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Native divi-divi tree on the beach in Aruba. Very easy access, just pulled off on the side of the road for this quick pic on the way to our hotel. Pic doesn't do it justice, the water there is amazing and the sunsets are gorgeous.
Italian postcard in the Divi e Divine series by La Casa Usher. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Barkleys of Broadway (Charles Walters, 1949).
American dancer and actor Fred Astaire (1899-1987) was a unique dancer with his top hat and tails, his uncanny sense of rhythm, perfectionism, and innovation. He began his highly successful partnership with Ginger Rogers in Flying Down to Rio (1933). They danced together in 10 musicals in which he made all song and dance routines integral to the plotlines. Another innovation was that a closely tracking dolly camera filmed his dance routines in as few shots as possible.
American actress, dancer, and singer Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) made 73 films during her long career. Her RKO musicals with Fred Astaire revolutionised the genre. Later, Rogers began to branch out into dramas and comedies. For Kitty Foyle (1940) she won the Oscar for Best Actress, and she became one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s.
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Divus Titus
Class / status: Ancient rulers embossing Authority: Domitian
Denomination: Sestertius
Date: 81-82 AD..
Mint: Rome
Obverse: DIVO AVG T DIVI VESP F VESPASIAN // S C. Titus in Toga sitting on chair curulischem l, surrounded by weapons:.. L shield and helmet, r. two shields and spears, beside him armor and helmet. In the r. Hand he holds a branch, in l. Hand a scroll (by volume).
Reverse: Perspective view of the Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater). Three arcades bullets, the two-storey interior filled with spectators. Full l. Fountain (meta sudan), r. Part of a two-storey building (Titus Thermen?).
Numismatic, National Museums in Berlin
Acc. 1925 Kassel
Bronze, Sesterz, 24,83 g, 33 mm, 6 h
Reference: RIC II-1 ² No. 131 (Rome, 81-82 AD..);. BNAT III # 543. .. N. T. Elkins, Locating the Imperial box in the Flavian amphitheater: the numismatic evidence, Numismatic Chronicle 2004 147ff bes 152 Note 22;. .. N. T. Elkins, The Flavian colosseum sestertii: Currency or largess ?, Numismatic Chronicle 2006 211 ff 217 type D No. 9 stamps A5 / P8 (same dies); N. T. Elkins, What are they doing here? Flavian Colosseum sestertii from archaeological contexts in Hessen and the Taunus-Wetterau Limes (with at Addendum to NC 2006), Numismatic Chronicle 199 et seq. Appendix A no. 9 Stamp A4 / P8 g. (This piece). See. RIC II Nr. 110 (there IMP T CAES VESP AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII). Cf. ibid p.208 by appointment..; BMCRE II no. 190-191 (also another legend). See. BMCRE II S. 262 n. To Nr. 191 (same Rs. legend, but others Vs.).
"As long as the Coliseum stands, is also Rome. When the Colosseum falls, falls and Rome. When Rome falls, falls the world "(Bede, 673-735 n. Chr.). - The Flavian amphitheater was n 100-day games in 80 AD inaugurated... It took about 50,000 spectators. His name Colosseum, goes back to a colossal statue of Nero which was then reworked to Helios, it contributes only since the Middle Ages. The theater was n to the 5th century.. Chr. Regularly in use.
Photographer Obverse: Reinhard Saczewski
Photographer Reverse: Reinhard Saczewski
Well, friends, it has been a LONG time since I have uploaded anything. Honestly, I feel like since my mother passed away, I lost my mojo. You'd THINK I would have buried myself in photography. But other aspects of my life have been very demanding. HOWEVER, I'm really trying to get my groove back. This summer, Phil and I took two vacations. We went to Aruba and Cape May (always Cape May!). So, I'm going to be uploading some pictures from those vacations and a few other day trips (NYC, etc) from this summer and whatever else I've been up to, piecemeal. One at a time. A few at at time. Tonight, I'll start with this Divi tree from Aruba. I was looking for the perfect Divi tree to photograph. I'm not sure I found it, but this is the one I got. I like it. I took this photo at dusk, with my iPhone. We actually went back the next day to photograph it again in daylight, with the "good" camera. But I have to say....this one is better!! (Although, I was irritated by the bucket underneath the tree. I wanted to move it, but someone was fishing nearby and I think it belonged to them. In fact, I'm even more irritated to see that that fisherperson snuck in on the left side of my image! How dare they interfere with my photo!!!)
I hope everyone is well!
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Waiuta (near Reefton), West Coast, South Island
Joseph Divis emigrated to New Zealand in 1909 from Bohemia. Already an experienced miner, he also took photographs to supplement his income.
Although living and working in different mining towns over the years, he eventually settled in the isolated goldmining town of Waiuta in 1930.
Many images taken by Divis can be identified because he appears in them: by using a shutter time release, he could set up the shot and then quickly get himself into position. Divis chronicled the town, the mine and important social events, capturing the essence of the hard life of a miner.
