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The Musée des Arts et Métiers, (Museum of Arts and Crafts) is a museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (National Conservatory of Arts and Industry), which was founded in 1794 as a depository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions.
In 1794, Abbot Henri Gregoire founded the Conservatoire des Arts et Metiers, designed to be a collection of machines, tools and models created in the fields of technology and science. The Conservatory, established in 1802 and located in the old priory of Saint Martin des Champs, was also an institution of education and the fore-runner of the Musee des Arts et Metiers.
Since its foundation, the museum has been housed in the previosly deserted priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs in the rue Réaumur in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
The Benedictine priory and church of Saint Martin des Champs was built in the mid-11th century, the first Gothic structure to be built in Paris. However, this was destroyed and replaced with the church that stands there now, built in the 13th century.
Improvements on it continued through the years; Henri III constructed the large portal on rue St. Martin; in 1626, Mansart built the high altar in the apse; a cloister was completed in 1720.
During the French Revolution the priory was pillaged and the monks executed, leaving it deserted until the Conservatory occupied it in 1802.
During renovations in 1993, archaeological discoveries confirmed the existence of a Merovingian necropolis located beneath the nave of the medieval church, dating from the 6th-7th centuries. Over 100 plaster coffins were found.
The Musee des Arts et Metiers is organized into 7 departments: Scientific Instruments; Materials; Construction; Communication; Energy; Mechanics; Transportation. Each department is displayed chronologically.
The museum begins with Scientific Instruments, exhibiting tools of astronomy used for determining the place of the sun in the zodiac, weights and measures such as Charlemagne's Pile, the royal standard of weight at the end of the 15th century and Pascal's calculators, designed by Blaise Pascal when he was 19 years old.
The equipment of Antoine Lavoisier's laboratory from the mid-1700s is exhibited. Lavoisier is regarded as the father of modern chemistry.
The equipment used by Foucault for determining the speed of light is displayed, which he measured while working at the Observatory of Paris in 1862. Numerous other exhibits chronicle scientific development up to the 1990s and robotic technology.
In the Materials department we discover the creation of glass, brick and fabrics, including the development of looms and the factories which produce the vast quantities of the materials used today.
In the Construction section of the museum one can see the model used in 1690 for constructing Jules Mansart's Eglise du Dome at the Hôtel les Invalides.
Also exhibited is the model for constructing the dome of what was the Wheat Market of 1809, now the Bourse, the building for the Paris stock market, located adjacent to the Garden of Les Halles. This dome, built in 1763, was one of the first metal structures to be constructed in France.
In the Communication department are exhibited printing presses, typewriters, telephone equipment from the early 1900s, telegraph systems from 1860, radio development from 1924 onward, the history of cameras, phonographs, recording instruments for producing sound for cinema and satellites, with a model of the Telstar which enabled the first live trans-Atlantic television transmission in 1962 from New York to England.
The Energy department displays the history of the machinery used for harnessing every form of energy including steam, wind, electrical, atomic and solar.
The Mechanics department of the Musee des Arts et Metiers is impressive with its collection of the development of mechanical machinery. Here are several "hands-on" exhibits where one can operate pulleys and pumps and gears.
The Transportation department shows everything from the bicycle to rocket ships. This is the final department visited in the museum and an impressive section of it is located in the chapel of the old church.
Here we find the first "horseless carriages", steam powered trains, propeller driven racing cars, modern cars cut in half and complete airplanes which are suspended overhead, dramatically contrasting with the ceiling of this medieval church.
Also found in this part of the museum is an in-motion Foucault Pendulum. This 156 year old demonstration continues to fascinate and prove the measurable reality of Earth's rotation. The actual orb used by Foucault on February 3, 1851, at the Paris Observatory, his first public demonstration of his pendulum, is exhibited here and protected within a glass case.
The museum, which underwent major renovation in 1990, includes an additional building adjacent to the abbey, with larger objects remaining in the abbey itself.
The museum has over 80,000 objects and 15,000 drawings in its collection, with 40,000 at the Paris site.
The museum appears in literature as the scene of the climax of the novel Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
This is a close-up of, guess what, yup drops on the window. This one is part of the living room window in broad daylight. From a certain angle the little drops were refracting out little pinpoints of light from the sun.
The shot was taken deliberately defocussed (again), with the camera angled to the window rather than being straight on. This is why the size of the blurry circles varies from bottom left to top right - the ones at top right were closer to the camera.
I think a common theme is emerging for the source of a lot of my abstracts...
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Seen in Stamford Street, London SE1 today are two 8gp (girl power) pedi-buses.
