
Currently there are 16 species in the R. fruticosus aggregate that occur in Australia, with the following nine species occurring in NSW and Victoria:
R. anglocandicans NSW; VIC
R. leucostachys NSW; VIC
R. polyanthemus NSW; VIC
R. laciniatus NSW; VIC
R. ulmifolius var. ulmifolius NSW; VIC
R. ulmifolius var. anoplothyrsus NSW; VIC
R. vestitus NSW; VIC
R. leightonii NSW
R. phaeocarpus NSW
R. cissburiensis VIC
R. erythrops VIC
www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/weeds/profiles...
www.depi.vic.gov.au/agriculture-and-food/pests-diseases-a...
The Langley Air Force Base honor guard presents the colors at the ribbon cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of the 497th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group’s new Distributed Ground Systems building at Langley Air Force Base, Va. The group is responsible for analyzing and reporting elements of imagery and signals intelligence for a wide array of intelligence platforms. (U.S. Army Photo/Patrick Bloodgood)
Unbekannter Künstler – Unknown artist
Eventuell David Vinckboons, Mechelen 1576 – Amsterdam 1632 in Amsterdam
Brotverteilung im Aalmoezenierhuis – Distributing bread at the Aalmoezenierhuis (1627)
Amsterdam Museum
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The shikra (Accipiter badius) is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae found widely distributed in Asia and Africa where it is also called the little banded goshawk. The African forms may represent a separate species but have usually been considered as subspecies of the shikra. The shikra is very similar in appearance to other sparrowhawk species including the Chinese goshawk and Eurasian sparrowhawk. They have a sharp two note call and have the typical flap and glide flight. Their calls are imitated by drongos and the common hawk-cuckoo resembles it in plumage.
The shikra is a small raptor (26–30 cm long) and like most other Accipiter hawks, this species has short rounded wings and a narrow and somewhat long tail. Adults are whitish on the underside with fine rufous bars while the upperparts are grey. The lower belly is less barred and the thighs are whitish. Males have a red iris while the females have a less red (yellowish orange) iris and brownish upperparts apart from heavier barring on the underparts. The females are slightly larger. The mesial stripe on the throat is dark but narrow. In flight the male seen from below shows a light wing lining (underwing coverts) and has blackish wing tips. When seen from above the tail bands are faintly marked on the lateral tail feathers and not as strongly marked as in the Eurasian sparrowhawk. The central tail feathers are unbanded and only have a dark terminal band. Juveniles have dark streaks and spots on the upper breast and the wing is narrowly barred while the tail has dark but narrow bands. A post juvenile transitional plumage is found with very strong barring on the contour feathers of the underside. The call is pee-wee, the first note being higher and the second being longer. In flight the calls are shorter and sharper kik-ki ... kik-ki. The Chinese sparrowhawk is somewhat similar in appearance but has swollen bright orange ceres and yellow legs with the wing tips entirely black
Unstated Athens location. Press photo distributed by Hellenic Photoreportage Association.
The first earthquake occurred at 22:53 on 24 February, with a magnitude of 6.7 R. The second earthquake followed during the night, at 04:53 on 25 February, with a magnitude of 6.4 R. Ten days later, the third earthquake occurred, also with magnitude of 6.4. Some 20 people were killed, 500 injured, over 7,000 buildings destroyed and another 21,000 seriously damaged. The areas primarily affected were Attika, Beotia and Korinthia.
Scanned from private collection of MBE
Located in the middle of an unidentified CN freight passing through Jasper AB is GE C44-9W number 2525.
Thursday, 2 April 2015: Chumling (2385 m) to Chhokang Paro (3030 m)
A mega day taking the high route via Chumchet, Yarcho, Gompa Goan, Lari and Puh, distributing LED solar lights carried by porter Henry, before dropping down to the Sardi Khola / Syar Khola / Tsum Chu at Domje and climbing back up to Chhokang Paro where we were met by Namgyal’s mum, bringing tea and snacks to help us on the final mile or so to their home.
En route, lots of Tibetan tea, tsampa, rice and veg; offers of arak and chang; ~2000m ascent… visits to homes, schools, a monastery and a nunnery, high in the mountains of Upper Tsum Valley.
Wonderful.
Map from Günter Seyfferth’s Die Berge des Himalaya (The mountains of Himalaya).
Read more about my Tsum Valley trek with Val Pitkethly.
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Operation Homefront distributed 300 backpacks filled with school supplies to military children stationed at Altus AFB and Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma. Altus Airman and Family Readiness Center held a "Snag a Bag" drive thru event on 6 August and on 8 August, in partnership with the Home Depot store #3914, associates handed out backpacks and kids workshop kits to military families, providing much needed supplies for the upcoming school year and a little weekend craft activity.
On October 16th, 2016 Monareliefye.org has begun today distributing school bags to 3000 pupils in Yemen’s Amanat al-Asimah, Sana'a and Hodeidah governorates ahead of the new school year.
Our distribution today was carried out in some schools in Amanat al-Asimah.
Affected children are supported to return to school as schools are made functional, access and retention of children at school is improved and children are supported to access learning through alternative modalities.
To ensure that children don’t completely miss out on their education, Mona Relief trying to support students with scholastic materials.
Facts about education in Yemen
Millions of children out of school and scores of teachers unpaid - At least two million children, nearly 27 per cent of school-age children are out of school, according to UNICEF. More than 1,690 schools are currently unfit for use due to conflict-related damage, hosting of IDPs or occupation by armed groups. About 2.3 million children need support to access education, including 1.1 million in areas that are acutely affected by conflict. Months of unpaid salaries have aggravated matters. More than 166,000 teachers have had problems receiving their salaries since October 2016 - about 73 per cent of the total number of teachers in Yemen.
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