Joseph was injured in the Blackwater Mine in 1939 and never worked again. During WWII, he was interned as an enemy alien, and his health declined in captivity. When he returned to Waiuta in 1943, he was only able to move about on crutches.
After the Blackwater Mine closed in 1951, Divis was one of the few residents who decided to stay in Waiuta. Most of the houses were removed and, within a few years, Waiuta was a ghost town. The photographer/miner passed away in 1967, and his house gradually deteriorates...
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"À l'occasion du 153e anniversaire du poète letton Rainis (1865-1929), la Fondation de la Bibliothèque nationale de Lettonie "Art Needs Space", en collaboration avec la Bibliothèque nationale de Lettonie, a dévoilé la sculpture d'Aigars Bikše "Two Rainis", qui inclut symboliquement l'idée de la taille de la Lettonie, du développement dans le temps et de l'espace et de l'intérêt pour les événements."
DIVIA [8298 TH 53] - Diviacity
Dijon, rue de la Liberté - 17 août 2009
Véhicule en prêt aux transports Dijonnais
Gruau Microbus
A Christmas Tree Worm (Spirobranchus giganteus) off Divi Flamingo beach in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles.
I wonder if some of the creatures on Pandora in the movie Avatar, were based on this and other marine creatures... This one, for example, disappears quickly when touched or even approached rapidly.
My first picture in flickr to be viewed over 20,000 times
Apologies, that I deleted this before. My thoughts about one of the most beautiful woman I've met and how unusual she looks like here was clouded by judgements I never agreed with. And she does not give a fuck as well, I believe. I really like this shot. I made it exactly the way I wanted it.
Looking back from the Black mountain to Divis beyond. The National Trust's 2,000 acre site in the hills west of Belfast. Thankfully the water stayed in the clouds.
A view across Lough Neagh towards Divis Mountain in Co. Antrim, from the Clonoe area in Co. Tyrone. I always love these elevated views across the lough, where you get a sense of its size.
Italian postcard in the Divi del Cinema series by Vetta Traldi, Milano, no. 389. 112.
Athletic Italian actor Raf Vallone (1916-2002) was an internationally acclaimed film star, known for his rugged good looks.
Raffaele Vallone, known as Raf, was born in 1916, in Tropea, Calabria, Italy. He was the son of a prominent lawyer and his aristocratic wife. Vallone studied law and philosophy at the University of Turin and entered his father's law firm. He played semi-professional soccer but never realised his dream of becoming a professional athlete. Subsequently, he became a sports reporter for L'Unità, then the official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party, and also a film and drama critic for the Gazzetta del Popolo. During the Second World War, Vallone served with the anti-Fascist resistance. His first film appearance was as a sailor in Noi vivi/We the Living (Goffredo Alessandrini, 1942), but Vallone was not interested in an acting career. Originally hired as a researcher on a film about labor unrest, Giuseppe de Santis cast him in 1948 as a respectable sergeant competing with no-good Vittorio Gassman for the love of Silvana Mangano in Riso amaro/Bitter Rice (Giuseppe De Santis, 1949). De Santis pronounced Vallone a natural actor, and Riso amaro became one of the landmark films of the postwar Italian neorealist movement. Many fans came to see the film solely on the strength of the now-famous production still of the buxom Silvana Mangano standing in the rice field wearing tight shorts and torn black stockings. The box office success propelled both Mangano and the handsome Vallone into international stardom, and he ended his journalism career.
After his spectacular film acting debut, Raf Vallone played a succession of roles as heroic rural types struggling for survival amidst the uncertainties of postwar Italian life. He starred in the neorealist Il Camino Della Speranza/The Path of Hope (Pietro Germi, 1950) about the plight of illegal immigration, as experienced by a pair of Sicilian miners. That year he also starred in Il Cristo Proibito/Strange Deception, (1950), the film directorial debut of novelist Curzio Malaparte, who also wrote the musical score. The film combines a standard revenge tale with a postwar reenactment of the first four books of the New Testament. Giuseppe De Santis directed him in another exercise in neorealism, Non C'e Pace Tra Girl Ulivi/No Peace Under the Oliver Tree (1950). Vallone was reunited with Silvana Mangano and Vittorio Gassman in the melodrama Anna (Alberto Lattuada, 1951). He then started making films in French, German, and Spanish too. Vallone co-starred with major actresses like Anna Magnani in Camicie Rosse/Red Shirts (Franco Rosi, 1952), Sophia Loren in Il Segno di Venera/The Sign of Venus (Dino Risi, 1952), Simone Signoret in Therese Raquin/The Adulteress (Marcel Carné, 1952), Martine Carol in La Pensionnaire/The Boarder (Alberto Lattuada, 1954), Michelle Morgan in Domanda di Grazia/Obsession (Jean Delannoy, 1954), Maria Schell in Rose Bernd/The Sins of Rose Bernd (Wolfgang Staudte, 1957) and Carmen Sevila in La Venganza/The Vengeance (Juan Antonio Bardem, 1957). Some producers insisted upon casting him again and again as a jet-setting playboy, nattily attired in the latest fashions, a beautiful girl on each arm.