Each person faces inwards whilst peddling away in order for the driver to steer the "bus". I'm not quite sure what the pink hair was all about....or the blow-up doll at the back !
Music and wine was flowing, but the overtaking cyclist had had enough.
Might need to enlarge the photo in order to understand what's going on.
Mingle Media TV's Red Carpet Report team were invited to cover the Premiere of Guardians of the Galaxy at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood directed by James Gunn and presented in Dolby 3D.
Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” is rated PG-13 and releases in U.S. theaters on August 1, 2014.
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Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” which first appeared in comic books in Marvel Super-Heroes, Issue #18 (Jan. 1969), is an action-packed, epic space adventure, that expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits—Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand—with the galaxy's fate in the balance. For more information please visit: marvel.com/guardians. Join the Conversation on Twitter: twitter.com/GuardiansGalaxy or Like them on Facebook: facebook.com/guardiansofthegalaxy
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1989 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Jim Hague during the afternoon race for Group 8B (1974-1990 Stock Cars with disc brakes) on Sunday at the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
STIG GORTHON: IMO 7724538
RORO vessel built 1979 by Gotaverken Finnboda at Stockholm, Sweden Yard No 406.
Launch Date: 10 June 1979 and Completed: Sept 1979
Tons: 4095 GRT / 6382DWT
Length overall:119.8M x Beam : 21.1M
Machinery : 1 Screw driven by 2 MaK Maschinenbau – 4 stroke single acting 8 cylinder oil engines
Speed : 14.5 knots
History POR = Port of Registry .
1979: STIG GORTHON : Gorthon Rederi A/B : POR Helsingborg
1994: Lengthened , new length(oa) 134.3M . New tonnages 10165 GRT / 7607 DWT. Converted to palletised cargo vessel
1999: PUHOS : Gorthon Rederi A/B : POR Helsingborg
2000: STIG GORTHON : Gorthon Rederi A/B : POR Helsingborg
2003: JABAL ALI 4 : Naif Marine Services Pvt : POR ?? ARE
2007: JABAL ALI 4 : Naif Marine Services Pvt : POR Aqaba
2016: SANAD I : Bin Nawi Marine Services LLC : POR ??
2016: SANAD I : Bin Nawi Marine Services LLC : POR Zanzibar
2018: Broken up at Gadani Beach
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THOMAS WEHR: IMO 7613404
RORO vessel built 1977 by Rickmers at Bremerhaven, Germany Yard No 388, launched as THOMAS WEHR
Launch Date: 18 Jan 1977 and Completed: Apr 1977
Tons: 1599 GRT / 2900DWT
Length overall:116.3M x Beam : 18.2M
Machinery : 2 Screws each driven by a MaK Maschinenbau – 4 stroke single acting 8 cylinder oil engine
Speed : 17.5 knots
History POR = Port of Registry .
1977: THOMAS WEHR : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Hamburg (As Launched)
1977: WACRO EXPRESS : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Hamburg
1978: THOMAS WEHR : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Hamburg
1982: Lengthened , new length(oa) 141.3M . New tonnages 7628 GRT / 4322 DWT.
1982:TOR NEELANDIA : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Hamburg
1985: DANA GERMANIA : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Hamburg
1986: THOMAS WEHR : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Hamburg
1993: MANA : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Saint John’s
1993: SANTA MARIA : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Saint John’s
1993: FULDATAL : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Saint John’s
1994: HORNLINK : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Saint John’s
1994: THOMAS WEHR : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Saint John’s
1996: THOMAS WEHR : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Hamburg
1999: THOMAS WEHR : P/R ms "Thomas Wehr" : POR Funafuti
2001: ANGLIAN WAY : Milieu Corp : POR Panama
2007: ANGLIAN WAY : Ro-RoCO NV : POR Valletta
2009: TAURINE : Ro-RoCO NV : POR Valletta
2010: LIDER SAMSUN : Kanita Shipping Co Ltd. : POR Belize City
2010: LIDER SAMSUN : Blackmore Shipping Co ltd : POR Belize City
2014: LIDER SAMSUN : Blackmore Shipping Co ltd : POR Zanzibar
2015: LIDER SAMSUN : Blackmore Shipping Co ltd : POR Malakal Harbour
2020: Still Extant (Equasis 6 Oct 2020)
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STIG GORTHON photographed, alongside THOMAS WEHR at Immingham on 18 June 1982.
1969 Datsun 510 driven by Ed Wolff during the Group 1 race on Saturday at the 2013 Jefferson 500.
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This is the Honda RA272.
Driven by Richie Ginther it was the first Japanese car to win a Grand Prix, at the 1965 Mexican Grand Prix.
This model was very hard to recreate with LEGO parts. Those smooth curves are always a problem and the back of the car, with tubes, engine and exhausts were very hard to put together.
It has steering and a V12 engine that can be seen when the hood is removed.
It was intended for the LUGNuts 35th Build Challenge, but it got delayed. So, it entered the 36th Build Challenge instead.
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Este é o Honda RA272.
Conduzido por Richie Ginther, foi o primeiro carro japonês a ganhar um grande prémio, em 1965 no Grande Prémio do México.
Este modelo foi muito difícil de recriar usando peças LEGO. As curvas suaves são sempre um problema e a traseira do carro, com tubos, motor e tubos de escape foram difíceis de construir.
Este modelo tem direcção e um motor V12 que pode ser visto quando se tira a tampa atrás do piloto.
Este carro tinha como objectivo o 35.º Desafio de Construção do LUGNuts mas houve um atraso. Assim, em vez disso, entrou no 36.º Desafio.
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I test drove this at Available Car in Castle Donington, Leicestershire.
If you are going to have a Volvo estate, then why not have the most nutty one available right?
The XC70 is nutty. 210mm of ground clearance, big plain plastic bumpers, M+S tyres, 4 wheel drive... even the dog guard is standard equipment (its is on gas struts so you can fold it up into the headlining when not required).
However, not is all it seems with this XC70. Its missing an important element that turns a nutty car into a nutty car that doesn't really make sense.
Excerpt from here: www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-reviews/volvo/volvo-xc70-drive-...
"On looks alone, this Volvo XC70 may seem like old news, yet it puts a whole new twist on the urban off-roader theme. Why? Because, despite the jacked-up stance, it’s actually front-wheel drive.
What’s happened to the 4x4 version? Don’t panic, it’s still on sale. The front-wheel drive XC70 has been introduced along with a front-drive XC60, both cars being cheaper and less polluting than the 4x4 variants that sired them."
So, this one isn't for us with its missing its 4 wheel drive and in basic trim (for Volvo). A more sensible choice would be the plain old V70.
Driven by Hervé Poulain (F), Marcel Mignot (F)
Le Mans 24 Hours 1977
Placed 9th
Roy Lichtenstein was commissioned by BMW to paint a Group 5 Racing Version of the BMW 320i as part of the BMW Art Car Project
Astley Green colliery's No 1 shaft steam winding engine was installed in 1912 and was in use until the colliery closed in 1970. It is a four cylinder engine in twin tandem configuration, developing 3300 horsepower. It is believed to be the largest surviving colliery winding engine of its type in Europe.
The engine and engine house were saved from demolition when the colliery closed in 1970, and it has been restored by volunteers at the museum. The museum periodically runs the engine on compressed air.
Conrad van Oostrom, Chief Executive Officer, OVG Real Estate, Netherlands, speaking at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2018
Copyright by World Economic Forum / Mattias Nutt
Ernesto Rafael Guevara (né le 14 juin 1928 à Rosario, Argentine – mort le 9 octobre 1967 à la Higuera, Bolivie), plus connu comme « Che Guevara » ou « le Che » (prononcé communément [ (t)ʃe ɡevara] en français et [ t͡ʃe ɡeˈβaɾa] en espagnol), est un révolutionnaire marxiste-léniniste et internationaliste argentin ainsi qu'un homme politique d'Amérique latine. Il a notamment été un dirigeant de la révolution cubaine, qu'il a théorisée et tenté d'exporter vers d'autres pays.
Alors qu'il est jeune étudiant en médecine, Guevara voyage à travers l'Amérique latine, ce qui le met en contact direct avec la pauvreté dans laquelle vit une grande partie de la population. Son expérience et ses observations l'amènent à la conclusion que les inégalités socioéconomiques ne peuvent être abolies que par la révolution. Il décide alors d'intensifier son étude du marxisme et de voyager au Guatemala afin d'apprendre des réformes entreprises par le président Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, renversé quelques mois plus tard par un coup d'État appuyé par la CIA. Peu après, Guevara rejoint le mouvement du 26 juillet, un groupe révolutionnaire dirigé par Fidel Castro. Après plus de deux ans de guérilla durant laquelle Guevara devient commandant, ce groupe prend le pouvoir à Cuba en renversant le dictateur Fulgencio Batista en 1959.