In the 1960s, Raf Vallone achieved popularity with American audiences, starting with his supporting roles in the Oscar-winning drama La ciociara/Two Women (Vittorio De Sica, 1960) and the medieval epic El Cid (Anthony Mann, 1961), both co-starring Sophia Loren. He also turned to the theatre, scoring a particular triumph in Paris in 1958 when he appeared in Peter Brook's production of Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge. The role of Eddie, an Italian-American dockworker tormented by desire for his niece, was tailor-made for Vallone, and he reprised it to great effect in the film version, A View from the Bridge (Sidney Lumet, 1962). Other roles in American films included The Cardinal (Otto Preminger, 1963), The Secret Invasion (Roger Corman, 1964), the biopic Harlow (Gordon M. Douglas, 1965) starring Carroll Baker, and Nevada Smith (Henry Hathaway, 1966) starring Steve McQueen. Among his European films were Phaedra (Jules Dassin, 1962) starring Melina Mercouri, Volver a Vivir (Mario Camus, 1967) and La Morte Risale A Ieri Sera/Death Took Place Last Night (Duccio Tessari, 1970). He appeared in such resounding failures as The Kremlin Letter (John Huston, 1970), Rosebud (Otto Preminger, 1974), and as John Exshaw mentioned in The Independent: “a slew of trashy melodramas in which Vallone's perpetually pained expression was presumably unfeigned.” He was memorable as the Mafia boss Altabani in the original The Italian Job (Peter Collinson, 1969) starring Michael Caine. He also played many priests during his long career, culminating with the well-rounded portrayal of Cardinal Alberti in The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990). This priest, the confessor of mobster Michael Corleone, becomes pope and is then murdered by the Mafia. After this role, he began curtailing his film work. In 2001 Vallone published his autobiography, L'alfabeto della memoria. One year later he died in Rome. Raf Vallone was married to actress Elena Varzi from 1952 until his death in 2002. They had three children, two of whom are actors, Eleonora Vallone and Saverio Vallone.
Sources: John Exshaw (The Independent), Jon C. Hopwood (IMDb), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Wikipedia, AllMovie, and IMDb.
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Divis Tower rises near the interface between Falls Road and Shankill Road. It is currently the sixth tallest building in Belfast.
Divis Tower is a 61-metre (200 ft) tall tower in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 20 floors tall, it was built in 1966 as part of the now-demolished Divis Flats complex. It is named after the nearby Divis Mountain. The complex of 850 flats, housing 2,400 residents was designed by architect Frank Robertson for the Northern Ireland Housing Trust.
Due to Provisional IRA activity in the area, the British Army constructed an observation post on the roof in the 1970s and occupied the top two floors of the building. At the height of the Troubles, the Army was only able to access the post by helicopter.
Divis Tower was a flashpoint area during the height of the Troubles. Nine-year-old Patrick Rooney, the first child killed in the Troubles, was killed in the tower during the Northern Ireland riots of August 1969, when the RUC fired a Browning machine gun from its Shorland armoured car into the flats. The RUC claimed that it was coming under sniper attack from the tower at the time. Patrick Rooney's death took place during a day of street violence in the area. Chairman of the enquiry into the riots, Mr Justice Scarman, found the use of the Browning machine gun "wholly unjustifiable".
On 12 May 1981, an Army sniper killed INLA member Emmanuel McClarnon from the top of Divis Tower on the night that Francis Hughes died on hunger strike.
Following the IRA's statement that it was ending its armed campaign, the Army decided to dismantle the observation post. Dubbed a 'spy' post by Sinn Féin, removal of the observation post commenced on 2 August 2005. In 2009 the top two floors of the tower floors were reinstated as residential properties. As part of a £1.1 million refurbishment programme by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive 8 extra flats were provided.
Inscription at the Library of Celsius proclaiming the Augustus the "Imperator" (Emperor, commander of the army), "Son of the Divine One" (Julius Caesar), and "Pontifex Maximus" (High Priest).
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
©2014 Patrick J Bayens
Eagle Beach is a beach and neighborhood of Oranjestad, Aruba. The neighborhood is famous for its many low-rise resorts and wide public beach. It has soft white sand and has been rated one of the best beaches in the world.
Divi-Divi Trees (Caesalpinia coriaria) is a leguminous tree or large shrub native to the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. C. coriaria rarely reaches its maximum height of 9m because its growth is contorted by the trade winds that batter the exposed coastal sites where it often grows. In other environments it grows into a low dome shape with a clear sub canopy space. It is one of the most recognisable sights of Aruba.