Dans les mois qui suivent, Guevara est commandant en chef de la prison de La Cabaña. Il est désigné procureur d'un tribunal révolutionnaire qui exécute plus d'une centaine de policiers et militaires du régime précédent jugés coupables de crimes de guerre. Puis il crée des camps de « travail et de rééducation ». Il occupe ensuite plusieurs postes importants dans le gouvernement cubain qui écarte les démocrates, réussissant à influencer le passage de Cuba à une économie du même type que celle de l'URSS, et à un rapprochement politique avec le Bloc de l'Est, mais échouant dans l'industrialisation du pays en tant que ministre. Guevara écrit pendant ce temps plusieurs ouvrages théoriques sur la révolution et la guérilla.
En 1965, après avoir dénoncé l'exploitation du tiers monde par les deux blocs de la guerre froide, il disparaît de la vie politique et quitte Cuba avec l'intention d'étendre la révolution. Il se rend d'abord au Congo-Léopoldville, sans succès, puis en Bolivie où il est capturé et exécuté sommairement par l'armée bolivienne entraînée et guidée par la CIA, Il existe des doutes et de nombreuses versions sur le degré d'influence de la CIA et des États-Unis dans cette décision.
Après sa mort, Che Guevara devient une icône pour des mouvements révolutionnaires du monde entier, mais demeure toujours l'objet de controverses entre historiens, à cause de témoignages sur des exécutions d'innocents mais contestées par certains de ses biographes5,6. Un portrait de Che Guevara réalisé par Alberto Korda est considéré comme l'une des photographies les plus célèbres au monde
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (/tʃeɪ ɡəˈvɑːrə/; Spanish: [ˈtʃe ɣeˈβaɾa] June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967) was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Árbenz, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow at the behest of the United Fruit Company solidified Guevara's political ideology. Later in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht Granma with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second in command and played a pivotal role in the victorious two-year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime.
Following the Cuban Revolution, Guevara performed a number of key roles in the new government. These included reviewing the appeals and firing squads for those convicted as war criminals during the revolutionary tribunals, instituting agrarian land reform as minister of industries, helping spearhead a successful nationwide literacy campaign, serving as both national bank president and instructional director for Cuba's armed forces, and traversing the globe as a diplomat on behalf of Cuban socialism. Such positions also allowed him to play a central role in training the militia forces who repelled the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and bringing Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles to Cuba, which precipitated the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Additionally, Guevara was a prolific writer and diarist, composing a seminal manual on guerrilla warfare, along with a best-selling memoir about his youthful continental motorcycle journey. His experiences and studying of Marxism–Leninism led him to posit that the Third World's underdevelopment and dependence was an intrinsic result of imperialism, neocolonialism and monopoly capitalism, with the only remedy being proletarian internationalism and world revolution. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution abroad, first unsuccessfully in Congo-Kinshasa and later in Bolivia, where he was captured by CIA-assisted Bolivian forces and summarily executed.
Guevara remains both a revered and reviled historical figure, polarized in the collective imagination in a multitude of biographies, memoirs, essays, documentaries, songs and films. As a result of his perceived martyrdom, poetic invocations for class struggle and desire to create the consciousness of a "new man" driven by moral rather than material incentives, Guevara has evolved into a quintessential icon of various leftist movements. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, while an Alberto Korda photograph of him, titled Guerrillero Heroico (shown), was cited by the Maryland Institute College of Art as "the most famous photograph in the world".
The relaunch of restored Ballarat 37, sees her at the platform while speeches were made, before she was driven through the ribbon to officially relaunch into service.
The Pen EM is the first Japanese camera to have an electric driven motor drive and rewind system.
The Olympus Pen EM went on sale in 1965 with three new features: an electronic shutter, automatic film advance, and automatic rewind.
The electronic shutter allowed an exposure range from 30 sec. down to 1/500 sec. according to the brightness of the subject. Power for the shutter, film advance and rewind systems was provided by two AA batteries. While the Olympus Pen EM had a major influence on the future of electronic technology and automation in cameras, there were manufacturing problems that could not be overcome with the technology then available. Sadly, production ceased after just one year.
Specifications Olympus Pen EM 1965.
Picture size : 24 X 18mm (single Frame Pen size)
Lens : Zuiko 35mm F2. 6 elements in 4 groups.
Diaphragm scale : F2, F2.8, F5.6, F8, F11, and F16.
Shutter : Copal Elec electronic shutter (diaphragm priority type) using four high performance transistors.
Shutter speed : A (automatic) about 30sec (F16 )—1/500 sec , M (manual) 1/30 sec no visible scale indicator for shutter speeds.
Synchronizing : X contact point.
Film speed scale : ASA 10—400.
Camera focusing system : Zone focusing rotary helicoid, eye measuring type.
Distance : M (meter) ∞,5 , 3, 2, 1.2, 1, 0.9 . Albeda type light frame finder , magnification 0,6 time , with parallax aid marks for short range photography.
Film advance: Electrical motor driven ; advances film at a rate of one frame per second.
Film rewind: Quick rewind by electrical motor.
Film counter : Remaining number type , take-up stops automatically when “0” appears in the counter.
Power source: Two size “AA” 1.5 volt dry cells alkaline type. Will last for over 5 rolls of film.
Dimensions : 123 X 73 X 54 mm.
Weight : 540 grams.
On the 9th November 2019 a loco has seen the Bord Na Nona branding changed. No need for many rally drivers on the 3'gauge systems.
I have driven past Winchester on the M3 five times this year, on the sixth passing, I tried to find a place to park so I could visit the cathedral.
It costs £8.50 to go in, but you can take as many pictures as you like, which is fine by me.
The Nave and Chancel are huge, and long. All surfaces are apparently covered with memorials, with other spaces filled with chapels and shrines to past Bishops, as well as the relics of St Swithun.
It did rain after I left. Not a good sign.
But inside it is a delight, even the smallest details, like the tiles, just wonderful.
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Winchester Cathedral is a cathedral of the Church of England in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It is one of the largest cathedrals in Europe, with the longest nave and greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe.[3]
Dedicated to the Holy Trinity,[1] Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and before the Reformation, Saint Swithun,[4] it is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and centre of the Diocese of Winchester. The cathedral is a Grade I listed building.
The cathedral was founded in 642 on a site immediately to the north of the present one. This building became known as the Old Minster. It became part of a monastic settlement in 971.
Saint Swithun was buried near the Old Minster and then in it, before being moved to the new Norman cathedral. So-called mortuary chests said to contain the remains of Saxon kings such as King Eadwig of England, first buried in the Old Minster, and his wife Ælfgifu, are in the present cathedral.[5] The Old Minster was demolished in 1093, immediately after the consecration of its successor.
In 1079, Walkelin, Bishop of Winchester, began work on a completely new cathedral.[6] Much of the limestone used to build the structure was brought across from quarries around Binstead, Isle of Wight. Nearby Quarr Abbey draws its name from these workings, as do several nearby places such as Stonelands and Stonepitts. The remains of the Roman trackway used to transport the blocks are still evident across the fairways of the Ryde Golf Club, where the stone was hauled from the quarries to the hythe at the mouth of Binstead Creek, and thence by barge across the Solent and up to Winchester.[citation needed][No sign of any Binstead Creek on the map]
The building was consecrated in 1093. On 8 April of that year, according to the Annals of Winchester, "in the presence of almost all the bishops and abbots of England, the monks came with the highest exultation and glory from the old minster to the new one: on the Feast of S. Swithun they went in procession from the new minster to the old one and brought thence S. Swithun's shrine and placed it with honour in the new buildings, and on the following day Walkelin's men first began to pull down the old minster."[6]
A substantial amount of the fabric of Walkelin's building, including crypt, transepts and the basic structure of the nave, survives.[7] The original crossing tower, however, collapsed in 1107, an accident blamed by the cathedral's medieval chroniclers on the burial of the dissolute William Rufus beneath it in 1100.[6] Its replacement, which survives today, is still in the Norman style, with round-headed windows. It is a squat, square structure, 50 feet (15 m) wide, but rising only 35 feet (11 m) above the ridge of the transept roof.[8] The Tower is 150 feet (46 m) tall.
After the consecration of Godfrey de Luci as bishop in 1189, a retrochoir was added in the Early English style. The next major phase of rebuilding was not until the mid-14th century, under bishops Edington and Wykeham.[10] Edingdon (1346–1366)[11] removed the two westernmost bays of the nave, built a new west front and began the remodelling of the nave.[12]
Under William of Wykeham (1367–1404) the Romanesque nave was transformed[clarification needed], recased in Caen stone and remodelled in the Perpendicular style,[13] with its internal elevation divided into two, rather than the previous three, storeys.[14] The wooden ceilings were replaced with stone vaults.[13]
Wykeham's successor, Henry of Beaufort (1405–1447) carried out fewer alterations, adding only a chantry on the south side of the retrochoir, although work on the nave may have continued through his episcopy.[15] His successor, William of Waynflete (1447–1486), built another chantry in a corresponding position on the north side. Under Peter Courtenay (Bishop 1486–1492) and Thomas Langton (1493–1500), there was more work. De Luci's Lady chapel was lengthened, and the Norman side aisles of the presbytery replaced. In 1525, Richard Foxe (Bishop 1500–1528) added the side screens of the presbytery, which he also gave a wooden vault.[10] With its progressive extensions, the east end is now about 110 feet (34 m) beyond that of Walkelin's building
King Henry VIII seized control of the Catholic Church in England and declared himself head of the Church of England. The Benedictine foundation, the Priory of Saint Swithun, was dissolved. The priory surrendered to the king in 1539. The next year a new chapter was formed, and the last prior, William Basyng, was appointed dean.[17] The monastic buildings, including the cloister and chapter house, were later demolished, mostly during the 1560–1580 tenure of the reformist bishop Robert Horne.[18][19]
North Transept
The Norman choir screen, having fallen into a state of decay, was replaced in 1637–40 by a new one, designed by Inigo Jones. It was in a classical style, with bronze figures by Hubert le Sueur of James I and Charles I in niches. It was removed in 1820, by when its style was felt inappropriate in an otherwise medieval building. The central bay, with its archway, is now in the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge;[20] it was replaced by a Gothic screen by Edward Garbett, its design based on the west doorway of the nave.[21]
This stone structure was itself removed in the 1870s to make way for a wooden one designed by George Gilbert Scott,[22] who modelled it on the canopies of the choir stalls of the monks (dating from around 1308).[23] Scott's west-facing screen has been much criticised, although the carving is of superlative workmanship and virtually replicates the earlier, albeit finer, carving of the early 14th century east-facing return stalls on to which it backs. The displaced bronze statues of the Stuart kings were moved to the west end of the Cathedral, standing in niches on each side of the central door. Scott's work was otherwise conservative. He moved the lectern to the north side of the quire beside the pulpit, facing west, where it remained for a century before returning to its present central position, now facing east.
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1). ROME CANNOT SURVIVE ANOTHER RAGGI TERM AS MAYOR – Raggi: “I rebuilt Rome, transforming it into a Ferrari, the strongest Italian car.” The Romans: “A Ferrari driven by wild boars.” Italics Magazine (16 Sept. 2021)
Foto: Roma & Virginia Raggi / Facebook & Twitter (09/2021).
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ROME - With just under three weeks left until elections in Rome, more than 2 million residents are tasked with choosing the next mayor of the Italian capital city amid a flurry of last-ditch public appearances and advertising onslaughts. The current mayor, anti-establishment Five Star Movement Virginia Raggi, is not lacking for opponents. The most significant is Enrico Michetti, who has thrown down the gauntlet to Raggi in a bid to raise the center-right flag over Capitoline Hill. But she’s got plenty to worry about on her own side of the aisle in the forms of Roberto Gualtieri as the center-left nominee and Carlo Calenda as the candidate for the progressive Azione party.
Most polling doesn’t bode particularly well for the incumbent Raggi: she’s currently trailing both Michetti and Gualtieri and only a hair in front of Calenda. Of course, with undecided voters topping 40%, it really is still anyone’s game. But it shouldn’t be this close, not with the promise with which Raggi entered the Eternal City. So what went wrong for her?
A rough start as a mayor
Virginia Raggi was elected the 34th mayor of Rome in June 2016, with 67.2% of votes in the second round. The first female mayor of the capital city promised to rid it of corruption, with the promise that “the wind is changing.” But it all went wrong.
It was a risky move to withdraw their 2024 Olympic bid, and the way it was done made her no friends in both public or private circles. She insisted that “with more than €13 billion of debt, Rome can’t afford to shoulder more to build cathedrals in the desert.” But her detractors heavily contested the position, claiming that pulling out from the bidding wasted the chance to upgrade infrastructure and public facilities with little or no expense. Funds would have come into Rome via the International Olympic Committee, private investors, and the government. According to a study from Tor Vergata University, the city lost an estimated €7.1 billion of gross revenue, 40,000 job opportunities, and, most of all, the chance to drag the capital city into the 21st century with cutting-edge infrastructures.
Once, Roman emperors used to host awe-inspiring public games in an attempt to appease and distract a population in constant turmoil. Back then, the Roman poet called Juvenal called it panem et circenses, Bread and Circuses.
Foto: Foto: France / EuroNews (13/07/2021) & Virginia Raggi / Instagram (17/07/2021).
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These days no one seems to bother that much, preferring it seems to distract citizens with piles of garbage and wild boars. Though that sounds like a metaphor, it sadly is not. The waste management sector of Rome is near total collapse: every year the city council spends €170 million shipping the capital’s garbage to other Italian regions. Dumpsters are so full of trash that gulls, rats, and even boars have been spotted rummaging through bins to find something to eat. They are not particular, but no matter; they are spoiled for choice.
Foto: TG 3 Lazio & Virginia Raggi (07/2021).
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Make no mistake, Rome is filthy. Not only does the capital recycle 15% less garbage than the Italian average (45% as opposed to 61.3% in 2019), but only 60% of roads in the city are effectively cleaned, far below the 92% guaranteed by the publicly traded AMA, the company tasked with providing urban hygiene services. Yet despite this, Roman residents pay the highest waste tax in Italy, 42% higher than Florence.
The (lost) battle against corruption
Faithful to the motto of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, Virginia Raggi trounced her opponents by promising to clean the city of corruption. But for a mayor that failed to clean up waste from the streets, it’s not surprising that she soon found herself under investigation by magistrates. The long list of judiciary proceedings deeply undermined Virginia Raggi’s authority, as two cases of malfeasance in office regarding staffing of her private office broke out. Eventually, the Court dropped all the charges against the mayor, citing her right-hand Raffaele Marra instead for illegal hiring practices. But the damage was done to her reputation and in Rome, reputation is everything.
Another trial regarding the new AS Roma soccer club stadium in 2018 resulted in the arrest of none people for crimes including corruption. Among them was the president of Acea (the local multi-utility providing water and energy services) Luca Lanzalone, who had been appointed to the position by Raggi herself. Although the mayor didn’t receive a sentence, the affair perpetrated the notion that anyone around the mayor was incompetent or, at worse, corrupt.
Regardless of who takes the reins, expectations look gloomy for the Eternal city. And though it is unfair to blame Virginia Raggi for everything that has gone wrong in the capital, she certainly hasn’t done anything to alleviate the problems that both preceded her and emerged in her tenure. For someone with so much promise, her greatest sin may just be her apathetic governance. The data speaks for itself: the city of Rome dropped from 18th in 2019 to 32th in 2020 in the national rankings for quality of life. No amount of bread nor circuses can fix that.
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--- Italics Magazine (16 Sept. 2021).
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Foto: Rome, Prati Borgo / San Pietro (21/09/2021).
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2). ROMA - Cinghiali “contromano” tra il traffico: in via Trionfale la processione si svolge in pieno giorno. Prati Borgo / San Pietro (21/09/2021).
In una via Trionfale trafficata, in pieno giorno, i cinghiali “contromano” si districano tra il traffico. La scena è stata ripresa, all’altezza del civico 8229, da un residente mentre era sul balcone della sua abitazione e mostra un comportamento fin qui inedito di suidi che, solitamente, si spostano al calar del sole alla ricerca di cibo, soprattutto accanto ai cassonetti ricolmi di rifiuti.
Automobilisti e scooteristi, quasi increduli, sono costretti a scansarsi per far passare tre cinghiali adulti e undici cuccioli, non si sono registrati incidenti.
Il candidato sindaco di Azione, Carlo Calenda, ha postato nel proprio profilo Twitter un video che ritrae i cinghiali da un’altra angolazione. “Non pensate sia arrivato il momento di sedervi a un tavolo e affrontare la questione?” – ha scritto Calenda taggando il presidente della Regione, Nicola Zingaretti, e la prima cittadina di Roma, Virginia Raggi.
I suidi sono animali dal comportamento prevalentemente notturno. La carovana non è la prima ripresa nel nostro territorio, il 21 luglio scorso, un cinghiale è stato filmato da una passante in viale Mazzini, a poche decine di metri da piazzale Clodio, due giorni dopo, invece, un cucciolo è stato trovato morto in via Trionfale, accanto ai bidoni della spazzatura.
Fonte / source:
--- Prati Borgo / San Pietro (21/09/2021).
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Also shows the levels (arrowed) driven into the No.2 Rhondda seam.
Fernhill Colliery - sunk between 1869-71by Ebenezer Lewis. The adjacent levels working No.2 Rhondda seam were opened by George Watkinson & Sons who bought the colliery in 1877. Became linked underground to Blaen-Rhondda in 1893.
The shafts were oval in section - No.1 pit 17'-6" x 11'-6" & No.2 upcast pit 16' x 11' and placed 44 yds. south of No.1 pit.
The shafts were lined throughout with Pennant sandstone.
The winding engines were made by Mr. C. Sheppard of Bridgend and designed to wind independently from the Four Feet & Two Feet Nine seams.
On Friday 14th. September 1874 two shaft sinkers were killed - David Jones & Henry Lloyd whilst opening out into the Two Feet Nine seam.
In 1898 there were some 850 men & boys employed at the Fernhill mine together with the two levels working the No.2 Rhondda, Gorllwyn, Two Feet Nine, Yard and Six Feet seams. The manager in 1898 was Mr. Daniel R. Jones. ( North Dunraven was non-winding at that time)
Ventilation in 1898 was by a 13'-6" dia. Schiele fan. As well as mechanical pumping each cage had a 90 gallon tank fitted underneath so as to dip into the sump on each wind and which was automatically discharged at the surface during non-coaling shifts.
For further details see www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Photo.htm and scroll to "Glamorgan East" section.
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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif.-- Dignitaries, business owners and local community members gathered in Old Town Salinas to honor military veterans at the 8th annual Monterey County Veterans Day Parade Nov. 11.
Capt. Rich Wiley, Commanding Officer, Naval Postgraduate School served as the Grand Marshal. Other military leaders from the Presidio of Monterey, Defense Language Institute and Naval Postgraduate School joined Capt. Wiley
to pay tribute to all military veterans, past and present.
Soledad High School's NJROTC color guard led the parade -while the Defense Language Institute's joint service color guard from the Presidio of Monterey led formations of service members from the Army, Navy and Air Force.
Rep. Jimmy Panetta, a Navy veteran, swore in a group of military enlistees for all four military branches.
The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team descended onto Salinas as the opening act of the parade and joined the procession to meet and greet parade spectators.
As the procession made its way down Main Street, spectators saluted veterans riding in a variety of vintage, classic, military and modern vehicles driven by car owners who volunteered to drive veterans in the parade.
The parade included eight marching bands, motorcycle clubs, military Humvees and Junior ROTC cadets from Everett Alvarez and Soledad High Schools.
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A closer view of the flywheel and tensioner pulley on the air compressor. This place was an absolute maze of pipes.
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1968 Ford Mustang driven by Nick DeVitis leading the 1970 AMC Javelin driven by Buzz Dyer during the Saturday afternoon race for Group 9A (1966-1972 Trans-Am) at the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
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175cc, chain driven single overhead camshaft
MV used the name 'Disco Volante' (Flying saucer) due to the unusual shape of the petrol tank
Amazingly advanced design for 1953. Engine castings are lightweight, with metal only where it is needed.
Multiplate clutch running in oil.
Unit construction engine/gearbox (four speed, foot change). See the rocking gear lever so that you didn't scuff your designer Italian footwear!
Tele forks and swing arm rear suspension. British bikes at this time were invariably still rigid or plunger rear suspension.
There were the usual period claims/ boasts by the manufacturer of 85 mph, 14hp and 100+mpg!
Truth is that the bike is capable of approx. 75mph with the rider flat on the tank, and it will easily top 100mpg even when ridden fairly hard.
Handling/roadholding and brakes could cope with twice the power quite easily!
These bikes were very expensive to buy, but compared with a BSA C11, Villiers powered machines etc. available in 1953, what a machine the MV must have been.
This bike was bought in 2002 and was cosmetically quite reasonable. Mechanically it was a huge disappointment, and struggled to make 50 mph!
The Italian 'racers' in the 1950's did not favour the MV sohc motor as oil feed onto the cam lobes was scarcely adequate. We designed a hollow camshaft with 'quill' end feed, and oil delivery holes on the cam flanks which cured this problem.
We worked on compression ratio, camshaft design, crankshaft balance factor, electronic ignition and overall gearing.
Next week , the bike is competing on its 5th 'Motogiro d'Italia' - a 1200mile, 5 day endurance event in Italy.
We use up to 8500rpm (6500 standard), and have designed the power characteristics to be flexible, reasonably tractable so that you could easily go shopping on it, but it still has an 'interesting' part of the power band in the 6500-8500rpm range.
Bike was re-painted in 2007. Damn pretty too!
On 'A' and 'B' class roads this is a superb and quick machine, particularly when remembering it is now nearly 60 years old!
Fraser & Chalmers ‘engine’ which appears to be an air compressor which can be driven by either steam or water power – very unusual!
Being reclaimed by the jungle is the famous gold mine first named the "Espiritu Santo de la Cana", in the Province of Darien near the border with Colombia. The Cana mine continuously produced gold until 1727. This mine was later reopened by the Darien Gold Mining Company and operated until 1907, producing about 4 tons of gold.
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